Health & Medicine
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BOOK LIST | On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
The rise, fall and resurgence of the original “anti-depressants.” ON SPEED: THE MANY LIVES OF AMPHETAMINE New York Univ. Press, 2008, 352 p., $29.95 (cloth).
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Tame-walk potion
A one-two sting and a cockroach lets a wasp lead it like a dog on a leash.
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Brain trauma
Cooling the body temperature of a child who has severe brain injury doesn’t seem to help recovery, but the jury is still out.
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Bad synergy
Hookworm and other parasite infections work in concert to heighten risk of anemia in children. The problem may be especially bad for school-aged children, whose learning ability is often compromised by anemia.
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Microbes clean up mercury
Researchers think a microbe could clean up mercury-laced Native American artifacts.
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A Faulty Eye Witness: Hallucinations
Treatment for Oliver Sacks' cancer damaged an eye and triggered something he never expected: his brain to display things that simply didn’t exist.
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A Faulty Eye Witness, Part I
Oliver Sacks shared observations from his latest journal on how losing sight in one eye changed a man's life. Sacks had intimate knowledge of every detail – because he’s the patient.
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High doses
Emergency room patients are exposed to high doses of radiation from CT scans and other nuclear medicine.
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Reading minds … or at least brain scans
By analyzing brain activity, computers can tell what word is on your mind.
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Monkey think, robotic monkey arm do
In a step toward someday making brain-controlled prosthetic arms for people, scientists have trained monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts. Click on the image to read the story and see the video.
- Chemistry
Kavli Awardees Named
Norwegian Academy awards three novel and hefty prizes to three teams of scientists.
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Gut feeling
A bacterial compound can reverse intestinal disease in a mouse, providing the first example of a microbial product “networking” with the mammalian immune system to quell inflammation.
