Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Warning Sign: River blindness parasite shows resistance
The parasitic worm that causes river blindness seems to be developing resistance to the only drug that controls it.
- Health & Medicine
Fluorine highlights early tumors
Microscopic, fluorine-packed particles can make small, cancerous growths easier to detect.
- Health & Medicine
Diabetes drug might hike heart risk
People who take rosiglitazone, a popular diabetes drug marketed as Avandia, may face an increased risk of heart attack.
- Health & Medicine
Stents Stumble
After a meteoric rise, stents coated with drugs to prevent renarrowing of clogged arteries have begun to fall from favor among cardiologists.
- Health & Medicine
Concerns over Genistein, Part I—The heart of the issue
One of soy's ostensibly beneficial constituents may aggravate cardiovascular disease, at least in older women.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine Harvest: Cholera fighter could be easy to swallow
An edible vaccine, made by genetically engineering rice, safeguards mice against the toxin produced by cholera bacteria.
- Health & Medicine
Right combination of malaria drugs?
Children in Uganda who contract malaria recover faster with a drug based on artemisinin, derived from Chinese wormwood, than with a longstanding medical remedy.
- Health & Medicine
Nutrients linked to brain lesions
The more calcium and vitamin D elderly individuals consume, the greater the number and size of lesions that show up in their brains.
- Health & Medicine
Super-Size Mice—Fast Food Hurts Rodents
When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me.
- Health & Medicine
Blending In: Dissolvable stents promise to protect arteries
A biodegradable magnesium stent props open clogged blood vessels and then dissolves, circumventing the problems linked to permanent metal stents.
- Health & Medicine
Guilt by Association: Whole-genome scans yield disease clues
In a sweeping demonstration of the power of the new biology, researchers have linked two dozen genetic variations to six major diseases.
- Health & Medicine
Animal-to-human diseases could be right at home
A new map of where SARS or Ebola might erupt next highlights North America and Western Europe as likely sources.
