The never ending search for lost personal vaccination documents could be at an end - at least for iPhone users. Thanks to a new app from Novartis called VAX Tracker, end users can keep up to date with all their vaccinations and immunisations, including...

Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands of people each year who can no longer close their eyelids...

An discovery by researchers at the Weizman Insitute in Rehovot, Israel, casts new light on the way that bones, muscles and tendons work together in the human body. The study, published in a recent issue of Developmental Cell, reveals a previously unrecognised...

Microsoft has added new search features to the healthcare area of its Bing search engine. Using the US Bing home page , end users simply enter a medical condition and receive a highly organised list of links and reference sources that offer information...

A new method for viewing a patient's liver in three dimensions, based on MRI or CT-scans, has just been announced by Odysseus, one of the projects running under the EUREKA organisation that supports research and development across Europe. As well...

UC San Diego reports that at team of scientists have arrested and shrunk a tumour in a mouse by combining two different nanomaterials. In their study, the UC San Diego chemists, bioengineers at MIT and cell biologists at UC Santa Barbara developed a system...