Health & Medicine
Nature-inspired surgical glue mends hearts
01 Mar 2014
Researchers have developed a new tissue adhesive that is biodegradable, biocompatible, and could allow for less-invasive surgeries that don’t require sutures or staples.
Twitter 'big data' can be used to monitor HIV, drug behaviour
27 Feb 2014
Real-time social media like Twitter could be used to track HIV incidence and drug-related behaviour to detect and potentially prevent outbreaks, reveals a new study
A paper diagnostic for cancer
26 Feb 2014
Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease
HIV drug used to reverse effects of virus that causes cervical cancer
21 Feb 2014
A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus that leads to cervical cancer in a world-first clinical trial led
Sitting raises risk of disability after 60
20 Feb 2014
If you’re 60 and older, every additional hour a day you spend sitting is linked to doubling the risk of being disabled -- regardless of how much moderate exercise you get,, reveals new research
Hitchhiking vaccines boost immunity
18 Feb 2014
Scientists create human lung in lab
18 Feb 2014
Though lungs are one of many body parts being made in the lab, its benefits would only be available to patients many years down the line
Smoking impairs blood vessel repair
By By Nicole Skinner | 18 Feb 2014
Within tarantula venom, new hope for safe and novel painkillers found
By By Bill Hathaway | 17 Feb 2014
Screening more than 100 spider toxins, researchers have identified a protein from the venom of the Peruvian green velvet tarantula that blunts activity in pain-transmitting neurons
Mobile phone use does not cause cancer: Study
14 Feb 2014
Cochlear implants — with no exterior hardware
11 Feb 2014
A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a skull-mounted sensor
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
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