Drinking coffee might protect against the progressive liver damage that results from excess drinking and alcoholism. According to Kaiser Permanente researchers, consuming coffee seems to offer a protective benefit against alcoholic cirrhosis, and the more coffee a person consumes the less risk they seem to have of dying from alcoholic cirrhosis. Cirrhosis of the liver has been known to lead to the development of liver cancer in about five percent of the patients with liver cirrhosis. While these study findings do reflect a protective factor for the liver from drinking coffee, the researchers are not sure what it is in coffee that offers the benefit.
There are as many carcinogens in marijuana as there are in tobacco, but researchers were surprised to find that people who 
A meeting between the FDA and an FDA advisory panel is set for tomorrow to discuss the safety and effectiveness of Gardasil, a Merck experimental vaccine the protects women from human papilloma virus, HPV -- a leading cause of cervical cancer. It is being reported that the FDA normally follows the FDA advisory panel advice in deciding which drugs to approve, and the FDA advisory panel has given 
University of South Florida researchers have
concluded that while 
