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Nanotube Probe Gives a Single Neuron’s View of Brain Activity
A thin probe of carbon nanotubes can measure small electrical changes inside a neuron.
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I Woke Up And Half Of My Face Was Paralyzed
While I was brushing my teeth, toothpaste and spit spilled out of the side of my mouth. And that's when I realized something was seriously wrong. I started making some facial expression in the mirror, and the left side of my face was not moving.
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Are We Killing Our Sports Gene?
Are we losing a generation of athletes by overprescribing ADHD drugs? David Epstein on the genes that make us move—and their evolutionary purpose.
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Breast Cancer Risk May Rise With Blood Pressure Medicines.
Using a type of blood pressure drug for more than a decade may raise breast-cancer risk, a study found, the first potential link between long-term use of the popular medicines and the most common malignancy among women.
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Life-saving transplant denied, health insurance canceled over 26-cent shortfall
Health insurance under COBRA was canceled for leukemia patient Sergio Branco because of a 26-cent premium shortfall.
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A regenerative medicine breakthrough - Lab-grown human heart tissue beats on its own
Progress in regenerative medicine has been coming fast and furious in recent months: scientists are now using far-out tissue engineering techniques to restore liver function in mice, regrow human...
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Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?
Walter Keller had nearly lost his battle with leukemia when he went to Penn's Carl June and his group of researchers for a radical new cancer treatment. What happened next may change medicine forever.
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New drug mimics the beneficial effects of exercise
A drug known as SR9009, which is currently under development at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), increases the level of metabolic activity in skeletal...
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Why Can't We Find an AIDS Vaccine?
Don't celebrate this week's promising-seeming AIDS vaccine trial yet—there's a reason we haven't found one.
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Flu deaths reality check
Do thousands of Canadians really die every year from the flu? The flu folks keep saying so. I've already heard it repeated several times this year and flu season has just started. This is what the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a recent press release: "Every year, between 2,000 and 8,000 Canadians die of the flu and its complications."
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Drug-resistant bacteria: 'We're facing a catastrophe'
US warns of the growing threat of germs that are hard to treat because they've become resistant to drugs.
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Reality Check on Cancer: Fast Progress But Too Many Preventable Deaths
The latest status report from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) shows that most cancer deaths are avoidable. Compared to 1990, one million fewer people died of cancer and the number of cancer survivors – currently at 13.7 million in the U.S., continues to climb.
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Is this the most extraordinary human brain ever seen?
An adult brain discovered in a collection in Texas is entirely smooth – free of the ridges and folds so characteristic of our species' most complex organ
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Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut
This medical case may give a whole new meaning to the phrase "beer gut." Other medical professionals chalked up the man's problem to "closet drinking." But Cordell and Dr. Justin McCarthy, a gastroenterologist in Lubbock, wanted to figure out what was really going on.
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Colonoscopies could cut 40% of cancers
A colonoscopy every 10 years could prevent 40 per cent of colorectal cancers, according to a massive US study, supporting the effectiveness of the commonly-used test.
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Why do some people's eyes look like keyholes?
Some people's eyes really do look like keyholes to their souls. It's not something out of a romance comic. It's a condition called coloboma.
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How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?
An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year, more than twice the number in a frequently quoted Institute of Medicine report
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How much is too much exercise when you're pregnant?
The caption on Lea-Ann Ellison's photo says it all: "8 months pregnant with baby number 3." "I have been CrossFitting for 2½ years," Ellison posted on CrossFit's Facebook page, "and ... strongly believe that pregnancy is not an illness, but a time to relish in your body's capabilities to kick ass."
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2-year-old gets weight-loss surgery: How young is too young?
When you hear the story of a 2-year-old boy believed to be the youngest person in the world ever to have bariatric surgery, it's very easy to "point a judgmental finger," as one mom said to me.
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5 Creepy Medical Treatments That Actually Work
The whole point of modern society is separating humans from the unspeakably gross things that keep humans alive. No, you don't want to see how the sausage is made, and you don't want to see where your poop goes. This goes double for medical care, where you expect everything to be sterile and white and made by people in spotless laboratories. But if you're willing to keep an open mind about horrifying things, you'll be pleased to find out that ...
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