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Specially Designed Fake Teeth Can Deliver Medicine Non-invasively


IntelliDrug is a pair of prosthetic molars which could be used to administer scheduled medication.

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Botox is Answer to Excess Salivation


Dr. Sam Daniel took a chance and injected Botox into the nerves controlling the salivary glands of the newborn infant. The effect? Read on.

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No More Needles? Microwave Circuit Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles


Rather than pricking a finger to do blood tests, professors at Baylor University are working on a small painless sensor that emits electromagnetic waves to test blood sugar.

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Scientists Identify New Potential Cancer Drug


Scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are able to accomplish what cancer researchers have been trying to for years -- finding a potent cancer drug which doesn't kill normal cells as it does tumor cells.

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Gecko-fied Bandage Could Be Used for Surgery


I always maintain that looking at the animal kingdom could provide answers to a variety of issues that plagues us, humans. Indeed, it's not only me who thinks this way. Robert Langer and Jeff Karp, faculty members of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, came up with their own invention inspired by the foot of a gecko.

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