Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    New Carrier: Common tick implicated in spread of fever

    The brown dog tick is capable of spreading the bacterium that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

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    Sun Struck: Data suggest skin cancer epidemic looms

    The incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers in young adults is mushrooming, possibly heralding an epidemic in follow-up cancers during the coming decades.

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    After terror, moms’ stress affects kids

    Infants born to women who developed posttraumatic stress disorder during pregnancy have unusually low concentrations of the hormone cortisol.

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    Siccing Fungi on Malaria

    Two independent research teams have found that fungi can kill mosquitoes or reduce the efficiency with which they transmit the malaria parasite.

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    Virus Attack on Cancer: Heat makes neglected technology work better

    Adding heat sensitizes tumor cells to the effects of a genetically modified virus, which then can kill them.

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    From Famine, Schizophrenia: Starvation gives birth to personality disorder

    Women who go severely hungry during early pregnancy face twice the normal risk of having a child who develops schizophrenia in adulthood.

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    Coming Soon—Broccoli and Peach ‘Seaweeds’

    California researchers are developing fruit- and vegetable-based surrogates for a paperlike seaweed product, typically used in sushi, to brighten foods and infuse them with all-natural nutrients.

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    King George III should have sued

    The madness of England's King George III may have been partly due to arsenic poisoning.

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    Lyme microbe forms convenient bond with tick protein

    The bacterium that causes Lyme disease commandeers a gene in the deer tick, inducing overproduction of a salivary protein that the bacterium uses to escape immune detection once it's inside a mammal.

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    Echinacea Disappoints: There’s still no cure for the common cold

    The folk remedy echinacea shows no benefit against the common cold.

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    How ‘Green’ Is Home Cooking?

    From an environmental perspective, made-from-scratch meals aren't much better than ready-to-eat, store-bought meals are in consuming fewer resources and contributing less to pollution.

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    Tumors in Touch: Cancer cells spur vessel formation through contact

    Some tumor cells use a newfound mechanism to prompt neighboring cells into forming blood vessels that then nourish the cancer.

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