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US could ban caffeine-alcohol drinks within monthsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The US Food and Drug Administration has asked manufacturers of drinks that combine alcohol and caffeine to provide scientific evidence they are safe (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 21, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Medibots: The world's smallest surgeonsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
No more scalpels – tomorrow's lifesaving operations will use robots that crawl over your heart, scuttle into your ear and swim into your eye (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Watch out, roundworms: UV phasers are set to stunEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
With a flash of ultraviolet light, you can stun a roundworm. And a pulse of visible light has them wriggling again (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Gene change in cannibals reveals evolution in actionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Crohn's blamed on lazy immune cellsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The bowel disease, thought to be caused by an over-exuberant immune system, may paradoxically be triggered by immune cells not doing enough (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Four ways to feed the worldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By 2025 there will be 9 billion people on Earth, all needing food. We look at the best ways to stave off starvation (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 18, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Breathing new life into 'old' eggsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eggs donated by young women could be used to repair the damaged eggs of older women, upping the chances that they can be fertilised (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 18, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Cellphone app to make maps of noise pollutionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New software could turn cellphones into environmental sensors, enabling them to gather noise pollution data in unprecedented detail (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 18, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Tasers safer than batons and fistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using a Taser to subdue a violent suspect is safer than wielding batons and fists, says a study of US police incidents (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Limp reception for female 'libido drug'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A drug dubbed 'female Viagra' that boosts women's libido may have come a step closer, but is it really necessary? (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Fears over 'own goal' HIV vaccine revivedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cold virus used in vaccine may raise HIV infection risk after all (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Bangladesh mass poisoning mystery solvedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers say they have discovered why arsenic turns up in lethal quantities in wells across Bangladesh – microbial oxidation is to blame (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Headphone risk to pacemakersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The small powerful magnets used in modern headphones can cause pacemakers and defibrillators to malfunction (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

NASA to restart primate irradiation testingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The effect of space radiation on astronauts is still a big question mark for deep space exploration – primate research is meant to cut it down to size (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Cocaine and pepper spray – a lethal mix?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A mouse experiment suggests deaths in US police custody may have been the result of an interaction between capsaicin and psychostimulant drugs (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Common cold may hold off swine fluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This intriguing idea would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Noisy parties no problem for musical brainsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Differences in brain activity may make musicians better at picking out speech from a noisy background (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Less loud sounds can still damage earsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If the results in mice translate to humans, the laws that determine the noises workers can be exposed to may need to change (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Boys with ALD bring gene therapy in from coldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two boys treated with a gene therapy for the brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy have fared so well that doctors are seeking more volunteers (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Alcohol and sports sponsorship don't mixEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychologists claim that alcohol sponsorship tarnishes the image of sport and harms athletes' health (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Healthcare reform bill now faces Senate testEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform legislation passed the US House of Representatives but faces a stern test to get through the Senate (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Breath of fresh air transforms stem cellsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Specialised lung tissue has been created by exposing stem cells to the open air (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Spy-in-the-cab could improve teenage drivingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Novice drivers are responsible for a disproportionate number of accidents – now an in-car warning system has cut incidents of reckless driving by half (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Myopia is on the rise all around the world, but there might be a simple way to spare many kids the need for spectacles (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 6, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Genes show when a woman's biological clock will stopEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A gene test available next year could suggest how long a woman can put off having children (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Poorer countries make drugs the rich world won'tEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Newly industrialised countries of the global south are developing cheap treatments for tropical diseases neglected by western drug companies (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Why fat angers the immune systemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Blocking a protein could break the link between obesity and illness (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Terry Pratchett: Fighting to keep the fantasy aliveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The prolific author discusses tinkering with science, his battle with Alzheimer's, and the odds of escaping from a crab bucket (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
David Nutt was sacked from his role as chairman of the UK's official advisory body on drugs for his outspoken views. He explains why governments should not ignore scientific evidence (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Ten inventions that changed the worldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
See the result of a public vote to find the most important invention ever from the collection of the Science Museum, London (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Drug chief sacking could stifle 'polydrug' researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If protests continue over the sacking of the UK's chief scientific advisor on recreational drugs, vital research on the problems of multiple drug use would be shelved (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 3, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Injected cells stop body from attacking selfEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A virtually unlimited supply of rare cells can now be produced in the lab to fight diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in mice (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 3, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Long-range Taser raises fears of shock and injuryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Pentagon wants a projectile that can be fired from a grenade launcher to incapacitate someone with an electric shock – can it be safe? (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Old drugs reveal surprising new tricksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Comparing the behaviour of different drug molecules may help prevent harmful side effects of new drugs and point to new uses for old ones (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Sticky future for the spider sutureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The genetic mechanism for the ultra-strong glue spiders use to trap prey has been unpicked, and could lead to bio-friendly surgical adhesives (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 31, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Could you stop being hysterical?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hysteria by Andrew Scull explores the history of a disease that was once practically a fashion statement and has strong resonances today (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 31, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylumsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Most people associate the word "asylum" with squalor and brutality – an impression strengthened by portrayals in books and films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – but they were originally designed to be places of sanctuary. Christopher Payne visited and photographed 70 such institutions across the US for his book Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals, which documents how their fall from grace reflects changing attitudes to mental illness (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylumsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mental asylums have a bad name – but they were originally places of sanctuary. See how they lost their reputation in our photographic journey (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Autoimmune disease cells harnessed to fight cancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cells that attack healthy tissue can have devastating consequences, but soon their formidable powers might be used for good (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Timeline: The secret history of swine fluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Six months ago, swine flu emerged as a massive threat to global health. It seemed to come out of nowhere, but our timeline explains how the origins of the H1N1 pandemic go back more than a century (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Genome firm finds gene for sneeze, but no diseases yetEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A genome-scanning firm has identified some quirky genetic variants, but what about the more serious hunt for genes that make us susceptible to disease? (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

US swine flu vaccine too late to beat autumn waveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By the time serious amounts of vaccine arrive in the US, it may be too late to stop most infections (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

'Superspreading' doctors cause most infectionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The dirty hands of doctors and nurses act as germ "superspreaders" of everything from swine flu to hospital superbugs (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 28, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Super slow-motion camera can follow firing neuronsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An image sensor that can capture 1 million frames per second could film action too fast for conventional cameras – even the firing of brain cells (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 28, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Cervical cancer vaccine reminds girls of sexual risksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
No reason to worry that vaccination will encourage girls to have more sex, suggests a survey of British teenagers (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Lost limb leads to flexible new body imageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Amputees who feel the presence of a phantom limb can be trained to move it in impossible ways, which could allow new ways to ease phantom pain (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

US FDA says omega-3 oils from GM soya are safe to eatEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Biotech giants have a green light to market crops genetically modified to produce the health-promoting oils, which are mostly got from fish at present (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Paper ideal for growing tumours in the labEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Modern offices may scorn the stuff, but paper is being used to build scaffolds for living model tumours and damaged hearts (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals