Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    No one-fits-all healthy diet exists

    Mice’s response to diet varies with their genes.

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  2. Science & Society

    GM mosquitoes succeed at reducing dengue, company says

    GM mosquito releases in Brazil have helped cut dengue cases 91 percent in a year.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    First case of woman-to-man spread of Zika via sex reported

    The first known case of female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika virus has been reported in New York City.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Exercise helps you get in shape for old age

    Exercise can fend off the effects of aging on the body and brain.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Zika epidemic peaking in Latin America

    Zika virus is burning through the population of Latin America; the epidemic will probably be over within two years, and won’t strike again for at least 10 years or more, a new analysis suggests.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Risk of travelers to Olympics sparking new Zika outbreaks low

    Just four countries — Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea and Yemen — bear a substantial risk of bringing Zika virus home from the Olympics and having it spread, the CDC says.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Still mysterious, aging may prove malleable

    Our editor in chief discusses the science of aging.

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  8. Neuroscience

    The brain’s blueprint for aging is set early in life

    The brain's decline may mirror its beginning, offering clues to aging.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Post-stroke shifts in gut bacteria could cause additional brain injury

    The gut’s microbial population influences how mice fare after a stroke, suggesting that poop pills might one day prove therapeutic following brain injury.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Unprotected sex less risky if HIV-positive partner on antiretroviral therapy

    The risk of HIV transmission during unprotected sex drops drastically if the HIV-positive partner is taking antiretroviral therapy.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    ‘Cracking the Aging Code’ tackles aging from evolutionary perspective

    In 'Cracking the Aging Code', theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and writer Dorion Sagan take a different approach to the science of growing old.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    How one patient spread MERS to 82 people

    One person passed the Middle East respiratory syndrome virus to 82 others during an outbreak in South Korea in 2015.

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