CANTON, Mass., July 21 (UPI) --
If your favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip, you're more likely to be argumentative, frugal and cautious, a U.S. expert in smell and taste says.
LOS ANGELES, July 22 (UPI) -- Sexual addiction is associated with sexual urges that feel out of control, but these symptoms do not necessarily mean addiction, U.S. researchers say.
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 21 (UPI) -- Human papillomavirus -- the major cause of cervical cancer -- also infects a third of throat cancer patients, U.S. and British researchers say.
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- Officials at the Environmental Working Group say four compounds are most effective at warding off mosquitoes without risking a person's health.
PITTSBURGH, July 20 (UPI) -- Providing consumers with recommended calorie information on menus already containing meal calorie counts didn't improve consumer choices, U.S. researchers say.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 19 (UPI) -- Forty-eight new cases of the intestinal infection cyclospora were reported in Texas in the past week, but officials say they don't know the source.
LONDON, July 19 (UPI) -- An investigation found British patients suspected of having dementia could wait up to a year to be diagnosed due to a shortage of specialists and equipment.
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Forget crab fishermen on the Bering Sea, U.S. healthcare workers suffer the most injuries on the job than any other occupation, a non-profit group says.
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- An AIDS expert said at a conference in Malaysia it is imperative to switch approaches to a public health perspective of prevention to stem the HIV spread.
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. lawsuit alleging Coca-Cola fraudulently markets "vitaminwater" as a healthful alternative to soda got a step closer to trial, the plaintiff said.
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- U.S. childhood obesity is due to children in homes, schools and neighborhoods where it's easy to eat excess calories and difficult to work off, an expert says.
ATLANTA, July 18 (UPI) -- U.S. adults age 65 and older in the South of all races and African-Americans in the entire country live shorter and sicker lives, health officials say.
ALBANY, N.Y., July 18 (UPI) -- New Yorkers whose employers don't provide health insurance but buy individual plans can expect to pay at least 50 percent less next year, state officials say.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Those who marry and are monogamous have the best sex they ever could because it's the only sex they'll ever know, a U.S. advocate for marriage says.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- With another day of oppressive, humid, sticky heat in the Northeast and Midwest, U.S. government officials warn outdoor workers of the risk of heat stress.
LONDON, July 18 (UPI) -- Smokers who drink alcohol heavily had a 36 percent faster cognitive decline compared with non-smoking moderate drinkers, researchers in Britain say.