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  1. Health & Medicine

    Alzheimer’s damage might start off early

    Copper and free radicals may initiate the brain damage of Alzheimer's disease long before its hallmark protein plaques have formed.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Seemingly safer steroid mimics

    A glucocorticoid mimic may offer the autoinflammatory effects of steroids with fewer side effects.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Boning up with vitamin E

    Vitamin E may ward off osteoporisis—at least in mice.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Saving fertility for cancer survivors?

    A compound called sphingosine-1-phosphate preserves fertility in female mice given radiation treatment.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Glucose control spares arteries in diabetes

    Very strict control of blood glucose concentrations helps limit atherosclerosis formation in people with type I, or juvenile-onset, diabetes.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Critical Care: Sugar Limit Saves Lives

    Strictly controlling blood-sugar concentrations in critically ill patients can reduce deaths by a third.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Forget about jet lag, and much more

    Airline flight attendants with chronic jet lag have higher stress hormone concentrations and smaller temporal lobes (centers of short-term memory in the brain)than do more rested attendants.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Prostate protection? This is fishy

    Diets rich in fish may cut a man's risk of prostate cancer.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Tofu May Get the Lead Out

    Lead, a toxic heavy metal, can show up in the most unexpected places. For instance, several recent studies documented a worrisome tainting of calcium supplements. Just last month, some Mexican lollipops were recalled from U.S. stores upon a finding that their wrappers had leached lead into the candy. And recently, this column recounted the perils […]

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    Studies suggest how salad may protect heart

    Lutein, a yellow pigment in many fruits and vegetables, may inhibit processes that jump-start the development of atherosclerosis.

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    Leukemia overpowers drug in two ways

    Researchers discover why the anticancer drug Gleevec, also called STI-571, helps many patients who have chronic myelogenous leukemia but not those who have entered the crisis stage of the disease.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Coming to Terms with Death

    Some newly recognized forms of cell death might be harnessed to aid people with cancer and other serious diseases.

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