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.
The Department of Defense is testing canine therapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
New advances in screening technology makes detecting coronary artery disease faster and more efficient than ever.
How Internet databases and e-commerce are reshaping pharmacology.
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.
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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
From puberty to pre-dementia, we've medicalized virtually everything in the United States. And it may just be a counterproductive impulse.
Today, you see different doctors for your heart and your brain. But genome science is teaching us that that may be the wrong approach.
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?
Speaking at last year's TEDMED, Robert Hariri, CEO of Cellular Therapeutics, argued the cells could offer therapy options for many diseases.
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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