Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Helping Hands: Brief rehab method aids arm activity after stroke

    Stroke survivors who have difficulty using an arm or a hand experience lasting mobility gains after completing an unusual 2-week rehabilitation program.

    By Bruce Bower
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    Insulin can protect diabetic brains

    Staying on top of diabetes treatments may prevent some of the brain atrophy and cognitive deficits that typically accompany the disease.

    By Christen Brownlee
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    Pain follows cycle

    Estrogen fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle may change her perception of pain.

    By Christen Brownlee
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    The Cancer of Dorian Gray

    By studying mice that have been engineered to carry mutations in certain tumor-suppressing genes, researchers have identified a link between cancer and aging.

    By Ben Harder
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    Vanishing Devices: Doctors implant disappearing stents, heart patches

    Novel heart devices fashioned mainly from materials that the body can absorb or break down have made their debut in heart patients.

    By Ben Harder
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    Lung Scan: CT may catch some treatable cancers

    Computed tomography (CT) scans seem to catch lung cancer early in smokers, but questions remain about the screening procedure.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Protecting against a difficult microbe

    By using DNA from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, scientists have fashioned a vaccine against the microbe.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Flu vaccine seems to work for kids under 6 months of age

    Babies younger than 6 months appear fully capable of responding to a flu shot.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Dengue strikes United States

    Texas has been hit with the first-ever outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the continental United States.

    By Nathan Seppa
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    Cola May Weaken Women’s Bones

    New research indicates that, in postmenopausal women, regular consumption of cola-flavored soft drinks may weaken bones.

    By Janet Raloff
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    A Salty Controversy over Sodium-and-Health Papers

    A public-interest group has raised a ruckus over salt-industry payments to the authors of a nutrition journal's package of articles on salt's influence on health.

    By Janet Raloff
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    Prep Work: Bird-flu vaccine might work better with primer

    Giving people a vaccine against an existing form of avian influenza might help them respond better when given a shot for a future strain of the virus during a pandemic.

    By Nathan Seppa