Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Letters

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Internal Time

    Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Why Calories Count

    From Science to Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle

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  5. Neuroscience

    Hurt Blocker

    The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Diet sodas may confuse brain’s ‘calorie counter’

    Among regular consumers of sugar-free soft drinks, networks that equate sweet flavors with energy intake may grow numb to the real stuff.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Fish oil components may not benefit everyone’s heart

    A six-year study finds that omega-3 fatty acids don't lower heart risk in people with diabetes.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Replacing fatty acids may fight MS

    Patients are deficient in four key lipids that neutralize immune cells linked to inflammation and nerve damage.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Why antipsychotics need time to kick in

    Insight into how some schizophrenia drugs work may explain why compounds that build up in the brain can take weeks to provide relief.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Feel the Burn

    Turning on brown fat in humans may boost weight loss.

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  11. Life

    Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk

    A combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy can restore lost connections between lower limbs and brain.

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  12. Chemistry

    Youngsters can sniff out old people’s scent

    Body odor changes detectably with age, becoming mellower in men and not at all offensive in either sex — even to young people.

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