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"The amount of interest is enormous," says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. "People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this."
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.
It could lead to earlier diagnoses, better treatment, and fewer deaths from pancreatic cancer, which kills 88% of patients within five years.
From cosmetic procedures to heart operations, the introduction of AI will create an ethical minefield.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.
The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
From the bedside to the lab bench, here’s how laboratory testing works.
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
Chronotherapeutic drug delivery aims to maximize treatment effectiveness and minimize side effects.
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
If you want a medication to kick in faster, lean right.
While Y chromosome loss was first observed in 1963, it was not until 2014 that researchers found the link to a shorter life span.
From ibuprofen to fentanyl, it’s about meeting the pain where it’s at.
A new, easy-to-use, $5-device helps address male infertility. It isolates healthy sperm cells based on their natural behavior.
"I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient."
A ten-minute visit from a therapy dog reduces emergency room patients' pain and anxiety.
Risqué or just risky?
The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.
Scientists ranked countries on their end-of-life care. The U.S. fared poorly.
The brain appears to remember immune responses, and memories can trigger them to happen again. This might explain some psychosomatic illnesses.