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There's a Shot for That
02.15.2012 Medical researchers are working on new kinds of vaccines that could cure everything from diabetes to nicotine addiction.
by Jessica Snyder Sachs
Strong Medicine, Bitter Pills
Statistics show that prescription drugs are a surprisingly threat to young children. 02.09.2012
The Lethal Gene That Emerged in Ancient Palestine and Spread Around the Globe
A long line of discoveries shows the history and biology of the world's most studied piece of DNA, a mutation that causes breast cancer. 01.30.2012
How I Put a Murderer Away With Doppler Radar
Sometimes a smoking gun can be a weather pattern. 01.13.2012
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Alcohol
You can stash it in your muscles, you can make it in your intestines, and you can find it in space. 01.10.2012
#38: Killing Cancer From The Inside
Three new studies suggest ways to home in on cancer cells during treatment, leaving surrounding healthy tissue unharmed. 01.05.2012
#28: Hepatitis B Boosts Malaria Vaccine
Fragments of hepatitis B, which put the immune system on high alert, make a new malaria vaccine the most successful yet. 01.05.2012
#27: Babesia Parasite Taints the Blood Supply
Blood transfusions have infected 159 patients with the malaria-like parasite. 01.05.2012
#22: Y. Pestis, Mother of the Black Plague: Unknown–1353
The bacterial strain that wiped out half of 14th century Europe, scientists found, soon died out itself. 01.05.2012
#81: Inflammation Might Help Defeat Diabetes
Scientists have long tied diabetes to inflammtion—but a new study shows that an inflammatory protein can cure the disease in mice. 01.05.2012
#99: Study Deepens the Mystery of Chronic Fatigue
A new study suggests that the XMRV virus may not be behind chronic fatigue syndrome, after all. 01.05.2012
#98: Brain Signal For Awareness
Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different patterns of neural activity. 01.05.2012
#94: HPV Vaccine—Now for Boys
The CDC recommended that preteen boys, as well as girls, get the HPV vaccine. 01.05.2012
#90: Chronic Lyme Patients Validated
A new study uncovered biomarkers for Lyme disease symptoms that persist even after treatment. 01.05.2012
#87: First Posthumous Nobel Awarded
Immunologist Ralph Steinman won the Nobel Prize in Medicine days after his death. 01.05.2012
#78: Napping Neurons Explain Sleep-Deprived Blunders
Tiny clumps of neurons doze off, even while the brain as a whole is awake. 01.05.2012
#76: Environment Gets More Blame for Autism
A new study suggests that environment accounts for more than half of autism risk, while genes are responsible for about 40 percent. 01.05.2012
#70: Safer Prenatal Tests for Genetic Diseases
Simple maternal blood tests can detect Down syndrome five weeks earlier than existing tests, with no risk to the fetus. 01.05.2012
#69: Cell Phones Alter Brain Metabolism
A 50-minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing. 01.05.2012
#64: Stem Cell Research Hits More Painful Setbacks
Scientists had high hopes for reprogrammed stem cells, which could be derived from a patient's own tissue and grown into any type of cell in the body. But two studies this year highlighted major issues with reprogrammed cells, making their path to the clinic look longer than ever. 01.05.2012
#60: New Treatments Slow Deadly Skin Cancer
Two treatments that boost the immune system improve survival rates and slow cancer growth in late-stage melanoma patients. 01.05.2012
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