"Medicine" Blogs & Blog Posts

People are trying to slow the clock by fasting, getting IV treatments, and jumping into ice-cold baths.

Grace Sun won the ISEF science fair for her work on OECTs, which have benefits over current biomedical devices and could help a variety of diseases.

Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933-2015) was born in London, youngest of four sons of two Lithuanian Jewish doctors. Oliver spent most of his childhood in London, though his GP father and surgeon moth­er sent him to a rural boarding school for 4 years in WW2 t...

An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally self-heal himself with plants.

In the Christian tradition, journeying was associated with conversion: all pil­g­rim roads potentially led to Damas­cus. All Christians were stained with sin in his life, but individuals’ motives for going on pilgrimage differed from person to p...

Longevity clinics offering wealthy clients specialized treatment plans are the newest iteration of luxury. Longer and better lives could be a benefit.

CNC News reports that Viaguard Accu-Metrics sold paternity tests that it knew were inaccurate and did so for years. Harvey Tenenbaum, the owner of Viaguard Accu-Metrics, told a CBC producer with a hidden camera during a conversation in his office t...