LONDON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A survey of people in 13 countries suggested people in Britain are the most addicted to fast-food -- edging out the United States by 1 percentage point.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- New York City's Green Carts program is set to expand food carts that sell only fresh fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods that need them most.
ATLANTA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults say they are in excellent or very good health, but 62 percent say they never participate in any type of physical activity.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Chicago surgeon is set to perform the first surgical implant of the Nex Gen LPS-Flex mobile bearing knee, newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel have found that if one is going to experience a period of helplessness, it's best to do it alone.
MONTREAL, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Bad dreams in preschoolers are less prevalent than thought, but nightmares in children are associated with higher anxiety levels, a Canadian study found.
AUCKLAND , New Zealand, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Children who don't get enough nightly sleep are more likely to be overweight and have behavioral problems, a New Zealand study found.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Generalized anxiety disorder and alcohol abuse were less prevalent among women always actively religious, but the same wasn't true for men, a U.S. study found.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Tonsillectomies to treat chronic and recurrent tonsillitis can improve a patient's quality of life in both children and adults, two U.S. studies found.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., suggests a drug cocktail may improve outcomes in patients with a type of brain tumor.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance can be reversed when the brain peptide, orexin-A, is administered in monkeys, a U.S. study found.
LONDON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Britons wanting to be treated by England's National Health Service may have to qualify to receive free care under a new plan, a report said Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- How happy a woman feels in her marriage affects how a key stress hormone -- linked to several diseases -- recovers during the day, a U.S. study found.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found a protein that seems key to turning on a recurrent prostate cancer that is resistant to hormone therapy.
BOSTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A lack of deep sleep has been linked to less sensitivity to insulin and higher risk of diabetes in a U.S. study of healthy young adults.
BOSTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- People with restless legs syndrome, or RLS, are twice as likely to have heart disease or a stroke, compared to those who don't, a U.S. study finds.
