Researchers: The death toll from Hurricane Maria is 72 times higher than the official figure.
Scientific American has some unpleasant statistics emerging from a study of how many people have really died in Puerto Rico in the wake of last […]
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Trained rats can detect tuberculosis.
Nice when they’re fighting the spread of disease rather than the other way around. Science News looks into how to train giant, explosive-sniffing rats to […]
Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.
I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The […]
SONG: At 6 A.M.
SONG: “At 6 A.M.”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”, as used in the post “Chronotherapy […]
Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.
Nature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment: More than four decades of studies describe how accounting […]
Take a pill, kill mosquitoes.
NPR recently ran a story on a new use for a fairly well-known drug, ivermectin. If you have a dog or cat (or horse or […]
Caffeine actually slows some of us down – genetically.
Outside, that paragon of high-performance science, has some interesting findings from the University of Toronto, where researchers found that caffeine regularly boosts athletic performance – […]
Gut bacteria drive autoimmune diseases.
Science Daily reports on a Yale study that has found that intestinal bacteria can trigger autoimmune responses (like those in lupus) – and targeting those […]
We’re treating cervical cancer with cyborg sperm.
New Scientist spells out how we’re able to use sperm cells to carry chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors: Haifeng Xu at the Leibniz Institute for […]
Acupuncture seems to work to ease cancer pain.
Nature steps into the alternative-medicine fray with research showing that acupuncture significantly reduces pain for female breast-cancer patients: Oncologists who conducted a trial of real […]
Antibiotic switches on with the lights.
Nature reports on a new class of germ-fighting drugs that are light-sensitive, so they become active when the lights go on: A drug that can […]
Celiac disease – the problem with gluten – might be triggered by a virus.
NPR covers an unexpected discovery about an auto-immune condition believed to be genetic – celiac disease. You need to have the right (or the wrong) […]
New way for antidepressants to work.
Science Daily reveals a new molecular pathway the brain uses to regulate anxiety and depression – a discovery that opens the door for a new […]
This homemade toy saves lives.
Nature shows how one of the simplest toys out there – a loop of string with a spinning bit of paper in the middle – […]
Female doctors’ patients live longer.
Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who […]