Health & Medicine

  1. Brain

    Zaps to spinal cord help paralyzed people walk

    Sending electrical pulses to the spinal cord can help paralyzed people learn to walk again, new tests show.

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  2. Brain

    Young people’s memory improves after stopping marijuana use

    Paying teens and young adults to stop using marijuana improved their memory within one week. The results hint that some impairments from pot may be reversible — at least for a time.

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  3. Brain

    People may be literally led by their noses

    The brain links people’s senses of nagivation and smell, according to a new study.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Why can’t bugs be grub?

    Insects are tasty and nutritious, and raising them is good for the planet. So how can Westerners be convinced to give insects a taste?

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  5. Brain

    The immune system has a say in how hard ‘teen’ rats play

    “Teen” rats like to wrestle. A new study shows the brain’s immune system might trigger changes that morph this desire for rough-and-tumble play into the calm of adulthood.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Many food supplements unlawfully contain drugs

    The most common medicines tainting these products were usually ones that doctors prescribe for weight loss, for muscle building or to boost a man’s sex drive.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Scientists Say: Quarantine

    This is a restriction on where people or animals who are sick — or suspected of being sick — can go. Doctors use quarantine to try to prevent a disease from spreading.

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  8. Brain

    Less screentime linked to better memory, learning in kids

    Kids ages eight to 11 spend an average of 3.6 hours a day on screens, a new study shows. But the best thinking scores come from kids who average fewer than two hours a day of screen time.

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  9. Microbes

    Bacteria and bugs will save us from the zombie apocalypse

    Don’t fear the undead. Here’s how the body’s cells, microbes and insects will eat a zombie before it ever goes looking for brains.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Scientists Say: Parasite

    Lots of organisms live in pairs, benefitting from each other. But when one organism benefits while the other suffers? That first organism is a parasite.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Chigger ‘bites’ may trigger an allergy to red meat

    Some people develop a food allergy to red meat, and researchers suspect chiggers bites are to blame.

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  12. Science & Society

    Teen vaping of marijuana raises concerns about addiction

    A new study estimates that nearly 1 in 11 middle and high school students in the United States has vaped marijuana, raising concerns about addiction.

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