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VIENNA -- Three drugs, two approved and one in the pipeline, are improving care for patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to clinicians here.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Poor sleepers may be too tired during the day to eat properly, according to researchers here.

CHICAGO -- A child who has a body mass index in the range of the 85th to 95th percentile for age and sex should be considered overweight, not "at risk of overweight".

NEW YORK -- Ovarian cancer is associated with a set of specific symptoms that should trigger further evaluation by a physician, "preferably a gynecologist," according to a consensus statement released today.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Even mild preoperative anemia or polycythemia were associated with an increased risk of death and serious cardiac events in older veterans having major noncardiac surgery, researchers here reported.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Black Medicare patients were less likely to receive coronary revascularization for acute MI than white patients, even if the hospital offered those services.

DANBY WISKE, England -- The recurrence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) within families may be less common than reported, according to a literature review.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. -- Kidney disease and cardiovascular disease are intertwined risk factors, each contributing to the other, according to two studies.

SAN DIEGO -- Breast cancer survivors who eat properly and exercise may halve their mortality risk regardless of obesity, researchers here found.

CHICAGO -- A hardy handshake is a good way to begin a doctor-patient encounter, according to a nationwide survey.

HOUSTON -- All-at-once counseling proved marginally better than the one-by-one approach when helping patients change multiple behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

WASHINGTON -- The worldwide prevalence of Alzheimer's disease, estimated at 26.6 million patients, may quadruple by 2050, according to a mathematical model.

BOSTON -- As elderly patients get fatter, their blood levels of vitamin D decline even if they continue to go out into the noonday sun, according to researchers here.

CHICAGO -- Increasing the dose of pemetrexed (Alimta) to 900 mg/m 2 did not improve outcome for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but did slightly increase toxicity, researchers found.

CHICAGO -- Irinotecan (Camptosar) plus carboplatin (Paraplatin) modestly extends survival for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer compared with a standard etoposide and carboplatin regimen, researchers found.

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The choice of a vaginal or sublingual route for misoprostol, if used alone for early abortion, and the timing of doses gives women several safe and effective options.

CHICAGO -- The investigational drug RAD001 has demonstrated activity in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, researchers reported here.

CHICAGO, June 7 -- Adding chemotherapy to active symptom control did not extend survival or significantly improve quality of life in patients with malignant pleural mesolthelioma.