Highly effective HCV treatment: once daily oral Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir

The hepatitis C virus (HCV), a single-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae with six major genotypes, infects up to 150 million peop...

Google Glass 2.0 to launch. 74 articles in PubMed on Glass 1.0, some of them rather curious - have a look

Google Glass 1.0 (the first version available to consumers) was a failure in terms of social acceptance and commercial appeal. Yes, there ar...

Lead Contamination of Tea - how much tea is safe to drink per day?

There is a good explanation in the video below, by Dr. Greger: Regarding lead contamination of tea from China, his recommendation is to drin...

Malaria - NHS video

NHS Choices : Malaria is a parasitic infection spread by mosquitoes. This video explains how malaria is treated and what can be done to he...

Genes are not really our genes. It is we who belong to them for a few decades

From OHCM and Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1642: "We all labor against our own cure; for death is the cure of all diseases." Mos...

Carbon monoxide - NHSChoices video

NHSChoices: Carbon monoxide poisoning kills around 50 people a year in the UK. An expert explains how the gas affects the body, the symptoms...

Deep Purple are 2016 Rock Hall of Fame Inductees

From Rock Hall in Cleveland , Ohio: If there were a “Mount Rushmore Of Hard Rock” it would only have three heads: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbat...