The next big step in cancer treatment might be small enough to balance on a grain of salt.

Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a miniature crawling robot, called ViRob, that can crawl through your lungs, find a tumor, and zap it with drugs.

The bot, which is one millimeter long and four millimeters from end to end, can snake its way through the body, slipping into blood vessels and navigating through the respiratory and digestive systems.

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Botox, the antiwrinkle injection, is being used as a surprise treatment for baldness.

Dr Simon Ourian, a cosmetic surgeon based in Beverly Hills, California, tested his discovery on volunteers for three years, adding a mixture of vitamins to make the process more effective.

“With my patients these Botox vitamin injections for baldness have been very safe and more effective than anything I have seen before,” he Dr Ourian.

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Two patients with inoperable prostate cancer have made dramatic recoveries after receiving one dose of an experimental drug that is creating excitement among cancer specialists.

The results were so startling that researchers decided to release details of the two cases before the drug trial – in which the patients took part – was complete. Doctors said their progress had exceeded all expectations. The men were treated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, one of the top medical centers in the world.

Dr Eugene Kwon, the urologist who was in charge of their treatment, compared the results to the first pilot breaking the sound barrier.

“This is one of the Holy Grails of prostate cancer research. We have been looking for this for years,” he said.

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Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant operation about two months ago and is expected to return to work by the end of June, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, has been away on medical leave since January for an undisclosed condition.

An Apple spokesman did not confirm the Journal report but said, “Steve continues to look forward to returning to Apple at the end of June and there is nothing further to say.”

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By and large, nature is disgusting. It’s chock full of bugs and hobos and other things that roll in feces.

But amidst that slurry of nasty, science has been finding a number of medical breakthroughs.

Nauseating, repulsive medical breakthroughs.

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