Vol. 142 No. 2825, February - February 2014
Index
- Diabetes is second leading cause.
- Seniors should ice up their cell phones.
- Fish and flax may help prevent broken hips.
- 'Our memories are basically who we are,' says Nachum Ulanovsky of the Department of Neurobiology at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science.
- Another way to lower type 2 diabetes risk.
- Are you trying to lose that beer belly by the time summer arrives?
- If you are inspired to start exercising because of the Winter Olympics, but are not enthusiastic about the challenging weather, you do not have to wait.
- Moms who are not ambulatory after delivery, perhaps because of a cesarean section or other complications, are able to see their newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical center.
- Post-bariatric diet important as surgery.
- Scientists who built a synthetic gene circuit that allows for the precise tuning of a gene's expression in yeast now have refined this research tool to work in human cells.
- Stroke, heart attack risks are real.
- The American Heart Association.
- You do not have to be a pack-a-day smoker to increase your odds of illness.
- All is lost, insist researchers.
- Focusing on faces may be key to cure.
- Dissolvable gel seals and unseals quickly.
- Infections linked to later behavioral problems.
- Personal care products possible source of harm.
- High levels weaken immune response.
- Staph bacteria battle deep within the nose.
- The anti-cancer road is lined with snacks.
- Virus-like particles employed to battle flu.
- Old drugs just may provide new tricks.
- Read those labels when dining out.
- Restaurant fare no healthier than fast food.
- Healthy diets not that much more expensive.
- New food test ensures proper labeling.
- Surgeon general's report: happy 50th.
- Teen mentors inspire better choices.
- Little evidence of added benefits.
- Tumor measurements predict survival.
- Do breast cancer meds lead to heart disease?
- Drug disrupts tumor cell division.
- Safe delivery system finally found.
- Tiny materials and devices fight disease.
- Faster diagnosis for fibromyalgia on horizon.
- High risk of recurrence despite removal.
- Less can be more when removing lymph nodes.
- Healthy cells keep deadly ones alive.
- Hurricane Katrina provides new source.
- Rare childhood disease holds clues for others.
- MRI can predict risk of heart attack.
- Patients not receiving treatment they need.
- Trucks more likely than cars to be the cause.
- Drug-resistant strains wreaking havoc.
- Genetic discovery may reduce guesswork.
- Methane leaks endanger cities.
- Emergency room visits skyrocket.
- Solving the "cocktail party problem".
- Will 'expansion' states be overrun?
- Young Americans to ObamaCare: not interested.