Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Gradual treatment of peanut allergies shows promise

    A slow and incremental introduction of peanuts into the diet helps some children overcome an allergy to the food, but it takes time and close supervision.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Scientists find a soup of suspects while probing milk’s link to cancer

    Latest studies focus on estrogens, androgens and IGF-1.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Bottled water may contain ‘hormones’: Glass

    Some mineral water appears to have been tainted prior to bottling.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Health & Medicine

    Reading the patterns of spatial memories

    Researchers can tell where participants are standing in a virtual world by “seeing” memories of the journey.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Chemistry

    Bottled water may contain ‘hormones’: Plastics

    New concerns arise over the presence of hormonelike pollutants in plastic food packaging.

    By Janet Raloff
  6. Tech

    Whiz Kids: The Movie

    New independent film showcases the arduous path by which extraodinary high school researchers reach the Science Talent Search competition in Washington, D.C.

    By Janet Raloff
  7. Health & Medicine

    Migraines during pregnancy may be linked to stroke

    Pregnant women who have migraines also face a heightened risk of stroke and other vascular diseases, a new study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Health & Medicine

    Blood type could matter in pancreatic cancer

    People with type O blood are less likely to develop pancreatic cancer than are people with type B blood, a study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Early intellectual gap found for kids of older fathers

    A reanalysis of data from more than 33,000 U.S. children finds that those with older fathers fared somewhat poorer on intelligence tests than those with younger fathers, regardless of mothers’ ages.

    By Bruce Bower
  10. Health & Medicine

    President reverses federal ban on stem cell funding

    President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting a ban on federal funding for research that uses embryonic stem cells.

    By Janet Raloff
  11. Health & Medicine

    Dangers of biomedical plagiarism

    The bogus data present in plagiarized biomedical papers is not just an ethical lapse, but also a threat to effective medicine.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Health & Medicine

    Study finds plenty of apparent plagiarism

    Featured blog: A data-mining program looks for and finds plagiarism among scientific papers. The researchers survey the papers' writers and editors.

    By Janet Raloff