Health & Medicine

  1. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Environment

    Dust components may promote obesity

    Fat dust bunnies may contain obesity-boosting chemicals.

    By Beth Mole
  4. Health & Medicine

    Ebola vaccine protects people in West Africa

    In Guinea trial, zero cases of Ebola occurred in people potentially exposed who received immediate shots of a new experimental vaccine.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Health & Medicine

    Kidney transplants may benefit from a slightly chilled donor

    Transplanted kidneys performed better when taken from organ donors whose bodies were intentionally cooled after death.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  6. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics early in life may have lingering effects

    A study in mice show long-lasting effects from courses of antibiotics early in life.

    By Laura Sanders
  7. Health & Medicine

    The five basic tastes have sixth sibling: oleogustus

    Scientists dub the taste of fat oleogustus.

    By Teresa Shipley Feldhausen
  8. Health & Medicine

    How trans fats oozed into our diet and out again

    Trans fats are no longer “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA. In a world where we want to have our doughnuts and eat them, too, it’s back to the drawing board, and back to butter.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  9. Health & Medicine

    Resveratrol’s anticancer benefits show up in low doses

    Small amounts of the compound found in red wine and grapes prove protective against colon cancer in mice fed a high-fat diet.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  10. Science & Society

    Autism’s journey from shadows to light

    Science writer Steve Silberman considers autism in the modern era of neurodiversity - a movement to respect neurological differences as natural human variation - framing the relatively progressive autistic experience of today against the the conditions oppressed past.

    By Laura Sanders
  11. Health & Medicine

    Bystanders deliver on CPR

    People suffering from cardiac arrest are more likely to survive without brain damage if a bystander performs CPR, new studies suggest.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    Death by brain-eating amoeba is an inside job

    Immune response to brain-eating amoeba may be the real killer.

    By Laura Sanders
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