medicine

A team of scientists developed a pee test that they say can diagnose brain cancer before it's too late to treat or remove the tumor.

Shake On It

Cancer

Genius: "Urine can be collected easily without putting a burden on the human body."

Pee Test Could Diagnose Brain Cancer, Scientists Say

A scientist working on an artifiical placenta that provides oxygen for babies born prematurely says it may be ready for human experiments in five years.

New Lifeline

Devices

The tech could offer a lifeline for babies born too early.

Artificial Placentas for Human Babies Coming Within Five Years, Scientist Says

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.

Mission Complete

Robotics/Prosthetics

He walked as far as the suit's battery would allow every day.

Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

Plastic surgeon Scott Green signed into a courtroom Zoom proceeding to fight a traffic violation while he was operating on a patient.

Please Focus

Developments

The judge, over Zoom, was shocked.

Surgeon Contests Traffic Ticket While Operating on Patient

Guinea declared that it's facing a new Ebola epidemic on Sunday after seven people caught the infectious disease and three died.

Ugly Head

"We are facing four epidemics at the same time."

In a Grim Development, There’s Officially a New Ebola Epidemic

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.

Growing Back

Treatments

This stem cell research could lead to a next-generation treatment for baldness.

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

The Democratic Republic of Congo is now staring down its 12th Ebola outbreak just three months after the previous one ended.

Round 12

The WHO says Ebola is "endemic" in Congo.

After Second Death, Experts Fear New Ebola Outbreak

World Health Organization investigators found evidence that the coronavirus outbreak in China may have started as early as October 2019.

Rewriting History

This could rewrite the history of the COVID pandemic.

WHO Investigators Find Evidence COVID Was Circulating in China Long Before Pandemic

The highly-infectious B.1.1.7 variant of the coronavirus could have mutated entirely within one patient, scienitsts suspect.

What Luck

The virus appears to have mutated inside a single host.

Mutated COVID Virus Evolved Inside One Person, Scientists Believe

Biologist Jimmy Bernot willingly infected himself with hookworms as part of a clinical trial on an experimental vaccine for the parasite.

Worm Bodies

Studies

"Here's the story of how I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms."

Biologist Deliberately Infects Himself With 50 Hookworms

U.S. Representative Ron Wright died from the coronavirus on Sunday, becoming the first sitting Congressperson to die of COVID-19.

Political Loss

Ron Wright is the first sitting Congressperson to die of the coronavirus.

Congressman Who Criticized COVID Lockdown Dies From COVID

A new study warns that the highly-infectious variant of the coroanvirus first spotted in the U.K. could be the dominant variatn in the U.S. by March.