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If you have piercings, a pacemaker, or metal dental work, you may want to think twice about undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (or MRI) exam. That’s because any kind of embedded metal can be affected by the MRI, thereby causing serious injuries. MRI machines use powerful magnets to form images of the body. These scans […]

A serious case of the tropical disease “chikungunya” has now been found in the United States. It marks the first case of chikungunya acknowledged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), though more than thirty U.S. states have already reported cases of the disease. Chikungunya is a debilitating, mosquito-borne virus typically found in […]

There’s no denying that dealing with diabetes can be very difficult. But now there’s hope that a radical new treatment — currently being tested in the laboratory — could actually reverse the disease. Researchers in California have been studying obese mice with type 2 diabetes. They’ve now discovered that injecting these mice with a kind […]

Gene therapy has been used to create a biological pacemaker in a pig. Health experts believe the technique could be repeated in humans to help people with serious heart conditions. The technique involves altering muscle cells so that they can deliver a normal heartbeat. To make that adjustment, researchers used a gene called TBX18, which […]

Health researchers have discovered a new way of detecting Alzheimer’s Disease. According to these experts, early detection can start by a patient’s ability to recognize familiar smells. That’s the finding of Harvard researchers who recently presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Harvard researchers studied 215 health participants by asking […]