Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    You Choose: Vioxx vs Rofecoxib

    Physicians weigh in on how reporters refer to certain medications.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Anthrax vaccine makeover

    Revamped anthrax vaccination regimen eases some side effects that have hampered the vaccine’s acceptance.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Moms: One Solution to Tainted Milk

    Tainted infant formulas point to a problem in the way society values moms.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Investing in Health: Ouch!

    Investments in health, one of the largest segments of the U.S. economy, have been stagnating — and could be poised to actually take a big hit.

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  5. Earth

    Let’s Get Vertical

    City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out.

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  6. Chemistry

    Obama’s brain trust

    Featured blog: Sixty-one Nobel laureates sign a letter explaining why they support Barack Obama's run for the presidency.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    The Foreign Drug Trade

    Chances are you haven't a clue where your medicines come from.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Window of opportunity for stroke treatment widens

    Use of clot-busting drugs as long as 4½ hours after an event pays dividends later.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Cancer data: Burying bad news

    Featured blog: Data from the vast majority of human cancer trials never get published, a new study finds — and that's not a good thing.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Closing in on Rett syndrome

    Scientists find that a particular part of the mouse brain is responsible for behavioral abnormalities associated with Rett syndrome, an autism spectrum disease that strikes females.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Diabetes drug helps shed pounds

    The diabetes drug pramlintide facilitates year-long weight loss in obese volunteers, a new study shows.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    This is the brain on age

    The activity of genes in men's brains begins to change sooner than it does in women's brains, a new study shows.

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