(CBS) PHILADELPHIA Doctors in Philadelphia are testing a revolutionary new treatment that is restoring life and bringing people back from the dead. CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details. During cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating. It’s a trauma alert and people are often declared dead within minutes. But now doctors [...]
Eight Americans graduated on Tuesday from a Cuban medical school after six years of studies fully funded by Fidel Castro’s government. They plan to return home, take board exams for licenses to practice and provide cheap health care in poor neighborhoods. “Cuba offered us full scholarships to study medicine here. In exchange, we commit ourselves [...]
The US could approve cloned animals for use as food in two to three years, according to experts. But cloned meat is unlikely to appear on supermarket shelves in Britain or elsewhere in Europe anytime soon. Currently, most cloning is carried out for scientific reasons, but it could one day be used to help improve [...]
*Lunch break boob jobs … breast augmentations could soon be a whole lot quicker thanks to a new procedure. / The Sunday Telegraph * WOMEN could be having boob jobs in their lunch breaks as early as next year, according to a scientific journal. A fast-track breast enlargement process is to be rolled out by [...]
New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution — as 11 other states do — but requires New Mexico to oversee a production and distribution system for the drug. “The long-term goal [...]
Grocery shopping seems like a harmless enough activity. It’s a chore, but it’s one that most of us do at least once a week, without giving much thought to what’s going on behind the scenes at the supermarket. How we shop has become a science that’s studied endlessly. “Market researchers have worked for years to [...]
In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said. The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell, according to the study [...]
*A sales clerk displays a bottle of a skin care lotion and a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag (L) in Tokyo. Doctors in the US are studying ways to implant RFID tags in humans as a way to store medical data.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)* Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their [...]
Vetoing a stem cell bill for the second time, President Bush on Wednesday sought to placate those who disagree with him by signing an executive order urging scientists toward what he termed “ethically responsible” research in the field. Bush announced no new federal dollars for stem cell research, which supporters say holds the promise of [...]
On the eighth day of her son’s life, Julia Query welcomed friends and family to celebrate his birth and honor their Jewish heritage. But there was no crying, no scalpel, no blood, no “mohel” — the person who traditionally performs ritual circumcisions in the Jewish faith. In fact, Elijah Rose’s “bris” differed markedly from the [...]
