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Laser treatment can make your brown eyes blue

Just like the old Crystal Gayle song, a new laser technology could soon allow you to turn those boring brown eyes of your to a rich and beautiful blue. But you better make sure that blue eyes are what you really want because ...

Other created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

How doctors and public health officials deal with dilemmas

Scientists in the US have investigated the ways in which medical doctors and public health professionals deal with hypothetical dilemmas that require them to decide whether to sacrifice a few for the sake of saving many. ...

Other created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

App lets amputees program their own bionic hands

Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app instead. Koger this week demonstrated the i-limb ultra revolution, ...

Other created May 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Having a short wide face may indicate sporting potential, study shows

The shape of a man's face can help predict his sporting acumen, according to a study on Wednesday that found Japanese baseball players whose faces were relatively broad rather than long were most likely to ...

Other created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Mexican forensic expert bathes bodies to solve crimes

Mexican forensic expert Alejandro Hernandez dips dry, yellowish cadavers in a see-through bath, hoping his technique to rehydrate mummified bodies will solve murders in crime-infested Ciudad Juarez.

Other created Mar 24, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Building trust for online health research

Status updates, patient forums, blog comments – among the incredible amount of personal information on the Web is a potential trove of health data. Bioethicists writing in Science Translational Medicine acknowledge the va ...

Other created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Video capsule accurately detects intestinal blood

(HealthDay)—Video capsule endoscopy can be safely and accurately used to detect blood in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage seen in emergency departments, according to a study published ...

Other created Feb 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experts tell flatulent flyers: let rip

A group of medical specialists has provided an answer to a dilemma that has faced flyers since the Wright brothers took to the air in 1903—is it okay to fart mid-flight?

Other created Feb 15, 2013 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (20) | comments 9

Study shows unassisted method works best to restore independent breathing in patients on ventilators

(Medical Xpress)—Use of a device that supplies humidified oxygen is more effective than a technique that reduces positive airway pressure delivered to the lungs in helping patients who have been on a ventilator more than ...

Other created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers zero in on cognitive difficulties associated with menopause

The memory problems that many women experience in their 40s and 50s as they approach and go through menopause are both real and appear to be most acute during the early period of post menopause. That is the conclusion of ...

Other created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doctors call for evidence-based appropriateness criteria for elective procedures

Many of the most common inpatient surgeries in the United States are performed electively. These surgeries are expected to significantly increase with the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. In a new perspectives article, ...

Other created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers claim NIH grant process is 'totally broken'

(Medical Xpress)—John Ioannidis, a researcher at Stanford University has, along with graduate student Joshua Nicholson, published a commentary piece in the journal Nature, taking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Other created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Federal government and big pharma seen as increasingly diminished source of research funding

In a commentary to be published in the Dec. 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, two Johns Hopkins faculty members predict an ever-diminishing role for government and drug company funding of basic ...

Other created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Like coffee, blue light keeps night drivers alert

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the Université Bordeaux Segalen, France, and their Swedish colleagues have recently demonstrated that constant exposure to blue light is as effective as coffee at improving ...

Other created Nov 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientific progress could be casualty in public health vs. privacy debate over newborn blood samples

The tremendous potential public health benefits of research with blood samples left over after routine newborn screening must not be lost amidst controversy and litigation, say medical and bioethics experts in a commentary ...

Other created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast