Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

2nd death reported in nationwide salmonella outbreak

(HealthDay)—A second death has been reported in a salmonella outbreak that has been linked to contaminated cucumbers and caused 341 illnesses in 30 states, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

Neuroscience

Examining adolescent brain development

For the next few years hundreds of young people will have their brains scanned at the Mind Research Network on the University of New Mexico's north campus as researchers try to understand precisely how normal young brains ...

Dentistry

Facing rising dental costs, seniors head to Mexico

Mark Bolzern traveled 3,700 miles to go to the dentist. The 56-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, native left home this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a friend, and kept heading south, all the way to Los Algodones, ...

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