BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Harvard professor warns the new Medicare drug benefit program could be harmful to the health of the poor, elderly and disabled.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Harvard expert says the Medicare Drug Benefit program could help create a resource to understand how drugs are used as well as their risks and benefits.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Local and statewide bans on smoking tobacco now affect 39 percent of the United States' population, and are facing less opposition.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Arab media have come a long way recently. Only a decade ago the media landscape in the Arab world looked pretty bleak. Only a handful of sharp and courageou
MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russian and Ukrainian officials negotiated Thursday over the timing and extent of a hike in Kiev's bill for Russian natural gas imports.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Newly released papers have revealed that in the mid-1970s, pandas were the center of political fervor in British-Chinese Cold War relations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The government of Hong Kong agreed Thursday to reopen its borders for imports of U.S. beef from cattle less than 30 months old.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- India gave the nod Thursday for a regional free-trade deal that would lower tariffs between seven South Asian countries.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. fixed mortgage rates fell slightly this week, as long-term interest rates declined following a big decrease in new home sales.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Senate has confirmed the president's nominee to head the U.S. agency that naturalizes immigrants -- just in time for him to face a federal court order to speed up the issuance of Green Cards.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The nation's new spy chief is planning a "relatively flat" intelligence budget request in 2007, following steep rises in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks.
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- South Korean investigators said Thursday scientist Hwang Woo-suk's claim of patient-specific stem cell creation was found to be another case of fraud.
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Polish government has concluded its probe into alleged CIA secret prisons in the country, but has refused to release the results.
President Barack Obama throws a football on the field at Soldier Field following the NATO working dinner in Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 2012. UPI/Pete Souza/White House Photo
