Yale University physician, professor and researcher Hugh Taylor demonstrates how pregnant mice were injected with high doses of the chemical BPA Human immune system itself can cure Alzheimer’s disease, reports researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of…
The basic chemistry of hair dyes has changed little over the past century, but what do we know about the risks of coloring our hair, why do we do it? Every two months Barclay Cunningham goes through a process that…
Researchers have developed a dongle and an app that can quickly screen for the virus and other sexually transmitted infections like syphilis. Diagnosing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections could take as little as 15 minutes with the push of…
Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates released their annual letter on Thursday. In it, they predict what the world would look like by 2030. Forty years ago, Bill and his childhood friend Paul Allen made a bet that software and personal…
Monday, January 12, 2015 Medical billing paperwork and insurance-related red tape cost the U.S. economy approximately $471 billion in 2012, 80 percent of which is waste due to the inefficiency of the nation’s complex, multi-payer way of financing care, a…
This success in saving lives may be offset by the Ebola outbreak, and the UN agency warned of factors that might reverse the progress being made. The number of people dying from malaria has almost halved since 2000, although progress…
Brian Lomax (26) sleeps on a pile of bones – the remains of cremated Ebola victims whose relatives may never get the chance to collect. He was hounded out of his community by neighbors who feared his work at the…
Two emerging technologies look promising, but top oncology researchers are concerned about dangers seen during clinical trials. A new wave of experimental cancer drugs that directly recruit the immune system’s powerful T cells are proving to be immensely effective weapons against…
Bill and Melinda Gates believe poor people’s live will change rapidly in the near future. Read an edited excerpt of Bill and Melinda Gates’ annual letter, titled ‘Our Big Bet for the Future’ Green: You’ve made a big bet: that…
More ambulances, checkpoints and changes in behavior are keeping new Ebola cases in check, with hopes the govt could stamp out the virus by March. A military-style operation to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has helped dramatically reduce new cases…