BETHESDA, Md., May 9 (UPI) -- Using brain scans, U.S. researchers found people in recovery from alcoholism who showed hyperactivity in a part of the brain were more likely to relapse.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- An average of 13 U.S. workers die on the job every day while an additional estimated 137 die each day from occupational diseases, AFL-CIO officials say.
BOSTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Low cognition hinders U.S. seniors' Medicare choices and it calls into question potential effectiveness of a Medicare voucher system, researchers say.
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.
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
