India has become the focal point for a mosquito-borne plague that is sweeping the globe. An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge [...]

20 minutes of daily vibration for eight weeks restored a healthy balance Daily sessions of whole-body vibration may combat prediabetes in adolescents, dramatically reducing inflammation, average blood glucose levels and symptoms such as frequent urination, [...]

A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. In this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the [...]

Diabetic patients in particular may benefit from the device. In the operating room, surgeons can see inside the human body in real time using advanced imaging techniques, but primary care physicians, the people who are [...]

The patient can wear the sensor for weeks, or even months. Pricking a finger everyday is just part of everyday life for many diabetes patients. A non-invasive measurement approach could release them from the constant [...]

New research conducted by neuroscientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) published in Nature Medicine has identified a new gene involved in epilepsy and could potentially provide a new treatment option for [...]

“Any emerging disease in the last 30 or 40 years has come about as a result of encroachment into wild lands and changes in demography,” THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — [...]

Electrical stimulation, brain “cooling” and drug-delivery devices are all being developed as antiseizure tools Epilepsy affects some 2.7 million Americans—more than Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) combined. More than [...]

Simple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care. In this week’s issue of the journal Neurology, researchers at MIT and [...]

While there are already effective methods of screening samples of body fluids for viruses such as Ebola, these tend to require a fair amount of sample preparation time and a decent technological infrastructure. Time isn’t always [...]

Image via Wikipedia A series of promising compounds can cripple all enveloped viruses’ ability to invade cells as well as circumvent any resistance that hobbles traditional antiviral drugs. But will they work outside the lab? [...]