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Wed, 07/28/2010 - 11:50am
Think of it as the LiveStrong Games, but everyone is competing with someone else's organs.
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 1:02am
What should medicine do when it cant save your life?
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 11:15am
Should doctors have given organ to someone else on long waiting list?
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 11:04am
We need to make extraordinary advances in energy sources, and we have to do if fast, or, to put it simply, the 22nd century will look like the 17th. We need to constrain our use of fossil fuels as much as possible.
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 11:03am
Somewhere along the line weve developed the habit of announcing that, thanks to new technologies, were forever on the verge of revolutionizing what it means to be human.
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 3:25am
In a laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum.
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 11:26am
The use of genetic analysis called kinship searching resulted in an arrest in the Grim Sleeper case, but has raised privacy issues and other social concerns.
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 3:35am
People on organ transplant lists are utilizing social media to find organ donors.
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 3:34am
An investigation discovers some direct-to-consumer gene test companies provide inaccurate information in addition to false marketing.
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 3:33am
Incentives encourage people to become healthier but is it a long-term solution?
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:09am
F.D.A. votes against an "obesity drug" due to concerns of potential dangerous side effects.
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:08am
New criteria could lead to earlier Alzheimer diagnoses which leaves at-risk family members questioning if they want to know their risk.
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:25am
Genetic engineering, increased understanding of the immune system and new immunization delivery technologies could make this century the golden age of vaccines, observers say.
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:22am
Question of whether eggs should be harvested from woman on life support plunges specialists into tough terrain.
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 4:55am
Doctors in Korea can remove life support if a terminally-ill patient wishes to die.
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 1:19am
Government experts and a panel of medical advisers repeatedly voiced skepticism on Tuesday about the trustworthiness of GlaxoSmithKline, which makes the controversial diabetes drug Avandia.
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 1:18am
A survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that workplace monitoring of impaired or incompetent physicians is not what you'd call common.
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:36am
One practitioner's perceived good deed for a dying patient could be another's definition of homicide.
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:34am
Singularity would mean a future in which humans and technology fully converge, but some voice skepticism about the idea. Why? The complexity of the human mind.
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:33am
Scientists have isolated human antibodies which succeeded at preventing the infection of human cells with more than 90 percent of HIV strains. But will ethical concerns about the research prevent its advance?