Research among college students suggests a link between neuropsychiatric disorders among family members and intellectual pursuits.
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Obesity and chronic liver disease might be infectious, triggered by proteins that alter populations of microbes in the stomach, according to a Yale report.
New maps show the prevalence of malaria, one of Earth’s most deadly diseases, around the globe.
Jan 17, 2012
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If your friend is darting their eyes – and swiveling their head to look and listen from side to side – they might be exhibiting the face of anxiety.
Jan 11, 2012
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Scientists used to think a cold worked just like a flu, which attacks and kills cells inside the body. But that’s not so, says Ackerman.
Arrests in a $1.5 million scheme to sell stem cell treatments to terminal patients marks a step in the emergence of the controversial stem cell therapies market.
Jan 09, 2012
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The “couch potato pill” – said in 2008 to build muscle and increase endurance in mice without exercise – might help prevent deaths due to overheating in those who are susceptible.
Research on sponges and corals have led to “helper drugs” that could make some antibiotic resistant bacteria respond once more to antibiotics.
Dec 29, 2011
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People with more bacteria, but fewer varieties of bacteria, on their skin are more attractive to a mosquito important in the spread of malaria.
Dec 16, 2011
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Researchers have deciphered a new chemical code that disease-carrying bacteria use to rally themselves. They call it Ax21.
