Health & Medicine

  1. Tech

    Bias, quakes and viruses, oh my!

    Researchers present findings at the annual New Horizons in Science meeting.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Earlier HIV treatment can save more lives

    Moving up the starting point for HIV treatment leads to improved survival rates.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    About McCain’s Melanoma

    The Republican presidential hopeful faces a small but lingering risk of cancer recurrence.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Stopping rotavirus before it hits

    A vaccine against rotavirus shows potent protection against the diarrhea-causing pathogen in its first year of widespread use.

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  5. Science & Society

    It’s time for addiction science to supersede stigma

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  6. Chemistry

    Nicotine’s new appeal

    Mimicking the addictive compound’s action in the brain could lead to new drugs for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia.

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  7. Earth

    The Case for Very Hot Water

    Turning down the thermostat on a home's water heater could foster the growth of toxic bacteria in home plumbing.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Drug may offer MS turnaround

    A drug used against leukemia can ease disability in early-stage multiple sclerosis patients over a three-year span.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Closest look yet at lung cancer genes

    A large study offers clues to the genetics behind lung cancer.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Bacteria that do logic

    A team engineers microbes to perform AND, OR, NAND and NOR logic operations.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Streamlined polio vaccine fights outbreaks

    Back to basics: A simplified polio vaccine works better than the standard approach and overcomes an unforeseen shortcoming in the widely used oral vaccine.

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  12. Humans

    Bypassing paralyzed nerves

    Implanted electrode helps paralyzed monkey clench its forearm muscles.

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