Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    HIV vaccine trial stopped

    Shots-plus-booster strategy deemed ineffective in preventing infection.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Hookah smoking delivers carcinogens and carbon monoxide

    Water pipes deliver carcinogens, nicotine and carbon monoxide to the user, a study finds.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Circumcision changes penis biology

    Altered mix of microbes might reduce susceptibility to viral infections.

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  4. Psychology

    Disputed signs of consciousness seen in babies’ brains

    Within five months of birth, infants produce a possible neural marker of being aware of what they see.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    The Human Brainome Project

    Obama announces ambitious plan to develop new tools for exploring neural circuitry.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Colic in infancy linked to migraines later in childhood

    No tie found between colicky babies and later tension headaches.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Bioengineered kidney transplanted into rat

    Cleansed of cells and repopulated anew, bioengineered organ successfully produces urine.

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  8. Life

    New bird flu claims more victims

    H7N9 influenza spreads to Beijing, may come from poultry and pigeons.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Mental puzzles underlie music’s delight

    MRI reveals brain’s processing, and its pleasure, when a person listens to an enjoyable new tune.

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  10. Chemistry

    Malaria drug made by baker’s yeast

    Fermentation process using bioengineered version of the fungus could become important new production method for artemisinin.

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  11. Life

    New technique gives see-through view into mouse brains

    Replacing fatty molecules turns organs transparent, allowing study of structure and function at the same time.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    2013 American Association for Cancer Research meeting

    Highlights from the annual AACR meeting include ovulation’s impact on cancer risk and an experimental drug’s promising performance against leukemia.

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