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• Healthy right up to the day you're not

  Posted: September 30th, 2008, 5:21pm EDT

  Health is the opposite of a commodity: it flits around like Tinkerbell, defying all the best intentions and predictions.

• You're sick. Now what? Knowledge is power.

  Posted: September 30th, 2008, 5:21pm EDT

  Are patients swimming in a sea of health information? Or are they drowning in it?

• Amazon deforestation rises dramatically

  Posted: September 30th, 2008, 5:21pm EDT

  Brazilian officials say the Amazon is being deforested more than twice as fast as last year.

• Astronauts return safely to China

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 5:11pm EDT

  Three Chinese astronauts returned safely to earth in their space capsule after spending nearly three days in low earth orbit and completing the nation's first spacewalk.

• Violations reported at 94% of U.S. nursing homes

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 5:11pm EDT

  Most nursing homes were cited for violations of U.S. health and safety standards last year, a report said.

• China launches space walk mission

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  China's Shenzhou VII spacecraft counted down to blastoff Thursday on a mission that as expected to include the country's first attempt at a space walk.

• Taking time for empathy

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Physicians miss most opportunities to respond empathetically to their patients, a new study found.

• Rocks may be oldest on earth, scientists say

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  A study suggests that portions of a patch of bedrock in northern Quebec are 4.28 billion years old and formed when the Earth was less than 300 million years old.

• Have your rooftop solar panels disappeared? Check the Internet

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Solar power, with its promise of emissions-free renewable energy, boasts a growing number of fans. Some of them, it turns out, are thieves.

• How to treat a 'money disorder'

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Experts in psychology and financial planning say the number of professionals in the budding field of financial therapy has multiplied in the last few years.

• Flood of junk food puts Greeks at risk

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  The highly praised Mediterranean diet has been gobbled up by an influx of chocolate shops, pizza places, ice cream parlors and fast-food joints.

• Art and science meet at technological pleasure dome

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  The new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, or Empac, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York is a technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses.

• Tapping into what a deer sees, and doesn't

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  A new computer-generated camouflage is being promoted as the first camouflage scientifically designed to make hunters invisible to deer.

• The doctor's hands are germ-free. The scrubs too?

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Amid growing concerns about hospital infections and a rise in drug-resistant bacteria, the attire of health care workers is getting more attention.

• Scabies: Itchy global scourge is often misdiagnosed

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Scabies affects more than 300 million people a year and is frequently mistreated, partly because most physicians are unfamiliar with it and partly because its symptoms mimic so many other skin diseases.

• Vital signs: Exercise-induced asthma linked to less sweat

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Researchers measured levels of sweat, saliva and tears in a group of U.S. marines, and found lower levels in those volunteers with exercise-induced asthma.

• Collider operations on hold until next year

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  The world's newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, will not begin operations again until April, officials at CERN said.

• It takes just one village to save a species

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  By helping a Chinese village out of poverty, Dr. Pan Wenshi, China's premier panda biologist, was able to protect the endangered white-headed langurs.

• Mars rover heads to a new crater

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is heading for a crater 13.7 miles wide.

• Art and science, virtual and real, under one big roof

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Eight years and $200 million in the making, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center aims to be a technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses.

• After Hurricane Ike, finding the coastline rearranged, again

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Fragile barrier islands along the Gulf Coast are being all but obliterated by hurricanes.

• Faster radiation as good for breast cancer, study finds

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  Canadian researchers report that three weeks of more intensive treatment gives same result as standard five-to-seven-week course.

• Nuclear collider delayed in getting down to business

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:20pm EDT

  "Teething problems" continue and helium spill slows use of machine outside Geneva to begin banging protons together.

• Alternative remedies: ancient, but how safe?

  Posted: September 18th, 2008, 7:38am EDT

  The health industry has questions about metals like lead, mercury or arsenic being found in ayurvedic supplements.

• Superfood or monster from the deep?

  Posted: September 18th, 2008, 7:38am EDT

  Major food companies are competing for health-conscious consumers by plugging one food into another and claiming the health benefits of both.

• Instead of eating to diet, they're eating to enjoy

  Posted: September 18th, 2008, 7:38am EDT

  Many dieters are shunning deprivation diets and instead focusing on adding seasonal vegetables, nuts, berries and other healthful foods to their plates.

• Arctic ice retreats less than last year

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 11:11am EDT

  Many Arctic specialists say natural variations in Arctic winds and cloud cover probably had a role in shaping the particularly large ice losses in the past two summers.

• Redefining depression as mere sadness

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 11:11am EDT

  The vexing issue of when bereavement or sadness becomes a disorder, and how it should be treated, requires more study.

• A cold stare can make you crave some heat

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Social iciness feels so cold to those on the receiving end that they will crave a hot drink, a new study has found.

• U.S. drug regulators defend safety of chemical

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Preliminary study, however, suggests that BPA may be linked to heart disease and diabetes.

• Gut instinct's surprising role in math

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  New studies suggest that two number systems, one that is innate for many animals and one that is uniquely human, may be profoundly related.

• U.S. food watchdog defends plastic linked to health risks

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Federal regulators defended BPA even as the first major study of health effects in people linked it with possible risks for heart disease and diabetes.

• Presidential candidates' positions on science issues

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Both presidential candidates have now issued answers to a series of questions about science policy, including ones on climate change and stem cells.

• U.S. states to put price on emissions, but flaws are seen

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Ten states are about to undertake the nation's most serious effort yet to tackle climate change, but there are worries that it may fail to reduce pollution.

• A New York State resort offers insight into climate change

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Two sets of data, meticulously collected in the same area for more than a century, are beginning to offer up intriguing indicators about climate change.

• Using images to understand how the brain works

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  A neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Iowa, Dr. Nancy C. Andreasen answers questions about her use of imaging technology for learning about the physiology of the brain.

• Intuition and math: A powerful correlation

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  New research suggests that math teachers might do well to emphasize the power of the ballpark figure, to focus less on arithmetic precision and more on general reckoning.

• When a pain isn't what you think it is

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  In trying to discover the patterns and causes of referred pain, researchers say they are gaining a greater understanding of how the nervous system works and how its signals can go awry.

• Weight-loss surgery is only half the battle

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Barring any complications, nearly all people who undergo weight-loss surgery lose a lot of weight, but without a strong dedication to weight maintenance, many of them years later may start to regain what they lost.

• Bypassing the roadblocks of autism

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 5:30pm EDT

  For most people, family vacations amount to almost a right. But for those grappling with autism, travel is a trickier proposition. Still, there are families who are determined to hit the road.

• The bipolar puzzle

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 5:30pm EDT

  What does it mean to be a manic-depressive child?

• India's use of brain scans in courts dismays critics

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:49am EDT

  India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from a controversial brain scan test that produces images of the human mind in action.

• Risks found for youths in new antipsychotics

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:49am EDT

  Medicines most often prescribed for schizophrenia in youth are no more effective than older, cheaper drugs and are more likely to cause some harmful side effects, a study has found.

• Seeking mates for furred and clawed

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:59am EDT

  New software has been developed that promises faster matches and — taking a page from human dating sites — details on animals' personalities to ease what can be a testy process.

• Luck was key to dinosaurs' survival, study suggests

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:59am EDT

  A new study suggests that dinosaurs ruled the roost for some 135 million years not so much because they were superior to the competition, but because they were lucky.

• Tiny water bears triumph over outer space

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:59am EDT

  Tardigrades, creatures commonly called water bears, can survive in space, researchers have discovered.

• The politics of wind power

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:59am EDT

  For years in the United States, wind-farm projects had stalled in the face of local political opposition. Then an entrepreneur named Peter Mandelstam came up with a new and energizing approach.

• Medical research awards honor work on statins, bacteria and bits of RNA

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:59am EDT

  Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist whose discovery of the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug helped extend the lives of millions of people, is one of five winners of this year's Lasker Awards for medical research.

• Scientists hail first photos of okapi in wild

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:03pm EDT

  The okapi, an elusive animal that scientists say has not previously been photographed roaming in the wild, has been snapped by a camera in Congo.

• How much Girl Talk is too much?

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:03pm EDT

  Sharing is good, but researchers discuss if it can spin out of control for teenagers.

• Knee study finds limits to surgery for arthritis

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:03pm EDT

  A study has found that surgery is no better than more conservative treatment to relieve knee pain caused by arthritis, but experts are divided about what effect the study and a similar one from 2002 will have.

• Sept. 11 survivors' painful roads to normalcy

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 5:11pm EDT

  The memory of the attack on the World Trade Center remains an everyday reality for the people who were severely burned, and lived.

• UN forum hears from victims of terrorism

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:40am EDT

  The United Nations convened an unusual forum of 18 victims of terrorist attacks around the world - their testimony intended to highlight the human toll that organizers said often gets overlooked.

• Physicists in Geneva turn on their new 'why machine'

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:02am EDT

  After 14 years and $8 billion, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research turned on the most powerful microscope ever built for investigating subatomic particles.

• Maimed on 9/11, trying to be whole again

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:02am EDT

  For those who were injured on Sept. 11, 2001, but survived, the struggle to rebuild their lives goes on.

• Urology discovers it, too, has a feminine side

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:02am EDT

  While women have been a major presence in medicine since the late-20th century, the field of urology remained an exception. But now, that field, too, is undergoing a gender transformation.

• CERN starts up particle collider

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:02am EDT

  After 14 years and $8 billion, scientists turned on the most powerful microscope ever built for investigating the elemental particles and forces of nature.

• Popcorn and nuts not likely to worsen diverticulosis

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:02am EDT

  The first large-scale study of the consumption of nuts and popcorn shows no link between the development of, or complications with, diverticulosis.

• Popular hallucinogen faces growing legal opposition in U.S.

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 12:12pm EDT

  Pharmacologists who believe salvia could open new frontiers for the treatment of addiction, depression and pain fear that its criminalization would make it burdensome to obtain and store the plant, and difficult to gain government permission for tests on human subjects.

• Bipolar disorder tied to age of fathers

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 12:12pm EDT

  Paternal age seems to be tied to the likelihood of having children who develop bipolar disorder as adults, a large study reports.

• Perhaps death is proud; more reason to savor life

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 12:12pm EDT

  A staff nurse tells her first experience with "Condition A," the sudden death of a patient.

• The gender gap again confounds researchers

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 12:12pm EDT

  What is the origin of personality differences between men and women? A series of research teams have analyzed personality tests taken in more than 60 countries - and came up with unexpected results.

• Hallucinogen's popularity in the U.S. may thwart medical use

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:32am EDT

  The use of salvia was once limited to revelation seekers in Mexico. Now, the drug is available legally across the U.S.

• Exotic species may aid diversity, research suggests

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:32am EDT

  Exotic species receive lots of attention and create lots of worry, but some researchers argue that attitudes about them are too simplistic.

• As barriers disappear, some gender gaps widen

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:32am EDT

  A researcher suggests that as wealthy modern societies level external barriers between women and men, some ancient internal differences are being revived.

• Lack of vitamin B12 in elderly may cause brain shrinkage

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:32am EDT

  Low levels of the vitamin B12, found in meat, milk and eggs, may lead to a reduction in brain volume, a new study shows.

• Orphaned by genocide and AIDS, a generation poor and depressed

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:32am EDT

  A survey finds that depression is quite common among the young orphans of Rwanda.

• Breakthroughs seen in cancer spread and stem cells

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:32am EDT

  A young Indian researcher who grew up studying by kerosene lamp has led the way in two promising discoveries: a key to metastasis, the insidious process by which cancer spreads, and a possible way to transform regular cells into stem cells.

• Atom-smasher promises closer look at makeup of matter

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 8:55am EDT

  The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and coming online Wednesday, will explore the tiniest particles and come closer to re-enacting the Big Bang.

• Open water expanding around Arctic

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 8:55am EDT

  Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States have agreed for the first time that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean.

• Marijuana ingredient may fight bacteria

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 7:38am EDT

  Researchers have discovered that the main active ingredient in marijuana shows promise as an antibacterial agent.

• Warmth opens Arctic routes, scientists say

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 7:38am EDT

  The Arctic Ocean, long a frozen region hostile to all but nuclear submariners and seal hunters, is transforming during the summers into more of an open ocean.

• Scientists watch brain cells remember

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Experts said the new study had all but closed the case: For the brain, remembering is a lot like doing.

• Scientists catch cells in the act of remembering

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:17pm EDT

  Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing where an experience is registered and how the brain can re-create it.

• Addiction doesn't discriminate - except when it does

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 6:10pm EDT

  The democratization of addiction may be an appealing message, but it does not reflect reality.

• New technology links European genetics and geography

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  New gene chips - devices that test the DNA at sites along the genome - can assess 500,000 of the genome's three billion units at a time. When these differences are added together, a linkage emerges.

• Will it kill you? New charts detail the odds

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  New risk charts in a paper published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute provide a broader perspective than most of the risk calculators on the Internet.

• Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Public discussion of climate change is largely reduced to carbon, but other chemicals have large roles in the planet's health, and a growing number of researchers are looking at nitrogen.

• Europeans' genomes reveal their geographic origins

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  There seems to be a geographical pattern to European genetics. By analyzing people's genomes, geneticists can tell roughly where in Europe they come from.

• Do animals grieve over death like we do?

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Everywhere in nature, biologists say, are examples of animals behaving as though they were at least vaguely aware of death's brutal supremacy and yet unpersuaded that it had anything to do with them.

• Question of usefulness lingers for cholesterol drug

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Doctors continue to heavily prescribe the cholesterol drug Vytorin, though six years after its approval there is still no proof that the drug helps patients live longer or avoid heart attacks.