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AFP - Women who drink a lot of coffee may have less risk of developing cancer of the uterus, a Japanese study said Monday.

Do you want to hear more about the impact of recent reforms on dentists, dental care professionals and patients? A conference exploring changes in regulation affecting dentistry will be taking place on 9 October 2008 at Woburn House in London.

A Berlin research team led by Professor Erich E. Wanker of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been awarded this year's Erwin Schrodinger Prize for creating a unique "connection scheme" showing for the first time how thousands of human proteins - the building blocks and machines of life - interact with each other.

AFP - Researchers have broken the code of an enzyme that plays a key role in the growth of most cancers, opening a path that potentially leads to a new class of anti-cancer drugs, according to a study released Sunday.

AFP - Teams of doctors on Sunday said they had uncovered genetic flaws that separately boost the risk of a common form of leukaemia and bowel disease in children and may also influence obesity and fertility.

Premature infants whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may be at even higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than preemies whose mothers did not smoke, according to new research out of the University of Calgary.

AP - Cody Miller was a high school football player who was allergic to ragweed. Douglas Briggs was a doctor coping with pain from an old back injury.

The widely-held perception that the influenza vaccination reduces overall mortality risk in the elderly does not withstand careful scrutiny, according to researchers in Alberta.

AP - Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday.

Vaccine monograph unveiled A series of papers presenting the best global thinking on cervical cancer prevention with vaccination and screening, as well as fresh regional and national research and insights to guide governments and donors in building plans, was unveiled Thursday at the World Cancer Congress of the International Union Against Cancer in Geneva.