This is the most exciting medical news for rock and roll fans I have heard in some time. It is not a cure for cancer, but it does offer hope for the iPod generation: The ears hearing cells are very sensitive to damage from excessive noise, infections and toxins. Once damaged, the cells do not ...

You recall the story about how Louis Pasteur discovered penicillan because of sloppy habits in the kitchen and moldy bread. Well according to Wired News a funny thing happened on the way to making a special kind of mouse for studying lupus. Mice discovered accidentally at the Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania have the seemingly miraculous ...

This article will be taped to many bathroom mirrors or wherever else husbands think wives would find it. It talks about all the benefits of sex including odd things like a better sense of smell. The best that modern science can say for sexual abstinence is that it’s harmless when practiced in moderation. Having regular ...

Everyone knows that ulcers are caused by stress and that once you get them you will probably always have them. No? Well, that used to be what everyone knew. Robin Warren and his colleague Barry Marshall were shunned by the medical community when they suggested that ulcers were actually caused by the bacterium Helicobacter Pylori. ...

A new tool is now available for scientist who are studying Down’s syndrome according to this story in Wired News. Scientists have transplanted a nearly entire human chromosome in mice in a medical and technical breakthrough that could reveal new insights into Down’s syndrome and other disorders. The genetically engineered mice carry a copy of ...