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As many as one in three patients report feeling better after receiving a drug that has no active ingredients. For decades, these findings — called the placebo response — were dismissed as purely psychological. 
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Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.
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Doctors call for rethink after large study finds prescribed pills could be associated with up to 0.5m extra deaths a year in US...
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For years scientists have been able to change the emotional tone of a memory by administering certain drugs just before asking people to recall the event in detail. New research suggests that they’ll be able to target and erase specific memories altogether. Here’s how.
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Researchers have discovered the cellular target for a two-thousand-year-old herbal remedy known as Chang Shan.
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A nurse's tender loving care really does ease the pain of a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better, if we perceive them to be made with love - suggests newly published research by a University of Maryland psychologist.
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(Medical Xpress) -- Computer models that provide accurate simulations of how crowds behave can be used to identify health and safety issues at MGs, and could be adapted to simulate the spread of infections and to test the potential of public health...
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Most of the conditions that kill us, including cancer and heart disease, could be prevented or delayed by a new way of looking at and treating health:...
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MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.
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Our most powerful antibiotics can kill many different kinds of bacterial infections at once, but we're still searching for a single all-purpose drug that kills viruses. ... Via FutureCast
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Children who experience the stress of separation at birth from biological parents and are brought up in orphanages undergo biological consequences such as changes in their genome functioning, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study.
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This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture.
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The University of Liverpool has launched an iphone app, HEP i-chart, that provides Hepatitis C (HCV) patients with quick and easy access to the latest information about drug interactions.
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For 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body. In this system, the appearance of the tongue is one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng. Now, University of Missouri researchers have developed computer software that combines the ancient practices and modern medicine by providing an automated system for analyzing images of the tongue.
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Researchers have tapped into the extraordinary power of carbon "nanotubes" to increase the speed of biological sensors, a technology that might one day allow a doctor to routinely perform lab tests in minutes, speeding diagnosis and treatment while...
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At FutureMed, Richard Satava argued for an electronic medical record that includes full body scans packed with data for every patient. Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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"60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl calls report to air Sunday "explosive," challenges effectiveness of antidepressants...
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his 3D medical animation shows burns, which are skin injuries caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, or radiation. Types of burns are shown, including first-degree/superficial burns, second-degree/partial thickness burns, third-degree/full thickness burns, and fourth-degree burns. Treatments for burns are described, including antibiotic ointments, bandages, and medications such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
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Digital system tracks patients from the inside out. Newspapers in the United Kingdom have jumped on the news that patients will soon be able to purchase ‘intelligent pills’ containing sensors to monitor their medication use. Nature looks at what these pills can do.
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I was asked about a year ago at a talk about energy what I was doing about the other large social problems, namely health care and education.
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Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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3) Augmented reality in radiology. Augmented reality has been a major issue for some time, but seeing the video below made it clear for me, this is where we are going to head in 2012. Doctors can see through patients. Via Anise Smith, michel verstrepen
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Acupuncture may help ease the severe nerve pain associated with certain cancer drugs, suggests a small preliminary study published in Acupuncture in Medicine.
Dianna Porter's curator insight,
May 20, 2015 7:55 PM
Acupuncture can help with many symptoms of cancer and subsequent treatment protocols including fatigue, nausea, pain reduction, hot flushes etc.
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Reading Shakespeare could give physicians a fresh insight into the links between emotion and illness, a retired doctor and scholar believes.
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