Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    ‘Vomiting device’ sounds gross but it helps study infections

    Scientists created a “vomiting device” to study how norovirus spreads through the air.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Study finds early signs of bookishness in a child’s brain

    Children from book-friendly homes show higher brain activity when they hear a story, but there’s more to learn about how reading affects growing brains.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Teen e-cig users more likely to smoke tobacco

    E-cigarette use is linked to later tobacco use in teens.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Football games come with more head hits than practices do

    As football intensifies from practice to games, the number of impacts increases, a new study finds.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Building standards aren’t to blame for chilly offices

    A recent study made headlines for finding differences between men and women in comfort level for heating and cooling. But that’s not why women are cold in the office.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Fish oil may counter schizophrenia

    Three months of omega-3 fatty acids protects against psychosis for years, a small study suggests.

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  7. Neuroscience

    A voyage into Parkinson’s disease, led by patient and journalist

    Jon Palfreman’s Brain Storms explores Parkinson’s disease in the past, present and future.

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  8. Life

    Gastric bypass surgery changes gut microbes

    Weight loss surgery changes microbes for good.

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  9. Life

    Gastric bypass surgery changes gut microbes

    Weight loss surgery changes microbes for good.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Spicy food linked to longevity

    Spicy food in the diet seems to contribute to longevity, a study of thousands of people in a Chinese registry finds.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Spicy food associated with longevity

    Spicy food in the diet seems to contribute to longevity, a study of thousands of people in a Chinese registry finds.

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  12. Environment

    Dust components may promote obesity

    Fat dust bunnies may contain obesity-boosting chemicals.

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