Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Dengue fever spreads in a neighborly way

    Individual strains of dengue spread locally, and new infections cluster near the home of the first person affected.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Random mutations play large role in cancer, study finds

    Mistakes made while copying DNA account for more mutations in cancer cells than environment or inheritance do.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Touches early in life may make a big impact on newborn babies’ brains

    The type and amount of touches a newborn baby gets in the first days of life may shape later responses to touch perception, a study suggests.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Cancer cells cast a sweet spell on the immune system

    Tumors have surface sugars that persuade the body’s defenses to look the other way. New therapies are being devised to break the trance.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Smartphones may be changing the way we think

    We rely on our digital devices to connect with others and for memory and navigation shortcuts. What is that doing to our brains?

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  6. Health & Medicine

    See how bacterial blood infections in young kids plummeted after vaccines

    Rates of pneumococcal bacteremia in children plummeted by 95 percent after the introduction of vaccines against Streptococcus bacteria.

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  7. Climate

    Changing climate could worsen foods’ nutrition

    Climate change could aggravate hidden hunger by sapping micronutrients from soils and plants, reducing nutrition in wheat, rice and other crops.

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  8. Tech

    Virtual reality has a motion sickness problem

    Virtual reality games and experiences can make some people sick, and women are more susceptible.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Anesthesia for youngsters is a tricky calculation

    Scientists, doctors and parents face uncertainty when it comes to anesthesia for babies.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Certain birth defects are on the rise since Zika arrived in the U.S.

    The rate of certain birth defects is much higher in babies born to Zika-infected mothers in the United States, the CDC reports.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Microcephaly, other birth defects are on the rise since Zika’s arrival

    The rate of certain birth defects is much higher in babies born to Zika-infected mothers in the United States, the CDC reports.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Colorectal cancer is on the rise among younger adults

    Colorectal cancer rates in the United States have increased in people younger than 50.

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