Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Be Good to Your Gums, Bite Into Whole Grains (with recipe)

    Diets rich in whole grains appear to help ward off a type of gum disease.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Health & Medicine

    Proof of Protection: Condoms limit infection by cervical cancer virus

    Condom use reduces a woman's risk of being infected with human papillomavirus and of developing precancerous growths on the cervix.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Antidepressant drugs show link to diabetes

    People taking antidepressant medication might be at increased risk of developing diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    New drugs reduce blood sugar

    Two experimental drugs can lower blood sugar significantly in people with type 2 diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Health & Medicine

    Glucosamine isn’t at fault

    The popular dietary supplement glucosamine doesn't cause insulin resistance, the precursor of type 2 diabetes.

    By Kate Travis
  6. Health & Medicine

    Coffee protects against alcoholic cirrhosis

    A sobering cup of coffee could provide protection against cirrhosis, a liver-scarring disease common in alcoholics.

    By Christen Brownlee
  7. Health & Medicine

    Wasting Away: Prozac loses promise as anorexia nervosa fighter

    Although often prescribed for people with anorexia nervosa, the popular antidepressant medication Prozac offers no better protection against the potentially fatal eating disorder than placebo pills do.

    By Bruce Bower
  8. Health & Medicine

    Next Line of Defense: New drugs take on resistant leukemia

    Two experimental drugs stop many cases of chronic myeloid leukemia that are resistant to the drug imatinib (Gleevec).

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Inactivity, not altitude, is probably behind blood clots

    Low cabin pressure aboard aircraft is not to blame for the rare but dangerous blood clots that some passengers get during long flights.

    By Ben Harder
  10. Health & Medicine

    Chocolate as Sunscreen

    A small study in women suggests that a cocoa drink rich in flavonoids made their skin look better and protected it from ultraviolet-light damage.

    By Janet Raloff
  11. Health & Medicine

    Medicine in the News

    This Web site from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serves as a clearinghouse for timely medical information. It provides news stories, along with “teaching brief” articles that aim to help clinicians and consumers understand the implications of new discoveries and developments in the medical world. Go to: http://www.medpagetoday.com/

    By Science News
  12. Health & Medicine

    Ancient Wisdom: Chinese extract may yield diabetes treatment

    A plant extract used in traditional Chinese medicine could form the basis for new treatments for type 2 diabetes.

    By Christen Brownlee