This Visual Prosthetic Helps the Blind See Again
New visual prostheses can help people with progressive retinal degeneration restore visual signals to their brain.
New visual prostheses can help people with progressive retinal degeneration restore visual signals to their brain.
A new study suggests that the breakup and subsequent turmoil allowed one TB strain to spread and evolve.
Resveratrol, a humble antioxidant found in grapes, nuts, and berries, can significantly reduce the hormones that create hormone imbalances in women with PCOS, and improve insulin sensitivity.
A new paper lends further support to the idea that a significant number of individuals can become infected with Ebola but not show symptoms.
A report from the World Health Organization finds that treated bed nets stop malaria transmission even among pesticide-resistant mosquitoes.
The pill is capsule-shaped when swallowed, then expands in the stomach to deliver an entire course of treatment over several weeks.
The strain was last recorded in the UK in 1798.
The inexpensive, portable test could be used in remote areas where medical facilities are scarce and will allow people to monitor their condition at home.
5. You can live without it.
So-called "Patient Zero" was not, in fact, the first person in North America to contract the virus.
Two researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Boston Children’s Hospital recently designed a contact lens that delivers medication directly to the eye.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome are so obscure that most doctors have never heard of them.
Scientists say the brains of malaria-carrying mosquitoes combine smell and taste when considering who to bite.
Medicine and fashion may have collided in this tuberculosis treatment.
The drug restored memory function in mice.
Some historians believe it killed Arthur, Prince of Wales in 1502—and changed the course of history.
A recent study of Ebola patients revealed a surprising finding.
From 2010 to 2015, people in a small region of Kazakhstan were feeling very, very sleepy.
"This is, at least at the moment, a bridge to a cure until a biological cure is found.”
A study of 60 kids on Amish and Hutterite farms found a “whopping disparity” in asthma between the two groups despite their similar genetic backgrounds, lifestyles and customs.
Outbreaks of infectious disease are, by their very nature, difficult to predict, but we do have some ways to figure out what may be coming next.
The same type of antibodies that cause illnesses like multiple sclerosis and lupus may also lead to a longer life.
It pushes back the date of the earliest known cancer in a human ancestor by more than a million years.
The research, published recently in Science, could open the door to targeting other autoimmune diseases.