Humans

Health & Medicine

Grades slipping? Check for snoring

Children who snore frequently are more likely to struggle with their schoolwork than are children who rarely snore.

Humans

From the September 9, 1933, issue

FLEET AS MERCURY The laboratory has yielded a photograph of striking beauty showing Dr. Joseph Slepian and Leon R. Ludwig, Westinghouse engineers, examining a product of their research. They have developed a new method of controlling mercury arc devices which is said to be more positive and many times faster in action than methods now […]

Anthropology

Continental Survivors: Baja skulls shake up American ancestry

Members of a foraging group that lived on Mexico's Baja peninsula around 600 years ago were direct descendants of America's first settlers, who arrived on the continent at least 12,000 years ago.

Health & Medicine

Zealous Adherence: Erratic HIV therapy hasn’t fueled resistance

Among people infected with HIV, those who don't consistently take their antiretroviral drugs as prescribed are no more likely to develop drug-resistant HIV than are patients who adhere to their treatment schedule.

Archaeology

Art on the Rocks: Dating ancient paintings in the caves of Borneo

By dating the mineral deposits on top of cave paintings in Borneo, archaeologists have pushed back the date of earliest human habitation on the island by at least 5,000 years.

Health & Medicine

Double Shot: Anthrax vaccine gets makeover

An experimental anthrax vaccine appears to spur production of antibodies that stop the bacterium and disable the anthrax toxin at the same time.

Humans

From the September 2, 1933, issue

URN PATTERNS EXISTED LONG BEFORE URNS WERE MADE Urns, whether for flowers or for funeral ashes, have always had much the same pattern; so much so, that the shape immediately and automatically evokes the name. But that shape existed on the earth long before the earliest neolithic potter smoothed out the walls of the first […]

Health & Medicine

Better Bones: Women benefit from low dose of estrogen

Ultralow doses of estrogen and progesterone given to postmenopausal women boost bone density compared with placebos, without causing the adverse effects seen in some women who get larger doses of these hormones.

Health & Medicine

Old polio vaccine free of HIV, SIV

Three laboratories analyzing remaining samples of polio vaccine used in the late 1950s find that none contains any human or simian immunodeficiency virus, or chimpanzee DNA—making polio vaccine unlikely to be the cause of the initial HIV outbreak in central Africa.

Health & Medicine

Stem-cell transplant works on lupus

Severe lupus can be reversed with a transplant of the patient's own bone marrow stem cells, after they're allowed to mature outside the body, and medication that neutralizes self-attacking immune cells.

Health & Medicine

Fighting cancer from the cabbage patch

Extracts of foods belonging to the cabbage family can block the action of estrogen, a hormone that fuels many cancers.

Health & Medicine

Nerves in heart show damage in Parkinson’s

Some patients with Parkinson's disease also have destruction of nerve terminals in the heart that affects blood pressure.