Medicine
Personalised medicine wants to use your DNA to improve treatment
If you're sick the treatment you get is not specifically matched to you; it's the same as for everyone else…
Venezuela is on its knees: where next for the latest socialist casualty?
Tear gas in the air and the sound of police shotguns fill the streets -- every day since April thousands…
Antibiotic resistance: Could we be looking at the death of medicine?
Heart surgery, prenatal care, organ transplants, and blood transfusions. These are all lifesaving treatments that we will need to say…
Is self-diagnosis empowering or endangering?
People are today surrounded by an overwhelming amount of information and knowledge on almost any topic of interest, including a…
NHS funding crisis: If pharmaceutical giants leave the UK, what could it mean for the economy?
Some of the world's biggest drug companies warned that they will withdraw from the UK market if the NHS does…
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Google’s Verily wants to become a prophet of human health
Google’s life-science arm, Verily, is initiating Project Baseline -- a 10,000 person study to gain a better understanding of people's…
Will the overstretched NHS stop issuing “low value” prescriptions?
“Low-value” prescriptions will no longer be provided to patients on the NHS in an attempt to cut costs. The aim of…
Despite widespread legalisation, federal regulations are keeping cannabis research under wraps
After many decades of prohibition doctors in the US now prescribe medical cannabis for a range of conditions, from HIV…