Medical Technology

After a new brain-scanning approach revealed that a seemingly vegetative young woman was actually conscious, she started down the road to a partial recovery

When Ohio executed convicted rapist and murderer Dennis McGuire in early 2014, it set off a maelstrom of controversy. Ohio used a drug cocktail that appeared to leave McGuire gasping for air for some 11 minutes until he was pronounced dead--26 minutes after the initial injection of his drugs.

Cell lines made by two separate teams could boost the prospects of patient-specific therapies

Best viewed at 1080p In addition to creating science-art and blogging here on Symbiartic, I work at INVIVO Communications in QA and social media. One of the absolute treats in my day to day job is getting to watch gorgeous 3D animation about health, pharmaceutical mechanisms of action and medical devices.

Misleading statements and conclusions regarding drug costs and prices are again being thrown around. It started with a post right here on Scientific American Blogs with the title “The Quest: $84,000 Miracle Cure Costs Less Than $150 to Make”.

The performance of cochlear implants has been improved with the use of gene therapy, suggesting a new avenue for developing better hearing aids

What are the likely manufacturing costs for sofosbuvir (Brand name: Sovaldi), the newly approved miracle drug that cures hepatitis C at a cost of $84,000 for the full 12-week course of treatment?

Genetic experts are eyeing computer Webcams and videoconferencing to assess patients in Alaska and other remote places

A rapid imaging technique adapted from medical applications shows promise in the detection of nuclear materials

A medication designed to inhibit measleslike virus in infected ferrets shows promise

Working esophagi from stem cells could be used to aid cancer patients in the future

Researchers propose a new evolutionary reason for why many underfed lab animals live longer