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'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs

'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs | Science News | Scoop.it
Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States.

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How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars

How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars | Science News | Scoop.it

They may come from completely different fields of study, but brain scans and supernovae have more in common than you would think.

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Augmented Reality – A tool for radiologists and other healthcare ...

Augmented Reality – A tool for radiologists and other healthcare ... | Science News | Scoop.it
3) Augmented reality in radiology. Augmented reality has been a major issue for some time, but seeing the video below made it clear for me, this is where we are going to head in 2012. Doctors can see through patients.

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Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain: Scientific American

Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain: Scientific American | Science News | Scoop.it
New research shows that the antidepressant reduces fear in adult mice by increasing brain plasticity...
K.I.R.M. God is Business " From Day One"'s curator insight, September 23, 2017 8:25 AM

Makes some not scared to act a fool. Then not  concerned about the act a fool results because their thinking is mentally medicated down. 

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Studying alternative medicine with taxpayer dollars

Studying alternative medicine with taxpayer dollars | Science News | Scoop.it
Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS .
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Acupuncture may ease severe nerve pain associated with cancer treatment

Acupuncture may ease severe nerve pain associated with cancer treatment | Science News | Scoop.it
Acupuncture may help ease the severe nerve pain associated with certain cancer drugs, suggests a small preliminary study published in Acupuncture in Medicine.
Dianna Porter's curator insight, May 20, 2015 7:55 PM

Acupuncture can help with many symptoms of cancer and subsequent treatment protocols including fatigue, nausea, pain reduction, hot flushes etc.

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The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry : Neurophilosophy

The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry : Neurophilosophy | Science News | Scoop.it
This post is part of a Nature Blog Focus on hallucinogenic drugs in medicine and mental health, inspired by a recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper, The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders, by...
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Whole-genome sequencing: a new liability tsunami for doctors?

Whole-genome sequencing: a new liability tsunami for doctors? | Science News | Scoop.it
This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture.
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University launches iphone app for hepatitis treatment

University launches iphone app for hepatitis treatment | Science News | Scoop.it
The University of Liverpool has launched an iphone app, HEP i-chart, that provides Hepatitis C (HCV) patients with quick and easy access to the latest information about drug interactions.
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TEDTalks - Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch

Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

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Nanoscale biological coating is a new way to stop the bleeding

Nanoscale biological coating is a new way to stop the bleeding | Science News | Scoop.it
MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.
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[VIDEO] Magic Mushroom Medicine

Psychedelic mushrooms are an unlikely friend in the battle against incredibly painful cluster headaches.

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Virtual Worlds and Medical Education

Virtual Worlds and Medical Education | Science News | Scoop.it

An interesting article on Second Life for Medical Education.

Here are some videos on Virtual Worlds, Second Life and Medical Education.

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Breakthrough: A new drug that could cure everything from colds to HIV

Breakthrough: A new drug that could cure everything from colds to HIV | Science News | Scoop.it
Our most powerful antibiotics can kill many different kinds of bacterial infections at once, but we're still searching for a single all-purpose drug that kills viruses.

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77,000-year-old evidence for early 'bedding', use of medicinal plants at South African rock shelter

77,000-year-old evidence for early 'bedding', use of medicinal plants at South African rock shelter | Science News | Scoop.it
An international team of archaeologists is reporting 77,000-year-old evidence for preserved plant bedding and the use of insect-repelling plants in a rock shelter in South Africa.
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Orphaned children exhibit genetic changes that require nurturing parents

Orphaned children exhibit genetic changes that require nurturing parents | Science News | Scoop.it
Children who experience the stress of separation at birth from biological parents and are brought up in orphanages undergo biological consequences such as changes in their genome functioning, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study.
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BGU: ‘Nano-engines’ can move forward, back

BGU: ‘Nano-engines’ can move forward, back | Science News | Scoop.it
Findings could aid cancer research, medicine and technology.
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Shakespeare 'could help doctors'

Shakespeare 'could help doctors' | Science News | Scoop.it
Reading Shakespeare could give physicians a fresh insight into the links between emotion and illness, a retired doctor and scholar believes.
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Maybe You Do Need a Hole in Your Head—to Let the Medicine In | Pharmaceuticals | DISCOVER Magazine

Maybe You Do Need a Hole in Your Head—to Let the Medicine In | Pharmaceuticals | DISCOVER Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
To heal the brain, scientists are trying to poke through the shield that isolates it from the rest of the body. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
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