medical research
“We inject one tumor and we see all of the other tumors just melt away.”
The health care payment system is due for a major overhaul.
Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.
A recent study could help improve treatments for PTSD, anxiety and phobias.
A new study has some disturbing implications for rodents who like a nice soda.
The diet claims that people with different blood types process their food differently. Does it pass muster?
A recent Colorado study of ER visits is alarming medical professionals.
The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh details how the anti-vaxx movement has divided and grown.
The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world’s “open medical intelligence” system.
A NASA-led study suggests the stress of spaceflight seems to trigger various types of herpes to reactivate in astronauts.
A new method of growing mini-brains produces some startling results.
The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested on a massive scale in order to retrieve a cell critical to medical research. However, recent innovations might make this practice obsolete.
A recent study used MRIs to study the changes in brain activity when trained method actors responded to questions in and out of character.
Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells.
Just because the keto diet is an effective weight-loss tool doesn’t mean everyone should try it.
More vaccine-autism facts for the fact-averse.
The quick-acting drug could usher in a new era of treatment for depression.
The promising news comes 12 years after the “Berlin patient” became the world’s first person to be cured of the deadly virus.
Scientists are developing vaccines for migraines and sciatica (back pain) – a win in the war against the overprescription of opioid drugs.
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Eating a doughnut isn’t the only way you can go wrong on the keto diet.
Turns out pushups are more telling than treadmill tests when it comes to cardiovascular health.
We may never have to get more than one flu shot again.
Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.
The brains of two genetically edited babies born last year in China might have enhanced memory and cognition, but that doesn’t mean the scientific community is pleased.
Can learning about the great white shark help protect us from cancer?
Soon, parents may be able to prescribe music to their kids to help them focus.
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The assumption “that without memory, there can be no self” is wrong, say researchers.
Interestingly, electrically stimulating the cingulum bundle also seems to reduce anxiety.
A study on the effects of LSD microdosing shows some fittingly strange results.