Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Neuron Killers

    Misfolded, clumping proteins evade conviction, but they remain prime suspects in neurodegenerative diseases.

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  2. Humans

    Wake-up call for sleep apnea

    A large, long-term study of sleep apnea links the breathing disorder to increased risk of death.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Dopamine could help the sleep-deprived still learn

    Sleep loss impairs fruit flies’ ability to learn, just as it does in people. But boosting dopamine in the flies can erase these learning deficits.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Promising HIV gel fails in latest trial

    Halted in trials, an anti-HIV gel is ineffective, but may not add to risk of infection, as previously thought.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Costly Health Care Mistakes

    Medical malpractice that many of us won’t recognize as such — or be able to prove — remains too high.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Calcium’s possible role in Alzheimer’s

    A new study in mice finds that plaques associated with Alzheimer’s wreak havoc on calcium’s role in cell signaling.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    To catch a cheat

    Drug test cheaters find quick fixes on the Web, but toxicologists aren’t so easily fooled.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    This trans fat is vindicated

    Featured blog: FDA accords some trans fats a "generally regarded as safe" designation.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Statins versus dementia

    Statins, developed to fight cholesterol, may also prevent some dementia, a study of older Hispanics finds.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    A chink in flu’s armor

    Finding the shape of a protein that enables the flu virus to replicate points to ways to combat the disease.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Protein links metabolism and circadian rhythms

    Scientists have known for ages that metabolism is tied to the body’s daily rhythms. Two new studies suggest how.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    New HIV inhibitor

    A new HIV drug can, when combined with other therapies, suppress even the most drug-resistant strains of the virus that causes AIDS, scientists report in two papers in the July 24 New England Journal of Medicine.

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