Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Cancer and college

    Highly educated people have reaped the benefits of cancer prevention and treatment. Death rates in this group have fallen, but people with less education have missed out on these gains.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Animal rights and wrongs

    Featured blog: Some animal-rights activists are taking a page out of the anti-abortionists' playbook and now bully animal researchers at home.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Shared recipes for longer life

    Being female and eating a calorie-restricted diet contribute to long lifespan in animals, and the two traits may share molecular mechanisms.

    By Patrick Barry
  4. Math

    Strategy to stop a pandemic

    A limited supply of vaccine shots, if targeted well, could stop the spread of disease.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  5. Health & Medicine

    Sick and down

    To fight off an infection or illness, the body shifts into a slow-down mode that mirrors some symptoms of depression. In fact, scientists now think the immune response itself may even cause the mood disorder.

    By Amy Maxmen
  6. Health & Medicine

    SIDS and serotonin

    Study finds brain chemical deficiency causing sudden death in mice could be linked to SIDS

    By Ashley Yeager
  7. Life

    Fountain of Youth, with caveats

    A chemical in red wine thought to mimic the life-extending properties of calorie restriction improves health, but doesn’t necessarily lengthen life; it could also harm the brain.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  8. Chemistry

    HIV knockout

    Cutting a gene in immune cells could offer a new way to treat HIV infections.

    By Patrick Barry
  9. Health & Medicine

    Surviving HIV

    Since the development in the mid-1990s of a state-of-the-art drug cocktail for HIV, patient survival has extended dramatically, a new study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    Journey to the center of the brain

    New map of brain's anatomy reveals communication hub that corresponds to an area active when the mind wanders.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Life

    Losing sleep

    A genetic source of mental retardation and autism may also disrupt sleep patterns.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Health & Medicine

    Vessel rescue

    A blood pressure medication limits damage to the aorta in people with Marfan syndrome, possibly signaling a new therapy for the condition.

    By Nathan Seppa