Just in time for Valentine’s Day, researchers discover the hormone kisspeptin can enhance activity in brain regions associated with sexual arousal and romantic love. Matthew Stock reports. Continue reading
13Feb/17
Category Archives: Medicine
19Dec/16
The search for medicinal agents in NYC dirt
The dirt of New York City parks may seem an unlikely way to benefit modern medicine, but scientists in an Upper East Side university lab in Manhattan say they found genes from the dirt’s bacteria that could lead to use in antibiotics and anti-cancer treatments.
26Aug/16
Mylan offers discounts on EpiPen after Clinton criticism
Mylan said it would reduce the out-of-pocket cost of its severe allergy treatment EpiPen through a discount program, a day after Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized the drug’s high price. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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25Jan/16
Britain and Bill Gates pledge 4.2 billion dollars to fight malaria
Britain will spend 500 million pounds (700 million US dollars) per year for the next five years to battle malaria in a partnership with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates worth a total of 3 billion pounds (4 billion US dollars).
25Jan/16
New app helps women keep track of their pregnancy in Nigeria
Pregnant women in Nigeria are using the Cradle Count app to monitor their pregnancy and look out for any sign of complications that could affect them or their baby’s health. The android based mobile application is being embraced in a country where a woman’s chance of dying from pregnancy and child birth is 1 in 13.
08Jan/16
Congolese boy attacked by chimps getting rare face surgery in New York
Eight-year-old boy to get a rare, risky, reconstructive surgery in New York after being mauled by chimpanzees in Africa. Sharon Reich reports.
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07Dec/15
First penis transplant in the United States to be performed within a year
Surgeons at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are hoping to within a year perform the first penis transplant in the United States on a young soldier injured by a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported.
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07Dec/15
Nobel laureates in medicine react to award
The scientists awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries in fighting parasitic diseases say teamwork and Chinese medicine are key components behind their successes.
17Oct/15
Australia to allow marijuana to be grown locally for medical trials
Australia is altering its drug laws to allow for the cultivation of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, removing a major hurdle to the establishment of clinical trials of the drug.
08Oct/15
Australian toddler released from hospital after miracle surgery
Australian toddler is released from hospital after surgeons reattached his head to his severed spine.