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  1. Humans

    Letters from the January 28, 2006, issue of Science News

    Oil-for-food exchange Several decades ago, I heard of the anecdotal correlation between the rise of hydrogenated oils in our foods and the rise of colon cancer. The Swedish study that correlated high dairy-fat intake with lower risk of colon cancer (“Dairy fats cut colon cancer risk,” SN: 11/19/05, p. 333) might be reexamined to see […]

    By Science News
  2. Health & Medicine

    Old idea fights ovarian cancer

    Delivering chemotherapy directly into the abdomen improves survival in women with advanced ovarian cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa

  3. Polar-opposite bacteria swim south in the north

    Some aquatic bacteria that orient themselves using Earth's magnetic field swim in the opposite direction from what researchers typically expect.