Health & Medicine

Pacemaker for dog with severely damaged heart saves its life

15 May 2015

Three year-old-Alice was given only days to live by vets when they discovered that her heart was so severely damaged that she was surviving on only a third of it's capacity that that was still functioning

Reports call for $2 billion fund to spur research into new antibiotics

15 May 2015

Jim O'Neill, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has called for a $2-billion fund for research into new antibiotics

Starved T cells allow hepatitis B to silently infect liver

15 May 2015

Link between vitamin E and air pollution

15 May 2015

New study links sleeping with lights on with weight gain

14 May 2015

Father’s age linked to blood cancer risk in children

14 May 2015

Americans could benefit from lung cancer vaccine developed in Cuba

13 May 2015

Trial shows new type of Malaria vaccine to be highly effective

13 May 2015

Study warns of misdiagnosis in using the net for self-treatment

13 May 2015

Interferon-free therapy clears Hepatitis C in 93% of patients in trial

13 May 2015

GP out-of-hours reforms linked to more emergency admissions for children

12 May 2015

Novel liquid biopsy platform

12 May 2015

Implantable electrode coating good as gold

11 May 2015

Northwestern scientists develop first liquid nano-laser

09 May 2015

This new laser technology could lead to practical applications, such as a new form of a ''lab on a chip'' for medical diagnostics

New combination treatment strategy to “checkmate” glioblastoma

09 May 2015

The key to reducing pain in surgery may already be in your hand

09 May 2015

Virus-based vaccine against malaria proves 67 per cent effective

09 May 2015

Researchers develop thermometer like instrument to detect heart attack

08 May 2015

Smartphone video microscope automates detection of parasites in blood

08 May 2015

CRISPR gene editing technique holds promise of wiping out genetic diseases

07 May 2015

Stanford engineers observe the moment when the mind changes

07 May 2015

Deeper understanding of decision-making will help researchers to fine-tune the control algorithms of neural prostheses to enable people with paralysis to drive a brain-controlled prosthetic arm or guide a neurally-activated cursor on a computer screen

New technique shows shale-drilling chemicals in drinking-water taps near leak

07 May 2015

Substances commonly used for drilling or extracting Marcellus shale gas travelled from shale gas wells more than two kilometers in the sub-surface to drinking water wells

New screening technique could pick up twice as many ovarian cancer cases

06 May 2015

Climate change regulations could lower number of premature deaths: study

06 May 2015

Drug that can prevent the onset of diabetes is rarely used

06 May 2015

Few doctors are prescribing a low-cost drug that has been proven effective in preventing the onset of diabetes, according to a University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) study