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Dr. Oz Will Help You Save Lives with Your Android

There’s no replacement for an actual doctor when you’re on the verge of death, but if you find yourself without in the midst of an emergency, the S.O.S. app might help. Come on, it’s powered by Oprah’s favorite doc! S.O.S. uses the knowhow of the Red Cross and the suave bedside manner of Dr. Oz…

Health Sam Biddle

Cellphones Deemed “Possibly Carcinogenic” by World’s Leading Cancer Experts

The back and forth brawl between studies suggesting that cell phones do and don’t cause cancer just took a bold step toward the former camp today, with the World Health Organisation classifying cellphones as potential links to brain cancer. The study, conducted by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, stops far short of…

Health Sam Biddle

Way Better Than Having a Tube Jammed Inside Your Peehole

The current “gold standard” for tests to determine bladder disease are “invasive” tests—jamming things in peeholes. But there might be a better way soon: A simple, wireless near-infrared spectroscopy device strapped right above your bladder. In a recent study in the International Journal of Spectroscopy, an NIRS device and its software measured “the differences in…

Health Matt Buchanan

Mosquitoes Bite Because of Your Smelly Feet

According to the research of one Remco Suer, mosquitoes might somehow be attracted to the bacteria in your sweat-soaked feet. That means finding a way to isolate these odors could reduce their nuisance and even slow the spread of disease. Suer worked with the African mosquito Anopheles gambiae, one of the primary vectors for the…

Health Kwame Opam

Vuvuzelas Spread Disease

Vuvuzelas, those ceremonial trumpets favored by South Africans that, when tooted in unison, approximate the sound of the world’s largest locust orgy, are annoying. The World Cup made that crystal clear. But could they also be pandemic-hastening instruments of mass destruction? Possibly! A new study reveals the vuvuzela to be about as effective as a…

Health Seth Abramovitch

Fiber Optic Bandaids Show Just How Gross Your Wound Is

For people with serious cuts—think surgery patients—making sure that gash is clean is tricky and critical. Chronic wounds can spiral out of control if infections aren’t caught early. So how about a bandage that monitors your skin? The new bandage prototypes, developed by Swiss scientists, reacts to changing acidity of a wound—a solid indicator of…

Health Sam Biddle

An Air Purifier Made for Sheiks

When you live big, there’s just a certain amount of excessiveness you need to hit with every purchase. Like these air purifiers, which are adorned with 20,000 Swarovski crystals and takes a team of three people 10 days to make. It’s called the S-Exclusiv and the air purifiers are part of a collaboration between Airfree…

Health Casey Chan

Lab-Grown Meat: It’s What’s For Dinner

In this week’s New Yorker, Michael Specter takes a great look at the world of in-vitro meat—grown in a lab, outside an animal body. It’s not a matter of if, but when. Will you eat it? One of the pioneering figures in this field, Willem van Eelen, dreamed up many of the techniques used today,…

Health Adrian Covert

Another HIV-Beating Pill Now Available

It’s pretty amazing that there’s are any pills used to beat back HIV in the body—but now there’s another. The FDA’s approved Edurant, which, when used with other drugs, drops the virus’ presence inside patients. Lives saved. [AP]

Health Sam Biddle

Elementary Schools Tracking How Many Pudding Cups the Kids Are Gulping with Calorie-Hunting Cameras

American public schools are known for having some generally pretty terrible food. High in fat and sugar, low in most other things. This leads to childhood obesity. Not good. So some Texas cafeterias are taking a high-tech approach to health. The $2 million trial system, implemented in San Antonio elementary schools, uses cameras to scan…

Health Sam Biddle

Want to stay healthy and cancer-free? Have some coffee, chocolate, and wine.

It seems like many of our vices are turning out to have healthy side effects. We already know that chocolate is helpful for circulation, reduces the risk of heart disease, is a cough suppressant, and can keep your brain working as you age (and may be a treatment for HPV). Red wine is one of…

io9 Tim Barribeau

10 Health Care Nightmare Stories

Scarier than a monster who wants to kill you is one who pretends to heal you, only to destroy your life in an even more insidious way. Here are ten tales of terror about doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. 1. Harmony, by Project Itoh We recently reviewed this incredible novel by Japanese scifi legend Project…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Ethnicity linked to willingness to go bankrupt for healthcare

In the USA, medical debts are the number one cause of bankruptcy, even for those with health insurance. Now, a new study shows a distinct correlation between ethnicity and willingness to spend all of ones funds for life-sustaining care after a cancer diagnosis. The study interviewed more than 4,000 patients recently diagnosed with lung or…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Humans can get leprosy through contact with armadillos

Researchers have proven through genetic testing that a certain strain of leprosy can be transmitted between humans and armadillos. These armadillos are thought to be the source of many of the cases of leprosy in the United States. Although most people in the developed world think of leprosy as a problem of the extreme past,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch This Robot Surgeon Play Operation (The Game) as Easily as It Can Sew Up Your Colon

This robot is wonderful. I’d let it sew me up, anytime. http://uk.gizmodo.com/amazing-robot-surgeon-folds-teeny-tiny-paper-airplane-5787993 And here’s a bonus video of it lacing a football: [Youtube]

Health Brian Lam

A Sensor That Smells Cancer

Professor Hossam Haick and his colleagues at the Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new artificial sniffer called the NA-NOSE—short for Nanoscale Artificial NOSE—which runs software capable of detecting molecule patterns found in the breaths of people with head, neck and lung cancer. After conducting a test on 87 volunteers, Haick and his team…

Health Davey Alba

Science proves that staring at a screen all day is bad for you

Proving the words of countless mothers across countless nations, new research shows that spending all day staring at computers and TVs actually is bad for kids, giving them heart problems later in life. Scientists say that kids who spend many hours in front of screens have narrower arteries in the back of their eyes, and…

io9 Tim Barribeau

What Your Stomach Bacteria Says About You

Gut bacteria, scientists have recently discovered, occupy humans in three distinct flavors, much like the eight different blood types. Why? Probably some science thing. More importantly, what does your gut bacteria say about you? A new study being published in Nature reveals that humans can apparently be divided into (at least) three “enterotypes,” based on…

Health Max Read

Cancer-Detector the Size of a Dime Can Also Spot HIV

Last month’s handheld cancer-sniffing device (pictured) has already met its match in a tool that’s the size of a dime—a tool that can spot cancer, but also HIV. The engineers who invented the microfluidic device are hopeful it can be used in developing countries. https://gizmodo.com/200-handheld-scanner-detects-cancer-in-just-one-hour-5769366 The Harvard Medical School professor of biomedical engineering, Mehmet Toner,…

Health Kat Hannaford

The Devastating Health Impacts of a Nuclear Crisis

The Japanese authorities have announced that radiation levels surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are increasing to potentially harmful levels. New Scientist investigates the health risks associated with nuclear power plant explosions. How do nuclear accidents impact health? Apart from the damage caused by fires and explosions, accidents also release radioactive materials which can…

Health Debora MacKenzie - New Scientist

Dr. Oz Will Help You Save Lives with Your Android

Cellphones Deemed “Possibly Carcinogenic” by World’s Leading Cancer Experts

Way Better Than Having a Tube Jammed Inside Your Peehole

Mosquitoes Bite Because of Your Smelly Feet

Vuvuzelas Spread Disease

Fiber Optic Bandaids Show Just How Gross Your Wound Is

An Air Purifier Made for Sheiks

Lab-Grown Meat: It’s What’s For Dinner

Another HIV-Beating Pill Now Available

Elementary Schools Tracking How Many Pudding Cups the Kids Are Gulping with Calorie-Hunting Cameras

Want to stay healthy and cancer-free? Have some coffee, chocolate, and wine.

10 Health Care Nightmare Stories

Ethnicity linked to willingness to go bankrupt for healthcare

Humans can get leprosy through contact with armadillos

Watch This Robot Surgeon Play Operation (The Game) as Easily as It Can Sew Up Your Colon

A Sensor That Smells Cancer

Science proves that staring at a screen all day is bad for you

What Your Stomach Bacteria Says About You

Cancer-Detector the Size of a Dime Can Also Spot HIV

The Devastating Health Impacts of a Nuclear Crisis

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