Discover Magazine: Health & Medicine. 24 November 2018.
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Comment: Here are the top health and medical news stories from the contributors to “Discover Magazine.” Views expressed in these blogs are those of the reporters and correspondents.
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TOPIC RESULTS: HEALTH & MEDICINE
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A New Treatment for Alzheimer’s? It Starts With Lifestyle11/16/2018 — By Linda Marsa
Armed with big data, researchers turn to customized lifestyle changes to fight the disease.
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With Big Data and Predictive Analytics, Scientists Are Getting Smarter About Outbreaks11/8/2018 — By Mallory Locklear
Devastating diseases can catch us unaware, but medical experts are developing digital tools to prevent future chaos.
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Bacteria That Eat Drugs Could Help Solve the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis11/8/2018 — By Jonathon Keats
Researchers design bacteria to gobble up antibiotics in the environment, before microbes have a chance to turn deadly.
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Meet the Biochemist Engineering Proteins From Scratch10/30/2018 — By Jonathon Keats
Biochemist David Baker changed the study of proteins — now he’s changing the proteins.
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Vertigo, Panic and Trouble Breathing: What’s Going On Here?10/19/2018 — By Tony Dajer
Chest-tightening, world-spinning attacks leave a 25-year-old grasping for answers.
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The Coroner Crisis10/2/2018 — By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
In 1920s Chicago, forensic pathologists were overworked and taking shortcuts. Today they face a similar problem amid a nationwide opioid epidemic.
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Searching for the Sandman9/28/2018 — By Henry Nicholls
Generations of scientists have tried to explain why we sleep. The answer may rest in the most primitive brains.
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Cellular Cyborgs: How Programmable DNA Strands Might Control Healing9/25/2018 — By Eric Smalley
Are programmable, living circuits the future of medicine?
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Low Note9/24/2018 — By Julia Michie Bruckner
A teenage girl’s changing appearance and voice baffle doctors.
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Not So Fast9/24/2018 — By Mark Barna
Scientists disagree on how to eat for your best life. Dieting may never be the same.
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The Man Who Lost His Language Overnight8/13/2018 — By Eliezer J. Sternberg
One day, a 70-year-old man woke up speaking a language his wife couldn’t understand.
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A Double Whammy6/12/2018 — By Rachel Cernansky
Exposure to certain chemicals may be a quiet culprit in the global increase of liver disease.
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Cracking Listeria’s Secrets6/12/2018 — By Claire Panosian Dunavan
We know a lot about the crafty and resilient microbe, but it remains a deadly threat.
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Human Speed6/12/2018 — By Teal Burrell
Born to run.
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It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt6/12/2018 — By Lacy Schley
Exciting new gadgets are fun to play with, but sometimes they can get us into trouble. Hoverboards are a prime example. The two-wheeled toys — sadly, more like fancy skateboards than true hoverboards à la Back to the Future — have …
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What to Read This Summer6/12/2018 — By Gemma Tarlach
Whale tales, an ancient road trip, a Mars to-do list and more.
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Eye of the Beholder6/12/2018 — By Amitha Kalaichandran
A boy’s mysterious injuries set off alarms at a pediatrics ward.
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Teeth6/12/2018 — By Charlotte Hu
Brace yourself.
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Does Anyone Know CPR!?5/15/2018 — By Tony Dajer
A middle-aged man collapses and, for 15 minutes, has no pulse. Can he return to life?
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A Blood Test to Root Out Cancer5/15/2018 — By Delia O’Hara
Researchers work to fine-tune a test that could better detect lingering disease in cancer patients.
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