mad medicine

Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident, but surgeons couldn't re-attach it right away. His arm needed time to…

Tick bites carry Lyme disease, tularemia, and a host of other scary diseases. They can even, in some instances, turn…

Medical science is finally paying attention to the injury risks of headbanging...only 25 years too late. They did it…

It's one of the most common, and most poorly understood, sleep disorders. Sexsomniacs have sex with bedmates in…

A potential therapy for cancer already lurks in our own genes. Chunks of ancient viruses lie embedded in the human…

It's a nightmarish medical scenario: a man spent 23 years paralyzed but conscious while his doctors believed he was…

A company called Stryker Biotech was in court last week defending a bone-growth product it sold for years, despite…

Soon, you could be determining your breast cancer risk with a simple needle jab, to collect a small amount of tissue…

A woman, blind for 9 years, can see again after doctors performed a rare surgery where her own tooth was inserted…

Researchers report an odd case in the latest issue of Epilepsy & Behavior. Whenever their patient had an epileptic…

Although surgeries that involve nary a slice or a stitch have heretofore been limited to science fiction, doctors in…

It's medical tourism's bleeding edge: people traveling to countries with no stem cell bans. Last year, a boy went to…

A new study released this week shows that medical imaging scans expose patients to seven times more radiation than…

Sanitation workers in the Illinois town of Urbana-Champaign have been finding human placentas clogging up the…

We're one step closer to Star Trek's medical tricorder. Doctors say they've successfully used a new laser technology…

Today CIA officials have admitted that one way they secure loyalty in hard-to-penetrate regions like rural…

Good news and bad news, pot smokers. Marijuana contains highly-effective antibiotics that could be the key to…

One in every 4 million children suffers from a genetic disorder called progeria that causes them to age prematurely…

The ability to suppress hunger is a holy grail for many obesity researchers — as well as people who want to lose…

Ebola is the poster virus for outbreak scares because it spreads extremely fast and kills 90 percent of its victims…