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  1. Humans

    Letters from the January 26, 2008, issue of Science News

    Bad medicine? In “Unseen Risk: Lifestyle, physical problems may underlie psoriasis link to early mortality” (SN: 12/22&29/07, p. 389), the definition of patients with severe psoriasis as those needing systemic drugs raises the question whether treatment itself may be linked to early mortality. The journal article cited in the story indicates that some systemic treatments […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    Checking It Twice

    Election officials have had no practical way to guarantee a correct ballot count—until now.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Humans

    From the January 15, 1938, issue

    Radio-assisted snowplows, getting to know the "X" particle, and ancient frozen mammoths found in Siberia.