Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Statin snag

    A gene variant explains why some people get muscle pains from cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Viagra and women

    Viagra eases some sexual problems for women taking antidepressants

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  3. Health & Medicine

    The Woman Who Can’t Forget

    Jill Price, Simon & Schuster, 2008, 263 p., $26.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    The Handy Anatomy Answer Book

    Naomi E. Balaban and James E. Bobick, Visible Ink Press, 2008, 376 p., $21.95.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    MapQuest for the mouse spinal cord

    The Allen Institute for Brain Science unveils an online atlas of the mouse spinal cord. The atlas is a tool for researchers studying spinal cord injury, disease and development.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Insightful Light

    Raman spectroscopy may offer doctors, dentists and forensic scientists a better tool for molecular detection.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Finding the Golden Genes

    Advances in gene therapy could tempt some athletes to enhance their genetic makeup, leading some researchers to work on detection methods just in case.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    X-ray vision

    A new imaging technique could give scientists unprecedented views into cells and other objects at the nanoscale.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Against the grains

    People on either a low-carbohydrate or Mediterranean diet fared better over two years than those on a low-fat diet.

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  10. Life

    HIV after DARC

    A gene variant prevalent in people of African descent increases the risk of HIV infection but also helps slow disease progression.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Asthma oddity

    Helicobacter pylori, a common microbe that colonizes the stomach, might protect against asthma.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    The two faces of prion proteins

    Scientists are learning more about the protein behind mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, including how to interfere with the protein’s production in the brains of mice.

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