Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Acid reflux link to asthma now in doubt

    Heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors, commonly prescribed for asthma patients, don’t prevent breathing attacks.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Pet-ty injuries

    Pooch underfoot? It's all too common.

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  3. Life

    Primate vision puts pieces together

    Study suggests nerve cells in retinas create an intricate system of interlocking receptive fields.

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  4. Chemistry

    Leaden blood hikes granny’s heart risks

    Featured blog: Even low concentrations of lead circulating in blood may pose lethal heart risks, a new study finds.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Sleep may clear the decks for next day’s learning

    Two separate studies suggest that sleep reduces connections between neurons in fruit flies’ brains.

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  6. Life

    Cells renew in the human heart

    Carbon 14 from Cold War–era nuclear bomb tests allowed researchers to track cell birth.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    HPV screen beats Pap smear

    A test for human papillomavirus outperforms the standard Pap smear in catching precancerous cervical lesions, a study of women age 30 and over shows.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Scary data about bum medical diagnoses

    Doctors' misdiagnoses are frequently misdiagnosed — at least before it's too late.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Parasites hinder immunity against cholera

    Harboring intestinal parasites seems to limit a person’s ability to fend off cholera, a new study conducted in Bangladesh shows.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Autism immerses 2-year-olds in a synchronized world

    By age 2, kids with autism focus on synchronized physical events, such as a person’s moving lips accompanied by sounds, rather than on eye movements and other social cues, a new study suggests.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    How herpes re-rears its ugly head

    Researchers identify a key player in the reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Gestures speak volumes in the brain

    A new brain-imaging study suggests that an understanding of spoken language relies on changing sets of brain networks that exploit acoustic and visual cues.

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