Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers — and someday, even limbs — with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel.

A bionic eye implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available to patients within two years.

US researchers have been given the go-ahead to implant the prototype device in 50 to 75 patients. The Argus II system uses a spectacle-mounted camera to feed visual information to electrodes in the eye.

Ok, this rank high on those allergies that sounds suspicious. Even sex. Ugh, how... tragic! Some women do develop allergic reactions -- rashes and inflammation -- immediately following sexual intercourse.

A rat study sug­gests chem­i­cals in ma­ri­jua­na may slow the mem­o­ry loss of Alzheimer’s dis­ease, re­search­ers say.

Added to signs that pot-smoking vet­er­ans of the 1960s and 1970s drug cul­ture rare­ly de­vel­op the dev­as­tat­ing con­di­tion, they add, the find­ings could point to new av­e­nues for Alz­hei­m­er’s treat­ment.

A silicon chip that faithfully mimics the neural circuitry of a real retina could lead to better bionic eyes for those with vision loss, researchers claim.

Hamsters blinded following damage to their optic nerve have had their vision partially restored with the help of an implanted nanoscale scaffold that has encouraged nerve tissue to regrow.

The technique, likened by its inventors to the way a garden trellis encourages the growth of ivy, holds out the hope that people with diseased or injured optic nerves might one day recover their sight.

Magnet therapy is to be made available on the British NHS.

Professional sceptics of alternative medicine got their comeuppance last week with the official blessing given to the alternative health treatment said to be favoured by the Prime Minister's wife Cherie Blair.

Magnets have been used as a remedy for centuries, and widely marketed in Britain for over a decade, but this was a seal of scientific approval.

The British erotic retail chain Ann Summers recently released a poll asking people if they had ever been injured during sex. One in three said they hurt themselves somewhat routinely, though the injuries were about what you might expect: rug burns (to, ahem, the knees), muscle pulls, a conk on the noggin from, say, banging into the headboard.

But at Sexploration we hear stories, sometimes from emergency room doctors in bars. By the third martini, the stories often begin with, “You wouldn’t believe what I saw last night…”

Shoppers who judge the freshness of meat by its color may be deceived by a relatively new industry practice of treating meat with carbon monoxide, critics say.

Most surveys about sex find impossibly that men have had far more partners than women, typically two to four times as many.

Either there are a bunch of phantom females out there, or somebody is lying.