Medical Technology

DNA analysis confirms that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, are the remains of the vilified English king, Richard III

The technique could be sensitive enough to detect the structure of a single protein

Field medics want to use a novel foam to seal off hemorrhaging organs, but safety concerns persist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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