Medicine

Sesame Street Just Welcomed Its First Autistic Muppet

“Julia” is geared towards raising awareness and acceptance

Scientists Are Working on a Pill That Just Might Replace Exercise

The idea is to create a drug that mimics the molecular changes exercise causes in the body. But it's no small challenge

The Rise of DIY Genetic Testing

Some people are skipping the doctor's office and using the internet to order and interpret their own DNA tests

How a Metronome Could Save a Life

An simple device could help save lives by keeping CPR on the beat

Another Step Closer to Male Birth Control Pills

A protein might lead to an oral contraceptive for men

Heart Valves at the National Museum of American History

A Man With a Lot of Heart Valves Donates His Unusual Collection

Minneapolis entrepreneur Manny Villafana says his collection at the American History Museum is filled with stories of both failure and success

How Nature Inspired the Medicine Nobel Prize Winners to Fight Parasites

Their discoveries saved the lives of millions of people around the world

Now There Are Diagnostic Codes for Squirrel Bites, Library Injuries and More

Hey, it could happen

How a Captain Morgan Advertisement Inspired an Emergency Room Technique

Captain Morgan, hip fixer

A relative unknown, Werner Forssmann won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the cardiac catheter. Some of his equally qualified peers have not been as fortunate.

How Not to Win a Nobel Prize

A search through the Nobel archives shows how the history of the famous prize is filled with near misses and flukes

Scientists Can Now Sequence a Human’s Genome in 26 Hours

New tools cut sequencing time almost in half

A Popular Coral for Home Aquariums Can Release Deadly Toxin

The coral produces a toxic mist that can cause serious health problems

Rampant miscommunication in medicine due to language barriers compromises patient safety and quality of care while widening existing health disparities.

Millions of Americans Are Getting Lost in Translation During Hospital Visits

Miscommunication due to language barriers is a growing health care issue, and technologies to aid interpretation are racing to keep up

Bottle of Diphtheria Anti-Toxin in Case, 1900s

How Vaccines, a Collective Triumph of Modern Medicine, Conquered the World's Diseases

Smithsonian curators present a virtual tour of several objects from the collections that revolutionized public health care

A statue of goddess Durga in Kolkata — India was the location of the first recorded nose job

The Nose Job Dates Back to the 6th Century B.C.

But for a long time, the nose was built up instead of shaved down

Jaundice is usually treated with short-wave blue light.

These Plastic Canopies Could Save Thousands of Babies

Researchers have developed sunlight-filtering canopies as a low-tech treatment for jaundice in newborns

Mayapple plant

Scientists Manipulate Common Plants to Produce Cancer Drugs

Stanford researchers have figured out how to transfer a rare plant's chemical "assembly line" into a cheap, common lab plant

This pig could be growing a heart or lungs for a transplant.

The Future of Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants

Could a genetically engineered pig heart one day function in a person?

How Is Brain Surgery Like Flying? Put On a Headset to Find Out

A device made for gaming helps brain surgeons plan and execute delicate surgeries with extreme precision

This Exoskeleton Is Actually Controlled by the Wearer's Thoughts

Engineer Jose Contreras-Vidal's "brain-machine interface" uses electrical activity in a person's brain to move a robotic exoskeleton

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