Saturday, September 4
Boulder, Colo., named brainiest U.S. city
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Boulder, Colo., tops the list of America's brainiest cities; followed by Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C.; Washington; Boston and Trenton, N.J., an analysis found.
Summit: Pain treatment as a human right
MONTREAL, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Eighty percent of people with chronic pain do not get relief and there are those want pain treatment to be a human right, an Australian pain expert says.
EMS safety perceptions vary widely
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Safety perceptions among U.S. and Canadian emergency medical services agencies vary widely, researchers found.
Guidelines for insomnia, sleep disorders
LONDON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The British Association for Psychopharmacology has created guidelines to help psychiatrists and physicians treat those with sleep problems, researchers say.
Hair proves stress, heart attack linked
LONDON, Ontario, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Human hair shows chronic stresses -- including job, marital and financial -- play an important role in heart attacks, researchers in Canada say.
Friday, September 3
Lower surgery risk for Crohn's disease
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The risk of bowel surgery for Crohn's disease in children is lower than previously reported, a U.S. physician says.
Study: Inner-city violence adds to asthma
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Those exposed to violence in the inner city are more likely to need asthma treatment, U.S. researchers said.
Medical pot a dilemma for nurses, staff
BRIGHTON, England, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Any drug use, including medical marijuana, should be put into patients' medical records but British researchers say there is a lot of reluctance to do so.
New technique could help ozone layer
NORWICH, England, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A new way to measure atmospheric gases could track down sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of Earth's ozone layer, European researchers say.
Intact Roman lantern discovered in Britain
IPSWICH, England, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A British man using a metal detector has found what is thought to be the only intact Roman bass lantern ever found in Britain, authorities say.
Osteoporosis drug linked to cancer
OXFORD, England, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Long-term use of oral bisphosphonates -- used to prevent bone loss -- may double the risk of developing esophageal cancer, researchers in Britain say.
Mars life may have been missed years ago
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- New analysis of data sent from Mars 34 years ago showing there was no organic material on the planet suggests maybe there was after all, U.S. scientists say.
Chemical basis for first life theorized
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The start of life on Earth presents a paradox, scientists say: How did amino acids arise before there were biological catalysts needed to build them?
Path of giant iceberg tracked from space
PARIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Scientists say a European satellite has been tracking an iceberg, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, that cracked from the Greenland ice sheet Aug. 4.
Farmland comes at expense of forests
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- More than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics since 1980 has come from felling forests, which drives global warming, researchers say.
Widow gored by bull
NORTHHAMPTON, England, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- An elderly churchwarden was killed when a bull she was herding on her rural English farm broke loose and knocked her to the ground, a villager said.
Lasers could protect helicopters from harm
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A new laser technology could protect helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles, University of Michigan researchers say.
Cambodian vultures defying extinction
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Vultures in Cambodia are increasing in number, making it the only country in Asia with an increasing population of the scavengers, researchers say.
Hepatitis drug passes first trial step
CARDIFF, Wales, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Researchers say they've completed the first trials of a drug to treat infections caused by the Hepatitis C virus that affects 170 million people worldwide.
Toxic bacteria present in Greek lake
ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A type of bacteria that can present a toxic threat exists in the waters of a lake in northern Greece, scientists say.
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