Medicine
No Batteries Here: New Implants Can Charge Through Your Body's Own Tissue
A device being tested by Stanford University researchers is the latest in an area of medical development known as “electroceuticals.”
The Next Wave of Cancer Cures Could Come From Nasty Viruses
The idea of using viruses to fight cancer isn’t new, but recent breakthroughs are offering more promising results
Online Reviews Are Finally Catching Up With the Medical Profession
Yes, your online review of your doctor is influencing other people. Including your doctor.
Meet Grandison Harris, the Grave Robber Enslaved (and then Employed) By the Georgia Medical College
For 50 years, doctors-in-training learned anatomy from cadavers dug up by a former slave
Should We Destroy Our Last Living Samples of the Virus That Causes Smallpox?
Later this month, the World Health Organization will decide whether or not to get rid of two live virus repositories in the United States and Russia
Could A Genome-Savvy Computer Help Change The Way We Treat Cancer?
The pilot is one of several doctors are using to target treatment to the way cells mutate instead of to the part of the body in which tumors grow
Twin Astronauts Are Helping NASA Learn How a Year in Space Changes the Human Body
Mark and Scott Kelly will be part of a living experiment
This Radical Treatment Pushes Victims to the Brink of Death in Order to Save Their Lives
Researchers are putting trauma patients in a state between life and death with a technique known in movies as "suspended animation"
Inside the Science of an Amazing New Surgery Called Deep Brain Stimulation
The most futuristic medical treatment ever imagined is now a reality
Real-Life True Blood Might Be Used in Trial Transfusions by 2016
Researchers in the U.K. have created the first man-made red blood cells of high enough quality to be introduced into the human body
Forget Wristbands, Health Trackers of the Future Will Be Skin Patches
Thin as a human hair and applied like temporary tattoos, they'll be able to monitor everything from heartbeats to brain activity to muscle tremors
How 3D Printing Helped Repair This Man's Face
In a landmark procedure, surgeons used 3D printing techniques to restore a patient's facial likeness after a horrific injury
You Can Watch the First Ever Operation to Transplant a 3D-Printed Skull Into a Person's Head
The operation, which took place on a 22-year-old Dutch woman, was a success
Here’s What It Was Like to Discover Laughing Gas
This is basically the 1799 version of that YouTube clip "David After Dentist"
Five Health Benefits of Standing Desks
Spending more of your day standing could reduce the risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer
A Scan of a Mechanical Heart Pump Fitted in a Live Human and Other Eerily Beautiful Scientific Images
From a photo of a tick biting flesh to a closeup of a kidney stone, the 18 winners of the 2014 Wellcome Image Awards highlight objects we don't usually see
How to Build a Human Voice
Using sounds from "donors," scientists are constructing personalized voices for those who can't speak
These Teenagers Have Already Accomplished More Than You Ever Will
The winners of this year's Intel Science Talent Search take on flu vaccines, stem cells and tools for diagnosing cancer
How To Run 30 Health Tests On a Single Drop of Blood
Say goodbye to lengthy blood work. A new lab called Theranos says its method is faster, more accurate and much less painful
Doctors' Stethoscopes Can Transmit Bacteria As Easily As Unwashed Hands
New research shows that the instruments could be a vector for bacterial infections—a concern, as they're infrequently sterilized
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