All Stories by Nathan Seppa
- Health & Medicine
No link found between vaccines and nerve-damaging condition
Recently immunized people are not at an increased risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a nerve-damaging condition.
- Health & Medicine
Some infertile men have heightened cancer risk
Those who don’t make sperm are more likely than fertile men to develop a malignancy.
- Health & Medicine
Ebola thwarted in mice by drugs for infertility, cancer
Extensive search of existing medicines turns up two that seem to fend off deadly virus.
- Health & Medicine
Headers linked to memory deficit in soccer players
Abnormalities in three brain regions found among those who head the ball most frequently.
- Health & Medicine
Talk therapy helps Congolese victims of sexual violence recover
Groups sessions using a cognitive processing approach work better than individual support counseling, a study finds.
- Planetary Science
Thirty years to Mars
Excerpt from the June 15, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.
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- Health & Medicine
Easy steps limit antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals
Intensive care units that bathe patients and take other precautions have fewer cases of staph, a study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Underactive thyroid ups pregnancy risks
Several complications are more common in women with the condition, including gestational diabetes and cesarean births.
- Health & Medicine
Black women may have highest multiple sclerosis rates
Large study counters common assumption that whites get MS more.
- Health & Medicine
Highlights from the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting
Highlights from the pediatrics meeting held May 4-7 in Washington, D.C., include adolescent suicide risk and access to guns, a reason to let preemies get more umbilical cord blood and teens' cognitive dissonance on football concussions.
- Health & Medicine
Allergy, asthma less frequent in foreign-born kids in U.S.
But protection from some immune conditions fades after a decade, a study finds.
