Health & Medicine

  1. Neuroscience

    Brain’s protective barrier gets leakier with age

    Aging influences the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, which may contribute to learning and memory problems later in life.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Health & Medicine

    Immune system ‘reset’ may give MS patients a new lease on life

    With the help of their own stem cells, MS patients can stop the disease in its tracks in many cases.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    What’s in a nap? For babies, it may make long-lasting memories

    Taking naps after learning seems to help babies less than a year old make memories and keep them, for about a day anyway.

    By Ashley Yeager
  4. Neuroscience

    Brain’s plumbing may knock out blood test for brain injury

    The brain's waste-removal system may complicate scientists' attempts to create a blood test to diagnose traumatic brain injury.

    By Ashley Yeager
  5. Neuroscience

    To beat sleepiness of anxiety drugs, team looks to body’s clock

    Studying basic functions, such as the body’s clock, has inadvertently led to a compound that relieves anxiety in mice.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  6. Neuroscience

    Protectors of our nervous system play a role in pain

    PET and MRI brain scans show that the cells that protect our central nervous system also play a role in chronic pain.

    By Ashley Yeager
  7. Health & Medicine

    Asthma may add to sleep apnea risk

    A long-term sleep study strengthens the link between the two breathing disorders asthma and sleep apnea.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Health & Medicine

    More oxygen may lead to more tumors

    Lung cancer risk drops at higher elevations where the air is thinner.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  9. Health & Medicine

    Allergy-related Google searches follow pollen season ups and downs

    Google search queries could help researchers track pollen seasons in areas without pollen-monitoring stations.

    By Thomas Sumner
  10. Health & Medicine

    New antibiotic candidate shows promise

    Tests in lab dishes and mice suggest an experimental compound called teixobactin can kill staph, TB microbes and other bacteria.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    Weight-loss surgery linked to better survival

    Obese middle-aged and older people fare better if they have had bariatric surgery, a long-term study of veterans finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    HPV vaccination not linked to multiple sclerosis

    Getting vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, is not associated with developing multiple sclerosis or similar diseases, a new study shows.

    By Ashley Yeager