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  1. Health & Medicine

    Brain tells signs from pantomime

    Different brain areas light up when deaf people use American Sign Language than when they gesture.

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Health & Medicine

    Rapid HIV treatment could slow growing TB rates

    Widespread yearly testing and immediate treatment with antiretroviral drugs could avert more than 6 million tuberculosis cases in Africa, a new model finds.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Health & Medicine

    IVF kids show shift in gene activity

    Team finds differences related to metabolism and growth.

    By Eva Emerson
  4. Health & Medicine

    Possible prostate cancer culprit

    Scientists identify a type of stem cell and a gene that play a role in the disease.