It’s time to get arsenic and other heavy metals out of our infants’ diets
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Humans Evolved to Exercise
Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy
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A Novel Way to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Host-directed therapy can boost a patient’s immune response instead of relying only on antibiotics
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What Ails a Woman’s Heart
The more we look, the more we find sex differences in cardiovascular disease
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Clinical Trials Have the Best Medicine but Do Not Enroll the Patients Who Need It
Most cancer patients never get into lifesaving drug trials because of barriers at community hospitals
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Take Your Pills When Your Genes Are Most Active
Drugs could be more effective if taken when the genetic proteins they target are most active
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How Physical Activity and Gut–Brain Connections Combine to Make Us Healthier
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Science News From Around the Planet
A few brief reports about international science and technology from German to Rwanda, including one on the discovery of the world’s oldest known brewery, discovered in Israel.
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A Blood Test for the Body’s Clock
A new way to measure internal time could yield insight into sleep deprivation and disease
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Simple Sugars Wipe Out Beneficial Gut Bugs
Fructose and sucrose can make it all the way to the colon, where they spell a sugary death sentence for beneficial bacteria. Karen Hopkin reports.
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