Easier, less invasive STD test may be an overlooked winner
A recent study adds to growing support for the use of vaginal swabs for STD testing, over the more invasive endocervical swab
WHAM! KAPOW! The cellular fight against free radicals
Are your body’s antioxidant defenses enough to save the day?
Getting inside your head
How the beauty of brain imaging gives us a peek at what’s really going on in there
In the future, will baldness recede from the lives of men?
Hair-inducing side effects reveal a new use for an old drug
Preventing the common cold
Garlic, acupuncture and hydrogen peroxide: The crazy things we do to try to stay healthy
Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to receptor biologists
U.S. researchers at Duke and Stanford honored for their work on G protein-coupled receptors
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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
Tea-ming with stress? Put the kettle on
“There is no trouble so great that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea” – Bernard-Paul Heroux
