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  1. Giving Aid, Staying Alive: Elderly helpers have longevity advantage

    Over a 5-year period, older people who offered a lot of social support to their spouses, friends, relatives, and neighbors displayed a lower mortality rate than seniors who gave little or no social support.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Intestinal Fortitude: Treatment for colitis shows early success

    Given as a drug, a protein fragment called epidermal growth factor induces remission in people with ulcerative colitis, apparently by healing intestinal lesions.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Promising drug cuts tumor metabolism

    Early safety trials of an experimental medicine suggest that it could be used for treating several serious cancers.