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The Dogs of Post-War: Pentagon Tests Canine Therapy

The Dogs of Post-War: Pentagon Tests Canine Therapy

The Department of Defense is testing canine therapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

My 40-Second Screening for Heart Disease

My 40-Second Screening for Heart Disease

New advances in screening technology makes detecting coronary artery disease faster and more efficient than ever.

Have You Heard of Assay Depot? It's the Amazon.com of Medical Research Flickr/e-Magineart.com

Have You Heard of Assay Depot? It's the Amazon.com of Medical Research

How Internet databases and e-commerce are reshaping pharmacology.

Our Cancer Definitions Are 170 Years Old Flickr/Pulmonary Pathology

Our Cancer Definitions Are 170 Years Old

Technology's come a long way since the 1840s, but we still can't tell the difference between a benign and a malicious tumor. Let's change that.

Come Together, Right Now: The Desperate Need for Integration in Biomedicine TEDMED/Facebook

Come Together, Right Now: The Desperate Need for Integration in Biomedicine

Two speakers at TEDMED, 82 year-old E.O. Wilson and 34 year-old Jacob Scott, call for a balancing of experts and generalists in life sciences

The Preposterous Epidemic of Pre-Diseases Flickr/mcfarlandmo

The Preposterous Epidemic of Pre-Diseases

From puberty to pre-dementia, we've medicalized virtually everything in the United States. And it may just be a counterproductive impulse.

Meet the New Medical Specialist: The Networkologist Flickr/Max Braun

Meet the New Medical Specialist: The Networkologist

Today, you see different doctors for your heart and your brain. But genome science is teaching us that that may be the wrong approach.

Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks

Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks

Pharmaceutical companies are sitting on a vast trove of drug blueprints that could be applied to fight new diseases. What if we had access to them?

The Medicinal Power of Stem Cells Harvested From Placentas TEDMED

The Medicinal Power of Stem Cells Harvested From Placentas

Speaking at last year's TEDMED, Robert Hariri, CEO of Cellular Therapeutics, argued the cells could offer therapy options for many diseases.

How an Electrical Engineer Found Himself Designing Medical Devices TEDMED

How an Electrical Engineer Found Himself Designing Medical Devices

In his talk at TEDMED, Chris Toumazou on how he realized that because biology is analog, our current approach to medtech can be improved.

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