Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Older moms may have options to reduce newborns’ risks

    Although babies born to older mothers face a higher danger of congenital heart defects, exercising moms may offset this added risk, a study in mice shows.

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  2. Tech

    Exoskeleton boot makes for more efficient walking

    Newly developed exoskeleton boots that are unpowered are showing scientists that it is still possible to make walking even more efficient for humans.

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  3. Microbes

    Some superbugs lurk in Britain’s surf

    In Great Britain’s coastal waters, surfers and swimmers are exposed to low levels of drug-resistant E. coli, a new study finds.

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  4. Humans

    Egg-meet-sperm moments are equal opportunities for girls and boys

    Despite previous claims, equal numbers of male and female embryos are conceived, new data suggest.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Performance gains from Tommy John surgery still up for debate

    Major league baseball pitchers who undergo two Tommy John surgeries have shorter careers than peers who don’t have the surgery, a new study finds.

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  6. Science & Society

    White House unveils strategy against antibiotic resistance

    The Obama Administration has launched a long-term plan to curb antibiotic resistance, unveiling incentives and requirements designed to boost surveillance and diagnosis of resistant microbes.

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  7. Genetics

    Iceland lays bare its genomes

    A detailed genetic portrait of the Icelandic population is helping scientists to identify the genetic underpinnings of disease.

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  8. Chemistry

    Air pollution molecules make key immune protein go haywire

    Reactive molecules in air pollution derail immune responses in the lung and can trigger life-long asthma.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Clean-up gene gone awry can cause Lou Gehrig’s disease

    Scientists have linked mutations on a gene involved in inflammation and cell cleanup to ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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  10. Chemistry

    Today’s pot is more potent, less therapeutic

    The medicinal qualities of marijuana may be up in smoke thanks to years of cross-breeding plants for a better buzz.

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  11. Tech

    Plans fizzled for nuclear-powered artificial heart

    In 1965, researchers saw a nuclear-powered heart in the future.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Prospective Crohn’s drug yields high rate of remission

    An experimental Crohn’s disease drug triggers a high remission rate in patients.

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