Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Thalidomide treats Crohn’s disease
Study of children with the inflammatory bowel disorder raises possibility of new use for tainted drug.
- Health & Medicine
Chilling body doesn’t stop bacterial infection
Lowering the body temperature of individuals with severe bacterial meningitis may not help to improve patients’ health and could do more harm than good.
- Health & Medicine
Starting exercise late in life still helps with aging
Becoming and staying active as an older individual can lead to a more years without long-term health conditions.
- Health & Medicine
Whooping cough vaccine may still allow some level of infection
Animal tests show pertussis shots stave off symptoms but allow spread of the bacteria.
- Health & Medicine
Drug use on the rise in older set
The use of illicit drugs has declined slightly over the last decade among teens but is growing more common in people over age 50.
- Health & Medicine
Experiments in pasta
In discovery mode, babies gather every bit of information they can about the world around them.
- Health & Medicine
Eating nuts may extend a person’s life
People who regularly ate peanuts or tree nuts were less likely to die during decades-long studies.
- Life
Blood clotting disorder blocked in dogs
Gene therapy stopped severe bleeding in dogs with the blood clotting disorder hemophilia.
- Health & Medicine
Cage temps change tumor growth in mice
Cooler living conditions may influence lab mice's responses to experimental cancer therapies that target the immune system.
- Health & Medicine
Quick cooling after cardiac arrest questioned
For a decade, doctors have made induced hypothermia standard practice.
- Health & Medicine
Changes in malaria parasite may make Africans more susceptible
Ominous signals are emerging simultaneously in population studies and under the microscope that Plasmodium vivax, a malaria parasite well known in Asia and Latin America, may have found a way to infect Africans.
- Health & Medicine
Old drug, new tricks
Metformin, cheap and widely used for diabetes, takes a swipe at cancer.
