• Entertainment & Gaming

    A New Meaning for "Computer Virus"

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 5.4.2009 4 Comments

    While health care professionals spent last week figuring out how to staunch the spread of swine flu, a team of Canadian scientists already knew how to handle the outbreak. In 2007, the researchers studied the spread and containment of a deadly virus in an area even more important than Mexico or Asia: the World of Warcraft.

  • Science

    Hunting The Elusive Fat Pill

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 2.19.2009 27 Comments

    As magic little pills go, the weight-loss drug rimonabant was destined to be huge. It was supposed to put a dent in the obesity epidemic and help people quit smoking and improve their cholesterol along the way. Pharmaceutical execs expected it to usher in a new class of drugs bigger than cholesterol-controlling statins, like Lipitor, Pfizer’s $1-billion-a-month blockbuster.

  • Science

    The Unusual Suspects

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 2.20.2009 14 Comments

    Obesity is our century's version of the Kennedy assassination: Everybody's got a theory. But even with blame perpetually shifting -- one day it's fast-food corporations, the next it's genetics -- and a $40-billion-a-year diet industry, our waistlines just won't stop expanding.


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