Health & Medicine

  1. Earth

    Cell phones: Precautions recommended

    Scientists make a case for texting and using hand-free technologies with those cell phones to which society has become addicted.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Monkeys get full color vision

    Male squirrel monkeys with red-green colorblindness can distinguish the hues after gene therapy, study suggests.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Diabetes drugs don’t fight inflammation

    Two popular diabetes drugs lower blood sugar but don’t reduce markers of inflammation.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Cell phones: Feds probing health impacts

    Senate hearing finds that biomedical research agencies aren't complacent about potential health effects of cell-phone radiation.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Journal bias: Novelty preferred (which can be bad)

    Negative findings in a drug trial may seem ho hum, but they're too important to ignore or leave unpublished.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Ghost authors remain a chronic problem

    They’re not apparitions, just authors who want to fly below – way below – the radar screen of scientific journals and their readers.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Swine flu vaccination should target children first

    A new analysis finds that, as long as it peaks this winter, the H1N1 flu outbreak could be curtailed with a vaccination program that targets children first.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Hearing bolsters case for U.S. moly-making

    Congress today addressed the need to wean America off of reliance on foreign sources of a feedstock of the most widely used isotope in medical imaging.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    The eyes remember

    Eye movements may reveal memories that the hippocampus recalls even when a person isn’t aware of them, a new study shows.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Dopamine primes kidneys for a new host

    Giving dopamine infusions to brain-dead organ donors may make transplanted kidneys more resilient, a new study shows.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Tetris players are not block heads

    Playing the geometry-based computer game can boost the brain’s gray matter.

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  12. Chemistry

    New bond in the basement

    Scientists identify a sulfur-nitrogen link, never before seen in living things, critical to holding the body together.

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