Posts in: disease
Coffee – a cause for concern or a cure?
With 1.6 million new cases of type two diabetes each year, how much coffee should we really be drinking?
![SMA research depends on one man, and his considerable resources, determined to save his daughter [Image credit: link to source via Andres Rueda at Flickr]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/syringe-160x90.jpg)
A rare disease gets a new champion
A hedge fund manager and his battalion of scientists are hunting down a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Immunologists win big in this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Winner Steinman dies before the announcement is made
Reinvigorating the battle against an old disease
Researchers make progress toward finding a new cure for nagana-infected livestock
Avoiding Risk at Your Own Risk
Studies Show Childhood Vaccination Exemptions May Be Overused, Create Larger Public Health Problems
The Immortal Woman Who Science Stole and History Tried to Forget
Rebecca Skloot’s new book reveals untold truths about one of medical science’s most important tools
