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Friday, August 22, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Even just the word Ebola is kind of terrifying. Why? Hollywood has a lot to do with it. But Ebola outbreaks also have all the ingredients for what one psychologist calls the "dread factor."
Thursday, August 21, 2014
By
Audie Cornish /
Rob Stein /
Dina Temple-Raston
Two U.S. missionaries who caught the Ebola virus in Liberia have been discharged from an Atlanta hospital after fully recovering. They were the first known Ebola patients flown to the...
Thursday, August 21, 2014
By
Audie Cornish /
Robert Siegel /
Rob Stein
At a drive-through Starbucks in St. Petersburg, Fla., a chain of generosity included hundreds of customers.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Location, location, location too often trumps medical need, some doctors say. But another solution to making the distribution of scarce organs fairer worries some transplant surgeons and patients.
Monday, July 28, 2014
By
Rob Stein
The string of genes that make a man a man used to be much bigger, and some geneticists say it may be wasting away. Back off, others say. Y has been stable — and crucial — for millennia.
Monday, July 14, 2014
By
Rob Stein
You and your friends may have more than music and movies in common. Friends typically have more genetic similarities than strangers, researchers say. That may have evolutionary advantages.
Friday, July 04, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Contraception is the latest in a long line of often bitter history of balancing the right of conscience with the needs of society. (This piece first aired on Feb. 16, 2012 on All Things Considered.)
Wednesday, July 02, 2014
By
Rob Stein
A prestigious scientific journal Wednesday took the unusual step of retracting some high-profile research that had generated international excitement about stem cell research.
The British scientific journal Nature retracted two papers published in January by scientists at the Riken research institute in Japan and at Harvard Medical School ...
Monday, June 23, 2014
By
Melissa Block /
Rob Stein
Medicine is making use of 3-D printing more and more. Researchers are creating three-dimensional models of body parts to help plan surgeries; they're even creating replacement body pa...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
By
Rob Stein
After the Food and Drug Administration said that antidepressants could spur suicidal thinking in teens, doctors prescribed the drugs less often. The change may have led to more suicides.
Monday, June 16, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Insulin monitors and pumps are getting better, but a person with diabetes will tell you they're far from ideal. Potential solutions include one that delivers two hormones to control blood sugar.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Cigarette smoking among U.S. high school students has dropped to the lowest level in 22 years, federal health officials reported Thursday.
The percentage of students who reported smoking a cigarette at least one day in the last 30 days fell to 15.7 percent in 2013, according to the National ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
By
Rob Stein
The recent FDA approval of an HPV test to screen for cervical cancer has ignited debate among doctors. Some say the viral test will catch cancers earlier. Others warn it increases needless biopsies.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Federal health officials reported over the weekend that the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, had spread from one person to another for the first time in the U.S.
Monday, May 12, 2014
By
Rob Stein
The second U.S. case of a dangerous new virus from the Middle East has been found in Florida, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
The patient is a health care worker from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, who developed symptoms May 1 while traveling to Orlando, Fla., to ...
Friday, May 09, 2014
By
Rob Stein
"If smallpox is outlawed, only outlaws will have smallpox," says one NIH virologist. Others say keeping vials of deadly virus just invites a horrific accident or theft. WHO is about to vote — again.
Friday, May 02, 2014
By
Rob Stein
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the first case of Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus, or MERS, has been confirmed in the U.S. A health care worker in Indiana who rec...
Thursday, May 01, 2014
By
Rob Stein
Scientists were able to make immature sperm cells. If they can make the sperm viable, researchers could help men who thought they'd never have kids. But the findings also raise ethical questions.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
By
Rob Stein
By surgically transplanting material from pig bladders into the injured legs of several men, doctors prompted muscles to heal by growing and nurturing fresh, healthy cells.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
By
Rob Stein
A botched execution in Oklahoma is only the latest issue since states started having trouble obtaining the drugs used to execute inmates. They've been trying new combinations and new ...