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Use for 3-D Printers: Creating Internal Blood Vessels for Kidneys, Livers, Other Large Organs (preview)
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - April 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Technology,Everyday Science,Computing,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Medical Technology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news

Doctors Repair Soldiers' Wounds with Biological Scaffolding Material (preview)
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - April 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Everyday Science,Medical Technology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Biology,More Science Source Type: news

Rewiring a Damaged Spinal Cord [Video]
When Christopher Reeve became quadriplegic, there was little hope for patients with spinal cord injury. Now researchers are combining what they know about the central nervous system’s ability to rewire and regrow with a new understanding of the hidden smarts of the spinal cord to dramatically improve treatments. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - April 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mind & Brain,Neuroscience,Medical Technology,Neurological Disorders Source Type: news

A Change of Heart: Stem Cells May Transform Treatment for Heart Failure (preview)
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - April 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Society & Policy,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news

Future of Medicine: Advances in Regenerative Medicine Teach Body How to Rebuild Damaged Muscles, Tissues and Organs
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - April 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Technology,Medical Technology,Everyday Science,More Science,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Expiration Fate: Can "De-Extinction" Bring Back Lost Species?
Dear EarthTalk : What is the “de-extinction” movement all about? --Bill Mitchell, New York City [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - March 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Biology,Society Policy,Evolution,Medical Technology,Ecology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Archaeology Paleontology,Evolutionary Biology Source Type: news

Bendable Needles Developed to Deliver Stem Cells into Brains
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - March 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Medical Technology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Health Source Type: news

Putting Tests to the Test: Many Medical Procedures Prove Unnecessary and Risky
The routine use of 130 different medical screenings, tests and treatments are often unnecessary and should be scaled back, according to 25 medical specialty organizations. The medical societies jointly released lists of tests and therapies patients should question in their campaign, Choosing Wisely . The initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation is aimed at reducing unnecessary interventions that waste money and can actually do more harm than good. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - March 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Medical Technology,Ethics,Health,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Data Stretching Back to 1959 May Explain Link Between Environment and Breast Cancer
When Ida Washington received a letter inviting her to participate in a women’s health study to explore the environmental roots of breast cancer, she didn’t think twice. Her mother was diagnosed with the disease nearly 40 years ago, and since then, it has been a terrifying mystery she has yearned to unravel. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Environment,Health,History of Science,Medical Technology,Energy Sustainability,Infectious Diseases,Biology,Society Policy Source Type: news

Patent Watch: A Heart Monitor in Your Phone
Wireless, ultrasonic personal health monitoring system: Instantaneous and personal health information at your fingertips--that is the oft-imagined innovation that could change medicine. Physician-inventor David Albert, chief medical officer of AliveCor, headquartered in San Francisco, first envisioned a portable, easy way to measure personal heart health when Palm Pilots debuted in the late 1990s. Smartphone processors, however, were not powerful enough until the latest generation of devices such as the Droid and the iPhone. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Technology,Health,Technology,Computing,More Science,Biotechnology,Medical Technology,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news

Childhood Cancer Is a Neglected Disease
The treatment of childhood cancer is one of oncology's success stories, with five-year survival rates that have shot up from 30% in the 1960s to 80% now -- at least in high-income countries. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Medical Technology,Society & Policy,Ethics,Biology,Health Source Type: news

Small Gadgets That Make You Healthier
At any moment, someone in the U.S. most likely is having an asthma attack. The breath-robbing disease afflicts around 25 million Americans, and every year about half of them lose control of their asthma. They may rush to the emergency room or reach for a rescue inhaler, a source of quick-acting drugs that can relax constricted airways in minutes. Predicting who is at risk of such crises is difficult, however, because the relevant statistics that would identify trends come from the patients' own recollections days or weeks after the emergency. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Technology,Consumer Electronics,More Science,Medical Technology,Communications,Computing,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news

Researchers Home in on Biological Ways to Restore Hearing [Excerpt]
Editor’s Note: Excerpted from Shouting Won’t Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can’t Hear You , by Katherine Bouton, published by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright © 2013 Katherine Bouton. All rights reserved. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Medical Technology,Society & Policy,Psychology,Biology,Mind Brain Source Type: news

New Eyewear Could Help People with Red-Green Color Blindness
Why do humans see colors? For years the leading hypothesis was that color vision evolved to help us spot nutritious fruits and vegetation in the forest. But in 2006, evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and colleagues proposed that color vision evolved to perceive oxygenation and hemoglobin variations in skin in order to detect social cues, emotions and the states of our friends or enemies. Just think about the reddening and whitening of the face called blushing and blanching. They elicit distinct physiological reactions that would be impossible without color vision. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Mind & Brain,Medical Technology,Evolution,Evolutionary Biology,Neuroscience,Biology,Technology Source Type: news

A Hacked Database Prompts Debate about Genetic Privacy
Linking a human genome in an anonymous sequencing database to its real-world counterpart wasn’t supposed to be possible. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - February 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Chemistry,Health,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Technology Source Type: news