In 2005, in a landmark paper viewed well over a million times, John Ioannidis explained in PLOS Medicine why most published research findings are false. To coincide with PLOS Medicine’... Read more
A long-touted health-care revolution may at last be about to arrive THE idea of telemedicine—health care provided using telecommunications equipment—has a lengthy history. Radio News, an Ame... Read more
Women are under-represented in academic medicine resulting in a waste of public investment due to loss of research talent. Writing in the July issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Me... Read more
A portable imaging tool could change the way the medical community analyzes and understands the long-term effects of sports-related concussions. Research conducted by Humboldt State Kinesiol... Read more
Ethics, pharmacy, policy and pediatric cancer experts publish recommendations for managing and preventing drug shortages A group of prominent healthcare experts including bioethicists, pharm... Read more
An Israeli company says it’s developed the first 3D holographic technology that could open the doors to a new era in medicine. The company is called Realview Imaging. The medical direc... Read more
Scientists hopeful for applications in people A revolutionary gene therapy developed in Colorado could relieve people’s chronic pain, such as arthritis or fibromyalgia but first, it is... Read more
Compounds found in red wine, green tea stick to anything, retain useful properties A simple kitchen sink experiment helped Northwestern University researchers discover that green tea leaves... Read more
Current medical adhesives have their limitations. The materials for stitching up injuries and surgical wounds may have changed over the millennia, but the basic process of suturing tissue re... Read more
Scientists are reporting an advance toward overcoming a major barrier to tapping the potential of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and India’s Ayurvedic medicine in developing new and more... Read more
Johns Hopkins bioethicists lead a call to reform the ethical foundation of the changing American healthcare system In what they acknowledge as a seismic shift in the ethical foundation of me... Read more