Seasons May Tweak Genes That Trigger Some Chronic Diseases
The seasons appear to influence when certain genes are active, with those associated with inflammation being more active in the winter, according to new research released Tuesday. A study involving...
View ArticleD-Rev CEO: We Build Medical Devices for People who Live on Less than $4 a Day
Most medical equipment companies don’t regularly top “most innovative” lists. But D-Rev isn’t your typical medical device maker. The San Francisco-based non-profit wants to help the world’s poorest...
View ArticleTelemedicine Abortions Under Attack as a New Option for Women
The House of Representatives’ approval last week of a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks brings into sharp focus the issue of early access to abortion. Abortion rights supporters say more than a...
View ArticleYour Heart in 3D: Surgeons Can Now Practice on a Simulation
How can you distinguish between a good surgeon and an exceptional surgeon? According to some medical experts, it’s that all-too-rare ability to visualize a human organ in three dimensions from little...
View ArticleHere’s Your Chance to Ask Our Geneticist Anything
Why do some people love cilantro and others think it tastes like soap? Could Ron Weasley have had a brother without red hair? How did George end up with brown eyes when William and Kate have blue? Dr....
View ArticleRobotic Butt Helps Medical Students Learn Professional Intimacy
For medical students, it can be a nerve-wracking prospect to administer intimate exams to patients. A group of scientists at the University of Florida, Drexel University and the University of Wisconsin...
View ArticleUnder-the-Radar: 10 Digital Health Startups to Watch
Digital health has arrived. In 2014, investment in health-technology companies surpassed $4.1 billion, nearly the total of all three prior years combined. A broad spectrum of startups gained funding,...
View ArticleNew Hearing Technology Brings Sound to a Little Girl
[Editors’ note: The first cochlear implant was approved by federal regulators in 1984. The technology is considered one of the greatest medical achievements of the past 30 years, but it doesn’t work...
View ArticleShould You Read Your Doctor’s Notes Online?
During a recent physical, Jeff Gordon’s doctor told him he may be pre-diabetic. It was a quick mention, mixed in with a review of blood pressure numbers, other vital statistics like his heart rate,...
View ArticleAt Autodesk, Makers Explore how 3-D Printing is Transforming Medicine
Three-dimensional printers are now ubiquitous in the medical industry, and are used for everything from knee implants to prosthetics. If you’re not familiar with 3-D printing, imagine an inkjet printer...
View ArticleHow This New Blood Test Reveals Your History of Viral Infections
Imagine a test that can reveal nearly every virus you’ve ever had with a single drop of blood. Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital say they can do just that with a...
View ArticleInsurer Uses Personal Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick
The first thing out of John Iovine’s mouth is an apology. “You got to forgive me if I don’t remember too much,” he says. “I had a stroke.” Signs of that stroke are everywhere — the bed in the dining...
View ArticleOnline Health Searches Aren’t Always Confidential
In the privacy of a doctor’s office, a patient can ask any question and have it be covered under doctor-patient confidentiality. But what happens when patients want to search possible symptoms of a...
View Article6 Technology Trends That are Changing How we Eat
More than one-third of U.S. adults are obese, according to the CDC, but polls have shown that most doctors do not educate their patients about nutrition. In fact, the number of hours that future...
View ArticleThis Company Wants to Mine Your Data to Monitor Drug Safety in the ‘Real World’
Each day, thousands of people turn to online discussion forums to share their health care experiences. One site alone, PatientsLikeMe, counts 350,000 patients worldwide who are using its service to...
View ArticleTraining the Next Generation of ‘Quantified Nurses’
At a bustling university town in the Netherlands, dozens of future nurses obsessively track their sleep, nutrition and exercise using the latest wearable health trackers. These students are enrolled at...
View ArticleFitness App Aims to Deliver Live Feedback From a Personal Trainer 24/7
It would be easier to exercise, I’ve told myself, if I had a personal trainer. Maybe one that came to my house. Whenever I wanted. For free. My dream of a live trainer who won’t judge my outfit and is...
View ArticleGoogle and Broad Institute Team Up to Bring Genomic Analysis to the Cloud
Google has teamed up with one of the world’s top genomics centers, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, to work on a series of projects it claims will propel biomedical research. For the first joint...
View ArticleUCSF to Use Apple’s ResearchKit for LGBT Health Study
Mitchell Lunn and Juno Obedin-Maliver, both clinical fellows at the University of California, San Francisco, have spent the past decade studying the health problems that many lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
View ArticleWhy Medicare Has Been Slow to Adopt Telemedicine
Donna Miles didn’t feel like getting dressed and driving to her physician’s office or to a retailer’s health clinic near her Cincinnati home. For several days, she had thought she had thrush, a mouth...
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