Inside the Medicine Cabinet of the Future
by +ISM +ISM Your future medicine cabinet will integrate home, pharmacy and doctor's office into a digital health network. It will work with next-gen health-care products–disease screeners,...
View ArticleSudoku Puzzles Inspire DNA-Sequencing Breakthrough
DNA Sudoku "DNA Sudoku," a new genetic sequencing technique inspired by the popular puzzle, could reduce both time and costs in DNA sequencing in the near future, ultimately contributing to the...
View ArticleDogs and Mice Could Be Trained as Roving Biosensors to Sniff Out Disease...
The Nose Knows A mouse is rewarded with a drink after sniffing infected duck excrement. Monell Chemical Senses Center Dogs can already sniff out drugs, diabetes, cancer and explosives, and new...
View ArticleGiant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test
Gambian Pouched Rat Wikimedia Commons A 10-pound rat wouldn't normally evoke feelings of appreciation, but perhaps it should — apparently it can save lives by sniffing out tuberculosis. Rat disease...
View ArticleWith New Prediction Algorithm, a Patient's Past Foretells His Medical Future
Medical Records Wikimedia Commons An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in the...
View ArticleInside the Medicine Cabinet of the Future
Your future medicine cabinet will integrate home, pharmacy and doctor's office into a digital health network. It will work with next-gen health-care productsdisease…
View ArticleSudoku Puzzles Inspire DNA-Sequencing Breakthrough
"DNA Sudoku," a new genetic sequencing technique inspired by the popular puzzle, could reduce both time and costs in DNA sequencing in the near future, ultimately contributing to the prevention of...
View ArticleDogs and Mice Could Be Trained as Roving Biosensors to Sniff Out Disease...
Dogs can already sniff out drugs, diabetes, cancer and explosives, and new research suggests they could also be trained to sniff out diseases before they spread.
View ArticleGiant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test
A 10-pound rat wouldn’t normally evoke feelings of appreciation, but perhaps it should — apparently it can save lives by sniffing out tuberculosis. Rat disease recognition is much more accurate than...
View ArticleWith New Prediction Algorithm, a Patient's Past Foretells His Medical Future
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in the future,…
View ArticleGoogle Is Using A.I. To Spot Eye Disease Early
Health Looking into your eyes and predicting the future Like a fortune teller, Google wants to look into your eyes and tell your future. NHS’s Moorfields Eye Hospital will partner with Google and Deep...
View ArticleWhere you should move to feel young forever, in one chart
Health How old will you be when you start to feel 65? It depends on where you live. It’s one thing to live longer, and another to live it well. Few of us would want to reach 100 if we already felt...
View ArticleWhy public health officials have only ever eradicated one disease
Health 'Eliminated' diseases can return. Eradicating one for good is a near impossible public health undertaking. Measles is still technically eliminated in the United States. The disease was declared...
View ArticleRising temperatures will help mosquitos infect a billion more people
Nexus Media News "Plain and simple, climate change is going to kill a lot of people." New research indicates that climate change could result in one billion new cases of infectious diseases globally...
View ArticleThe FDA is finally updating its decades-old mammogram standards
Health Radiologists must now report a patient's breast density, which can complicate diagnosis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it is proposing regulations which would...
View ArticleSee what happens when tapeworms infest your brain
Health A tragic case report shows the horrifying result when tapeworms don't stay confined to your intestines. Tapeworms are revolting no matter where you find them, but at least in your gut they’re...
View ArticleAntibiotics save lives—but misusing them could lead to millions of deaths
Health According to a new UN report, drug resistance could result in 10 million yearly deaths by 2050. Overuse and misuse of antimicrobial medicine could cause devastating infectious disease outbreaks...
View ArticleAfrican swine fever has killed a million pigs—and isn't slowing down
Health The science behind the world’s deadliest swine disease. Since early August, African swine fever has wiped out pork productions across China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and most recently, Cambodia,...
View ArticleYou could get the plague (but probably won't)
Health The disease still thrives in the United States. In the grand scheme of today’s infectious diseases, the plague is by far one of the least likely microbes for the average American to pick...
View ArticleThis island is many frogs' last hope for surviving the world's deadliest...
Animals New Guinea is the last place the deadly chytrid fungus hasn't reached. The world’s amphibians are fighting a deadly pandemic: the ancient chytrid fungus. It’s already killed off 90 species of...
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