Researchers from the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology department have created a device that could let severely disabled patients control wheelchairs or communicate by inhaling and exhaling through the nose. The new system detects changes in air...

It was only a matter of time before Google positioned Wave for electronic healthcare record management, and now two of its engineers, Shirley Gaw and Umesh Shankar, have done just that. In a recent paper , to be presented at USENIX HealthSec '10 ...

In 1902, a farmer in Murray, Kentucky patented a design for a wireless telephone. Nathan Stubblefield’s device was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile, but it was nevertheless the first of a kind. Faster, smaller and multi...

A new study has shown that the internet can be a valuable slimming aid. The findings, which stem from one of the longest weight loss trials in U.S history, showed that people who used a weight management website achieved the most success in keeping off...

Scientists at North Carolina’s Duke University have developed predictive software with the aim of beating antibiotic-resistant mutations. The software works much the same way as a champion chess player does when analyzing their opponent’s...

Although blood tests are a tried and trusted way for doctors to diagnose patients’ physical ailments, they’re not much use when identifying mental disorders such as depression. But an article published in Biological Psychiatry (Volume 68,...

People with heart problems could avoid surgery in the future thanks to a new technique for creating 3D images of the organ. Using the technology, which has been developed at Southampton General Hospital in the UK, doctors get a 3D image of an echocardiography...

A technique for creating biological scaffolds should make it quicker and easier to perform transplants. Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK, have found a way to build the scaffolds from human or animal tissue, and then use them for repairing...