WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 8 (UPI) -- The liver may produce most of the body's good cholesterol, researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina reported Friday.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- An arm of the American Academies of Science has confirmed the drug nevirapine protects babies from contracting the AIDS virus from their mothers.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- FedEx Express was among companies and groups honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for efforts to improve clean air technology.
CRAIG, Mo., April 8 (UPI) -- An ethanol plant in Craig, Mo., has agreed to reduce emissions to settle Clean Air Act allegations, the Justice Department said Friday.
JUPITER, Fla., April 8 (UPI) -- The schools of sharks along Florida's east coast happens every year, experts say, but they're not usually as photogenic as they are this year.
Two genes that control cell movement also are needed for proper cell division, a new standard is set for hormone receptor-based genetic on-off switches, and other genetic research news.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said a study of 341 HMOs in multiple markets finds less competition, rather than more, fosters better health plan performance.
MOSCOW, April 8 (UPI) -- Russian space authorities said they will pursue a new manned shuttle spacecraft to take people and cargo to the International Space Station.
BEIJING, April 8 (UPI) -- An earthquake in southwestern Tibet measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck shortly after 4 a.m. Beijing time Friday, state media reported.
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- Scientists are still sifting through the clues, but there is mounting evidence that a gamma-ray burst has struck Earth at least once and perhaps twice in its late history, knocking out most of the resident life forms each time.
OXFORD, England, April 7 (UPI) -- A British study finds that refugees settled in western countries are far more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder than the population at large.
ATHENS, Greece, April 7 (UPI) -- A Greek study finds that elderly Europeans who embrace the Mediterranean diet can expect to live longer than those who eat the high-fat way.
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- Questions remain about whether the anthrax vaccine used by the Department of Defense is safe and effective despite continuing assertions by Pentagon officials that two more studies -- making a total of 20 -- support those conclusions.
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. health official who previously said a valuable collection of human brain tissues might be destroyed reportedly has said the samples will be preserved.
CUSTER STATE PARK, S.D., April 7 (UPI) -- A mountain pine beetle invasion has spelled the end for more than 700 mature ponderosa pine trees in South Dakota's Custer State Park area.
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- The Defense Department's anthrax inoculation program is poised to resume now that a federal judge has agreed to modify his injunction, which stopped the program, and issues over wording of a notice to soldiers have been resolved.
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- Pfizer has had a rocky week with projections for a stalled 2005 revenue picture and FDA's decision to pull its COX-2 drug Bextra from the market.
KINGSTON, R.I., April 7 (UPI) -- Pirates still sail the high seas but now some plunder the oceans, illegally catching and selling finfish and shellfish.
SEATTLE, April 7 (UPI) -- Laboratories now are able, through DNA samples, to predict what a person's health will be in 10 or 20 years and what changes might be needed.
CANBERRA, Australia, April 7 (UPI) -- An Australian survey finds that the number of people using most drugs is on the decline with the biggest drops in the smoking of tobacco and marijuana.
