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Novel smart bandages can monitor, treat chronic wounds
The research is aimed at transforming bandaging from a traditionally passive treatment into a more active paradigm.
Patients with hand disabling Dupuytren's can now hope for a cure
New drug shows great promise to treat the disease.
How ketamine keeps depression at bay
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine explain how it can keep depression at bay
Novel drug can fight genetic obesity
Diets and surgery can help them lose weight, but the long-term effect is poor.
Anti-clot drug could cut stroke risk too
Those who do survive are often left with debilitating disabilities including paralysis and an inability to speak.
Patients, health care workers call for affordable insulin
Rally organizers say the average cost of insulin in the United States has tripled in the last 10 years.
Osteoporosis drug may protect your heart too
Alendronate is potentially cardioprotective in hip fracture patients.
Baldness may be cured by drug designed for brittle bone disease
Currently there are only two drugs that can cure baldness and both have side effects while only producing disappointing results.
Is a cure for HIV inching closer? Scientists discover new possibility
Team creates neutralising antibody, effective not only against all genetically divergent global HIV-1 strains, but also on latent cells.
Discovery of malaria parasite survival genes offers new targets
Latest World Health Organization (WHO) data show that 216 million people were infected last year with the malaria parasite.