South Africa has the world’s worst HIV/TB syndemic; now it’s trying to overhaul its response to both diseases. Babu Sunkari shows the lungs of…
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Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get…
Comments closedIf Obama skips the International AIDS Conference in D.C. next week, he’ll miss a historic opportunity. Also click here to view a timeline of the…
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Gym rat: In his quest to optimize his health, Larry Smarr recently underwent tests to measure his peak oxygen consumption, maximum heart rate, and other physiological indicators. Credit: Michael Kelley
Internet pioneer Larry Smarr’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more…
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A report in Science 2 years ago that linked a mouse retrovirus, XMRV, to chronic fatigue syndrome astonished scientists and patients alike. But the theory…
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PASCAL GAGNEUX, one of the few laboratory scientists who has studied wild chimpanzees, is a walking encyclopedia of chimpanzee/human differences. Ever since scientists began studying chimpanzees,…
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Tetsuro Matsuzawa has spent 30 years studying our closest primate relative to better understand the human mind Since 1977, Tetsuro Matsuzawa has been studying a…
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Jack Johnson’s no-pretensions approach to green living has turned the mellow rocker into one of the music world’s leading environmentalists. But the best part of…
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Napoleon Dynamite was on to something. Hybrid creatures like pizzlies, blynxes, and bonanzees are beautiful and cool—and they’re forcing evolutionary scientists to rethink the web…
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