With its eighth-season premiere on Monday night, House M.D. graduated into an elite status of TV dramas that survive beyond …
diagnostics
Can a Tiny Electronic Tattoo Measure Your Vital Signs?
Information is the currency of modern medicine. Better diagnostic tools — think everything from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines to rapid genetic sequencing for new pathogens — enable better medical care.
A Blood Test for Cancer?
Any cancer doctor will tell you that the earlier you pick up a tumor, the better your chances are of treating it and getting it under control.
So researchers at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago are announcing some welcome news on that front. Scientists at the biotechnology company Chronix …