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TURIN, Italy -- ACE inhibitors reduced the risk of progressive kidney disease by 20% in children and young people with early-stage IgA nephropathy and moderate proteinuria, researchers here reported.

SEATTLE -- Prostate cancer risk is unaffected by lycopene, and beta-carotene appears to triple the risk for aggressive forms of the malignancy, a large study showed.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Sixteen years after activist Erin Brockovich first suggested that hexavalent chromium in drinking might be a health hazard, a federal scientific panel has agreed with her.

CLEVELAND -- Breast tumor grade and the potential for regional nodal metastasis can be determined by genomic alterations in the tissue surrounding sporadic malignancies, investigators here reported.

CHICAGO -- Infants with bronchiolitis are 42% more likely to be successfully discharged from the emergency department when they are treated with nebulized albuterol rather than epinephrine.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Supplementation with calcium and vitamin D may help some postmenopausal women avoid weight gain, researchers here reported.

BETHESDA, Md. -- Men who take multi-vitamin supplements more than once a day are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as men who never take supplements, researchers here confirmed.

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.

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.

WASHINGTON -- Getting hospitalized children who show signs of cardiopulmonary deterioration off the floors and into the ICU before they arrest may improve treatment but it doesn't save lives, researchers found.

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.