Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Baby-led weaning won’t necessarily ward off extra weight

    Babies allowed to feed themselves gained similar amounts of weight as babies spoon-fed by caretakers.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cows produce powerful HIV antibodies

    For the first time in any animal, researchers elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV. Cows’ antibodies could help with drug development.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Common drugs help reverse signs of fetal alcohol syndrome in rats

    A thyroid hormone and a blood sugar drug affect levels of a hormone needed for brain development, study in rats shows.

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  4. Life

    These bacteria may egg on colon cancer

    Streptococcus gallolyticus may goad colon cancer growth.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    The fight against gonorrhea gets a potential new weapon: a vaccine

    A vaccine used in New Zealand to curb meningitis also appeared to drop gonorrhea infections, results that hint at a way to make a gonorrhea vaccine.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Drinking sugary beverages in pregnancy linked to kids’ later weight gain

    Consuming sugary drinks while pregnant may mean kids are heavier when they reach elementary school age.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Here’s how a child sees a Van Gogh painting

    Children’s eyes are drawn to vivid, bright and bold parts of Van Gogh paintings. But they can shift their viewing strategies with a little prompting, a new study suggests.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Getting a flu ‘shot’ could soon be as easy as sticking on a Band-Aid

    Microneedle patches may make home-based vaccination a reality.

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  9. Science & Society

    Latest stats are just a start in preventing gun injuries in kids

    New stats on firearm deaths and injuries are disturbing, but the picture to make policy is far from complete, researchers say.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    When should babies sleep in their own rooms?

    A new study offers support to sleep-starved parents by suggesting that babies age 6 months and older sleep longer when in their own bedroom.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Bones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs

    Bones send out hormone signals that chat with other parts of the body, studies in mice show. What influence these hormones have in people, though, remain a mystery.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Protein in Parkinson’s provokes the immune system

    The immune system recognizes parts of a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease as foreign, triggering an autoimmune response.

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