Health & Medicine
- Life
Genetics offers more hints about autism
Three studies illustrate why a single cause for autism spectrum disorders has been so difficult to pin down.
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- Health & Medicine
Drug prevents some breast cancers
A hormone-blocking compound can waylay some malignancies in healthy women who are deemed at risk.
- Health & Medicine
A year adds up to big changes in brain
Third grade brings big shifts in how kids use their heads to solve math problems.
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- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
No link between viral suspect and chronic fatigue, plus reading minds, colored glasses for migraines and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Spotting newborns at risk of hearing loss
Testing for cytomegalovirus in saliva of infants can identify those harboring the virus, a new study shows.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Cancer treatment raises stroke risk, plus ankle-powered sprints, irregular heartbeats and more in this week’s news.
- Physics
What it means to ‘feel the noise’
Scientists investigating the nexus between sound and touch suggest that the ear arose from skin.
- Tech
Cans bring BPA to dinner, FDA confirms
Federal chemists have confirmed what everyone had expected: that if a bisphenol-A-based resin is used to line most food cans, there’s a high likelihood the contents of those cans will contain at least traces of BPA.
- Health & Medicine
Bacterial meningitis keeps falling
Vaccination against a strep bacterium and other microbes has proved a potent deterrent over the past decade, a nationwide survey shows.
- Humans
Skeptical scientists call 1-800-BALONEY on cell phone study
Findings on brain effects are vigorously attacked and just as strenuously defended.
