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SAN DIEGO -- Once stereotyped as wasting away, HIV patients have joined the rest of America in fighting the battle of the bulge, according to results of a study reported here.

LILLE, France -- Older treatment-naïve stages II or III multiple myeloma patients have a survival advantage when thalidomide (Thalomid) is added to standard therapy, researchers found in a randomized trial.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Patients seem more skeptical than their doctors do on the safety of menstrual suppression with continuous-use oral contraceptives, but the women like the idea, survey results suggested

LONDON -- For treating agitation in Alzheimer's disease, the cholinesterase inhibitor donepezil (Aricept) was no better than placebo, found a multicenter study.

SEATTLE -- Fetal cells that enter the mother's circulation during pregnancy may contribute to a reduced risk of future breast cancer, according to a preliminary study.

TORONTO -- Drug-eluting stents are associated with a lower three-year mortality rate than bare-metal devices, according to registry data here.

WASHINGTON -- Senator Pete Domenici (R, N.M.), who has announced that he will not seek re-election next year, has been diagnosed with frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

NUTHETAL, Germany -- An onion a day may help fend off pancreatic cancer, but apples were a bust, found investigators studying the cancer-fighting role of flavonols.

PHILADELPHIA -- There's a first time for every biting dog, and the animals that bite children may show warning signs, according to investigators here.

BOSTON -- The Gleason score of 7 for localized prostate cancer may be a moving prognostic target, according to investigators here.

MADISON, Wis. -- CT colonography, the noninvasive heir presumptive to optical colonoscopy, has won a clinical round here, equaling the older technique for detection of developing neoplasia in a study of more than 6,000 patients.

WASHINGTON -- The AMA said it was "deeply disappointed" with President Bush's veto of the SCHIP reauthorization, and the American Academy of Pediatrics called the action "hurtful to children."

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Many liver biopsies to diagnose liver fibrosis and cirrhosis may soon be supplanted by non-invasive imaging techniques, researchers here said.

WASHINGTON -- Most Medicare patients will pay .90 more per month in Part B premiums next year -- to .40.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA has clarified reports by some major media suggesting that the agency has plans for new regulations on over-the-counter cough and cold medications for children.

BETHESDA, Md. -- More than 30% of American children and adolescents take dietary supplements regularly, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according to an NIH study.

STOCKHOLM -- A healthy cognitive reserve, deposited over a lifetime of learning, appears to protect the better educated patients from dementia, investigators here suggested.