Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Preventive drugs protect children

    Preventive treatment with inexpensive drugs decreases rainy-season cases of malaria in Senegal.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Saturated Fat Shows Unexpected Benefit

    In a study of menopausal women, those who consumed higher amounts of saturated fats over 3 years had less plaque buildup in their arteries.

    By Diana Parsell
  3. Health & Medicine

    Umbilical Bounty: Cord blood shows value against leukemia

    Umbilical cord blood transplants offer a viable treatment alternative for leukemia patients who don't have a matching bone marrow donor.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Drugs counteract irritable bowel syndrome

    Antibiotics can knock out bacteria overload in the small intestine, temporarily reversing irritable bowel syndrome.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Health & Medicine

    Asthma Counterattack

    After several experimental attempts, researchers finally have verified that fighting allergens in the household can reduce symptoms of asthma.

    By Ben Harder
  6. Health & Medicine

    A Carrot Rainbow (with recipe)

    There are more than aesthetic benefits from looking beyond orange when it comes to selecting carrots.

    By Janet Raloff
  7. Health & Medicine

    Lingering Loss: In 2-year diet trial, new pill keeps off weight

    Obese adults who lose weight during a year of taking an experimental diet drug, rimonabant, and dieting keep the weight off during the following year, if they continue the regimen.

    By Ben Harder
  8. Health & Medicine

    Problems for Preemies: Early birth is linked to insulin overproduction

    Children born prematurely are more likely than their full-term counterparts to develop insulin resistance, a marker for diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Trials affirm value of drug

    The drug STI-571, previously shown to work against chronic myelogenous leukemia, also helps patients who have slipped into an acute, highly lethal form of this cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    Old and new drugs may fight myeloma

    In some people with a bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma, treatment with thalidomide or PS-341, which induces programmed cell death, may improve their chances of survival.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics, vitamins stall stomach cancer

    A 6-year study shows that vitamin C, beta-carotene, and antibiotics can reverse premalignant conditions that could otherwise lead to stomach cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    Staph receptor as drug target

    A receptor molecule on the surface of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus might present an exploitable weak spot in the microbe's defenses.

    By Nathan Seppa