Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    No link between viral suspect and chronic fatigue, plus reading minds, colored glasses for migraines and more in this week’s news.

    By Science News
  2. Health & Medicine

    Spotting newborns at risk of hearing loss

    Testing for cytomegalovirus in saliva of infants can identify those harboring the virus, a new study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Cancer treatment raises stroke risk, plus ankle-powered sprints, irregular heartbeats and more in this week’s news.

    By Science News
  4. Physics

    What it means to ‘feel the noise’

    Scientists investigating the nexus between sound and touch suggest that the ear arose from skin.

    By Devin Powell
  5. Tech

    Cans bring BPA to dinner, FDA confirms

    Federal chemists have confirmed what everyone had expected: that if a bisphenol-A-based resin is used to line most food cans, there’s a high likelihood the contents of those cans will contain at least traces of BPA.

    By Janet Raloff
  6. Health & Medicine

    Bacterial meningitis keeps falling

    Vaccination against a strep bacterium and other microbes has proved a potent deterrent over the past decade, a nationwide survey shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Humans

    Skeptical scientists call 1-800-BALONEY on cell phone study

    Findings on brain effects are vigorously attacked and just as strenuously defended.

    By Laura Sanders
  8. Health & Medicine

    Clues to autism’s roots from brain study

    A new analysis finds differences in genetic activity, especially in genes controlling nerve cell form and function.

    By Laura Sanders
  9. Chemistry

    Natural pain-killing chemical synthesized

    Conolidine — a headache to isolate from the plant that makes it — can now be produced from scratch in the lab, opening the promising compound to study.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  10. Life

    Suspect bacterium may trigger Parkinson’s

    A study in mice shows that H. pylori, the microbe that causes stomach ulcers, may also affect the brain.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Coffee may help protect against prostate cancer, plus protecting organ transplants and limiting HIV transmission in this week’s news.

    By Science News
  12. Health & Medicine

    Healthy Aging in a Pill

    To extend life span, scientists envision a drug that mimics the benefits of a near-starvation diet.

    By Laura Beil