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Scientists find first drug that appears to slow Alzheimer's disease
Solanezumab blocks memory loss in patients with mild version of the disease, making it the first medicine ever to slow pace of damage to patients’ brains
Neuroscience
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Wednesday, Jul 22, 2015, 9:16am
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Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine
150 years ago, the historic conflict forced doctors to get creative and to reframe the way they thought about medicine
Healthcare
Source: Smithsonian
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 18, 2015, 10:42am
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Some Insured Patients Still Skipping Care Because Of High Costs
Research shows that, even with health insurance, many people put off expensive surgery, medicine and tests because they can't afford the high deductibles or copays. A few states hope to change that.
Health
Source: NPR
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 11, 2015, 12:39pm
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Unregulated faecal transplants could squander gut-bug promise
The case for using gut bugs to cure diseases is strong, but transplanting gut microbes for diseases that there's no proof it helps risks halting medicine's march
Microbiology
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 04, 2015, 5:57pm
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Meet the Women Scientists of TIME 100
These five most influential women are pioneers in the field of science and medicine
Science Politics
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Apr 16, 2015, 8:09am
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The Problem and Promise of Precision Medicine
Tom Maniatis, director of the Columbia University Precision Medicine Initiative, discusses the future of precision medicine as it relates to treating deadly diseases
Genetics
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Wednesday, Apr 08, 2015, 10:52am
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GAO Report Urges Fewer Antipsychotic Drugs For Dementia Patients
Strong drugs are rarely warranted to control the behavior of dementia patients, specialists say. But antipsychotic medicine is being overprescribed, and not just among residents of nursing homes.
Neuroscience
Source: NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, Mar 03, 2015, 7:22am
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Programmable pop-up materials can morph on command
Sheets of programmable matter can be made to pop into complex 3D shapes 100 times taller than their original thickness when heated, and could find uses in medicine
Materials Science
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Feb 27, 2015, 8:19am
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Obama precision medicine plan would create huge U.S. genetic biobank
Researchers would use cohort of 1 million Americans pooled from smaller studies to study disease-gene links, improve personalized medicine
Genetics
Source: Science
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 29, 2015, 8:11am
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A Bendable Implant Taps the Nervous System without Damaging It
Swiss researchers allow rats to walk again with a rubbery electronic implant.Medicine these days entertains all kinds of ambitious plans for reading off brain signals to control wheelchairs, or using electronics to bypass spinal injuries. But most of these ideas for implants that can interface with the nervous system run up against a basic materials problem: wires are stiff and bodies are soft.
Neuroscience
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Friday, Jan 09, 2015, 8:08am
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"The Patient Will See You Now": How mobile technology empowers change in medicine
Could the future of doctor visits be in your smartphone? Leading cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol joins "CBS This Morning" to talk about how you could soon take control of your own health care and data.
Health
Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2015, 10:10am
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Europe recommends approval for first stem-cell therapy
European regulators have recommended approval of the first medicine containing stem cells to treat a rare condition caused by burns to the eye.
Stem cells
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Friday, Dec 19, 2014, 8:07am
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For Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone, Survival Takes More Than Medicine
For all the medicine they provide at this center, physicians and staff from Doctors Without Borders spend as much time encouraging the patients to eat, drink, and keep fighting. Every patient gets a standard regimen of antibiotics, paracetemol and other pain medications, vitamins, oral rehydration therapy or intravenous fluids. Drugs can control nausea for those who need them; everyone gets antimalarials.
Epidemiology
Source: Wired
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014, 1:12pm
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What’s Your Surgeon’s Jam? Probably Classical or Soft Rock
British doctors make the case for playing music during an operation
Medicine
Source: Smithsonian
Posted on: Friday, Dec 12, 2014, 11:28am
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The Case Against Mandatory Ebola Quarantines For Health Workers
The New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial against quarantining people who have worked with Ebola patients in Africa. Renee Montagne speaks with Dr. Lindsey Baden, one of the authors.
Health
Source: NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014, 8:15am
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3 Neuroscientists To Share Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
The $1.1 million prize will be split between John O'Keefe of University College in London and a husband-and-wife team, May-Britt and Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University in Trondheim.
Neuroscience
Source: NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 07, 2014, 8:15am
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EmTech: IBM Tries to Make Watson Smarter
IBM’s senior vice president says Watson could find success with commercial apps in wealth management, call centers, and medicine.
Computer Science
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 25, 2014, 8:26am
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Can Technology Fix Medicine?
Medical data is a hot spot for venture investing and product innovation. The payoff could be better care.
Technology
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Jul 22, 2014, 8:50am
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Corruption In Ukraine Robs HIV Patients Of Crucial Medicine
Corruption is a daily fact of life in Ukraine, and that's killing people infected with HIV, say activists. As funds for medicine stray, there is only enough to treat half of all HIV-infected patients.
Health
Source: NPR
Posted on: Friday, May 16, 2014, 8:02am
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Medicine Needs More Research On Female Animals, NIH Says
A bias toward using male lab animals and tissue samples from males may be limiting the effectiveness of medical research, according to top officials at NIH. They'll roll out new guidelines this fall.
Health
Source: NPR
Posted on: Friday, May 16, 2014, 8:02am
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Modern Medicine May Not Be Doing Your Microbiome Any Favors
In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser argues that the overuse of antibiotics, as well as now-common practices like C-sections, may be messing with gut microbes.
Microbiology
Source: NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014, 7:50am
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We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine
A neuroscientist and a musician explain how they built the Brain Stethoscope, which is both brain scanner and musical instrument
Neuroscience
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014, 7:50am
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Scientists regenerate immune organ in mice
British scientists have for the first time used regenerative medicine to fully restore an organ in a living animal, a discovery they say may pave the way for similar techniques to be used in humans in future.
Molecular Biology
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014, 7:38am
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I had the bacteria in my gut analysed. And this may be the future of medicine
Andrew Anthony sent his stool off to have its bacteria sequenced. In the future, such techniques could help assess our susceptibility to conditions from diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to autism, depression and cancer
Microbiology
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Tuesday, Feb 11, 2014, 10:31am
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If vitamins don't work, will industry-sponsored scientists tell us so?
It is peculiar that a university would team up with a complementary medicine company to effectively promote its wares
Health
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Friday, Feb 07, 2014, 9:09am
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The history of medicine in 100,000 pictures
The Wellcome Library's stunning collection of images reveal centuries of our quest to understand the human body and its illnesses – and they're now free    
Healthcare
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Tuesday, Jan 21, 2014, 9:22am
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Testing times for the consumer genetics revolution
With the highest-profile seller of $99 genetic tests under fire, will public trust in personalised medicine suffer, wonders ethicist Donna Dickenson    
Genetics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Monday, Jan 13, 2014, 9:13am
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Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century
Electricity has a strange place in the annals of medicine. Since ancient times, electric cures have been pursued and promoted by earnest scientists and profiteering quacks alike. The devices in this gallery come mostly from the mid-20th century. They ...    
Technology
Source: Wired
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013, 7:35am
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Report on sports concussions in kids calls for more study
Research to prevent and better treat brain injury is incomplete, the Institute of Medicine says. Reluctance to report trauma endangers young athletes, it says.
Neuroscience
Source: L.A. Times
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 31, 2013, 10:01am
Rating: | Views: 1653 | Comments: 0
A Hospital Takes Its Own Big-Data Medicine
Experts from Facebook and genetics labs team up to help doctors make personalized predictions about their patients.
Technology
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 26, 2013, 8:18am
Rating: | Views: 1109 | Comments: 0
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