Our bacteria travel everywhere with us
Researchers attempting to understand microbiome, how it affects our health
DATE: Aug 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
Lauran Neergaard
What makes math brains?
The ol’ noggin needs experience to retain those arithmetic solutions
DATE: Aug 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
This one-two punch could help eradicate polio
Shots, drops – which to use has been controversial
DATE: Aug 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented
WASHINGTON – A U.S. health official warns that the current Ebola crisis in West Africa is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbreaks of the disease combined.
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DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Biological pacemaker on horizon
Experiments on pigs’ hearts have led to battery-less option
DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
Do you know how strong that drink is?
Calculator helps figure how much alcohol you are about to consume
DATE: Jul 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
Building a better helmet to knock out concussions
New design aims for more complete head protection
DATE: Jun 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
New study could nip Alzheimer’s in the bud
Healthy seniors to be tested in bid to foil disease
DATE: Jun 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
Waits for doctors can vary widely outside VA
There are wide variations in wait times, depending on where you live and what kind of care you’re seeking.
Need routine primary care? The average wait to see a family physician fo...
DATE: Jun 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Floating lab showcases ‘aliens of the sea’
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Researcher Leonid Moroz emerges from a dive off the Florida Keys and gleefully displays a plastic bag holding a creature that shimmers like an opal in the seawater. ...
DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Growing new muscle in men’s injured legs
WASHINGTON – Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries – and say the experimental treatment coaxed the men’s ow...
DATE: May 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
New way to beat jet-lag?
App promises what it hasn’t delivered
DATE: Apr 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health
