Scientific Blogging:
Richard P. Phipps, Ph.D., professor of Environmental Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that during flu vaccination season many common pain killers – Advil, Tylenol, aspirin – at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a neg (Read More)
Scientific Blogging:
Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, leads to a 100 percent overall survival after threeyears in patients with good lung function before (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
One of Britain's greatest unsolved mysteries has taken a new twist after medical records discovered in Australia more than 30 year's after Lord Lucan's disappearance revealed the peer had facial surgery. (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
A new field of medical research is looking at the emergence of modern epidemics like asthma and obesity through the prism of Charles Darwin's 150-year-old theory of evolution. (Read More)
Engadget:
Endoscopy, or the examination of a person's bowels via a tube-mounted camera, is not exactly the most pleasant medical procedure one could undergo. In 2004, we noted the early stages of a project to alleviate the (literal) pain of the procedure with a spider pill, which -- once swallowed by the hopefully willing patient -- (Read More)
Engadget:
Are you ready to get your nerd on? No, seriously -- are your rimmed glasses and pressed slacks at the ready? Good. IBM has just announced a full-on research project that intends to drive the cost of DNA sequencing down from millions of dollars to under $1,000. The reason? An ultra-cheap, silicon-based DNA Transistor could e (Read More)
Scientific Blogging:
Soon the world will learn who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Do you remember Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon of the following announcement? The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell (Read More)
Scientific Blogging:
Everyone's heard of open heart surgery but closed heart surgery could one day be just as ubiquitous, according to research from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota in the FASEB Journal.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart failure is a condition where the heart cannot pump enough blo (Read More)
Scientific Blogging:
In scoliosis treatment for babies, doctors often try bracing first and if that fails, they escalate to surgery; placing metal rods in their backs with spinal fusion.These children face the risk of complications from the surgery and their backs and chests may be stiff for life. New research from the University of Rocheste (Read More)
Engadget:
We've seen our fair share of scary robots in these parts, and we're not going to mince words here: there is no way we are going anywhere near one armed with a hypodermic needle. And we sure as hell aren't going to sit still and let it draw blood! Currently being developed by a team at Imperial College in London, the Bloodbo (Read More)
smh.com.au Business News.:
Wendy Chapman, the Harlequins club doctor implicated in rugby's fake blood injury scam, has been suspended from working in the medical profession in Britain. (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald National Headlines:
The Queensland opposition is demanding answers after a staff member at a hospital allegedly stole medical equipment, forcing eye surgery to be rescheduled. (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | The Nation:
AUSTRALIAN and US authorities have worked together to shut down an internet medical scam operating out of NSW, described by a judge as "quack medicine". (Read More)
Sydney Morning Herald:
Australian experts say the powerful anaesthetic drug that contributed to Michael Jackson's death, Propofol, is used in nearly every patient having surgery under general anaesthesia in Australia and the developed world. (Read More)