Known to be as long as 72 feet and as heavy as 350 pounds, with dinner plate-sized eyes, only around 1,000 confirmed giant squid specimens have been collected ...
The Journal‘s claims, many of which Theranos has contested, are damning. At the same time, the story also exposes a deeper problem with the way Silicon ...
As Figure 1 grows, it has the potential to become global health’s central nervous system—improving diagnostics, care, and treatment for non-users everywhere. ...
This is a story of how unexpected tech can save a life: When a woman walking her dog in California was struck by a car, doctors were desperate to find ...
Long before you ever have a chance to balk at prescription drug prices, the companies that make the medicine rack up billion-dollar tabs from research, ...
Michel Lavache is a modern-day traveling medicine man, but instead of curing bodily ills, he fixes something that’s arguably even more precious in our ...
A comprehensive analysis of the use of psychedelics for anxiety, PTSD, and addiction shows serious medical potential for the drugs. (via The Daily Beast)
According to the CDC, over half of American adults at the age of 65 and over are affected by incontinence—but it can happen to anyone, male or female, ...
The story of how two physician parents of autistic boys embraced and then rejected radical alternative-medicines, finally finding their way back to science.
A super-computing cluster is busily whirring away at the University of Washington—supported by more than $100 million in funding from the Gates Foundation—crunching ...
According to the Department of Labor, 70 percent of the new fathers who make use of the Family Medical Leave take just ten days or less. (Science of Us)
The attackers not only had access to birth dates, member ID numbers, bank account info and Social Security numbers, they also may have obtained medical claims records...
Taking aim at the lack of transparency in healthcare today, RateRx will let doctors from all over the world rate the effectiveness of certain medications for certain...
Whenever the FDA catches falsified data or unreported side effects, it issues a warning letter to document the bad research. That’s good. But a new study shows...
Meet Odin Biron, the 30-year-old Minnesotan who has transformed into an unlikely heartthrob and the de facto face of America in Russian pop culture at a time when...
This freelance writer suffers from severe Tourette’s syndrome, but his prescription medication costs $720 a month in America (and that's with health insurance)....
"Facebook and Apple and all companies would do well by their employees to hold fertility vendors to the highest possible standards and not inadvertently put worker's physical and mental health in jeopardy."
Let's face it, people aren't about to stop Googling for "vague tingling in my left arm" anytime soon. Google's experiment highlights just how hard it is to do real medicine on the Internet.
"The Knick" offers an unblinking look at what a crude practice medicine was more than 100 years ago -- and, just maybe, a sly examination of how healthcare became what it is now.
