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AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Older people whose sinusitis can't be helped by medication alone can look to minimally invasive surgery as a safe, effective therapy, new research says.

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Common house dust could be an important source of a potentially dangerous class of chemicals, researchers say.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- There's hope for millions of Americans suffering from migraine headaches and their employers who suffer a different way, a new study says.

RANGELY, Colo., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Bureau of Land Management has dropped for now its plan to remove 120 wild horses from a Colorado tract to allow for natural-gas drilling.

DETRLOIT, Mich., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Government leaders and environmentalists are at odds over a federal proposal to allow partially treated sewage into Michigan lakes during heavy rainfall.

New celebrex, naproxen presriptions fall ... Treatment offers hope for prostate cancer ... Incoming freshman pioneered new painkiller ... Illinois easing flu shot restrictions ... News from United Press International.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- New U.S. prescriptions for the painkiller Celebrex fell 56 percent last week after it was tied to a heightened risk of heart attacks and strokes.

NORMAN, Okla., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The number of tornadoes reported in the United States reached a record during 2004, surpassing the previous high by almost 300, weather officials reported.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- California researchers have shown that advanced heart failure patients with diabetes faced higher mortality if treated with insulin.

WHEELING, W.Va., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- High-risk prostate cancer patients have a better chance of beating the disease with both internal and external radiation and hormones.

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- This week's approval of a new painkiller comes 25 years after pioneering work in finding the drug was done by an incoming freshman at the University of Utah.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Internet use has cut into TV watching and socializing with the average U.S. user online three hours a day, a survey shows.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Public and political support is growing for President George W. Bush's ambitious plan for space exploration, but at least one scientific organization has cast doubts about Bush's vision -- although whether those doubts carry any weight or have much validi

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Scientists who earlier exposed a 90-percent plunge in the world population of large ocean fish now have uncovered pockets of subtropical waters that still teem with diverse wildlife and may hold the solution to sustaining a healthy state of the seas.

One top healthcare New Year's resolution should be an end to talking about Medicare going bankrupt. It isn't going to happen but fixing the senior program will require very tough choices.