Birthday Germs Hike Palsy Risk

by Science News Staff

A child born to a mother with a high fever during labor and delivery could be up to nine times as likely to develop cerebral palsy (CP) as one born...

10 July 1997 | ScienceNOW

Mystery Disease Stalks Malaysian Children

by Science News Staff

A fatal ailment that triggers heart failure in children--apparently never seen before--has surfaced in Malaysia. A team of experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is...

3 July 1997 | ScienceNOW

Fatal Brain Disorder Lying Low?

by Science News Staff

Some cases of a fatal neurodegenerative disorder linked last fall to "mad cow disease" may not be triggered by the agent that most scientists have suspected. That provocative claim, from...

3 June 1997 | ScienceNOW

Houseflies Give You Ulcers?

by Science News Staff

The housefly is a vile creature whose nasty habits--eating feces, regurgitating, and defecating on our skin--can infect us with organisms responsible for salmonella and other diseases. Now scientists have evidence...

2 June 1997 | ScienceNOW

Tracking Dangerous Radicals

by Science News Staff

Like a notorious suspect able to stay one step ahead of the law, corrosive oxygen compounds called free radicals are implicated in many diseases but leave little hard evidence of...

28 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Breast Implants Associated With Other Risk Factors

by Science News Staff

As a group, women who receive breast implants for cosmetic purposes have numerous demographic, lifestyle, and reproductive differences from women in general, according to a study in today's issue of...

20 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Added Weight Raises Stroke Risk for Women

by Science News Staff

Women who are obese or who gain significant amounts of weight as adults have a higher risk of the most common kind of stroke, according to a study in tomorrow's...

15 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Chicken Virus Hits Antarctica

by Science News Staff

A highly contagious poultry virus has infected penguins in Antarctica. It is the first known transmission of a "foreign" disease to wildlife on the icy continent. Although none of the...

13 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Moles and Melanoma

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The number and shape of moles on your skin may signal your risk of malignant melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer. The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of...

7 May 1997 | ScienceNOW

Roaches Worsen Asthma

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Cockroaches appear to be a significant contributor to asthma attacks among inner-city children in the United States. A study of asthma patients in seven U.S. cities, reported in tomorrow's issue...

31 October 1996 | ScienceNOW

Panel Debunks Powerline-Cancer Link

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WASHINGTON--An expert panel has found no scientific reason to believe that electromagnetic fields from power lines, appliances, and other everyday sources cause cancer or other health effects. But some panel...

24 October 1996 | ScienceNOW

No Link Between Power Lines and Adult Cancers

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A study of nearly 400,000 adults living near power lines in Finland--the largest survey of its kind--offers no evidence that exposure to the low-level magnetic fields they generate increases the...

15 October 1996 | ScienceNOW

Disease Patterns Traced to Original Finns

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A host of rare genetic diseases that are more common in Finland than in other European countries may have arisen because Finnish people descended from a small band of ancestors...

10 October 1996 | ScienceNOW

Poor Records Impede Study of Gulf War Illnesses

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WASHINGTON--Illnesses from the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf probably don't stem from a single cause, a committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded in a report released today....