The next time you’re in need of a wart remover, forget combing the aisles of the local pharmacy and head over to the hardware store for a roll of duct tape instead
Reproductive physiologist Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne‘s obstetrics department, said a few drops of lemon juice can be a cheap, easy-to-use solution to protect women from both HIV and pregnancy. The Australian Society for HIV Medicine is taking a cautious approach to the claims
The controversial do-it-yourself medicine that inspired the heart-rending movie Lorenzo’s Oil has finally been proved to work. The new research ends years of uncertainty about the treatment and demolishes the claims of experts who repeatedly said it was a worthless quack remedy
ADP Pharmaceuticals from Goulburn in New South Wales has won Federal Government backing for a project which aims to use genes from deer to repair human cartilage
Researchers have put together a biological pacemaker in guinea pigs by slipping a gene into their hearts — a first step in what could lead to alternatives to the electronic devices now implanted in hundreds of thousands of people each year
Veterinarians have harnessed the power of New Zealand green lip mussels to produce a dog food that helps to relieve arthritis pain suffered by ageing canines around the globe
Scientists are developing a smart tattoo that could tell diabetics when their glucose levels are dangerously low. Once perfected, the tattoo will allow glucose levels to be monitored round the clock, and could allow an alarm system that would warn the diabetic if their glucose levels were to fall dangerously
Young children who share their home with two dogs or cats in the first year of life are half as likely to become allergic to those animals than kids who grew up with only one dog or cat, or no pets
Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have found a tiny, mysterious particle in the spinal marrow fluid which may be a new form of life and which could help explain the cause of schizophrenia
Scientists are hard at work looking for ways people with diabetes can measure their blood sugar without the painful and scarring jabs now necessary for blood collection
Egyptian police have arrested a man who performed brain surgery on a number of people even though he had only a primary school education
A new drug being developed for commercial use in Australia and the United States called Melanotan — more alluringly dubbed the Barbie
drug — seems to be an answer to prayers of millions of people who desire to sport the perfect tan. As a bonus it also promises reawakening of sexual desire
A team of researchers, doctors and medical institutions in Seattle may have a simple gift for people with diabetes — freedom. Freedom from worries over maintaining the proper level of sugar in the blood. And freedom from the fear that the disease will destroy their eyes, heart or kidneys. The freedom comes in clusters of cells plucked from a donated pancreas. The cells, known as islets
, produce insulin, which the body needs to use sugar. Type 1 diabetes destroys those cells, making the body insulin-deficient
Israeli doctors have discovered a gruesome new way to catch hepatitis and possibly other blood-borne diseases — from the flying bone fragments of suicide bombers
US lawyer John Banzhaf was the first to sue the tobacco companies in the mid-Sixties. But now he wants to prosecute the junk food industry for making Americans obese. Has he bitten off more than he can chew?
Canadian doctors implanted an artificial eye into a blind man — it performs well enough for him to be able to drive — admittedly in an empty parking lot — via Slashdot
Australian scientists have developed a permanent contact lens to improve poor vision. The synthetic lens can be surgically implanted to provide permanent, but reversible, correction of refractive error
If you had a smallpox vaccination as a child and think you are still protected, think again — almost everyone vaccinated before smallpox was eradicated in the mid-1970s has now lost their immunity
In A Case of Musicogenic Epilepsy Induced by Listening to an American Pop Music
, the
authors report: A 23-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital due to the musicogenic epilepsy. She had four generalised tonic clonic seizures at 18 and 19 years old. Since 19, she had had complex partial seizures lasting for about 20 seconds which was easily evoked by listening to an American pops particularly Dreamlover
song by Mariah Carey
A needle which mimics the mosquito’s unique stinger
, making injections painless, has been developed by Seiji Aoyagi at Kansai University in Osaka and his colleagues, a team of Japanese microengineers
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