Medicine News Stories

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14 December 2015

Bubble-encased drugs that can be popped open using laser light shone onto the skin are able to deliver controllable,...

11 December 2015

Attending life drawing classes improves your body image, research has found.

07 December 2015

肥胖重组影响男人的spm DNA, explaining why a tendency to be overweight may run in...

04 December 2015

Researchers have linked a brain receptor gene with your ability to stop smoking, but not all of the scientific...

27 November 2015

Researchers find compulsive sexual behaviour, more commonly known as sex addiction, is driven by the huge novelty...

26 November 2015

Feeling lonely is linked to a increased disease risk, and now we know why thanks to a new study from the US.

26 November 2015

A new technique that uses ultrasound waves has enabled French scientists to see some of the smallest structures in the...

23 November 2015

Bacteria showing resistance to antibiotics of last resort have been discovered in China.

23 November 2015

Magnetism-detecting molecule that might enable animals to navigate using magnetic fields has been discovered by Chinese...

13 November 2015

Exposure to antibiotics to which bacteria are resistant worsens the damage they unleash on the body, new research has...

05 November 2015

Eye lens cataracts can take years to form but research published this week shows that this could be reversed in a...

30 October 2015

A system that uses sound waves to manipulate objects in mid air, and even inside the body, has been developed by...

22 October 2015

A new coating for steel that reduces contaminants, such as bacteria, sticking to it has been developed.

20 October 2015

Drugs administered alongside a blast of ultrasound waves are over twenty times better absorbed, a new study has shown.

20 October 2015

Life may have got going on Earth 300 million years earlier than first proposed, according to a study of ancient rock...

16 October 2015

Young babies use their tongues to help them to hear and make sense of spoken sounds. Might a dummy make a difference to...

16 October 2015

A brain scanning technique that can find the source of an epilepsy patient's fits has been unveiled by scientists...

09 October 2015

Influenza virus can infect breast tissue and spread via breast milk, researchers have shown.

09 October 2015

A miniature kidney has been produced in the culture dish for the first time by researchers in Australia.

09 October 2015

Far from boosting vitality, antioxidant vitamins might aid the spread of skin cancers around the body, a study in mice...

08 October 2015

Going for a long run gave mice the same high as if they were smoking cannabis.

02 October 2015

The absence of four strains of intestinal bacteria can make the difference between breathing easily and succumbing to...

02 October 2015

Self-propelled particles that fizz their way upstream into blood vessels to block bleeding have been developed by...

01 October 2015

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