Health & Medicine

  1. Animals

    Explainer: Animals’ role in human disease

    Wildlife, livestock and pets are the source of most germs that can sicken people

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  2. Brain

    Teen fighting may harm IQ

    Blows to the head may explain these effects on the brain.

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  3. Brain

    Nature resets body’s clock

    After a week in the wild, people went to bed — and got up — earlier.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Explainer: The teenage body clock

    Around puberty, a change in the body clock of adolescents and teens makes it hard for them to fall asleep as early as they used to.

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  5. Tech

    Sniffing for cancer

    New surgical tool offers surgeons speedier diagnosis of tissues that are cancerous.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Cool Jobs: Sports science

    From soccer teams to the balance beam, scientists help athletes perform their best.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Explainer: What should I know about HIV and AIDS?

    Here are some common myths and some less common facts.

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  8. Microbes

    Some dirt won’t hurt

    It could even lower risks of serious allergic disease.

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  9. Brain

    Explainer: What is jet lag?

    Traveling across time zones can disrupt circadian rhythms.

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  10. Life

    Explainer: What is a stem cell?

    Special cells have ability to turn into several different types

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Fat becomes a disease

    Medical group decides it is time for doctors to view — and treat — obesity as a disease.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Infection time

    Disease is more severe when it hits in the morning, at least in mice.

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