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KONYA, Turkey -- So-called light cigarettes are no less harmful to cardiovascular circulation than the regular kind, researchers here reported.

BALTIMORE -- Medicare has reacted to an FDA black box on erythropiesis stimulating agents by drawing a red line on the coverage of treatment for cancer patients.

ORLANDO -- When palliative surgery is not possible, percutaneous aortic valve replacement may be an option for high risk patients, researchers reported here.

LOS ANGELES -- Testosterone supplements are safe and well-tolerated in men with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, according to researchers here.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Eating fatty fish and drinking milk may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration, researchers reported.

HONG KONG -- For arthritis patients with a history of upper-GI bleeds, adding the proton pump inhibitor esomeprazole (Nexium) to celecoxib (Celebrex) significantly reduced the rate of such events, researchers reported here.

BETHESDA, Md. -- Fewer American women are having mammograms -- a finding that may partly explain why the reported incidence of breast cancer is declining.

NEW YORK -- Urinary continence after a robot-assisted radical prostatectomy can be only 10 minutes away, surgeons here reported.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The maker of oxycodone controlled-release tablets (OxyContin) has agreed to pay million in fines and civil penalties to resolve charges regarding the company's promotion of the drug as a less addictive pain-killer.

DENVER -- The tunes pumped out by iPods may off beat to patients with pacemakers, whose devices could be subjected to potentially dangerous interference, reported investigators here.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- What physicians say about disclosing errors to patients and what they actually do when they make an error may be two different things, said investigators here.

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Although the FDA advised physicians in March to use erythropoiesis-stimulating agents at the lowest possible dose to preclude a transfusion, an advisory committee has urged the agency to develop still stricter standards.

BOSTON -- When an entire community bands together to increase exercise and improve the diets of children in first through third grade, the program can prevent and reverse childhood obesity.

SAN DIEGO -- Pregnant teenage girls in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in Denver were generally happy as clams about having a baby, investigators reported here.

ORLANDO -- Compared with femoral access, percutaneous coronary interventions done by threading a catheter from the arm to the heart, known as transradial access, reduced transfusions and mortality, researchers here reported.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Amblyopia may affect children's self-esteem as well as their visual acuity and fine-motor coordination, according to Australian researchers.

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands -- Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide decreased here after these practices were legalized in 2002, researchers reported.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Non-cardiac esophageal pain, often mistaken for angina or myocardial infarction, can be eased by theophylline, investigators here confirmed.