AP - A drug to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients may cause birth defects, health officials warned Monday.

  AP - A second-line drug to treat a life-threatening form of leukemia has won federal approval, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.

  AP - Several nonprescription cold medicines are being pulled from store shelves after manufacturer Wyeth on Monday started a voluntary recall and replacement program at retail outlets nationwide.

  AP - Coal mining regions of northern China are reporting soaring levels of defects in newborns, an apparent result of heavy pollution, state media said Monday.

  AP - Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic pharmacists on Monday to use conscientious objection to avoid dispensing drugs with "immoral purposes such as, for example, abortion or euthanasia."

  HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Three months of daily, vigorousexercise can improve overweight kids'thinking, U.S. researchersreport.

  HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) High-dose precision radiation therapydoesn't harm the sexual function of prostate cancer patients, U.S.researchers say.

  HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesyof Thomson CenterWatch:

  HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The emergency defibrillators nowcommonly found in airports and other public places that have savedthousands of adult cardiac arrest victims can also save the lives ofchildren.

  HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The blood pressure drugvalsartan shows the ability to reduce Alzheimer's disease-like symptoms inmice, researchers report.

  HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- It may be unhealthy in manyother ways, but smoking does not appear to raise the odds that a womanwith breast cancer will have more aggressive or later-stage malignancy atthe time of diagnosis, researchers report.