Medical Technology

An Ebola patient produces up to 40 times more waste than other patients. This and other challenges, including too-small airstrips, complicate the fight against the virus

Giving the millions of women who need it contraception and pregnancy advice will help avoid illness, disadvantage and poverty for current and future generations, Melinda Gates said on Monday

Noninvasive fields zap specific areas

Diagnostics, vaccines and new drugs could vastly improve the way future Ebola outbreaks manifest in Africa, according to emerging infectious disease expert Jeremy Farrar. Steve Mirsky reports

 

Organizers of tropical medicine meeting to offer refunds, swap out speakers

The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?

The brain is a dazzlingly complex web of somewhere around 100 billion neurons, each of which communicates with others through thousands of connections.

The artificial human guts could be used to study diseases and test drug treatments

Two new studies demonstrate the promise and pitfalls of the industrial-scale gene-processing technologies that define the meaning of the much-ballyhooed Big Data.

Routine clinical use of his vaccine forestalled the paralysis and death brought by the dreaded illness

This blog is the last in a series of guest posts on technology and the brain to celebrate Scientific American Mind’s 10-year anniversary.

This blog is the fifth in a series of guest posts on technology and the brain to celebrate Scientific American Mind’s 10-year anniversary.