Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:23 AM
NEW YORK, May 9 (UPI) -- New York is considering equipping a new ambulance to preserve bodies until families can be contacted about possible organ donation.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 11:58 PM
BRITAIN, England, May 8 (UPI) -- The British government said it is considering allowing early-stage abortions in health centers and doctors' offices.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 11:33 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (UPI) -- California researchers said high levels of flame retardant have been found in the eggs of peregrine falcons living in urban areas.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 10:51 PM
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are looking at a new genomics-based diagnostic test developed to determine the origins of hard-to-identify tumors.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM
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Published: May 8, 2008 at 3:18 PM
COLUMBIA, Mo., May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a new telecommunication technology, Telehealth, is delaying hospital stays when compared with patients receiving traditional care.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 3:05 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists are urging caution in giving children anti-obesity drugs, saying the medications might interfere with neural development.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:53 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 8 (UPI) -- The University of Alabama at Birmingham says it has become the first U.S. medical facility to offer a speedier cancer radiation therapy called "RapidArc."
Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM
PARIS, May 8 (UPI) -- The Ulysses observatory, a U.S.-European mission, has won an international award for the scientific productivity of the spacecraft, now orbiting the sun.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 1:59 PM
DURHAM, N.C., May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers say the world is moving closer to the day when robots will perform surgery with minimal or no guidance from a doctor.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 1:58 PM
CHICAGO, May 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study shows mercury releases from products declined between 1990 and 2005, but remained at dangerous levels.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 1:49 PM
PASADENA, Calif., May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency scientists say they've observed a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere that's only visible from Earth every 15 years.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM
BALTIMORE, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. neuroscientists say they have discovered how body tissue aids new peripheral nerve cells to kill neighboring nerves.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 12:59 PM
BERKELEY, Calif., May 8 (UPI) -- Three U.S. government scientists are proposing to improve climate change predictions by creating a kind of super-supercomputer.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 12:35 PM
ST. LOUIS, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have found a vulnerability they say can be used to make cancer cells easier to heat and radiate and, therefore, easier to destroy.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 12:27 PM
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Students from New York and California will make a really long long-distance phone call next week to speak with an International Space Station's crew member.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM
OBAN, Scotland, May 8 (UPI) -- British-led scientists say they've discovered the presence of large amounts of seaweed along coastal areas can influence the Earth's climate.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 11:59 AM
HOUSTON, May 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says one of the first tests involving human subjects in support of its return-to-the-moon Orion Project has been completed.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 11:02 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found modulating enkephalin peptide activity in the brain might reduce the cognitive deficits of Alzheimer's disease.
Published: May 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency has announced the start of a new artifact loan program for museums, planetariums and other organizations.
NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the Burma coast on May 5, 2008, after Tropical Cyclone Nargis flooded the region on May 4, 2008. The death toll from the cyclone and its aftermath is feared to hit or exceed 100,000 lives. (UPI Photo/NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team)
NASA satellite images reveal magnitude of flooding in Myanmar