Why steaks could be in, but hot dogs are still out
By Ferris Jabr | Nov 27, 2012 | 23
Medical imaging offers new ways to examine the deceased
By Maryn McKenna | Oct 22, 2012
Physicians struggle to curb the growing number of lethal overdoses
By Deborah Franklin | Oct 9, 2012 | 3
Hospitals bring janitors to the front lines of infection control
By Maryn McKenna | Sep 11, 2012 | 6
Current screens for osteoporosis are flawed, but doctors are repairing their methods
By Deborah Franklin | Aug 6, 2012 | 4
Doctors may be testing infants for too many diseases
By Ariel Bleicher | Jul 2, 2012 | 3
New findings suggest that ingesting soil is adaptive, not necessarily pathological
By Philip T. B. Starks and Brittany L. Slabach | May 25, 2012 | 14
Gonorrhea, once a minor illness, is developing resistance to the last category of drugs that still works against it and could become untreatable
By Maryn McKenna | May 4, 2012 | 4
Most people think of foodborne illness as an unpleasant few days of fever and diarrhea, but for some there may be lifelong consequences
By Maryn McKenna | Mar 29, 2012 | 18
Hospital gardens turn out to have medical benefits
By Deborah Franklin | Mar 19, 2012 | 4
Researchers are baffled by the worldwide increase in type 1 diabetes, the less common form of the disease
By Maryn McKenna | Jan 24, 2012 | 67
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