Heroin: now with all the pain relief, and none of the addiction.
That’s the tempting pitch made by a team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado, who’ve come up with a way to block […]
medicine
How are they immune to HIV?
That’s the mysterious question MedicalXpress may be answering with their look at a study of people infected with HIV who never come down with AIDS: […]
Putty fixes bones like chair legs.
The health desk at The Atlantic might be looking a little bit like a wood shop, thanks to their reporting on the medical marvels of […]
Doctor, make me forever young.
Science Daily reaches out its withered hands to hold up the promise of a viral cure for aging: Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research […]
Blood test for breast cancer.
The Telegraph (yes, I know, but…) gives hope to the potentially millions of women fed up with the regular ritual of mammograms with news that […]
Darwinian pediatrics: Painkillers are *counterproductive.*
I think I’m much more sympathetic to this viewpoint than might at first appear. New Scientist reports on medical philosophy that holds that when kids […]
A blood test for autism.
MedicalXpress reports that Swedish and Iranian researchers might have identified a way to diagnose autism physically, by checking biomarkers in blood plasma: In the current […]
Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression: The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, […]
Blood rice.
Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood: HSA […]
Mayo Clinic stops aging.
Or, BBC says, at least the symptoms of aging, like wrinkles and cataracts. Mayo Clinic researchers may have found a fountain of youth: The study, […]
SONG: Move It Close to You.
SONG: “Move It Close to You.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed man touch […]
Smart pills.
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells: “We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of […]
Antibiotics: not so good for your *brain*, either.
The Economist reveals the strange connection between your intestinal flora and your mood: [R]esearchers, led by Javier Bravo of University College, Cork, split their rodent […]
Antibiotics: not so good for you.
Not in the long run, anyway. That’s how Wired sums up research indicating that our wonder drugs are killing the good bugs off for good: […]
Hot spots help health care
PBS Frontline looks at how one urban physician, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, has figured out how to fix our health care system – by using digital […]