LiveScience examines the way dogs save human lives – by sniffing out prostate cancer:
… Read the rest “Better prostate exam? Good dog!”Doctors at Paris’s Hospital Tenon trained the [Belgian Malinois] dogs to distinguish
The bloggers at ufunk.net have appealed to my prurient side with the Eizo Pin-up Calendar:
Miss June, 2010.
Yes, it’s a calendar that really shows it all. Eizo is a German medical imaging… Read the rest “Take it ALL off.”
No, really. The IT Wire covers a new Pediatrics study that breastfeeding could save 911 lives and billions of dollars annually:
… Read the rest “Breasts save lives. And money.”…[T]he paper in the journal Pediatrics states, “The
PhysOrg shows you how to arrange the swap:
… Read the rest “Lose a gene, gain a limb.”The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing potential in mice long thought to have been lost through evolution and reserved for
Perfect for androids or pacifist vampires… maybe. But Science Daily says artificial blood could save plenty of ordinary human lives:
… Read the rest “Substitute blood.”The reason for this failure, according to Professor
A new story on the AP wire backs up one of my hobby-horse beliefs. People are using way too many antibiotics, and it’s killing us:
… Read the rest “Put the prescriptions down.”A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of
The Mail Times reports on a bionic breakthrough – a man who can feel and control his prosthetic hand as if it was the one he was born with:
… Read the rest “Feeling with a robot hand.”The Italian-led team said at a news conference
…and not only that, but painkilling medicine, too. Newsweek reveals that the psychedelic rocket fuels of 1960s culture are proving to be unique weapons against the otherwise untreatable… Read the rest “LSD is medicine – and so are magic mushrooms.”
A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work:
… Read the rest “Is this how acupuncture works?”His research, to be published in the Journal
IEEE Spectrum, the journal that sounds like it’s screaming, is taking a long, close look at contact lenses that could give you Terminator eyes:
… Read the rest “Intelligent eyes.”…[I]n fact, my students and
The Antipodean ABC Science News has hopeful news about antibiotic resistant superbugs. They might have an Achilles heel after all:
… Read the rest “Undoing antibiotic resistance.”Researchers at New York University report in the journal
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave of antibiotic terror… Read the rest “Terror from the farm.”
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning:
… Read the rest “Electricity in my veins.”The artificial organs begin
PhysOrg brightens up the future of health care with the healing power of art:
… Read the rest “Art for health.”Nanda, who has a doctorate in architecture with a specialization in health-care systems and design, says scientific
DiscoveryNews leaves me rooted to the spot with a sprouting fascination in the latest medical implant – bones made from wood:
… Read the rest “Wooden bones.”The researchers chose wood because it closely resemble
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