Health & Medicine

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    HIV variant might help vaccine search

    Scientists have discovered an unusual HIV protein in a Kenyan woman that makes the virus vulnerable to antibodies.

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    Sleep disruption and glucose processing

    Shallow sleep can depress the body's ability to process glucose efficiently.

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    Night lights may foster cancer

    Regularly working through the night appears to come at a steep cost—a heightened risk of cancer.

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    Blind Bet

    Although the chances of success are far from certain, many desperate horse owners are gambling on stem cell therapy for their injured equine friends.

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    The State of Our Nutrition

    With the new year, people start thinking about dieting and developing better overall health habits. Want to know which regions of the nation started out the year as the most and least healthy—and by what measures? Turn to new maps prepared by the Agriculture Department and click on the state(s) of interest. Agency scientists have […]

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    Risky DNA: Autism studies yield fresh genetic leads

    Two new studies point to the diverse genetic roots of autism and related developmental disorders, while other evidence questions the claim that mercury-based childhood vaccines have contributed to rising autism rates.

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    Down syndrome’s anti-tumor effect

    The chromosomal abnormality that causes Down syndrome might protect against some solid tumors.

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    Smoking ups risk for type 2 diabetes

    Smoking increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by up to 61 percent.

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    Addiction Alleviator? Hallucinogen’s popularity grows

    The unsanctioned use of an obscure hallucinogen, ibogaine, to treat addiction has exploded recently.

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    New Task: Malaria drug might inhibit some cancers

    The antimalarial drug chloroquine may prevent some cancers.

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    Keeping metabolic syndrome at bay

    Chromium supplements reduced some of the unhealthy effects of a sedentary lifestyle in rats.

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    A Different Side of Estrogen

    Understanding estrogen's function is complicated by the fact that it can bind to two distinct receptors; scientists studying the second receptor now think that drugs targeting it could help a wide variety of ailments.

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