The common food additives altered mice microbiomes to encourage gut inflammation and overeating. Dina Fine Maron reports

Emulsifiers in Food Linked to Obesity in Mice

Although clinical guidelines assume just two years for hot flashes and night sweats, a large study finds a median symptom duration of more than three times that length. Dina Fine Maron reports

Menopause Symptoms Have Unappreciated Staying Power

High-tech pedometers do a decent job of counting steps accurately. Dina Fine Maron reports.

Wearable Step Counters Offer Exercise Leg Up

Some 42 percent of U.S. adults who drink have been prescribed a drug that may interact negatively with alcohol. Dina Fine Maron reports

Millions Risk Alcohol–Medication Interactions

Strains of the lab workhorse roundworm C. elegans that lived longer added more time being frail and had the same portion of their lives being healthy as normal worms. The work has implications for life-extension ideas such as caloric restriction. Dina Fine Maron reports

Life Extension May Add Just Bad Time

Researchers tracked 70,000 for decades to find lifestyle clues for better cardiovascular condition. Dina Fine Maron reports

6 Steps to Women’s Heart Health

Volunteers who read from an iPad before bed took longer to fall asleep and had less restful nights than when they read from a printed book. Dina Fine Maron reports.

Avoid Back-Lit Reading before Bed

Nonpasteurized milk is fueling more outbreaks and hospitalizations. Dina Fine Maron reports

Raw Milk Sicknesses Rise

Careful tracking of more than 50,000 women during the six weeks after the procedure finds that serious adverse effects are rare. Dina Fine Maron reports

Abortions in Medical Settings Rarely Have Major Complications

People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondiabetic counterparts. Dina Fine Maron reports

Diabetes Prevention in Midlife Helps Protect Aging Brain

Scientific American reporter Dina Fine Maron gives a weekly one-minute report on the latest health and medical news. To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast

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60-Second Health

Hair care pros often spot possible skin cancers on the scalp. Dermatologists recommend they be trained to do it more and better. Katherine Harmon reports

Hairdressers Can Be Skin Cancer Detectors

Women who ate half of 1,400 daily calories at breakfast lost almost 80 percent more weight than women who ate half their 1,400 calories at dinner. Katherine Harmon reports

Breakfast Is the Most Important Meal for Dieters

The lone star tick has been fingered as the carrier of a recently characterized infectious disease called Heartland virus. Katherine Harmon reports

New Tick-Borne Disease Waits in the Woods

Understanding that, for example, anorexics and autists both tend to have high interest in systems could inform treatment choices. Erika Beras reports

Anorexics Display Behaviors Common in Autism

People who ate chocolate frequently consumed more calories and more saturated fat, yet had lower average body mass indexes than those who did not eat chocolate. Katherine Harmon reports

Frequent Chocolate Eaters Have Lower BMIs

In rural Nepal volunteer motorcyclists are transporting snakebite victims to medical care soon enough to cut deaths by 95 percent. Katherine Harmon reports

Motorcycles Take Bite out of Snake Venom Deaths

Signals to improve muscle tone alter the expression of genes after just one workout. Katherine Harmon reports

Exercise Instantly Affects DNA

Mice fed an alternating high-fat and low-fat diet lived almost as long as mice on a constant low-fat diet--and longer than mice on a constant high-fat diet. Katherine Harmon reports

Mouse Study: Yo-Yo Dieting Beats Not Dieting at All

Between 1999 and 2010 changes in seafood consumption meant that blood levels of mercury in women of childbearing age dropped by a third, and the percentage of such women who have worrisome blood levels of mercury dropped by two thirds. Dina Fine Maron reports

The Mercury's Falling...in Women's Seafood Consumption

Eating-behavior expert Brian Wansink offers tips on fooling yourself into eating less. Katherine Harmon reports

Beat Gluttony with Gullibility

Bones are filled with a viscous fluid that’s key to their function as support structures, and which could inform osteoporosis research. Dina Fine Maron reports

Goo Keeps Bones Strong but Supple

Just a couple of hours of physical activity each week adds years to average life expectancy. Katherine Harmon reports

Exercise Lengthens Life Regardless of Weight

Married women gain weight but survive bypass surgery better than unmarried people do. Katherine Harmon reports on two studies

Being Married Affects Heart and Waist

Exposure to bright light in the morning appears linked to reduced appetite and lower body weight, regardless of sleep patterns. Sophie Bushwick reports

Morning Light Exposure Tied to Lower Weight

Stan Conte, vice president of medical services for the L.A. Dodgers, advised parents and coaches of young athletes to not consider Tommy John surgery on healthy arms for the sake of improving performance. He spoke at the SABR conference in Phoenix on March 13. Steve Mirsky reports

Dodgers Doc: No Noninjury Tommy John Surgery to Improve Performance

Yoga may increase parasympathetic nervous system activity and neurotransmitter levels, helping to decrease symptoms of some stress-related illnesses. Katherine Harmon reports

How Yoga Might Relieve Stress-Linked Ailments

Residues of the antimicrobial agent triclosan can paradoxically boost bacterial growth in our bodies, by giving microbes a comfortable biofilm in which to rest. Christopher Intagliata reports

Hand Soap Ingredient Can Up Body Bacteria Burden

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