Laser “tricorder” diagnoses malaria through the skin.
I couldn’t really improve on New Scientist‘s headline there. This device shines a laser through an earlobe or wrist and detects malaria parasites through light […]
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Young blood heals old bones. (Literally. Go figure.)
Smithsonian reveals a new way to heal the easily-broken bones of the elderly – by exposing the fractures to younger blood: “The traditional concept is […]
Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa
Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places: In a study in Science Translational Medicine on […]
Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and […]
New Alzheimer’s hope?
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it: Researchers at Duke announced that […]
Full body transplants.
New Scientist seems to be going a little around the bend with transplants this week (witness hand enthusiasm), especially when it comes to the prospect […]
Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).
Siberian Times, the paper of record for the taiga, reports on the first successful reconstruction of ancient brain surgery: Neurosurgeons have been working with anthropologists […]
Birth control hormones linked to brain tumors
Eurekalert releases results of a study that’s found hormonal birth control increases risk of brain tumors: Taking a hormonal contraceptive for at least five years […]
Stem cell therapy puts multiple sclerosis in remission.
Healthline spells out the basics of rebooting an immune system from scratch – which means a pretty dramatic step forward in medicine: Studying 24 study […]
Life-extension wonder-drug: Advil. In multiple species.
Science Daily reveals a bizarre hidden power of one of the world’s most common over-the-counter analgesics: Regular doses of ibuprofen extended the lifespan of multiple […]
Sugar (especially the kind in fruit juice) is replacing salt as blood pressure enemy No. 1.
MedPage Today is among the sources spreading the determination (with no mincing of words) that sugar is just as bad as salt – if not […]
Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.
Science Daily reveals some interesting (and counter-intuitive) findings following the world’s largest medical study of human consciousness at time of death: The results of a […]
Vampire science: a red fountain of youth for Alzheimer’s patients.
Young blood. New Scientist sketches out the future of rejuvenation with experiments based on using young blood to keep old brains lively: Disregarding vampire legends, […]
Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out […]
Climate change means… more kidney stones?
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly: In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental […]