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Scientists Develop World’s Smallest Blood Monitoring Implant That Tells Your Smartphone When You’re About To Have A Heart Attack

The world’s smallest medical implant has recently been revealed by a group of scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. The device measures 14 millimeters only but can provide accurate data used to analyze levels... 

Medical Research Suggests Antiretroviral Drugs Can Help Fight HIV

A two-year old baby and fourteen adults infected with HIV are said to have been ‘cured’ after blasts of Antiretroviral drugs (ARV). The baby was said to have been born to a woman with HIV. The child underwent treatment almost immediately... 

Bionic Eye Lets Blind Woman Experience Vision

Back in the day, if a person were to lose a limb or one of their senses then they were considered useless and there was no hope for them; but now, technology has brought the world so far forward with prosthetics and hearing aids. We’ve taken another... 

Scientists So Close To Malaria Cure

Getting a medically-apporved drug out to market can be a long and tedious process, even when that drug could save millions of lives. This is the obstacle course researchers at the University of Cape Town in South Africa are faced with when developing... 

Researchers Invent Oxygen Gas–Filled Microparticles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing

The title of this article may have you thinking there is some little twist or trick just to catch your attention and make you read on, but this is actually a true statement. A group of researchers led by Dr. John Kheir, from the Department of Cardiology... 

Chemotherapy May Be Making Cancer Worse

The common treatment for cancer this day and age is chemotherapy but it is a very aggressive remedy that is not always guaranteed to work, and some new studies show it may actually be hurting more than helping. The idea behind chemotherapy is that it... 

The Cure to Cancer Could Be Just Around The Corner

It’s one the most dangerous and diverse diseases that effects all walks of life and yet a cure has not been found for it. This is cancer, and the second you hear that word uttered you begin to wonder how long that person or animal has left; However,... 

Hepatitis C Can Now Be Totally Cured By New Nanoparticle

While Americans worry every year about getting a flu shot or preventing HIV/AIDS, the deadlier silent is actually Hepatitis C; killing over 15,000 people yearly in the U.S. since 2007 and the numbers continue to increase as the carriers increase in age.... 

Scientists Rescue Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

With all this constant stream of tech news, it’s a wonder how anyone gets any sleep in the world, and for some people this can be a serious problem. REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, sleep is the deep sleep in which people tend to dream and get actual... 

Mind-Reading Invention Let’s You Type With Your Brain

Ever get into an argument with a loved one because you couldn’t just read their minds? Well, apparently a group of Researchers at Universiteit Maastricht’s Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience Department of Neurocognition have had enough...