Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    An Exploitable Mutation: Defect might make some lung cancers treatable

    Nonsmokers who develop lung cancer are more likely than their smoking counterparts to have a mutation in the gene encoding epidermal growth factor receptor.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Should Foods Be Fortified Even More?

    Nutrition scientists argue that mandatory enrichment of cereal-grain-based foods with calcium and vitamin D would pay rich, needed health dividends.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Juice could ward off cancer in smokers

    Drinking grapefruit juice every day could reduce the risk of developing cancer from smoking.

    By Alexandra Goho
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    Immune reaction to poison gas brings delayed effects

    Researchers have a new understanding of why some survivors of carbon monoxide poisoning later develop concentration problems, personality changes, or sensory impairments.

    By Ben Harder
  5. Health & Medicine

    Figuring Out Fibroids

    Researchers now have a better understanding of which women develop fibroids and what causes them.

    By Ben Harder
  6. Health & Medicine

    Scanning Risk: Whole-body CT exams may increase cancer

    Adults who routinely get whole-body CT scans without medical cause are exposing themselves to doses of radiation that may increase their risk of dying from cancer.

    By Diana Parsell
  7. Health & Medicine

    Alzheimer’s Advance: Omega-3 fatty acid benefits mice

    A diet that includes a key omega-3 fatty acid found in fish prevents some memory loss in mice that develop a disease resembling Alzheimer's.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Health & Medicine

    Pathogenic partners prompt pneumonia

    A study of infants has shown that bacterial and viral pathogens may act together in causing pneumonia, a finding that could affect treatment options.

    By Diana Parsell
  9. Health & Medicine

    Mexican Americans face stroke risk

    Middle-aged Mexican Americans face twice the stroke risk that non-Hispanic whites do.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin E may curb colds in old folks

    Vitamin E seems to help elderly people fend off colds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    We’re Very Supplemented

    Increasingly, men and women reach for pills to insure against the possibility they're not eating a healthy diet.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Health & Medicine

    Keeping Cells under Control: Enzyme suppression inhibits cancer spread

    Shutting down an enzyme can slow the spread of cancer in mice.

    By Nathan Seppa