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TORONTO -- For high-risk bladder cancer, a decision on aggressive versus conservative therapy depends on age and quality-of-life preferences, according to investigators here.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA today ordered makers of more than 200 unapproved hydrocodone-containing cough syrups to remove them from the market.

BILBAO, Spain -- For calcific tendinitis of the shoulder, ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle aspiration and lavage can improve range of motion and provide both short- and long-term relief of pain, reported investigators here.

MADISON, Wis. -- Symptoms of autism, including maladaptive behaviors and impaired social interactions, appear to lessen over time in a significant percentage of patients studied over nearly five years.

ELIZABETH, N.J. -- Nearly two dozen illnesses from frozen hamburgers apparently tainted with Escherichia coli O157:H7 have prompted a meat company to recall more than 300,000 pounds of beef.

TORONTO -- Stopping heavy drinking can significantly reduce the risk of esophageal and head-and-neck cancers, primarily squamous-cell carcinomas, researchers here said.

VALENCIA, Spain -- Capsule endoscopy diagnosed more patients with Crohn's recurrence after surgery than did colonoscopy and was better tolerated, researchers in Spain reported.

BOSTON -- In blood glucose responses to a white bread challenge, individual patients have significant variations from test to test, said investigators here.

ROCHESTER, NY-Breast cancer patients with a history of traumatic or stressful life events have a significantly increased risk of recurrent disease, investigators here have found.

It doesn't seem to matter whether the alcohol comes in the form of beer, wine, or spirits. . . when it comes to breast cancer, women who consume 3 or more drinks a day are at significantly greater risk for this disease.

BOSTON -- When a patient dies during a "code call" in the hospital, the residents, nurses, and technicians who responded to the emergency might stop for just a moment and pay respects to the life that was lost, suggested a Harvard internist.

ATLANTA -- The breast cancer mortality rate in the U.S. has been edging down by 2% a year since 1990 and the incidence of new cases has declined by 3.5% per year from 2001 to 2004, according to the American Cancer Society/

BARCELONA, Spain -- The addition of trastuzumab (Herceptin) to chemotherapy before surgery appears to allow more women with HER-2 positive inflammatory breast cancer to achieve a complete disease response than does chemotherapy alone.

BARCELONA -- Monitoring circulating tumor cells in women with breast cancer may be help guide treatment and refine prognoses, according to preliminary data from German investigators.

BARCELONA, Spain -- An investigational drug that blocks key cancer growth messages appears to give patients with metastatic hormone resistant prostate cancer an extra six months' survival.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- An immunochemistry test for fecal occult blood is significantly more accurate in detecting left-sided colorectal cancer than conventional testing, investigators here reported.

DENVER-A higher intake of omega-3 fatty acids found in fish was linked to a lower risk of pancreatic islet autoimmunity in children at genetic risk for type 1 diabetes, according to a preliminary study.

NEW YORK -- Proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy may eliminate 68% of biopsies for benign non-mass breast lesions found on standard MR imaging (MRI) without missing any cancers.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A sensitive sign of the early stages of Alzheimer's disease may be dampening of activity in the posteromedial cortices during a memory task, as seen by functional MRI, investigators here suggested.