Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Versus MRSA

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Scientists at the University of Nottingham have found that a 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon treatment for eye infections works as an antibioti...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Malarial marrow

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A Yale University team has developed a new method to identify malaria in the bone marrow of ancient human remains. It is the first time re...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Blackbeard's booty

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" Treating the sick and injured of a sea-bound community on shipboard was challenging in the best of times," says archaeologist ...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Not-so-gross anatomy

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General Electric has developed and field-tested a new, superfast scanner called Revolution CT at Florida's West Kendall Baptist Hospi...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Back to back

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When 27-year-old Dominic Smee saw images of the crooked skeleton of Richard III , discovered in 2012, he felt as if he were looking at x-ray...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Fertility first

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From a very different kind of wandering womb , a baby has emerged. More than 35 years since the birth of the first " test tube baby ,...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Maisy matures

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In a milestone no one thought she would achieve, 4-year-old Maisy Vignes has started school. Doctors were baffled at her birth because she...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Rotating ribs

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Back in the 1950s, stilyagi (hipsters) in the Soviet Union went to great lengths to bootleg jazz and rock 'n' roll music. It was ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Whale well

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A strange local custom grew up in 19th c. Australia which is documented in a special exhibit on whales at the Australian National Maritim...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Giraffe's gesture

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When I was a child, I woke up from a dream complaining that a giraffe was licking my toes and tickling them. What you see here is a giraf...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Monster soup

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After the turn of the 19th c. and the invention of the microscope, people realized that the water they were drinking was full of harmful o...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Stonehenge man

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One of the highlights of the new visitor center built on the site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, is the face reproduced from a ske...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Digitized diseases

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Diseases which we thought we had conquered are rearing their ugly heads. This includes polio , which is currently spreading in Syria . Mar...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Bloody

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Scientists have finally hit upon a formula that they hope will end blood supply shortages and prevent infections through donations. The cr...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Brrrth

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Under other circumstances, the 19-month-old baby in the image above would have been born in 1985, the 3rd child of a couple in Oregon who ...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Alligator snags

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Five years ago, chemists at Louisiana State University found that blood from the American alligator can successfully destroy 23 strains o...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Female sperm

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It has been possible in rare circumstances for a woman to give birth without being impregnated by a man. Parthenogenesis or asexual repro...
Friday, May 10, 2013

No breath, no pulse – but alive

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Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have designed a liquid solution that can be injected directly into the bloodstream to quickly ox...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Boneless

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About a month ago I had a bone density test. I had been diagnosed with osteoporosis many years ago, a result of treatment with Solu-Medrol...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Yesterday's ingredients

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In 1865, Dr. Alonson B. Howard transformed a tiny clapboard schoolhouse on his property in Tekonsha, Michigan, to use for his medical pra...