Tag Archives: health

Remember a while ago when we were talking about hospitals disguising chemotherapy as superhero power packs? Well check this out, the superheros are taking over even more of the hospital's supplies!

A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have accomplished the incredible and grown human heart tissue that can beat autonomously. The tissue was created using pluripotent stem cells that came from mature human skin.

Want to take your workout to the next level? How about running on a treadmill that simulates the experience of the great outdoors?

Research published in the "British Journal of Sports Medicine" has provided evidence that six hours of television daily could cut five years off of your life.

We've all heard that apples keep you healthy, but now we have actual scientific evidence to support such a claim. Surprised it took this long, eh?

Broccoli. It's one of the most dreaded of the vegetables at the dinner table. Sadly, for as dreaded as it is, it may very well be the miracle food we all need.

Medical gadgets and the iPhone would seem like a match made in heaven, but device makers have had a hard time finding appealing solutions. Is a blood pressure cuff the perfect fit?

An unnamed teenage boy sat in his hospital bed, awaiting death as his muscles slowly degenerated into oblivion. He was perhaps days away from death when doctors decided on a radical procedure. The 15-year-old in question suffered from Duchenne syndrome, a disease which causes rapid muscle degeneration but does not provide eligibility for a heart transplant. That’s just the way ...

The Robotic Wheelchair designed by Saitama University�s Human-Robot Interaction Center is programmed to automatically follow a human companion, using a built-in sensor and camera system which automatically detects the companions shoulders. The Wheelchair is also capable of avoiding obstacles, such as other oncoming humans. Until the day it is legal to harvest humans for personal slavery, this Robotic Wheelchair will ...

The entire tech world is a flutter with news that Steve Jobs has returned to Apple. As promised, Jobs said he would be back in June and rumor has it that he’s not back 100%, but rather, is helping interim CEO Tim Cook out and telecommuting through email according to a USA Today report. This is fantastic news not just ...