medicine
The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world's "open medical intelligence" system.
The issues that determine your health go way beyond seeing your doctor.
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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 bill in New York would let older kids get vaccinations against their parents' wishes.
100 years ago, you could expect to live to 54. Our luxurious, 80-year-long lives come at a cost.
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Recently, "the London patient" became the second person in history to be cured of HIV. Now, "the Düsseldorf patient" appears to be the third, with the possibility of more on the way.
The future of health care is high tech. That's good news — mostly.
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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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We may never have to get more than one flu shot again.
The assumption "that without memory, there can be no self" is wrong, say researchers.
The keto diet can help with weight loss, but at what cost?
Diabetics have to endure constant injections on a daily basis, but this new device could make staying alive easier.
A picture says a thousand words.
Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have hijacked cancer's cellular plasticity to turn the disease against itself.
"History matters, and we now know that hysteresis is part of the answer," wrote the author of a recent study.
Patently insane: How Big Pharma gouges drug prices
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Japan looks to replace China as the primary source of critical metals
Patients with lung disease could find relief by breathing in messenger RNA molecules.
They're fun, so why not? Well, maybe because they're often inscrutable.
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.
A tech-minded approach to drug fraud could squash those who enable the deadly opioid crisis.
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The quick test would be a breakthrough in cancer treatment.
Walgreens now competes with Amazon and CVS in the race to dominate the prescription delivery market.
Swiss researchers identify new dangers of modern cocaine.
Here are the leading solutions to antibiotic resistance, the next major global health threat.
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In a study that might enable earlier diagnosis, neuroscientists find abnormal brain connections that can predict onset of psychotic episodes.
There is a lot of hope in the healing powers of CBD. Unfortunately there's way more hype.
Electrons show chemists how to see more with less.
Pfizer's Susan Silbermann explains the superhuman effort involved in getting vaccines to the people who need them most.
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Pfizer's partnerships strengthen their ability to deliver vaccines in developing countries.