Health & Medicine
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- Neuroscience
An on-off switch for eating
By triggering or silencing certain brain cells, scientists can get mice to feed or stop feeding regardless of hunger.
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- Health & Medicine
Dextrose rub helps newborns with low blood sugar
Massaging the sugary gel into babies’ mouths may lessen the need for intravenous infusions of glucose, a study shows.
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Home births more risky than hospital deliveries
Babies born at home are more likely to lack pulse after five minutes.
- Animals
MERS virus jumped several times from animals to humans
More than one person caught new illness from bats, camels or other creatures.
- Humans
Brain research goals laid out
NIH details priority areas, including improving imaging technology and mapping brain structures.
- Humans
Chemical behind corked wine quashes other aromas
Old sock smell signals contamination but doesn't belong to TCA, study proposes.
- Health & Medicine
Alzheimer’s disease protein structure may vary among patients
Two people with different symptoms had amyloid-beta fibers with different shapes.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine stops deadly sand-fly-spread scourge in animal test
A DNA vaccine triggers protection against the sand-fly-borne scourge Leishmania.
