"Medicine" Blogs & Blog Posts

Scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University have created tiny "robots" out of human cells, that they call anthrobots. They used human cells from the trachea, and had them form into clumps called organioids. They then found a way to encour...

Can you stop aging? It's unlikely, but people are trying to at least slow down the clock by fasting, taking hormones, and jumping into ice-cold baths.

Davey Bauer, 34, was in need of a double lung transplant after years of smoking followed by brutal antibiotic-resistance infections ruined both his lungs. Dr. Ankit Bharat and the medical team at Northwestern Medicine removed Bauer's infected lungs,...

William McBride (1927–2018) grew up near Sydney and did Medic­ine at Sydney University. Grad­uat­ing in 1949, he did his residencies and went on to the Univ­ersity of London, sitting for exams at the Royal Col­lege of Ob­st­etrics and Gynaec...

Have you been looking forward to somniferous alkaloid compounds customized to your personal metabolic dependency profile? Good news! 23andMe is selling everyone's DNA to the pharmaceutical industry. GSK Plc will pay 23andMe Holding Co. $20 millio...

If there's one thing I love, it's niche, themed Twitter (or, sigh, X) accounts. One of the most egregious is the Bad Medical Takes account, which collects and showcases some of the worst medical assertions out there, whether it be from Qanon pseudosc...

Can you stop aging? It's unlikely, but people are trying to at least slow down the clock by fasting, taking hormones, and jumping into ice-cold baths.