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Calcium supplements—previously thought to help prevent heart disease and stroke—have now been shown to almost double the risk of heart attack. Doctors are now warning that such supplements shou... 0 Published 18 hours ago in
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Multiple drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria seen under an electron microscope. Photo: CDC By flooding our environment with antibiotics, people may alter a little-appreciated but profound aspect of bacterial evolution: the very pace at which it ... 0 Published 1 day ago in
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They might be a staple of the well-dressed geek's wardrobe, but skinny jeans aren't doing you any favors. In fact, they might be causing you real, physical damage. More » ... 0 Published 1 day ago in
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Like all technology, medical implants can be made smaller as the engineering behind them gets more advanced. Which is why a 16-month-old Italian baby was able to become the recipient of the world's smalles... 0 Published 3 days ago in
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It's no fun recovering from a stroke and relearning to do simple things that were once totally natural. That's being offset by new video games that refine patients motor skills by having them play games t... 0 Published 6 days ago in
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Over the past few decades, scientists have suggested that high levels of HDL—which has come to be known as "good cholesterol"—can reduce the risk of heart attack. New evidence, however, suggest... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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Millions of us start the morning with a coffee and think nothing of it. But new medical research suggests that it could be helping you live longer—if you drink enough of it. More » ... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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Our Ghost in the Shell dystopian future will be here sooner than you think. A new study published in Nature today demonstrates, for the first time that robotic limbs can successfully be controlled with ju... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that's only one step of a larger infect... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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Two stroke victims unable to move or speak can now control a robotic arm with their minds. By thinking about moving her own paralyzed arm, one woman in the experiment used an artificial limb to serve herself coffee for the firs... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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If you have sex, you should get tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, on the regular. In reality, not enough of us do—or at least not as frequently as we should. That all might change, now, th... 0 Published 9 days ago in
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A 71-year-old man who was paralyzed in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his hands thanks to Washington University doctors who rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones. Though the pat... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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Some criminal masterminds in Florida thought that stealing equipment from the Florida Hospital Center for Diagnostic Pathology was a brilliant idea. Now they have $500,000 in medical machines—loaded ... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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Imagine if the extent your natural intelligence could be determined with a simple scan where you'd have to do nothing at all. What if it became the new standard for college admissions. Deterministic as it ... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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An interesting piece from the Boston Globe on “genoeconomics”: Though the name wasn’t coined until 2007, genoeconomics flickered briefly into existence once before. In 1976, the late University of Pennsylvania economist Paul Taubman published ... 0 Published 11 days ago in
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Hey you angsty little jerk, listen up! If you can stop rolling your eyes and cut the whole brooding thing for like 10 seconds, I have something very important to tell you: CUT YOUR HAIR. I don't say this a... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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Electronic implants which restore sight to the blind aren't anything new, but one of their major stumbling blocks has been the need for an external power source. Now, that's about to change, because a team... 0 Published 11 days ago in
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Can Siri help you find a cure for cancer? As it stands, this is a bit beyond the skills of the talking virtual assistant on Apple's iPhone. But British Telecom is putting her through a kind of biomedical t... 0 Published 15 days ago in
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Not all people are born equal. In fact, new research suggests that if a child is born from an obese mother, it is likely to have significantly lower cognitive function compared to a child from a mother of ... 0 Published 15 days ago in
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Dr Dong Kim, the surgeon who treated congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head in 2011, is currently removing a brain tumor from one of his patients. That's fairly normal. However, to... 0 Published 16 days ago in
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Unfortunately you can’t just take a pill to cure this particular medical condition.Have you visited UrlyBits today?Posted by Paul to UrlyBits, 2012. | Permalink to Medical Condition Or Disability 0 Published 16 days ago in
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Cancer is a scourge on our society and, while scientists continue to work on treatments, many people view it as an inevitable truth. New research, however, suggests that as many as one in six cases of canc... 0 Published 16 days ago in
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While many artworks might require you sell an organ to afford them, at least with this one you could survive: The Immortal is an installation made up of life-support machines, designed to makes us contemp... 0 Published 17 days ago in
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Cold sweats. Shortness of breath. Inability to concentrate. You've got withdrawal symptoms, and you've got them bad. There's only one thing that can help, and that's a long, hard hit of the blue stuff: swe... 0 Published 17 days ago in
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Mutant H5N1 virus binds to human trachea (left) and lung (right) tissue samples, provoking an antibody response (green). Image: Imai et al./Nature After months of controversy, an experiment describing how H5N1 avian influenza can be modified into potentia... 0 Published 22 days ago in
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Fears that bioterrorists could learn from controversial experiments that make H5N1 avian influenza more virulent have overshadowed a more pressing danger: accidental releases, laboratory infections and disgruntled workers. Dozens of all-too-human mistake... 0 Published 22 days ago in
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Penn State's department of food science has been hard at work using an electrospinning device to stretch fibrous strands out of a biodegradable food starch solution. Using a solvent to dissolve the starch ... 0 Published 23 days ago in
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A new blood test which identifies a genetic change that doubles the risk of breast cancer could allow doctors to identify women at high risk of the disease years before they develop a tumor. More ... 0 Published 24 days ago in
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In recent years, the military's top brass have funded some truly bizarre approaches - from neck injections to Reiki - in an effort to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress afflicting today's soldiers. Tu... 0 Published 24 days ago in
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This morning, Facebook announced that it's making organ donation social. From today, you'll be able to declare that you're an organ donor on your timeline—something that Zuckerberg hopes will drive m... 0 Published 24 days ago in
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Maybe the reason that the Afghan counterinsurgency has been such a flop is that the people there are too traumatized and depressed to make nation-building work. More » ... 0 Published 25 days ago in
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An ultra-fast tiny laser can work as a miniature scalpel inside the body, making careful incisions or excisions while leaving healthy tissue intact. It is more effective than a doctor's metal scalpel or ev... 0 Published 27 days ago in
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Today it was reported that a woman killed a man by squeezing his testicles. My immediate question was: can you die if someone squeezes your testicles hard enough? I asked Dr. Irwin Goldstein, urologist and... 0 Published 28 days ago in
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A healthy heart beats evenly as a metronome, sending oxygen-rich blood to your organs and appendages. But if your ticker's rhythm isn't so even, it can lead to fibrillation—rapid, unsynchronized cont... 0 Published 28 days ago in
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It sounds like something out of science fiction; splicing DNA from one animal into another to create some sort of genetic hybrid, but Peng Peng the sheep has made it science fact. The adorable newly-cloned... 0 Published 29 days ago in
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When Ray Fearing received a kidney from his sister, Cera, after a long battle with a disease which forms scar tissue on the kidney, he was extremely relieved. Sadly, his condition worsened and the doctors ... 0 Published 29 days ago in
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Sometimes, quitting can be hard work—especially if you have an alcohol dependency. Now, however, it could be a whole lot easier: France has just cleared a new anti-alcoholism drug for use by its nati... 0 Published 30 days ago in
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People sometimes quip that children who have a tough time growing up are old beyond their years. New research, however, suggests that could be literally true: children who have suffered violence at a young... 0 Published 31 days ago in
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Cocaine turns anybody that takes it into a bit of a douche—we all know what. But while there's plenty of evidence that the drug affects heart function and screws up the brain's natural reward system,... 0 Published 31 days ago in
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If you were ever curious as to how much body parts can fetch on the black market, Medical Transcription created a snazzy infographic to show you. Some parts are shockingly cheap! Like would you want a new ... 0 Published 32 days ago in
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A mysterious illness that begins as a high fever with little appetite and spreads to a rash on the hands and feet is responsible for the loss of 17 lives, so far, in an impoverished Vietnamese district. 17... 0 Published 34 days ago in
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For years, we've been treating breast cancer as a single disease. But a new study has reclassified it into ten separate sub-diseases, all with different genetic features—which could transform the way... 0 Published 36 days ago in
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Leonardo da Vinci was many things: artist, architect, engineer, inventor and—on occasion—scientist. But even though he made many detailed studies of the human form, his anatomical drawings lan... 0 Published 36 days ago in
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While 80 percent of health-care organizations have social media initiatives, about one third of consumers turn to Facebook for health information. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. 0 Published 37 days ago in
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A new treatment, using highly focused ultrasound, effectively kills cancerous prostate tumors nine times out of ten. What's more, the technique produces virtually no side effects and means patients only ha... 0 Published 38 days ago in
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"Why won't you just DIE?!" That's what researchers probably said to strains of 4-7 million-year-old bacterium discovered in the depths of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. They found that these hidden organis... 0 Published 42 days ago in
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Medical informatics experts want to bring the digital revolution to studying human anatomy. The BioDigital Human is a three-dimensional, fully-interactive visualization program. While it won’t completely replace old-fashi... 0 Published 42 days ago in
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Originating in ancient China, acupuncture has been used for 2500 years. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that disease is caused by blockages and imbalances of energy (known as chi) flowing through meridi... 0 Published 43 days ago in
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Cancer researchers have found that certain types of dental X-rays significantly increased the incidence of the most common type of brain tumor in the United States: meningioma. More » ... 0 Published 44 days ago in
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You may laugh, it’s funny but having a 100 pound scrotum is no laughing matter for Wesley Warren Jr., but you have to admit that it would make real-life teabagging awesome.Wesley Warren Jr. has a huge problem.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports tha... 0 Published 44 days ago in
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