Health & Medicine

Molecular duo dictate weight and energy levels

01 Mar 2012

New discoveries on depression

29 Feb 2012

DNA nanorobot-targeted therapeutic responses

28 Feb 2012

Researchers have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cancer cells and cause them to self-destruct

One in 10 children face elevated risk of abuse, future PTSD, due to gender nonconformity

28 Feb 2012

"Popeye" proteins help the heart adapt to stress

27 Feb 2012

Engineers create wireless, self-propelled medical device

By By Andrew Myers | 25 Feb 2012

For 50 years, scientists searched for the secret to making tiny implantable devices that could travel through the bloodstream. Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated just such a device. Powered without wires or batteries, it can propel itself though the bloodstream and is small enough to fit through blood vessels.

Better neural control of prosthetics for amputees

21 Feb 2012

Faulty fat sensor implicated in obesity and liver disease

20 Feb 2012

When body clock runs down, immune system takes time off

18 Feb 2012

Scientists shed light on how body fends off bacteria

18 Feb 2012

Potential antibiotic alternative to treat infection without resistance identified

18 Feb 2012

Old antibiotic could be a new weapon to fight TB

17 Feb 2012

UCSD uses heat energy to fix odd heart beat

17 Feb 2012

FDA-approved non-surgical technology uses  heat energy, or radio frequency waves, to irreversibly alter heart tissue that trigger an abnormal heart rhythm or atrial fibrillation

New drug compound may help fight antibiotic-resistant superbugs

16 Feb 2012

Complexities in caregiving at the end of life

15 Feb 2012

New cases of rare genetic disorder identified

15 Feb 2012

Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain

14 Feb 2012

C-sections linked to breathing problems in preterm infants

11 Feb 2012

Exercise triggers stem cells in muscle

11 Feb 2012

Obesity affects severity of symptoms in fibromyalgia patients: study

11 Feb 2012

Study suggests girls can 'rewire' brains to ward off depression

11 Feb 2012

Low levels of lipid antibodies increase complications following heart attack

07 Feb 2012

Study Shows Alzheimer’s Disease May Spread by ‘Jumping’ from One Brain Region to Another

07 Feb 2012

‘Goldilocks’ gene could determine best treatment for TB patients

04 Feb 2012

Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear

By By Robert Sanders | 03 Feb 2012

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.