Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    It’s too soon to take coffee away from pregnant women

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Dextrose rub helps newborns with low blood sugar

    Massaging the sugary gel into babies’ mouths may lessen the need for intravenous infusions of glucose, a study shows.

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  3. Astronomy

    Don’t worry, be grumpy and take nature’s cycles in stride

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Home births more risky than hospital deliveries

    Babies born at home are more likely to lack pulse after five minutes.

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  5. Animals

    MERS virus jumped several times from animals to humans

    More than one person caught new illness from bats, camels or other creatures.

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  6. Humans

    Brain research goals laid out

    NIH details priority areas, including improving imaging technology and mapping brain structures.

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  7. Humans

    Chemical behind corked wine quashes other aromas

    Old sock smell signals contamination but doesn't belong to TCA, study proposes.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Alzheimer’s disease protein structure may vary among patients

    Two people with different symptoms had amyloid-beta fibers with different shapes.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine stops deadly sand-fly-spread scourge in animal test

    A DNA vaccine triggers protection against the sand-fly-borne scourge Leishmania.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Szechuan pepper taps at nerve fibers

    The spice makes lips tingle at 50 beats per second, researchers find.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Fructose may be key to weight gain

    Mice that could not make or metabolize the sugar gained less weight than normal mice.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Device offers promise of no brain tumor left behind

    A new technique might allow surgeons to identify with precision where brain cancer ends and healthy tissue begins.

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