positive Health news
Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery—healing without cuts
via TED |
Sat December 17, 2011 |
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Vaccine developed against EbolaScientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus. |
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Alzheimer’s: Deep brain stimulation ‘reverses’ diseaseScientists in Canada have raised a tantalising prospect - reversing Alzheimer's disease. |
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Aids-related deaths ‘down 21% from peak’, says UNAidsAids-related deaths are at the lowest level since their 2005 peak, down 21%, figures from UNAids suggest. |
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Malaria’s Achilles’ heel revealedResearchers have revealed a key discovery in understanding how the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells. |
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Liver implant gives boy ‘another chance of life’Doctors in London say they have cured a baby boy of a life-threatening disease which was destroying his liver. |
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New Parkinson’s therapy hopeA new technique could improve the quality of life for patients with Parkinson's Disease, according to research led by Cardiff University. |
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‘Historic’ deal to halt hazardous waste export to southLeading 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. |
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India on the cusp of eradicating polioIndia 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. |
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Malaria deaths fall nearly 40% worldwide in last decadeThere has been a fall of nearly 40% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, the World Health Organization says. |
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Success in trial of prostate cancer drugA trial of a new cancer drug, which accurately targets tumours, has been so successful it has been stopped early. |
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzleOnline 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. |
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Artificial blood vessels created on a 3D printerArtificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for transplants of lab-created organs. |
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Scientists hail Parkinson’s brain cells ‘breakthrough’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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Medical discoveries
- Researchers identify key peptides that could lead to a universal vaccine for influenza
- Stem cell retinal implants safe
- Hepatitis C vaccine: Oxford researchers’ trial ‘promising’
- Time’s Top Medical Breakthroughs of 2011
- New discovery could lead to better artificial hips
- Artificial Intestines near reality
- more