Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Internal Time
Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg.
- Health & Medicine
Why Calories Count
From Science to Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.
- Health & Medicine
Experiment Eleven
Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle
- Neuroscience
Hurt Blocker
The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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- Life
Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk
A combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy can restore lost connections between lower limbs and brain.
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
Fever in pregnancy linked to autism
Pregnant women who run a high temperature that goes untreated may double their risk of having an autistic child, a study finds.
