Nathan Seppa

Biomedical Writer (retired September 2015)

All Stories by Nathan Seppa

  1. Health & Medicine

    Breast density signals tamoxifen’s effectiveness

    Decreasing breast density signals the drug tamoxifen is working in women at risk of developing breast cancer.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Stronger role for a breast cancer drug

    Going beyond its original role as an add-on for chemotherapy, the breast cancer drug lapatinib, when taken with another kind of frontline drug, may find use for patients with the HER2-positive form of the cancer.

  3. Health & Medicine

    Antioxidants fail to prevent prostate cancer

    Selenium, vitamins C, E don’t lower incidence of prostate cancer in two large trials.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Malaria vaccine closer to reality

    The success of two trials sets the stage for a final, large-scale trial that could mean approval of what would be the first vaccine against Malaria.

  5. Health & Medicine

    Men line up for circumcision in Africa

    But demand for the operation, shown to guard against HIV and other infections, exceeds availability.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Lifestyle may link depression and heart disease

    The association between depression and heart problems could stem from a lack of physical activity and other lifestyle factors.

  7. Health & Medicine

    Treat HIV-positive babies from the start

    Babies who are born infected with HIV from their mothers should be treated for the virus as soon as possible, even before symptoms begin, a study finds.

  8. Health & Medicine

    Ginkgo biloba fails drug test

    The herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba fails to prevent Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia, a large trial finds.

  9. Health & Medicine

    Gender matters in heart transplants

    Heart transplant recipients who get a gender-matched organ fare better than those receiving mismatched organs.

  10. Health & Medicine

    Treating viral heart infections

    Viral heart infections respond to interferon treatment, easing cardiomyopathy in some patients.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Mini heart attack best treated like the big one

    Patients admitted to hospitals with mild symptoms of a heart attack may benefit from getting a heart catheterization performed promptly.

  12. Humans

    Food allergy advice may be peanuts

    Early exposure to peanuts in a baby’s diet seems to lessen the risk of developing a peanut allergy later.

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