Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Food Colorings

    Many deeply hued plant pigments appear to offer health benefits, from fighting heart disease and obesity to preserving memory.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Health & Medicine

    One-Two Punch: Vaccine fights herpes with antibodies, T cells

    An experimental vaccine against genital herpes shows promise in animal tests.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Expanding the therapeutic arsenal

    Two experimental drugs can send chronic myeloid leukemia into remission in patients who don't benefit from the best currently available drugs.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Drug counters severe platelet shortage

    An experimental drug called AMG531 revs up production of platelets in people with severe shortages of these clotting agents.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Health & Medicine

    Viagra eases lung pressure in patients

    Viagra eases increased blood pressure in the lungs, a condition that affects about one-third of adults with sickle-cell disease.

    By Nathan Seppa
  6. Health & Medicine

    Taking on a lethal blood cancer

    A drug called bortezomib can induce remission of an aggressive kind of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Health & Medicine

    Male contraceptive shows promise in monkeys

    A shot that primes the immune system against a sperm protein might be the next male contraceptive.

    By Christen Brownlee
  8. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin C and diabetes: Risky mix?

    Vitamin C supplements may place people with diabetes at increased risk of heart disease.

    By Janet Raloff
  9. Health & Medicine

    Vinegar as a Sweet Solution?

    A spoonful of vinegar can help the blood sugar go down.

    By Janet Raloff
  10. Health & Medicine

    Birth Dilemma: Doctors weigh pros and cons of cesareans

    Women attempting a vaginal birth after a cesarean delivery have more uterine ruptures and other complications than do women undergoing a second cesarean section.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    Colon scans reveal heart risk

    Virtual colonoscopy may offer the side benefit of identifying heart attacks that are waiting to happen.

    By Ben Harder
  12. Health & Medicine

    Trade Center cough is diagnosed

    Obstructions that trap air deep within the lungs may explain certain breathing difficulties among some people who worked at the site of the World Trade Center following Sept. 11, 2001.

    By Ben Harder