A to Z Health Guide 2007
The scientific bulletin of the year may be the stem-cell breakthrough. But 2007 provided a whole alphabet of big medical news. TIME's A-to-Z guide reviews them
—By Coco Masters, Alice Park, Carolyn Sayre, Tiffany Sharples, Alexandra Silver and Kate Stinchfield
For the estimated 3% of people who experience the prickly, twitchy, downright creepy sensation of restless-leg syndrome (RLS), there is a bit of welcome news. Icelandic researchers studied nearly 1,000 RLS subjects and their family members and traced uncontrolled limb movements, one symptom of the condition, to a gene that regulates the body's iron levels. Studying the gene could help scientists figure out how to shut RLS off at its source.
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