LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web -- or at least better access to it -- has been awarded a knighthood in London.
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A space ship launched five years ago to analyze a comet is in position to accompish its mission, Maryland's Discovery News reported Wednesday.
Long-term use of inhaled or nasal steroids is not linked to a risk of fractures, women should learn more about celiac disease -- an intolerance of gluten, and other news of modern health.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a series of sweeping changes in its mad cow surveillance and prevention programs Tuesday, some of which will take effect immediately.
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The report on Dec. 24 of a single cow in Washington state infected with mad cow disease has raised concerns about the possibility of additional cattle in U.S. herds harboring the deadly illness.
The U.S. government's monitoring system for cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal human brain illness, could be missing tens of thousands of victims, scientists and consumer advocates have told United Press International.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Although the United States Department of Agriculture insisted the U.S. beef supply is safe Tuesday after announcing the first documented case of mad cow disease in the United States, the agency for six months repeatedly refused to release its tests for ma
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Uzbek and German scientists are planting new forests on the former bottom of the Aral Sea in an effort to help promote the ecological recovery of the region.
LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Mars Express orbiter soon will be able to join the search for a signal from the Beagle 2 lander, European Space Agency officials said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Part 2 of a special HealthBiz series looking ahead to 2004. The new year will bring new challenges to the healthcare industry, such as dealing with lower reimbursements and tight finances, but the old headaches, including malpractice premiums and personne
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- New Zealand health officials have issued a warning to gardeners of the risk of catching Legionnaires disease from potting soil.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An Oregon woman said Monday she unwittingly consumed some of the recalled beef that may have contained meat from the mad cow detected in Washington earlier this month, as federal officials announced the questionable meat had been sent to 42 more facilitie
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INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved for sale an Indianapolis pharmaceutical company's treatment for bipolar depression.
U.S. officials said last week tracking down the source of infection of the country's first documented case of mad cow could prove elusive and even impossible.
REHOVOT, Israel, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Israeli scientists have destroyed malignant tumors in mice using a chemical that occurs naturally in garlic, the Weizmann Institute reported Monday.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A California scientist has pinpointed midlife crisis in brain circuitry as key to the onset of Alzheimer's later in life.
So far, scientists have been unsuccessful at demonstrating that prions -- the proteins suspected of causing mad cow disease and its human equivalent, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- are infectious. This leaves open the possibility, as a growing body
Having a soft drink before exercise could help people with McArdle's disease, another reason to quit smoking is that it causes hardening of the arteries in the legs, and other news of modern health.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- For the fourth straight day, no radio signal has been detected from Britain's Beagle 2 Mars lander, mission scientists reported Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 as former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her husband Mark Kelly (R) and Vice President Joe Biden look on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 10, 2012. UPI/Pat Benic...
