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EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say those who genetically tend to depression do better in collectivist East Asian cultures compared to individualistic Western cultures.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The risk of serious influenza-related sickness far outpaces the risk of injectable vaccine in pregnant women, a U.S. review of studies found.

BOSTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women, a U.S. researcher said.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Expectant mothers in Sweden who ate vegetables daily had children less likely to develop type 1 diabetes, researchers found.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A girl's ethnicity and her weight or perception of her weight may play a role in her participation in risky sexual behaviors, U.S. researchers said.

LONDON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Depression and alcohol abuse are the top psychological problems faced by British soldiers returning from combat, a psychiatric study found.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Achilles' heel for all strains of influenza may be plant-based anti-oxidants, a team of researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham said.

EDMONTON, Alberta, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say aerobic exercise benefits lymphoma patients -- even those on chemotherapy.

GRANADA, Spain, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Many adolescents have "a negative, pessimistic and resigned attitude" toward bullying at school, researchers in Spain said.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Gossip in the workplace can be a weapon in reputational warfare or an opportunity to enhance someone's reputation, U.S. researchers suggest.

GRAND RPAIDS, Mich., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest room design can improve the quality of a visit to the physician's office.

ATLANTA, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Researchers using a computer model estimated between 1.8 million and 5.7 million people in the United States had H1N1 flu last spring, a health official said.

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Bad driving may be genetic and 30 percent of U.S. adults have the gene variant, U.S. researchers suggest.

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- An update of the World Database of Happiness calculates Costa Rica is at the top of the list for quality of life in 148 countries, Dutch researchers say.

ATLANTA, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Methadone is prominent in prescription opioid deaths and Medicaid enrollees may be a high-risk group, U.S. health officials said.