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The Supreme Court unanimously tossed out medical patent claims for Prometheus Laboratories on Tuesday for a test that could help doctors set drug doses for autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease, a decision that could affect the burgeoning field of personalized medicine.
Medication via remote-control instead of a shot? Scientists implanted microchips in seven women that did just that, oozing out the right dose of a bone-strengthening drug once a day without them even noticing.
Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago.
With researchers looking more and more for ways to tailor drugs and tests to each patient's needs, the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered how far companies can go to protect their profits in the burgeoning "personal medicine" field.
Two scientists who will collect this year's Nobel Prize in medicine praised late co-winner Ralph Steinman on Tuesday, saying he probably knew he was in line for the prestigious award.
Cincinnati seventh graders Casey Gittelman and Eleanor Bishop have candy on the brain — and not just because Halloween is right around the corner.
Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann, who share it with Ralph Steinman for having revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation.
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
Ralph Steinman, a pioneer in understanding how cells fight disease, tried to help his own immune system thwart his pancreatic cancer.
Those who believe the million or more abortions each year in the U.S. are immoral seem willing to go to any length to restrict, discourage or hinder them — even, in some cases, if it means risking a woman's health or violating core values of health care.
The Afghanistan Defense Ministry said Sunday it will investigate missing U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant for its army and police.
British professor Robert Edwards, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will not be able to travel to Stockholm to receive his award because of poor health, organizers said Friday.
Removing cough and cold medicines for very young children from store shelves led to a big decline in emergency room visits for bad reactions to the drugs, government research found.
At one moment, the Chinese urologist seemed to be at the height of his career: He had invented a surgical procedure to help patients overcome incontinence and was training doctors in America and elsewhere. The next, Dr. Xiao Chuanguo was in handcuffs, confessing that he'd hired thugs to attack two persistent critics who called him a fraud.
In a story Oct. 4 about the Nobel Prize in medicine, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a Stockholm woman who gave birth after vitro fertilization treatments. Her name is Johanna Mannung, not Nannung.
Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2010 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to Robert Edwards for the development of human in vitro fertilization, or IVF, therapy.
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
The Nobel Prize in medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction.
A Japanese researcher who discovered how to make stem cells from ordinary skin cells and avoid the ethical quandaries of making them from human eggs could be a candidate for the medicine award when the 2010 Nobel Prize announcements kick off Monday, experts said.
A panel of medical experts said Tuesday that cough medicines like Robitussin and Nyquil should continue to be sold over-the-counter, despite increased abuse among teenagers that has prompted calls to restrict sales of the products.
Federal health regulators are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands of people to the hospital each year.
Brute, a German shepherd, lay anesthetized on an operating table, his hairy chest under a plastic cover and his powerful paws taped immobile.
Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it will probably not have supplies for some 40 varieties of medications recalled earlier this year until at least 2011, after closing a key manufacturing site.
Paul Bales, fourth Georgia victim of eating bacteria, has leg amputated A fourth victim of flesh-eating bacteria in Georgia lost his leg when doctors were forced to amputate it three weeks after he received a cut in the water. The latest outbreak of the infection has left neighbors terrified to go in Lake Sinclair, afraid they'll come down w …
Man goes to hospital with a kidney stone... and discovers he's a womanA man who went to hospital with a kidney stone was stunned when a nurse gave him his results - and revealed that he was actually a woman. Steve Crecelius, a photographer from Denver, Colorado, was born with both male and female traits and had long repressed his feminine s …
Radiation: It's just what the doctor ordered | Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsDawn Stover has a good article on a little discussed aspect of modern day life: medical radiation. You're probably being exposed to a lot more radiation than in the past. But most of it is not coming from Fukushima, an airport scanner, or your cell phone. The biggest dose is comi …
Woman, 31 Could Have Been Saved If Examined ProperlyA dance teacher who collapsed and died only hours after being sent home from hospital might have been saved if doctors had tested her more thoroughly, an inquest has heard. Nadia Wearn, 31, had been to hospital to complain of pains down her left arm, chest and back, but was ad …
Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart musclelScientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.
15-Year Old Dies After Doctor Diagnosed Tuberculous As BulimiaAn inquest is underway after a 15-year-old girl, who was told by doctors she may have bulimia, died of tuberculosisThe physician who treated Alina Sarag, from Birmingham in the U.K., said her physical symptoms were due to mental health problems.
Fleet Of Ambulances On Hand For 41-Year-Olds' Touch Football Game | Anticipating the very likely need for rapid medical evacuation, a fleet of ambulances from several regional hospitals took up positions Saturday at the edge of Fairview Park, where a group of 41-year-old former college friends had gathered for a casual game of touch football. …
Iowa Governor Appoints Catholic Priest To State Medical BoardIowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) has appointed a Catholic priest to its state Board of Medicine, and because the state Senate did not vote on the appointment before the end of its session, Monsignor Frank Bognanno will remain on the board until at least January.Bognanno has said he …
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BBC News - Two patients get eye stem cells transplanted to restore sightTwo people have had stem cells transplanted into their eyes as part of a clinical trial to restore their sight. The technique has been developed by Scottish specialists to reverse corneal blindness, and it is believed to be the first treatment of its kind in the UK. Both have c …
Doctors Accidentally Tear Off Baby's Head As Mother Struggles To Give Birth In Brazilian HospitaDoctors in Brazil accidentally tore the head off a baby they were struggling to deliver, it was reported today. The horrific incident occurred after the child became stuck as it was being born in Aracaju, northeastern Brazil. The baby boy's headless body remained inside the m …
Republicans Will Find Themselves in Tough Spot if Supreme Court Strikes Down ObamacareAs The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …
Amazing video of advances in medicine that might actually allow this. Do you want a new finger, or a new vessel to the heart without surgery? It's not only for the future, but it may be here now.
Tuberculosis patient charged in Calif. for not taking medication Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious. Health officials said Armando Rodriguez, 34, of Stockton has active pulmonary tuberculosis, whic …
So many Science Fiction novels about a takeover by the robots portray the demise of Humanity by the Machines. We are not so far away from that scenario in the US in some very surprising areas of our lives. This is what I see happening from not only my personal life, but fr …
I Am (Not) That Mom: Raising a Kid with Cardiomyopathy Sometimes I want to be that mom. Not the mom that wakes up and first thing disconnects a tube from her son's belly that just administered medication. Sometimes I'm tired of it. I'm tired of sitting and pumping food and medications into my son while we watch Monsters Inc.& …
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov - Born May 16, 1845Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage. - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
Medical Marijuana May Ease Pain in People With Multiple SclerosisResearchers continue to find new uses for medical marijuana, as more states begin to approve its use. A new study by the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (yep) tested the effect of marijuana on people with multiple sclerosis. The patients were be …
Light-powered bionic eye invented to help restore sightA retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California. Implants currently used in patients need to be powered by a battery. The new device, described in the journal Nature Photonics, uses a specia …
U.S. Obesity Crisis Set to Cause Organ Shortage As Americans Become Too Fat To DonateHaving the desire to donate a kidney to save someone’s life may not be enough – it might also require shedding a few pounds. Researchers at the North Shore-LIJ Health System Transplant Center in New York and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research conducted a retr …
Pro-Marijuana TV Advertisements Run In ColoradoIt's refreshing to see states push the envelope and watch it bend.
The New Pangenderism:I expect that in a community as confused as our own, many of them "knoweth not what they do" and so, although doing serious harm to themselves, do so with diminished culpability.
Surgical SexWithout any fixed position on what is given in human nature, any manipulation of it can be defended as legitimate.
Fetal Pain Ban Author OK With Forcing Women To have C-Sections For Unviable PregnanciesMcKillip defended his “fetal pain” bill, The law bans most abortions after 20 weeks, the point at which supporters contend a fetus can feel pain, which many doctors dispute. Ruth Cline, an obstetrician and gynecologist, asked McKillip what she should do when …
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