Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    The Long Road to Beta Cells

    In their quest to cure type 1 diabetes, scientists are finding that turning stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells is a lot harder than it first appeared.

    By Brian Vastag
  2. Health & Medicine

    No Peanuts for Your Peanut

    Youngsters are developing peanut allergies earlier because of exposures in babyhood.

    By Janet Raloff
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    Angiogenesis Factors: Tracking down the suspects in blood vessel growth near tumors

    Tumors enlist certain bone marrow cells in efforts to grow new blood vessels for self-nourishment.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Sickle Save: Skin cells fix anemia in mice

    Using a new technique to turn skin cells into stem cells, scientists have corrected sickle cell anemia in mice.

    By Brian Vastag
  5. Health & Medicine

    Putting tumors on pause

    Keeping benign breast tumors from progressing into a malignant cancer can be achieved in mice by reducing a signaling protein.

    By Patrick Barry
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    Diabetes drug shows new potential

    Exendin-4 (exenatide) might complement a drug called anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody in reversing type 1 diabetes, a study in mice shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Malaria’s new guises

    Scientists have observed Plasmodium falciparum enjoying three distinct lifestyles—two of which have never been seen before—in the blood of infected children.

    By Brian Vastag
  8. Health & Medicine

    Calculated Risk: Shedding light on fracture hazards in elderly

    Diminished bone density in elderly people contributes to fractures following traumatic accidents.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Dengue virus found in donated blood

    Scientists have discovered that 12 units of blood donated in Puerto Rico in late 2005 contained the dengue virus.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Sleeping sickness pill may work as well as injections

    The first oral drug for sleeping sickness is showing effectiveness in a trial in central Africa.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Bomb craters mean trouble for islanders

    A skin infection in people living on the Pacific island of Satowan stems from swimming in ponds formed from World War II bomb craters there.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Patch guards against Montezuma’s revenge

    A patch worn on the skin delivers a vaccine against a form of Escherichia coli that causes traveler's diarrhea.

    By Nathan Seppa