The Sciences
Will R&D Ever Get the Tax Break It Deserves?
The innovation industry faces an uncertain future, as long as the United States R&D Tax Credit remains a Congressional roller coaster ride.
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Mind & Brain
Bouncy Gait Improves Mood
If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically may improve your mood. Christie Nicholson reports
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Health
$25 Spent on Sexual Health per Woman per Year Would Dramatically Reduce deaths
This expenditure would also give women the choice of smaller, healthier and more productive families, according to a UN report
Health
Ebola Free-for-All Could Trigger Bad Science and Wasted Efforts
Everybody and his uncle, it seems, has an idea of something that might work to cure people infected with the deadly virus
Health
Know the Jargon: Plantibody
(n.) A human antibody produced by plants
Health
U.S. Ebola Vaccine Clears Safety Test
The candidate drug will be tested next to see how well it can help prevent infection
Is the Blood of Ebola Survivors an Effective Treatment?
When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data indicating that such transfusions work...
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AIDS-Fight Advocates Say Pandemic Has Finally Reached Tipping Point
The world has finally reached "the beginning of the end" of the AIDS pandemic that has infected and killed millions in the past 30 years, according to a leading campaign group fighting HIV...
Health
How to Hijack A Cell
Taking control of cells by squeezing them
Environment
Statins May Protect People from Air Pollution
Statins, prescribed to lower cholesterol and reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes, seem to diminish inflammation that occurs after people breathe airborne particles
Mouse Experiment Suggests We Might Sleep Off Toxic Memories
One area of brain science that has drawn intense interest in recent years is the study of what psychologists call reconsolidation—a ponderous technical term that, once translated, means giving yourself a second chance...
Health
Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Drug Now Exceeds $2.5B
A benchmark report estimates that the cost of bringing a drug to market has more than doubled in the past 10 years
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Pay per Puff? E-Cigarette Boom Sparks Race for New Patents
By Martinne Geller and Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Electronic cigarette makers are racing to design and buy variations of a technology that has lit a billion-dollar boom, created a new vocabulary, and prompted a backlash from health officials worried about the impact of the new smokeless devices...
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Deceptive Practices in Drugs Research Could Become Harder
The proposed crack-down would close loopholes that allow researchers to hide negative findings and harmful side effects
Health
Care of the Wounded, 1914
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 21, 1914 From the Scientific American Supplement issue of November 21, 1914, we note, "The first object of an army in war is to disperse or destroy the enemy, but a correlative duty is the care of its own men when wounded or otherwise [...]..
Battle of the `Staches Raises Money for Men's Health
People who donate money or fundraise for a cause are often silent heroes. However, unlike many fundraising efforts, it's readily apparent who's participating in one that's currently taking the nation by its facial hair...
Health
A Day in the Life of an Ebola Worker
Denial, violence and fear make it difficult to stamp out Ebola in west Africa
In a Lather Over Triclosan? Thumbs Down to Fear Mongering Soap Operas
Another day, another fuss about an animal study. This time, it’s a cancer scare around a common antibacterial in soaps: triclosan. “The dirty side of soap,” says the headline on the university’s press release...
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Controversial Cholesterol Drug Reduces Risk of Heart Disease
The ability of ezetimibe to combat heart disease previously was in dispute
Health
Improved Ebola Situation in Liberia May Complicate Vaccine Trials
As fewer people get sick, the trials may need to include more participants than planned to deliver usable results
