Forget spacesuits, solid rocket boosters and robot arms - more sentimental and whimsical objects have reached escape velocity

A man with blindness caused by brain damage can navigate around obstacles using a form of "blindsight" that has not been seen in people before

An unknown fungus is wiping out vast tracts of vanilla plantations in Madagascar, which supplies two-thirds of the world's pods

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Hash contest moves on to mass free-for-all

The editorial in this month's PLoS Medicine examines how the health needs of the homeless are underrepresented in the medical literature, leading to the failure of health and social systems to address them.

Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is an inherited form of severe migraine that is accompanied by visual disturbances known as aura. As with other types of migraine, it affects women more frequently than men. New research in mice has now provided

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes hepatitis and liver cancer. Current treatments are expensive, have severe side effects, and fail in about half the patient. Researchers have now developed an approach that predicted the outcome of therapy in individuals infected with

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs movement, balance, speech, and other functions. Although immune cells accumulate in the brain of individuals with Parkinson's disease, these cells were not thought to have a role in the development of disease.

Genes talk to themselves and to each other to control how a given cell manufactures proteins. But variation in the control of the same gene in two different tissues may contribute to certain human traits, including the likelihood of getting

A trial conducted in northwest Thailand has found that it is safe to use artemisinin combination therapy to treat pregnant women with malaria, but that efficacy is inferior to single-drug artesunate treatment.

A new study of previously confidential tobacco industry documents shows that a Philip Morris scientist established close connections with a WHO Collaborating Center in Thailand called the Chulabhorn Research Institute.

British American Tobacco, one of the world's largest transnational tobacco companies, carried out an extensive, multi-pronged strategy to undermine the health policy agenda on secondhand smoke in China, finds a new study published in PLoS Medicine.

Access to maternal health care is extremely limited and poor nutrition, anemia and malaria are widespread in eastern Burma, which increases the risk of pregnancy complications, says new research published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.

This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published Dec. 22, 2008, in the JCI: 'How to tell of a hepatitis C virus-infected patient will respond to therapy'; 'Hormones increase frequency