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Unraveling the Key to a Cold Virus’s Effectiveness
By CARL ZIMMER
New research suggests that lower temperatures help rhinoviruses get past the immune system.
New research suggests that lower temperatures help rhinoviruses get past the immune system.
One day soon, we may be able to quickly scan a patient’s brain, check his brain activity “fingerprint” and select an antidepressant or psychotherapy accordingly.
Researchers reported that a new drug, extracted from a soil sample, easily cured infections in mice, with no side effects.
Even as fewer people are marrying, the disadvantages of remaining single have broad implications.
The money spent to influence doctors tends to be in the service of newer drugs that are “fairly redundant.”
The pharmaceutical and medical device industries have not made it easy to track their expenditures on doctors and teaching hospitals.
In part because of wage stagnation, even smaller rises in health care costs are less affordable, a study by the Commonwealth Fund said.
The federal government opted to automatically re-enroll health insurance customers at the end of 2014; Rhode Island decided to make them shop again.
The group of experts endorsed a close version of the cancer drug Neupogen, which could open the door to more such biosimilar medicines.
Like fashion shows, gyms have their status-symbol front rows, too, and the scramble is on for those coveted spots.
The rules could force more than half the remaining abortion providers in Texas to close.
An appeals panel ruled on Wednesday that requiring children to be vaccinated before attending public school does not violate their constitutional rights.
Active older people resemble much younger people physiologically, according to a new study of the effects of exercise on aging.
A dark and golden cake that has a wonderful moist texture, with a slight crunch.
Older adults account for a disproportionate number of pedestrian deaths, so they need to make sure they have enough time to cross a street.
A reader asks: Why do people get blockages in the arteries of the heart and brain, but rarely in other organs?
For a fleeting moment last spring, the epidemic sweeping West Africa might have been stopped. But the opportunity to control the virus, which has now caused more than 7,800 deaths, was lost.
Critics of Margaret Chan have said she lets governments around the world steer the W.H.O. to fit their own needs, instead of firmly taking the helm as the world’s doctor in chief.
The patient, who an official said was not showing symptoms, arrived in Omaha on Sunday to be monitored at the same hospital that previously treated three patients who contracted Ebola overseas.
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