Gulf-stress study dropped
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The Veterans Affairs Department said yesterday that it no longer will pay for studies that seek to show stress is the primary cause of mysterious ailments afflicting thousands of veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
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A major trial comparing treatments to lower blood pressure has been stopped early after one therapy proved significantly more effective in preventing heart attacks and strokes, it was announced today.
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A group that had been fruitlessly searching at sea for missing California scientist Jim Gray has officially called off its search.  The Los Angeles Times said the group, made up of Gray's friends, had joined the U.S.
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Stress could  be play a role in miscarriages, researchers have suggested.
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Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported.
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The attorney general denies reports a fraud probe into a Saudi arms deal was dropped due to Downing St pressure.
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You&#39;re less likely to remember important tasks when you&#39;re stressed out, Yale Medical School researchers confirm. While this may come as little surprise to busy moms, business executives and college students, the scientists now have an explanation.
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The price of oil has fallen as fears about interruptions to supplies being pumped out of Iraq eased slightly.
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Oil prices slid on Monday as a  hurricane in the Caribbean was downgraded to a tropical storm,  reducing the threat to U.S. oil facilities in the Gulf Coast.
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An investigation into a controversial arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia was reportedly dropped because of fears it could wreck Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to rekindle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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A prominent researcher at Columbia University has pulled his name from a controversial study of prayer's effect on fertility, the university says.
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Government scientists said that  volcanic activity on Washington state's Mount St. Helens had  started to taper off and downgraded their safety warning on  Wednesday, following nearly two weeks of seismic activity and  steam eruptions.
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N.Y.U. is dropping a controversial ad campaign aimed at raising awareness of childrenâs mental health disorders.
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Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A US study shows stress tests do not adequately diagnose patients with latent atherosclerosis --hardening of the arteries that leads to heart disease.
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Oil prices took time out on Friday from this week&#39;s succession of record highs, but anxiety over outages in the US Gulf, Nigeria and Norway in the run-up to winter left little hope of relief for consumers.
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Oil eased from its record high on Friday as a hurricane subsided in the Gulf of Mexico and as fresh evidence of credit troubles in the banking sector hit financial markets.
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Crude oil futures fell after Hurricane Frances missed US offshore production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, easing concern that supplies would be disrupted.