Tom Catena, an American-trained physician, shares his experience providing care in war-torn, resource-deprived southern Sudan.
The Associated Press has produced a rather fascinating Flash presentation illustrating the threat that drug resistance poses to global health. Entitled "When Drugs Stop Working: …
Stanford big-data king Atul Butte, MD, PhD, has made a career out of mining publicly available databases to unearth novel and frequently surprising relationships between, …
In the runny-nosed winters of my childhood, one of the highlights of getting sick was being dosed with a soup spoon of grape-flavored Dimetapp. When …
Making sure to take regular breaks from sitting throughout the day, even if they only last a minute, could help your waistline and heart, according …
Free and fair elections and a democratic government are linked with decreases in adult mortality in developing countries, a new study has found.
As you may have read, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology recently released a new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along …
UPDATE 12-16-10: Yoxi announced that the team from San Francisco, called the Yudon Project, won the competition. *** 12-14-10: Given our country's obesity problem and …
Figure 1, a free medical photo-sharing app for health-care professionals, has been likened to Instagram for its social functions of posting, favoriting and commenting on …
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Researchers create rewritable digital storage in DNA: Scientists at Stanford invent a method to store, erase …
Researchers at the School of Medicine and Oxford University are currently developing ways to mine the vast amounts of biomedical data housed in public databases …
Harvard Medical School recently released an iPhone application designed to educate its users about the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Here's the description from iTunes: The Swine …
Breast cancer patients are often faced with a difficult decision at the end of their primary treatment: Should they get systemic adjuvant therapy, such as …
