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BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. discovery could produce a drug to counter the deadly effects of the anthrax toxin, the BBC said Tuesday.

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

FDA approves new Eli Lilly bipolar drug ... Inject the garlic -- cure the cancer ... Mid-life crisis may cause Alzheimer's ... Beagle's signal remains undetected

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

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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.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Tons of Canadian beef brought into the United States before the border was closed to cattle importation in May due to a case of mad cow disease could still be sitting in freezers of meat distributing and processing companies, a former U.S. Department of A

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Given how little is known about the cause of brain tumors, researchers are interested in what a Rohm & Haas Co. study of Philadelphia cases will say.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Federal officials said Sunday they are considering changing their surveillance programs for detecting mad cow disease among U.S herds in response to the first detected case of the disease in the United States earlier this week.

LEICESTER, England, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Attempts to detect Beagle 2's faint electronic bark on Mars using the Odyssey and giant radio telescopes have failed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Federal officials said Sunday they are considering changing the program for detecting the so-called mad cow disease among U.S. herds.