Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Drug may offer MS turnaround

    A drug used against leukemia can ease disability in early-stage multiple sclerosis patients over a three-year span.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Closest look yet at lung cancer genes

    A large study offers clues to the genetics behind lung cancer.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Bacteria that do logic

    A team engineers microbes to perform AND, OR, NAND and NOR logic operations.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Streamlined polio vaccine fights outbreaks

    Back to basics: A simplified polio vaccine works better than the standard approach and overcomes an unforeseen shortcoming in the widely used oral vaccine.

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  5. Humans

    Bypassing paralyzed nerves

    Implanted electrode helps paralyzed monkey clench its forearm muscles.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Society for Neuroscience annual meeting

    Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin D deficiency

    Parkinson’s disease patients are more commonly lacking in vitamin D than Alzheimer’s patients or healthy people.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Bad air for growing brains and minds

    Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Body In Mind

    Long thought the province of the abstract, cognition may actually evolve as physical experiences and actions ignite mental life.

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  10. Humans

    New hand, same brain map

    An investigation of a man who received a successful hand transplant suggests that reorganization of sensory maps in the brain following amputation can be reversed in short order.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Flu shot in pregnancy protects newborns

    Mothers-to-be impart antibodies to offspring that pay dividends later

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Let’s Get Physical

    The feds articulate how much exercise we should consider as healthy.

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