Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    This week in Zika: Vaginal vulnerability, disease double trouble and more

    Puerto Rico cases of Zika suggest that the virus prefers women. And two new findings reveal more about Zika’s transmission and ability to survive outside the body.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    50 years ago, fluoridation was promoted as a bone protector

    In 1966, scientists hoped fluoride might protect adult bone health. While the results broke down over time, the benefits for teeth remain clear.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Heartburn drugs may raise stroke risk

    Drugs used by millions for heartburn linked to increased risk of stroke.

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  4. Neuroscience

    Despite Alzheimer’s plaques, some seniors remain mentally sharp

    Plaques and tangles riddle the brains of some very old and very healthy people.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Protein linked to Parkinson’s travels from gut to brain

    Parkinson’s protein can travel from gut to brain, mouse study suggests.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Downside of yo-yo dieting is rise in heart disease risk

    Yo-yo dieting hurts the heart, even if you’re not overweight.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Chinese patient is first to be treated with CRISPR-edited cells

    Researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 to engineer immune cells that were then injected into a patient with lung cancer, the journal Nature reports.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Restless sleep associated with heart rhythm problems

    Poor sleep, even without apnea, is tied to heart rhythm problems.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Marijuana use weakens heart muscle

    Marijuana linked to dangerous heart stress.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Zap to the head leads to fat loss

    Stimulating the vestibular nerve led people to shed fat in a small trial.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    CDC sounds alarm on STDs

    The combined reported cases of three common sexually transmitted diseases reached a historic peak in 2015, a new CDC report says.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Popular painkiller doesn’t have more heart risks than others, study claims

    A long anticipated trial of the drug Celebrex finds it poses no more risk to the heart than do similar painkillers, but critics cite flaws in the study.

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