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T-Cells, our body’s warrior in the war against cancer [Video]

Our bodies are pretty incredible and for the most they are amazingly resilient, able to bounce back from most injuries and illnesses it finds itself subjected to, but even with all those abilities to recover there are ... continue

Sugar found to help halt esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is the eighth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and the fifth biggest in the United Kingdom so any new tools that enable doctors to detect and help fight it is probably ... continue

Preferred testing method by American Diabetes Association fails detecting diabetes in kids

Diabetes in children is a growing problem in today's society as we see an ever increasing number of children becoming obese and the Centers for Disease Control estimating that approximately 2.5 million children in the US qualify ... continue

New cellular therapy could reduce dependency on life long drugs after transplants

Medicine has brought about many great changes in our society and nowhere is this more apparent than when it comes to the ability to perform human tissue transplants. Where things like heart and kidney transplants were consider ... continue

A new start-up strikes fear into the hearts of Big Pharma – Ya!

I don't know about you but I have never understood how drug companies are able to sell drugs where a side effect can be death. I mean seriously people why are they allowed to do this, and ... continue

Portable brain scanner courtesy of your smartphone [Video]

Not only can you now diagnose cancer using your smartphone but now you can perform a brain scan on the go thanks to a company by the name of Milab. This portable brain scanner consists of a low-cost ... continue

Printing up blood vessels using a 3D printer

Every day it seems we are hearing about some incredible scientific discovery using cutting edge technology and nothing right now is more cutting edge that 3D printing. However it gets even more incredible when when you find ... continue

Training an immune system to be a ninja warrior to kill cancer

The doctor's still aren't 100% sure which part of their strategy worked the way it did but they may have stumbled upon a way to not only put a specific type of leukemia into remission but to totally ... continue

A blessing for women – new hybrid imaging device spots ovarian cancer early

Of all the cancers that can affect a woman the most insidious has to be ovarian cancer due to the inability of doctors to be able to easily, and reliably detect it in its early stages. As ... continue

In the future we might have microspiders in our blood to fix blood vessels

While this might still be out there on the fringes, and with a lot of bugs to be worked out, this could be a pretty interesting medical development. What researchers at Pennsylvania State University are trying to do ... continue

Come see a live beating heart in a box. Seriously. [Video]

I still remember when the very first heart transplant was done and the incredible reaction to the news. Even though the patient died shortly afterwards that boundary had been crossed and we knew that we had the ... continue

Capnography saves the life of a man who went 96 minutes without a pulse

In cold January night Howard Snitzer collapsed in front of a Minnesota grocery store and for more than an hour an a half Snitzer had no pulse. It got to the point in the ER that the ... continue

New biomedical possibilities thanks to MIT discovery

Time to get your dose of science nerdism with this news out of MIT where they have discovered a new way to create multi-layered microparticles in a wide array of shapes. Why is this important? Well in the world ... continue

Hacking the unthinkable: Insulin pumps a potential murder weapon

On one side of the coin conferences like Black Hat and Defcon that are going on right now in Las Vegas are really cool because it lets us see what creative minds can do with technology. On ... continue

Curious if you have skin cancer? There’s an app for that

For every fart app there is an equally incredible one that shows just how much mobile computing is going to change our world. With summer in full swing and everyone trying to catch all the sun's rays that ... continue

Giving people back their voices, another incredible medical discovery [Video]

While the above image might strike some folks as rather perverse and suggestive the fact is that is a fantastic discovery caught on film of a synthetic vocal cord gel and it will allow people who have ... continue

A drug resistant form of gonorrhea headed to our shores

With the amount of drugs that we take as a society doctors have been warning for years that there will come a time when we are going to run up a totally drug resistant type of disease. Well, ... continue

Mechanical heart pumps could get their own wireless charging system

Science never ceases to amaze me, especially with all of the technological discoveries being made on almost a daily basis and then finding their way into medicine. One of the most sought after solutions in our world of ... continue

Addiction Treatment: A New Way To Look At An Old Problem

The ground breaking article from the NY Times, "Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment" finally gets it right. After years, if not decades, of blaming the victims of drug addiction, this refreshing and important article makes the ... continue

Study: Doctors would treat selves differently than patients

A new study published in the medical journal the Archives of Internal Medicine details the differences in the ways physicians treat patients versus treatments they'd select for themselves. Interestingly, doctors were far more likely to chance death in their ... continue

[Cool Stuff] 96% accurate cancer detection for $200

One of the great things about the speed at which technology is affecting scientific research and medical advancements is that researchers are constantly coming up with new methods to diagnose the diseases that are plaguing our society. Case ... continue

That washroom guy in the Microsoft ad? He was checking for STDs

I got to admit that when I first read this post over at the Guardian was of the Microsoft ad for Windows Phone 7 where the guy dropped his phone into the urinal and then bends down ... continue