Nathan Seppa

Biomedical Writer (retired September 2015)

All Stories by Nathan Seppa

  1. Health & Medicine

    Getting the picture of how someone died

    CT scans can often reveal a clear cause of death, possibly making some autopsies unnecessary, British researchers find.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Busting blood clots with a nanoparticle

    An experimental technology that delivers medication directly to a dangerous blockage might augment heart attack treatment, a new study finds.

  3. Health & Medicine

    Highlights from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

    Vitamin D and heart disease, the effectiveness of external defibrillators, a shot to lower cholesterol, and more from the Orlando, Fla., meeting.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk

    Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.

  5. Health & Medicine

    Prompt liver transplant boosts survival in heavy drinkers

    Some patients with severe organ inflammation from alcohol use can benefit from the operation.

  6. Health & Medicine

    HPV vaccine recommended for boys

    A federal panel expands the reach of shots as a separate new study shows the immunizations prevent precancerous anal lesions.

  7. Health & Medicine

    Measles cases up in U.S. and Canada

    Both countries report 2011 to be the worst year since the mid-1990s.

  8. Health & Medicine

    Malaria vaccine yields protection

    In its first large-scale test, the experimental immunization cuts risk of disease in about half of the children getting it and limits severe infections, researchers report.

  9. Life

    Stopping a real-life ‘Contagion’

    An antibody treatment fends off the lethal Hendra virus in monkeys and may also work against the equally dangerous Nipah virus.

  10. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine makes headway against trachoma

    An experimental immunization might someday aid public health efforts to counter a blinding disease.

  11. Life

    2011 medicine Nobel goes to immunology researchers

    The prize in physiology or medicine recognizes scientists for their work on the body's innate and adaptive defenses against invading pathogens.

  12. Health & Medicine

    Preterm infants show mortality risks as children, adults

    Death rates are higher in preemies than full-term babies when these people reach early adulthood, a large study finds.