Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    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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    A problem at hand for catchers

    A young professional baseball catcher, who may receive more than 100 pitches per game thrown at more than 90 miles per hour, may be virtually certain to develop circulatory abnormalities in his catching hand.

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