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Delay on Richard III test results
It could be January before tests confirm whether a skeleton found under a Leicester car park is Richard III.
Fire the coach? Not so fast, says new study
Professors studied the records of college football teams that replaced a head coach for performance reasons between 1997 and 2010. They found that when a team had been performing particularly...
States Decline to Set Up Exchanges for Insurance
The exchanges — online markets where consumers can shop for subsidized private insurance — are a centerpiece of President Obama’s health care law.
Energy drinks tied to dozens of adverse reactions in Canada
Health Canada has received 86 reports of adverse reactions to energy drinks, at a time when U.S. regulators are investigating 13 deaths possibly related to energy "shots" in that country.
Transporting hypothermia victims to advanced heart and lung care facilities 'worth the trip'
Hypothermia victims whose hearts have stopped functioning should be transported to a medical facility with advanced heart and lung support equipment, even if that means longer travel time, according to...
New ink formulated to print living human tissue
(Phys.org)—Scientists are one step closer to being able to print tissue replacements for diseased or damaged body parts using inkjet printers, thanks to the development of a specialised ink formulation.
Umbilical cord cells outperform bone marrow cells in repairing damaged hearts
A new study has shown that cells derived from the umbilical cord are more effective in restoring heart function after an acute myocardial infarction (in common parlance, a heart attack)...
Human umbilical cord blood cell co-culture supports embryonic stem cell expansion
Researchers in Taiwan have developed a "safe, feasible and robust co-culture system" supplied by human umbilical cord mensenchymal stem cells (HUCMSCs) to feed the sustained culture used for human embryonic...
Penn Study Decodes Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Stem Cell Reprogramming
Thanks to some careful detective work, scientist better understand just how iPS cells form - and why the Yamanaka process is inefficient, an important step to work out for regenerative...
Diabetes rates rocket in Oklahoma, South
NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and health officials say the biggest changes have been in Oklahoma and a number of...
Mercury poisoning ruled out as cause of Tycho Brahe's death
In 2010, Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, an event which received extensive international media coverage. Since then, a Danish-Czech team of researchers has been working to...
Irish abortion laws slammed by parents after woman's death
The parents of an Indian woman who suffered a miscarriage and died after being refused an abortion in an Irish hospital slammed Ireland's abortion laws today.
Ontario doctor won't be disciplined for mistaken mastectomies
A surgeon from Windsor who performed two unnecessary mastectomies won't be disciplined by the province's medical regulatory college.
Uganda hit by new Ebola outbreak
Scores of people are medically isolated after outbreak 40 miles from Kampala, months after a separate strain killed at least 16Scores of people have been medically isolated to prevent the spread of a...
Novel process to detect proteins could simplify kidney disease detection
(Phys.org)—Detecting whether a patient will have acute kidney injury could become as simple as dipping a paper test strip printed with gold nanorods into a urine sample, a team of...
Imperial launches second phenome centre
New centre aims to improve diagnoses and inform doctors of the best treatments
Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review
A biography of the disease is also a call to arms. By Richard HortonSince 1971, Davos has been the playground of the rich and powerful, a small Swiss resort that once a...
The New Old Age Blog: Fighting Off Age at the Pharmacy Counter
Sales of medications that target symptoms of normal aging are soaring, according to data recently released at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting.
Drug Compounders Get Help on Capitol Hill
Compounding pharmacies, now facing their biggest regulatory threat, have staved off tougher federal oversight with the help of allies in Congress.
Recurring Lyme Disease Symptoms Caused by New Infection, Study Finds
Research comparing the genetic signatures of Lyme bacteria in people who had the disease more than once challenges the notion that it has a tendency to turn into a chronic...
State of the Art: A Review of New Activity-Tracking Bands From Nike and Jawbone
Exercise lovers, your worries are over. Or some of them are, because Jawbone and Nike are introducing new wearable, accelerometer-based fitness-tracking bands.
With $200 Million Gift, Mt. Sinai Medical School to Be Renamed for Carl Icahn
Carl C. Icahn is adding $150 million to the $50 million he already gave to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, which will be renamed in his honor.
Alzheimer’s Tied to Mutation Harming Immune Response
A mutation to a gene, TREM2, is suspected of interfering with the brain’s ability to prevent the buildup of toxic shards of a protein that accumulate in plaques on the...
Booze calories nearly equal soda's for US adults
NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans get too many calories from soda. But what about alcohol? It turns out adults get almost as many empty calories from...
Video: Vocal cord surgeon has patients singing his praises
Dr. Steven Zeitels of Massachusetts General Hospital is inventing new techniques in the emerging field of vocal cord treatment. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on how everyone from superstars to children...
FEATURE: Vision may be older than previously thought
Some 700 million years ago, opsin genes, the building blocks of vision, emerged. A new paper discusses the evolution of the eye.
20-year-old stroke patient part of growing trend of strokes in young people
Michelle Nimmerrichter was only 20 when she suffered a stroke that left her in a coma and on a ventilator. She appears to be part of a trend -- a...
Premature brain explained
Adolescents who were born before the 37th week of gestation have reduced plasticity in the brain, researchers found.