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ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA alerted the public today that some 11 million bottles of generic acetaminophen had been recalled by the Perrigo Company of Allegan, Mich., because of metal fragments contamination in a small number of caplets.

BOSTON -- Protecting children's developing brains from neurotoxicity should be the No. 1 priority of regulation of chemicals used in industry, researchers here said.

PRAGUE -- A key biochemical pathway that leads to prostate cancer has been uncovered in mice and blocked by a previously known compound, a U.S, group reported here.

PHILADELPHIA -- After a lumpectomy, intensity modulated radiation therapy is far less toxic to the skin than the standard wedge approach, researchers reported here.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mortality rates for heart failure patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (non-systolic) are similar to those for patients with a reduced ejection fraction (systolic). However, a higher systolic pressure on admission was a marker of better prognosis.

BOSTON -- For reasons that are not clear, women with disabilities who develop breast cancer are less likely to be given optimum treatment.

TURKU, Finland -- Most children with acute otitis media have infections caused by both bacteria and viruses, suggesting that antibiotics may not be enough to control the infections, researchers here have found.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Chronic iron deficiency in infancy may lead to long-term cognitive deficits, particularly in poor families, according to a study of Costa Rican children.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Head lice appear to fall prey to heavy-duty blow drying just as well as to chemical treatments, researchers here said.

MANCHESTER, England -- If they don't have a BRCA breast-cancer susceptibility gene mutation themselves, female relatives of women who do have one have been considered at low risk. But now this conventional wisdom is being doubted.

UPPSALA, Sweden -- Violent physical outbursts triggered by abuse of anabolic steroids, the so-called 'roid rage, may mask a more complicated criminal picture, including a greater tendency to be involved in weapons offences and fraud.

PHILADELPHIA -- Most Americans support teaching youngsters more than just abstinence in school-based sex education, according to a national survey.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Abdominal obesity in America's children has increased by more than 60% since 1988 through 1994, apparently thanks to supersized fast food, TV, and video games, according to researchers here.

BOSTON, Nov. 6 -- More than half of HMOs that responded to a national survey said they routinely incorporated pay for performance into 2005 physician contracts.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An estimated 17,000 school-age kids are treated in emergency departments for bus-related injuries annually, twice the number cited by previous estimates based on highway safety data.

INNSBRUCK, Austria -- Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome is the main cause of death in the intensive care unit, according to researchers here.

CHICAGO -- Abnormal fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probe results significantly increase the risk of invasive lung cancer in smokers with severe or moderate dysplasia on bronchial biopsy, researchers reported here.

MONTREAL, Nov. 3 -- For the first time, researchers have shown directly that a deficiency in folate can lead to colorectal cancer -- at least in mice.