Health & Medicine

Researchers invent new type of artificial bone that can be shaped with a 3-D printer

05 Oct 2016

Mayo Clinic researchers map prostate cancer relapse using C-11 choline PET and MRI

05 Oct 2016

Single-shot vaccine may spell the end for flu pandemics

04 Oct 2016

Physicians’ political beliefs affect medical treatment

04 Oct 2016

Researchers have found that on politically sensitive health issues across the US, patients receive substantially different care depending on whether their doctor is a Democrat or Republican

World's first robotic surgical system with sense of touch developed

04 Oct 2016

A world-first innovation will give surgeons the sense of touch while they drive a robot to conduct keyhole surgery via a computer

Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins 2016 Nobel for Medicine

03 Oct 2016

Yoshinori Ohsumi's elucidation of `autophagy’, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, has helped in the understanding of how the cell recycles its content as also the many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection

UK scientists may have found ‘magic bullet’ to kill HIV

03 Oct 2016

Pain relievers like ibuprofen could raise heart disease risk

01 Oct 2016

CDC advices pregnant women to consider not traveling to Southeast Asia

30 Sep 2016

Gene-tinkering by amateurs could lead to disaster: study

30 Sep 2016

Energy drinks could heighten risk of drink driving, study warns

30 Sep 2016

Ibuprofen could raise heart failure risk 20 per cent : Study

30 Sep 2016

Medtronic Plc wins US FDA approval for artificial pancreas

29 Sep 2016

Dental fillings raise levels of mercury in the body, UGA study says

29 Sep 2016

Assistant professor Xiaozhong (John) Yu and scientist Lei Yin, both from the University of Georgia's College of Public Health, conducted research that shows dental amalgam can contribute to prolonged mercury levels in the body

Blood pressure drug may boost effectiveness of lung cancer treatment

27 Sep 2016

SC warns against continued sale of chewable tobacco products

26 Sep 2016

New tool developed to calculate genetic risk of heart disease

26 Sep 2016

Tattoo therapy may help control chronic diseases

24 Sep 2016

By 2050, drug-resistant infections could cause global economic damage worse than 2008 financial crisis

24 Sep 2016

Drug-resistant infections have the potential to cause a level of economic damage similar to — and likely worse than — that caused by the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report by the World Bank Group

New ‘alcosynth’ could give the high of alcohol without the ill effects

23 Sep 2016

Another reason to quit smoking – avoid DNA damage

21 Sep 2016

While most of the disease-causing genetic footprints left by smoking fade after five years if people quit, some appear to stay there forever

Internet addiction among youth could signal health problems

20 Sep 2016

Researchers say to conquer cancer you need to stop it before it becomes cancer

19 Sep 2016

Study opens up possibility of containing spread of breast cancer

17 Sep 2016

Industry role in studies downplaying sugar risks bared

15 Sep 2016

At the behest of a sugar industry lobby group, Harvard researchers in 1967 overstated the literature on fat and cholesterol, while downplaying studies on sugar, in concluding that reducing cholesterol and saturated fat was the only dietary intervention needed to prevent heart disease