Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Mom’s nutrition puts a stamp on baby’s DNA
A new study is the latest in a growing list of how the environment sculpts a person’s epigenome.
- Health & Medicine
MERS outbreak picks up pace in Middle East
As the number of MERS cases increases, researchers race to learn more about the deadly virus carried by camels.
- Health & Medicine
First MERS case found in the U.S.
Patient in Indiana had traveled from Arabian Peninsula, where most of the 463 cases of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome have occurred.
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- Health & Medicine
Musicians have elevated risk of hearing loss
Compared to the general public, professional musicians' risk of hearing loss and ringing in the ears is higher, a new study shows.
- Science & Society
Anti-leukemia vaccine reported hope of future
Fifty years ago, Science News Letter reported on the promise of a vaccine to prevent leukemia. No preventive vaccine has come to pass, but leukemia vaccines as treatments has yielded promising results.
- Health & Medicine
Drug resistance has gone global, WHO says
World Health Organization reports that antibiotics are failing worldwide against infections.
- Health & Medicine
Potential H7N9 bird flu vaccine shows promise
An early trial of a bird flu vaccine suggests that the treatment could be used to counter the potentially deadly H7N9 flu virus.
- Health & Medicine
With help from pig tissue, people regrow muscle
Noncellular material implanted in patients attracts stem cells to fix injuries.
- Health & Medicine
Induced labor doesn’t necessarily kick off cascade of interventions
A large analysis of clinical trials finds that jump-starting labor actually leads to fewer C-sections, a finding that runs contrary to common birthing wisdom.
- Health & Medicine
Enzyme may help aspirin protect against colon cancer
Aspirin may not reduce colon cancer risk in people with low levels of a protective enzyme called 15-PGDH.
- Neuroscience
Pain curbs sex drive in females, but not males
When in pain, female mice’s interest in sex takes a hit but males still want to mate.
