Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Trimming rabies shots
A new rabies vaccine might be enough to stave off the virus with fewer injections, a study in monkeys suggests.
- Health & Medicine
Linking obesity with leukemia relapses
Fatty tissue may provide a safe haven for cancerous cells to linger, according to a study of mice with leukemia.
- Physics
Neutrons for military and medical imaging
An accelerator-based neutron-production system is being designed to cull bombs at risk of exploding prematurely — and make the feedstock for a major isotope used in nuclear medicine.
- Math
Math mimics hard-to-heal wounds
New model may lead to better treatments for chronic, blood-deprived sores
- Health & Medicine
Peer review: No improvement with practice
To keep the quality of what they publish high, journals may have to frequently recycle the experts asked to evaluate incoming manuscripts.
- Earth
Cell phones: Precautions recommended
Scientists make a case for texting and using hand-free technologies with those cell phones to which society has become addicted.
- Health & Medicine
Monkeys get full color vision
Male squirrel monkeys with red-green colorblindness can distinguish the hues after gene therapy, study suggests.
- Health & Medicine
Diabetes drugs don’t fight inflammation
Two popular diabetes drugs lower blood sugar but don’t reduce markers of inflammation.
- Health & Medicine
Cell phones: Feds probing health impacts
Senate hearing finds that biomedical research agencies aren't complacent about potential health effects of cell-phone radiation.
- Health & Medicine
Journal bias: Novelty preferred (which can be bad)
Negative findings in a drug trial may seem ho hum, but they're too important to ignore or leave unpublished.
- Health & Medicine
Ghost authors remain a chronic problem
They’re not apparitions, just authors who want to fly below – way below – the radar screen of scientific journals and their readers.
- Health & Medicine
Swine flu vaccination should target children first
A new analysis finds that, as long as it peaks this winter, the H1N1 flu outbreak could be curtailed with a vaccination program that targets children first.
