Medicine

Hospitals are increasingly reaching out via social media to show off surgical procedures.

Brain map has value, but is it the best investment?

Traditional belief in magic and witchcraft contributes to misconceptions and the spread of HIV in Africa.

A new interface between man and machine offers multiple applications for the general population as well as the medical community.

Surgeons using a 3D visual system performed a surgical task faster and more accurately.

This software works with a scanner to help diagnose and manage various medical conditions, including diabetes.

The powder, containing a photoactive compound, offers a treatment for the potentially lethal bacteria, A. baumannii, by simply adding sunlight.

Soil microbes and disease-causing microbes swap antibiotic resistance genes, a study says.

The final mutant flu study details how as few as five mutations can allow H5N1 to transmit through air.

An implant could help those with degenerative eye disease see again.

Promises of money and travel lure Bangladeshis to sell their organs, an anthropologist found.

Doctors prescribe antiobiotics for 10 days because that is the sweet spot for most drugs.

The adhesive properties of meat-eating sundew plants and the nanoparticles in English ivy are being harnessed for innovative medical and cosmetic applications.

In general, giving probiotics to your kids is not harmful, but there's not a lot of proof it does much good either.

The Nimbic Systems' Air Barrier System uses proprietary technology to create a "cocoon" of highly pure air that surrounds surgical incisions.

Football star Peyton Manning recently received an experimental stem cell therapy in Europe for a neck injury.

The bottlenose dolphins' "miraculous" healing abilities could lead to advances in wound healing, regenerative medicine, infection fighting and pain management, one researcher suggests.