WASHINGTON -- Reversing a 15-year trend, physicians and health-industry groups are contributing substantially more money to Democratic presidential campaigns than to GOP efforts.

GRAZ, Austria -- Alefacept (Amevive) plus phototherapy cleared up psoriasis more quickly than alefacept alone, reported researchers here.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The night shift is not so dangerous after all, found epidemiologists who studied more than 3.2 million Swedish workers to see whether working after dark really carries an increased risk of cancer.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA called today for sunscreen labels to include a warning about skin cancer and add information about ultraviolet A (UVA) protection as well as the ultraviolet B (UVB) ratings that are now standard.

LONDON -- Neither near death nor neurologic event nor a hallucinogenic-drug trip are prerequisites any more for a surreal out-of-body experience. A little video trickery can induce the feeling of observing the body as if one were another being.

BALAD, Iraq -- About a third of survivors of roadside bombings have tympanic membrane perforation in one or both ears, an injury that may be a marker for concussion.

BOSTON -- Obesity may be caused -- at least in some cases -- by a virus, researchers said here.

BALTIMORE -- An experimental model of epidermolysis bullosa simplex responded promptly to an antioxidant phytochemical found in broccoli and related plants, investigators here reported.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA approved risperidone (Risperdal) today for schizophrenia in adolescents and for bipolar I disorder in pediatric patients as young as 10.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Changes in the brains of young alcohol abusers appear to occur even though neuropsychologoical tests fail to reveal deficiencies.

DURHAM, N.C. -- The mystery of obsessive-compulsive disorder may be at least partly solved, with a discovery that implicates a structural protein missing in the brains of certain excessively groomed mice.

LOS ANGELES -- When surgical residents were limited to an 80-hour workweek there was a significant increase in the rate of complications-but no increase in deaths-at an academic level I trauma center here.

ST. LOUIS -- Safer, more predictable warfarin therapy could come from pretreatment genotyping to individualize dosing, investigators here reported.

IOANNINA, Greece -- Clinicians may have to reassess the ABCs of the gender differences in disease manifestations specifically linked to X or Y chromosomes.

PARIS -- Women who use antioxidant supplements may be increasing their risk of developing skin cancer, according to results of a randomized trial of more than 13,000 men and women.

BOSTON -- Circulating hormones may not be responsible for the elevated breast cancer risk associated with mammographic breast density among postmenopausal women as had been thought, researchers here found.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cancer patients may need an attorney working hand-in-hand with their oncology team.

LOS ANGELES -- Traffic-related air pollution increases asthma risk among children with genetic variants that affect the lungs' ability to clear toxins, researchers found.

CLEVELAND -- If patients experience different types of auras during a seizure, their epilepsy may arise from a single region of the brain, making them good candidates for surgery, researchers here said.

MIAMI -- White Hispanic teenagers are less conscious of skin cancer risks than are non-Hispanic whites, according to a survey of high school students here.