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Green tea protects against heart disease: study
By Michael Kahn LONDON - A few cups of green tea each day may help prevent heart disease, Greek researchers said on Wednesday. ...

Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent: WHO
LONDON - Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by ...

Doctors extract cancer cells from blood sample
By Gene Emery BOSTON - An experimental process that snags lung cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time feed...

Solar system a bit squashed, not nicely round
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON - The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to da...

Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent
LONDON - Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by ...

New method may help predict IVF success: study
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO - Just four factors can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman will become pregnant throug...

Wood density holds key to Stradivarius sweet sound
By Ben Hirschler LONDON - Researchers using a medical scanner have worked out why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good -- it is b...

China admits controversial tiger photos faked
BEIJING - China has sacked a number of government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that local a...

Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab ...

Big haul of Crohn's genes shows disease complexity
By Ben Hirschler LONDON - Scientists have linked 32 genetic variations to Crohn 's disease, a bowel disorder, highlighting the co...