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For years organ donors have suffered the medical costs of saving another person’s life – now health insurers are denying them cover too.
A short stroll through the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago reminds us of the blood curdling medicine of yore.
Scientists have linked mental health problems like depression to the consumption of processed foods.
For the first time an experimental drug to treat lupus has been found to be effective in a second round of clinical trials.
The coronary angiogram was not discovered through scientific skill but via a medical accident.
Spiders find a bloodsucking-by-proxy diet sexy—and it helps control malaria, new research finds.
For the first time in decades NASA will subject monkeys to radiation experiments to test the long-term effects of space travel on humans.
While sustainable agriculture is rapidly becoming one of the looming issues of our time, a myth-based propensity toward naturalness may be stripping the movement of any effectuality.
Sex could be ruled out of baby making if new artificial egg and sperm technology takes off.
Britain’s drug chief says ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less harmful than cigarettes and alcohol.
“Free,” to Chris Anderson, is a magic word. It’s the future of business. It’s something we all need to start wrapping our heads around. Anderson chatted with Big Think’s co-founder […]
Women under 45 who experience migraines with sensory disturbances are twice as likely to suffer strokes, new research has found.
A South Korean scientist responsible for the world’s first cloned dog has been convicted of embezzlement and illegal harvesting of human eggs.
Obama is ‘pleased’ the Senate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, according to the White House press secretary.
Only 16.5m of the promised 250m doses of swine flu vaccine have been made available and Americans are beginning to panic.
Volcanoes set the stage for the rise of the Appalachian Mountains and the ice age that followed, new research has found.
Which is tougher, finding the world’s smallest particles with a multi-million dollar supercollider, or surviving the halls of the competitive, male-dominated Harvard Physics Department as a women? Melissa Franklin, who […]
The super rich could evolve into a different species from the poor, according to American futurologist Paul Saffo.
The mantis shrimp’s capability to see a wider color spectrum than a human’s could inspire a new generation of DVD player, scientists have found.
Richard Dawkins is perhaps the world’s preeminent voice in one of our weightiest debates—‘how did we get here?’ So, how does the spearhead of modern atheism feel we are doing […]
A new anti-obesity drug has proved successful in trials with fewer side effects than traditional treatments. But could cost limit its use?
A massive crevice that could be the entrance to a vast subsurface tunnel has been discovered on the Moon.
After a soccer match, the losers’ testosterone levels will probably be lower than the winners’ (though it may be that this won’t be so if the winners think their victory […]
Insurance companies deny raped women cover due to ‘pre-existing condition’ of post-assault HIV fears and post-traumatic stress.
The fossilised mammal discovered last May and hailed as the primate to human ‘missing link’ has been debunked.
New research shows that the stigma surrounding HIV can lead to quantifiably negative health outcomes for sufferers.
The irrepressible Richard Dawkins visited Big Think today and spoke about genes, God (or the lack thereof), evolution, and great unanswered questions in his field from how consciousness evolved to […]
Canadian Turkeys are the latest to be infected by the Swine Flu pandemic.
The world’s scientists are getting together in November to figure out how to put off getting old and dying.