A woman fitted with the world’s first “bionic arm” controlled by thought alone has been given back a sense of feeling. Claudia Mitchell, 26, a former US marine, regained the ability to carry out simple tasks such as cutting up food when she was fitted with the prosthetic arm last year. Now doctors have re-routed [...]
All self-respecting painkillers these days offer “fast-acting relief,” a promise we accept to mean anywhere from 15 minutes to more than an hour. For Alexza Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing drugs for migraine, pain, panic and agitation, “fast” has to mean “within seconds.” The Palo Alto, California-based company is developing drugs that can be “smoked,” [...]
There’s more bad news for those pudgy couch potatoes, junk food junkies and TV devotees — and this time it really hits them where it hurts. A study published on Thursday found that about 18 percent of U.S. men age 20 and up suffer from erectile dysfunction — and the condition is strongly linked to [...]
The fine grit in polluted air boosts the risk of heart disease in older women much more powerfully than scientists realized, a big federally funded study has found, raising questions of whether U.S. environmental standards are strict enough. The Environmental Protection Agency tightened its daily limit for these tiny specks, known as fine particulates, in [...]
Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases, apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study suggests. While advising parents to consider the possible risk, several hormone experts emphasized that the problem appears to happen infrequently and clears up when [...]
