A Colombian university is providing regular workshops on brain basics and genetics to grade schoolers from families who face a high risk of developing Alzheimer's in the prime of life from a rare genetic mutation...
Microbicides that kill HIV in the lab often fail in clinical trials. A study finds that semen may be the culprit. Cynthia Graber reports
Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine
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Research into depression has struggled whereas studies of cancer have thrived. The balance could be shifting
Tainted or sub-standard drugs probably led to the deaths of 13 women after sterilization surgery at a family-planning "camp", and owners of the factories that produced them have been summoned for questioning...
An Ebola patient produces up to 40 times more waste than other patients. This and other challenges, including too-small airstrips, complicate the fight against the virus
Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks about Ebola with tropical medicine and infectious disease expert Daniel Bausch of Tulane University at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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A second form of the painful chikungunya virus has appeared in Brazil—one that could more easily spread, including to the U.S.
Diagnostics, vaccines and new drugs could vastly improve the way future Ebola outbreaks manifest in Africa, according to emerging infectious disease expert Jeremy Farrar. Steve Mirsky reports
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Organizers of tropical medicine meeting to offer refunds, swap out speakers
The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?
A new experiment will study life span extension via an antiaging drug administered to domestic dogs
In August 1905, Jean Lanfray, a French man working on a vineyard in the Swiss village of Commugny, murdered his wife and their two children.
The artificial human guts could be used to study diseases and test drug treatments
Routine clinical use of his vaccine forestalled the paralysis and death brought by the dreaded illness
The NIH is due to roll out new sex-balance policies this month. So far that's meant "carrot" rather than "stick" measures, and no clear date for changes to funding rules...
Enough physicians have substance abuse problems to make random drug testing a needed part of medical practice
The World Health Organization is testing a handful of experimental vaccines. Hundreds of thousands of doses could be available before the end of June
Should Ebola continue to crop up in the U.S., having fewer people coming to emergency rooms with the similar symptoms of flu will help the public health system respond. Steve Mirsky reports
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When a species experiences catastrophic population declines as high as 99.9 percent, any bit of good news is cause for celebration—even if the news isn’t exactly great.
