WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a brochure on questions patients should ask before surgery.
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Many U.S. patients in emergency rooms with symptoms of a heart attack received doses of drugs to stop clotting outside of the recommended range.
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. adults enjoy good health for a longer period than previously realized, but many factors compromise health in the elderly.
SEATTLE, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. employers are increasingly offering preventive healthcare services as part of their employee benefits, as a way to cut the healthcare costs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs encourages all women veterans enrolled in the VA healthcare system to get tested for cervical cancer.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- University of British Columbia researchers say a new technique has the potential to reduce the toxicity of vaccines and to make smaller doses more effective.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A doubling of the tax deduction for charitable giving in Hurricane Katrina's wake should make 2005 the best giving year ever in the United States.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Friday criticized a new Justice Department leak probe. The Justice Department announced earlier Friday that it was launching an investigation into the disclosure of a secret National Security Agency domestic eavesdroppin
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Cambridge, Mass., biotech company has received an approvable letter from the U.S. government for an injectable treatment for alcoholism.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice has launched a probe to discover who leaked the details of a major domestic surveillance program.
U.S. stocks finish 2005 with a loss ... Russia prepares to cut gas to Europe ... Analysis: Rich get richer, but so do poor ... Libya welcomes big U.S. oil companies ... China letting foreigners handle yuan trade ... Tokyo stocks up more than 40 percent i
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A group of private researchers have determined that 65 of the nation's 299 biggest real estate markets are severely overpriced.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Washington will miss its deadline to legislate the Central American Free Trade Agreement that President George Bush had pushed for.
MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Ukraine and Europe braced for Russia to cut off natural gas this weekend after Kiev rejected a nearly five-fold increase in the commodity's price.
Capt. Myron L. Donald looks smilingly at this wife on March 17, 1973 at March Air Force base in California, after he placed a lei around her neck as he deplaned following flight from Clark Air Force base. The former POW from Tucson, Arizona, was held by the North Vietnamese for over five years. (UPI Photo/Files)
