Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Treating viral heart infections

    Viral heart infections respond to interferon treatment, easing cardiomyopathy in some patients.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Mini heart attack best treated like the big one

    Patients admitted to hospitals with mild symptoms of a heart attack may benefit from getting a heart catheterization performed promptly.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Itch

    When it comes to sensory information detected by the body, pain is king, and itch is the court jester. But that insistent, tingly feeling—satisfied only by a scratch—is anything but funny to the millions of people who suffer from it chronically.

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  4. Humans

    Food allergy advice may be peanuts

    Early exposure to peanuts in a baby’s diet seems to lessen the risk of developing a peanut allergy later.

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  5. Psychology

    A genetic pathway to language disorders

    Researchers suspect a newly uncovered regulatory link between two genes contributes to language impairments in a range of developmental disorders.

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  6. Chemistry

    First complete cancer genome sequenced

    With the entire genome sequence of a tumor now in hand, scientists may be able to start answering basic questions about cancer.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Vitamins don’t alter cancer risk

    Taking supplemental folate and other B vitamins doesn’t raise or lower the risk of cancer in women.

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  8. Chemistry

    From Aerators to Rust — New Lead Risks

    Rusty water and other unusual sources of toxic risks in home drinking water.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    A sugar helps E. coli go down

    Some harmful strains of E. coli might rely on something sweet to do harm.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Malaria takes on the top meds

    Malaria is thwarting frontline drugs called artemisinins in Cambodia.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Fungal meningitis spreads in Pacific Northwest

    A fungus called Cryptococcus gattii that causes meningitis is slowly making its way down the North American West Coast.

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  12. Tech

    Bias, quakes and viruses, oh my!

    Researchers present findings at the annual New Horizons in Science meeting.

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