Articles By Matthew Mientka
- The National Institutes of Health is speeding human testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine as an outbreak in Western Africa leaves 700 dead.
- A new app promises 10-minute delivery of medical marijuana to residents of San Francisco.
- The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the drug Striverdi Respimat for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Wider use of antidepressant and analgesic therapies would help more patients on dialysis to find relief from depression symptoms, a new study suggests.
- The National Institutes of Health has launched a $5.8 million collaboration among eight research institutions to scour the human genome for new therapeutic drug targets.
- A new study shows that background TV noise may harm children's learning and development.
- A new but small study shows that the amount of estrogen in a woman's birth control pill may affect how she perceives other women.
- Men with wider faces are seen from two sides: aggressive and untrustworthy, but also competent and victorious.
- Google is searching to define optimum human health for the individual by analyzing the genomes and medical records of hundreds, and then thousands, of study participants.
- A new study shows microbes in the human gut respond to changes in the larger world, including in a move abroad and a case of food poisoning.
- Food policy experts say the federal government should provide vouchers to poor families for fresh fruits and vegetable at farmers' markets, as a quarter of such U.S. community retailers now accept food stamps.
- Health care systems and health plans in the two dozen states that opted out of the federal expansion of Medicaid are facing increasing financial pressures.