Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Why kids look funny when they run

    Kids’ short legs give them little time to push high off the ground, a constraint that leads to the jerky toddler trot.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Health & Medicine

    Weight and sun exposure linked to onset of multiple sclerosis

    Among people with multiple sclerosis, those with higher body mass and lower adolescent sun exposure tended to be diagnosed with the disease at an earlier age, a new study suggests.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  3. Genetics

    Chemistry Nobel honors studies of DNA repair mechanisms

    Studies of DNA’s repair mechanisms have won Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

    By Sarah Schwartz and Meghan Rosen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Nobel medicine prize won for drugs from natural sources

    Nobel Prizes in medicine or physiology awarded for drugs that combat roundworms and malaria

    By Tina Hesman Saey and Laura Sanders
  5. Health & Medicine

    Therapies against roundworm, malaria parasites win medicine Nobel

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology was awarded to Youyou Tu for her work in counteracting malaria, and to William Campbell and Satoshi Omura for work on treatments against roundworm parasites.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  6. Health & Medicine

    Fizzy bubbles carry drugs deep into wounds

    Bubble-powered drugs burrow into wounds to stop blood loss.

    By Meghan Rosen
  7. Health & Medicine

    Sperm protein may offer target for male contraceptive

    With the identification of a new sperm protein that helps sperm penetrate eggs, researchers may be closer to developing birth control pills for men.

    By Meghan Rosen
  8. Health & Medicine

    Sperm protein may offer target for male contraceptive

    With the identification of a new sperm protein that helps sperm penetrate eggs, researchers may be closer to developing birth control pills for men.

    By Meghan Rosen
  9. Life

    Babies low on key gut bacteria at higher risk of asthma

    Asthma risk may be set early in life, but mice data suggest that the risk could altered by friendly gut bacteria.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  10. Health & Medicine

    What makes cells stop dividing and growing

    Scientists have found that the protein GATA4 helps control cellular senescence, and may be a target for treating aging-related diseases.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  11. Health & Medicine

    Having sex doesn’t trigger heart attacks, study suggests

    Sex doesn’t trigger heart attacks, study of patients with cardiovascular disease suggests.

    By Meghan Rosen
  12. Health & Medicine

    Balloons-and-glue device seals remote wounds inside the body

    To repair damaged tissue, surgeons can deliver a glue patch using two balloons and a blast of UV light.

    By Meghan Rosen