Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Birth control research is moving beyond the pill

    After decades of research, reproductive biologists are on the verge of developing new birth control options that stop sperm from maturing or save a woman's eggs for later.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    A new tool could one day improve Lyme disease diagnosis

    There soon could be a way to differentiate between Lyme disease and a similar tick-associated illness.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Protect little ones’ eyes from the sun during the eclipse

    Pay attention to eye safety for kids during the solar eclipse.

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  4. Genetics

    Gene editing creates virus-free piglets

    Pigs engineered to lack infectious viruses may one day produce transplant organs.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    More U.S. adults are drinking, and more heavily

    Heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders have risen in the United States, at a cost to society’s health.

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  6. Science & Society

    To combat cholera in Yemen, one scientist goes back to basics

    As the cholera epidemic rages on in war-torn Yemen, basic hygiene is the first line of defense.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Spread of misfolded proteins could trigger type 2 diabetes

    Experiments in mice raise the question of whether type 2 diabetes might be transmissible.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    When kids imitate others, they’re just being human

    In imitation tests, kids readily performed nonsensical actions, but bonobos didn’t. The results hint that excessive imitation may be a uniquely human trait.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    One in three U.S. adults takes opioids, and many misuse them

    More than a third of U.S. adults used prescription opioids in 2015, and nearly 13 percent of that group misused the painkillers in some way.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    One in three U.S. adults takes opioids, and many misuse them

    More than a third of U.S. adults used prescription opioids in 2015, and nearly 13 percent of that group misused the painkillers in some way.

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  11. Neuroscience

    Mice with a mutation linked to autism affect their littermates’ behavior

    Genetically normal littermates of mutated mice behave strangely, suggesting that the social environment plays a big role in behavior.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Newborn baby’s infection offers a cautionary tale about placenta pills

    A newborn came down with a dangerous bacterial infection. The culprit, scientists suspect, was contaminated placenta pills eaten by the mother.

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