Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    Arthritis drug fights Crohn’s disease

    The inflammation-fighting drug infliximab can hold off the painful symptoms of Crohn's disease for as long as a year in many patients.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Pudgy? Here’s a Small Benefit

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Operation overload: Kids’ backpacks

    Sixth-graders in Italy routinely carry school backpacks that equal, on average, 22 percent of their body weight, a finding researchers link to an earlier report that more than 60 percent of children in this age group had experienced low-back pain more than once.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Hysterectomy often improves sex life

    A study of more than 1,000 women who had hysterectomies finds that after the operation, women generally wanted and had sex more often, were more likely to reach orgasm, experienced less vaginal dryness, and were less likely to have pain during sex than was the case before surgery.

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  5. Anthropology

    Ishi’s Long Road Home

    The reappearance of a California Indian's preserved brain, held at the Smithsonian Institution since 1917, triggers debate over the ethics of anthropological research and the repatriation process.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Glutamate glut linked to multiple sclerosis

    The chemical glutamate can overwhelm nervous-system cells called oligodendrocytes, adding to the nerve damage caused by wayward immune cells in multiple sclerosis.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Learning from leprosy’s nerve damage

    The bacterium that causes leprosy directly damages a protective sheathing around many nerve cells.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    What Activates AIDS?

    New studies suggest that a natural process called immune activation—the signaling that alerts immune cells of foreign invaders—plays a key role in explaining why infection with the human immunodeficiency virus progresses to AIDS more quickly in some people than in others.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Sickening Food

    If food that was going to leave you with gut-wrenching cramps — or more — tasted  sickening, few people would indulge. The problem, of course, is that sickening food can taste quite scrumptious. Foods that look, smell, and taste yummy can still harbor disease-causing pathogens. Mead et al./Emerging Infectious Diseases Indeed, when the hour of […]

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  10. Health & Medicine

    The brew for a slimmer you

    Green tea contains a compound that triggers the body to burn more fat.

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  11. Humans

    An Artist’s Timely Riddles

    A team of researchers demonstrates that there may be much more to the art of Marcel Duchamp than meets the casual, or even critical, eye.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Stem cells repair rat spinal cord damage

    Using embryonic stem cells from mice, researchers restored some movement in paralyzed rats that had undergone a crippling spinal injury.

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