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AFP - One of the few doctors to provide late-term abortions in the United States has been gunned down in his Kansas church, and authorities said they have arrested a suspect in the case.

AFP - Australian Hajnal Ban asked doctors to keep her conscious as they broke her legs and attached them to stretching frames because she wanted to remember it as the moment that changed her life.

AFP - Australian authorities Monday let 2,000 people leave a cruise liner at the centre of a swine flu scare that left them stranded at sea for days, as the nation’s number of cases jumped to 306.

AFP - Australian authorities Monday let 2,000 people leave a cruise liner at the centre of a swine flu scare that left them stranded at sea for days, as the nation’s number of cases jumped to 306.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — High-dose folic acid
supplementation improved vascular function in young female runners who
stopped menstruating (amenorrhea) because their caloric intake was lower
than their energy output, researchers say.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — A new blood test greatly
reduces false-positive results in prostate cancer screenings and, when
used in combination with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, could
prevent many unnecessary biopsies, U.S. researchers say.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Common antidepressants that
many breast cancer survivors use to dampen the hot flashes caused by
taking tamoxifen may actually boost the odds of the disease’s return, new
research warns.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Using a combination of the
drugs temsirolimus (Torisel) and Bryostatin appears to be safe in patients
with metastatic kidney cancer, according to early data from 25 patients in
a phase 1 trial.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — “It’s nice to be here. It’s
nice to be anywhere,” singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, a
self-described 17-year breast cancer “thriver,” told reporters at one of
the world’s largest gatherings of cancer specialists on Sunday.