BOSTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Harvard Medical School researchers in Boston said the anti-psychotic drugs clozapine and olanzapine are linked to an increased risk of insulin resistance.
ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers Monday reported an increase in autism cases can be linked to better diagnostic criteria and more awareness of the disease.
FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Arctic shrubs have become more plentiful over the past 30 years, which could affect wildlife and the global carbon levels, U.S. researchers reported Monday.
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A mudslide has killed seven people, including three children, in northern Tajikistan, local media reported Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- If new, preliminary research on milk's weight-loss benefits proves to have merit, the product could become the center of a new diet fad. Move over Atkins, here comes the dairy diet.
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A series examining the science behind and potential impact of global climate change. This week: The global warming debate is shifting in the United States in 2005, because evidence that the phenomenon is real has reached a crescendo.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A large number of post-election resignations have left leaderless the federal agencies managing most of the government's science research as the first year of President George W. Bush's second term unfolds.
BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. health officials Monday outlined research goals for liver disease that include a lower mortality rate and better screening for high-risk patients.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A study by Washington-based market research firm Hartman Group Inc. said Sunday only about 14 percent of Americans avoid food containing trans-fat.
LONDON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Four in 10 British smokers want to give up smoking for 2005, mainly for health reasons, but also for the savings in money, a survey found.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Many believe Communion chalices used by worshippers during church services are teeming with germs, but a New Jersey biologist says it is not a risk.
