Health & Medicine
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
Gut infections keep mice lean
Bacteria can invade one rodent from another, preventing both from getting fat.
- Health & Medicine
Heart disease patients more apt to take one combined pill than many
Patients stayed on track better with a "polypill" than with three medications.
- Health & Medicine
Test could warn of problems for kidney transplant recipients
A urine test for an immune protein might tell doctors whether a patient is headed for trouble.
- Health & Medicine
Don’t stand so close to me
Personal space has a measurable boundary, a study suggests.
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Power of sugar may come from the mind
Only people who believe exertion zaps willpower get a boost from glucose.
- Life
Years or decades later, flu exposure still prompts immunity
New forms of influenza viruses can spur production of antibodies to past pandemics in people who lived through them.
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Clues emerge to explain allergic asthma
Tests in mice reveal that allergens can trigger inflammation by cleaving a clotting protein.
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Gut-brain communication failure may spur overeating
Restoring a depleted molecule in obese mice repaired their abnormal response to food.
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Racial homogeneity in early childhood may affect brain
In lab study, kids who lived in single-race orphanages have difficulty interpreting emotions on faces with foreign features.
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Mediterranean diet may offset genetic risk for stroke
Compared to a low-fat diet, eating fish and olive oil kept blood sugar levels lower in people with a common diabetes risk factor.
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Camels implicated as possible hosts of MERS virus
Antibodies to a mysterious pathogen that has sickened 94 people were found in camels in Oman and the Canary Islands.
