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  1. Breast milk battles thrush in infants

    Human breast milk inhibits the growth of yeast spores, the source of the painful fungal infection of the mouth and throat that can be deadly for infants with AIDS.

    By Jessa Netting
  2. Health & Medicine

    Heart disease linked to clotting gene

    African Americans with a mutation in a blood-clotting gene have a sixfold increase in the risk of heart disease, but this is not the case for white Americans with the same mutation.

    By Jessa Netting
  3. Health & Medicine

    Statins’ structure blocks cholesterol

    X-ray crystallography shows that statins impede the build-up of cholesterol by physically blocking the binding site of an enzyme important for cholesterol production.