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Black & Decker Coffeemakers

About 159,000 Black & Decker Coffeemakers have been recalled because of possible injury hazard, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Why it’s being recalled:The coffee pot handle on the Spacemaker 12-Cup Programmable Under-the-Cabinet Coffeemakers can break, causing cuts and burns to the consumer.

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Coffee Drinking May Affect Chances of Pregnancy

Do you drink a lot of coffee? Are you having a difficult time becoming pregnant? The two may be linked, according to research published last week in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Researchers at the University of Nevada examined the link in mice and concluded that caffeine stymies specialized cells in the muscular walls of the fallopian tubes, which transport eggs from a woman’s ovaries to her uterus.

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Drinking Coffee May Lower Women’s Stroke Risk

Love coffee? Well, you could possibly be lowering your risk of stroke when you drink it, according to study of nearly 35,000 women published Thursday in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study found that those who drank more than one cup of coffee a day had a 22% to 25% lowered risk of stroke, compared with women who drank less than that amount. In fact, NOT drinking coffee could be more harmful than helpful — the study also found that drinking little or no coffee was actually associated with a slight increase in stroke risk.