Medicine
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HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs
Read this article to learn about the latest advancements to HIV-disease treatment! An infant was cured through new medical innovations!
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What is a Medical Anthropologist?
Did you know that there is a field of anthropology that is specific for medicine? Read this article and check out what cool things medical antrhopologists are up to!
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PET Scan
Did you ever wonder how doctor's look to see if your organs are functioning properly? Doctors use something called a PET scan to see if your internal organs are working properly! See …
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Bionic Humans: Top 10 Technologies
Did you know that today we can replicate or restore more organs and various body parts than ever before? We can give sight to the blind, create a tounge that is more accurate than ou…
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MRI scan
An MRI scan is used to diagnose something that might be wrong in the body. See how it is different from a CAT scan and how its functions are different!
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How CAT scans work
What is a CAT scan? How does it work? What is it used for? Find out all of these questions and more on the function and diagnoses of diseases of a CAT scan!
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How Prosthetic Limbs Work
What are prosthetics? Why are prosthetics used? This article explains many questions you might have about prosthetics!
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What is Prosthetics?
Pirates aren't the only people with artificial limbs! The use of artificial limbs have been around for ages! Check out the really cool and modern inventions in the area of prosthetics…
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Professor Discovers New Human Body Part
Have you heard of the Dua's Layer? Here's a hint: it's part of your body! We thought we knew every little part of our bodies already, but a professor just recently discovered this on…
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Pacemakers in Children
Normally, you might a grandmother or grandfather talking about having a pacemaker inserted under their chest to have them maintain an adequate heart rate. But did you know that there…
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MITs High-Tech Artificial Limbs
Learn about the work of MIT's professors and students on artificial limbs.
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Medical Robots that Get under your Skin
We know that the use and manufacturing of robots have come very far, but robots that can crawl under your skin to diangose disease! The field of medical robots has come really far! Ch…
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Scientists create a resilient robot worm that could someday be used in medicine, electronics, spy missions
What can be thrown across the room, mashed with a hammer, and stomped on, yet it will still keep moving forward? Give up? It's the new "Meshworm" created by MIT, Harvard, and Seoul Na…
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12 Advances in Medical Robotics
Robots have become a very critical part in the field of medicine! They are used for a variety of reasons ranging from training new doctors, nurses, and dentists as well as comforting …
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Emma Whitehead, T-cell immunotherapy treatment: Doctors use HIV AIDS virus to save girl with cancer
Eight year old Emma is playing and frolicking around like a normal child now. Two years ago this was not possible because of her acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A new experimental treat…
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Eye Reconstruction Surgery Explained
Watch as Dr. Michael Groth explains reconstructive eye surgery using examples from his patient on The Drs show! See before your eyes how far reconstructive surgery has progressed!
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Da Vinci surgical robot peeling a grape at Southmead Hospital event
Did you know that robots have become so precise and accurate that they can perform very intricate surgeries! Check out how the Da Vinci robot was able to peel grapes without even harm…
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Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor of Implantable Pacemaker, Dies at 92
Have you ever heard of a pacemaker before? Maybe your grandparents have them? Read this article about Wilson Greatbatch, the inventor of the implantable pacemaker!
