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Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun
Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss
Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties?
For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss
Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended
The Best Medications For Your Genes
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care
Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer
Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon
Playing Tetris Is Good For You
Hacking a Pacemaker
3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations
13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online
AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful
Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize
Are Women Getting More Beautiful?
Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages
Doctors Turn To the Web For Disease Tracking
Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down
Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m
The Real Body Snatchers
The Science of Folding@home
Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repository
Brains Work Best At Age of 39
Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer
Doctors Will Test Gene Editing On HIV Patients
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts
Brain Decline Begins At Age 27
Tax Write-Offs For Free (As In Speech) Work?
Injectable Artificial Bone Developed
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria"
New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes
Doctors Silencing Online Patient Reviews Via Contract
Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest
Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal
A Robot To Destroy Breast Cancer Cells
One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease
MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer
New Startup Hopes to Push Open Source Pharmaceuticals
Google Can Predict the Flu
Memory Molecule Identified
Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV
Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine
Saving 28,000 Lives a Year
China Defines Internet Addiction
Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement?
Software To Improve AIDS Survival?
Electro-Scalpel "Sniffs Out" Tumors
Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers
Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos
Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells
Scientists Couple Nerve Tissues With Computer Chip
It's a Jab or Your Job
Steps Toward a Universal Flu Vaccine
Stimulus Avoids Serious Solutions For Health IT
Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal
The Unforgettable Amnesiac
Sea Sponge Extract Conquers Resistant Bacteria
New Possible SIDS Genes Identified
CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System
Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House
Virtual Autopsy On a Multi-Touch Table Surface
Virus-Like Particles May Mean Speedier Flu Vaccines
WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US
Repairing Genetic Mutations With Lasers?
Robotic Surgery On a Beating Heart
Review of Atom-Powered Toughbook Medical Tablet
Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing
Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief
Scientists Use fMRI To (Sort of) Read Minds
Patient "Roused From Coma" By a Magnetic Therapy
Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research
Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo
Why Doctors Hate Science
Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies
Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing
Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment
Cognition Enhancer Research
Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles
Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction
Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer
Athletes' Brains Reveal Concussion Damage
Leg-Paralysis Sensing, Stimulation Device Steps Up
New Success For Brain-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far
Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria)
Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases
Drug Reverses Retardation In Mice
Experts Claim HIV Patients Made Non-Infectious
Towards an Exercise Pill
Successful Stem Cell Replacement of Windpipe
Asperger Syndrome Tied To Low Cortisol Levels
Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors
Banjo Used In Brain Surgery
Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Edible "Intelligent Pills"
First Whole Cancer Genome Sequenced
Disappointing Cancer Study Results Go Unreported
Topical Caffeine Might Help Fight Skin Cancer
Watching Brain Cells In Action
Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study
"DNA Origami" Could Allow For Controlled Drug Delivery
A 30-Picowatt Processor For Sensors
A Breathalyzer For Cancer
A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat
A New Robotic Hand That Can "Feel"
A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance
AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US
AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old
Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals
Advance In Making Stem Cells From Skin
Alzheimer's Disease Possibly Linked To Sleep Deprivation
Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete
Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market
Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research
Augmented Reality In a Contact Lens
Aussie Government Offers $40M To Build a Bionic Eye
BPA Leaches From Polycarbonate Bottles Into Humans
Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life
Blogging Now Good for You, Still Bad for Some
Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory
Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin
California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen
Cancer Vaccine That Mimics Lymph Node
Career Choices for Computational Biologists?
Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health
Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems
Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells
Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD
Cosmetic Neurology
Cosmetic Neurology
Creativity Potentially Linked To Schizophrenia
Cure For Radiation Sickness Found?
Daydreaming Is Really Complex Problem-Solving
Dead Salmon's "Brain Activity" Cautions fMRI Researchers
Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US
Device Keeps Lungs Breathing Outside the Body
Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's
Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Testing Makes a Splash In Boston
Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells
Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair
DoE-Sponsored Project Readies Human Trial For Artificial Retinas
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age
Doctors Fight Patent On Medical Knowledge
Doctors To Control Robot Surgeon With Their Eyes
Doing Internet Searches Boosts Older Brains
Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb
Draft Stem Cell Guidelines Threaten Research
Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients
Drugs In Our Drinking Water
Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury
EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics
Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice
Enzyme Found To Help Formation of New Axons
FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers
FDA Could Delay Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs
FDA OKs First Human Trial of Neural Stem Cell Therapy
FMRI Shows Man Loves Wife More Than Angelina Jolie
Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance
Facial Bones Grown From Fat-Derived Stem Cells
Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise Performance
Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening
First Images of Memories Being Made
First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Goes Live
First Proven Diagnostic Test For Alzheimer's
Forgotten Ulcer Drug Energizes Stem Cells
Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer
Gene Transfer Immunizes Against Monkey HIV Analog
Genetic Mutation Enables Less Sleep
Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google
Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful
Google Health Opens To the Public
Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board
H1N1 Appears To Be Transmittable From Human To Pig
HIV Transmission Captured On Video
HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials
Hints of a Link Between Autism and Vinyl Flooring
Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records
Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant
Hospital Equipment Infected With Conficker
How Do Geeks Exercise?
How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You?
How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes
Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory
IBM Researchers Working Toward Cheap, Fast DNA Reader
Implant Raises Cellular Army To Attack Cancer
India Launches Open Source Drug Discovery
Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist
Is Genius IQ Linked To Psychosis?
Janus Particles as Body Submarines?
Johnson & Johnson Loses Major Trademark Lawsuit
Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death
Laser Treatment Could Save the Sight of Millions
Let the Games Be Doped
Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu"