the beat Skull printed on a 3D printer THE LATEST

A surgical team in the Netherlands tted a 22-year-old woman with a plastic, tailor-made skull printed from a 3-D printer. “We used to create an implant by hand in the operating theater using a kind of cement, but those implants did not have a very good t. Now we can use 3D printing to ensure that these components are an exact t. This has major advantages, not only cosmetically, but also because patients often have better brain function compared with the old method.”

Chemo is so yesterday

Latest news on the cancer-ghting front is immunotherapy — harnessing the body’s own immune system to ght the disease. “It’s not an overstatement to say this is a turning point in cancer research, especially for patients with melanoma,” says J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical ofcer of the American Cancer Society. “Treatments for cancers of the kidney, lung and pancreas could be up next.”

A brain debrillator

The NeuroPace RNS® system includes sensors implanted in the brain that can spot a seizure coming on and zap it before it happens — great news for the 840,000 epileptics who suffer uncontrollable seizures.

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How pregnant are you?

Clearblue has developed a better pregnancy test that not only provides a “Yes or No?” answer, but estimates how far along you are.

An Apple a day

Doing current tness trackers a giant one better, the Apple Watch — with your iPhone — logs your steps, your heart rate, and other health markers, to put a whole lot of health power on your wrist.

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Finally a Hep C Cure — no really.

Hepatitis C kills 15,000 Americans a year. Treatment up to now helped a mere 30 to 40% of those infected with the disease. But today, a pill — FDA-approved Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) — cures up to 90% of Hep C patients when combined with another new drug, Simeprevir. “Before, it was like ghting a war with yswatters, but now the big guns have arrived.”

By The Numbers

SOMEONE IN THE U.S. DIES FROM HEART DISEASE ONCE EVERY

90

Seconds

SOMEONE IN THE U.S. HAS A STROKE ABOUT ONCE EVERY

40 seconds

85.6 million AMERICANS ARE LIVING WITH SOME FORM OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE OR THE AFTER-EFFECTS OF STROKE

27 percent OF ALL CANCER DEATHS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO LUNG CANCER It’s by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women.

Calling Dr Frankenstein!

First transplants of dead hearts into living patients

A team of Australian scientists was able to revive dead hearts from cadavers and successfully transplant them into patients. The hearts had stopped beating for about twenty minutes when they were treated in an oxygen perfusion machine and injected with a perservative to keep them “fresh.”

Zap your migrane!

Cefaly is a prescription device approved by the FDA that prevents

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