After the melanine milk scare that has killed four children and sickened thousands of others in China, officials in three US states have asked baby bottle manufacturers to stop using the BPA chemical in their products.

The states of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware have sent letters to 11 baby bottle manufacturers and formula makers asking that they avoid using BPA

Scientists from the Institute of Food Research in the U.K. may have found an explanation for the healthier bodies of people who eat regularly fruits and vegetables. A fragment of pectin, found in both veggies and fruits, binds to and likely inhibits galectin 3, a protein that has a major role in all stages of the spread of cancer.

Professor Vic Morris of the IFR said claims of anti-cancer effects of food are based on population studies. To go beyond it, the institute tried a molecular mechanism and proved it was viable. He explained, quoted by the U.K. Telegraph, "The treatments used by the food industry to modify pectin would emphasize the release of the fragments we've identified

One in eight patients with advanced stages of cancers did not push through anymore with treatments because of the soaring cost of health care, according to a new study.

USA Today quoted the study that one-fourth of cancer patients with incomes below $40,000 no longer pursued treatment. Those diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer had to spend over $25,000 out-of-pocket expenses, so only 12 percent of them sought medication

One of every four teenage girls took the medically prescribed vaccine for four types the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer last year, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed.

The ratio was based on the agency's 2007 phone survey of 1,500 girls aged 13 to 17, though the health officials' recommendation is for girls to start the Gardasil vaccination as early as age 11 or 12, before sexual activity starts

Overweight men with elevated levels of insulin are at a higher risk of developing prostate cancer than other patients, a new Canadian study says.

Researchers at Montreal-based McGill University, in collaboration with Harvard University, analyzed data from 2,546 American men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer during 24 years of follow-up