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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - Using paracetamol (known in the US as acetaminophen) regularly appears to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by 30 percent, according to the results of a review of several studies, reported in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer often don't retain information provided by their physicians about treatment options, risks, and expected outcomes, a new study conducted at the University of Colorado at Denver suggests.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cholesterol drugs called statins may help treat hepatitis C infections, Japanese researchers reported on Friday.

WASHINGTON - America's appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can't keep up with demand. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, about 2.5 percent, of the nation's food market. But the slice is expanding at a feverish pace.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Foot orthoses -- whether customized or prefabricated -- provide only small, short-term improvements in function and pain for patients with heel spurs, also known as plantar fasciitis, according to findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

WASHINGTON - South Carolina is in. Utah and Alabama, too. Some states aren't waiting for an Aug. 1 deadline to seek help from the federal government in buying anti-flu medicine for a possible pandemic.

FRIDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Five key characteristics may single out those patients most at risk for fatal complications from gastric bypass weight-loss surgeries, researchers report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many of the same things that are good for a man's heart may also be good for his sex life, new research confirms.

FRIDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Former smokers may gain more than 20 pounds after they kick the habit, instead of the five to 15 pounds commonly cited, new research suggests.

CONCORD, N.H. - A judge has ordered the state Board of Medicine to stop disciplinary proceedings against a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself following brain surgery.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer often don't retain information provided by their physicians about treatment options, risks, and expected outcomes, a new study conducted at the University of Colorado at Denver suggests.

LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - Using paracetamol (known in the US as acetaminophen) regularly appears to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by 30 percent, according to the results of a review of several studies, reported in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

SHANGHAI, China - Doctors successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twin girls, though their condition remained precarious due to heart and other problems, a hospital official said Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among teens who engage in unsafe sex, there are different patterns of behavior, with some subgroups being much more at risk of HIV infection than others, a new study shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Foot orthoses -- whether customized or prefabricated -- provide only small, short-term improvements in function and pain for patients with heel spurs, also known as plantar fasciitis, according to findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

WASHINGTON - Mammoths may have come in various hair colors, perhaps even red and blond, new research indicates.

WASHINGTON - South Carolina is in. Utah and Alabama, too. Some states aren't waiting for an Aug. 1 deadline to seek help from the federal government in buying anti-flu medicine for a possible pandemic.

MADRID, Spain - Spain has recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday. The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside the northern city of Vitoria.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cholesterol drugs called statins may help treat hepatitis C infections, Japanese researchers reported on Friday.

INGLIS, Fla. - Mary Farnan started smoking at age 10, sneaking down to the fishing camps in this Gulf Coast town to buy 35-cent packs. In the 40 years since then, what once cost so little has taken a lot: parts of both her lungs, some ribs, a piece of her brain and with it her memory, and her job as a nurse. Doctors were once so sure it would take her life that they gave her three months to live.

WASHINGTON - America's appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can't keep up with demand. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, about 2.5 percent, of the nation's food market. But the slice is expanding at a feverish pace.

TORONTO - Canada confirmed on Tuesday its sixth case of mad cow disease and said it would investigate where the cow was born and what other animals may have eaten the same feed.

IRVINE, Calif. - A wealthy bond trader and his wife will donate $10 million to the University of California, Irvine, for stem-cell research, much of it for a proposed research building.

CHICAGO - The tiniest premature infants fed with breast milk in the hospital did better on tests of mental development later in life than did others fed only formula, a new study has found.

CHICAGO - Healthy adults taking maximum doses of Tylenol for two weeks had abnormal liver test results in a small study, researchers found, raising concerns that even recommended amounts of the popular painkiller might lead to liver damage.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mediterranean-style diets, rich in healthy fats from olive oil or nuts, may be better for the heart than low-fat regimens, a new study shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who carry much of their fat around the middle may be at increased risk of colon cancer, a large European study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity is known to increase a person's risk of death and now, new findings from a study of more than 90,000 women indicate that the risk continues to increase as the severity of obesity worsens.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer often don't retain information provided by their physicians about treatment options, risks, and expected outcomes, a new study conducted at the University of Colorado at Denver suggests.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Slightly more U.S. teens are smoking cigarettes, researchers reported on Thursday in a study they say suggests efforts to stop children from smoking have stalled.