Learning About Your Family's Elevated Alzheimer's Risk—As Early As Age Eight
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.
Semen Protects HIV from Microbicide Attack
Microbicides that kill HIV in the lab often fail in clinical trials. A study finds that semen may be the culprit. Cynthia Graber reports
Doctors Without Borders Fight on Ebola's Front Lines
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
Depression Could Finally Get as Much Biomedical Attention as Cancer
Research into depression has struggled whereas studies of cancer have thrived. The balance could be shifting
Tainted Drugs Suspected in Sterilization Surgery Deaths
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
What Can Be Done with All the Ebola Waste?
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
Ebola Expert Update
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
New Type of More Problematic Mosquito-Borne Illness Detected in Brazil
A second form of the painful chikungunya virus has appeared in Brazil—one that could more easily spread, including to the U.S.
Pee in This Cup, Doc: Random Drug Tests Should Be Standard for Physicians
Enough physicians have substance abuse problems to make random drug testing a needed part of medical practice
Plan Now for Future Ebola Outbreaks
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
Louisiana Scuttles Medical Conference Plans Over Ebola Fears
Organizers of tropical medicine meeting to offer refunds, swap out speakers
Hints of Progress in the Ebola Fight
The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?