BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Despite little scientific proof there's any benefit in it, health food activists have long touted the value of taking grape seed extract.
ORONO, Maine, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- University of Maine scientists say they have found a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth's climate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense is discussing with other agencies how it might reopen and again make mandatory a controversial anthrax vaccination program despite a second federal court order enjoining DOD from forcing troops to take the shots.
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SYDNEY, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Evolution has made two species of Australian snakes tough enough to fearlessly toady up to the cane frog and gobble it without fear of being poisoned.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- This Christmas Day, if all goes well, a small flying-saucer-shaped probe will detach from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and begin a three-week unpowered trajectory that will take it to the tops of the clouds on Titan.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Michigan scientists say the bacteria and fungi in a person's gastrointestinal tract have a great deal to do with his or her sensitivity to allergens. A team from the University of Michigan, in a study to be published in next month's edition of the journal
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A North Carolina researcher says patients' bills of rights laws are not legal veils for healthcare providers as some critics charge.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday said people should limit their use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug products.
LONDON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A British mother of four has died of a rare allergic reaction to tomatoes while preparing spaghetti bolognese for her children.
BOSTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Boston researchers say the slow death of adult stem cells that form a reservoir of pigment-making cells is the cause of graying hair in the elderly.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Fewer U.S. nursing home residents suffer from chronic pain and fewer physical restraints are being used, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The American Public Health Association adopted 20 wide-ranging policies covering topics from lead-laced candy and torture to disabilities and violence.
EAST HANOVER, N.J., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Novartis Pharmaceuticals says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Enablex extended-release tablets for treatment of urinary incontinence.
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Britain's astronomical Infrared Telescope has begun operating at the summit of the dormant volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The California Public Utilities Commission now requires the cost of addressing global warming in the future be accounted for in current utility budgets.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Archaeologists have found a jar created by ancient Greeks on the bottom of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, local media reported Thursday.
DENVER, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck an area of the South Pacific Ocean north of Macquarie Island early Friday morning local time.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- An inquiry was under way Thursday into why a Victoria, British Columbia hospital discharged a young woman who died hours later of meningitis.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The Boeing Delta IV heavy launch vehicle failed to place DemoSat, its test satellite, into the proper orbit on its inaugural launch from Florida.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Thirty-six years ago this week, three astronauts and their families demonstrated the courage, boldness, and determination necessary for the human race to conquer the stars. The question is whether NASA and Congress today are willing to show as much braver
FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Northern California Cancer Center researchers have found breast implants after mastectomy to treat breast cancer do not reduce patients' long-term survival.
Many residents have protested the hydraulic fracturing oil drilling citing contamination of the ground and air at the Niobrara oil shale formation in Weld County, North eastern Colorado on May 30, 2012. Gas and oil companies are using large amounts of water to obtain shale oil and gas in a process called hydraulic fracturing or fracking. UPI/Gary C. Caskey
