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Film director Ridley Scott’s science-heavy film ‘The Martian’ is based on the story of a NASA astronaut who is living on Mars after being left behind by his crew. It was not an easy task for Scott to direct the film, but to make things easier, the director got help from the United States space agency.

Scott called NASA and talked to James L. Green, the director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. Green helped Scott and his team by telling them how to portray right things in the film. According to Green, the space agency just wanted to help the filmmaker so that real picture could be painted.

Scott said it was necessary to take help of NASA to get the science right. With the right science, it is possible to put many other elements in a story, Scott added.

When implementation is only a few days away, some people are concerned that NJ’s smaller practices are going to suffer, and patient claims will see a delay. There will be a momentous change in the medical industry on Thursday.

The change has been in the making for 10 years, and will have an impact on everyone, who makes a diagnosis, fills out or processes an insurance claim, or waits for the payment of that claim.

ICD-10 is the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, and is all set to go into effect. Along with this, the 14,000 medical codes that are used in describing a diagnosis will grow rapidly to 69,000.

A high-tech tool now which has been in more than 90% of the US mammograms does not improve breast-cancer detection or might also lead to missed diagnoses, reveals a study.

According to lead researcher Constance Lehman, director of breast imaging, the technology, approved in the US in 1998, is used in wider section all of mammograms performed each year at a cost of more than $400 million.

Lehman, also the co-director of the Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said there is no question about the fact that computer-aided detection (CAD) offers no benefit to detecting cancers.

Skarp Technologies is trying to entirely change the way shaving has been traditionally done as it is planning to make a razor, which will have a laser instead of blade. It is also planning to make the laser razor available to everyone.

The project was launched on September 21, and two days after its launch it reached its goal of $160,000, and shows no signs of stopping.

Skarp makes a good case for why we need to dispose of our old shaving ways. The EPA has estimated that in US itself 2 billion razors are through every years. And these razors cannot be recycled because of health risks associated with it, so they end up in garbage dumps continuing to take up space with other waste.

Dr. Laura J. Esserman, a breast cancer surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, has dedicated much of her professional life trying to get medical establishments to think differently about breast cancer. She is one of the most vocal proponents of the idea that breast cancer screening brings with it overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

The study published in the journal JAMA Oncology was analysis of 20 years of patient data, which made the approach to treating a condition known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), for which the current practice includes only surgery.

Dr. Esserman is one in a few surgeons in the US who want to put women with DCIS on active surveillance instead of performing biopsies, lumpectomies or mastectomies.

Being a mother is the most amazing feeling for women. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. But imagine if one has to choose between her life and the life which isn’t into existence yet.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that pregnant cancer women can now be treated without harming their babies.

In the study, 128 children were examined whose mothers suffered from cancer and were undergoing chemotherapy. But development of children in early childhood wasn’t affected with the treatment.