Health and Hygiene Category - Page 3

The first time I read this, I was convinced it was some kind of hoax, but if it is, it may well be one of the most elaborate ones ever released onto mankind. Researchers at the University of Utah are reporting that lasers may make deaf people able to hear.

The Nintendo 3DS has been criticized as potentially leading to eye strain and fatigue. Eye doctors suggest, though, that playing naked-eye 3D games can actually help diagnose certain eye problems.

We all know that cancer is easily one of the most horrible diseases on the face of the earth. Calling it the worst would likely only get you some slight resistance from people who believe AIDS or the like is worse, but no one would argue too hard against cancer’s [...]

For those of you out there who have been watching the inexorable advance of your forehead until it reclaims your scalp, and wish you could actually do something about it, a new device from Apira Science plans to actually give you a tool to reclaim your lost hair. It’s the [...]

It’s long been a complaint about the FDA–in the United States, anyway–hat the approval process is just entirely too slow. And indeed, we’ve seen more than once how medications and procedures and devices that are already in use throughout Europe and Asia often take just as long to clear the [...]

If you’re as fond of Star Trek as I am (my personal favorite is Deep Space Nine but later Next Gen is good too), then you’re likely familiar with the concept of a hypospray. A hypospray basically allows substances to be injected via high-pressure jet that allows the substances to [...]

Out of all the Kinect news that we’ve heard over the last few months, and there has been a whole lot of Kinect news, perhaps one of the most bizarre is the revelation that engineering students out at the University of Washington have taken a Kinect and turned it into [...]

If you’ve ever had an endoscopy–I, thankfully, have not–it kind of makes you question just how valuable modern medicine really is as, basically, they jam a tube-based camera (sometimes called a tentacle) down your throat in a bid to see what’s going on down to your stomach. But German scientists [...]

Yes, it’s winter…the gray, dark, kind of depressing lacunae between the joy of the holiday season and the hopeful start of spring. And for a lot of people, winter is more than just a kind of depressing thing to slog through on your way to warm and sunshiny spring, but [...]

I genuinely did not think I’d see a robot story out of CES 2011. I knew this CES was all about the tablets and smartphones and equally smart televisions, but the folks out at Cyberdyne (no seriously, that’s their name) brought out the Challenge HAL (here, HAL stands for Hybrid [...]