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.
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.
OTTAWA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Within hours of a U.S. decision to begin accepting Canadian beef, a Canadian agency reported a suspected case of mad cow disease.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Santa Monica, Calif., law firm is suing Johnson and Johnson, saying its over-the-counter pain relief medication for kids can induce an allergic reaction.
HOUSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- NASA's new rocket fuel promises to be a huge step forward in the space agency's two-year effort to resume shuttle missions, reports the Houston Chronicle.
LUPANE, Zimbabwe, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An anthrax outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed two and infected 112 others in Lupane in the northern part of the African country, reports the Harare Chronicle.
DENVER, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The massive earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sunday has produced 71 aftershocks so far, U.S. scientists report.
SEATTLE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Overweight women are up to 70 percent more likely to become pregnant while taking birth control pills than more slender women, researchers said.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A spice used for thousands of years, curry, may be a powerful new weapon in fighting Alzheimer's Disease, researchers said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A non-profit group is seeking ways to keep moose off Alaska's railroad tracks as they struggle through the winter's deep snow.
HOUSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Texas say women may not need chemotherapy for a rare type of breast cancer, invasive lobular carcinoma.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The tsunami that ravaged parts of Asia and Africa may have been powerful enough to affect the Earth's wobble, rotation and clock, seismologists said.
PUGET SOUND, Wash., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Washington state officials are irked by new federal rules requiring state nurseries to inspect plants for sudden oak death before being shipped out of state.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An international commitment of more than $21 million has been made for research to identify the genes associated with autism spectrum disorders.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City say vaccines will be the key to saving lives in any bio-terror attack.
DALLAS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new study says those with calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate kidney stones should not take extra calcium on their own as suggested by earlier research.
ST. CATHERINE''''''''''''''''S ISLAND, Ga., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Bronx Zoo will close a 30-year-old animal preserve off the coast of Georgia since the original objectives have now been met. Zoologists said they learned a lot about herd maintenance and animal breeding since the 1974 debut of the Wildlife Survival Ce
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Israeli Police indicted four antiquity collectors and dealers Wednesday for having forged artifacts to fetch high prices for them.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A study says mice, rabbits, rats, beagles and other animals all show more physiological stress to routine laboratory procedures than previously known.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts doctor says a drug, newly approved to treat a common cause of blindness in the elderly, has been shown to be effective.
Former President George W. Bush, joined by his wife Laura Bush, looks at his official White House portrait during it's unveiling ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 31, 2012. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
