Most patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) can live out their normal lives by taking tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). But mounting evidence also shows that roughly a third of those patients can eventually go off treatment altogether without their disease resurging.
Once considered an inconsequential illness, Zika is now linked with serious health effects including microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. As the virus makes its way northward, U.S. public health agencies are doing their best to prepare.
Worldwide, stunting affects an estimated 165 million children under the age of 5. Nutritional
interventions are only part of the solution.
In the third Undark podcast I discuss the $1.3 billion failure of the National Children’s Study with host and former NYT Science Times editor David Corcoran. Also covered are controversies in science journalism, and rattlesnakes in Massachusetts.
Mounting evidence suggests even the tiniest amounts of arsenic can boost your risk of developing cancer. But some scientists think that evidence is overblown. This article takes a close look at the controversy.
An ex-Surgeon General, Richard Carmona now chairs the science advisory board of a company that manufactures electronic cigarettes. In this interview, he explains why.
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