LONDON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Candidates for prime minister or president should have an independent health examination to ensure their ability to govern, a British doctor argues.
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- It's possible to teach preschoolers the pre-reading skills they need for later school success, while fostering socials skills, U.S. researchers said.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Particulate analysis of previous California wildfires indicates more serious potential health threats than is generally realized, U.S. researchers suggest.
DALLAS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas said they are aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the the brain affected by Gulf War Syndrome.
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Two common medications used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder do not appear to cause genetic damage in children, U.S. researchers said.
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Northern California mandarin oranges contain a high amount of a natural antihistamine that relieves cold and allergy symptoms, a U.S. government study found.
SAO PAULO, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Pregnant women who did water aerobics had easier deliveries and asked for less pain-killing medicine than women who didn't, a Brazilian study said Thursday.
MIAMI, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A 14-year-old South Carolina girl who spent 118 days without a heart has been discharged from a hospital and says she wants to play with her friends.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The incidence of heterosexual anal sex is increasing among teens and young adults -- a sexually transmitted disease and HIV risk factor, U.S. researchers say.
NORMAN, Okla., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Controlling a certain enzyme could inhibit growth of lung, breast, colon and pancreatic cancers, University of Oklahoma researchers said.
DEKALB, Ill., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with potentially less toxicity than other drugs, U.S. researchers said.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. government wildlife expert at the Grand Canyon who died from the plague after touching a dead cougar wasn't properly supervised, an agency report said.
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A ban on fast-food ads in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, U.S. researchers said.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Danish people are generally the European Union's happiest and most satisfied, while Bulgarians, the bloc's newest members, are the least, an EU survey found.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately 20 percent, researchers said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The value of U.S. families caring for elderly relatives was $375 billion, more than the $311 billion spent in 2007 for Medicaid, non-profit officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Some 1.1 million people in the United States are infected with HIV and nearly 233,000 are unaware of their infection, a forum on HIV research said Thursday.
MATSUSAKA, Japan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic has treated type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice, researchers in Japan said.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- University of Michigan researchers say they have demonstrated a simple, inexpensive method of detecting contaminants in the blood-thinning drug heparin.
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Bullying can start at any age but increases and then peaks in early adolescence, between sixth and ninth grades, a U.S. expert advises.
DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- About 80 percent of all cancers are diagnosed in the elderly, and more than 80 percent of known risk factors are potentially preventable, U.S. researchers say.
TAINAN CITY, Taiwan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- In a study in mice, exercise was found to reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells in the brain, scientists in Taiwan said.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Red wine may be beneficial not only for cardiovascular health, but it may also help guard against Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said.
Sean Combs arrives on the red carpet before the screening of the film "Killing Them Softly" during the 65th annual Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 22, 2012. UPI/David Silpa
