Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Rice Woes, Pt. 1

    A shortfall in rice production has been developing well under the radar screen of agricultural economists and growers. The bad news: It promises to get much worse, and fairly soon.

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  2. Earth

    It’s the meat not the miles

    Eating less red meat and dairy may do more to reduce food-associated greenhouse gas emissions than shopping locally.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Treat ’em

    High blood pressure often goes untreated in people 80 and over, but a new study suggests that treatment extends survival.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Mondo bizarro

    Psychiatrists measuring the degree of similarity between dreams and psychotic ruminations report some strange features common to both.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Friend or foe? Drunk, the brain can’t tell

    Intoxicated brains can’t discern between threatening and safe situations.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Let there be light

    Researchers report restoring vision to people with a rare, genetic form of blindness. A different technique helped blind mice see again and could bring back some sight in people with macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa or other blinding diseases.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Tripping up avian flu

    Developing an effective vaccine for avian flu has been difficult, but small rings of DNA that hinder virus replication could offer an alternative.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    BOOK REVIEW | A Portrait of the Brain

    Review by Tina Hesman Saey.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Pockets of poor health

    Life expectancy decreases in some locations

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  10. Health & Medicine

    New approach might strike at the core of Alzheimer’s disease

    By finding a way to stick an enzyme-inhibiting molecule to the membrane of a cell, scientists may have devised the framework for an Alzheimer’s drug.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Old drug offers new tricks for fighting cancer

    A drug once envisioned as a treatment for cancer might instead prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Triggering autoimmune assaults

    Mouth bacteria unleash inflammation-inducing protein

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