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Nearly 100,000 people die every year from bugs that they pick up in health care facilities; experts say most of these infections are preventable
Appearing in the October, 1957 edition of Scientific American, this article is an early mention of a phenomenon that would come to be known as "white flight."
Your first encounter with "better" living through nanotechnology may be your sunscreen
Is race-based medicine a boon or boondoggle?
Biologist Virpi Lummaa's work reveals that humans may be the best subject to study for evolutionary effects across generations
Scientists have a hunch that the gray hairs we dread (or welcome) may arrive sooner with stress
A myth as durable as gum itself holds that the chewy confection sticks to your innards like it does to the bottom of a desk
Missing sleep tonight may just boost your dreams tomorrow night.
Pets may or may not help fend off developing allergies but they will help keep the house from being antiseptically clean.
There is a reason cats prefer meaty wet food to dry kibble, and disdain sugar entirely
There's more to blood banking than just bagging blood
A controversial lawsuit challenges the FDA's system of controlling access to experimental drugs and, some say, the scientific basis of drug approval
Globalization ushered in a world in which more than a billion are overfed. Yet hundreds of millions still suffer from hunger's persistent scourge
A well-publicized study and a spate of popular books raise questions about the ill effects of being overweight. Their conclusions are probably wrong
New approaches are needed to protect the food supply
For women just past menopause, hormone pills seem safe
Security fears spawn ways to treat radiotherapy's downside
Combination therapy as the best approach for damaged spinal cords
Failed rebuilding after Katrina sets off a mental health crisis in the Gulf
Seeing if the public is ready for personal genetic information
The 39th edition expands Gray's original task
In the search for cures, how much is permissible?
Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.
Last fall Robert Klein got Californians to vote for embryonic stem cell work. That was a piece of cake compared with getting the resulting research agency off the ground
Detractors initially worried that he might be a White House shill, but Elias A. Zerhouni says his
medical thinking guides his stewardship of the National Institutes of Health
In a hospital northeast of Kabul, surgeon Gino Strada is redefining what it means to provide quality medical care in a combat zone