NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. network of businesses, advocacy groups and academic institutions concerned with health are starting the Healthy Monday Movement.
DURHAM,, N.H., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Attention New Hampshire shoppers: you have been watched, your cognitive skills observed, but retail staff should benefit.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. clinical trial to treat a type of muscular dystrophy -- Duchenne -- shows some success at restoring a protein linked to healthy muscle tissue.
CYPRESS, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Endometrial ablation, a minimally invasive procedure, is effective as hysterectomy in treating "dysfunctional uterine bleeding" or DUB, a U.S. study found.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Allergic-like reactions to intravenously administered gadolinium-containing contrast material used in magnetic resonance imaging are rare, a U.S. study found.
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Nearly 90 percent of U.S. teens said they hoped their friends adopt safer driving habits in the new year and 11 percent will pursue safer driving themselves.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Cirrhosis, a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrotic scar tissue, may be reversed, a U.S. study found.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Receiving treatment for non-cancer health issues while being treated by specialists for cancer improves cancer survival rates, a U.S. study found.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher has linked high triglyceride levels and elevated levels of a certain type of cholesterol to a type of stroke.
PINELLAS PARK, Fla., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. expert in eye care suggests a new kind of New Year's resolution -- one that she says is easy to keep and could avert blindness.
LONDON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Therapy that stimulates hand muscles may help treat the musician's dystonia that causes muscles spasms in musicians, a British study found.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Asking U.S. emergency room patients about alcohol use and discussing how to reduce harmful drinking patterns is effective in lowering risky drinking.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Bevacizumab, a drug which slows tumor-supporting blood vessels, added to standard chemotherapy slowed metastatic breast cancer, a U.S. clinical trial found.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have tied impulsiveness to genetically linked differences in brain activity between sober alcoholics and non-addicted people.
SYDNEY, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The New South Wales state government in Australia is banning tobacco products containing fruit-flavored additives to curb youth smoking.
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A screening strategy could make the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease -- a single-cell parasite -- more feasible, a U.S. researcher said.
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Most sufferers of neglected tropical diseases live in tropical regions, but Americans and other travelers to these areas may be exposed, a U.S. study says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Many of America's poorest suffer some of the same parasitic infections found in Africa, Asia and Latin America, a study has found.
DALLAS, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Nuts are a big part of holiday eating, but a U.S. dietician says nuts can be a regular treat if they are substituted for less heart-healthy foods.
GENOA, Italy, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The chemotherapy drugs -- anthracyclines -- aids survival in women with HER2-positive breast cancer, but not HER2-negative tumors, an Italian study says.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Breast cancer patients given chemotherapy and tamoxifen have a reduced risk of developing a second cancer in the other breast, a Danish researcher found.
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Many U.S. nursing home residents do not receive cancer screening, surgical treatment or hospice care -- despite the increased risk of cancer as people age.
ROSTOCK, Germany, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana that reduce the side effects of cancer treatment, may inhibit tumor cell growth, German researchers say.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Danish study suggests that early exposure to environmental factors may influence the development of testicular cancer.
DALLAS, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The number of injuries and deaths from alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents increases during the holiday season, a U.S. physician says.
A soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a flag at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
