In a combat situation, the most deadly kind of injury involves internal bleeding that cant be controlled by external compression or tourniquet application. Around 85 percent of preventable battlefield deaths are from this type of injury, largely because t

If theres one thing weve heard over and over about the obesity epidemic taking over the developed world, its that there is no magic pill for weight loss. The closest remedies we have are invasive surgeries like gastric bypass or gastric banding, but these

Food poisoning is, to put it mildly, one of the most miserable experiences a human can endure. It often results from E. coli bacteria hiding out in contaminated food like under-cooked ground beef. Its hard to tell before you eat bad beef if theres somethi

Getting a shot isnt a fun event for anyone, but a new laser-based system could end the pain of injections forever. Researchers atSeoul National University in South Koreahave been working on a system that blasts medicine into the skin via microscopic jets