medical research, Tag

Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5

UVC is the kind of UV that’s more energetic than the UV we get in sunlight. It’s shorter wavelength. Paradoxically, at around 222nm the light is so energetic it is stopped by almost anything — even the layer...

UVC is the kind of UV that’s more energetic than the UV we get in sunlight. It’s shorter wavelength. Paradoxically, at around 222nm the light is so energetic it is stopped by almost anything — even the layer...

Late last week a large prospective “study” showed that ivermectin was useless so it got headline reporting at the Wall Street Journal, unlike the other 80 controlled studies the newspaper ignored...

Late last week a large prospective “study” showed that ivermectin was useless so it got headline reporting at the Wall Street Journal, unlike the other 80 controlled studies the newspaper ignored...

Research fraud is often viewed as a problem of “bad apples,” but Barbara K Redman, who spoke at the webinar insists that it is not a problem of bad apples but bad barrels if not, she said, of rotten forests or orchards...

Queensland University and Oxford University Medical researchers investigating why asthma sufferers were "under-represented" in severe Covid cases have completed a clinical trial of Budesonide asthma inhalers...

I’m old enough to remember when we still had 12 years left to save the planet just two years ago. That dire prediction was just as laughable as what Birol is saying today. The scientific “consensus” we used to hear...

Fascinating. Could one shot of radiation calm Covid infected lungs and stop the severe cytokine storm?

Here’s a tantalizing bit of gene research. Scientists were able to switch off a central gene in the nucleus of a mouse cell. That in turn meant the mouse’s mitochondria started failing (I’m going to be talking...

Lab-grown brains just got one step closer to reality after scientists announced that experimental mini brains have begun sprouting their own blood vessels...

Aboriginal Canadians used the clay from Kisameet Bay, British Columbia, to treat their ailments for centuries, from stomach complaints to skin irritation...

The National Institutes of Health has announced it will no longer use chimps for medical studies -- and the last 50 chimpanzees in the agency's care are getting ready to retire to a federal sanctuary...

Was that a half-truth or a lie by omission? Trick question…

This week, Apple released details of its new software platform ResearchKit, which was announced yesterday alongside the launch of the new Apple Watch and updated MacBook...