Health Care
Technology and methods to care for medical patients
Jun 22, 2010
"Dr. Wager (pronounced WAY-gur) is a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado. His specialty is neuroscience and brain imaging, but his passion is the placebo effect -- a phenomenon that has undergone a resurgence in recent years and is now being studied by researchers in many corners of science."
May 17, 2010
"Searching for flu symptoms online is a reasonable proxy for actually having them"
May 16, 2010
"Nanoscientist Molly Stevens is working on techniques to enable a damaged heart to repair itself or bone tissue to regenerate"
Apr 30, 2010
"The select few who have had their genomes sequenced learn to use that information for health care."
Apr 29, 2010
In studies on cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and other degenerative conditions, some scientists are moving away from the "nature-versus-nurture" debate and are finding you're not a creature of either genetics or environment, but both -- with enormous implications for a new approach to health.
Apr 23, 2010
"Development could lead to treatments tailored to different diseases, say research groups"
Apr 9, 2010
Scientists hope to harness the organisms' immune-regulating effects.
Mar 30, 2010
"A series of promising compounds can cripple all enveloped viruses' ability to invade cells as well as circumvent any resistance that hobbles traditional antiviral drugs. But will they work outside the lab?"
Mar 26, 2010
"Researchers are plotting strategies against the next major flu outbreak using clues from the 1918 virus."
Mar 11, 2010
"[Research], published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, reflects a new approach to the hunt for disease-causing genes--an approach made possible by the plunging cost of DNA sequencing."
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