Does Thinking Burn Calories? Here’s What the Science Says
Source: Time By MARKHAM HEID You spent Sunday on the couch, skimming your social feeds and watching HGTV. Monday at work was a different story; your job involves creative problem solving […]
Ted Talk: Homeopathy, Quackery and Fraud
Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s […]
People Are Now Taking Placebo Pills to Deal With Their Health Problems—And It’s Working
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN For over 20 years, Linda Buonanno lived in fear that her irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) would suddenly interrupt her daily routine with frequent trips to the […]
The Elephants May Hold Key to Prevent Cancers in Humans
Elephants rarely get cancer. Here’s why this matters to humans Source: CNN By Michael Nedelman, CNN You’d think elephants would be getting cancer left and right: They are giants of […]
A 10-month-old died after her parents refused to get help for religious reasons, police say
Source: The Washington Post By Lindsey Bever In video sermons, the man railed against vaccines, “bad medicine” and doctors whom he deemed to be “priesthoods of the medical cult.” And he […]
‘The retreat convinced me that contemplation can reproduce the effects of psychedelics, a claim I have long doubted’: a Buddhism critic’s retreat experience
A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat Source: Scientific American Something weird happens to a skeptical science writer during a week of meditation, chanting and skygazing By John Horgan on August […]
I Thought I Was Possessed By The Devil. The Truth Shook My Deepest Beliefs.
Source: Huffington Post By Steve Kissing, Guest Writer In 1975, when I was a fifth-grader at St. William Elementary, a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio, the devil began visiting me […]
Gosport hospital deaths: Prescribed painkillers ‘shortened 456 lives’
Source: BBC News More than 450 patients died after being given powerful painkillers inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, a report has found. An independent panel said, taking into account missing […]
There’s Hope for a Vaccine to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN Could a vaccine for type-1 diabetes be on the horizon? In a new study, a small group of people with type 1 diabetes who were given […]
Scientists Are Using a New Weapon to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria—Viruses
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN June 21, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. A new medical research center in San Diego is embracing an innovative way to treat antibiotic resistant […]
100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it.
Source: Vox By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Illustrations by Javier Zarracina When pain settled into Blair Golson’s hands, it didn’t let go. What started off as light throbbing in one wrist 10 years ago quickly engulfed the other. The discomfort then spread, producing a pain much “like slapping your hands against a […]
AI outperforms doctors at diagnosing skin cancer: study
Source: Xinhua Net WASHINGTON, May 30 (Xinhua) — A new study by a team of international researchers has shown for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) performs better than […]
For six decades, ‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood — and saved 2.4 million babies
Source: The Washington Post By Amy B Wang In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation. Doctors had removed one of his lungs in […]
Potential new cure found for baldness
Source: BBC News By Ian Westbrook Health reporter, BBC News A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis. Researchers found the […]
Is mindfulness as helpful as we think?
Source: BBC News By Bruce Lieberman In late 1971, US Navy veteran Stephen Islas returned from Vietnam, but the war continued to rage in his head. “I came very close […]
Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Organisation (MAMO) and Humanity First join hands for Humanitarian Project in Madagascar.
Source: Dr Mohammad Sarfraz Baloch On 28.04.2018 it was an extremely inspiring and motivational atmosphere at departure lounge of Frankfurt International Airport. A team provided by Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Association MAMO, comprising of Dr Mohammad Mohsin Bhatti, Doctor Irfan Azam, Dr Hafiz Slman Ahmad Rana and Tariq Karim Arif of […]
Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Organisation (MAMO) Germany held its National Meeting
By Zubair K Khan On 14.04.2018 the Muslim Ahmadiyya Medical Organisation (MAMO) held its 4th National Meeting in the Tahir Hall of MKAD building Ewane Khidmat of Baitus Sabuh Frankfurt Germany.. National Head of AMJ Germany chaired the meeting. […]
People Around the World Are Using Far More Antibiotics. Here’s Why
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN The use of antibiotics in humans has increased 39% from 2000 to 2015, according to a new report. The finding raises concerns about the growing threat […]
Are digital drugs the future of medication?
Source: BBC News A drug with the potential to revolutionise medication has been approved in the US. The ‘smart’ pill can communicate with doctors and share information about treatments. In […]
Ted Talk: Preventing Depression and PTSD
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment […]