Researchers at Northwestern University this week revealed that they have successfully transplanted insulin-producing cells called islets from one species to another. They believe...
A Houston woman has been charged with one count of injury to a child with intent to commit bodily injury, a felony, after waiting seven hours to take her son (aged 14) to the hospi...
Allergies can be crippling, but usually some choice drugs and patience can get even the worst allergy sufferers through allergy season. Suffering a runny nose for over a year and...
Every week, it seems like somebody is making the news for forgetting that Facebook is a public forum and that people can actually see the things they post. A lot of the time, this...
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his wife Priscilla Chan, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Biologist and businesswoman Anne Wojcicki (Brin's wife), and investor Yuri Milner have...
Tomorrow, you can watch the miracle of life unfold on Twitter.
Women’s Memorial Hermann Hospital at Memorial City Medical Center in Houston Texas will be the first hospital to...
Guys: get off reddit. Seriously. And stop watching House of Cards. I know it's all there at once - all 13 episodes! But go take the dog for a walk. For the love of your sp...
Good news, everyone: next time you drink a case of beer and awaken in your front yard, smelling of strip clubs and Taco Bell, you can just tell everyone that you did it for your he...
Google announced today that it will start showing information for medications with the Knowledge Graph. Specifically, results may include "key facts -- side effects, related medic...
I think we can all agree that getting the flu is about the worst possible thing that can happen during winter. That's why we take vaccines, but it only lasts for a season. Even the...
New research shows that popular antidepressants are linked to an increased risk of some rare types of stroke that are caused by bleeding in the brain.
The study, published this...
In an effort to raise awareness and to provide the public more information on cochlear implant surgery as a viable treatment for hearing loss, the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle...
Humans can't regenerate wounded areas of the body. Sure, we can grow scar tissue to cover up broken skin, but there's no real tissue regeneration present. What if humans were able...