Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
You Choose: Vioxx vs Rofecoxib
Physicians weigh in on how reporters refer to certain medications.
By Janet Raloff - Health & Medicine
Anthrax vaccine makeover
Revamped anthrax vaccination regimen eases some side effects that have hampered the vaccine’s acceptance.
By Nathan Seppa - Health & Medicine
Moms: One Solution to Tainted Milk
Tainted infant formulas point to a problem in the way society values moms.
By Janet Raloff - 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.
By Janet Raloff -
- 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.
By Janet Raloff - Health & Medicine
The Foreign Drug Trade
Chances are you haven't a clue where your medicines come from.
By Janet Raloff - 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.
By Nathan Seppa - 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.
By Janet Raloff - 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.
- Health & Medicine
Diabetes drug helps shed pounds
The diabetes drug pramlintide facilitates year-long weight loss in obese volunteers, a new study shows.
By Nathan Seppa - 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.