PITTSBURGH, May 9 (UPI) -- Childhood adversity can lead to chronic physical and mental disability in adult life and have an effect on the next generation, U.S. researchers say.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 9 (UPI) -- People who eat walnuts or their extracted oil can reduce cardiovascular risk via a mechanism other than simply lowering cholesterol, U.S. researchers say.
SAN DIEGO, May 9 (UPI) -- A new genomic test can help predict whether men are more likely to harbor an aggressive form of prostate cancer, U.S. researchers say.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 9 (UPI) -- Timing is everything when it comes to parents having a talk about alcohol with children; wait until they enter college and it is too late, U.S. researchers say.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Wrigley officials said Wednesday they will stop U.S. production, sales and marketing of their new caffeinated gum Alert Energy Caffeine Gum.
DEERFIELD, Ill., May 8 (UPI) -- Baxter International Inc. officials said its Phase III clinical study of immunoglobulin did not reduce cognitive decline in those with moderate Alzheimer's.
WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Ann Battenfield's healthcare coverage has so far been expensive and inefficient. The Affordable Care Act could change her life -- and the lives of millions in similar situations.
BALTIMORE, May 8 (UPI) -- Talk-show host Katie Couric is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at Johns Hopkins Medicine's 19th annual A Woman's Journey symposium in Baltimore.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 8 (UPI) -- Girls who received two doses of human papillomavirus vaccine had immune responses not worse than those who had three doses, Canadian researchers say.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Programs for mentally ill U.S. teens and adults achieve positive outcomes in behavioral and emotional health, skills, employment and education, officials say.
CHAUMBURG, Ill., May 7 (UPI) -- The American Veterinary Medical Association reminds U.S. pet owners the gift of good health is the best way to show your pet you truly care.
WESTPORT, Conn., May 7 (UPI) -- The best country in the world to be a mother is Finland, the United States is No. 30, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is last, a non-profit group says.
ATLANTA, May 7 (UPI) -- An estimated 3 million Americans are living with hepatitis C and about 75 percent don't know they are infected, U.S. health officials estimate.
DALLAS, May 7 (UPI) -- People who have their bladder removed because of advanced bladder cancer might need additional chemotherapy to prevent recurrence, U.S. researchers say.
SAN DIEGO, May 7 (UPI) -- Low-dose estrogen oral contraceptives may increase a woman's risk for chronic pelvic pain symptoms and even pain during sexual climax, U.S. researchers say.
ATLANTA, May 7 (UPI) -- The soaring cost of medical care from 1987 to 2009 was caused mostly by a higher proportion of people being treated for disease, U.S. researchers say.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 6 (UPI) -- The deaths of a 62-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man heightened worries in Saudi Arabia and abroad the SARS-like virus may be escalating, officials say.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 6 (UPI) -- Mothers who lick a child's dropped pacifier "clean" had children with less risk of allergies, a small preliminary study by Swedish researchers found.
NEW YORK, May 6 (UPI) -- Hundreds of millions of patients every year worldwide get healthcare-associated infections, but handwashing could prevent half of them, U.N. officials say.
OXFORD, England, May 6 (UPI) -- A little thoughtful care from doctors and midwives makes a huge difference to British couples coping with an emergency during a pregnancy, researchers say.
TORONTO, May 5 (UPI) -- Mexican-Americans born in the United States age 55 and older are more likely than immigrants to report physical limitations, researchers say.
NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- The Obama administration's age and identification restrictions are barriers to emergency contraception access, a U.S.non-profit group says.
NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- One-in-6 men don't want to get a skin cancer screening because they are afraid of what they will hear, a U.S. survey indicates.
PARIS, May 4 (UPI) -- About 650 people in France have been given prosthetic hips that do not have European safety certification, a health watchdog group said.
WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- A leading medical group said it has backed off its longstanding recommendation men over 40 should get routine prostate cancer screenings.
Jodi Arias (R) reacts as she hears the verdict of guilty of first degree murder after a four month trial in Phoenix, Arizona, May 8, 2013. Arias was convicted of murdering her lover Travis Alexander in Tempe, Arizona in June of 2008. UPI// Rob Schumacher/Arizona Republic/Pool
