Medicine Stories for 2012

Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs 149
China's Controversial Brain Surgery To Cure Drug Addiction 385
Bangladesh Slaughters 150,000 Birds After Worst H5N1 Virus Outbreak In 5 Years 76
Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways 358
UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain 179
Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity 470
Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot 223
Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims 233
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Austria's Mobile Drug Lab Could Test Street-Drug Effects, Too 34
Virus Rebuilds Heart's Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests 45
Spinal Fluid Chemical Levels Linked To Suicidal Behavior 85
People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever 129
New SARS-Like Virus Infects Both Human and Animal Cells 62
Researchers Build Water Soluble Chips 52
Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer 151
Altered Immune Cells Help Girl Beat Leukemia 130
Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease 62
Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety 174
Stay Home When You're Sick! 670
Tour the Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (Video) 29
Brain Disease Found In NFL Players 271
Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science 858
Who Owns Your Health Data? 99
No More "Asperger's Syndrome" 602
A Blood Test That Screens For Cancer 71
Pioneering Transplant Surgeon Joseph Murray Dead at 93 24
Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Could Offer Lifelong Protection From the Flu 156
Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer 217
Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccines 218
Implant Translates Written Words To Braille, Right On the Retina 75
The Science of Thanks Giving 55
Harvard Develops Drug-Filled, Injectable Sponge That Expands Inside the Body 24
Nanoparticles Stop Multiple Sclerosis In Mice 50
A Better Thought-Controlled Computer Cursor 34
Sequenced Pig Genome Could Help Combat Human Diseases 64
Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes 82
'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry 107
Canada's Supreme Court Tosses Viagra Patent For Vagueness 100
Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? 878
Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System 368
HIV Vaccine Safe Enough To Pass Phase 1 Human Trials 141
A Piezoelectric Pacemaker That Is Powered By Your Heartbeat 84
Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg 117
Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies 439
Vanderbilt University Steps Into the Exoskeleton Market 26
Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump 86
Watson Goes To Medical School 100
Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine 205
Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants 183
Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? 549
The Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy 48
States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs 99
Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link 190
Malware Is 'Rampant' On Medical Devices In Hospitals 234
Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks 216
Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy 110
The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched 196
Stem Cell Treatment Found Effective For Rare Brain Disorder 43
NASA Prepares For Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood 158
Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City 1199
New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss 203
Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm 74
First Mammals Observed Regenerating Tissue 89
Scientists Invent Electronics That Dissolve In the Body 69
Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains 322
Robot Snakes To Fight Cancer Via Natural Orifice Surgery 73
Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver . 139
Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons 589
Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic 294
Ask Slashdot: Hearing Aids That Directly Connect To Smart Phones? 183
Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? 388
How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin 499
Ultrasound Waves For Transdermal Drug Delivery 32
Rewiring the Autistic Brain 139
Scientists Themselves Play Large Role In Bad Reporting 114
Stem Cells Turn Hearing Back On 101
Yosemite Expands Scope of Hantavirus Warning: More than 20,000 At Risk 76
California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites 313
Rare Form of Autism Could Be Curable With Protein Supplements 163
The UK's New Minister For Magic 526
'Magic Carpet' Could Help Prevent Falls Among the Elderly 87
UK Paraplegic Woman First To Take Robotic Suit Home 116
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Disabilities In the Workplace? 292
CDC Says 10,000 At Risk of Hantavirus In Yosemite Outbreak 50
Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria 190
Bionic Eye Lets Blind Woman Experience Vision 52
Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them 72
Calorie Restriction May Not Extend Lifespan 251
"Real-life Tricorder" To Be Tested On International Space Station 46
Harvard Creates Cyborg Tissues 108
US Doctors Back Circumcision 1264
Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ 626
Micromotors Race About By Turning Water Into Hydrogen Gas 85
StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap 55
Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk 1025
Do Antibiotics Contribute To Obesity? 252
Cats Not Linked To Brain Cancer After All 102
Should Medical Apps Be Regulated? 254
The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy 1469
Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes 732
Birth Control For Men Edges Closer 407
Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist 840
US Court Sides With Gene Patents 255
West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency 167
Scientists Reverse Engineer Animal Brains To Create Bionic Prosthetic Eyes 96
Independent Labs To Verify High-Profile Research Papers 74
Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function 252
Detecting Depression From How (Not What) You Browse 163
Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device 262
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours? 262
Beware the Nocebo Effect 239
Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus 105
'Wall of Shame' Exposes 21M Medical Record Breaches 112
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? 364
The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing 559
Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency 163
FDA Wins Right To Regulate Adult Stem-Cell Treatments 216
Ebola Outbreak Kills 13 In Uganda 105
Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light 77
Two More HIV Patients Now Virus-Free Thanks To Bone Marrow Transplant 159
iRobot's Robot Doc Is Ready To Heal You 53
Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus 104
Gene Therapy Could Soon Be Approved In Europe 44
Implant Gives Grayscale Vision To the Blind Using Lasers 165
Chemical That Affects Biological Clock Offers New Diabetes Treatment 156
Chicken Vaccines Combine To Produce Deadly Virus 178
Live Pictures From Inside Your Stomach 40
Entrepreneur Offers Crowdfunding For Health Startups, Including His Own 35
Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception 451
Study Finds Alcohol, Not Marijuana, Is the Biggest Gateway Drug For Teens 459
Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years 409
UCLA Develops World's Fastest Camera To Hunt Down Cancer In Real Time 51
Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans 252
WHO Says Afghan School "Poison Attacks" Probably Mass Hysteria 146
Implants May Improve Therapy For Neurological Disorders 36
FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit 186
Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? 684
A New Record For Scientific Retractions? 84
Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists 221
Caffeine Linked To Lower Skin Cancer Risk 130
Candy Coating Inspires Lab-Grown Blood Vessels 25
"Mini-Factories" To Make Medicine Inside the Body 79
Human Stem Cell Transplants Successfully Reversed Diabetes In Mice 92
Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional 2416
Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections 274
Injected Proteins Protect Mice From Lethal Radiation Dose 59
Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home 291
Voice Algorithms Spot Parkinson's Disease 42
Erasing Details Of Bad Memories 135
Details of the Second Controversial Mutant Bird Flu Study Finally Published 78
FDA: Software Failure Behind 24% of Last Year's Medical Device Recalls 128
Patch Makes Certain Skin Cancers Disappear 90
Black Death Discovered In Oregon 404
Too Many Biomedical Graduate Students, Not Enough Jobs 226
Support Site For Hospital Respirators Found Riddled With Malware 48
Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida 208
Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old 169
Antibody Cocktail Cures Monkeys of Ebola 101
MIT Creates Glucose Fuel Cell To Power Implanted Brain-Computer Interfaces 95
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? 629
Drug Company Disguised Advertising As Science 172
Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep 70
DNA Modifications Change As We Age 62
California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes 842
Coffee Consumption Strongly Linked To Preventing Alzheimer's 205
The Real-Life Doogie Howser 303
Redesigned Cooler Reinvents Tuberculosis Treatment 22
Using QR Codes To Save Lives 171
Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple 1141
NASA, ASU Team Finds a New Test For Osteoporosis 46
Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized 474
The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing 153
Key Gene Found Responsible For Accelerated Aging and Cancer 114
Certain 'Personality Genes' Correlate With Longevity, Says Study 72
Supreme Court Orders Do-Over On Key Software Patents 167
Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle 121
Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity 201
Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't 290
Kinect In the Operating Room 54
Researchers Use Google's Search Algorithms To Fight Cancer 52
NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death 234
FDA Panel Backs First Rapid, Take Home HIV Test 94
Book Review: The Logic of Chance 44
Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Function After Breakthrough Nerve Rewiring Procedure 56
Wireless Implants Promise Superior Vision Restoration 52
FDA Cracking Down On X-ray Exposure For Kids 138
Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia 488
Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose 86
TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump 811
FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions 392
Exposure to Wide Variety of Microbes May Reduce Allergies 120
Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered 94
Crowdsourcing Game Helps Diagnose Infectious Diseases 25
Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage 684
Researchers Identify Genetic Systems Disrupted In Autistic Brain 167
Scientific Jigsaw Puzzle: Fitting the Pieces of the Low-Level Radiation Debate 140
Doctors Transplant Same Kidney Twice In Two Weeks 130
Monkeypox Scare Grounds Flight In Chicago 109
Bionic Eye Patient Tests Planned For 2013 59
Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California 274
Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars 334
Should the FDA Assess Medical Device Defenses Against Hackers? 138
North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger 515
Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment 190
In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated 293
Surgery-Simulating Dummy Allows Doctors To Develop Skills 30
Brain Implants Help Paralyzed Monkeys Get a Grip 54
Scientists Say Spread of Schmallenberg Virus Is 'Warning To Europe' 113
Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene 254
Gold Nanoparticles Help Red Blood Cells Deliver Drugs 36
Engineered Stem Cells Seek Out and Kill HIV In Mice 95
Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain 237
Chinese Firms Ignore Licensing Mandate For Stem Cell Therapy 27
Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital 1007
McAfee Claims Successful Insulin Pump Attack 196
Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor 248
Photoacoustic Imaging Uses Sight, Sound For Cancer Detection 15
Using Nanoparticles To Improve Chemotherapy 35
Majority of Landmark Cancer Studies Cannot Be Replicated 233
UK Surgeons Are the First To Operate In 3D 64
Biosecurity Board Recommends Full Publication of Bird Flu Studies 21
Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? 504
Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre 195
CDC Reports 1 In 88 Children Now Affected With Autism In the US 398
Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? 321
Maryland Team Completes Most Extensive Face Transplant Yet 36
Researchers Create Living Human Gut-On-a-Chip 22
Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types 330
Supreme Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents 91
MIT Prof Predicts the End of Disabilities In Next 50 Years 190
China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years 214
Early Exposure To Germs Has Lasting Benefits 136
Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain 185
Aspirin Helps Prevent Cancer, New Studies Show 132
Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses 144
Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature 173
Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis 171
Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice 89
'IMAX Movie of Body' Allows Stanford Geneticist To Stop Diabetes In Its Tracks 137
Algorithm Finds Thousands of Unknown Drug Interaction Side Effects 121
Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97% 556
Lego Mindstorms Used To Make Artificial Bones 42
Algorithm Brings Speedier, Safer CT Scans 58
MIT Fiber Points To Woven Glasses-Free 3D Displays 52
When Are You Dead? 516
Todd Park Appointed Second U.S. CTO 78
LSD Can Treat Alcoholism 346
Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors 83
Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy 201

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