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Drawing of a sleeper with apnea whose tongue has blocked his throat passage, obstructing his breath and awaking him.
Health & Disease

Treating sleep apnea with pills instead of machines

The disorder has several different causes, researchers are learning. That finding opens the door for personalized therapies — and perhaps even effective drugs.

Shankar Jalota poses as part of photographer Brock Elbank’s recently completed Vitiligo Portrait Series
Health & Disease

The dappled dilemma facing vitiligo science

Even as scientists celebrate progress in the lab, a stigma-busting movement asserts that those with the autoimmune skin condition are more in need of acceptance than medicine

Illustration showing the buildup of mucus outside of a cell due to the problems with the CFTR chloride channel. The channels in the cell membrane are closed and so chloride cannot pass through.
Health & Disease

Moving forward with cystic fibrosis

Long a paradigm of how a faulty gene can cause disease, CF is now treated by leading-edge therapies targeting specific mutations

Peanuts
Health & Disease

Beating back peanut allergy, bit by bit

Once rare, sensitivity to the legume is now the most common cause of fatal allergic reactions to foods. New therapies might help.

A dendritic cell with viral particles
Health & Disease

Pathways to a cure for AIDS

Medications can control HIV, but not eliminate it. Scientists hope to one day vanquish it completely.

Human liver cells showing signs of fatty liver disease
Health & Disease

An invisible liver disease balloons into view

Fat buildup in the body’s filter organ can lead to scarring and worse. In step with obesity and diabetes, incidence is on the rise and a race for a cure is on.

A falsely colored X-ray highlights rheumatoid arthritis in the hands of an 81-year-old woman.
Health & Disease

The complex riddles of rheumatoid arthritis

Latest therapies control the inflammatory disease for many but not all. Scientists are investigating the roots of the variability and what to do about it.

Illustration of norovirus, which causes “winter vomiting sickness” and is the leading cause of food-borne illness.
Health & Disease

Norovirus: The perfect pathogen

It’s easy to get, but difficult to study or treat. Scientists are making progress against the virus thanks to an infusion of cash and a new way of culturing it in the lab.

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