News tagged with modern medicine


You're not Superman: Despite major medical advances, recovery times for regular folks take time

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You fall off your bike and break your collarbone, and your doctor tells you to stay off the bike for six to eight weeks. Lance Armstrong falls and breaks his collarbone in multiple places, and he's back in the saddle in ...





Search results for modern medicine


Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034. Over the same period, spending on diabetes will almost triple, rising from ...


Drug therapy more cost-effective than angioplasty for diabetic patients with heart disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Mark ...


Research highlights need to address hemophilia in developing world

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When modern medicine finds a way to treat a medical condition, people often think that the problem is solved. But we also have to find ways to get that treatment into the hands of those who need it. For example, new research ...


Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?


When seconds count: Interventional radiology treatment for pulmonary embolism saves lives

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis -- an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially designed catheters to dissolve dangerous blood clots in the ...


The x-ray machine has revolutionised how doctors detect disease and injury

X-ray named top achievement by British museum

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.


Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. One of the fathers of medicine, the great ...


Did India invent the nose job?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.


New study recommends change in treating pulmonary embolisms

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

William Kuo, MD, was the on-call interventional radiologist one Friday night three years ago when he received a call from the intensive care unit at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. He was asked to attend to a 62-year-old woman ...


War of the viruses: Could ancient virus genes help fight modern AIDS?

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, scientists have yet to find an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that destroys the immune system and causes AIDS. HIV is perhaps the most adaptive virus ever ...



List of search results for modern medicine