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Cheating on your low-carb diet helps you lose weight – and could prevent breast cancer, too

Low carbohydrate diets go in and out of fashion for weight loss, but a new piece of research suggests that an occasional low carb day is better than traditional diets for helping to prevent breast cancer. The findings are set to be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, where the researchers describe a…

io9 Tim Barribeau

The CDC Doesn’t Want You Donating Your Slutty Organs

Boned more than two people this year and trying to donate an organ? GOD, keep that to yourself! And by that the CDC means whatever organ you had in mind. The CDC’s new proposed policy will ask donor candidates about their specific sexual history and discourage those with a rather—ahem—active lifestyle from donating. The CDC…

Health Natt Garun

FDA Approves Silver Bullet for Hangovers

It’s 1pm. You’re still in bed, having already muttered some lame excuse to your boss as to why you aren’t in to work today, chugged a liter of water, half a bottle of aspirin, AND TWO GALLONS OF COFFEE but no dice. When all else fails, this new FDA-approved cure might help. The new wunderpill…

Health Andrew Tarantola

Swearing Makes You F**king Feel Better

It happens all the time. You stub your toe or bash your elbow, scream “Mother SUCKER!” (or something), and instantly feel just a bit better. It’s true: your potty mouth saves you aspirin money. Science! According to research by Richard Stephens of Keele University’s School of Psychology, swearing elicits an emotional response known as “stress-induced…

Health Brent Rose

Hey everybody: cool your jets on the whole supervirus thing

Many of you probably read last week about a supervirus, engineered by dutch virologist Ron Fouchier, that has the potential to wipe out half of humanity. Is the virus potentially dangerous? Absolutely. Could it really kill off half the world’s population? That… isn’t exactly likely. And scientists in support of Fouchier think that a much…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Your Spam Filter Is Helping Tackle HIV

Everybody hates spam. Everybody hates HIV. So the fact that Microsoft is sharing its knowledge of spam filter design to help scientists fight the virus is all kinds of good. Miscrosoft Research have teamed up with the Ragon Institute — a collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital which is dedicated to finding an…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Want to fight prejudice? Just wash your hands.

Evolutionary psychology has a lot of ideas that are, well, pretty nutty. The latest theory argues that social prejudice can be fought by being more careful about the spread of disease. It’s definitely nutty…but it might also do some good. The underlying theory is that ancient humans once had to be extremely wary of strangers…

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Using This Vibrating Mouthpiece Could Result In Less Time Wearing Braces

It’s arrived for too late for those who’ve already endured the agony of orthodontics, but a new daily treatment using a vibrating mouthpiece could halve the amount of time dental braces need to be worn. Those metal straps work by applying pressure to the teeth, gradually reshaping the underlying bones so that everything comes into…

Health Andrew Liszewski

The Many Hazards of Being a Photographer for National Geographic

Working for the famous adventure magazine isn’t all just exotic locales and spectacular photo ops; there’s a fair amount of danger that goes hand-in-hand with the glamour. Here are just a few of the things that can go wrong on expedition. The Photo Society, a group of shutterbugs that regularly contribute to National Geographic Magazine,…

Health Andrew Tarantola

Legalizing marijuana could reduce traffic fatalities

On the fence about legalizing marijuana? If so, consider this: legalizing weed could save your life. In the most comprehensive study of its kind ever conducted, the Institute for the Study of Labor has revealed in a provisional discussion paper that the legalization of medical marijuana in the United States is linked to a dramatic…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Breakthrough: Gene Therapy Provides Full Protection from HIV Transmission in Mice

For hundreds of years, immunization has been one of society’s most elegant and dependable methods of disease prevention. Vaccines have been developed for infections ranging from measles to HPV. Many of us get vaccinated to protect ourselves against seasonal illness, or before traveling internationally. Vaccination is safe. It is dependable. It works. So in the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Researchers Use Off-the-Shelf 3D Printer to Custom Grow Bones

When you shatter your kneecap, the surgeon may use an implanted scaffold to coax your bones to knit back together properly. But what happens to the scaffold once you’re healed? With this new system, the scaffold just melts away. A team at Washington State University is leading the research. They’ve re-purposed a ProMetal 3D printer—normally…

Health Andrew Tarantola

9 Aesthetic Prosthetics

Advances in modern prosthetic technology are quickly redefining what constitutes a “disability.” Our friends at Oobject have compiled nine of the latest cutting-edge limb replacements in existence. Don’t believe that prosthetics are really narrowing the ability gap? Challenge Oscar “Tink Tink” Pistorius to a foot race and then check out these examples of medical scaffolding,…

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America’s Water Pipes Are Failing and We Need to Fix Them…Fast

By and large, America’s water infrastructure is on the cusp of disrepair. Environmentalists and public health officials have been chattering about this for years, but now the problem has become more urgent and we need to overhaul much of it in a hurry. According to David Lepeska, rotting pipes are responsible for floods, illness affecting…

Health Adrian Covert

A New Spray Makes Hard-To-Spot Cancer Cells Visibly Glow

A new sprayable reagent has been developed by Japanese researchers that makes small tumors, typically missed by CT scans, visibly glow within minutes of being applied—making them easier to spot and remove during surgery. The magic ingredient in the spray is a green dye called gGlu-HMRG which glows after reacting with an enzyme in the…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Feeling Sick? Spit On Your Phone To Work Out What’s Wrong

It’s never fun feeling ill, especially if you don’t know what’s up with you. But soon you might just have to spit on the screen of your phone to get an instant diagnosis. A team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology in Daejeon think touch screens could replace the need…

Health Jamie Condliffe

More MRSA Found in Supermarket Turkey

There are two new studies out that confirm, once again, that drug-resistant staph or MRSA – normally thought of as a problem in hospitals and out in everyday life, in schoolkids, sports teams, jails and gyms – is showing up in animals and in the meat those animals become. The strain of staph that shows…

Health Maryn McKenna - Wired

Why flying on planes can make you sick – and how to stop it

If you’re about to fly somewhere for Thanksgiving, you’re probably dreading the possibility that you’ll catch a bug along the way. And you’re not alone. Many people report coming down with something in the days following an airplane flight. It’s not like we’re all lining up to lick the lavatory handles — so why can’t…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Portable Breast Cancer Detector Brings Checkups To the Patient

It doesn’t matter how advanced a breast cancer detection system is, it’s only effective if patients have access to it. So Nihon University has developed a portable unit that can be taken to those without access to a hospital. Using a technology known as the phase shift method, the handheld detector emits light with a…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Fetuses can donate their stem cells to help heal their mothers’ hearts

Researchers have known for some time that women who experience weakened heart function in the months before and after childbirth (a condition known as peripartum cardiomyopathy) recover more quickly than any other group of heart failure patients. Now, a team of researchers from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine thinks it may know why. The researchers…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Cheating on your low-carb diet helps you lose weight – and could prevent breast cancer, too

The CDC Doesn’t Want You Donating Your Slutty Organs

FDA Approves Silver Bullet for Hangovers

Swearing Makes You F**king Feel Better

Hey everybody: cool your jets on the whole supervirus thing

Your Spam Filter Is Helping Tackle HIV

Want to fight prejudice? Just wash your hands.

Using This Vibrating Mouthpiece Could Result In Less Time Wearing Braces

The Many Hazards of Being a Photographer for National Geographic

Legalizing marijuana could reduce traffic fatalities

Breakthrough: Gene Therapy Provides Full Protection from HIV Transmission in Mice

Researchers Use Off-the-Shelf 3D Printer to Custom Grow Bones

9 Aesthetic Prosthetics

America’s Water Pipes Are Failing and We Need to Fix Them…Fast

A New Spray Makes Hard-To-Spot Cancer Cells Visibly Glow

Feeling Sick? Spit On Your Phone To Work Out What’s Wrong

More MRSA Found in Supermarket Turkey

Why flying on planes can make you sick – and how to stop it

Portable Breast Cancer Detector Brings Checkups To the Patient

Fetuses can donate their stem cells to help heal their mothers’ hearts

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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