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Extreme cold is being utilized to bring humans back from the brink of death; after being shot or stabbed and losing half of your blood there is only a 5% chance for survival, but this experimental procedure may help to increase these dire odds. It is not unheard of for victims of cold water drownings …
Scientists have placed a human into suspended animation in a development which could offer a glimpse of a pathway to singularity, while it may sound like science fiction, it could save lives. In a procedure Samuel Tisherman describes as being “ a little surreal” the team from the Maryland School of Medicine say they have …
Does anyone really know what anything costs in healthcare any more? Prices seem to fluctuate from location to location and state to state, and those prices from the same place even change depending on if you have insurance and what carrier. When did medicine become about money, what happened to just wanting to help people? …
A snake-like super flexible robot which is less than one millimetre thick has been built to crawl through the human brain, and is now being tested in a model of human veins. The developing team at MIT hope that their minuscule hyper flexible magnetised robot will help to make it easier to diagnose and treat …
Hepatitis A is a viral disease that used to be common, however recently cases of infection are escalating to a worrying point and the state of Florida has declared hepatitis A to be a health emergency. Hep A affects the liver can occur when a person eats food or drinks water that has been contaminated …
Mylan’s EpiPen and EpiPen Jr epinephrine autoinjectors are the first generic versions to gain FDA approval, in a move that can help increase access to emergency treatment for allergic reactions; and is part of broader federal mandates to help lower costs of medications that not protected by patents or exclusions. Approval was granted for Teva …
More conservative use of emergency department neuroimaging for non-index seizures is supported by new findings from researchers at Epilepsia. Emergency department visits for patients with seizures often have them undergoing neuroimaging, typically CT scans. Imaging in adult patients presenting with onset index seizures leads to a change in care for 9 to 17% of patients, …
An electronic rescue dog has been developed for detecting people by smell. The chemical fingerprint sensor array is the smallest and cheapest developed to date which can be used to help search for people buried by earthquake or avalanche to save lives, as published in the journal Analytical Chemistry. While trained dogs are still the …