Researchers from the University of Cambridge have created a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function in paralyzed limbs. The developed device works in sync between the brain and paralyzed limbs - it combines flexible electronics and human stem cells to "better integrate" with the nerve and drive limb function, according to a press release.

A low-cost “smart glove” designed to sense the position of a baby during labour could prove a life-saving intervention in places with limited resources, say the UK-based developers.

Modern gynecology was borne of experimentation of enslaved Black women, historian Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens explains

In the late 1950s, dentist and U.S. Navy Captain Kirk C. Hoerman, then a young man in his 30s, attempted to answer a bold question: Might the saliva of prostate cancer patients have different characteristics from that of healthy people? Could it contain traces of a disease that’s so far away from the mouth?

lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). We have assessed the value of LDL-C as a CVD risk factor, as well as effects of the LCD on other CVD risk factors. We have also reviewed findings that provide guidance as to whether statin therapy would be beneficial for individuals with high LDL-C on an LCD. Recent findings Multiple longitudinal trials have demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of the LCD, while also providing evidence of improvements in the most reliable CVD risk factors. Recent findings have also confirmed how ineffective LDL-C is in predicting CVD risk. Summary Extensive research has demonstrated the efficacy of the LCD to...

Stimwave allegedly told doctors that the plastic implantable rods would help ease patients' chronic pain.

"Truth serum" comes in several forms, including sodium pentothal. Find out how the drugs work to make it more difficult — but not impossible — to lie.

At 67 years old, Dr. Nir Barzilai looks about the same as, if not younger than, he did 10 years ago. It’s apparent in side-by-side photographs, and it’s what most people who know him say. Barzilai lives a healthy lifestyle. He exercises every day, eats right, and practices intermittent fasting. He’s also been taking the diabetes drug metformin off label for 10 years. He has never been diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes—the conditions for which the drug is approved and prescribed—but takes it for a different off-label reason.

For the first time, scientists generated stem cells from bats that can give rise to any type of cell found in the animals' fuzzy bodies. These cells, the researchers say, may help explain how bats can carry so many viruses that are lethal to humans but cause the flying mammals no harm.

A new study IDs a key contributor to the hyperactive autoimmune response and neuroinflammation that are the hallmarks of multiple sclerosis.

The patient in Germany was given the transplant to help treat a blood disorder, which in his case was leukaemia, that had developed alongside his HIV infection, and after four years of not taking anti-retroviral medicine, he has not relapsed.

Heather Rendulic cries tears of joy as pioneering electrical stimulation gives her enough mobility to complete everyday tasks.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) no longer requires new drugs to be tested in animals before being approved. Thanks to a law passed in December 2022(opens in new tab), the agency now has the option to approve drugs that are tested in only non-animal studies, including those that use lab-grown tissues or computer models, before being tested in clinical trials with humans.

An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose, may hold clues to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers.

A girl born with a rare and deadly genetic condition is expected to live a long and normal life after becoming the first person to be cured on the NHS with the help of a revolutionary gene therapy. Teddi Shaw was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), an inherited condition that causes catastrophic damage to the nervous system and organs. Those affected usually die young.

Conservative physicians were about five times more likely than their liberal and moderate colleagues to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine. The authors of a new study suggest that this willingness to prescribe controversial pandemic drugs shows just how much political ideology shapes a physician’s attitudes towards scientific evidence.

People with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have lower bacterial diversity in the intestine than do healthy people, according to a team of investigators. The investigators believe that theirs is the first analysis to find a clear association between IBS and reduced diversity in the microbiota of the gut.