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Saturday, July 5, 2008

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Drs. Zhen Cui (with mouse) and Mark C. Willingham of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Toward a Cure?

A cancer-killing treatment that works astoundingly well in mice is being readied for human trials.

‘Pink Viagra’ Boon or Bust for Equal Rights?

While pharmaceutical companies battle to end desire discrepancy, some feminists fear the medicalization of not…

"All this talk about mortality has left me a bit peckish."

Morbid Thoughts Influence Food Choices

Thinking about our own deaths influences our eating patterns in both predictable and surprising ways, according…

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Turning Grieving Youths into Happier Campers

A camp for grieving children applies academic research on trauma to help kids cope with death.

Breathing Is Skin Deep

Skin, at least in mice, responds to the oxygen around it, a finding that may have implications for endurance athletes.

Doctor: Vets Need More Basic Training

A Veterans Administration psychiatrist and researcher offers a revamped model for treatment of returning soldiers that looks to training and education as much as therapy and pills.

Just How Bad is the Air in Beijing?

Masked marathoners aside, a new paper suggests that as bad as Beijing's air quality may be, it has improved during the decade leading up to the Olympics.

Total Recall … Or At Least the Gist

Two Cornell psychologists found we have two separate systems for memories, which helps explain how we can "remember" things that never happened.