MEDICINE

A team of researchers have used a 3-d printed ceramic implant in sheep to repair broken bones faster. What is special about this implant is that it does not stay an implant in your body forever but fuses into the mending limb, becoming natural bone itself.

Former nurse, Joy Milne, first detected the odor of the disease from her late husband before he was diagnosed with the disease, six years ago. He died of the disease two years ago.

A fungal disease has been found in several snake species in the U.S. and Europe and it is potentially deadly for many of them.

Real Christmas trees could cause potentially serious illness, doctors warned.

A new gene therapy targets a mutation that causes blindness and could restore vision in patients with a rare inherited condition.

A company is working on a bioprinter that’s capable of manufacturing viable 3D-printed human hearts.

With effective treatments, 45% of Americans living with HIV are over age 50. Researchers have new insights into what will help them stay healthier, longer.

Scientists used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to cure several diseases in mice without editing the DNA.

Currently, there are 5.5 million people with Alzheimer’s dementia in the U.S. Without intervention, that figure may more than double by 2060.

A new study is the first to completely trace the changes in gene expression before, during and after exposure to peanuts.

HIV has killed more than 35 million people so far. The new breakthrough brings a much needed hope.

Doctors pronounced a baby dead but he started moving in the plastic bag on the way to his funeral.

The new algorithm defines densities, edges and other parameters of tissues that are X-rayed and it could also identify changes in the tissues even as the radiation dosage is brought down significantly — by 100 fold or more.

For the first time, there is now artificial human heart muscle big enough to be used to solve damage seen in heart attack victims.

The team at the University of Alberta, Canada, who conducted the study compared the two approaches — invasive colonoscopy and swallowing FMT as a sealed capsule — to come to their conclusion.

Accurately comparing different health plans could be tricky. Here’s an easy guide.

There are a few foods that you should be weary of this holiday season to make the celebrations memorable in the right way.

David Stephan and his wife used remedies like maple syrup and garlic to treat their son's illness.

A professor conducted secret tests on at least eight people in hotel rooms.

These machines are now obsolete and have been replaced by positive-pressure ventilators such as modern-day respirators.

The two different cannabis compounds – cannabidiol (CBD), and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – are known to affect the nervous system and help PTSD patients bring their acquired fear under control.