Health
How Designers Can Improve Health Care For Everyone
The last place anyone expects to find a designer is in a hospital, clinic or operating room, but those are exactly the spaces where I embed myself.
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The Sciences
Drugs for Metabolism Could Reverse Lupus
Immune cells in mice with lupus symptoms have overactive metabolisms, so scientists inhibited two metabolic pathways and succeeded in reversing lupus symptoms in mice
Health
Overuse of Antibiotics Caused Infections by Bug That Killed 29,000 in 1 Year
A newly released CDC report focused on the Clostridium difficile bacterium, which can cause deadly diarrhea
Health
An Electrical Off-Switch for Disease [Video]
Stimulator devices can tweak nervous system activity to turn down inflammation or treat other effects of disease
Mind & Brain
Pot Munchies Explained By Re-Tasked Neurons
Marijuana boosts users' appetities by changing the signals brain cells produce from sated to still hungry. Karen Hopkin reports.
Vaccines
How to Get More Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids
A look at the financial and behavioral nudges that can provide incentives for change
Health
Menopause Symptoms Have Unappreciated Staying Power
Although clinical guidelines assume just two years for hot flashes and night sweats, a large study finds a median symptom duration of more than three times that length. Dina Fine Maron reports
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Health
Value of Vaccines Eludes Pandering Politicians
We've seen the needle and the damage avoided
Technology
Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award by Thinking Small
M.I.T.’s Robert Langer is being recognized for his efforts to fight cancer and other diseases by melding nanoscale engineering with science and medicine
Health
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: America's Greatest Health Risk of 2015?
Today, up to 25 percent of people in the U.S. are living with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to the American Liver Foundation.
Health
Turbocharging the Brain
Will a pill at breakfast improve concentration and memory—and will it do so without long-term detriment to your health?
Health
Teen HPV Vaccine Does Not Spur Riskier Sex
Counter to the fears of some parents, teen girls who are vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus do not go on to catch more STDs than their peers
As Psychedelics Revival Rolls On, Don't Downplay Bad Trips
I’m no psychedelic prude. I reported on, and applauded, the resurgence of research into psychedelics in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism.
Health
A Pill That Mimics the Immune System
Synthetic antibodies with the potential to be orally ingested to fight cancer and autoimmune diseases may replace cumbersome intravenous therapeutics
Health
Guinea to Expand Use of Experimental Anti-Ebola Drugs
Guinea's government has authorized the wider use of an experimental drug to treat Ebola in treatment centers after successful initial trials, officials said
Health
5 Babies at Suburban Chicago Daycare Center Have Measles
The diagnoses add to a growing outbreak of the disease across the U.S.
Health
Robot Scientist Discovers Potential Malaria Drug
The machine called Eve is packed with innovations for finding drugs faster
Health
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to Step Down
The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for almost six years has overseen public health initiatives ranging from tobacco control and food safety to personalized medicine ...
Health
Global Fund Needed to Fight Dangerous Superbugs
A global fund should be created to speed development of much-needed new antibiotics to counter the growing threat of drug-resistant superbugs, a British-government backed review said
Health
Top U.S. Doctor Says Medical Marijuana May Help Some Conditions
The United States' top doctor said that medical marijuana can help some patients in comments on Wednesday that may boost pressure on the Justice Department to redesignate the drug under federal law...
