Google Cardboard saves baby’s life
Source: CNN (CNN)A toy-like cardboard contraption that sells for less than $20 online has helped save the life of a baby who was so sick that doctors told her parents […]
Did this sleepy village stop the Black Death?
Source: BBC Over the course of eight days in August 1667, Elizabeth Hancock lost her six children and her husband. Covering her mouth with a handkerchief against the stench of […]
How Random Is Cancer? A New Study Adds to the Answer
Source: Time In January 2015, a compelling study published in the journalScience reported that most cancers are random and out of one’s control. The study made waves, challenging decades of […]
A Catholic dilemma: Should IVF embryos be adopted?
Source: Crux As more Americans than ever before turn to in vitro fertilization to create families, a surprising ethical question — what to do with thousands of embryos stuck in […]
The challenges of carrying out surgery in space
Source: BBC By Richard Hollingham The International World Extreme Medicine Conference in London is not for the faint-hearted. As I sneak into the back of the main lecture hall, record-breaking polar […]
Kids on ADHD Medication Are More Likely to Be Bullied, Study Says
Source: Time Especially if they’ve ever given their drugs to someone else Children who take commonly-prescribed stimulants to treat their attention disorders are more likely to be victimized at school […]
Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of ‘post-antibiotic era’
Source: BBC The world is on the cusp of a “post-antibiotic era”, scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed. They identified […]
Phones need ‘bed mode’ to protect sleep
Source: BBC Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic “bedtime mode” that stops them disrupting people’s sleep, says a leading doctor. Prof Paul Gringras argued the setting should filter […]
Islamic Faith Healing in Indonesia
Source: The New York Times Antonio Zambardino considers himself to be neither religious nor superstitious, but when he stumbled across an exorcism while photographing in a remote area of Indonesia […]
‘Milestone’ prostate cancer drug
Source : BBC The first drug that targets precise genetic mutations in prostate cancer has been shown to be effective in a “milestone” trial by UK scientists. The study, at […]
Scientists invent chocolate so healthy ‘it could be eaten as medicine’
The Independent Alexandra Sims14 hrs ago © CorbisChocolate so healthy it could be eaten as medicine has allegedly been invented by scientists. Scientists at an American chocolate company specialising in herbal technologies claim to have developed the “medicinal” chocolate, which contains only 35 per cent fat. Cacao, the key ingredient […]
3 Researchers Awarded The 2015 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
Epigraph: Allah sends down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood bears on its surface swelling foam. And from that which they […]
Five million adults in England ‘at risk of diabetes’
Source: BBC By Dominic Hughes; Health correspondent, BBC News Up to five million people in England are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, according to new data from Public Health England. […]
Religious people cope better with cancer than non believers, a study suggests.
Those with the greatest faith said they had better physical health, greater ability to carry on doing everyday tasks and fewer physical symptoms of cancer Religion and spirituality were a […]
Religion Better for Mental Health Than Sport, Study Finds
Newsweek: Researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands studied the impact of various social activities on depressive symptoms in older […]
Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up.
Source: Wired.com Spiny grass and scraggly pines creep amid the arts-and-crafts buildings of the Asilomar Conference Grounds, 100 acres of dune where California’s Monterey Peninsula hammerheads into the Pacific. It’s […]
Eating disorders at Ramadan: One teenager’s experience
Source: BBC By Anisa Kadri; BBC Asian Network It is coming to the end of Ramadan, when Muslims fast between dawn and sunset for a month. The 18-hour spiritual fasts are […]
Female genital mutilation: Why Egyptian girls fear the summer
By Nick Thompson, CNN Cairo, Egypt (CNN) Summer days: They’re what childhood memories are made of, glorious afternoons of unchecked freedom to frolic with friends in the sun, unshackled from the […]
Pancreatic cancer blood test breakthrough
Source: BBC By James Gallagher; Health editor, BBC News website Scientists believe they are close to a blood test for pancreatic cancer – one of the hardest tumours to detect and treat. The test, which they describe as “a major advance”, hunts for tiny spheres of fat that are shed by […]
HIV, hepatitis risk for many Sydney dental patients
Source: BBC Thousands of Sydney dental patients may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis, according to health authorities. A New South Wales (NSW) Health spokesman said at least 11,000 patients of two dental operators were at “low risk” because of poor cleaning and sterilisation practices. Patients who had invasive […]