Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Good bacteria from poop stop resistant infection

    Pills fashioned from beneficial microbes in feces overcome C. difficile infections.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Why women want to sniff my baby

    Tiny babies smell very, very good. So good that scientists really want to know why some women find this smell irresistible.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Altered wine chemical helps kill cancer

    Molecule brings its parent, resveratrol, into cells.

    By Beth Mole
  4. Health & Medicine

    Conversations with my baby

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Neuroscience

    An on-off switch for eating

    By triggering or silencing certain brain cells, scientists can get mice to feed or stop feeding regardless of hunger.

    By Laura Sanders
  6. Health & Medicine

    Why you should be only a little afraid to pee

    By Erika Engelhaupt
  7. Health & Medicine

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

    By Laura Sanders
  8. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Astronomy

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

    By Eva Emerson
  10. Health & Medicine

    Home births more risky than hospital deliveries

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

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Animals

    MERS virus jumped several times from animals to humans

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

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Humans

    Brain research goals laid out

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

    By Laura Sanders