Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine protects against malaria in early test
A series of shots enables volunteers to fend off a live infection by the disease-causing parasite.
- Health & Medicine
High blood glucose levels linked to dementia
Elderly people with elevated blood glucose levels are more apt to develop dementia, whether or not they have diabetes.
- Health & Medicine
Space-mapping neurons found in human brain
Grid cells may orient people in Euclidean space.
- Health & Medicine
Going out to lunch zaps mental focus
Sharing a midday meal with friends could lead later to errors at work.
- Health & Medicine
Full moon may mean less sleep
Slumber waxes and wanes along with lunar rhythm, researchers find with people sleeping in windowless lab.
- Health & Medicine
Gastric bypass surgery causes sugar-burning gut growth in rats
The rapid improvement in symptoms of diabetes, seen in patients before weight loss begins, may be due to changes in part of the intestine.
- Life
A flash of light implants false memories in mice
Researchers alter rodents' recollections by exciting just a few neurons.
- Health & Medicine
Permanent Present Tense
The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M. by Suzanne Corkin.
- Health & Medicine
What and when babies first eat may affect diabetes risk
Children at risk of type 1 diabetes are better off waiting until 4 months of age to consume solid foods.
- Health & Medicine
Four-question test ID’s women with depression
Simple decision tool shows potential as quick way to identify clinical depression.
- Health & Medicine
People may have evolved to fight cholera
People in Bangladesh have genetic variations that might defend against the disease.
- Health & Medicine
Nobelist’s Cancer Theory
Excerpt from the July 13, 1963, issue of Science News Letter
