Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Movie clips help ease drug craving

    Images of heroin may prove useful in treating addiction.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Why emotions are attention-getters

    Strong, direct connections between two key brain centers help explain how feelings can usurp focus.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Autism linked to obesity in pregnancy

    Association may spark research into a possible biological mechanism.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Throat Therapy

    Scientists seek a cough remedy that really delivers relief.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Extreme eaters show abnormal brain activity

    Seeing images of food revs up reward areas in the obese and slows them down in severely underweight people, a brain scan study shows.

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  6. Life

    Stem cell treatment spurs cartilage growth

    A small molecule called kartogenin prompts the manufacture of lost connective tissue in mice.

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  7. Psychology

    Autism rates rise again

    Related developmental disorders affect 1.1 percent of U.S. 8-year-olds.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Jolt to brain aids language recovery

    Stroke patients treated with brain stimulation show improvement in language skills.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Brain scan foretells who will fold under pressure

    Tests on high-stakes math problems reveal key regions of brain activity linked to choking under pressure.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Mapping the brain’s superhighways

    New scans created using diffusion MRI technique reveal an order to information flow in the mind.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Psoriasis drugs show promise

    Two new drugs attack psoriasis by inhibiting interleukin-17, a focal player in the troublesome skin disease.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Slacker rat, worker rat

    Rodent work ethic, like people’s, comes in two types.

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