By Susan HeaveyWASHINGTON (Reuters)- WireNews - Health regulators have approved the use of ionizing radiation for fresh spinach and lettuce, saying the technique already approved for other foods can help control harmful bacteria and other pathogens.The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday the radiation treatment also would make the leafy […]

LONDON (Reuters)- WireNews - New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities, researchers said on Thursday.The findings give hope to some people with […]

MIAMI (Reuters)- WireNews - Tropical Storm Fay dumped more torrential rain on Florida on Thursday, flooding streets and inundating hundreds of homes, and was preparing to make a third pass over the already battered state.The storm, which threatened on several occasions to strengthen into a hurricane as it plowed through the […]

BEIJING (Reuters)- WireNews - A typhoon that killed four people in the northern Philippines is headed for Hong Kong and will lash the city by Friday, weather forecasts said.If typhoon Nuri stays on its present course, the centre of the category 1 storm could strike the densely populated city by early […]

(Corrects 6th paragraph to show that Ovation sells Sabril in Canada and Mexico and Sanofi sells it in Britain)By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorWASHINGTON (Reuters)- WireNews - An epilepsy drug being tested for use in treating addiction can help obese rats shed weight, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday.Their findings […]

By Jim LoneyMIAMI (Reuters)- WireNews - Peru has entered the battle for a multimillion-dollar treasure of gold and silver that Spain alleges a U.S. treasure hunting company looted from a Spanish warship sunk in 1804.The South American nation filed a conditional claim on Tuesday asking a U.S. court to turn over […]

CHICAGO (Reuters)- WireNews - Giant magnetic tentacles are the force that keeps a lacy pattern of glowing gas filaments in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 from evaporating in the surrounding hot gas or collapsing under the weight of their own gravity, British astronomers said on Wednesday.The discovery, courtesy of images […]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorWASHINGTON (Reuters)- WireNews - An epilepsy drug being tested for use in treating addiction can help obese rats shed weight, government researchers said on Wednesday.Their findings point not only to an easy treatment for obesity, but show it is similar to drug addiction, they said.Even […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- WireNews - No wonder Bigfoot failed a DNA test. Researchers said on Tuesday the hairy heap claimed by two men to be the corpse of the mythical half-ape, half-human creature was actually a full-body rubber gorilla costume.The discovery adds another dimension to what appears to be an elaborate […]

LONDON (Reuters)- WireNews - Stem cell scientists have developed a new and more accurate way of spotting aggressive forms of bowel cancer, allowing for tailored treatment that should improve patients’ chances of survival.British researchers said on Wednesday those with the most aggressive kind of cancer could be identified early by testing […]