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Miscellaneous science and technology storiesMonday, February 8SEVERODVINSK, Russia, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Russia has begun construction on its fourth strategic nuclear-powered submarine designed to carry sea-launched ballistic missiles, officials confirmed. TEHRAN, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Iran announced Monday additional nuclear and military ambitions in the face of mounting domestic and international opposition, authorities said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. officials unveiled a $78 million effort to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. PARIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Iran's move to proceed with the enrichment of its nuclear fuel resulted in new calls for sanctions Monday from the United States, France and Russia. SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A retired Boeing engineer convicted of supplying trade secrets to China must serve 15 years in prison, a California judge ruled Monday. LONDONDERRY, Vt., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Skiers at the Magic Mountain ski area in Londonderry, Vt., are halfway toward the goal of saving their humble ski resort, the mountain's president said. SUGAR GROVE, Pa., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Thirty-four people were treated at hospitals after being exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning at a church near Sugar Grove, Pa., authorities said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- More than 30 percent of U.S. adults ages 65 and older had not been immunized against pneumonia in 36 states as of 2008, researchers found. BOSTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have reversed the aging of blood stem cells through the influence of bone-forming cells known as osteoblasts. KEY LARGO, Fla., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The red lionfish has invaded the waters in and around the Florida Keys, wreaking havoc on the island cluster's native fish populations, experts say. ATLANTA, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Emory Clinic Sleep Disorders Center in Atlanta is disputing a grieving family's contention that it neglected a 25-year-old man who died during a sleep study. LONDON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. and British scientists say they have determined the three-dimensional structure of a critical enzyme found in HIV and other retroviruses. ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- An Australian forensic pathologist says there may be dangers in some herbal medicines if taken in large quantities, injected or combined with prescriptions. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Bayer Healthcare Corp. clearly stated its oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz contained possible side effects, the pills' maker said in response to lawsuits. ROME, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Italian scientists say they've showed chocolate-craving mice so desire chocolate, they will tolerate electric shocks to pursue the food. MONTREAL, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Canadian and U.S. researchers say mom plays a key role in how her child develops executive functioning. TEHRAN, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Iran has opened a pair of production lines for the manufacture of advanced drone aircraft, the country's defense minister said Monday. PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say many physicians don't use established criteria to diagnose depression. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have converted normal protein into a prion -- an abnormal protein that causes brain disease in humans, sheep and cows. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. physicist says he has, for the first time, directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA into a cell. BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists investigating how cells manage their own division say they've discovered common sugar switches are partly in control. MADRID, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Spanish scientists say they've created an ultrasound technique to determine water content, thickness and other properties of leaves without touching them. BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Former Argentina President Nestor Kirchner remained in intensive care Monday after emergency surgery, medical officials said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's determined the risk of developing a rare viral disease has been linked with Tysabri infusions. DENTON, Texas, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- University of North Texas scientists say they've found a way of using eco-friendly proteins to capture carbon dioxide from industrial smokestacks. MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Other countries can do more to help the anti-Taliban fight in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says. MADRID, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Spanish scientists say they've developed a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers from migrating from widely used groups of plastic products. GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has selected Zantech IT Services Inc. to provide programmatic and institutional learning services. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Space shuttle Endeavour roared into the early morning sky over Florida's Kennedy Space Center Monday in the last scheduled night shuttle launch. AMES, Iowa, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered how anti-viral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading. MADISON, Wis., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have linked length of time in institutional care and child brain development. CARDIFF, Wales, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Children whose mothers suffer from depression during pregnancy are more likely than others to show anti-social behavior, British researchers say. CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Anyone considering a direct-to-consumer genetic test should ensure a genetics professional be involved, U.S. genetic counselors advise. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest children abused before age 5 may be affected physiologically. LEIDEN, Netherlands, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The quality of care and the relationship between children and caregivers play a key role in development for HIV-infected children, Dutch researchers say. AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say acupuncture may effectively treat depression during pregnancy. |
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| Sunday, February 7WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. authorities have stepped up enforcement of laws banning American bribes to foreign interests to obtain contracts for overseas business, the FBI said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Sunday said he has invited Republican and Democratic leaders to meet with him to work on healthcare reform. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Food and beverage industry workers are twice as likely as others to be smokers and face a higher risk of cancer, Pennsylvania health officials said. PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Accusations of student cheating at California's Stanford University have taken a big jump, school officials say. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. policy of engaging Iran and North Korea has paid benefits, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says. BALASORE, India, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- India has successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missile, defense sources say. NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A New York physician said Monday he will launch an online discount Botox bank that he hopes will spread into branches nationwide. RIVIERA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A man was bitten by a shark in Riviera Beach, Fla., after he caught the wild animal and waded into the water to free it, an official says. SEOUL, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Chinese envoy met with a top North Korean official amid speculation Beijing would urge Pyongyang to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, authorities said Sunday. TEHRAN, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday ordered his nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium to 20 percent. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A low cloud ceiling over the Kennedy Space Center has canceled Sunday's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, NASA officials said. PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- South African President Jacob Zuma, a father of 20 children, has apologized for the one he fathered out of wedlock. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- NASA said Saturday it plans to launch a large rocket by the 2020s for human exploration beyond low earth orbit. BHOPAL, India, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Water around the long-closed Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, contains high levels of toxic pollutants, researchers say. |
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| Saturday, February 6PYONGYANG, North Korea, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A U.N. envoy said Saturday his upcoming visit to North Korea will include discussions on how to resume six-party talks regarding the country's nuclear program. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a proposed federal program dedicated to livestock tracking will be replaced by a state tracking program. SYDNEY, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Australian officials urged restraint by both sides after ships owned by Japanese whalers and anti-whaling activists collided Saturday in the Antarctic. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- More than $119 million awarded to U.S. states and territories will support public efforts to promote healthier lifestyles, federal officials said. BANGKOK, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A naturalized U.S. citizen who returned to his native Myanmar faces 12 years imprisonment if convicted by a Myanmar court, said human rights activists. BOSTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A poll suggests most Americans believe the swine flu was overblown and assume the pandemic is over. ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he's skeptical of Iranian assertions that Tehran is ready to reach a nuclear enrichment deal with the West. OMAHA, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- An Indian man has pleaded guilty to U.S. charges he conspired to hack into online brokerage accounts and manipulate stock prices in a "pump and dump" scheme. |
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| Friday, February 5BOSTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A rescue team from a Boston aquarium freed a yearling harp seal that has been stranded on a seaside cliff for days. DALLAS, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- More than 430,000 U.S. women die each year of heart disease, but many women are unfamiliar with signs, U.S. researchers say. NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- New York has begun a program to help primary care physicians combat preventable health problems, city officials say. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Just in time for an unaccustomed snow event in the Mid-Atlantic, a Pennsylvania expert reminds those 45 and older not to shovel snow because it can kill you. LA HONDA, Calif., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- California wildlife officials said two mountain lions spotted by hikers in a San Mateo county park were tracked by officials but evaded capture. ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. doctor says research shows heart attacks increase during top international sporting events, but that shouldn't dampen Super Bowl enthusiasm. STUART, Fla., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A research scientist says young great white sharks may be the creatures responsible for a deadly shark attack in Martin County, Fla. TORONTO, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The leader of Canada's socialist New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, announced in Toronto Friday he has prostate cancer, but is not stepping down. HOUSTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Scientists at Rice University say they've used nanobubbles to target and explode individual diseased cancer cells. SEATTLE, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The makers of atrazine Friday disputed a University of Washington study linking the herbicide to higher rates of the birth defect gastroschisis. ATLANTA, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a plant long used in Chinese medicine may become a cancer treatment. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Six Flags said Friday that it would close its Kentucky Kingdom amusement park in Louisville, Ky., choosing to opt out of its lease with the state. CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Women experience fewer complications after having a Caesarean delivery if sutures were used instead of staples to close the wound, U.S. researchers found. NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Scientists at Eastern Virginia Medical School say targeting an enzyme known as 12-LO may be the key to reversing Type 1 diabetes. MONTREAL, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say parental control predicts how a child nurtures passion in the arts or athletics. BOSTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Prenatal screening for spinal muscular atrophy may only be cost effective for women with a family history of the disease, a Massachusetts doctor said. BEIJING, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Informed sources in Beijing said Friday a top Chinese official's upcoming visit to North Korea could help North Korea's nuclear program. HONG KONG, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- H1N1 influenza causes a generally mild respiratory illness, but results in severe disease or death in vulnerable individuals, researchers in Hong Kong say. CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- An algorithm that analyzes glucose levels could lead to wireless devices that recommend insulin adjustments in type 1 diabetics, British scientists said. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Medicare covers 56 percent of the costs of administering chemotherapy and related infusion room services to seniors with cancer, U.S. researchers found. CORK, Ireland, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Researchers in Ireland say they've created a vaccine that stimulates the immune system to attack cancer cells left after prostate surgery. CHENGDU, China, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A pair of giant pandas born in the United States arrived in China Friday and were in good physical condition following their 14-hour journey, experts say. TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Our genetic makeup determines how much endurance we can build from exercising, scientists at the University of Alabama said. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Startled visitors at a New Zealand wildlife park were forced to take refuge in a shuttle bus when three cheetahs escaped their compound, officials said. BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The use of winter cover crops to reduce phosphorus runoff into Lake Champlain could be applied to other U.S. watersheds, Vermont scientists said. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The Canadian premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Danny Williams, was recovering Friday from heart surgery at an undisclosed U.S. facility, staff said. BRUSSELS, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Romania says it has agreed to take part in the new version of the U.S. anti-missile defense shield proposed by the Obama administration. PYONGYANG, North Korea, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- North Korea will free an American held since Christmas for allegedly trespassing into the country, state media said Friday but didn't give the release date. TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A Florida family has received "credits" potentially worth millions of dollars for creating a panther refuge on land they will continue to farm, officials say. LONDON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- .Runoff from agriculture, roads and housing has badly polluted 80 percent of British ponds, stripping them of much of their plant and animal life, a study says. |
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| Thursday, February 4EUREKA, Calif., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A strong earthquake off the North California coast shook the ground miles inland but caused no reported damage, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say high levels of protein in urine may be linked to adverse clinical outcomes. DALLAS, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Prostate cancer cells are more likely to spread to other parts of the body if a specific gene quits functioning normally, U.S. researchers say. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles County coroner's office said Thursday socialite Casey Johnson's death was natural and caused by diabetic ketoacidosis. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Providing preventive Tamiflu and emphasizing the need for repeated hand sanitizer use helped stop H1N1 flu at an Alabama summer camp, a researcher says. BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have identified DNA variants in mothers and fetuses that appear to increase the risk for preterm labor and delivery. ATLANTA, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Zoo Atlanta officials said the tourist site's beloved panda, Mei Lan, began its journey to China Thursday by flying to Washington. CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- British and Belgian researchers say they have communicated with a patient in a vegetative state through the person's thoughts. NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A botanical garden in Norfolk, Va., said a pair of bald eagles nesting in the park has two eggs to watch over in their nest. RICHFIELD, Utah, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Tiny fossilized jaw bones found in Richfield, Utah, helped identify two new rodent species from as far back as 8 million years ago, a paleontologist says. TORUN, Poland, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Polish scientists say they've used a medical imaging technique to detect the forgery of an artist's signature and changes in paintings hundreds of years old. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Seeing someone perform a virtuous deed -- especially helping another person -- makes people feel good, U.S. researchers say. YONKERS, N.Y., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Allowing those who buy health insurance themselves to shop in other U.S. states would not lower health costs for all, consumersunion.org says. ATLANTA, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. dietitian urges teens to make changes now to avoid heart disease later. PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say they have discovered the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Sweden has taken no action since learning a decade ago Russia was suspected of dumping chemical weapons and radioactive waste off its shore, reports indicate. ATLANTA, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- African-Americans are the racial group most disproportionately affected by HIV in the United States, a federal health official says. SALEM, Mo., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The recent natural disasters should have taught us how to offer a reasonably coordinated international relief effort, U.S., Greek and Australian doctors say. BALTIMORE, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. and West African researchers say a new vaccine designed to prevent malaria infections in young children has been found to be both safe and effective. BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- People move faster when they react to something in their environment than when they initiate the action ourselves, researchers in Britain found. CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A 34-year-old woman alleges in a lawsuit against Northwestern Memorial Hospital doctors at the Chicago hospital did not aggressively treat her malaria. LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered two compounds that might lay the foundation for the development of a new class of anti-HIV drugs. LIHUE, Hawaii, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Four Hawaiian organizations and the American Bird Conservancy say they might file a lawsuit over the continuing deaths of rare native seabirds. STUART, Fla., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida man was killed by sharks as he was kite-surfing near Stuart Beach, officials said. BALTIMORE, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A team of U.S-led cardiologists and radiologists has started a year-long study aimed at better identifying early coronary artery disease. CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers say they've discovered the size of the fetal adrenal gland is a better predictor of pre-term birth than measuring cervical length. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have discovered three different degenerative brain disorders are linked by a toxic form of the same protein. HOUSTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has joined with the General Motors to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and robotic technologies. TOKYO, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Japanese scientists say they've identified the cause of early rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cells used in treating type 1 diabetes. FARGO, N.D., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. agriculture scientists say they have developed an efficient, cost-effective method of increasing the breeding speed of scab-resistant barley cultivars. PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- NASA astronomers say they have developed a technique that can identify organic molecules on a planet nearly 63 light years from Earth. HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- NASA says it has exercised a second one-year contract option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued safety and mission assurance in Alabama. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Iran to free three detained U.S. hikers, adding no talks are on currently on exchanging them for detained Iranians. |
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| Wednesday, February 3LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Elton John and David Furnish have confirmed they will again hold their traditional Oscar-watching party and AIDS fundraiser in Los Angeles this March. LONDON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Recent breakdowns in British rail service have been caused by rats and mice cutting through cables, officials say. GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Health groups are drawing attention to World Cancer Day and ways to prevent cancer, World Health Organization officials in Switzerland say. NEWSHAM, England, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Residents of a British town said they have been left afraid to leave their homes by the threat of a pecking attack from an aggressive pheasant. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced a series of new measures designed to boost biofuels and clean coal development efforts. BOSTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. study evaluating a surgical virtual trainer says the program enhances cataract surgery teaching as compared with traditional methods. NORMAN, Okla., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A weight-loss supplement tested by the University of Oklahoma has the potential to burn as many calories as a 20-minute walk. BOSTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- There was an increased risk of suicide and cardiovascular death after a prostate cancer diagnosis before prostate-specific antigen tests, U.S. researchers say. MOSCOW, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin said he would order state businesses and agencies to boost purchases of Russian-made, cutting edge products. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it has appointed Robert Braun the space agency's chief technologist. CLEVELAND, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. sociologists say surviving cancer often turns passive patients into bold advocates. PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it will extend the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to at least 2017. NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they might have discovered a new way to trick the body into consuming more fat to avoid obesity. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. and Spanish scientists say they've created a map of the human genome's regulatory areas in a step that might yield new facts about common illnesses. DALLAS, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Millions make New Year's resolutions to exercise more or lose weight, but by February many of those commitments are forgotten, a U.S. psychiatrist says. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Diabetes patients and doctors can differ over whether pain and depression or hypertension should be a top priority, U.S. researchers said. LEEDS, England, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- People who spend a lot of time browsing the Internet are more likely to show depressive symptoms, researchers in Britain found. MONTREAL, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A Canadian study has found Parkinson's disease patients can suffer social difficulties simply because of the way they talk. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan say they've discovered tension on DNA molecules can affect gene expression -- the basis of biological function. TULSA, Okla., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. appellate court has ruled against two provisions in a strict Oklahoma law governing immigration, court observers say. HUNTINGTON, W.Va., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. and Japanese scientists say they are researching new ways to move or position single molecules. BALTIMORE, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Minimally invasive surgeries may be harder on the surgeons who perform them, a survey of U.S. surgeons indicates. TEHRAN, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Iran said Wednesday it has advanced its space program by launching a rodent, two turtles and some worms into Earth orbit. YONKERS, N.Y., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Laboratory tests of 208 containers of 16 brands of salad greens sold last summer in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York found bacteria, some very high. GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. emergency physician advises to never self-diagnose a heart attack. ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A biologist said her four-year study in Florida of ways to keep bears from searching garbage cans and camp sites found the wild animals are insistent foragers. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A study of clubfoot patients in New Zealand has compared two common treatments for the condition and found one of them is preferable. BROOKINGS, S.D., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Scientists say the loss of wetlands due to climate change across central North American prairies will negatively affect millions of waterfowl. RESTON, Va., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows a disinfection solution used for salmon eggs also prevents transmission of the virus that causes viral hemorrhagic septicemia. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A Russian lawmaker headed to Washington Wednesday to prepare a coordinated ratification of a new U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction treaty, officials said. BRUSSELS, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The European Union needs a separate agency devoted to the problem of waste removal in member nations, an official of the European Commission says. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the first drug designed to treat a progressive hand disease known as Dupuytren's contracture. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles judge has approved Redmond O'Neal's release from jail and enrollment in a drug rehabilitation center, E! News said Tuesday. |
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| Tuesday, February 2INVERCARGILL, New Zealand, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A teenage surfer in New Zealand survived a bite with only minor injuries when a shark left after she hit it with her boogie board. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A scientist at Massachusetts' Harvard University says there are three main reasons why researchers study issues with seemingly "obvious" conclusions. TEHRAN, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Iran says it still wants to swap its own low-grade uranium for Western enriched uranium that can be used in nuclear reactors. SULTAN, Wash., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Officials in a Washington state town said a wildlife specialist hired to trap a group of nine peacocks is having trouble with the final two birds. RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A freshman member of Virginia's House of Delegates said his first piece of legislation, a bill allowing for ownership of shed deer antlers, passed 95-1. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Indiana wildlife officials said their methods of keeping the some-45,000 crows in Indianapolis from descending on the city's downtown are temporary solutions. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program will be restructured to increase oversight for a program U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said missed key benchmarks. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Three U.S. research groups say they are starting a $1.3 million study of winter weather temperature inversions. COLUMBIA, Mo., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- University of Missouri scientists say they've mapped the soybean genome and identified 1.1 million base pairs of DNA, including more than 90 distinct traits. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Swedish-led team of medical scientists says it has discovered how transplanted stem cells can connect with and rescue threatened neurons and brain tissue. MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Forty percent of married Americans would rather their spouse be overweight than bald and 45 percent try to hide thinning hair, a U.S. survey indicates. BOSTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Children's Hospital Boston scientists say they've discovered a local anesthetic that provides long-lasting pain relief without affecting motor function. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- NASA says Kennedy Space Center crews in Florida pressurized space shuttle Endeavour's main propulsion system Tuesday and readied Launch Pad 39A. LONDON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The Lancet, a British medical journal, retracted a 1998 study that linked the childhood measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. OTTAWA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Canada was given a poor grade by the Conference Board of Canada Tuesday for scientific and technological innovation compared with 16 peer countries. MIAMI, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Florida toddler scalded by hot oil from a deep fryer was transferred to a burn center for treatment Tuesday, officials say. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh's costs for hosting last September's two-day Group of 20 nations summit was $12.2 million, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl says. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. conservation groups have renewed their call for Congress to clean up 70 lead paint-contaminated buildings at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Negligence by a Pittsburgh hospital led to the 2008 death of former Steelers player Dwight White, a lawsuit alleges. GRONINGEN, Netherlands, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Dutch researchers say parents often see their children as leaner than their child's actual measurements indicate. GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Swedish researchers have linked grandpas' broken hip to weaker bones in their grandsons. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The mother of two Oregon men who both died on the same day last week says her ordeal "doesn't make any sense." ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Danny Williams, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, will undergo heart surgery in the United States, his deputy said in St. John's Tuesday. ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Cornell University scientists say they've created a device that uses water surface tension as an adhesive that might allow humans to walk on walls. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust suggesting a collision of two asteroids. LAS VEGAS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Support is growing to designate a rich fossil bed in the Las Vegas Valley as a national monument, preservationists in Nevada said. EDGEWATER, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found evidence that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have during the past 225 years. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. entomologists say they've discovered a common plant virus lures aphids to infected plants and then uses the aphids as transportation to other plants. EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Canadian zoo in Edmonton, Alberta, is being sued by two animal rights groups over its treatment of an aging and ailing female elephant. SHELEKOV, Russia, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Residents of the Siberian city of Shelekov were told to stay indoors after a fatal fire at an aluminum plant polluted the air Tuesday, officials said. PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic official in charge of decisions on compulsory swine flu vaccinations says he himself has caught the virus. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has awarded $50 million in agreements to fund private industry concepts supporting astronaut transportation. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Dogs and cats provide a service in helping their owners deal with personal pressures brought on by a tough economy, a U.S. survey indicates. MADISON, Wis., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The brain, under anesthesia, responds to stimuli as it does in the deepest part of sleep, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Monday, February 1MONTREAL, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The exact cause of post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome remains unknown but Canadian researchers found both an environmental trigger and genetic factors. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The $81.3 billion U.S. Health and Human Services Department FY2011 budget request aids reform, access and preventive and wellness care, officials said. NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- New York has begun a program to help primary care physicians combat preventable health problems, city officials say. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department would receive $56.9 billion in fiscal year 2011, up from its 2010 budget of $50.7 billion, the Office of Management and Budget said. MIAMI, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Fish thought to be white marlin, prized but never plentiful, may be misidentified as a look-alike species called roundscale spearfish, a study says. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Interior Department's $12 billion fiscal year 2011 budget would let it reform inefficient programs while achieving its mission, officials said. HANOVER, N.H., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have conducted a phase III clinical trial of a vaccine against tuberculosis for those with human immunodeficiency virus. BOSTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings may reduce depression symptoms, as well as reduce alcohol use, U.S. researchers say. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday he hopes strained relations with China can soon be smoothed in the wake of a Taiwan arms deal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The Environmental Protection Agency would receive $10 billion during fiscal year 2011 under budget proposals announced Monday by the White House. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Improvements in air quality over the past decade have resulted in fewer cases of ear infections in children, U.S. researchers suggest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commerce Department's requested $8.9 billion for fiscal year 2011 is a $5 billion cut from this year's $13.9 billion, the White House said Monday. SCOTTSVILLE, South Africa, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- South African scientists say chemicals in smoke from forest fires may regulate seed germination and play a key role in the rebirth of burned landscape. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The Department of Energy would receive $28.4 billion under the proposed FY 2011 U.S. budget to support innovation and maintain national security. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department's $26 billion request for fiscal year 2011 "essentially freezes" discretionary programs, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The proposed FY 2011 federal budget kills NASA's much heralded Constellation program, as expected, but provides the space agency with $100 billion overall. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says what is eaten after exercise produces differences in the way the body metabolizes. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- University of Michigan researchers say they could improve ethnic diversity in stem cell lines by prioritizing embryos donated by minorities. EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Northwestern University scientists say they have become the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is requesting $4.03 billion to improve the nation's food and medical product safety. CHICAGO, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Metal plating shops are dumping high levels of cancer-causing chemicals into sewers in Chicago and Cleveland, federal regulators said. CHENNAI, India, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Researchers in India report fungi might provide an eco-friendly way of decomposing polycarbonate plastic waste that contains bisphenol A. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's entering into a collaboration to speed creation of a pneumococcal vaccine for children in developing nations. SALISBURY, Conn., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Actor Rip Torn appeared in a Connecticut court Monday, but did not enter a plea in connection with his weekend arrest for an alleged burglary at a bank. VALENCIA, Spain, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- One-third of milk and dairy products samples analyzed from restaurants in Spain exceed the microbe limits set by the European Union, researchers say. LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Despite the financial downturn, the number of male breast reductions rose by 80 percent in Britain from 2008 to 2009, plastic surgeons said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says a rare but serious liver disorder has been reported in some HIV patients taking Videx/Videx EC. DETROIT, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Frivolous lawsuits in Canada or the United States could help the owner of the Ambassador Bridge from facing competition, a law professor in Canada said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Federal officials say benzene emissions were up nearly 9 percent at U.S. refineries between 2007 and 2008, but a watchdog group says that may not be accurate. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The judge in the trial of a man accused of a triple homicide in Connecticut halted jury selection Monday because of a defendant drug overdose, sources say. CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined some studies involving the impact of forest fires may have grossly overestimated the amount of carbon dioxide released. MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Philippine government efforts to clean up toxins at former U.S. military bases have never gained much traction, Stars and Stripes reported Monday. CINCINNATI, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- An elderly Ohio couple were discovered dead outside their house after apparently having frozen to death, police said. HATFIELD, England, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- An international team of British-led astronomers says it has discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body ever found outside our own solar system. WHEATON, Ill., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Officials in a forest preserve district in DuPage County, Ill., say the tradition of waking groundhogs for Groundhog Day interrupts the animal's hibernation. JERUSALEM, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A 200-foot Star of David was carved into a Palestinian field in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, satellite images reveal. TOKYO, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A Chinese man staging a three-month protest in Tokyo's Narita Airport says it's now likely he will be allowed to return home. HASTINGS, Minn., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A National Park Service official says scientists are using bald eagles to determine how chemicals are polluting waterways and wildlife in the U.S. Midwest. HOUSTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- NASA says it's now providing Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station. VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Radar problems were to blame for the failure of a U.S. missile defense test, military officials say. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak faces possible military imprisonment for attacking a former U.S. Air Force captain over a love interest, authorities said. BOSTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Steven Tyler's lawyer has sent a letter to his U.S. band Aerosmith warning the musicians not to replace Tyler while he is in rehab, Billboard.com reported. GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Experts say they're optimistic Russian and U.S. diplomats meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, will soon reach a strategic bilateral arms reduction deal. SEOUL, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- South Korean officials say with North Korea seeking a dialogue, an inter-Korean summit appears favorable in the future. LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A foreign intelligence service was likely behind the hacking operation that led to the leaking of British climate change researchers' e-mails, an expert says. NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The publisher of the scientific journal Nature says it is now offering an application for iPhone and iPod Touch users. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Washington's decision to proceed with the arms sales to Taiwan has sent a message to China that U.S. national security interests come first, officials said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Federal marshals, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, have seized 77 ozone generators because they had not been proved safe or effective. |
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| Sunday, January 31WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Gadget lovers hoping to place a pre-order for Apple's new iPad won't be able to -- because Steve Jobs' new toy can't be legally sold yet, experts say. NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- New York neighborhoods sport Wi-Fi network names that reflect the unique attitudes of people naming their cyber-territories, Wi-Fi aficionados said. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The recent series of California storms dumped about 170 million gallons of partially processed sewage into the San Francisco Bay, an environmental group says. DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Israel warned a stronger line with Iran is necessary because nuclear weapons "in the hands of a fanatical regime" pose a worldwide threat. DENVER, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Colorado rafting outfitters say a dispute between a Texas developer and rafters could threaten their industry. ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- An international pet wholesaler accused of mistreating exotic pets can't get 27,000 seized animals back, a Texas judge ruled. VERNON, Vt., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Radioactive water leaks at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant and other such facilities are raising doubts about nuclear safety, The Boston Globe reported Sunday. LONDON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- China is running a massive program to spy on British business executives and hack into their computers, leaked intelligence documents indicate. MAGADAN, Russia, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- More than 200 children have been hospitalized in Russia's Magadan Region after eating fruit largely imported from China, health officials said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is deploying new defense strategies in the Persian Gulf with the goal of deterring a possible Iranian attack, White House officials said. SUINING CITY, China, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A 5.0 magnitude earthquake rocked China's Sichuan Province Sunday, killing one person and collapsing numerous buildings, officials said. BEIJING, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- China, in a move that experts say shows a new attitude, cut off visits by U.S. military representatives Saturday to protest arms sales to Taiwan. |
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| Saturday, January 30WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The United States has speeded movement of anti-missile defenses to the Persian Gulf to put pressure on Iran, government officials say. ULAN BATUR, Mongolia, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Mongolia's extreme cold and snow have killed more than 1 million livestock and forced herders to leave homes for shanties near Ulan Batur, an aid group said. BEIJING, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Fearing unsafe sex could lead to venereal diseases and other social problems, Chinese officials say they will keep giving condoms to migrant workers. BEIJING, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A two-legged dinosaur that lived and died in what is now western China 160 million years ago is the oldest known bird ancestor, scientists say. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A snowy winter has been good news for California water managers, although they warn the snow pack in the Sierras has not solved the state's problems. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Army wives whose husbands are deployed apply for mental health services more than other wives, and longer deployments have a greater impact, a study shows. JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Residents of Juneau, Alaska, say the current whereabouts of a black wolf that earned local celebrity status remain unknown. QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- An industrial solvent used at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier decades ago did not sicken people living in nearby Shannon, Quebec, federal officials say. HOUSTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's moves to drop a NASA program that would return astronauts to the moon will spark a political fight, space program experts predict. PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Judges at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah say "Obselidia" won the annual Alfred P. Sloan Prize as the best science or technology-theme movie. MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Russia and Libya have signed a $1.8 billion arms deal, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Saturday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 202 people has been traced to salami made by Rhode Island's Daniele International Inc., officials said. SILVER SPRINGS, Md., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- GlaxoSmithKline's breast cancer drug Tykerb can now be used in combination with the Novartis cancer drug Femara, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. BONN, Germany, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- An herbal remedy may raise the risk of seizures in people with epilepsy, German researchers warn. MONTREAL, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say vitamin D can counter the effects of Crohn's disease. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- How couples communicate about, and negotiate, condom use influences how the proposer is viewed and whether condoms are used, U.S. researchers suggest. PROVO, Utah, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The number of hours physicians spend on the job each week is influenced by the fear of malpractice lawsuits, U.S. researchers say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Medical evacuations from Haiti to Florida and other states have been halted over confusion about who will pay for treatment, the U.S. military said Friday. |
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| Friday, January 29NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A spike in the number of rabid raccoons recovered in New York's Central Park has led to warnings a rabies outbreak could spread to humans. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Singer Etta James has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is hospitalized for sepsis in California, her son said Friday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- It should be a good night for gazing heavenward, weather-permitting, with the moon and Mars shining big and bright in the sky. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A California panel announced items made in the Golden State and left on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts are a state historical resource. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The Hogle Zoo in Utah is trying to determine what killed both its zebras this week, officials there say. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Hollywood screen star Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to narrate the space film "Hubble 3D," Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. and IMAX Corp. announced. SHANGHAI, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The Chinese government has announced measures to control air pollution during Shanghai's upcoming six-month World Expo, environmental officials said. ROME, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Italian film director Tinto Brass says he plans to produce the world's first 3D pornographic film, which will also be Italy's first 3D picture of any kind. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A blue ribbon commission was named Friday to study managing used radioactive nuclear fuel and waste, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The federal government will reduce its greenhouse gas pollution by 28 percent by 2020, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday. SYDNEY, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Australian Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor says the SmartGate system offers an easier and more efficient alternative to airport customs efforts. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- There is growing evidence diabetes -- especially among indigenous people -- may be linked to environmental pollutants, U.S. and Canadian researchers say. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A Canadian hospital on Vancouver Island is looking into why a 76-year-old man with dementia spent five months bedded down in a hallway. PORVENIR, Chile, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A study of worms, sponges and other macrobenthos animals are revealing the mysteries of the Straits of Magellan, a British scientist said. NEWPORT, Ore., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Oregon Coast Aquarium officials said two sea turtles rescued after washing ashore were flown to San Diego as part of their continued rehabilitation. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The influenza vaccination rate among some healthcare workers rose to 98 percent after it became mandatory, a U.S. medical researcher says. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may be linked to the neurotoxin lead -- still found in some toys, jewelry and water. BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Iron-rich red dirt may play a key role in massive algae blooms that form off Australia's eastern coast during warmer months, scientists say. LORTON, Va., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A meteorite that dropped into a Virginia doctors' office is now at the center of an ownership battle between the doctors and their landlords. ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Scores of brown pelicans that failed to migrate south have starved or been injured along Oregon's coast this winter, biologists said. MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. tourism company says individuals wanting to catch a glimpse of a shark are best served visiting locales like Hawaii, Australia and South Africa. BOSTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Scrimshaw artist Charles Manghis has been convicted in Boston of smuggling elephant ivory and whale teeth for use in his carvings, federal officials say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The American College of Physicians is urging U.S. Congressional leaders to reach agreement on providing affordable healthcare to all Americans. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- An antibiotic that can cause hearing loss in people actually protected the ears of young mice given extended low doses of the drug, scientists in Missouri said. AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A protein that plays a key role in regulating iron levels could aid in the development of new drugs for common iron deficiency, scientists in Georgia said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration will spend what it takes to ensure the security and quality of the United States' nuclear arsenal. COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Vegetation found in higher latitudes may be more nutritious than vegetation growing closer to the equator, scientists in Texas say. STOCKHOLM, Switzerland, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates say their foundation will spend a record $10 billion over 10 years to develop vaccines for AIDS and other diseases. VERNON, Vt., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Officials at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant say a pipe beneath the Vermont plant may be the source of radioactive material found in local groundwater. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Sanctions that would restrict Iran's import of refined petroleum products passed the U.S. Senate on a voice vote. NEW DELHI, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- India's space agency says it needs $4.8 billion to put two astronauts in orbit for seven days in 2016. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Democratic and Republican House leaders are demanding additional Web security measures after a cyber attack struck nearly 50 members' Web sites. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Sweden's plan to import wolves hinges on cooperation by hunting groups in central Sweden where the wolf population is concentrated, officials said. AGUAS CALIENTES, Peru, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Hundreds of people trapped by mudslides near the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru are facing food and water shortages, one tourist who was evacuated said. GENOA, Italy, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- People who have a health risk from smoking have an additional risk from breathing environmental tobacco smoke -- secondhand smoke -- researchers in Italy found. |
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| Thursday, January 28AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A Texas psychologist who analyzes presidential speech says Barack Obama's emotional style is most comparable to Ronald Reagan's. BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Searchers located the black box from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the Mediterranean shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, officials said. BALTIMORE, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Maryland police say they are investigating a Baltimore-area woman's claim she came across a cobra, which bit her finger, in a shopping mall parking lot. ATLANTA, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Long-term care facilities, or nursing homes should continue implementing infection control practices to prevent the spread of H1N1, U.S. health officials say. MARTINEZ, Calif., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A San Francisco-area man wants to change Mount Diablo to Mount Ronald Reagan, abandoning a century-old name he believes is "derogatory and profane." SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- In what's described as a groundbreaking discovery, a U.S.-led research team says it found blood platelets have the ability to reproduce in the circulation. CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania state police allege a 38-year-old man robbed a tanning salon and a bathing-suit store using needles he claimed were infected with HIV. BRUSSELS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The European Commission said Thursday it would update its privacy protection laws to keep up with the digital age in which 1995 laws now appear outdated. MONTREAL, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Montreal say they are developing a pill composed of leptin -- the protein that tells the brain to stop eating. PERTH, Australia, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Overweight adults age 70 and older are less likely to die over a 10-year period compared with normal weight adults, Australian researchers say. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Women with early menopause could develop dementia at a younger age, a Dutch researcher suggests. LIVERMORE, Calif., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have discovered that compression makes a diamond so strong it can withstand nearly a million times atmospheric pressure. OTTAWA, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Canada is donating five million excess H1N1 flu vaccine doses to the World Health Organization, the federal health minister announced in Ottawa Thursday. BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass. DAEJEON, South Korea, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Fat tissue, or adipose tissue, may be a promising new source of valuable and easy-to-obtain regenerative cells, researchers in South Korea suggest. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Being obese as early as age 7 may raise a child's risk of future heart disease and stroke, even in the absence of other risk factors, U.S. researchers say. MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've used synthetic molecules to activate specific genes in bacteria, a method that could lead to new drug and gene therapies. HIALEAH, Fla., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- An employee at a horse racing track in Hialeah, Fla., says up to 300 pink flamingos living nearby are unwitting players in a regular track tradition. CHICAGO, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Northwestern University scientists say they've invented a non-toxic drug that might be able to halt or even reverse rheumatoid arthritis. ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Cornell University scientists say a deadly fish virus first discovered in the Northeastern United States in 2005 has spread across the Great Lakes. LONDON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A British university whose scientists are accused of manipulating climate data broke the law by refusing to show the raw data for review, a British agency said. HOUSTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered leukemia cells metabolize fat to avoid cell death -- a finding that may lead to a new target for killing cancer cells. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Yale University Medical School scientists say they've discovered the disarming of certain specialized stem cells might combat deadly ovarian cancer. PARIS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has signed the first three contracts for the Galileo full operational capability phase. TEMPLE, Texas, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers say they are studying the use of deep brain stimulation to help Parkinson's disease patients PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed power-generating rubber film that can harness body movements to power devices such as pacemakers and cellphones. BOSTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers say they have discovered a specific protein that, when suppressed, makes cancers more susceptible to chemotherapy. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they're returning to Haiti this week for a study designed to determine whether another major earthquake is imminent for the country. CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they're seeking the cause of a recent decline in the Atlantic blue crab population. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Fifty-six percent of all Americans and 58 percent of those ages 18-29 say abortion is "morally wrong," a U.S. survey indicates. |
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| Wednesday, January 27WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- To create clean energy jobs requires more production, efficiency and incentives, U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday during his State of the Union. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The United States is focused on terrorism, investing in homeland security and disrupting activities threatening U.S. lives, President Obama said Wednesday. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A German visitor who tried to smuggle 44 skinks and geckos out of New Zealand in his underpants is getting a longer vacation than he planned. BEIJING, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Twenty people have died in northwestern China as a result of freezing temperatures and the heaviest snowfall in 60 years, officials said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A range of strategies to keep Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan were discussed at a Washington "carp summit" Wednesday, participants say. KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. environmental agency plans to investigate a possible link between an apparent cluster of birth defects in a poor California town and a toxic waste dump. WHITE SANDS, N.M., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Officials at New Mexico space museums said two NASA space shuttle orbiters are too expensive for their facilities, despite a drop in price to $28.8 million. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama should go outside the United Nations to impose "crippling sanctions" on Iran, a group of senators says. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- NASA says its Cassini spacecraft will return to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, this week to again inspect the cloud-shrouded moon, but from 4,654 miles away. OLD BRIDGE, N.J., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A pair of bald eagles have set up housekeeping in central New Jersey, a signal the environment is improving. DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Officials at a California animal hospital said veterinarians freed a young red-tailed hawk from the front grill of a car that struck it on the road. NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they've discovered a blood protein alleviates thalassemia, a debilitating type of inherited anemia, in a mouse model. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say mice "sniffing" out lung cancer may lead to a urine test for the disease. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- NASA says space shuttle Endeavour will make a 13-day flight to the International Space Station next month -- marking the final scheduled night shuttle launch. MAYWOOD, Ill., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests catheter ablation, in which energy is emitted from a catheter to eliminate the source of an irregular heartbeat, is a preferred therapy. LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say the stress hormone corticotropin-releasing factor may be key to alcohol dependence. BALTIMORE, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A study of dwarfs in Brazil shows human growth hormone may not be the "fountain of youth" some researchers have suggested, researchers say. LARGO, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Residents of Largo, Fla., are struggling to deal with 38 tons of dead fish recently removed from area lakes, officials say. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- NASA says it has added several science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to a previously scheduled airborne radar project. SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Most U.S. adults say they brush their teeth daily but few pet owners brush their pets' teeth, even though pet dental hygiene is important, experts say. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Research at the University of California-Santa Barbara suggests the drug rapamycin might be used as a treatment for an inherited kidney disease. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say treating herpes may not reduce human immunodeficiency virus transmission. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Human immunodeficiency virus infection or its treatments age the brain prematurely, U.S. researchers found. MANSFIELD, Conn., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old Connecticut boy who triggered a bomb scare was mixing chemicals against the orders of his father, the father says. TORONTO, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Limited access to high-quality trauma care in many smaller Ontario hospitals may be a factor in the province's high injury mortality rate, researchers say. ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- An animal services official in Arlington, Texas, says a group of feral hogs plaguing the area have managed to elude attempts to capture the wild beasts. EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered X-rays can trigger the formation of a new type of crystal -- charged cylindrical filaments. BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A nature center official in Boca Raton, Fla., said 35 green sea turtles underwent surgery for a disease caused in part by cold temperatures in the state. CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Two antibiotics prescribed together might be more effective in fighting pathogenic bacteria than either drug on its own, U.S. researchers said. MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A beaked whale that beached itself in Brevard County, Fla., died despite attempts by local residents to save it, a marine expert said. EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Northwestern University scientists say they've created a material that can trap the radioactive ion cesium while ignoring harmless ions such as sodium. COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers say they are developing an anti-HIV compound that is substantially more potent and longer-lasting than existing therapies. TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A drill bit came loose during a dental procedure, causing nosebleeds, sinus infections and other illnesses for a Florida woman, her lawsuit alleges. BALTIMORE, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A Baltimore woman who allegedly pretended she was dying of cancer has been released from the county detention center after posting bail, officials say. BOSTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Massachusetts corrections officials say Mark Kerrigan will not be allowed to attend the funeral of his father, whom he is accused of assaulting. EXETER, England, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- British scientists say they have developed a technique that allows monitoring of Earth's peatlands via satellite images and airborne laser scanning data. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A missing pet goshawk in Halifax, Nova Scotia, could pose a threat to small cats and dogs, its caretaker warned Wednesday ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Legislation introduced in Maryland would legalize the sale of medical marijuana, including allowing it to be sold in drug stores. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Southern California Public Power Authority says it plans to create the nation's first cost-effective, utility-scale, distributed energy storage project. BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The associate director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Roger Wakimoto, has been named the facility's new director, effective Monday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- NASA says it has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency recognizing the Israel Network for Lunar Science and Exploration as an affiliate partner. FREIBURG, Germany, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- German scientists say they've developed a highly sensitive, miniaturized mobile ozone sensor that can operate in the air or water. ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A serial killer who died in the New York prison where he was serving a 250-year sentence may have been a victim of medical neglect, a report says. SEOUL, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- South Korea said Wednesday it fired warning shots in the air after North Korea shot off artillery shells into waters near their sea border. HORSHAM, Pa., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in Israel has an educational resource it says can help asthma patients cope during flu season. BOSTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The over-the-counter anti-aging cream Easeamine increases the production of collagen and elastin in the lower skin layers, U.S. researchers say. BERLIN, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A new disinfectant is effective against bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions, and could help reduce deadly infections in hospitals, German researchers say. MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The design for a new booster rocket for the next generation of Russian manned spacecraft should be completed in August, an official said Tuesday. |
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| Tuesday, January 26EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Female athletes experience dramatically higher rates of specific musculoskeletal injuries compared to male athletes, Canadian researchers said. DENVER, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Psychodynamic psychotherapy, which focuses on the roots of emotional suffering, is effective for many mental health symptoms, U.S. researchers say. LONDON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Ambidexterity -- mixed-handedness -- may be linked to problems in school, a British researcher said. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and her brother, actor-producer James Haven, have posted an online video tribute to their mother, who died in 2007. ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The mother of a 21-year-old monorail driver killed last summer is suing Florida's Disney World theme park, court records show. NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- New York City researchers said they identified a new therapeutic approach for kidney disease associated with lupus. CAMBRIDGE, England, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've determined the small brain of Homo floresiensis, a small-brained extinct hominid popularly known as 'the Hobbit,' was normal. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars rover Spirit is stuck for good and will now function as a stationary research platform for the next chapter in Mars studies. CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found a dramatic increase in maximum ocean wave heights forming off the Pacific Northwest, possibly caused by climate change. BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the most common form of adult brain cancer -- glioblastoma multiforme -- is not a single disease, but four distinct molecular subtypes. GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A Swedish researcher has figured out how gastric ulcer bacteria sabotage body immunity and the discovery may lead to a vaccine for stomach cancer. IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A University of California-Irvine study suggests urban "green" areas might be aggravating the formation of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Anticipation for U.S. technology giant Apple's announced product launch is so high media outlets posted images, some of them guesses, a day early. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- NASA says it will launch small research satellites for several universities this year as part of its Educational Launch of Nanosatellites, or ELaNA, mission. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy says it has awarded approximately 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours to 69 research projects. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. government remains ill-prepared to respond to bioterrorism, a report by a bipartisan panel said Tuesday. BROCKTON, Mass., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her daughter, frequently increased doses of the child's medication without approval, a psychiatrist testified. BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- University of Colorado scientists say they and their colleagues have linked western North American springtime ozone increases to emissions from other regions. CHICAGO, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are testing if a nutritional drink helps cognitive performance in those with moderate Alzheimer's disease. NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a technique to generate functional endothelial blood vessel cells from human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has issued a recall of all Exel/Exelint infusion set Huber needles because of a safety hazard. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- One-legged Canadian runner and cancer research advocate Steve Fonyo has been stripped of his Order of Canada honor because of his criminal record. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a morphine sulfate oral solution to treat moderate to severe pain in opioid-tolerant patients. SYDNEY, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The gelatinous blobfish is at risk of extinction from fishing trawlers that drag the ocean floors off southeastern Australia, a marine scientist said. TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says the lack of a Mideast peace deal is a greater threat to Israel than an Iranian nuclear bomb. LIMA, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Peruvian authorities have begun airlifting the nearly 2,000 tourists and residents stranded by heavy rains near the mountain ruins of Machu Picchu. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- People ordering DNA scans from private companies should work with a doctor to understand the results of the tests, U.S. health experts said. PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- New known cases of HIV in the Czech Republic rose from 148 in 2008 to 157 last year, federal health officials in Prague said. PARIS, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says its Proba-2 satellite has started observing the sun, while also demonstrating technologies for future space missions. COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists in New York say they've discovered a way to use a cancer cell's altered glucose metabolism for possible therapeutic benefit. TUCSON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. geoscientist says she's found the abrupt changes in ice age climate known to have occurred in Greenland also occurred in the southwestern United States. NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers say they've developed a new technique for preserving pre-transplant livers that might improve patient outcomes. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved Victoza, a once-daily injection to treat type 2 diabetes in some adults. VERMILLION, S.D., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Studies indicate there may be a link between blood glucose levels and decision making, U.S. researchers suggest. EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A workout at the gym may be a strain on the ears, a Canadian researcher warns. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- As many as 5.3 million people in the United States have hepatitis B or C but most are unaware until they develop liver cancer or liver disease, researchers say. DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have linked a pattern of child cognitive difficulties to schizophrenia. |
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| Monday, January 25ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Citizen groups, fearing oil spills in the salmon-rich tributaries of Alaska's Copper River, say they want a larger role in monitoring the Trans-Alaska pipeline. GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Allegations the World Health Organization created a "fake" pandemic to bring economic benefit to industry are scientifically wrong, officials in Geneva say. DETROIT, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Attorneys general of five states in the U.S. Midwest have asked the White House to include them in a summit next month on invasive Asian carp, officials said. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Census kicked off Monday with Census Director Robert Groves going to remote Noorvik, Alaska, to deliver a questionnaire to a World War II veteran. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Southern California beaches are littered with trash and litter deposited by the recent series of heavy storms that moved through the state, officials said. BURLINGTON, Ontario, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- One suspect was arrested after a Canadian government minister was hit in the face with a pie Monday, authorities said. NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Life expectancy in New York City has shot up by 19 months since 2001, exceeding national gains, city officials said Monday. GLASGOW, Scotland, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A drug user in Scotland is the eighth victim of apparent anthrax-contaminated heroin in an infection outbreak that started in December, officials said. GLEN ROCK, N.J., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. hacker says he has hacked into Sony's PlayStation3, the BBC reported. HINXTON, England, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- British researchers say they have developed a new method to track the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. BELLEVILLE, Ill., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- An Illinois man who was awakened in the night by a ruckus in his home said he walked into his kitchen and was shocked to find a 10-to-12-point buck. SEATTLE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Former Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said the global climate agreement made in Denmark in December could subtract from funding for children's vaccines. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- California prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man charged with starting a deadly 2003 wildfire. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- World leaders want to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti, but must create a way to handle assistance efficiently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Duke University Medical Center scientists say they've identified an auditory feedback pathway in the songbird brain that is needed to learn a song. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Untold thousands of Haitians have lost limbs in this month's devastating 7-magnitude earthquake, health workers say. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found yet another mystery to be solved -- hills with a wrinkly radial pattern discovered on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Monday about an unsafe, counterfeit version of the weight-loss drug Alli. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- What type of prostate cancer treatment a man receives depends on whether he is treated at county or private hospitals, U.S. researchers say. SEATTLE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers say they've taken a first look at how climate change might be managed at Columbia River Basin dams -- the nation's largest hydropower system. LINDSEY, Ohio, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Three boys died after falling through thin ice on the Sandusky River in Ohio, emergency officials said. BALTIMORE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The most common reasons for medical evacuation from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan are fractures and tendinitis, not combat injuries, U.S. researchers say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the first heart valve to be implanted through a catheter and then guided into the heart. MONTEREY, Calif., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- An official at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif., said an ailing sea lion was captured after being on the run for nearly a month. OWASSO, Okla., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A city official in Owasso, Okla., said a planned filling station will offer local motorists access to a more environmentally friendly form of gas. CLEVELAND, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- NASA is inviting U.S. high school students to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be flown into the stratosphere. BOSTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Genetics, and not the environment, is the key reason some longtime residents of South Boston suffer from incurable scleroderma, officials said. NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Kenyan and U.S. scientists say they have identified a predator for the crop-devastating coffee berry borer. IOWA CITY, Iowa, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- University of Iowa researchers say they've determined living organisms have good reason for engaging in sexual rather than asexual reproduction. RESOLUTE, Nunavut, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Inclement weather grounded a rescue helicopter Monday as a Canadian hunter spent a fourth day stranded on a ice floe in the Northwest Passage, officials said. CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A researcher at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History says he confirmed the first known case of surviving offspring being born to a virgin female shark. LONDON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Britain should strongly oppose attempts by two African countries to lift the worldwide ban on the ivory trade, conservationists say. LONDON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Britain's leading astronomer says the universe could contain life forms more developed than the human beings of Earth. MANHASSET, N.Y., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered brain networks damaged by Parkinson's disease become abnormal a few years before any symptoms appear. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The American Bird Conservancy says it's pleased with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to keep the Marbled Murrelet listed as an endangered species. ARGONNE, Ill., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Department of Energy scientists say they've created a computer algorithm that allows a substantially enhanced view of nuclear fission. NASHVILLE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Vanderbilt University scientists say they've identified biological compounds in zebrafish that might offer new therapies for bone-related diseases and cancer. NEW DELHI, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Brazil, South Africa, India and China have agreed to a U.N. deadline to submit their voluntary carbon emission control plans by month's end, officials said. MOSCOW, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- An arms reduction deal with the United States is near, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Terrorists are exploiting a surging black market for the popular anti-wrinkle drug botox to develop bioterrorism weapons, experts say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has selected 105 of its brightest interns and fellows to join the NASA Student Ambassador Program. MANHASSET, N.Y., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are testing an experimental medicine that might reduce the risk of developing ischemia reperfusion injury. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- NASA says its wide-field infrared survey explorer, called WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid. |
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| Sunday, January 24NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Americans are receiving more medical radiation than ever before, experts say, but while it saves countless lives, serious, even fatal mistakes can happen. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Authorities say 15 pilot whales have died after beaching themselves near Christchurch, New Zealand. ATLANTA, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- An American -- who had never cross-country skied before -- and a Norwegian woman together became the first to cross Antarctica unassisted, records show. GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- University of Florida football Coach Urban Meyer says he plans to return by March 17, first day of spring practice. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Scientists and engineers say they are studying very-high resolution aerial imagery of Haiti to determine which buildings have collapsed in the earthquake. TEHRAN, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday said Iran is moving ahead to develop enriched uranium for a research reactor in Tehran. |
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| Saturday, January 23PHOENIX, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The body of a 6-year-old boy swept away by a flooded river was found Saturday as northern Arizonans began digging out from a winter storm. HOUSTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Two ships collided in the Port Arthur, Texas, area Saturday, causing as much as 420,000 gallons of crude oil to spill, the U.S. Coast Guard said. DETROIT, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A tattoo-matching technology developed by a computer scientist could help law enforcement agencies identify suspects and victims in crimes, officials said. NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- America's sometimes patchy health surveillance system may have led officials to expect a more serious H1N1 epidemic than actually materialized, experts say. HOUSTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A hundred lucky Twitter users will receive an invitation to go inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston during a space shuttle mission in February, NASA said. PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday Iran is developing atomic weapons and Israel could act to eliminate that threat, unidentified aides to the French president said. DENVER, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A Denver judge rejected a plea deal that would have sent an ex-hospital worker to prison for 20 years for infecting patients with hepatitis C, authorities say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department says it is closer to launching a comprehensive national database to deter auto theft and fraud. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The drug Ampyra has been approved for sale in the United States to aid walking in patients with multiple sclerosis, federal officials said. CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Importing pork rinds from Brazil and other nations threatens U.S. food safety, said critics of a new federal rule loosening import regulations. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Researchers say they've found a thriving flock of one of the world's least-known birds living in a remote part of war-torn Afghanistan. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Washington won't comply with North Korea's demand that U.N. sanctions be removed before it rejoins denuclearization talks, a U.S. official says. |
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| Friday, January 22INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Minority teenage boys smoke more when they perceive discrimination but perceived discrimination did not increase smoking in girls, U.S. researchers say. DAYE CITY, China, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- HIV-contaminated blood sold to a Chinese hospital in the 1990s and used in transfusions has infected 74 people, a health official said. CORK, Ireland, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Conjoined twins born before Christmas have left the Irish hospital where they'd been receiving treatment and were headed for home, officials said. LONDON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A British mother who forced her son to use a wheelchair and persuaded doctors he was ill to collect benefits has been sentenced to jail, officials said. NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Searchers in Siberia have found the body of a geologist missing for more than 10 days in the mountains of the Buryatia Republic, authorities said. RESTON, Va., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. market research firm comScore Inc. said Friday Internet searches grew by 46 percent in December 2009 over the same month a year earlier. EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The mechanics of delivering a curling stone were analyzed to give Canadians an edge at next month's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, coaches said. HOMBURG, Germany, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Plasma jets that remove tooth decay-causing bacteria could be an effective and less painful alternative to the dentist's drill, German researchers said. BALTIMORE, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A microbe linked to toxic algae blooms in the Chesapeake Bay emits a poison to protect itself and to stun its equally tiny prey, Maryland scientists said. LIVINGSTON, Texas, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A highly contagious stomach virus is threatening inmates in at least 16 Texas prisons, a state prisons spokesman says. NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- An analysis of global surface temperatures shows the last decade was the warmest on record, officials at New York's Goddard Institute for Space Studies said. LONDON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A study of more than 520,000 people in 10 Western European nations found high blood levels of vitamin D correlate with lower colon cancer risk, researchers say. DALLAS, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- With influenza being in the headlines, people may overreact to a person sneezing, a U.S. psychologist says. CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The discovery that soil clings to the first rain after a dry summer upends nearly a century of thinking in soil science, Oregon researchers said. EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Glue mussels use to stick to rocks has inspired a sealant that could repair defects in the membrane surrounding the human fetus, scientists in Illinois say. MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Russia and the United States will pick up talks on a new strategic arms compact in early February, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- People of First Nations ethnicity were at higher risk of severe H1N1 infection compared to people of other ethnic origins, Canadian researchers say. BEERWAH, Australia, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A young koala died during emergency surgery Friday, three days after it was found with its mother in eastern Australia, both suffering from gunshot wounds. BRUSSELS, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The European Union and the United States have agreed to increase screening of airport passengers, onboard security and data sharing, officials said. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Face masks and hand hygiene can effectively reduce the spread of influenza-like illness, U.S. researchers found. JENA, Germany, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Nicotiana attenuata plants defend themselves by producing toxins when attacked by hawkmoth caterpillars, German scientists said. TOKYO, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The gelatinous slime mold Physarum polycephalum could influence future computers and communication networks, Japanese scientists say. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, has declared unconstitutional the state's limits on how much medical marijuana can be legally possessed. ROME, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Cigarette butts are so toxic to the environment they should be disposed of under rules governing used batteries and old appliances, Italian scientists said. TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- An Israeli dismisses the prevailing myth that people between 40 and 60 have a midlife crisis adapting to diminished expectations. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry answered a U.S. warning against cyberattacks with a warning to stop using Internet freedom to make accusations against China. MONTREAL, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Canadian researcher says she has discovered strong evidence of a link between eating contaminated chicken and the E. coli that cause urinary tract infection. MANHASSET, N.Y., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- People who inherit a specific form of a gene that puts them on a road to schizophrenia may be protected against some forms of cancer, U.S. researchers say. BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University at Buffalo and King Saud University in Saudi Arabia said they are working together to develop a breast cancer vaccine. |
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| Thursday, January 21WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. government officials said Thursday the manufacturer of the weight-loss drug sibutramine, or Meridia, will issue a tougher warning about the drug. ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Chimpanzee smuggling has become a crisis in Cameroon, with some rescued chimps found through DNA tests to have been stolen from preserves, researchers say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The first decade of the 21st century was the warmest on record and 2009 was the second-warmest year on record, U.S. scientists reported Thursday. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Jeff Conaway's girlfriend says the U.S. actor is so distraught by his addiction to painkillers he is talking about suicide and planning his funeral. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Phoenix spacecraft seeking microbial life near the Martian North Pole shows no signs of life itself and may be frozen, the U.S. space agency said Thursday. NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Multiple sclerosis societies hailed two pills, effective in clinical trials, as possibly leading to an oral treatment for MS alongside injections and infusions. LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The number of Monarch butterflies spending the winter in Mexico has dropped to an all-time low, due in part to storms, a Kansas University researcher says. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Obama administration agreed Thursday to hold a summit of Midwestern governors on keeping voracious Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Seattle, which gets a small amount of electricity from its own trash, plans to increase its garbage power significantly, city officials say. KOROLEV, Russia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Russian cosmonauts docked a Soyuz spacecraft to a new location on the International Space Station Thursday after an orbital trip, officials said. ATLANTA, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Twenty percent of U.S. teens ages 12-19 in the United States have at least one abnormal lipid level, health officials say. BERLIN, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The German government said scheduled talks will focus on improving the lifespan of nuclear power plants and using reactor funds to aid renewable energies. GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Switzerland apologized for a report asserting the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. ATLANTA, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- H1N1 flu activity in the United States has declined since peaking the week ending Oct. 24, federal health officials say. NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. metabolic cardiologist says good health begins with taking care of the heart. LORTON, Va., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A Virginia doctor said a meteorite crashed through the roof of his office building and trashed a room only 10 feet from where he was filling out paperwork. BOSTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- AIDS denialists persist in denigrating the value of HIV treatments despite irrefutable proof they have benefits, U.S. researchers said. EXETER, England, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Researchers in Britain have linked thyroid disease with human exposure to stain repellent containing perfluorooctanoic acid. HAMILTON, Ontario, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers suggest doctors use the term "mild traumatic brain injury" instead of concussion because people do not seem to take concussions seriously. JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Indonesia may let people adopt critically endangered Sumatran tigers born in captivity for $100,000 a pair to help save them from extinction, officials said. NORMAN, Okla., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Heavy snow and rain falling in Arizona Thursday and flooding and mudslides that battered Southern California are a result of El Nino, meteorologists say. NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- New York parks officials say a coyote captured in the Harlem neighborhood was the third one spotted in the borough of Manhattan in the past decade. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Brooke Mueller, wife of TV star Charlie Sheen, has developed pneumonia in the Los Angeles hospital where she is a patient, her mother and lawyer said. BELMONT, Calif., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. data security firm said a study of passwords from the Rockyou.com breach found "123456" was the most commonly used password among users. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Florida wildlife officials counted more than 5,000 manatees, a record number, suggesting the endangered marine mammals are on the rebound, officials said. BRUSSELS, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The European Commission Thursday granted software firm Oracle permission to take over Sun Microsystems, concluding an anti-trust investigation. NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards publicly admitted Thursday he is the father of his ex-lover's 2-year-old child. SEOUL, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's visit to New Delhi to be the chief guest at India's Republic Day event will be significant, the Indian ambassador said. MONTREAL, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A child who is sexually abused has a higher risk of being a victim of abuse as an adult, researchers in Canada found. GRANADA, Spain, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Eighty percent of those who provide care for dependent elderly relatives suffer from anxiety and stress, researchers in Spain said. |
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| Wednesday, January 20PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The hospital vessel USNS Comfort arrived off the coast of Haiti, tripling the number of U.S. medical workers in that country, officials say. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Many Internet users in Sweden seemed willing to divulge their computer passwords in return for just a bar of chocolate, a computer magazine investigation found. WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Patriot missiles to be deployed in northern Poland will be only about 60 miles from the Russian border, closer than originally planned, authorities said. LONDON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A London museum stripped its photographer of the year of his award Wednesday because judges now say he rented his subject from a wildlife park. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Pacific dunlins have become more fit and spend more time flying since peregrine falcon populations rebounded after a ban on DDT, Canadian scientists said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Burmese pythons and other large snakes are too dangerous to import, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday, announcing a proposed ban. JACUMBA, Calif., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Representatives of a California farmer whose neighbors blame his crops for a years-long gnat problem have accepted a compromise aimed at fighting the insects. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A new treatment not only killed large cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent, U.S. researchers said. GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Florida sportscaster Steven Babik has pleaded innocent to child-pornography charges in federal court. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Simplicity is key to dieters who succeed in shedding pounds, U.S. and German researchers suggest. IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The quest to eradicate malaria in humans could be complicated by new findings that show gorillas carry the parasites, scientists in California said. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Repeated exposure to tobacco smoke makes lung cancer much worse, medical researchers in San Diego found. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is proving to be the most biologically diverse region in South America and possibly the world, scientists in Texas say. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- "Survivor Palau" contestant Jennifer Lyon has died after a long battle with breast cancer, Usmagazine.com confirmed Wednesday. She was 37. PHOENIX, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say three proteins may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. HAMPTON, Va., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- NASA Wednesday unveiled its design for a one-person aircraft that would take off vertically, hover, and then cruise horizontally, U.S. officials said. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Red groupers act as architect and engineer in creating habitats for commercially important species in the Gulf of Mexico, marine biologists said. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish body oils, may protect against cellular aging in people with heart disease, U.S. researchers suggest. ATLANTA, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A member of a hunting party organized by Georgia Republican gubernatorial hopeful John Oxendine was injured by buckshot spray, a spokesman says. PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A strong majority says nurses should have more influence than they do now on health policy, planning and management, a U.S. survey indicates. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The shell of a tiny marine snail could be a model for better armor for soldiers and military vehicles, scientists in Massachusetts said. CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Asian carp DNA has been found in Lake Michigan for the first time, raising invasive species fears, tests indicate. CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The size of a region in the cerebral cortex influences a person's motor skills and ability to adapt to changing environments, scientists in Illinois said. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Fish oil given intravenously to patients in intensive care reduces inflammation and results in a shorter hospital stay, British researchers found. OVIEDO, Fla., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A Connecticut company that turns cow fat into motor oil says it's greasing engines from Florida to California, including cars in the American Le Mans. NEW DELHI, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on his India visit wants expanded bilateral cooperation from military technology to cyber-security, a U.S. official said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. defense companies, likely to face a cut in Pentagon spending, may find cyber-security a profitable replacement, an analyst says. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Drinking water between glasses of wine can help ensure breath that is fine on Valentine's Day, a U.S. dentist recommends. SEATTLE, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Patients who received higher opioid doses like OxyContin were nine times more likely to overdose than were those on low doses, U.S. researchers found. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government has asked the Lahore high court to restrict the free movement of nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan on national security grounds. |
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| Tuesday, January 19WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama Tuesday congratulated Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown on his victory in the state's U.S. Senate election, the White House said. NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A report that glaciers in the Himalayas would disappear by 2035 was wrong, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Tuesday. ATLANTA, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Childhood adverse events such as sexual of physical abuse have been linked to an increased risk of lung cancer later in life, U.S. researchers found. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm called Tuesday for a White House summit on Asian carp. LUNGBY, Denmark, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Rats fed a diet rich in apples showed an increase of bacteria that could improve intestinal health, Danish researchers said. NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Eighty-one percent of U.S. residents favor legalizing marijuana for medical use, a national poll released Tuesday indicates. CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- One way to help address the epidemic of obesity in the United States is improved access to hiking trails, parks and recreational programs, researchers suggest. NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A study in Zambia suggests HIV-infected mothers breastfeed their babies longer than the previously recommended four months, researchers say. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Jeff Conaway has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after falling down stairs and breaking his hip and arm, and fracturing his neck, his girlfriend told TMZ. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against 22 employees of U.S. military and law enforcement contractors for allegedly trying to bribe foreign officials. INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, Fla., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Residents of a Florida apartment complex say state Fish and Wildlife officials are refusing to remove an 8-foot alligator living in a nearby pond. TUCSON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The head of Arizona's Sarver Heart Center says chest compression only, and not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, should be used in emergency cardiac cases. DEPOE BAY, Ore., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The first few weeks of 2010 have been some of the best in years for whale watching from California to Washington, wildlife officials say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday refused to issue a temporary order closing Chicago-area locks to keep the invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan. DETROIT, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Sewage from Metro Detroit's aging waste-treatment systems are causing record levels of bacteria in waterways used for drinking and recreation, records show. WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Insulin kept in a Wellesley, Mass., elementary school mistakenly was given to six staff members during a H1N1 flu clinic, authorities said. BALTIMORE, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Tenor Mario Lanza, who died at 38, likely damaged his health with radical weight-loss therapies, said a Maryland doctor who investigates notable deaths. MIAMI, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- It could take coastal snook and other saltwater game fish years to rebound from Florida's record-setting cold snap this month, officials said. MONTEBELLO, Calif., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Huntington Meat Packing Inc., of Montebello, Calif., is recalling about 864,000 pounds of beef that may be tainted with E. coli, inspectors said. DETROIT, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Michigan company says it is seeking class-action status for lawsuits aimed at stopping "junk faxes." OTTAWA, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Canadian medical group expressed concern Tuesday for athletes and spectators about the flu-like symptoms they face from tree pollen during the Winter Games. BOULOGNE, France, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The body of a British microlight aircraft pilot who crashed while on a charity flight was recovered off the coast of France, officials said Tuesday. ROME, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Italian police said Tuesday they have arrested the son of one of the founders of a 1970s leftist militant group for trying to revive it. BOSTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- How a person struggling with alcoholism or drug addiction is described may significantly alter attitudes of healthcare professionals, U.S. researchers say. CAMBRIDGE, England, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- British scientists say diseased hearts have DNA "marks" not found on healthy hearts. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says bacteria have complex decision-making abilities. TORONTO, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- An online community that began as a tiny networking site in Canada for breast cancer survivors to talk to each other has expanded to include others with cancer. CHICAGO, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say skin cells can turn cancerous if the protein kinase C gene is turned off. |
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| Monday, January 18MADISON, Wis., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have developed a stable, super-strong collagen that could one day be used to treat arthritis and other conditions. CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A parent's influence on a child's development shouldn't be underestimated but neither should a sibling's, U.S. researchers say. TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Gov. Jon Corzine has signed one bill legalizing medical use of marijuana and another requiring restaurant chains to provide consumers with nutritional data. GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- If infrastructures are weak the vulnerability of populations to disasters is vastly increased, the head of the World Health Organization said in Switzerland. LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A British woman on trial for murder in the assisted suicide of her daughter was described as a caring, loving and most devoted mother, court records show. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Already strained state budgets would come under more pressure if the U.S. Congress adds new costs for the states in a healthcare reform bill, governors say. LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson proposed plans Monday to make the city plastic-bag free by the 2012 Olympics. CHICAGO, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Obstructive sleep apnea may worsen diabetes, researchers at the University of Chicago say. COLLINSVILLE, Ill., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Local officials along the Mississippi River say the U.S. government is being too vague about costly levee repairs. YORK, England, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Genetic mapping of the plant Artemisia annua will speed breeding of the herb for urgently needed malaria treatments, scientists in Britain said. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The genome sequence of three wasp species could be valuable in producing products for pest control, researchers in New York said. CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Nineteen percent of all people with HIV/AIDS in the United States are age 50 and older, researchers say. LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A computerized system that screens mammograms could save lives by spotting breast cancer results doctors may miss, a British researcher said. NASHVILLE, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A plan by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., to build 100 nuclear plants over the next 20 years is fraught with problems, critics say. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Elderly women who are cognitively impaired get unneeded screening mammography, U.S. researchers say. ENTERPRISE, Ore., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Biologists in Oregon says they're trying to determine if a deadly parasite killed two animals in the state's small Shiras moose herd. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Thousands of gallons of oil from Alaska's 1989 Exxon Valdez spill are trapped in compacted beach sediment, scientists said. BERLIN, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Israeli leaders in Berlin Monday she's willing to back new sanctions on Iran. CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. technology innovator Apple Inc. issued a cryptic invitation to reporters to introduce them to its "latest" gadget on Jan. 27. LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Women over age 50 should not be banned in Britain from seeking fertility treatments at private clinics, several fertility specialists said. DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Taking both vitamin D and calcium daily reduces bone fracture risk, a U.S. researcher says. LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Technology firms in Britain may end a three-year drought in initial public offerings for the sector in 2010, but the mood is cautious, market analysts said. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor, director and photographer Dennis Hopper says he wishes his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Victoria, "the best." BRANDON, Manitoba, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The federal agency in charge of Canadian aboriginal reservations has refused to pay for insulin needed by a man with severe diabetes, officials said. PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Eight days of snow and rain have prompted British Columbia officials to post avalanche warnings for the Canadian province's back country. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A 6-week-old calf kept at a learning center in Prince George's County, Md., was diagnosed with a case of rabies, health officials say. GUATEMALA CITY, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A strong, but deep earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 was reported 60 miles southeast of Guatemala City Monday. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A non-profit agency serving autistic children in Los Angeles illegally halted a therapy know as Floortime, said families suing for the program's return. BEIJING, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- China is not prepared to approve new sanctions against Iran, Chinese experts say. |
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| Sunday, January 17DENVER, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Colorado miners say they're anxiously awaiting decisions by Gov. Bill Ritter on forest protections that could affect their jobs. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Activists disrupted a speech by the leader of Canada's Liberal party, protesting his position on development of the country's oil sands, authorities said. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Brittany Murphy's mother, Sharon, insists the late U.S. actress did not suffer from a mental illness or an eating disorder. BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A former Washington state beauty salon owner was sentenced to 13 months in prison for administering fake Restylane and Botox to customers, court records say. LOMA LINDA, Calif., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A spokeswoman for a hospital in Loma Linda, Calif., said the leader of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians is an intensive care patient. NACHOD, Czech Republic, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A 32-year-old woman said she married her new husband while standing in the frigid waters of a river in Nachod, Czech Republic. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department has withdrawn a mocked-up image of how al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden would look today, The Sunday Times of London reported. ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The Walt Disney Co. is working on a technology initiative aimed at enhancing visitors' theme park experience, former executives with the U.S. company say. TOKYO, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- South Korea and China will work together to persuade North Korea to return quickly to suspended six-way denuclearization talks, an official source says. TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- It is only natural that six world powers failed to reach an agreement this weekend on new economic sanctions against Tehran, an Iranian official says. RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Rising sea levels threaten North Carolina's famed Outer Banks and the marshes they protect in Pamlico Sound, scientists say. MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Russia's president says strategic arms reduction meetings between his country and America present difficulties but progress has been made in important areas. DENVER, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The mountain pine beetles that have been devastating forests in the western United States may have eaten their way through their food supply, scientists say. MIAMI, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A Washington, D.C., group says it wants to establish a fund to restore Florida seagrass meadows damaged by boaters and coastal construction projects. NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The five U.N. veto powers and Germany agreed Saturday that Iran's latest demands on its nuclear program are unacceptable but disagreed on what to do about it. |
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| Saturday, January 16BEIJING, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Young, educated Chinese Internet users say they worry what Google's threat to pull out of China because of censorship will mean to them. MEMPHIS, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Tennessee company that processes nuclear waste has agreed to settle federal claims black employees were subjected to higher levels of radiation than others. HAGATNA, Guam, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Guam's governor says while he supports a U.S. military buildup on the island, needed infrastructure improvements have been slow coming. AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A student at a high school in Austin, Texas, is being treated for contagious tuberculosis, local health officials say. NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Skin-lightening creams can mean severe side effects for people who misuse them or buy counterfeit products, U.S. dermatologists said. TOKYO, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- U.N. sanctions on North Korea won't be lifted until Pyongyang initiates moves to denuclearize, the South Korean and Japanese foreign ministers said Saturday. DETROIT, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Detroit woman who sparked worries with an Internet hoax video in which she claimed to be intentionally spreading AIDS says she did it to raise awareness. PHOENIX, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Twenty-one of Arizona's 30 state parks and recreation areas will close because of budget cuts, state officials decided. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Some 4,200 U.S. military personnel have arrived in Haiti for earthquake relief efforts with 6,300 more scheduled to arrive this weekend, officials said. DENVER, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court held arguments this week on whether Utah can ban foreign nuclear waste from a disposal site in the state. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators say they "have some concern" about the safety of Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in food and beverage containers. |
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| Friday, January 15ATLANTA, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- No states reported widespread influenza activity in the latest reporting period but nine states reported regional influenza activity, U.S. officials said. MONTREAL, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers found 56 percent of young adults in a new sexual relationship were infected with human papillomavirus. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Sweden's first wolf hunt in more than 40 years resulted in the shooting and killing of 27 wolves, Swedish news agency TT reported Friday. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- "Survivor" host Jeff Probst is set to star in a U.S. reality special about a man with Lou Gehrig's disease trying to live his life to the fullest, CBS said. AMARILLO, Texas, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. nuclear weapons plant near Amarillo, Texas, was locked down Friday when two duck hunters got within 2 miles of it, authorities said. PADUA, Italy, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Italian scientists leading an international team said chickens have demonstrated the ability to count and appear to prefer a left-to-right order. ATLANTA, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Federal health officials estimate about 7,880 to 16,460 people died in the United States related to the H1N1 virus from April to Dec. 12 last year. PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Minke whales are not preventing the recovery of larger whales in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, scientists in California say. TOKYO, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Japan needs to recognize more people who suffer from radiation disease caused by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nation's health minister said. MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Friday's 7-minute eclipse of the sun worried some Muslim clerics in Somalia who urged people to pray for mercy, witnesses said. LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The British government's formal apology to Thalidomide victims comes 50 years too late but is important nonetheless, a Thalidomide Trust official said. BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- With H1N1 waning, many U.S. parents have failed to have their children get the second dose of the H1N1 vaccine, health officials say. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Indianapolis Zoo will continue its endangered species breeding program despite this week's loss of an infant white rhinoceros, zoo officials say. DANVILLE, Va., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Nestle says its refrigerated cookie dough may be in short supply while it revamps production to avoid possible salmonella and E. coli contamination. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A judge has overturned a notable 2003 deal governing California's usage of Colorado River water, possibly setting new consumption guidelines, officials say. LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Surgeons want 6-week-old conjoined twins to grow and gain strength before deciding whether to separate them, officials in London say. TOWSON, Md., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md., may have unnecessarily implanted stents in 369 cardiology patients, hospital officials said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Packages of Merrick Beef Filet Squares for dogs may be contaminated with salmonella and should not be handled or fed to pets, U.S. health officials said. WAGGA WAGGA, Australia, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A widely held belief that fish remember things for only three seconds is a myth, an Australian researcher said. DETROIT, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- People from all over the country are calling Detroit police after a woman posted a video on the Web saying she infected men with the AIDS virus, police say. BRUSSELS, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The European Union is being sued by Canadian Inuit over last year's ban on seal products. BEIJING, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry, reacting to Google's review of its presence in China, said the government will regulate the Internet according to its laws. LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- British researchers say an eye test may help detect and monitor Alzheimer's disease. SYDNEY, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say male hormones may help vessels around the heart regenerate. BUNDABERG, Australia, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The owner of an Australian reptile park, bitten by a deadly eastern brown snake, was back on the job Thursday working with the snake that almost killed him. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- People's risk perceptions about policy issues tend to match their cultural values, U.S. researchers found. |
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| Thursday, January 14MILWAUKEE, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Federal officials said they are investigating the killing of 16 gray wolves in three Midwestern states, including Wisconsin, where they are federally protected. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine ended up in a space shuttle hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency officials said Thursday. KINGSTON, N.Y., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Health inspectors swept a county-run nursing home near New York City Thursday after two residents became infected with Legionnaires' disease and one died. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Better use of technology doesn't have to be fancy to "make government work better," U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday. MELBOURNE, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A koala that died after gaining worldwide sympathy following her rescue in Australia's destructive wildfires has been preserved in a museum, officials said. SEATAC, Wash., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport demonstrated an advanced bird radar Thursday that provides "as-it-happens" data to improve flight safety, officials said. SEATTLE, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A Japanese man illegally hunted black bears in Washington state for their gallbladders, which are used in Asian medicine and often smuggled, prosecutors say. NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Atomic scientists in New York moved the doomsday clock a minute further away from midnight, citing positive developments in nuclear weapons and climate change. FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- An increase in personal computer sales in fourth quarter of 2009 may come back to haunt the industry, a U.S. market analyst said. OREGON, Ohio, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Twelve students in Oregon, Ohio, are suing their school district, alleging their class on alternative energy technology was ill-equipped. NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Scientists in New York Thursday pushed the symbolic Doomsday Clock's hand back to 6 minutes to midnight, citing hope in nuclear weapons and climate change. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Magnetic resonance imaging will let surgeons scan a child's brain while removing a tumor when a new Michigan hospital opens in two years, officials say. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Women spend billions annually on perfumes to help attract a mate, but no perfume may be better than natural hormones, U.S. researchers suggest. GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- An Illinois man said he continued receiving charges on his electric bill attributable to a dead uncle with a similar name, despite repeated calls to ComEd. WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Attending lectures, reading, doing word games and working mental puzzles may help slow Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers say. AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin suggest anti-viral drugs may have the potential of making a virus more virulent. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The subtropical Florida Everglades wetlands are still deteriorating a decade after Washington began a multibillion-dollar plan to restore them, advocates say. DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Two brain sectors fail to connect when children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder try a task measuring attention, U.S. researchers say. LONDON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Britain's publicly funded healthcare system gives dementia services short shrift despite official promises to the contrary, a national audit report found. EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A Canadian researcher warns research studies on children may tend to exaggerate benefits. HANGZHOU, China, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Scientists in China have discovered two blood proteins that may help predict whether colon cancer will spread. NARA, Japan, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Thyme oil is among six essential oils found to suppress inflammation, researchers in Japan say. KISSIMMEE, Fla., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A state wildlife official said a 12-foot-long green anaconda was located and captured at a fish camp in Osceola County, Fla. MIAMI, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Five African rock pythons were captured in Miami-Dade County, Fla., leading to concerns of an increased invasive constrictor snake population, an official says. GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Centuries-old shipwrecks off Sweden's southern coast may be destroyed by shipworms invading the warming Baltic Sea, researchers say. NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Amtrak plans wireless Internet service on high-speed trains in the northeast corridor to vie with airline shuttles for business travelers, a spokesman says. CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Search parties continued looking Thursday for the body of a South Africa man killed in a shark attack while researchers tried to identify the assailant. ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Film stars Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and their group have completed their climb up Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, Elizabeth Gore told People.com. BOSTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A good night's sleep cannot make up for chronic sleep deprivation, which has a snowball effect hurting a person's ability to stay alert, Boston researchers say. WASHIINGTON, D.C., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The plan to install full-body scanners at hundreds of U.S. airport security checkpoints still could leave many partially protected, experts say. ATLANTA, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The more young criminals think they are going to die young the more likely they are going to engage in criminality and violence, U.S. researchers found. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- More than 6.7 million U.S. children don't have health insurance and nearly 25 percent of insured children lack adequate insurance coverage, researchers say. MILAN, Italy, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Nursing students in Italy are twice as likely as the general population to smoke, researchers found. |
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| Wednesday, January 13SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday blocked remote broadcasts of a federal court trial in San Francisco on California's gay-marriage ban. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Netflix movies and television shows will soon be streamed into U.S. homes through Wii game systems, PC World reported. NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Scientists are set to move the hands of the U.S. "Doomsday Clock" for the first time in three years with the public able to watch, officials said. ATLANTA, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. obesity rates aren't getting worse but they're not improving, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. CORONADO, Calif., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A study of a new blood test to detect lung cancer in its earliest stages says results look hopeful, researchers meeting in California said. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. television actor Michael C. Hall says he has been undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma and the disease is now in remission. HONOLULU, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Officials at the Honolulu Zoo, reacting to criticism their elephants are badly housed, say they will build a bigger enclosure rather than release the animals. TROMSO, Norway, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A study of polar bear droppings suggests antibiotic-resistant genes seen in other animals may be the result of human influence, scientists in Norway said. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Internet firm Google's attempt to break into the smartphone market with the Nexus One has been a resounding dud, a PC World reviewer says. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Depleted uranium shipped to Utah from a U.S. nuclear weapons site in South Carolina is to be tested for its level of radioactivity, Utah regulators say. KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Lawyers say they will use a recent court ruling to seek the dismissal of charges against two men who allegedly wasted caribou meat in Alaska. AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- There is a real difference between "dog people" and "cat people," a University of Texas at Austin psychologist says. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say excess protein in urine may not indicate heart disease risk in African-Americans. EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Canada needs a national polar policy to fund studies in the Arctic -- one of fastest changing landscapes on Earth, a University of Alberta researcher said. EXETER, England, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- British researchers found more evidence linking bisphenol A exposure -- a chemical often used in plastic food containers -- and cardiovascular disease. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A person with active tuberculosis flew from Philadelphia to San Francisco before being prevented from boarding a plane leaving the country, officials said. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Determining the genetic makeup of sunflowers will lead to species that can be used for food and fuel, scientists in Canada said. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says he has asked the United States to help his country limit Japanese whaling in Antarctica. MIAMI, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Florida officials say they have swept through an area of Miami-Dade County where illegal slaughterhouses were operating, handing out citations. KINGMAN, Ariz., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Denison Mines President Ron Hochstein said uranium mining has returned to northern Arizona for the first time in nearly 20 years. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The South Asian monsoon that supplies water to billions of people is driven more by heat from India rather than the Tibetan plateau, U.S. scientists said. PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- During the H1N1 pandemic in California, researchers say they set up and ran a model drive-through flu clinic in a parking garage. SUVA, Fiji, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Tilapia, an African fish introduced to Fiji for sustainable farming, is threatening the larvae and juvenile fish of several native species, officials said. AIKEN, S.C., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Fast-growing and shallow-rooted bamboo shows promise for use in remediation of waste sites, federal researchers in South Carolina said. BEIJING, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- China, already incensed over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, Wednesday expressed opposition to Washington having any official exchanges with the island. BRUSSELS, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- One of the world's largest tobacco companies pushed EU policy to emphasize business interests ahead of public health, a study indicates. CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Destructive wild boar populations are increasing in North Carolina and have been documented in nearly half of the state's counties, officials said. DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A man in Dearborn, Mich., will serve five years probation for keeping more than 100 Chihuahuas in his home, his lawyer says. SEOUL, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- South Korea is aiming to grab at least 20 percent of the global market for nuclear reactors in the next 20 years, the government announced Wednesday. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- California's new green-leaning building code would reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions substantially, a state environmental board said. SEVILLE, Spain, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Even a small amount of cocaine can cause strokes, irregular heart rhythm and sudden death, researchers in Spain said. MONTREAL, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Reports emerged Wednesday of a private Canadian drug rehabilitation center north of Montreal abruptly closing last week and leaving 28 patients at an airport. BELTSVILLE, Md., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The genome of the alpine strawberry could be used to improve heat tolerance in strawberries and other fruits, scientists in Maryland said. MIAMI, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Earthquakes don't occur as often in the Caribbean as they do on land but the quake that hit Haiti Tuesday was not unprecedented, scientists say. IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a protein may help restore limb function long after a stroke. ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a previously unknown mechanism may drive the early brain function deterioration of Alzheimer's victims. CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Many New Year's resolutions have been forgotten by now but a U.S. therapist suggests every moment holds the possibility for positive change. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests participating in volunteer activities may prevent frailty in older adults, researchers say. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Metformin, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, is safe for use in treating patients who have both diabetes and advanced heart failure, U.S. researchers say. COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say the mango should be ranked as a super food despite its lower scores as an anti-oxidant. HONOLULU, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's has begun a Pacific trip as tensions rise in U.S. relations with Japan and China, diplomatic observers said. BEIJING, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The timing of China's testing of its land-based missile intercepting technology was meant to show its displeasure with U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, analysts said. LONDON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Alastair Campbell, press secretary to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, defended a 2002 dossier Tuesday that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. |
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| Tuesday, January 12MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- There have been several recent cougar sightings in suburban Minneapolis and police say one may have occurred within the limits of Minnesota's largest city. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Google Inc. Tuesday said it "may well" shut down its operations in China because of a computer network attack on its e-mail service. BALTIMORE, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- An analysis of physicians' billing to the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corp. found only a few doctors accounted for most of the costs, researchers say. CHICAGO, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Asian carp DNA has been found near a pumping station that moves water from Lake Michigan into the Chicago River, federal officials said Tuesday. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- People experience better moods, greater vitality, and fewer aches and pains from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, U.S. researchers found. IOWA CITY, Iowa, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say staying lean on a high-fat diet is possible, but at the cost of reduced endurance. KRASNOGORSK, Russia, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Fifty-seven Russians have died of hypothermia since the beginning of the year, Moscow officials said Tuesday. GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Every day an estimated 82,000-99,000 young people start smoking, many under age 10, World Health Organization officials say. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A drug already approved for some cancers could be an effective treatment for a rare tumor found in the gastrointestinal tract, U.S. researchers said. OXFORD, Miss., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Iguanas may have walked to Fiji and Tonga when the islands were part of an ancient southern super continent, U.S. scientists said. BOSTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Relatively young men with longstanding HIV infection may be at greater risk for heart attack or stroke, U.S. researchers say. MADISON, Wis., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The study of simple roundworms is helping explain the stem cell's ability to develop into any cell type in the body, scientists in Wisconsin said. HOUSTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Several drugs that slow cancer growth also impair the heart's ability to respond to stress, researchers in Texas said. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Market research firm Forrester predicted Tuesday U.S. spending on technology will rebound this year after sliding sharply in 2009. OTTAWA, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Canada's fisheries minister was in China Tuesday, marketing Canadian seal products to shore up the industry affected by a European Union ban. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Each pound at birth lowers the risk of developing tuberculosis, U.S. and Swedish researchers say. ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Ailing Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, out of the public eye since November, broke his silence, saying in an interview his health is improving. LONDON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Motion-sensitive night cameras for the first time have captured a cricket pollinating orchids, British researchers said. LONDON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The most common type of children's brain cancer can arise from stem cells, researchers in Britain say. HOUSTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The Mars rover known as Spirit may be permanently stuck in the sand but remains of value for scientific exploration, NASA officials said. NUUK, Greenland, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Scientists in Greenland have followed the epic 43,000-mile migration of the tiny Arctic tern by fitting them with an even tinier tracking device. TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Israel is moving quickly into an era of military robotics, military officials and contractors say. SALEM, Va., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have linked abnormally high or low blood-calcium levels to higher risk of premature death. OXFORD, England, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Carrying extra weight on the hips, butt and thighs -- those called "pear-shaped" -- is better for health than having a big waist, British researchers say. CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Public and private officials say they have reached an agreement to tear down a 106-foot-tall dam in Monterey County, Calif. SEATTLE, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Understanding genetic variations in dogs could shed light on some diseases in people, researchers at the University of Washington said. TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Researchers in Israel say a Mozart sonata a day may keep the pediatrician away by reducing the need for medical care for pre-term infants. TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Iran will continue its nuclear program despite the threat of sanctions, the country's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. BEIJING, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- China Tuesday announced scientists have successfully tested technology to destroy missiles in flight. SEOUL, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The six-nation talks on North Korea's denuclearization aren't likely to resume soon until China names its new nuclear envoy, a South Korean official said. Jan. 12--TRENTON -- New Jersey is set become the 14th state in the nation to allow medical use of marijuana, under a bill approved yesterday by legislators. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Healthcare reform legislation provides an unprecedented opportunity for prevention of disease, a U.S. non-profit group suggests. |
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| Monday, January 11BOSTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A nutrient drink may help stave off Alzheimer's disease and help memory, Dutch and U.S. researchers say. BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- More social time spent with friends may help adolescents keep from gaining weight, New York researchers suggest. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- There is no evidence to support psychological debriefing in schools after violence, suicides and accidental death is effective, Canadian researchers said. TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature Monday approved a measure allowing medical marijuana use and the governor has said he will sign the bill. NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Spy drones over Afghanistan are producing so much raw data analysts are having trouble keeping up with it, authorities say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The White House Web site is a medium by which administration leaders can report on their work and answer Americans' questions, a senior adviser said. HOUSTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. health officials need to initiate an AIDS-type public awareness campaign to dispel the stigma of hepatitis B and hepatitis C, a report said. TOWNSVILLE, Australia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- An Australian expert on irukandji jellyfish said rising water temperatures directed the creatures to the site of an attack off Queensland. NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Healthy older adults reporting subjective memory loss -- such as forgetting names -- are more likely to progress to advanced memory loss, U.S. scientists say. UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A failure to protect the world's natural resources is a wake-up call for people everywhere, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Scanners using terahertz waves would ensure privacy during security screenings but detect explosives or other weapons, engineers in Michigan said. SOUTHWOLD, Ontario, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A Canadian exotic animal owner has been mauled to death by a 650-pound Siberian tiger he kept at his home, authorities say. PARIS, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Egyptian women in ancient times may have worn thick eyeliner to guard against bacterial infection, French scientists said. OTTAWA, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Canadians think climate change is a bigger threat to their well-being than terrorism, a poll released Monday indicates. MOSCOW, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Russia is preparing to develop a nuclear-propelled spacecraft to maintain a competitive edge in the global space race, officials said. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- While most in the United States, Britain and Canada believe Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, country residents differ on how to respond, a poll indicates. BALTIMORE, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- High anti-retroviral therapy adherence, a major predictor of HIV disease progression and survival, has lower healthcare costs, U.S. researchers say. NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg has gone after smoking and trans fats and Monday New York City officials announced an initiative to cut down on salt. LONDON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Discovery of a gene that regulates heart beat could lead to new treatments for cardiac rhythm disturbances, British researchers said. DETROIT, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Congressional lawmakers' planned visit to Detroit Monday led Tea Party activists also to travel to Motor City during the auto show, activists say. WADEYE, Australia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Fierce saltwater crocodiles and poisonous cane toads are threatening freshwater crocodiles in Australia's Northern Territory, researchers said. HOUSTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Telemedicine did not seem to help intensive care unit patients survive, U.S. researchers said. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- New guidelines are intended to stimulate more research into headache treatment, a Danish researcher says. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The female panda at Washington's National Zoo was artificially inseminated during the weekend when she entered her once-a-year heat, officials said. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Peter Robinson stepped down Monday as first minister of Northern Ireland following a scandal surrounding his wife and her much younger lover. NEW DELHI, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- India has successfully test-fired two Astra air-to-air missiles, defense sources said Monday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Some U.S. states say they want the Obama administration to go slow in implementing proposed federal rules cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions. PYONGYANG, North Korea, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- North Korea indicated a new peace treaty to replace the truce that ended the Korean War should be part of negotiations to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. JERUSALEM, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Israel says it hopes planned barriers along its border with Egypt will help keep out illegal migrants, militants and smugglers. |
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| Sunday, January 10MILWAUKEE, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A rare, large and foul-smelling plant in the lily family that blooms about every six years may stink up the Milwaukee Public Museum Jan. 18, authorities say. DENVER, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A 63-year-old Colorado man labeled the "epitome of ski bums," jailed for camping on public land, could walk free if he admits guilt, authorities say. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Mexico's law decriminalizing small amounts of narcotics is having less effect on the streets than in debates north and south of the border, authorities say. DALLAS, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The FBI is scanning computers and a thumb drive used by a 19-year-old Jordanian accused of planning to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper, officials said. MOSCOW, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Russian nuclear power plant is showing normal background radiation after undergoing an emergency shutdown Sunday, officials said. MANGILAO, Guam, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Guam residents say they're concerned about the U.S. military's proposal to house 9,000 more troops on the island. HORBY, Sweden, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A spokesman for a wildlife park near Horby, Sweden, said a pack of wolves was shot and killed after escaping from their sanctuary. SEOUL, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A 78-year-old South Korean woman died Sunday after living 200 days following her removal from life support, hospital officials said. SEOUL, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- North Korea's 2009 nuclear test occurred just 1.2 miles from its first atomic test in 2006, U.S.-based scientists said Sunday. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Florida wildlife officials have urged hunters to use the unnaturally cold weather to target Burmese pythons, the giant snakes that have invaded the Everglades. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say the pine beetle has killed so many trees, the forests of British Columbia now put more greenhouse gases into the air than they store. |
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| Saturday, January 9EUREKA, Calif., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook coastal Northern California Saturday and caused widespread power outages but little damage, authorities said. BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The Sierra Nevadas, the mountains on the California-Nevada border, are more than twice as old as previously believed, a group of geologists says. SYDNEY, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old Australian sailor on a round-the-world voyage is approaching Cape Horn, the most dangerous part of her solo effort, her spokesman said. HOUSTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Climate experts in Texas say the state's worse drought in 50 years is over, ending a dry spell costing ranchers and farmers an estimated $4 billion. BRAGANCA, Portugal, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Some Jews in Portugal are closer genetically to Middle Eastern Jews than to other Portuguese, despite having lived there 500 years, experts say. CALDWELL, Ohio, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers Saturday were still trying to round up an underfed bison wandering a snow-covered hillside in eastern Ohio. BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Florida's cold snap is proving dangerous for sea turtles, animal health experts say. HONOLULU, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- People in Hawaii should take precautions to protect themselves from air pollution plaguing the popular tropical tourist destination, health officials advise. UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The head of the United Nations says greater commitment by nations this year could free the world of nuclear weapons. SEATTLE, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- University of Washington researchers allowed a monkey to die of starvation last year, U.S. officials say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Many U.S. residents have yet to be vaccinated against the H1N1 virus and the flu season could continue until May, federal health officials said. LEONARDTOWN, Md., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Twenty-three starving pelicans that failed to migrate south have been rescued in southern Maryland during a bitter cold snap, officials said. UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Fashion leaders are heeding a call to reform the clothing and cosmetics industries to help preserve biodiversity, United Nations officials say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it is offering grants of up to $5 million to groups working on projects intended to combat global warming. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Homeland Security officials say the United States and New Zealand have reached an agreement intended to improve both countries' security. BEIJING, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Chinese officials urged the United States Saturday to cancel a planned arms sale to Taiwan. NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The dose of radiation from an airport's full-body scanner would be no more than people already get in a high-altitude jet, a U.S. radiation expert said. SEOUL, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- South Korea, hoping to attract investment dollars, says it will build a $15 billion science and technology "belt." LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's enhanced role in high technology is being felt at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, analysts say. |
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| Friday, January 8GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- More than 200 countries have reported confirmed H1N1 flu deaths of more than 12,799, officials of the World Health Organization in Switzerland say. ATLANTA, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Widespread H1N1 influenza activity is currently reported in only one state, Alabama, but seasonal flu is starting to appear, U.S. health officials said. CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The head of the anti-whaling organization Sea Shepherd says the ramming of one of its ships by a Japanese vessel will not keep it from chasing whaling ships. LONDON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Britain's snowy winter has reduced road salt stocks to dangerously low levels, prompting crews to stop de-icing some highway shoulders, officials say. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A rare, large and foul-smelling plant in the lily family that blooms about every six years may stink up the Milwaukee Public Museum Jan. 18, authorities say. VIENNA, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog and the European Commission agreed on safeguards in non-nuclear weapon EU members with significant nuclear activity, officials said. AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The more the brain's frontal lobes are used, the less a person sees through rose-colored glasses, a U.S. social neuroscientist says. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A 27-year study of polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea showed them spending more time on land and open water as ice disappeared, officials said. NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Livers from living donors increase 42 percent after transplant candidates received education on the process, U.S. researchers say. MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A tourism Web site says New Zealand and Australia have two of the best places worldwide to watch penguins in action. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Frequent testing and treatment for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia does not reduce it prevalence in urban teenage girls, U.S. researchers say. BALTIMORE, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A vaccine may help rid patients of leukemia cells left behind by chemotherapy, U.S. researchers say. LONDON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Invasive gray squirrels are not responsible for the 40-year decline of some bird populations in Britain, orthinologists said. MIAMI, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Crews in Southwest Florida have began turning a failed housing subdivision back into 55,000 acres of Everglades wetlands, officials said. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The revised U.S. childhood vaccine schedule recommends children older than 6 months get the H1N1 influenza vaccine, a doctor says. BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A robot lowered into the sea off Australia is to record the first images of a ship sunk by the Japanese navy in 1943, authorities said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A group of U.S. doctors wants Congress to know that there is a shortage of primary care physicians even before healthcare reform is considered. GAVLE, Sweden, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A wolf pair with pups may have been among the 27 wolves killed in Sweden's first wolf hunt in 45 years, officials said. SAVONLINNA, Finland, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Finnish researchers are trying to lure the endangered Saimaa ringed seal by heaping mounds of snow on lake ice in the Saimaa Waterway. TARBERT, Scotland, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Basking sharks are making a comeback off Scotland after being hunted for generations for their livers and fins, researchers said. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Texas Instruments Inc. said it was ready to pounce on a growing U.S. electronic book market that is expected to rise to 12 million digital readers this year. BERLIN, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- New species originated 50 percent more quickly in coral reefs than other tropical marine habitats during the last 540 million years, German scientists said. ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Beverages from soda fountain machines could contain harmful bacteria that cause gastric distress, researchers in Virginia said. HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- An Israeli researcher says music therapy can help toddlers with cochlear implants acquire speech. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Sexual function in prostate cancer patients receiving beam radiation decreases within the first two years and then stabilizes, U.S. researchers found. |
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| Thursday, January 7ATLANTA, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Public education campaigns should encourage patients at high risk for severe influenza to get vaccinated, U.S. health officials said. ATLANTA, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- There are 136 million doses of H1N1 vaccine available for ordering by the states, U.S. health officials said Thursday. BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Western U.S. sub-alpine forests will soak up less carbon dioxide than they do now as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen, a university study found. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Chronic cocaine addiction keeps a brain enzyme from shutting off pleasure-circuit genes, thus making the addiction worse, U.S. researchers said Thursday. YUCAIPA, Calif., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Officers in California killed a mountain lion, which had recently preyed on house pets, after finding it in a residential backyard, authorities said. LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Thursday he supports the U.S. Senate's healthcare reform bill, even though it is not "perfect." WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Stricter health standards to protect Americans from the effects of smog are available for comment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A blackout at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas during Steve Ballmer's opening keynote address was not Microsoft Corp.s' fault, the company said. SEATTLE, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A big Seattle hospital reduced its high infection rates from tubes inserted into patients only after the figures became public, state health data indicate. SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A small Canadian seaside town in New Brunswick has been warned lobsters that wash ashore cannot be eaten because they weren't caught under license. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A study of a warm Gulf Stream current in the Gulf of Mexico could aid oil and gas offshore drilling activities in the gulf, a U.S. government agency says. COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The author of an environmental study on U.S. coal mining said the practice of mountaintop removal "has got to be stopped." FLORENCE, Ore., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- About 2,000 sea lions spotted off the central Oregon coast may be the popular marine mammals that disappeared from San Francisco's piers, wildlife experts say. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A man employed as a therapist by Canadian police on Vancouver Island is charged with fraudulently claiming to have two doctoral degrees, police said. BALTIMORE, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A study of 13 children hospitalized with H1N1 found the patients survived but serious complications developed quickly and unpredictably, U.S. researchers say. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. drug-development company Vivus Inc. said Thursday a clinical study showed its obesity drug Qnexa helped reduce sleep apnea by increasing weight loss. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- During Florida's cold snap, manatees have crowded, to their potential harm, into a warm spring popular for viewing the animals, officials said. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A netbook that boots up in seven seconds is one of many faster and thinner devices on display at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Endoscopic sinus surgery may be of help to some sinusitis patients, U.S. researchers suggest. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said it had partnerships to build three different tablet-style digital readers, which failed to wow investors. HEBRON, Ky., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A woman and her son have pleaded innocent to charges they abducted schizophrenic scientist Walter Sartory in Kentucky and later killed the man. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The most Earthlike planet yet found outside our solar system probably began as a giant Saturn-sized planet that is now evaporating, U.S. astronomers say. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. doctor challenges the recommended guideline that obese women should gain 11-20 pounds during pregnancy. BRUSSELS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The European Union awarded $1.5 billion in contracts Thursday to set up a satellite-navigation system to rival the U.S. Global Positioning System. TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they're surprised to discover radiation from cellphones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's disease. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Police in Latin America soon will be able to track down weapons traffickers in their own language, the U.S. government says. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A grand jury in Little Rock, Ark., has indicted an Arkansas doctor for allegedly bombing the state medical board chairman, court records show. ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Parents who use kitchen spoons to measure liquid medicine for a child may over or under medicate, New York researchers found. BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Constantly linking exercise with weight loss may cause more people to fail at reaching their goals, a bariatric physician suggests. BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Effective use of intelligence gathering and behavioral identification programs could have kept the alleged bomber off Flight 253, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Wednesday, January 6SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- California parks officials say burying a sea lion carcass on a section of beach mainly used by nudists was not a form of chemical warfare. NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Chinese drug users are imprisoned in detention centers where they are denied treatment, physically abused and used as forced labor, a group says. ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Animal rights activists say they disagree with the dismissal of a lawsuit against a Florida-based circus by a federal judge this week. GRAFENWOHR, Germany, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Army troops training in Germany say they have to share their facilities with an army of invaders once near extinction -- dam-building beavers. NASHVILLE, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Colombian cigarette company owes the state of Tennessee $300,000, state officials claim. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Obama administration has come out against a proposal to close down the locks connecting the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan. RENO, Nev., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Salty lakes worldwide could produce valuable freshwater using a low-cost solar process developed at the University of Nevada, researchers said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. non-profit group is proposing tighter regulation of resident physicians' duty hours in hospitals to reduce their fatigue and ensure patient safety. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Educators from across the United States were honored by President Barack Obama Wednesday for their award-winning work in math and science instruction. DUARTE, Calif., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Pomegranates may help reduce the risk of some breast cancers, a U.S. researcher suggests. VILA NOVA DE GAIA, Portugal, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- More than 1,200 pounds of dead octopus have washed ashore on a 1.8-mile stretch of beach in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, concerned scientists say. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Thousands of poor women in Utah are receiving free vitamins with folic acid to prevent birth defects such as spina bifida, health officials said. HAMILTON, Ontario, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Thirty-seven percent of pregnant women receive three or more ultrasound tests in the second and third trimesters, Canadian researchers say. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Dolphins have proven so intelligent that it is morally repugnant to kill them for food or hold them captive in aquariums, U.S. researchers said. URBANA, Ill., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The only bacteria known to survive long-term in the human stomach also activates an enzyme linked to some cancers, scientists in Illinois said. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Some 27 million Americans will suffer from untreated hearing loss this year, a U.S. hearing care company estimates. ANQING CITY, China, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Fifteen kidney dialysis patients were infected with hepatitis C at a hospital in China's Anhui Province, authorities said. HAMILTON, N.Y., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- If gestures and speech convey the same information, they are easier to understand than when they convey different information, Dutch and U.S. researchers say. MANTEO, N.C., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Dozens of endangered sea turtles are recuperating at a North Carolina aquarium after being rescued from the state's Outer Banks beaches, an aquarist says. KIELCE, Poland, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The world's oldest tetrapod prints have been discovered in the Holy Cross Mountains of southeastern Poland, paleontologists said. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The discovery that a single atom can control how bacteria move could lead to new drugs that prevent infection, scientists in North Carolina said. KINGSTON, Ontario, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Staying in a multibed hospital room dramatically increases the risk of acquiring a serious infectious disease that could be fatal, Canadian researchers say. NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. woman and her infant daughter were killed by an elephant during a guided walk in the East African country of Kenya, a wildlife official said Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Iran's efforts to shield its uranium enrichment activities in a maze of underground tunnels have complicated the West's strategy, analysts say. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A protein key to the action of male hormones also plays a pivotal role in the body's ability to heal, scientists in Rochester, N.Y. said. ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A small Canadian seaside town in New Brunswick has been warned lobsters that wash ashore cannot be eaten because they weren't caught under license. PYONGYANG, North Korea, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- China's friendship with North Korea will reach new heights this year, its ambassador to Pyongyang said. CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Japanese whaling vessel rammed and sank a boat belonging to the environmental group Sea Shepherd, the group's founder said Wednesday. REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The head of a U.S. provider of senior residences says inquiries from relatives of the elderly surge after the holidays. LONDON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Keepers at the London Zoo are engaged this week in a task resembling the biblical account of Noah, counting thousands of animals belonging to 750 species. EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Power makes people stricter in moral judgment of others but less strict on their own behavior, Dutch and U.S. researchers suggest. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Obama administration says it will end the long running dispute over building a wind farm in Nantucket Sound near Cape Cod, Mass., within two months. BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Circumcision, which lowers HIV risk in men, also dramatically changes the bacterial communities of the penis, U.S. researchers found. BEIJING, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Official corruption and counterfeit and shoddy goods were cited by Chinese as the most serious problems hurting their country's image abroad, a survey found. MOORESVILLE, N.C., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The niche market of radiation emergency preparedness posted record sales in 2009, a supplier of emergency preparedness products says. |
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| Tuesday, January 5BRISTOL, Conn., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- U.S sports broadcaster ESPN announced Tuesday it will launch the television industry's first 3D network. DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The Ford Motor Co. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are working together to advance automotive technology to reduce driver stress. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A Las Vegas hospital broke the law by denying emergency care to an uninsured pregnant woman, whose child later died, health inspectors say. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. poll says only 40 percent of Americans are happy with President Barack Obama's performance at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Chicago water officials say closing locks along the Chicago River to keep Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan could cause widespread flooding. IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A third envelope containing white powder has been found on the University of California, Irvine, campus, officials said Tuesday. NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to illness and a shortened life as smoking, U.S. researchers found. BARRINGTON HILLS, Ill., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- An Illinois lawyer says he has defied a 2-year-old order to remove from his property mostly wood waste, which he uses to heat his home in the winter. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A cocktail of nano-sized particles introduced into the bloodstream shows promise in adhering to and killing cancerous tumors, scientists in San Diego say. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Redmond O'Neal has been arrested for another alleged drug violation, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles district attorney's office said Tuesday. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A distant star dubbed Y-155 had nearly 200 times the mass of our sun when it exploded about seven billion years ago, scientists in Indiana said. SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says age-related muscle loss is caused by free radical damage to muscle cell mitochondria. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The fertility doctor of California's "octuplet mom" was grossly negligent in helping her become pregnant, a state medical ethics panel says. TORONTO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Online interventions for problem alcohol use can be effective in changing drinking behaviors and can offer a public health benefit, Canadian researchers say. DAFENG, China, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Lead poisoning in 51 children has been linked to a battery company located 55 yards from a village in China's Jiangsu province, officials said. NOVATO, Calif., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The Buck Institute for Aging will borrow money, if necessary, to build a $41 million stem cell research center in Novato, Calif., its board said. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. and German researchers say patting one's head after taking a medication may help a person remember they've taken their daily medication. GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A French Space Agency satellite known as PARASOL has been moved into a new orbit after nearly five years in the Afternoon Constellation, NASA officials said. BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus who consumed about 2 1/4 cups of coffee with caffeine daily had milder liver fibrosis, U.S. researchers found. BANGKOK, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Traditional farmers in Thailand are helping preserve a genetic diversity in rice not found in modern strains, scientists said. BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A drug used to treat symptoms of epilepsy could slow muscle weakening in patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, scientists in Baltimore said. MARGATE, Fla., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Southern Florida's unusually cold weather likely will reduce the number of invasive iguanas considered a pest by many, officials said. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A second report in a week of a cougar attack on a child emerged from central British Columbia Tuesday. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- People living in Pennsylvania mobile homes say they like their residences just fine despite the social stigma, a survey indicates. BEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- China, which opposes sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear program, said Tuesday there is still room for diplomacy. NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Breast cancer screening should begin at age 40, and earlier in high-risk patients, two U.S. medical groups say. BEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Diesel fuel leaking from a broken oil pipeline into a Yellow River tributary in China has spread, threatening drinking water sources, officials said Tuesday. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Patients may suffer heart pain during a period of several years without having a heart attack, a U.S. cardiologist says. BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Smoking in both the donor and the recipient should become part of the risk calculus in heart organ donation, U.S. researchers suggest. |
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| Monday, January 4LONDON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Extremely cold weather and massive snowfalls blanketed much of the northern hemisphere, bringing death and destruction across three continents, officials said. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say an examination of cancer rates among the Amish underscores the virtues of exercise, not smoking, healthy food and fewer sex partners. BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Israeli researchers say they have defined a new interpretation of Autism Spectrum Disorders to make it easier to differentiate between ASD and other conditions. ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Arthritis is no reason to stop exercising because without physical activity joints become less mobile and muscles shrink, a U.S. newsletter says. QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Vitamin C "cured" mice of symptoms of accelerated aging disease, Canadian researchers said. NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence and scientific officials say they are studying data from satellites and other intelligence gathering tools to assess environmental change. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Pregnant women may want to consider eggs for breakfast or lunch because they contain choline, which helps fetal brains develop, U.S. researchers say. BEIJING, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Chinese Internet users say they had a brief period of browsing freedom as China's strict controls, known as the Great Firewall, went down for several hours. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Psoriasis, a disease that causes red, raised patches of skin, is seen as a systemic disease linked to arthritis and heart disease, a U.S. newsletter says. LONDON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The British navy is shrinking and faces further funding cutbacks as its responsibilities remain, a military analyst says. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The Kepler space telescope has discovered five exoplanets, said U.S. scientists searching for an Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like atmosphere. ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say St. John's wort is not an effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome. LONDON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Three billion years ago, Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes that were as wide as 12 miles, scientists at Britain's Imperial College said. HOMESTEAD, Fla., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Depositions in a dispute between a Florida utility and a former nuclear plant operator reveal many employee safety concerns, The Miami Herald reported Monday. KINGSTON, Ontario, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Women's minds and genitals typically respond differently to sexual arousal, unlike men whose responses are much more uniform, Canadian researchers found. MEDWAY, England, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Mosquitoes whine to attract a mate of the correct species, said scientists in Britain who study the maddening sound made by the insects. TUCSON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Refrigerator magnets and the equivalent of black velvet seen in Elvis paintings is giving an old telescope new life, scientists in Arizona said. SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Cases of syphilis in newborns have been rising in Bexar County, Texas, said local health officials who recommend third-trimester testing. DETROIT, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The Cryonics Institute in Detroit says it has frozen 94 human corpses with the aim of one day outsmarting death. ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida man accused of a shooting rampage at an architectural firm isn't competent to stand trial, doctors said Monday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs official said no cost estimates were available regarding an impending decision regarding diseases tied to Agent Orange. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Discovery of a gene linked to compulsive behavior in dogs could lead to better understanding of the disorder in humans, scientists in Massachusetts said. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Canada's Maritime provinces were digging out Monday from a weekend storm described by meteorologists as a "weather bomb." OTTAWA, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Alzheimer's and related dementia could cost the Canadian economy $97 billion a year by 2038, health experts said. BOSTON BAY, British Columbia, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A retriever dog is expected to recover after saving her 11-year-old master from a cougar attack in their Canadian back yard, officials say. COONAMBLE, Australia, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Australians forced to flee the flooding Castlereagh River received clearance to return to their homes Monday, officials said. BOSTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Hackers are to blame for most thefts of credit card numbers, medical records and other information of a million Massachusetts residents, The Boston Globe said. (Editor's note: Unlike past recessions, the current downturn has taken a significant toll on sectors of the economy virtually unscathed by earlier economic crises. This is the latest in a series on one family's struggle.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A New York brochure advising heroin users on how to shoot up in a more healthful way cost taxpayers $32,000, officials said. |
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| Sunday, January 3FALLBROOK, Calif., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Farmers in California's San Diego County say they are suffering from a succession of fruit fly quarantines, leaving their crops overripe and unsaleable. BEIJING, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A major oil leak that threatened one of China's most important sources of water is under control, official media said Sunday. SEATTLE, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. aerospace giant Boeing Co., fresh off a successful 2009, faces some uncertainties in the new year, analysts say. DENVER, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Denver has more marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks, public schools or liquor stores, city and corporate records show. BEIJING, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Heavy snow and extreme cold disrupted life in Beijing Sunday with meteorologists saying even colder weather was on its way. PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Spirit, the Martian rover designed to spend three months in unmanned exploration of the Red Planet, marks its six-year anniversary Sunday. |
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| Saturday, January 2WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Clinton Foundation's eclectic 2009 donor list showed Donald Trump, Elton John's AIDS Foundation and foreign governments among its benefactors. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Growing political opposition in Iran may present an opportunity for the United States to strike hard with sanctions, officials tell The New York Times. TEHRAN, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gave those countries pressing Iran to give up its nuclear program an "ultimatum" Saturday on its own proposal. DENVER, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Some landfill operators in Colorado say the recession is causing budget cuts, increased fees and layoffs due to a shortage of their only resource -- trash. GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Nyamulagira volcano in the North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo erupted with lava flowing toward Virunga National Park, authorities say. PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- One of the world's rarest great whales has been spotted off a Florida beach, wildlife officials said. HERAT, Afghanistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old Afghan child with heart disease was flown to Italy for surgery by NATO forces in Afghanistan, authorities said. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A subspecies of red fox living in California's Sacramento Valley -- long believed to be a non-native pest -- is in fact native to the area, scientists say. NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Adolescents who don't get enough sleep are more likely to suffer from depression and have suicidal thoughts, researchers in New York said. JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Mutant prions linked to mad cow, among other diseases, can evolve and become drug resistant, scientists in Florida have learned. RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says researchers are taking another run at determining whether cellphone use can actually cause cancer. LEIPZIG, Germany, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- It's now possible to distinguish between ancient DNA and modern DNA that contaminates an archaeological site, a German scientist said. VATICAN CITY, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI used his New Year's Day address to appeal for peace and the protection of the natural environment. PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Olympic-hopeful snowboarder Kevin Pearce remains in stable-but-critical condition after a snowboarding accident in Utah, an official says. HONOLULU, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh says if his time at a Honolulu hospital is any indication, the U.S. healthcare system is doing well. NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. government did many things right in responding to the 2009 swine flu pandemic, medical experts said. TOKYO, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A deep lava tube discovered on the moon could shield human colonists from harsh temperatures and meteorites, Japanese scientists said. |
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| Friday, January 1LONDON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- British doctors say they will begin human trials in 2010 of a revolutionary spaghetti-like artificial artery in heart bypass surgery. NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- New Year's can pose difficulty for those who have lost a loved one in the past year, a U.S. author says. ATLANTA, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Delaware, Maine, New Jersey and Virginia reported widespread influenza activity, down from seven states a week ago, U.S. health officials reported. HONOLULU, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh, speaking Friday at the Honolulu hospital where he was checked out for chest pain, says he doesn't have heart disease. NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Strep bacteria may predict the severity of H1N1 flu, researchers in Argentina and United States found. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A new public/private research program will study the effects of prescription medications used during pregnancy, U.S. researchers say. BOSTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Psychological stress where people earn their paychecks can make it more difficult for depressed workers to be productive, U.S. researchers found. BOSTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Erectile dysfunction is more common in older men with restless leg syndrome than in those without the condition, U.S. researchers found. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. neurologists have issued new guidelines for transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation used to treat pain. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. eye doctors say they have found another reason to decide to quit smoking for the New Year -- saving vision. CAIRNS, Australia, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An Australian woman who watched with her two children as a python swallowed a baby wallaby in their yard said Thursday she could not have saved the joey. CHICAGO, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Chicago's Second City Theatricals comedy troupe says it is working on a satirical production called "Rush Limbaugh: The Musical!" WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The Transportation Security Administration nominee misled U.S. senators about improperly accessing confidential records years ago, documents indicate. PYONGYANG, North Korea, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- North Korea, in a New Year's message Friday, expressed hope for an end to animosity with the United States and a negotiated nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A physician has written to Rush Limbaugh, hospitalized in Hawaii with chest pains, wishing him a fast recovery and advising him to consider a conservative diet. MONTREAL, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Canadian researcher suggests fighting child obesity by making school zones convenience-store free. |
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| Thursday, December 31MELBOURNE, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say they are a step closer to diagnosing and vaccinating against a puzzling facial cancer driving Tasmanian devils toward near-extinction. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The guest host of "The Rush Limbaugh Show" said Thursday Limbaugh is in "good and stable condition" in a Honolulu hospital. NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Pfizer Inc. shares slipped 1 percent Thursday after the company said U.S. regulators had not yet decided on the company's new pediatric vaccine, Prevnar 13. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The California Science Center has been sued for canceling a film that attacked the science of evolution and promoted intelligent design, court records say. LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The director of Britain's National Science Learning Center, known for bringing excitement back into Britain's science classes, was made a knight Thursday. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic, U.S. researchers said. OAK BROOK, Ill., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The departure of a top McDonald's executive is a warning the U.S. fast food giant is not well prepared for executive turnover, a company board expert said. CAIRO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Cases of the virus that causes AIDS have risen six-fold in Egypt, moving the Arab country toward an HIV epidemic, a government report said. OCEAN CITY, Md., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Individuals seeking to fish in the Atlantic Ocean or its coastal bays must now register with the U.S. government, according to a new federal law. LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Young people under the age of 18 are more likely than adults to catch H1N1 from an infected person in their home, U.S. and British researchers found. BAMAKO, Mali, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A device introduced by Swiss researchers to the West African nation of Mali will detect bogus or substandard medicine within minutes, the researchers said. DETROIT, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Breast cancer patients with hot flashes may benefit from acupuncture, a U.S. researcher says. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New technologies could make treatment tailored to the patient's genetic make-up -- personalized medicine -- a reality, U.S. researchers say. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A federal appellate court ruled that U.S. technology giant Apple's diminutive music maker the iPod was not "unsafe or defective. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Younger hunters are more likely than older hunters to suffer serious injuries in tree-stand accidents, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers said. BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's $2.2 billion Herschel Space Observatory has found thousands of galaxies in early stages of formation, scientists said. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A California man was sentenced to six months of house arrest for illegally smuggling six endangered fish through a Los Angeles airport, a federal judge ruled. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Cars of the future could be fueled by tobacco, genetic-engineering university researchers in Philadelphia suggest. NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Regis Philbin is heading back to work as co-host of TV's "Live with Regis and Kelly" in New York after undergoing hip-replacement surgery. VIAGINAS, Lithuania, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Lithuania's nuclear power plant will cease operations Thursday, complying with a condition of membership in the European Union, officials said. CWMRHYDYCEIRW, Wales, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Binge drinking has sparked a rash of gout among Welsh men in their 20s, likely leading to chronic ill health, a hospital emergency room consultant says. UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Swine flu remains intense in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, despite ebbing in North America and Western Europe, the head of a U.N. agency says. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Washington has sided with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in a legal fight over alleged abuse of Asian elephants. DAKOTA DUNES, S.D., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- E.coli and salmonella pathogens were found dozens of times in school hamburgers processed by a company exempt from routine testing, a U.S. safety agency says. MORRISTOWN, N.J., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Getting fit, losing weight and reducing stress are popular New Year's resolutions for people, but a luxury New Jersey pet spa says the same applies to dogs. MANHATTAN, Kan., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- People who think in the long term tend to make more positive health decisions, whether it's how much to drink or what to eat, U.S. psychologists suggest. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are finding brain plasticity -- the ability to change and grow -- may be key to memory. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Federal transportation officials said they'll add 150 full-body scanners to the 40 already operating in U.S. airports. |
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| Wednesday, December 30SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A French engineering firm has signed a deal with California investors to build one or two nuclear power plants, a project banned under current California law. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it will choose from Venus, an asteroid and the moon for another unmanned venture to a celestial body in the solar system. IMPERIAL, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck California's Death Valley early Wednesday, seismologists said. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Vodka may be considered "antifreeze" for humans but a byproduct is also good for melting snow and ice on roads and sidewalks, makers say. OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- About 60 birds shot last week near a San Francisco-area airport are believed to have been killed by a contractor clearing birds away from the runways. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Multiple car crashes caused by snow and freezing temperatures have closed a major tourist road in Grand Canyon National Park, U.S. rangers said Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken what it says is the first step to ensure owners of polluting facilities foot the cleanup bill. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Foxes, not snow, forced Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to close a runway Wednesday, delaying two arriving flights, an airport spokesman said. CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Cockroaches are providing inspiration in the quest to build a robot capable of running effortlessly over rough terrain, scientists in Oregon said. MEXICALI, Mexico, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A pair of earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 4.9 struck Baja California Wednesday, seismologists reported, and were felt north of the border in the San Diego area. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have developed a rapid, automated system to differentiate strains of influenza. AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The development of schizophrenic mice should improve understanding and treatment of the disorder in humans, scientists in Georgia said. LAKEWOOD, Colo., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Geological Survey is turning to unmanned aircraft for a closer look at volcanoes, wildfires and remote areas of the world, officials said. BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. astronauts wished Army troops in Baghdad a happy new year while flying over Iraq aboard the International Space Station, NASA said. SEOUL, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- North Korea isn't cooperating with calls to give back equipment it used in the aborted construction of light-water reactors, South Korean officials say. NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Every year when New Year's rolls around, many resolve to change their drinking habits, but unrealistic goals can lead to failure, a U.S. non-profit group says. TSUSHIMA CITY, Japan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- An endangered Tsushima leopard cat is recovering at a wildlife center in Japan after being captured in Tsushima City, officials said. DURHAM, N.H., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- New Hampshire officials say anthrax vaccine is available for as many as 80 people who may have been exposed to the disease during an African-drum gathering. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Nearly 1,700 sea lions have disappeared within weeks after living for nearly two decades at San Francisco's Fisherman''s Wharf, authorities said. MEMPHIS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A baby born with a fatal heart defect should live a normal life after undergoing an extremely rare surgery, doctors in Memphis said. SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A 22-month-old boy died of complications of a dental procedure he underwent at a San Antonio medical center, officials say. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman this week announced the delivery of the attack submarine USS New Mexico to the U.S. Navy. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Thursday's New Year's Eve's moon will be the second full moon this month, which makes it a rare blue moon, U.S. meteorologists said. GURNEE, Ill., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The mother of a 5-year-old boy is suing an Illinois reptile store, alleging her son contracted salmonella after handing a Burmese python. IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Broadcom Corp. said it had agreed to pay $160.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit over backdated stock options. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. physicians need to learn how to better care for the nation's fastest growing demographic group -- aging patients, a study suggests. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The 2011 federal fiscal budget will determine how soon NASA can afford to send astronauts to the moon or Mars, space policy experts said. BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Enhancing a diabetes patient's access to care via collaborative physician-pharmacist relationships can yield lower blood glucose levels, U.S. researchers say. OTTAWA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A University of Ottawa researcher has found liquid and foam hand sanitizers are inefficient if not backed up with regular soap-and-water hand-washing. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Instead of making individual New Year's resolutions, take personal inventory of your life, a U.S. psychologist suggests. SCHILLER PARK, Ill., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Army drill sergeants use compound exercisers working multiple joints and muscles simultaneously but a fitness expert says home exercisers can do the same. |
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| Tuesday, December 29GREIFSWALDAND, Germany, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Modern, couple-oriented treatment for male sexual dysfunction In Germany takes the psychosocial aspects of sex into account, researchers said. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. specialist in family counseling advises families to have a meeting on New Year's Day and consider making resolutions as a group. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- There has been a surge in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous bacteria becoming increasingly common in U.S. hospitals, a researcher says. DALLAS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Those seeking to face the New Year looking younger through self-injectable facial fillers sold online should use caution, a U.S. plastic surgeon says. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Geologists say they've found more than 350 ancient granite basins used by California's Miwok tribe to produce salt for trade. FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Twenty-five percent of U.S. adults age 65 and older take 10-19 medications each day, a survey indicates. DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Minnesota has offered a $1,000 reward for information on the killers of two wolves shot during the deer season in the northern part of the state, officials say. GRISE FIORD, Nunavut, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A male wolf nicknamed Brutus is wearing a satellite tracking collar to learn how wolves fare during harsh winters near the North Pole. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Older adults who used the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba for several years did not have a slower rate of cognitive decline, U.S. researchers say. CLARKSVILLE, Ga., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Georgia man said he knew just what to do when a wounded deer stumbled onto his property: He ran outside in boxers and flip-flops to kill it with a stick. NOTTINGHAM, England, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A drug derived from a mushroom -- cordycepin -- may be used to treat some cancers, British researchers say. WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A protein complex mutated in human disease removes molecules that can damage cilia, scientists in Massachusetts said. CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- High-speed video has shown some insects use vision rather than touch to find footholds, scientists at England's University of Cambridge said. BALTIMORE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Injecting a corticosteroid directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, researchers in Maryland said. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A California biopharmaceutical company has submitted a government application for a new weight-loss drug, officials said Tuesday. CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota have joined forces to seal Illinois waterways from the Great Lakes in a fight against an invasive carp, officials said. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The nuclear reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won't be converted to a safer fuel for at least five years, authorities said. MIAMI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Allowing the Seminole Tribe to expand a rock mine in Broward County would further threaten the endangered Florida panther, an environmental group said. HARARE, Zimbabwe, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An outbreak of measles has killed 22 people in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province, authorities said. RENO, Nev., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it is proceeding with a controversial roundup of wild horses in Nevada. HUNSTVILLE, Ala., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Laser weapons are getting closer to being deployed in the battlefield, U.S. Army officials say. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is rethinking how to apply economic sanctions to Iran following a crackdown on pro-democracy activists, a diplomatic source says. NEW DELHI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Japan and India agreed Tuesday to strengthen security cooperation during a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russia still will develop weapons to counter U.S. missiles even as the two countries work on arms reduction, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. SEATTLE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The stereotype of computer scientists as nerds who stay up at night coding and have no social life may drive women from the field, U.S. researchers suggest. |
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| Monday, December 28ST. LOUIS, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- First responders are equipped and trained to handle various emergency situations but workplace stress can take a toll on their emotions, U.S. researchers say. COLOGNE, Germany, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Brain training -- crossword puzzles, for example -- is recommended for those who enjoy it, researchers in Germany say. COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Prenatal exposure to DTT may contribute to the obesity epidemic in women, U.S. researchers suggest. NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home are more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood, U.S. researchers say. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Scottish environmental groups are applauding railway officials for including artificial animal dens and a "newt fence" as part of a $480 million project. BERLIN, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A German computer engineer said Monday he had published the code used to secure privacy in most of the world's cellphones to push for security upgrades. LUBBOCK, Texas, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. child development researcher says massage can help young children fall asleep. GALWAY, Ireland, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Using disinfectants may cause bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics as well as the disinfectant itself, National University of Ireland researchers say. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The first transistor from a single molecule has been created by attaching a benzene molecule to gold contacts, scientists from Connecticut said. MADISON, Wis., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Ancient bright stars known as "blue stragglers" likely increase their mass by stealing fuel from companion stars, astronomers in Wisconsin said. NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Digital bulk mail, known as spam, has a tendency to show up on U.S. computers because it is often a moneymaker, an e-mail watchdog firm said. NEWCASTLE, England, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Soil studies show antibiotic resistance in nature is growing despite tighter control over antibiotic use in medicine and agriculture, British scientists said. JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Melting glacial ice in the Gulf of Alaska affects the marine food chain from microbes to the fish that feed on them, scientists said. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- All men value marriage at the late stages of their working lives as well as during periods of high health risk, Canadian researchers found. CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The discovery of gene mutations linked to two nerve disorders could lead to a new understanding of how nerves stimulate muscles, scientists in Chicago said. OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Health officials who coordinate U.S transplant surgeries say they will examine policies on using donors who have certain neurological disorders. MIAMI, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- More colleges in Florida say they're adding outdoor smoking to their ban on indoor smoking to reduce second-hand smoke and litter. CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants in Illinois increased 7 percent last year while declining 4 percent overall in the United States, officials say. TUCSON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Tucson's push to use rainwater to meet landscaping needs could serve as a model for dry regions throughout the nation, Arizona environmentalists said. NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Some U.S. teens are surprised by how much time they spend on Facebook and are imposing limits on themselves, two experts say. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Nearly 130 whales have died in two beachings along New Zealand's beaches, conservation officials said. VILA DOS CRENTES, Brazil, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Brazil's government said it is instituting laws to stop deforestation and violence in the Amazon. OTTAWA, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Canadian armed forces are planning cuts of $182 million to meet a strategy set by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, military officials say. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Existing airport screening equipment could have detected the explosive suspected in the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, experts say. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The United Arab Emirates picked a South Korean-led consortium for a $20 billion contract to build and help run four nuclear power reactors, officials said. |
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| Sunday, December 27NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Legendary New York prosecutor Robert Morgenthau says he won a huge forfeiture from Credit Suisse only because he threatened criminal penalties. LAHAINA, Hawaii, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. rescuers in Hawaii have freed a humpback whale found to be entangled in a fishing line, officials said. PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- New U.S. scientific findings suggest that climate change may be affecting aquatic environments faster and sooner than the atmosphere. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A total of 17 state legislatures in Mexico passed measures against abortion despite a landmark ruling by Mexico's Supreme Court, abortion rights advocates say. DURHAM, N.H., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A New Hampshire woman is in critical condition likely due to gastrointestinal anthrax, state health officials say. BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Swiss authorities say they are urging winter tourists to be aware of their impact on wildlife in the Alps. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The red snapper population in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have rebounded thanks to the efforts of U.S. government regulators, scientific data suggests. KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A temporary ban on grouper fishing will bring economic hardship onto the Florida Keys during its peak tourism season, fishermen say. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- National Steak and Poultry has recalled 248,000 pounds of beef products from six states because of a risk of E. coli, U.S. inspectors said. SYDNEY, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Some farm hands and sheep were evacuated Sunday by helicopter as rivers throughout New South Wales, Australia, neared flood stage, officials said. MUMBAI, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrived in Mumbai Sunday for high-level talks on economic and defense security with India, officials said. |
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| Saturday, December 26WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Evidence presented to Congress suggests Ross Medical School on the island of Dominica may be shortchanging U.S. taxpayers and students, officials allege. MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Scientists monitoring the Mayon volcano in the Philippines say a recent lull in activity could be the calm before the storm of a major eruption. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Memorial services were held in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh Saturday to remember those killed five years ago in a devastating tsunami, witnesses said. COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say Nestle HealthCare Nutrition has wrongly marketed some drinks as "medical food." WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Three space missions in 2010 aim to learn more about the sun, and the climate and the oceans of Earth, NASA officials said. GUYAN, China, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Elements needed to make green energy products worldwide are being mined destructively in China, which has a near monopoly on them, authorities said. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A new California law will prevent doctors from performing elective cosmetic surgery without an "appropriate" physical exam, authorities said. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest was injured in a fall down a flight of stairs at his home and did not travel with his teammates to Sacramento Saturday. KATUMANI, Kenya, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Refurbished computers are changing the fortunes of farmers in central Kenya by accurately and instantly predicting the weather, officials said. CLEVELAND, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Smoking, being overweight, not using sunscreen and having had skin cancer is associated with sun damaged and aging facial skin, U.S. researchers say. ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Many heart transplant patients develop multiple skin cancers, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found. VALDEZ, Alaska, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Salvage crews have completed transferring oil from a disabled tugboat that ran aground on an Alaskan reef to a rescue vessel, observers said. SCHILLER PARK, Ill., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- For those putting fitness at the top of their New Year's resolutions, U.S. fitness experts suggest signing up for a race to stay motivated. OAMISHIRASATO, Japan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of dead anchovies have created a nasty stink on the Kujukuri-hama coast of Japan's Chiba Prefecture, officials said. LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The British government is urging citizens to support its fox hunting ban by signing an online petition. BUTNER, N.C., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Disgraced U.S. financier Bernard Madoff was hospitalized in prison due to dizziness and hypertension, prison officials say. HOMESTEAD, Fla., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Florida's avocado growers say they're worried about the spread of the Asian redbay ambrosia beetle. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Deployed U.S. soldiers may soon be chewing gum that fights cavities, University of Kentucky researchers say. |
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| Friday, December 25SACRAMENTO, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A bipartisan group of California members of Congress have asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reconsider a plan to cut back on mammograms for low-income women. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Umbilical cord tissue could be a source of plentiful stem cells, U.S. researchers said. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, may not only ease physical pain, but the pain of social rejection as well, U.S. researchers found. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Louisville Zoo officials said one of the Kentucky animal park's gorillas, Mia Mojo, is pregnant and due to give birth in 2010. YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Fisheries officers helped move a beached pilot whale back into the water in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, officials said. BOSTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry has denied a Wall Street Journal report that the Massachusetts Democrat is considering an emissary trip to Iran. MOSCOW, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Russia will continue to have a "nuclear shield" under a new START treaty, President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. |
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| Thursday, December 24ATLANTA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Once presents have been opened and holiday is turkey eaten, U.S. health officials suggest putting together a family health history. REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a woman who says a California medical examiner kept her son's heart because he died of a rare condition. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are hallmarks of depression and may explain why the Grinch hated Christmas, a U.S. psychologist suggests. ATLANTA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Seven states reported geographically widespread influenza activity, down from 11 states a week ago, U.S. health officials reported. BOOT RANCH, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Workers at a Florida grocery store said a deer that ran into the store for some last-minute Christmas shopping was released back into the wild. BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The tug of the sun and the moon are causing tremors nearly 15 miles below the surface of the San Andreas fault, scientists in California said. EXETER, England, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The invasive American mink has become increasingly dependent on seafood from the coastline of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, scientists in Britain said. EVANSTON, Ill., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The world's thinnest material is being studied with a dye used to stain the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day, scientists in Illinois said. LIBREVILLE, Gabon, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Two endangered female leatherback turtles have traveled 800 miles since being released off Gabon Dec. 7, scientists say satellite tracking devices indicate. LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A sticky compound in spider webs could lead to the development of a new generation of non-petroleum adhesives and glues, scientists in Wyoming said. MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Russia successfully fired a heavy Voyevoda SS-18 Satan missile capable of carrying 10 warheads Thursday, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. SYDNEY, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Sixty-five percent of people in Australia say they are unlikely to get vaccinated against H1N1 in the next 12 months, a survey indicates. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- An $18.5 billion federal loan program for new reactors could renew interest in atomic power as an alternative energy source, authorities said. CHICAGO, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A high school senior and a 2-year-old are sharing a liver after an 8-hour surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, officials said. AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A Texas family said a month after trading their truck in the Cash for Clunkers program they got a letter saying their truck was emitting pollutants on the road. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The United States is "now incredibly close to making health insurance reform a reality" after the Senate healthcare vote, President Barack Obama said Thursday. ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it has cited Disney World for several safety violations after last summer's fatal monorail crash. NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Liability concerns may play a role in the proliferation of "superbugs" in hospitals by encouraging doctors to prescribe more antibiotics, U.S. researchers say. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say animal models show chemotherapy drugs may disrupt brain cell growth. MIAMI, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Both the frequency and seriousness of melanoma vary by race and ethic group, University of Miami researchers found. WOONSOCKET, R.I., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The H1N1 vaccine is expected to be widely available at CVS/pharmacy and MinuteClinic locations throughout the United States, company officials said. LUTHERVILLE, Md., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Forty-two percent of women eligible for breast cancer screening with magnetic resonance imaging declined the procedure, U.S. researchers found. |
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| Wednesday, December 23NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Bernard Madoff has been moved to the medical wing at the North Carolina prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence for fraud, authorities say. XI'AN, China, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow in northwestern China have caused traffic jams, flight delays and power and heating outages, authorities say. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Johnny Hallyday's publicist says the French rocker has been discharged from the Los Angeles hospital where he underwent corrective surgery on his back. SEATTLE, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Aviation experts say the technical issues reported after the maiden flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner over Seattle were relatively minor. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Female ducks likely developed vaginas with clockwise spirals to prevent fertilization from aggressive males, scientists in Connecticut said. BEIJING, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Wool fibers coated with silica nano particles resist wrinkling and shrinking, researchers at China's Academy of Science have learned. TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Researchers in Taiwan recommend closely monitoring patients who have used a Chinese herbal product that may increase urinary tract cancer risk. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression. SYRACUSE, N.Y., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Scientists in New York say they're seeking a patent for a compound that could control fungal infections afflicting nearly 25,000 U.S. residents a year. SMITHFIELD, R.I., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A chef at a Rhode Island sportsman's club said he has earned the nickname "Roadkill" due to his signature dish -- venison from the side of the road. LAWRENCEVILLE, Kan., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A fossil found in China is the first venomous raptor in the lineage leading to modern birds, scientists at the University of Kansas say. ATLANTA, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The occupational overexposure to coal mine dust by coal miners continues to occur despite legally enforceable limits, U.S. health officials say. CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A simple amino acid that strengthens teeth could lead to therapies that grow healthy enamel over damaged teeth, scientists in Chicago said. ATLANTA, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A study of two counties in North Carolina found most parents wanted their children to get the H1N1 vaccine, official say. ATLANTA, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Schools may close due to seasonal flu, but kids still gather for social activities despite the risk of getting sick, U.S. health officials say. FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Gray squirrels gobbling up outdoor LED Christmas lights are confounding officials in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton, New Brunswick. MADISON, Wis., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A compound tested in mice has proved safer and more effective against H5N1 bird flu than the popular antiviral Tamiflu, scientists in Wisconsin said. BROOKINGS, S.D., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Dried distillers grain from corn could be used to fortify a flat bread eaten by millions in Asia, a scientist at South Dakota State University said. BRUSSELS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The European Commission says it plans to consider banning chemicals that cause cancer and other dangerous consequences when combined. HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A peregrine falcon nursed back to health after being found injured in Pennsylvania last month has been released to the wild in Virginia, a wildlife expert says. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Wednesday revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer following a mammogram. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- One medium-sized dog produces more greenhouse gas than a Toyota Land Cruiser, New Zealand scientists Robert and Brenda Vale say in a new book. TORONTO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Mortality from diabetes has declined in Canada, but the income-related mortality gap is increasing, researchers found. TORONTO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Nuclear officials were monitoring water supplies east of Toronto Wednesday after a nuclear plant leaked 52,000 gallons of tritium-laced water into Lake Ontario. SAO PAULO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- In a Brazilian study, 76 percent of the patients who died of H1N1 had underlying medical conditions such as heart disease or cancer, researchers say. HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Prolonged exposure to higher levels of air pollution can lead to hospitalization for pneumonia in adults age 65 and older, Canadian researchers found. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has thrown out an AIDS advocacy group's request that BOSTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. rocker Steven Tyler says he has checked into a rehabilitation facility for pain management and an addiction to prescription painkillers. MADISON, Wis., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- People who are depressed are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion, U.S. researchers suggest. DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says eye biology is key to why the golden ratio -- used to build the Pyramids -- makes ancient architecture aesthetically pleasing. GALVESTON, Texas, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Nearly half of women using the birth control shot will experience high-bone mineral density loss in the hip or lower spine, U.S. researchers found. OTTAWA, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Canadian health officials found 41 percent of clinical trials have moved away from managing trial data using only paper records. SEATTLE, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Older adults may have a higher risk of complications and death after abdominal surgery, U.S. researchers found. SEOUL, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The stalled six-nation talks on North Korea's denuclearization must resume by the end of February or the process may end, South Korea's foreign minister said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- An Inspector General's report finds the U.S. Department of Energy has been dragging its feet on computer security, ABC News reported Tuesday. |
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| Tuesday, December 22CHICAGO, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say their work has cast doubt on a theory that tuberculosis bacteria have the ability to turn into armor-plated spores. OTTAWA, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- There were 492 deceased organ donors in Canada in 2008, a low number given the number of deaths in which organs were eligible for transplant, a researcher said. ATLANTA, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- One in three people in the United States -- 60 million -- has received the H1N1 vaccine, but about half of Americans want the vaccine, health officials say. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Duke Energy will spend $85 million to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Indiana plant and pay a $1.75 million fine, federal officials said Tuesday. OTTAWA, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Health Canada is asking the public for comment on putting the cancer-fighting enzyme asparaginase in baked and fried food. VIENTIANE, Laos, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A tiny colorful bird with a loud and distinctive sound has been discovered living in the forests of Laos and Vietnam, scientists said. BOSTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A new gene therapy involving a single treatment could prevent the progression of inherited emphysema, scientists in Boston said. PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Heavy drinking adversely affects a person's performance and perception hours after alcohol has left the body, researchers in Rhode Island said. BROOKINGS, S.D., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Climate change could adversely impact the Prairie Pothole Region that produces more than half of North America's migratory duck population, scientists said. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Utah state officials say they are ready to supervise the movement of low-level radioactive waste received from South Carolina into a specialized landfill. WAUKESHA, Wis., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A former Wisconsin schoolboy accused of using the Facebook Web site to blackmail male classmates into sex is guilty of sexual assault, a judge has ruled. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday named as his cybersecurity coordinator a cyber adviser from President George W. Bush's administration. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Nurses who work with pregnant women should be knowledgeable about environmental risks that could harm the fetus, an alliance of U.S. nurses said. WACO, Texas, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- People who believe storms today are more intense than they were years ago are more likely to prepare for bad weather, a Texas scientist said. ARGONNE, Ill., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Plastic bags found in abundance at grocery stores could be recycled into carbon nanotubes, a component in lithium ion batteries, an Illinois scientist said. LAS VEGAS, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A colonoscopy center linked to a hepatitis outbreak engaged in numerous unsafe practices and should be prosecuted, authorities in Las Vegas said. MOSCOW, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Russia's new strategic bomber will use stealth technology, a senior military official said Tuesday. MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Activity has intensified in the Mayon Volcano with stronger earthquakes and more intense lava spews being recorded, Philippine scientists said Tuesday. NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A Citigroup Inc. security director has denied the FBI was investigating a computer breach in which Russian thieves allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars. BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A New Zealand man accused of being an e-mail spam mastermind has been fined and banned from e-mailing for seven years, Australian officials say. GRANADA, Spain, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Students who think aloud when solving a math problem solve it faster and have more possibilities of finding the right solution, Spanish researchers say. MAYWOOD, Ill., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A simple bedside exam performed by a skilled physician is superior to a high-tech CT scan, U.S. researchers found. WACO, Texas, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Teen boys are more likely to use tanning booths, take diet pills and have their bodies waxed if their peers think it is a good idea, a U.S. researcher says. |
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| Monday, December 21ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- University of Zurich researchers say they have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. DALLAS, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Vaccines are one of the 10 greatest U.S. achievements of the century but a doctor says only children's vaccines are well utilized. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher, in what he calls a surprising finding, says females were more intense about online games. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A Tennessee politician's son accused of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mails while she was the Republican vice-presidential nominee says he didn't steal her identity. AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A former Russian prime minister warned Monday of "horrible and unpredictable consequences" if there is an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The Philippines' most active volcano could erupt within days, scientists say, and tens of thousands are fleeing their homes in the foothills of the mountain. ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say women who participate in sports are at lower risk of breast cancer. WELLINGTON, Fla., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A manager at a Florida hardware store said a hawk with a 3-foot wingspan spent the night in her store when she was unable to reach a trapper. ST. HELENA, Calif., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Slowing the rate of delivery would reduce the amount of water lost in vineyards in California's Napa Valley, a Stanford researcher said. SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. microchip maker Intel said Monday its next generation Atom chip platform would make its debut in netbooks and laptops in January 2010. NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Orchids that use sexual trickery to lure insects are more efficient in the transfer of pollen to another orchid, scientists in Italy said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Reducing pesticide runoff from farms and homes could speed the recovery of wild salmon populations in the western United States, biologists said. BRADFORD, England, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The body of a British man who died of a heart attack has been found frozen in a city center fountain, authorities say. CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A microscope the size of a football field near Chicago is being used to study why some insects can survive freezing, researchers said. CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- People tend to approach pleasure and avoid pain, but humans can trick the mind into doing beneficial things they don't like, U.S. researchers suggest. DAYTON, Ore., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Kunze Farms of Dayton, Ore., recalled 32,950 pounds of shelled hazelnuts because of a risk of salmonella, federal health officials said. MELBOURNE, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- One dose of the H1N1 vaccine may be effective to protect infants and children instead of the recommended two doses, University of Melbourne researchers say.. LONDON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Understanding the differences between skull and limb bones could lead to new ways to treat or prevent osteoporosis, British scientists said. NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The inaction of paramedics who allegedly wouldn't help a dying woman while they were on coffee break is "unconscionable," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says. AUGUSTA, Maine, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Maine's Legislature is considering a bill that would require all cell phones sold in the state to carry cancer warnings. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Naval Observatory said Monday is the winter solstice of 2009, the year's shortest day and longest night. TOKYO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A nasal vaccine that blocked transmission of malaria from mice to mosquitoes someday could prevent malaria in people, scientists in Japan said. CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Illinois' ousted governor researched if he could keep the White House chief of staff's former U.S. House seat warm for him, The Chicago Sun-Times said Monday. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Alaina Reed Hall, the actress who played Olivia on TV's "Sesame Street," has died of breast cancer in Los Angeles, her family said. She was 63. OCEAN CITY, N.J., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Skunks captured on a New Jersey island borough and relocated to a wildlife area have prompted complaints in a nearby community, that town's mayor says. BOSTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston has been awarded $3.4 million to fund face transplants for U.S. veterans hurt in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials said. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Up to 18 gay and transgender men have been killed in Honduras in the six months since its president was deposed in a coup, human rights advocates say. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The climate change summit in Denmark, expected to produce a historic document, fell way short of the mark, officials and organizations said. STUTTGART, Germany, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Training for Polish soldiers on the U.S. Army Patriot Missile will get under way soon, military officials in Germany say. BEIJING, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Construction began Monday on the Taishan nuclear power station, a Chinese-French joint venture in China's Guangdong province. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Many people do not recognize stuffiness as a possible sign of sinusitis, a U.S. expert says. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Reading ability does not track with intelligence among people with dyslexia, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Sunday, December 20JONES, Okla., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The 18th earthquake of at least a 2.5 magnitude in Oklahoma County this year struck near Jones, Okla., the U.S. Geological Survey reported. KAZAKHSTAN, Russia, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said Sunday nuclear engine-powered spacecraft would be finalized by 2012. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Criminal and civil investigations have begun into one of the largest oil spills on Alaska's North Slope, officials said. TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Restrictions on the purchase of fuel for Iran's nuclear reactor are affecting Iranian patients in need of nuclear medicine, authorities say. LONDON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The British government said it will give $32.3 million to a trust intended to help those individuals whose lives were impacted by thalidomide. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Individuals found guilty of sturgeon poaching in Canada's Fraser River received sizable fines in an attempt to protect the endangered fish, an official says. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- High levels of lead dust have been found at the office that houses the Allegheny County, Pa., Health Department's anti-lead poisoning program, officials say. TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an exclusive interview with ABC News that a document alleging Iran is working on a nuclear bomb was "fabricated." BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Officials of the Buffalo, N.Y., Neuroimaging Analysis Center say they hope to have the results of unique study on multiple sclerosis finished within months. SEOUL, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- North Korea eventually will be able to arm a missile with a small nuclear warhead, a South Korean think tank said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. senators should vote in favor of the healthcare reform bill before them, Vice President Joe Biden wrote Sunday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A bill before the Ugandan Parliament that would outlaw homosexual acts would hurt the country's efforts to fight AIDS, a U.S. State Department official warned. |
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| Saturday, December 19SYDNEY, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Prehistoric Australian koalas were as lazy as their modern counterparts and used the same loud bellowing to attract mates, a new study shows. LANCASTER, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- An airborne telescope scientists hope will help uncover the origins of the universe completed a milestone test flight in California, officials said. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.N. climate change summit delegates in Copenhagen, Denmark, voted Saturday to recognize a non-mandatory pact aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. FLORENCE, Italy, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Italy's Tuscany region is suing Germany for the 1944 slayings of more than 350 people by soldiers from a Nazi Panzer division, Tuscan Gov. Claudio Martini said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate passed a $636 billion defense appropriations bill Saturday, paving the way for a long-sought vote on healthcare insurance reform. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- An estimated 35,000 goats are to be culled in the Netherlands under a program to halt the spread of Q fever, authorities said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The sour economy and Internet technology have contributed to a drop in the mailing of holidays cards so far this season, the U.S. Postal Service said. TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Iran is in no hurry to produce enriched nuclear fuel, the country's top nuclear official says. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Angry U.S. lawmakers say the White House needs to quickly fill a vacant cybersecurity post after reports surfaced of hackers tapping drone military aircraft. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama says an agreement with Russia to reduce the two countries' nuclear stockpiles is "quite close." SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The third computer hacker attack this year on the popular Internet site Twitter shows the weakness of the company's security systems, U.S. experts say. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- An Alabama cast iron manufacturer has pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of knowingly violating the Clean Water Act, U.S. officials say. OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma judge has ruled to keep retain a restraining order on a state law that would require doctors to publicly reveal information on abortion patients. PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have for the first time captured images of sunlight reflected off of a liquid surface from another world -- in this case, Saturn's moon Titan. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The storm barreling up the East Coast Saturday will disrupt sales on what is usually the busiest day of the year for U.S. retailers, industry analysts say. |
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| Friday, December 18MILW, Wis., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Milwaukee School Board voted unanimously to allow condoms to be distributed at many city high schools. LAS VEGAS, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Lawsuits against HMOs and insurance companies in Nevada charge they neglected to adequately inspect several Las Vegas clinics suspected in a hepatitis outbreak. LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Australian researchers watching octopuses manipulate halved coconut shells into shelter claim it is the first example of tool use by the cephalopods. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Christmas trees heading north to Alaska may be carrying an extra "ornament" -- frogs -- and fish and game officials say they bring a threat of disease. SPRING VALLEY, Wis., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Experts said animal tracks discovered in Wisconsin could belong to a cougar seen wandering recently in Minnesota. ATLANTA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Eleven states report widespread influenza activity, down from 14 states a week earlier, U.S. health officials said Friday. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Environmentalists lashed out Friday at the agreement on climate change announced at the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen. MADISON, N.J., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- H1N1 flu is on the decline, but close to 4-in-10 U.S. children tested positive last week for the pandemic, officials of a laboratory testing company say. TONAWANDA, N.Y., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. attorney said Friday samples and records were taken during a raid on the Tonawanda Coke Corp. in Tonawanda, N.Y. MARALINGA, Australia, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The last part of an Australian area used for British nuclear tests was returned Friday to its aboriginal owners. BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A large dust storm blanketed a rural area in northeastern Australia early Friday. OTTAWA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Canada's Supreme Court Friday denied a man a $200,000 insurance award, saying a rare side effect of genital herpes that paralyzed him was not an accident. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A machine with computer vision could replace human workers in sorting strawberry plants, engineers in Pittsburgh said. BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The discovery of a gene linked to a form of hearing loss primarily in males could lead to early treatment, U.S. scientists said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Broader research is needed in the area of healthcare utilization in regards to minorities in the United States, an expert says. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Cameras for the first time have filmed waves of aurora borealis colliding to produce spectacular bursts of light, scientists in California said. EDMONTON, Ontario, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Canadian province of Alberta is being challenged for its removal of nuclear protest signs from private property along roads, the Edmonton Journal said. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest celecoxib or Celebrex may keep low-dose aspirin from limiting blood clots. FALMOUTH, Mass., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- For the first time, video and still photographic images have captured a deep-sea volcano erupting molten lava, scientists in Massachusetts said. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The United States and Russia are nearing agreement on a treaty that would cut the countries' nuclear arsenals, the presidents said Friday. CLINTON, N.Y., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Residents of Louisiana and Hawaii ranked highest, and residents of New York and Connecticut lowest, in a study of happiness in the United States, authors said. NEWBURG, Ore., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Willamette Filbert Growers of Newberg, Ore., has recalled nearly 30,000 pounds of shelled hazelnuts because of a risk of salmonella, federal officials said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A random sampling of 1,028 U.S. lakes rated the condition of 56 percent as good and the rest poor or fair, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Doorknob hangars saying "Be Tsunami Ready" are being distributed throughout San Francisco to coincide with updated inundation maps, officials said. FOGGIA, Italy, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Seven sperm whales that beached at Foggia, Italy, died from ingesting plastic in the ocean, a scientist at Tusica University said Friday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Scientists and U.S. President Barack Obama both have stumbled on climate change in the eyes of many Americans, a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates. GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Scottish health agencies say they have issued an alert after a Glasgow hospital patient who died tested positive for deadly anthrax. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- West Virginia politicians and coal industry leaders say they're surprised and puzzled by remarks on coal mining from Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- More than 100 million U.S. doses of the swine flu vaccine were available Friday as 24 states lifted rest |