Science News

The husband of a Spanish nurse who became the first person to contract the Ebola virus outside West Africa is now in quarantine, Mercedes Vinuesa, the head of Spain's public health service, announced Tuesday.

A fast-acting 'vaccine' has been developed that can reverse the course of myasthenia gravis, a non-inherited autoimmune form of muscle weakness, in an animal model of the disease. Nearly 60,000 Americans suffer from myas...

Logic doesn't come easily to humans, but it is possible to go beyond your gut reactions - if you practise (full text available to subscribers)

By combining bubbles as small as a red blood cell with standard ultrasound images, we can now see the body in unprecedented detail

A new Wisconsin facility aims to clean up algae-plagued lakes by stripping phosphorus out of wastewater.

MIT researchers have developed a new way of creating surfaces on which droplets of any desired shape can spontaneously form. They say this approach could lead to new biomedical assay devices and LED display screens, amon...

The U.S. government will ramp up efforts to screen travelers for the Ebola virus, a move experts say should have been made earlier. To further control the virus, President Obama said officials will add extra screening me...

In women with ovarian cancer, the DNA from cancer cells can be detected in tampons they use, new research shows. The finding could point the way toward a way to test for the disease, researchers say.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a laser-based imaging system that creates high-definition 3D maps of surfaces from as far away as 10.5 meters. The method may be useful ...

An experimental vaccine to protect people against H7N9 avian influenza prompted immune responses in 59 percent of volunteers who received two injections at the lowest dosage tested, but only if the vaccine was mixed with...

A decade ago, America's health care community took on heart attacks with gusto, harnessing the power of research and data to make sure that every patient got the best possible care. It worked. Now, say a pair of experts,...

Study participants who reported tobacco use or had higher levels of biomarkers of tobacco exposure had a higher prevalence of the sexually transmitted infection, oral human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16), according to a...

Despite no lapses in the disinfection process recommended by the manufacturer being identified, specialized gastrointestinal endoscopes called duodenoscopes had bacterial contamination associated with an outbreak of a hi...

A one-day prevalence survey of 183 hospitals found that approximately 50 percent of hospitalized patients included in the survey were receiving antimicrobial drugs, and that about half of these patients were receiving 2 ...

A recent outbreak of a deadly strain of E. coli in an Illinois hospital was spread by contaminated medical equipment used to examine patients' intestines, according to a new study.

An enormous storm in the Western Pacific rapidly strengthened overnight into the most powerful super typhoon of 2014.

One of Ebola's most notorious symptoms is bleeding from places like the nose and mouth, but such bleeding has only occurred in a minority of cases in the current outbreak.

Knowledge goes beyond memory, forming a rich and detailed understanding of your world. But you can know too much (full text available to subscribers)

People who had contact with the man with Ebola in Texas are still being monitored daily and none has shown any sign of disease so far, the CDC says.

A new tool can be used as a drug target in the discovery of anti-Ebola agents that are effective against all known strains and likely future strains, researchers report. Current experimental drugs generally target only o...

The molecule nuclear factor kappa B helps tumors grow by inhibiting the body's ability to detect cancer cells, research shows. The molecule suppresses immune surveillance mechanisms, including the production of cells tha...

An "Achilles heel" in a metabolic pathway crucial to stopping the growth of lung cancer cells has been identified by researchers. At the heart of this pathway lies PPAR³, a protein that regulates glucose and lipid metab...