Health Monitor Videos

Stopping curvature of the spine in kids usually requires a series of painful operations to implant rods and screws to adjust the spine. Even then, the results are often less than perfect. However,...

4 | August 17, 2010 10:32am

Using fluorescent dyes and a simple ultraviolet flashlight, Ellen Beaulieu, a medicinal chemist at SRI International has created a test to detect parasitic infections in human beings. The new test...

4 | July 29, 2010 9:05am

Type II diabetes, the kind associated with obesity, is an epidemic in the US. It can cause blindness, loss of limbs and heart problems. Tethys Bioscience has developed a diabetes risk test that...

1 | June 29, 2010 10:06am

Insulin injections may soon be a thing of the past for diabetics thanks to nano-technology. At UCSF Professor of bioengineering, Tejal Desai, implants millions of pancreatic cells that secrete...

90 | December 7, 2009 9:48am

As childhood obesity reaches epidemic proportions in the U.S., Nicole Guthrie, a nutritionist at HopeLab aims to make a difference with gDitty, a device that unlike most gadgets for adolescents,...

3 | October 29, 2009 9:10am

In the not too distant future, robotic cells may be able to target tumors, and maybe, even kill them. At UCSF, cellular engineer, Wendell Lim has discovered a way to get cells to act as robots....

4 | October 13, 2009 8:17am

Imaging scientist, Alastair Martin, and neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Larson, have teamed up to develop a way to perform Deep Brain Stimulation surgery that's more comfortable for the patients, more...

3 | September 8, 2009 8:41am