MEDICINE & HEALTH

Echolocation: Tapping into Our Animalistic Senses

TECH & INNOVATION 03.28.2019 10:30 AM

Can humans use hidden senses such as echolocation? Everyone knows that bats are blind. Most of us are familiar with the echolocation sense in which bats use to navigate through their surroundings and locate food.

Temple University offers walk-in vaccine clinics as mumps cases top 100

03.28.2019 10:30 AM

Temple University is holding the first of two scheduled vaccination clinics Wednesday, as the number of mumps cases affecting the campus community continues to rise.

New Male Birth Control Has Passed Human Safety Tests

03.28.2019 09:13 AM

Will men finally have the much needed aid in planned pregnancies? Male birth control could be the wave of the future when it comes to planned parenthood.

Should Technology Be Used to Extend the Human Lifespan?

03.28.2019 08:49 AM

Technology may be able to ‘hack’ human mortality. In light of rapid gains in gene editing, nanotechnology, and robotics, some futurists expect this generation's biohackers to double their life spans.

Ebola Outbreak: The Deadliest One To Hit Mankind

03.28.2019 08:22 AM

More than 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been diagnosed with this hemorrhagic fever and the number of dead people are growing by the minute.

The Necessity of Vaccinating Children against Measles

03.27.2019 16:57 PM

In recent times, there have been huge outbreaks of the measles epidemic in Ukraine and the Philippines. Last year alone, Europe saw over 80,000 cases of measles and to worsen the condition, this is continuing in Washington, New York, California, Illinois, and Texas.

Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells

03.27.2019 14:48 PM

Microglia may benefit, not damage, photoreceptors National Institutes of Health scientists studying the progression of inherited and infectious eye diseases that can cause blindness have found that microglia, a type of nervous system cell suspected to cause retinal damage, surprisingly had no damaging role during prion disease in mice.

Mini microscope is the new GoPro for studies of brain disease in living mice

03.27.2019 14:46 PM

Working with mice, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists' ability to image the effects of cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and other conditions in the brains of living and active mice over time.

FDA finds breast implants cause rare form of cancer

03.27.2019 08:23 AM

The panel said it was too soon to pull the implants from the market, but says it will make a recommendation Tuesday.

Marijuana-related ER visits climb at Colorado hospital

03.27.2019 08:20 AM

Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot's bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room.

New Breakthrough in Microneedle Technology

03.27.2019 07:44 AM

An Excitingly New Microneedle Technology Has been Invented in the UK and is Expected to Revolutionize Medical Injections.

AIDS-immunocompromised populations see more antibiotic-resistant infections

03.26.2019 19:53 PM

Populations with a high prevalence of AIDS-immunocompromised people are more likely to see the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according to a study coauthored by researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and published in PLOS One.