Articles tagged as Disease and Illnesses

Liberian nurses carry a dead body suspected of dying from the Ebola virus at the Roberts field highway on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, 25 September 2014.

One leading Ebola researcher is turning to the crowd for more funding

October 14, 2014

From left to right, panelists Eric Hollinger, Rachel Kyte, Cori Wegener and Melissa Songer discuss ideas for living in the Anthropocene.

To Live in the Anthropocene, People Need Grounded Hope

A Smithsonian symposium about human impacts on Earth looked past warnings of global doom to discuss the necessary balance of achievable solutions

October 10, 2014

CDC director Tom Frieden during a press conference last week announcing Duncan's diagnosis with Ebola.

The total cost of fighting Ebola could push $32 billion

October 8, 2014

Cool Finds

Ten Percent of Americans Drink Half the Booze

America has a lot of moderate drinkers, and a few really heavy ones

September 26, 2014

Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, July 10, 2014

Using survivors’ blood is an unproven treatment option

September 19, 2014

The military may have capabilities others do not

September 17, 2014

MERS has killed over 300 people in the past two years

September 17, 2014

IBM and Mayo Clinic are applying game-show champ Watson's smarts to matching patients with the best clinical trials.

IBM’s Watson Will Match Cancer Patients With Trials at Mayo Clinic

By pairing patients with trials in seconds, the supercomputer will help speed the pace of medical innovation

September 11, 2014

The CDC reports that patients with the respiratory disease are showing up in hospitals across the country

September 10, 2014

Trending Today

Ebola Drug ZMapp Cured 18 Monkeys

How well the drug works in humans, however, isn’t so clear

August 29, 2014

People ride past a board with control and prevention information of the Ebola epidemic outbreak in the Ebola-affected Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, Aug. 17, 2014.

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What Will It Take to Stop Ebola?

The WHO has a plan for stopping the Ebola outbreak

August 28, 2014

Seawater contains hundreds of viruses, revealed with dye in the flask on the right. Most are harmless, but some microbes living under the sea and amid the sand aren't.

Eight Diseases To Watch Out For At the Beach

Forget sharks: These potentially deadly pathogens and parasites can lurk in sand and sea

August 15, 2014

Google hosts its fourth-annual science fair. Shown here, the 2013 winners.

Google Thinks These 18 Teenagers Will Change the World

The global finalists of this year’s Google Science Fair take on cyberbullying countermeasures, tar sands cleanup and wearable tech

August 8, 2014

The drug, however, was not “top secret,” as some outlets have reported

August 5, 2014

Health workers burying an Ebola victim in Liberia

No one knows how long Ebola viruses can live in the body of a victim

July 31, 2014

New Research

Circumcision Could Help Stem the Spread of HIV

Contrary to what researchers previously feared, men who undergo adult circumcision don’t engage in overly risky behavior compared to uncircumcised ones

July 22, 2014

The software can spot people with these disorders: (A) Angelman, (B) Apert, (C) Cornelia de Lange, (D) Down, (E) Fragile X, (F) Progeria, (G) Treacher-Collins, (H) Williams-Beuren.

New Research

This Software Can Spot Rare Genetic Disorders Just by Looking at a Person’s Face

New software can spot genetic disorders like Down’s syndrome by analyzing photographs of faces

June 24, 2014

Cool Finds

Lease a Haunted Venetian Island for 99 Years

Formerly a quarantine island for plague victims and an insane asylum, now you can call this island home

April 18, 2014

Ultra thin patches will be able to keep track of what's happening inside your body.

Tech Watch

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

April 11, 2014

Elizabeth Holmes holds a vial of one drop of blood—all that's needed for a new method of simultaneously testing for a gamut of health threats, such as STDs, heart disease and diabetes.

Tech Watch

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

March 6, 2014