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For three decades we‘ve heard endlessly about the virtues of aerobic (increasing oxygen consumption)exercise.Medical aut...
2016-06-14 09:53
I am a neuroscientist.I make a living by studying how the brain works.Although neuroscience has taken huge strides forwa...
2016-06-14 09:52
The term“genetically modified”(G-M)is an offspring of another term:biotechnology,a word that‘s been around for about 30 ...
2016-06-14 09:52
Should doctor-assisted suicide ever be a legal option? It involves the extreme measure of taking the life of a terminall...
2016-06-14 09:52
William Shakespeare described old age as “second childishness”—— sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste. In the case of taste...
2016-06-14 09:52
I had two routine checkups last week, and both the eye doctor and the dentist asked me to update my health history for t...
2016-06-14 09:52
Depending on whom you ask, the experiment announced at a Texas medical conference last week was a potential breakthrough...
2016-06-14 09:52
A widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers...
2016-06-14 09:51
IF YOU'RE CONFUSED BY ALL the news about the health effects of eating fish, you're not alone. On one hand, the omega-3 f...
2016-06-14 09:51
Watching a child struggle to breathe during an asthma attack is frightening for any parent. So it is only natural that m...
2016-06-14 09:51
Sleep is a funny thing. We're taught that we should get seven or eight hours a night, but a lot of us get by just fine o...
2016-06-14 09:51
WHAT do you do when everyone hates you? That is the problem faced by America's pharmaceutical industry. Despite its succ...
2016-06-14 09:51
The countdown goes something like this: 3) IRS auditor, 2) ex-husband's new 20-year-old girlfriend, 1) dentist. The top ...
2016-06-14 09:50
It was a big week for Alzheimer's disease, and not just because PBS aired The Forgetting, a first-rate documentary about...
2016-06-14 09:50
Shortages of flu vaccine are nothing new in America, but this year's is a whopper. Until last week, it appeared that 100...
2016-06-14 09:50
At 18, Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20...
2016-06-14 09:50
You hop into your car, but, wait, where are the keys? You meet someone new, but her name is gone before the handshake's ...
2016-06-14 09:50
When Ellen M. Roche, 24, volunteered for the asthma experiment, she didn't expect to benefit from it——except for the $36...
2016-06-14 09:49
Scientists have known for more than two decades that cancer is a disease of the genes. Something scrambles the Dna insid...
2016-06-14 09:49
Dr. Wise Young has never met the hundreds of thousands of people he has helped in the past 10 years, and most of them ha...
2016-06-14 09:49