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Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy

Bill Gates is on another charitable streak through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a $100,000 investment to find a way to fight childhood malaria with chocolate and gum. The gum would be used to test, painlessly, for malaria in children while the chocolate would serve as a way of getting some of the…

Health Rosa Golijan

The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone

What features do you look for in a cellphone? Camera? GPS? 3G? Ultrasound? Technically the GE Vscan is not a cellphone, but it certainly resembles any old lamshell on the market today. Instead, the Vscan a pocket-sized ultrasound intended to reduce the amount of patient referrals (and thereby expenses) by making ultrasounds convenient enough to…

Health Mark Wilson

Algernon Lives! (Scientists Develop World’s Smartest Rat)

Hobbie-J is a genetically engineered rat that can navigate mazes faster and recognize toys better than his peers. We just hope the little guy fares better than Charlie and Algernon. Scientists in Georgia and China developed Hobbie-J’s superior brain by modifying the NR2B gene, which in turn increased NMBA receptor sites on the brain’s individual…

Health Mark Wilson

Man Designs and Builds Machine To Fight His Own Cancer

Click to viewFor the last sixteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds I’ve been watching this video in absolute awe. It’s the story of John Kanzius who designed, built, and tested a machine (on himself), all in hopes of curing his leukemia. Good God, I’m happy that this story is finally coming out, but it’s so heart…

Health Rosa Golijan

This Is What Your Spine Looks Like When The Placebo Effect Kicks In

Neuroscientists have conducted a study showing spinal-cord neural activity when individuals were convinced that their pain would be alleviated by a cream treatment. This activity shows where the Placebo Effect occurs and how gullible volunteer test subjects can be. Basically what researchers at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany did was tell a bunch…

Health Rosa Golijan

Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery

Apparently plasma knives, surgical instruments which have glowing, ionized gas as a blade, have passed Special Operations Command’s field testing and evaluation stages. Great! Now how much longer until this tech can be used to make real lightsabers? The plasma knives are vaguely similar to tools currently used in radiosurgery, but rather than heating tissue…

Health Rosa Golijan

Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months

In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they’ve realized that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation. The issue only affected the scans of stroke patients so damage was limited to affecting…

Health Rosa Golijan

Dental Training Mannequins, Or Venom During His Teenage Years

We can’t come up with anything much more horrid than these dental training mannequins, complete with braces. As Adam commented, they look like a “teenage Venom.” But don’t worry, we’re sure that braces were adorable on you. [RadioGuy via MAKE]

Health Mark Wilson

You Can Soon Track Your Heart Rate With Your iPhone

The iPhone heart rate monitor prototype by Corventis will of course be useful by people who actually need to keep track of their heart health, but it could actually be used as a unique physical input device for apps. Fast Company says that the heart app can shoot your heart rate over social networks, meaning…

Health Jason Chen

Your Great Great Great Grandkids Might Heal Like Wolverine

It sounds straight out of a comic book: Scientists have figured out a way to inject gene-carrying nanoparticles into stem cells in order to make wounds heal faster. I’d get my superheroine costume ready if the method wasn’t potentially cancer-causing. https://gizmodo.com/im-gonna-wear-this-mini-dress-for-a-full-body-3d-experi-5376849 The basic idea is to use nanoparticles to deliver a gene into stem cells…

Health Rosa Golijan

Electrical Shocks to the Brain Slow Down Gamers, May Speed Up Parkinson’s Patients

Researchers somehow found volunteers to willing accept electrical shocks while playing video games. Ooook. The study’s mostly good news though: Small zaps to the brain might help Parkinson’s patients. The bad news? They’d turn us into bad video game players. What researchers did to come to those conclusions is generate a “small electrical current in…

Health Rosa Golijan

12 Minutes of iPod Lovin’ a Day Will Keep Your Heart Healthy

I’ve got a playlist that never fails to make my heart go boom-baboom-baboom just a bit faster. According to a study from the University of Belgrade, 12 minutes of that playlist a day might actually leave me healthier and happier. Over the course of a seven year study, Dr Predrag Mitrovic of the University of…

Health Rosa Golijan

HealthMap App Will Tell You How Diseased Your Neighborhood Is

Ever wondered if someone in your neighborhood has a case of Swine Flu, African Horse Sickness, Chicken Pox, or other infectious diseases? Today’s your lucky day: the HealthMap app will show you up-to-date reports and even send push alerts. To be completely honest, I was terrified when I first opened this app up. I did…

Health Rosa Golijan

How to Order at McDonald’s Without Killing Your Body

McDonald’s: not a place you should eat if you are trying to be healthy. But if you must eat there, there are definitely some better choices on the menu than others. Lifehacker put together a great guide showing just what foods aren’t so bad and what should be avoided at all costs. The good news…

Health Adam Frucci

FDA Deems E-Cigs As Bad As The Real Thing

Put down that e-cigar, Mark! The FDA has ruled that electronic cigarettes, cigars, and similar devices contain known carcinogens and slammed them for being marketed to younger age groups. We’ve looked at what’s inside e-cigars and our Mark Wilson has even tried them out, but what’s the point of using a $200 gadget that’s as…

Health Rosa Golijan

Cellphone Microscope Gets Power Boost, No Parasite Is Safe

UC Berkeley’s CellScope microscope transforms an ordinary cellphone camera into a powerful high-mag microscope. And now it has been given an upgrade that makes it possible to take color shots of parasites and bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers. To achieve this, the researchers used filters to block out background light and convert the light source—a…

Health Sean Fallon

Pegboard Device Sinks Carpal Tunnel’s Battleship

A pegboard device developed by bioengineering students from Rice University aims to better diagnose and evaluate carpal tunnel syndrome by restraining the hand and analyzing movements with a customized PDA. In a five-minute test, a doctor uses pegs to isolate a patient’s individual fingers. “You wouldn’t think it works as well as it does, but…

Health Sean Fallon

The SEC Is Still Investigating Steve Jobs’ Health Disclosures

The fact that Steve Jobs‘ health “went from relatively simple to more complex in nine days” is worrying the Security and Exchange Commission, meaning that investigators are going to poke into whether or not Apple has misled investors. It’s just an investigation now, and no promises of filings or accusations of wrongdoings may be made.…

Health Jason Chen

BodyTrace Scale Offers Yet Another Way to Humiliate Yourself Online

We thought the internet was a haven for fat dudes who liked to look at pretty girls without judgment or ridicule. But now the BodyTrace scale, $120 this November, wants to publish your weight (via Wi-Fi we assume via GSM, easy!) to their website. You can then share this very personal information, along with a…

Health Mark Wilson

Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment

With Steve Jobs’s consent, the Memphis hospital that conducted his liver transplant two months ago issued a statement denying he received any special treatment, classifying him as “the sickest person on the waiting list.” https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-recovering-from-a-liver-transplant-still-re-5297650 Presumably in response to the New York Times’ speculation that Jobs’ wealth and influence helped him secure a liver sooner…

Health Dan Nosowitz

Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy

The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone

Algernon Lives! (Scientists Develop World’s Smartest Rat)

Man Designs and Builds Machine To Fight His Own Cancer

This Is What Your Spine Looks Like When The Placebo Effect Kicks In

Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery

Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months

Dental Training Mannequins, Or Venom During His Teenage Years

You Can Soon Track Your Heart Rate With Your iPhone

Your Great Great Great Grandkids Might Heal Like Wolverine

Electrical Shocks to the Brain Slow Down Gamers, May Speed Up Parkinson’s Patients

12 Minutes of iPod Lovin’ a Day Will Keep Your Heart Healthy

HealthMap App Will Tell You How Diseased Your Neighborhood Is

How to Order at McDonald’s Without Killing Your Body

FDA Deems E-Cigs As Bad As The Real Thing

Cellphone Microscope Gets Power Boost, No Parasite Is Safe

Pegboard Device Sinks Carpal Tunnel’s Battleship

The SEC Is Still Investigating Steve Jobs’ Health Disclosures

BodyTrace Scale Offers Yet Another Way to Humiliate Yourself Online

Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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