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Tadpoles bred with eyes surgically implanted in their tails still see—a novel discovery that could help the blind, a new study says.
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By Kevin Fletcher So many things have changed in medicine over the past few centuries. Procedures that used to take hours of grueling, grotesque labor can now be done in just a matter of minutes and are dramatically less painful or almost completely pain free. In simpler times, when bullets had to be extracted and…
From: Top Masters in Healthcare (Click the image above for a larger version) Hospitals in the developed world rely on increasingly advanced technology, which is helping practitioners to treat a wide range of maladies and extend our lives. Of course, technology is often a double-bladed sword. New genetics tests can help screen for metabolic disorders that…
Do we Really Need to use Human Medicine on Farm Animals?
Posted by Dan Klotz on January 6, 2012 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action on Wednesday, January 4 to ban certain uses of one class of drugs, cephalosporins, in raising cattle, pigs, chickens, and turkeys. Cephalosporin drugs are used to treat pneumonia, urinary tract infections, gastro-intestinal diseases, and other life-threatening infections in people; the FDA’s action will help preserve the…
Distractibility May Be Caused By Excess Grey Matter
Posted by Alyson Foster on May 10, 2011 Being called a brainiac may be a compliment but when it comes to gray matter, a person can have too much of a good thing.
Building a Health Care Network in a Ravaged Land
Posted by Ford Cochran on October 21, 2010 As a boy 20 years ago, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Rajesh Panjabi fled civil war in Liberia with his family. Now he’s back, helping create a community health care network to serve a ravaged country. By Ford Cochran National Geographic is on Maine’s Atlantic coast for the 2010 PopTech Conference, which will be webcast live…
