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Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery—healing without cuts

Story contains video via TED | Sat December 17, 2011
Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.

Vaccine developed against Ebola

via BBC | Mon December 12, 2011
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus.

Alzheimer’s: Deep brain stimulation ‘reverses’ disease

via BBC | Tue November 29, 2011
Scientists in Canada have raised a tantalising prospect - reversing Alzheimer's disease.

Aids-related deaths ‘down 21% from peak’, says UNAids

via BBC | Wed November 23, 2011
Aids-related deaths are at the lowest level since their 2005 peak, down 21%, figures from UNAids suggest.

Malaria’s Achilles’ heel revealed

via AFP | Thu November 17, 2011
Researchers have revealed a key discovery in understanding how the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells.

Liver implant gives boy ‘another chance of life’

via BBC | Wed November 16, 2011
Doctors in London say they have cured a baby boy of a life-threatening disease which was destroying his liver.

New Parkinson’s therapy hope

via BBC | Wed November 09, 2011
A new technique could improve the quality of life for patients with Parkinson's Disease, according to research led by Cardiff University.

‘Historic’ deal to halt hazardous waste export to south

via Terra Daily | Fri October 28, 2011
Leading world economies will no longer be able to export hazardous waste to poorer nations unless they obtain the latter's consent, a spokesman from the UN environment agency said Tuesday.

India on the cusp of eradicating polio

via Capital FM | Tue October 25, 2011
India is on the verge of eradicating polio with only one case reported in 2011, making it the “longest ever polio free period”, a health ministry official said Monday.

Malaria deaths fall nearly 40% worldwide in last decade

via BBC | Tue October 18, 2011
There has been a fall of nearly 40% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, the World Health Organization says.

Success in trial of prostate cancer drug

via BBC | Sat September 24, 2011
A trial of a new cancer drug, which accurately targets tumours, has been so successful it has been stopped early.

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

via The Province | Mon September 19, 2011
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.

Artificial blood vessels created on a 3D printer

via BBC | Fri September 16, 2011
Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for transplants of lab-created organs.

Scientists hail Parkinson’s brain cells ‘breakthrough’

via BBC | Tue August 23, 2011
Scientists have for the first time generated stem cells from one of the most rapidly progressing forms of Parkinson's disease.

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