Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Window of opportunity for stroke treatment widens

    Use of clot-busting drugs as long as 4½ hours after an event pays dividends later.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer data: Burying bad news

    Featured blog: Data from the vast majority of human cancer trials never get published, a new study finds — and that's not a good thing.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Closing in on Rett syndrome

    Scientists find that a particular part of the mouse brain is responsible for behavioral abnormalities associated with Rett syndrome, an autism spectrum disease that strikes females.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Diabetes drug helps shed pounds

    The diabetes drug pramlintide facilitates year-long weight loss in obese volunteers, a new study shows.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    This is the brain on age

    The activity of genes in men's brains begins to change sooner than it does in women's brains, a new study shows.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Lo-Cal bones hold up

    One study of many recent investigations of how calorie restriction affects people shows that bone density does not necessarily suffer when a person loses weight quickly.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    The Candidates’ Shadow Health Advisers

    Here are a few names from the teams of advisers counseling the presidential candidates.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Plastics chemical linked to heart disease, diabetes

    Study is based on data collected from human adults and matches urine concentrations of bisphenol A with type 2 diabetes, heart disease and liver enzyme problems

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Late nights and disease

    Getting too little sleep may lead to health problems. A new study shows that after only one night of sleep deprivation, women have higher levels of an inflammatory molecule linked to cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.

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  10. Materials Science

    A killer paint job

    New findings suggest that nanotechnology paints for walls, ceilings and surfaces could one day be used to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Averting Medical Mistakes

    Work-hour reforms are needed to protect both the youngest, most-inexperienced doctors and the hospital patients they're charged with treating.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Good day care grime

    A study of 952 children in Manchester, England, suggests that children going to day care starting at age 6 months could be less likely to develop asthma later.

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