Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Feds won’t cover PET scans during isotope crisis

    One alternative procedure for scouting bone cancers is theoretically available, but currently may be an option only for people with deep pockets.

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  2. Tech

    How medicine is ‘barely managing’ the isotope crisis

    Medicine is managing a prolonged and record shortfall in the principal diagnostic-imaging isotope by triaging the most urgent patients, substituting less effective procedures and working longer hours.

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  3. Tech

    Isotope crisis threatens medical care

    Global production of the feedstock for the leading medical-imaging isotope is low and erratic, putting health care in jeopardy.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Brain doesn’t sort by visual cues alone

    Blind and sighted people’s brains sort the living from the nonliving in the same way, suggesting this ability may be hard-wired.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Bone-preserving drug passes tests in men, women

    New drug limits bone fractures in elderly women and men fighting prostate cancer

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Neurons play Simon Says

    A new study finds evidence for mirror neurons in people.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Collins takes helm at NIH

    Renowned geneticist will lead the world's largest biomedical research enterprise.

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  8. Life

    DEET’s nastiness extends to humans

    Study finds the bug-repellent ingredient stopped an enzyme from doing its job.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Adult mouse gut makes new neurons

    Scientists find newborn nerve cells in the intestines of adult mice, suggesting a new line of research for treating intestinal disorders.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    BPA: House tries to put feds on the spot

    New legislation has a proviso asking for a reanalysis of a widely used plasticizer's safety.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Twin towers fallout lingers

    People who were near the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, have high asthma and post-trauma stress rates years later.

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  12. Animals

    New HIV-1 group

    Scientists have identified another variant of the virus that can cause AIDS.

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