Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Fridge-sized contraption makes drugs on demand

    A new drug-making system rapidly produces a variety of medications on demand.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  2. Health & Medicine

    Machine makes drugs on demand

    A new drug-making system rapidly produces a variety of medications on demand.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  3. Neuroscience

    Nerve cell links severed in early stages of Alzheimer’s

    Nerve cell connections may be trimmed too much in early stages of Alzheimer’s.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Health & Medicine

    Environment still tied to MS risk

    50 years ago, scientists reported a possible connection between the environment and multiple sclerosis risk.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  5. Health & Medicine

    Should C-section babies get wiped down with vagina microbes?

    A study suggests that a post-birth rubdown with vaginal fluid offers starter microbes to babies born by C-section. But it might not always be a good idea.

    By Laura Sanders
  6. Health & Medicine

    Cancer killers send signal of success

    Newly designed nanoparticles deliver anticancer drugs and updates on tumor death.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  7. Genetics

    Zika may have flown to Brazil in 2013

    The brand of Zika currently floating around the Americas traces its origins to Asia and may have arrived in Brazil by air as early as 2013.

    By Helen Thompson
  8. Life

    Racing for answers on Zika

    In the latest issue of Science News, Editor in Chief Eva Emerson talks Zika virus, microbes, nutrition and mental health.

    By Eva Emerson
  9. Health & Medicine

    Microbes can play games with the mind

    Our bodies are having a conversation with our microbiome that may be affecting our mental health — for better or worse.

    By Laura Sanders
  10. Neuroscience

    Brain holds more than one road to fear

    A study on rare patients suggests that fear can take many paths through the brain.

    By Laura Sanders
  11. Health & Medicine

    Three big reasons why U.S. men have a shorter life expectancy

    U.S. men’s lives are two years shorter than men in other rich countries for three reasons: guns, drugs and cars.

    By Meghan Rosen
  12. Health & Medicine

    Special Report: Here’s what we know about Zika

    Tracing Zika’s path and its potential links to microcephaly in babies and Guillain-Barré syndrome has scientists planning a new war on mosquitoes.

    By Macon Morehouse