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Controversial Stem Cell Company Moves Treatment out of U.S.

Celltex Therapeutics of Houston ceased treatment patients in the U.S. last year after a warning from regulators, and will now send patients for treatments to Mexico

Stimulating the Brain with Microscopic Magnets

An attractive new method of deep-brain stimulation could solve that therapy's trickiest problems

RNA Fragments May Yield Rapid, Accurate Cancer Diagnosis

A new method to noninvasively diagnose cancer and monitor its progression could eliminate the need for painful and sometimes life-threatening biopsies

Brain Circuitry behind Cigarette Cravings Revealed

Applying a weak electric current to a particular region of a smoker’s brain could curb nicotine cravings

Syringe Design Change Could Cut HIV Transmission

HIV transmission due to needle sharing could be greatly reduced by changing syringe design to ensure less trapped blood. Gretchen Cuda Kroen reports

Genome Donators Can Be Sleuthed Out

Using publicly available information, researchers found they could figure out the identities of 50 individuals who had loaned their genes to science. Karen Hopkin reports

Car Crashes More Deadly for Obese Drivers

Morbidly obese individuals—those with a BMI of 40 and above—were 80 percent more likely to die in a car crash, according to a study published in Emergency Medical Journal

Health Care Rationing Is Nothing New [Excerpt]

In Health Care for Some, historian Beatrix Hoffman examines how health care rationing has actually been the norm in recent U.S. history, and how that might be starting to shift as more people accept the idea that health care is a right...

Fetal Genome Screening Could Prove Tragic

Unborn children will soon have their genes mapped. Without proper guidance for parents, the tests could prove calamitous

Skin-Cancer Spotting Apps Miss Their Marks

New smart phone apps that purport to assess patients' skin lesions as cancer or not are unreliable, according to a new study. Katherine Harmon reports

Take 2 and Call Me after 19 Centuries

An analysis of pills recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Italy reveals them to contain zinc compounds that were probably used as eye medication. Sophie Bushwick reports

A Dangerous Game: Some Athletes Risk Untested Stem Cell Treatments

Some professional athletes' enthusiasm for certain stem cell treatments outpaces the evidence

Researchers Build New Bridges for Nerve Injury

Lab-grown nerve fibers could help a battered body heal itself

How Artificial Arms Could Connect to the Nervous System

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs

Antivenoms for Snake and Spider Bites Get a Much Needed Makeover

Among the oldest type of drug in the medical arsenal, new antivenoms are being developed by researchers in Mexico, who have become global leaders in creating drugs to treat poisonous bites...

Gene Therapies Will Cure Many a Disease

Gene therapy, once off to a rocky start, transforms medicine by getting at the root cause of many diseases

Beauty in a Brain Tumor?

A History of Limb Lengthening [Timeline]

A Russian procedure developed in the 1950s gave those with crippling disabilities hope--if they could handle the pain

New Limb-Lengthening Tech May Reduce Complications for Sufferers of Crippling Deformities [Slide Show]

A move to lengthen limbs internally rather than via an external scaffold could reduce the effects of painful treatments, especially among younger patients

New Limb-Lengthening Tech May Reduce Complications for Sufferers of Crippling Deformities [Slide Show]

A move to lengthen limbs internally rather than via an external scaffold could reduce the effects of painful treatments, especially among younger patients