A series of smartphone tests that score memory and reaction are intended to make cannabis use safer and lead to a better understanding of the drug - 15 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 8:30pm -
A man in the US who was injured by an exploding bomb in Afghanistan has become the first to receive a combined penis and scrotum transplant - 24 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 11:35am -
Women can now find out whether they are having a boy or a girl using a single drop of blood as soon as they are eight weeks pregnant - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 3:24pm -
People who migrate are at heightened risk of anxiety disorders, and these mental health problems may linger and get more severe through subsequent generations - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 3:52pm -
Several types of dangerous bacteria, carrying genes that our antibiotics cannot fight, are travelling the world hidden in ships' ballast tanks - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 11:16am -
The Universal Cancer Databank will let anyone with cancer share their medical and genetic data with researchers globally, with the aim of speeding up new treatments - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 12:01am -
A smart glasses app may help children with autism to focus on and interact with other people by overlaying bullseye targets and cartoon faces - 6 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 5:59pm -
We are increasingly seeking therapy in the companionship of ducks, dolphins and dogs. Anthrozoologist John Bradshaw says we are barking up the wrong tree - 6 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 4:30pm -
Family doctors who offer homeopathy - not recommended by the NHS - are also more likely to practice other bad habits such as the overuse of antibiotics - 6 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 11:49am -
An implant of genetically engineered skin cells has been designed to grow darker in colour when it detects early breast, prostate and colon cancers - 7 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 7:00pm -
Drugs designed to cut the risk of heart disease are being talked down amid a worrying lack of use by people who could benefit from them, says Anthony Warner - 7 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 6:00pm -
As countries get richer, their citizens live longer. We’ve long thought that rising wealth was responsible for this, but it turns out education is the cause - 7 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 4:16pm -
You might think you can get by on 5 or 6 hours’ sleep a night, but people who get less than 7 hours are more likely to have mood or mental health problems - 7 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 3:12pm -
Millions of healthy people have been recast as “sick” under new blood pressure rules, which could trigger unnecessary anxiety and medication use - 7 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 1:32pm -
Mosquitoes are particularly attracted to the sweat of people who have malaria, suggesting the parasite that causes it may change a person’s body odour - 9 days ago, 16 Apr 18, 8:00pm -
We now have the ability to hear another person’s thoughts. Researchers have identified the brain activity involved in imagining sounds in your head - 9 days ago, 16 Apr 18, 11:50am -
The March for Science on 14 April will involve rallies in more than 200 cities, as a sequel to last year’s inaugural march in protest of president Donald Trump - 12 days ago, 13 Apr 18, 10:29am -
An analysis of nearly 600,000 people found those drinking around five glasses of wine or pints of beer a week were at an increased risk of early death - 12 days ago, 12 Apr 18, 11:30pm -
Will we ever be able to truly feel like we’re inhabiting a virtual world? A brain stimulation twist on the classic rubber hand illusion suggests we can - 13 days ago, 12 Apr 18, 2:59pm -
A six-year study of nearly half a million people in the UK has found that people who were night owls were 10 per cent more likely to die during that time period - 13 days ago, 12 Apr 18, 6:00am -
A personalised cancer vaccine that trains the immune system to attack tumours has had encouraging results in women with ovarian cancer - 14 days ago, 11 Apr 18, 7:00pm -
We’re detecting problems too early and convincing healthy people they’re sick – it’s time to rethink medical diagnosis, says physician H. Gilbert Welch - 15 days ago, 10 Apr 18, 6:00pm -
A new show that lets you hold a heart in your hands may help people suffering from complex conditions get a much better feel for them - 15 days ago, 10 Apr 18, 5:50pm -
We see best at dawn and dusk, and this could be because our brain activity changes at these times, making it easier to distinguish signals from background noise - 15 days ago, 10 Apr 18, 4:00pm -
Diagnostic tests are better than ever but they pick up conditions that might be perfectly harmless, forcing us to rethink when things are best left alone - 15 days ago, 10 Apr 18, 3:30pm -
The prime minister, Theresa May, is to pledge £75 million for clinical trials researching prostate cancer, which affects around one in eight men in the UK - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 10:30pm -
A bad night’s sleep may lead to a protein linked to Alzheimer’s building up in the brain, but whether this raises the risk of the condition is unclear - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 8:00pm -
Contracting infections like flu during pregnancy seems to lead to changes in a child’s brain that affects their cognitive abilities - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 4:00pm -
Even a single night of poor sleep can cause changes in the brain implicated in Alzheimer’s. Are you getting enough shut-eye, asks sleep scientist Matthew Walker - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 2:42pm -
A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help move cancer cells around the body - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 11:22am -
An over-the-phone abortion service to end unwanted pregnancies in their early stages – operating in Australia - has been found to be safe and effective - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 10:59am -
Routine screening for prostate cancer seems like a good thing, but for every life saved many more are blighted by unnecessary treatments - 16 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 10:00am -
A new book's ambitious plan to spot and stop global epidemics is easier said than done unless governments show willing and fund a real scheme to do just that - 18 days ago, 7 Apr 18, 10:00am -
The discovery that healthy, older adults produce just as many new neurons as young people could provide clues to how to keep our brains sharper for longer - 20 days ago, 5 Apr 18, 5:00pm -
A patch of cells implanted at the back of the eye has stabilised and in some cases improved the vision of four people with dry age-related macular degeneration - 21 days ago, 4 Apr 18, 7:00pm -
A congestion charge in Stockholm not only cut levels of air pollution, it halved the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma attacks - 21 days ago, 4 Apr 18, 5:00pm -
In the 1950s, psychiatrist Robert Heath planted electrodes in people's brains to treat mental illness, creating a legacy that divides opinion to this day - 21 days ago, 4 Apr 18, 5:00pm -
Mini brains with a blood supply have been made in the lab for the first time. They may lead to a better understanding of the brain, and new injury treatments - 21 days ago, 4 Apr 18, 4:51pm -
England is to get specialist cancer diagnosis centres, which aim to more quickly diagnose people who have non-specific symptoms like weight loss and fatigue - 22 days ago, 3 Apr 18, 5:05pm -
Estonia is to become the first nation to give state-sponsored genetic advice on health and disease risks, and plans to extend the scheme to all its residents - 23 days ago, 2 Apr 18, 7:00am -
Dreams play a key role in boosting creative thought, memory, learning and even mental health. Now modern life may be cutting them short, with serious consequences - 25 days ago, 31 Mar 18, 2:00pm -
A virtual reality simulator for training junior surgeons seems to make them better equipped to cut open real patients - 25 days ago, 31 Mar 18, 8:00am -
Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine - 26 days ago, 30 Mar 18, 9:00am -
People all over the world are receiving effective HIV treatments and more treatment options are in the pipeline. Now, global health organisations want to end the AIDS epidemic - 27 days ago, 29 Mar 18, 12:00pm -
A new bioethics briefing highlights restrictions on genomic screening of newborn children. Should it be tightly controlled, wonders Alex Pearlman - 27 days ago, 29 Mar 18, 11:24am -
The UK must answer difficult questions on climate change, food security, aviation and more as it leaves the EU on 29 March 2019 - 27 days ago, 29 Mar 18, 10:15am -
Some of the bacteria that live in our bodies seem to kick-start the autoimmune disorder lupus. In the future, targeted antibiotics might help treat the condition - 28 days ago, 28 Mar 18, 7:00pm -
Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital have used rapid genome sequencing to diagnose disorders in children in intensive care, and give them better treatments - 28 days ago, 28 Mar 18, 3:13pm -
Worldwide, 300 million people lack full colour vision. We try out a pair of specs that aim to "fix" colour blindness, and ask if that's something we want to do - 29 days ago, 27 Mar 18, 6:30pm -
We have the international tools to resolve uncertainties over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal – but they will only work if Russia cooperates - 29 days ago, 27 Mar 18, 3:51pm -
Plans to improve cancer survival in England and reduce rich-poor inequities are having little impact. This must be addressed, says Aimilia Exarchakou - 29 days ago, 27 Mar 18, 11:35am -
Without more of the dream-dense morning sleep that is so important for our brains and health, we risk sleepwalking our way to problems - 29 days ago, 27 Mar 18, 9:00am -
Scientists have engineered 9 human cells to work as a simple, programmable computer. It could lead to implants that automatically detect and treat disease - 33 days ago, 23 Mar 18, 5:21pm -
A US woman has been treated with an experimental skin spray after losing a third of her skin to flesh-eating bacteria - 33 days ago, 23 Mar 18, 5:10pm -
Abortions on the basis of disability are back in the spotlight thanks to a new test for Down's syndrome during pregnancy and law changes around the world - 33 days ago, 23 Mar 18, 10:00am -
Pathology records are at the centre of a new disagreement over disgraced medic Andrew Wakefield.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/news/rss/news_s10/~4/hgLz3x3ctwQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> - 9 Nov 11, 8:46pm -
Convinced by the evidence that vaccines do not cause autism, Alison Singer started a research foundation that pledges to put science first. - 2 Nov 11, 10:00pm -
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn't there. - 2 Nov 11, 10:00pm -
Shifting diagnoses and heightened awareness explain only part of the apparent rise in autism. Scientists are struggling to explain the rest. - 2 Nov 11, 10:00pm -
Sweeping changes in medical practice could improve the dismal U.S. rate of maternal deaths and near-deaths, an influential doctors group says. - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 9:01pm -
Advocates in Texas wants to help people who've been disabled by gun violence talk to lawmakers. Victims say they have a big stake in how guns are regulated. - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 5:04pm -
NPR correspondent Alison Kodjak's mom was admitted to the hospital for four nights after a fall. Because the hospital said she was an outpatient, Medicare wouldn't pay for her rehabilitative care. - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 1:48pm -
One in four calls to the Washington, D.C., 911 line isn't an emergency. The city now has triage nurses working with dispatchers to get callers with less urgent needs a same-day clinic visit instead. - 6 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 9:00am -
Legal analysts say the decision to overturn Maryland's law could slow momentum for other states that are attempting to take action to curb high drug costs. - 8 days ago, 17 Apr 18, 4:25pm -
An analysis of mice in the Big Apple finds that many harbor bacteria that can make humans sick if exposed to the animals' droppings. Some of the bacterial strains were resistant to antibiotics. - 8 days ago, 17 Apr 18, 2:04pm -
An agency that advises Congress recommends a 30 percent reduction in some federal reimbursements to free-standing ERs that are within 6 miles of a hospital. - 8 days ago, 17 Apr 18, 9:00am -
The generational divide uncovered by a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute may be linked to changing attitudes about religion. - 8 days ago, 17 Apr 18, 4:01am -
Research finds that more than two-thirds of lung cancer patients who received Keytruda plus chemotherapy would be alive a year later, compared with about half of people who only got chemotherapy. - 9 days ago, 16 Apr 18, 9:43pm -
High blood pressure can cause severe health problems, but some of the medications to control it have unpleasant side effects. A new drug test alerts doctors when patients aren't taking their meds. - 9 days ago, 16 Apr 18, 9:00am -
Michel Martin speaks to Diane Rowland from The Kaiser Family Foundation about a new order from President Trump to establish work requirements for recipients of Medicaid and other federal benefits. - 10 days ago, 15 Apr 18, 8:50pm -
People responding to surveys sometimes misstate their drug use. Canada will check wastewater for traces of drugs to more accurately assess consumption. - 12 days ago, 13 Apr 18, 2:14pm -
Women outnumber men in obstetrics and gynecology residencies and medical practices in the U.S. Heads of training programs now wonder if they should go out of their way to recruit more men. - 13 days ago, 12 Apr 18, 9:00am -
The measure would remove a potential barrier to getting hearing aids by allowing Medicare beneficiaries to go to an audiologist for a hearing test to diagnose a hearing problem without a referral. - 14 days ago, 11 Apr 18, 5:00pm -
Josephine Majani passed out searching for help as she delivered her baby on a the floor of a hospital in Kenya. She hopes her case will push for reforms in treatment of women during childbirth. - 15 days ago, 10 Apr 18, 5:48pm -
Mushrooms are often praised because of what they don't contribute to the diet, but that was selling them short. They are very healthy foods and could have medicinal properties. - 2 hours ago, 25 Apr 18, 8:53am -
What does child care look like in other countries? Here is just a sampling of the child care options available to families around the world and how much such options cost. - 3 hours ago, 25 Apr 18, 8:40am -
It took a devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami to transform Misaki Tanaka's view of disaster relief and inspire her inner social entrepreneur. - 13 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 10:23pm -
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, announced Tuesday a "blitz" on retailers for violations related to sales of Juul and other e-cigarettes to minors. - 14 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 9:36pm -
The world's first successful total penis and scrotum transplant was completed at Johns Hopkins Hospital on March 26, according to a news release issued Monday. - 14 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 9:32pm -
America's gun violence problem is evident nationwide, but a new study reveals that how different groups of people across the country experience such violence can vary dramatically, depending upon who they are and where they live. - 19 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 4:35pm -
Research suggests that if safe and regulated medicinal marijuana were made available nationally, up to 10,000 lives could be saved every year. - 23 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 12:25pm -
Physical therapists say placing your body on a foam roller to target knots and trigger points can help you in many ways. - 1 day ago, 24 Apr 18, 9:20am -
How can you get your kid or teen excited about exercise, and how much physical activity is ideal for growing bodies? Experts weigh in with answers, exercising tips and new research efforts. - 1 day ago, 24 Apr 18, 9:03am -
Your mouth naturally contains about 700 types of bacteria, some good but others not so much. The mouths of people who routinely drank one or more alcoholic beverages each day contained an overabundance of bad bacteria and a smaller amount of good bac… - 1 day ago, 24 Apr 18, 12:11am -
Vertis Boyce is a 70-year-old African-American woman. But her new kidney used to belong to a 24-year-old Hispanic man. - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 11:07pm -
Most pregnant women know to avoid certain foods and drinks, such as raw meat and alcohol. But a new study lends weight to the notion that a high intake of caffeinated substances may also be detrimental to a baby's health. - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 10:30pm -
Could the no-calorie sweetener you rely on to replace sugar in your diet actually cause weight gain instead of the weight loss you were expecting? - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 9:32pm -
William Halford had spent two decades researching and developing a vaccine that he believed could bring relief to the millions of people afflicted with herpes. - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 7:34pm -
In one night, the Savage family lost two sons to opioid overdoses. Now they are working to prevent other families from experiencing the same pain. - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 5:05pm -
Here's an unfortunate little truism, taken from a study recently published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships: "It is not possible to have friends without first making friends." - 2 days ago, 23 Apr 18, 7:51am -
The CDC warns that an outbreak of E. coli is now connected to all types of romaine lettuce, including whole heads and hearts of romaine, as well as chopped romaine in salads and salad mixes. - 4 days ago, 21 Apr 18, 6:34pm -
Plunge into water at near-freezing temperatures, and your body goes into extreme distress. Your skin screams signals of pain. You can't breathe, because your chest is cramping up. Talking is nearly impossible. Your heart is pounding. Fear mounts -- a… - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 9:35am -
There's no weed major yet, nor are there textbooks, but a growing number of creative professors have come up with some clever ways to teach about marijuana. - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 8:59am -
If you smoke or eat pot, you might have encountered the "marijuana munchies," or the desire for salty, sweet or fatty carbohydrate-rich foods when using the drug. - 5 days ago, 20 Apr 18, 8:29am -
An inspection report released Thursday by the US Food and Drug Administration indicates that the North Carolina farm linked to a multistate outbreak of Salmonella from contaminated eggs had an ongoing rodent infestation, unsanitary conditions and poo… - 5 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 11:25pm -
A US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Thursday unanimously recommended approval of an epilepsy drug that would be the first plant-derived cannabidiol medicine for prescription use in the United States. - 6 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 5:46pm -
An experimental gene therapy for blood disorders was shown to be safe and effective in helping beta thalassemia patients avoid blood transfusions in a new study. However, more research is needed, and if approved for use, it could come with high costs… - 6 days ago, 19 Apr 18, 12:57pm -
A diagnosis of traumatic brain injury -- whether mild, moderate or severe -- is associated with an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease as well as a two years younger age at diagnosis, new research in veterans says. - 7 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 8:17pm -
A man in Paris with a genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis has become the world's first to successfully receive two facial transplants. He is now debuting his third face. - 8 days ago, 17 Apr 18, 10:13pm -
More than 95% of the world's population is breathing unhealthy air and the poorest nations are the hardest hit, a new report has found. - 8 days ago, 17 Apr 18, 2:08pm -
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis's foray into digital technology intensified on Wednesday as the Swiss drugmaker launched a mobile-phone based app to help collect data from people participating in eye disease studies. - 5 hours ago, 25 Apr 18, 6:36am -
(Reuters) - A soldier wounded by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan has received the world's first complete penis and scrotum transplant, officials at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said on Monday. - 12 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 10:57pm -
(Reuters Health) - People who have a lot of trouble hearing may be almost twice as likely to experience an accidental injury as individuals with excellent or good hearing, a U.S. study suggests. - 13 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 10:08pm -
(Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who drink lots of coffee and other caffeinated beverages may be more likely to have kids who are overweight than mothers who limit caffeine during pregnancy, a Norwegian study suggests. - 15 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 7:56pm -
(Reuters Health) - Elderly people who are prescribed opioids may be at higher risk for injuries from falls, some of which may be fatal, a Canadian analysis of trauma cases suggests. - 16 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 7:37pm -
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The largest U.S. manager of prescription benefits is telling drugmakers that the current pricing model is broken, and taking aim at Amgen Inc, Eli Lilly and Co and other makers of new migraine medicines to try and fix it. - 17 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 6:35pm -
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it launched a crackdown on the sale of e-cigarettes and tobacco products to minors, particularly those developed by Juul Labs Inc. - 17 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 6:04pm -
GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria is spreading rapidly in crisis-hit Venezuela, with more than an estimated 406,000 cases in 2017, up roughly 69 percent from a year before, the largest increase worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.… - 22 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 1:16pm -
LONDON (Reuters) - The concept of combining two immunotherapy drugs to fight lung cancer - not so long ago one of the hottest ideas in cancer research - has suffered a fresh blow from the failure of an AstraZeneca clinical study. - 23 hours ago, 24 Apr 18, 11:57am -
LONDON (Reuters) - A Sanofi drug for epilepsy and bipolar disorder linked to thousands of birth defects has been banned in Britain for use in women or girls of child-bearing age, unless they are on a special pregnancy prevention program. - 1 day ago, 24 Apr 18, 8:32am -
Indonesian workers who make Ivanka Trump's clothing line report poverty wages and unjust working conditions; Colorado lawmakers adopt law providing workers' comp for injured workers; Trump administration rescinds more Obama-era labor rules; and Walma… - 14 Jun 17, 4:17pm -
This is interesting. It is a letter from Hachette Livre, a major international publisher, to Resolute Forest Products, the group that is trying to sue a number of environmental groups into submission. (See these posts: Taking The Axe To The Environme… - 14 Jun 17, 2:56pm -
No, this is not about that. I believe it is true that for decades, shooters and politically violent people (two overlapping categories) in the US were right wingers, almost always. Case in point: the white supremacists who have now all been handed (a… - 14 Jun 17, 2:25pm -
As a kind of quick follow up to my long ago post on Some perspective on “predatory” open access journals (presentation version, more or less, here and very short video version here) and in partial response to the recent What I learned from predat… - 13 Jun 17, 9:25pm -
OxyChem imports about 300,000 pounds of asbestos annually. Health groups allege the company failed to report to EPA their significant use of asbestos. - 13 Jun 17, 4:18pm -
Last year’s emergency Zika funding is about to run out and there’s no new money in the pipeline. It’s emblematic of the kind of short-term, reactive policymaking that public health officials have been warning us about for years. Now, as we head… - 13 Jun 17, 3:25pm -
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” -Arnold Glascow When someone makes a shot, it’s a little instinctive to want to give them the ball again to see if they’ll make another. If they make three o… - 13 Jun 17, 2:44pm -
And now for something completely different: a man with a stoat through his head. Nonono, not that. Instead, a thing from the garden: It is, or so I understand, a truffle. Or rather two. I found them while mowing the front lawn on Sunday. This was som… - 13 Jun 17, 7:59am -
“This would be like an F8 tornado sweeping across the surface. These are winds on Mars that will never be seen again unless [there is] another impact.” -Peter Schultz When you examine craters on the surfaces of worlds across the solar system, you… - 12 Jun 17, 2:00pm -
OxyChem imports about 300,000 pounds of asbestos annually. Health groups allege the company failed to report to EPA their significant use of asbestos. - 13 Jun 17, 4:18pm -
Last year’s emergency Zika funding is about to run out and there’s no new money in the pipeline. It’s emblematic of the kind of short-term, reactive policymaking that public health officials have been warning us about for years. Now, as we head… - 13 Jun 17, 3:25pm -
So far, our vacation has been going quite well. We’ve hit two European cities, with today and tomorrow left where I am now and then on to the last one on Tuesday. Obviously, I haven’t been paying nearly as much attention to this blog (or politica… - 11 Jun 17, 1:00pm -
What company gives an employee "points" for missing work because their appendix ruptured, or they got in a car crash, or their mother died? It's Walmart. Their "point" system is exposed in a new report by A Better Balance. - 8 Jun 17, 3:50pm -
Nikola Tesla was a physicist known to dabble in strange ideas, and that's probably why pseudoscientists have appropriated them to justify quackery and fringe ideas. However, I doubt even Tesla can be used to justify the Tesla Purple Energy Shield and… - 8 Jun 17, 7:00am -
When you ask public health advocates about President Trump’s recent budget proposal, you typically get a bewildered pause. Public health people don’t like to exaggerate — they follow the science, they stay calm, they face off against dangerous… - 7 Jun 17, 12:23am -
Cassandra Callender made national news a couple of years ago when at age 17 she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and refused chemotherapy. The court ordered that she undergo appropriate treatment, but unfortunately she relapsed and chose treatme… - 5 Jun 17, 8:15am -
Antivaxers often complain that they are judged harshly. It turns out that they are probably correct. But is this a bad thing? More importantly, what about the children, who didn't choose not to be vaccinated? - 2 Jun 17, 10:45am -
A claim that scientists need to quit making: I’ve written about these types of claims before. The first one–a claim that antimicrobial peptides were essentially “resistance proof,” was proven to be embarrassingly wrong in a laboratory test. … - 31 May 17, 6:27pm -
Bloggers at the Age of Autism blog, like most antivaccine activists, vehemently deny that they are antivaccine, claiming instead that they are "vaccine safety" advocates. Their denials are belied by their having published many posts about a "Vaccine… - 31 May 17, 10:20am -
This weekend the Toronto Star published a thought-provoking op-ed arguing that in the light of Health Canada's incompetence or outright neglect (summed up pretty well in an editorial published today in the same paper) in failing to demand that Apote… - 29 Sep 14, 3:38pm -
Over the years, Open Medicine authors have taken a strong interest in research ethics and particularly the dangers of overly-close or conflicted relationships with pharmaceutical and medical device companies. As you may have intuited from the "closed… - 16 Sep 14, 4:00pm -
We've looked at the issue of drug safety from different angles through various Open Medicine papers. Never this one though. In today's Toronto Star. Topics: drug safetymedications - 12 Sep 14, 2:34am -
So, IS there a creativity deficit in science? If there is, what's causing it? This article by scientist Ben McNeil looks at publish-or-perish, the problem with preliminary data, risk-averse funding, the age bias and lots more. Definitely worth checki… - 5 Sep 14, 9:01pm -
An interesting piece today relating to Canada's evolving laws on medical marijuana. The general issue is in the news all the time, these days, in everything from the business section to sports. And of course, Open Medicine has covered the issue befor… - 26 Jul 14, 1:47am -
"If we can get cold Coca–Cola and beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs."More on Joep Lange, who died on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17:http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh1… - 21 Jul 14, 7:34pm -
A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund, a non-profit, private American foundation, compares the U.S. healthcare system with a number of its international counterparts.The study uses a number of measures to determine success, and tries to assess… - 18 Jul 14, 5:12pm -
Sharing—what a concept. With scientific research tending in two directions—on one hand, towards more proprietary knowledge and more expensive and limited access, and on the other, towards open data and open access publications—it is interesting… - 23 Jun 14, 5:55pm -
A clinician’s guide to the assessment and interpretation of noninferiority trials for novel therapiesOpen MedicineA peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEA new paper published today in Open Medicine offers a guide to… - 6 May 14, 10:42am -
A flurry of study on the topic of open access--always, of course, of special interest around here--as I prepare a talk for a festival of arts and science in Toronto (more on that, to come), on the experience our journal has had with open access from… - 1 May 14, 1:17am -
