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To Fight Off Diabetes, Latina Women Find Power In A Group
Beatrice Sanchez and Mariana Arias drive around their city, Winston-Salem, N.C., in search of a very specific population of residents: Latinos with… -
Study Of Sudden Cardiac Death Exposes Limits Of Genetic Testing
Scientists have discovered that a common cause of sudden heart death has been misunderstood because researchers didn’t appropriately account for racial… -
Scientists Engineer An Opioid That May Reduce Pain With Less Risk
Once people realized that opioid drugs could cause addiction and deadly overdoses, they tried to use newer forms of opioids to treat the addiction to its… -
20 Science Questions For The Presidential Candidates
Science and politics do not always make great bedfellows.It’s a topic we have explored a lot here at 13.7. As the past few decades have shown, science and… -
What Does It Take To Map A Walrus Hangout? 160 Years And A Lot Of Help
In 1874, when the painter and naturalist Henry Wood Elliott was observing a small crowd of walruses on the Punuk Islands off Alaska’s coast, he was… -
Abuse In Childhood Raises The Risk Of Early Death For Women
It’s increasingly clear that bad experiences during childhood are associated with long-lasting health effects, including higher rates of heart disease,… -
Aetna Joins Other Major Insurers In Pulling Back From Obamacare
Insurance giant Aetna will stop selling health insurance through most of the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act in 2017 because the company said… -
Insurers' Fine Print May Exclude Health Care Important To Women
Buried in the fine print of many marketplace health plan documents is language that allows them to refuse to cover a range of services that are used more… -
Saying Goodbye To Old Technology — And A Legendary NYC Repair Shop
Technologies disappear all the time.Last year, an Indian company that was considered the last recycler of cathode ray tubes from those old bulky TVs… -
Fishing And Foraging: How To Catch Your Seafood, Ethically
Now, you can love your seafood and eat it, too. But first, you’ll have to catch it. Fisherman Kirk Lombard’s new book, The Sea Forager’s Guide to the…