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Lost's Spinal Surgery Claims Have No Backing in Modern Medicine In Lost's season premiere, Dr. Jack Shephard, a spinal surgeon, told John Locke, who is paralyzed from the waist down, that his injury might be reversible—that he might actually walk again. PM talks to experts to find out if it could really happen.
The Truth About 9 Anti-Vaccine Studies Now that the infamous 1998 Lancet study implicating vaccines for causing autism has been retracted, we investigate the scientific merit of some of the other studies from over the last decade that anti-vaccination advocates say back up their claims.
Anti-Vaccination Groups Dealt Blow as Lancet Study is Retracted A 1998 study in The Lancet medical journal that largely launched the dangerous anti-vaccination movement has been officially retracted. Here are the details on the ethical and scientific missteps that eventually lead to the editors pulling this study.
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection With advances in technology and new techniques for transplantation, the medical community hopes the body's misguided defense system—which perceives a donor organ as foreign and, therefore, dangerous—will soon concede defeat to science.
How Doctors Without Borders Set Up Field Hospitals in Haiti Setting up a medical response amid the ruins of a nation takes a long time, in a situation when every second counts.
How to Handle the Dead in Haiti Few scenes are as haunting as those seen in Haiti this week, with thousands of corpses in the streets and others dumped into huge graves. The bodies do not pose a health risk to Haitians, but they must be handled with care. Here's how to deal with the dead.
How to Create a Designer Baby Increasingly sophisticated genetic tests make it possible for parents to choose their baby’s traits. Here are three ways babies are born to specifications. (Published in the January 2010 issue)
Brown Fat Revelations May Lead to New Weight Loss Drugs Scientists have found a new way to rev the body's metabolism: Activate its fat cells. Here's the science behind what may be the weight-loss breakthrough of the next decade. (Published in the January 2010 issue)
Fringe's Misplaced Memory Science: Sci Fi Fact vs Fiction In this week's "Gray Matters," the Fringe team investigates strange brain experiments, and the possibility that memories can be extracted and implanted at will. Neurologist Steven Novella helps us think it over.
Can Parasites Heal as Well as Harm? Fringe Fact vs Fiction Fringe came back from Thanksgiving with a nauseating investigation into the gruesome deaths of a group of Chinese nationals. "Snakehead" explores the possibility of using parasites in healing medicine, with humans as incubators.
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