Health & Medicine

  1. Life

    Allergy meds slim down obese mice

    Animal study shows over-the-counter medications lower weight and treat type 2 diabetes. The study is one of four to link type 2 diabetes with the immune system.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cheap shots — typhoid vaccine shows broad coverage

    Vaccine protects against typhoid across age groups and is especially effective in young children.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Chimpanzees die from primate version of HIV

    A new study links the simian immunodeficiency virus to serious AIDS-like illness in a wild population.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Early testing for Alzheimer’s

    Spinal fluid test in people with mild cognitive impairments can predict in many cases who will develop the disease.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Postmenopausal hormones up cancer risk

    Danish researchers weigh in fairly conclusively on the risk of one especially deadly cancer.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    300 milliseconds from hand to head

    New work shows that the “rubber hand illusion” only works when a hand feels a sensation no more than 300 milliseconds before the eyes see it

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  7. Humans

    “%&#$!” makes you feel better

    Study finds that swearing may alleviate pain.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Migraines vs. breast cancer

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  9. Humans

    What’s in your bottled water?

    A congressional hearing found bottled-water quality is not regulated as strictly as tap water is.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Caloric restriction extends life in monkeys, study finds

    New study finds calorie restriction delays age-related diseases in monkeys. Another study reports that an immune-suppressing drug helps elderly mice live longer.

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  11. Life

    Collins nominated to head NIH

    The chemist — turned physician, turned geneticist — has a spiritual side as well.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    You Are Who You Are by Default

    A neural network active when the brain is at rest may prove critical to zoning out, a sense of self and envisioning the future.

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