#medicine


# health    

why we can't grow a mature, implantable heart for you just yet

We can't print fully functioning human organs suitable for transplantation just yet, but new experiments are getting close.
why we can't grow a mature, implantable heart for you just yet

# science    

why there's still a clear line between organ donation and organ harvesting

Technology that can keep organs preserved and functioning outside a body are raising some thorny moral questions for ethicists.
why there's still a clear line between organ donation and organ harvesting

# science    

the medical questions of studying the transgendered

Instead of erasing and pathologizing transgenderism, we should be studying it to unlock answers to long standing questions about sex and gender.
the medical questions of studying the transgendered

# health    

pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

Medical experts are appalled with Dr. Oz for making a career out of giving simplistic, scientifically unverifiable and unproven questions to complicated questions about people's health.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

# tech    

how to weave machinery into biology

A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
how to weave machinery into biology

# health    

human biology vs. the modern work environment

Today's white collar jobs could not have an unhealthier culture and worse setup for our joints and midsections. And they're shaving years off our lives...
human biology vs. the modern work environment

# tech    

why medicine's future needs wired patients

One of the best things you might ever do for your health is let your doctor track it with every possible device.
why medicine's future needs wired patients

# oddities    

conspiracy theorists' dark view of medicine

Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.
conspiracy theorists' dark view of medicine

# science    

and once again, biology puts up a fight…

Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.
and once again, biology puts up a fight…

# health    

that depends on your definition of informed…

Anti-vaxers are vehemently opposed to a bill that would require doctors to explain how vaccines work on the basis that it would require them to leave their echo chambers and might sway parents on the fence to vaccinate.
that depends on your definition of informed…

# science    

the strange and complicated world of placebos

Placebos are all in the mind, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely powerful.
the strange and complicated world of placebos

# health    

alt med's profitable medical symbiosis

The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.
alt med's profitable medical symbiosis

# science    

the superbug is coming! well, maybe. in a way.

Antibiotic resistance is rising and becoming a real threat. But we still have time and methods to fight it.
the superbug is coming! well, maybe. in a way.

# education    

why yes, doctors do need science classes

Not making future doctors take enough science classes or pass stringent exams to appeal to humanities majors is a recipe for disaster.
why yes, doctors do need science classes

# health    

the gmc's pyrrhic victory over wakefield

Wakefield may have lost his medical license and is no longer able to call himself a doctor, but his damage to public health has been done and will continue.
the gmc's pyrrhic victory over wakefield

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