Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Earlier HIV treatment can save more lives
Moving up the starting point for HIV treatment leads to improved survival rates.
- Health & Medicine
About McCain’s Melanoma
The Republican presidential hopeful faces a small but lingering risk of cancer recurrence.
- 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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
Closest look yet at lung cancer genes
A large study offers clues to the genetics behind lung cancer.
- Health & Medicine
Bacteria that do logic
A team engineers microbes to perform AND, OR, NAND and NOR logic operations.
- 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.
- Humans
Bypassing paralyzed nerves
Implanted electrode helps paralyzed monkey clench its forearm muscles.
- Health & Medicine
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
