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  1. Humans

    Letters from the October 14, 2006, issue of Science News

    Name game “Named medical trials garner extra attention” (SN: 8/5/06, p. 93), I think, has it backwards. It’s not that labeled trials are more likely to be funded. Rather, well-funded, large trials are more likely to be named. We research chemists label only the important projects. The name makes the project easier to track and […]

    By Science News
  2. Health & Medicine

    Many infections tied to medical settings

    More than one-fourth of skin or muscle infections that require hospitalization originate from microbes acquired in a clinic, hospital, or other medical-care setting.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Statins defend against fungus-caused sepsis

    Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins might reduce the risk of dying from sepsis triggered by a fungal infection.