The decision to try out new songs at open mics seemed simple enough at the time: I was curious to see how total strangers would react to the music and the open mic format specifically serves that purpose.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Responders to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York have double the rate of asthma compared to the general population, U.S. researchers say.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- More than one-third of Americans ages 17-24 are unqualified for military service because of physical and medical issues, U.S. military officials said.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Americans are stressed about work, money and job stability and people in Denver are more stressed than other Americans, the Stress in America survey indicates.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Babies, born to women who had flu vaccine while pregnant, were hospitalized at a lower rate than infants of unvaccinated mothers, U.S. researchers found.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a little weight loss and activity go a long way in helping prevent or delay diabetes.
SEATTLE, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Pregnant women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medication have triple the risk of premature child delivery, U.S. researchers found.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A lack of health insurance may have led or contributed to the deaths of 17,000 hospitalized children in the last 20 years, U.S. medical researchers said.
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. emergency physicians have issued guidelines to help people determine whether their flu symptoms warrant a hospital emergency room visit.
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Healthy pregnant women need only one dose of H1N1 influenza vaccine to mount a robust immune response, U.S. health officials say.
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- People tend to judge men with wider, longer faces as more aggressive, Canadian researchers have found.
One of the blades of a mom's helicopter is that of telling her kids the facts of family life -- those kernels of family history that makes them who they are.
DALLAS, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Twenty percent of sudden infant death syndrome deaths occur among infants who are in child care, U.S. researchers warn.
HOUSTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The cause of priapism, spontaneous long-lasting erections lasting at least four hours, is unknown but U.S. researchers say there may be a treatment.
COLUMBIA, Mo., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Some 90 million Americans have low health literacy but those with limited English and disabilities have even lower health literacy, U.S. researchers said.
