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AP - U.S. health officials are stepping up testing of swine flu cases for Tamiflu resistance.

Reuters - U.S. egg producers will have to adopt tougher food safety measures during production, storage and transportation to help prevent the spread of a deadly strain of Salmonella bacterium in eggs that causes more than 142,000 illnesses a year, the government said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Coffee and general caffeine intake may affect a woman’s levels of estrogen and other sex hormones, a new study suggests — offering a potential explanation for findings that link caffeine to certain cancers.

AP - The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon and their generic cousins stay on the market but ordered stronger warnings against deadly overdoses on Tuesday.

AFP - African-Americans tend to die earlier from breast, ovarian and prostate cancer than patients of other races due to biological and genetic factors, not socioeconomic ones, a study said Tuesday.

Reuters - Three major hospital associations have offered to contribute about $155 billion over 10 years to help pay for a U.S. healthcare overhaul, The Washington Post reported on Monday, citing industry sources.

AP - A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting for eligible donors.

HealthDay - MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — The human papillomavirus (HPV)
vaccine is highly effective at preventing precancerous cervical lesions
that can lead to cervical cancer, a new study shows.

HealthDay - MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. government issued
final guidelines Monday describing which embryonic stem cell lines will be
eligible for government funding, effectively expanding the universe of
stem cells that can be used for research.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) — A study of people who suffer
the mini-strokes called silent cerebral infarcts could help explain the
medical mystery of normal-tension glaucoma, Hong Kong ophthalmologists
report.