Illness

Under Our Skin: A Dramatic Tale of Microbes, Medicine, and Money

Written and directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson, the 2008 Academy Award-nominated documentary Under Our Skin explores and exposes one of our nation’s most threatening and least regarded epidemic illnesses: Lyme disease. Through expert interviews with doctors and specialists, and personal accounts from men and woman diagnoses and suffering with Lyme to varying degrees, Under Our…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 18

Researcher Killed By Deadly Bacteria He Was Working With

A young researcher from San Francisco has died after being infected by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease he was studying—and there are fears that it could spread. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that it suspects Richard Din, 25, became fatally infected with an agent from his own laboratory.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 4

Mystery Killer Preying on Vietnamese Youth

A mysterious illness that begins as a high fever with little appetite and spreads to a rash on the hands and feet is responsible for the loss of 17 lives, so far, in an impoverished Vietnamese district. 171 others have also been sickened but have been able to recover with proper and timely medical care.…

Health Molly Oswaks Apr 20

New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection by Killing the Body’s Infected Cells

A new broad-spectrum treatment for viruses could be as effective as antibiotics fighting bacteria, MIT researchers report. The method uses cells’ own defense systems to induce invaded cells to commit suicide, preventing the spread of the virus. In lab tests, the new drug completely cured mice that had been infected with influenza. Viruses work by…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - PopSci Aug 10

Zinc is Probably the Most Effective Cold Treatment Known to Medicine

The moment you’re semi-sure you’re getting a cold, get some zinc lozenges. That’s the result of a meta-analysis of 15 different scientific studies of the mineral, and cut the length of coughing and sneezing days by 40 percent. Zinc lozenges have long been considered a potential salve for colds, but the Cochrane Database of Systematic…

Tech News Kevin Purdy Feb 16

BP Dispersants Causing “Non-Stop Diarrhea” and Other Pleasant Side Effects

Remember when BP was responsible for horrible things, and then they plugged the hole and we moved on to worrying about other horrible things? Things are still horrible! The chemical they used to break down oil is making people ill. https://gizmodo.com/when-things-fall-apart-the-nightmares-of-an-offshore-o-5575921 Al Jazeera investigated the current chemical state of the Gulf, and found that the…

Health Sam Biddle Oct 28

What Will Technology Do for The Future of Healthcare?

It can be easy to let the contentious question of who will pay for healthcare in our society distract from questions of what it will pay for. Trends consultancy PSFK shares its vision of where technology will soon take medicine. The firm, which describes itself as a “trends and innovation company,” has released its substantial…

Health Sam Biddle Aug 4

Delusion or Alien Invasion? Disorders That Make Life Seem Like Scifi

Click to viewDelusions and neurological disorders have the ability to radically alter your perception of reality. But the effects of many of these disorders resemble the consequences of an alien invasion, a government conspiracy, or a scientific experiment gone awry. So how can you determine if you’re delusional or in a work of science fiction?…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 27

Steve Jobs Looked Thinner Than Usual at WWDC—So What?

One of the first things we noticed when Steve Jobs came out on stage was that he was noticeably thinner than he was in previous events. We were vaguely concerned since he’s had a recent history of what could be considered pretty severe health problems, but it looks like it’s just a “common bug” says…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 10

Under Our Skin: A Dramatic Tale of Microbes, Medicine, and Money

Researcher Killed By Deadly Bacteria He Was Working With

Mystery Killer Preying on Vietnamese Youth

New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection by Killing the Body’s Infected Cells

Zinc is Probably the Most Effective Cold Treatment Known to Medicine

BP Dispersants Causing “Non-Stop Diarrhea” and Other Pleasant Side Effects

What Will Technology Do for The Future of Healthcare?

Delusion or Alien Invasion? Disorders That Make Life Seem Like Scifi

Steve Jobs Looked Thinner Than Usual at WWDC—So What?

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