Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Blindness Hazard: Gene variant tied to macular degeneration

    People who make a particular form of an immune system protein have a heightened risk of developing old-age blindness.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Injections cut need for HIV drugs

    An experimental vaccine, when given to people infected with HIV, appears to reduce their dependence on antiviral drugs.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Health & Medicine

    The Zero Gravity Diet

    Living in space punishes the body as much as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, says a new study of astronaut health and nutrition.

    By David Shiga
  4. Health & Medicine

    Inner-brain electrode may curb depression

    Deep-brain electrical stimulation has shown promise in treating severe depression.

    By Christen Brownlee
  5. Health & Medicine

    Measuring HIV’s Cost: Treatment adds years, but many still miss out

    Medical care for people infected with HIV has already saved about 2 million years of life in the United States, but more than 200,000 HIV-infected Americans are not benefiting from drugs that could extend their lives.

    By Ben Harder
  6. Health & Medicine

    Beer’s Well Done Benefit

    Beer may prove therapeutic for diners who prefer their meat cooked until it's well done.

    By Janet Raloff
  7. Health & Medicine

    A Fishy Therapy

    Shark cartilage continues to be sold to fight cancer, even though its efficacy has not been confirmed by any major U.S. trials.

    By Janet Raloff
  8. Health & Medicine

    Protein may aid stroke recovery

    Tests in mice have shown that erythropoietin, a red blood cell growth factor, can reverse brain damage caused by strokes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Cell transplants make gains versus diabetes

    Transplanting insulin-making cells from a single cadaver into people with type 1 diabetes can reverse the disease in some people.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    To Stanch the Flow: Hemophilia drug curbs brain hemorrhage

    A blood-clotting drug helps some people recover from a bleeding stroke.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    Study can’t tie EMFs to cancer

    A massive, long-term Swedish study has found no sign that occupational exposures to electromagnetic fields might trigger breast cancer in women.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Health & Medicine

    Ketone diet could help in Parkinson’s

    A strict low-carb diet long used to treat some people with epilepsy has been tailored so that it might fight Parkinson's disease.

    By Ben Harder