How cancer research dollars get divided
You might assume that cancer research money follows the death toll — that the deadliest cancers draw the most funding. The real picture is more…
Category: Health & Fitness
A smarter way to screen for prostate cancer
For decades, the trouble with prostate cancer screening was not that it missed dangerous tumors. It was that it found too many harmless ones. The…
Who really pays for a $2 million cure?
A one-time gene therapy for sickle cell disease carries a list price of $2.2 million, but almost no patient ever sees that bill. The harder…
Weight-loss drugs may guard the heart’s rhythm
The popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists may do something their makers never set out to do: protect the heart from…
Allergies don’t retire
Allergies are supposed to be a childhood problem you eventually outgrow. For a lot of people, it works the other way around. While most allergies…
The muscles that keep you walking aren’t only in your legs
Ask someone which muscles keep them walking and most will point to their thighs. The real workhorse sits lower down — and some of the…
The muscles that keep you walking aren’t only in your legs
Ask someone which muscles keep them walking and most will point to their thighs. The real workhorse sits lower down — and some of the muscles that keep…
Allergies don’t retire
Allergies are supposed to be a childhood problem you eventually outgrow. For a lot of people, it works the other way around. While most allergies begin…
Ragweed can make melon itchy
Bite into a slice of cantaloupe in late summer and feel your mouth tingle? It may not be the fruit so much as the pollen. In a quirk called oral allergy…
Shingles shot may protect the brain
The shingles vaccine, recommended for adults 50 and older, may do more than prevent a painful rash — it appears to protect the brain. Taking advantage of…