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Labelling times for life-saving MRI scans cut from years to 30 minutes

A groundbreaking deep learning study can label 100,000 MRI scans for cancer and neuro patients in minutes rather than years.

Rethink

Will doctors one day be able to 3D print new organs?

Imagine a future where, instead of waiting for a match, your local hospital could print a new organ made from your own cells.

United Kingdom

Man charged with 'common assault' of Professor Chris Whitty

An investigation was launched after Prof. Chris Whitty was accosted by two men in a London park on Sunday evening.

United Kingdom

England's chief medical officer harassed in "shocking" video

Police are investigating video footage which appears to show England's chief medical officer being harassed by two men in a London park.

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Health news

Is the world’s smallest wireless chip the future of healthcare?

Devices like pacemakers have kept millions alive. But injectable wireless chips the size of a grain of salt could eventually replace these lifesaving devices.

World News

Coronavirus reinfection unlikely within 6 months unless you're over 65

The first large-scale study of coronavirus reinfection was conducted in Denmark during the first and second waves of the pandemic.

United Arab Emirates

Cutting edge robotic surgery helps combat COVID-19 in Dubai

Robots have been employed by surgeons in Dubai. Ai technology is used for machine learning. Robots can digest large amounts of information by watching previous operations. Using intricate algorithms the robot recognises any irregularities and informs the surgeon to aid decision making.

World News

How science is made

If science was supposed to help us separate fact from fiction, why is scientific advice from experts constantly shifting when the world needs certainty the most?

Russia

Russia's COVID-19 vaccine: Trial results 'encouraging but small'

A peer review of trials of the Sputnik V vaccine published in The Lancet reports promising results, but adds that more work is needed.

Cult

Nobel Prize museum reopens with exhibition about pandemics

The Nobel Prize museum in Stockholm has reopened for the first time since March with a new exhibition called "Contagious" that focuses on pandemics.

World News

Blood of COVID-19 patients could help predict how ill they will get

There's still so much we don't know about the COVID-19 and how it affects those who get infected. It seems our blood holds precious clues.

Italy

Girl, 5, flies to Italy after winning legal battle against UK doctors

A severly brain damaged girl is travelling to Italy for treatment after her family won a legal battle against hospital bosses in the UK, who wanted to stop her life-sustaining care.

Sweden

Watch back: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded

The 2019 Nobel Laureates are set to be revealed starting on October 7.

United Kingdom

Patient diagnosed with Brexit-triggered psychotic disorder

An unnamed patient spent several weeks in a psychiatric ward after experiencing symptoms of a psychotic disorder triggered by the Brexit referendum.

Germany

‘An open door’: Millions of health records ‘unprotected online’

Investigative journalists have found poor security has left the medical records of millions of patients worldwide totally out in the open.

France

Scientists win Ig Nobel prize for testing temperature of testicles

The Ig Nobel prizes are for experiments which "make you laugh then make you think"

USA

Hunching over the phone is giving some people horn-like skull bumps

Researchers found bony growths on the bases on skulls of around 400 adults, ages 18 to 86. Younger people had larger growths.

USA

Pig's brain function restored hours after death

Scientists have restored some functions in a pig's brain hours after it died - challenging assumptions about the irreversible ending of brain function following death.

World News

Snake oil or science? Homeopathy in Europe

The University of Lille is the latest European higher education institution to suspend its provision of training in homeopathy. Is the tide turning against a complementary medical practice that relies on the "memory" of the remedies it proposes? We investigate.

USA

WATCH: Spinal implants allow paralysed patients to walk

Paralysed patients walk again thanks to a specialized program of therapy and a pain stimulator implanted in their spines