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  1. Health & Medicine

    Alzheimer’s damage might start off early

    Copper and free radicals may initiate the brain damage of Alzheimer's disease long before its hallmark protein plaques have formed.

    By Jessa Netting
  2. Health & Medicine

    Seemingly safer steroid mimics

    A glucocorticoid mimic may offer the autoinflammatory effects of steroids with fewer side effects.

    By Damaris Christensen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Boning up with vitamin E

    Vitamin E may ward off osteoporisis—at least in mice.

    By Damaris Christensen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Saving fertility for cancer survivors?

    A compound called sphingosine-1-phosphate preserves fertility in female mice given radiation treatment.

    By Damaris Christensen

  5. Women show the ways to maturity

    A 39-year study finds three different patterns of healthy psychological development among women, each of which emphasizes particular goals and trade-offs.