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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.

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.

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.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Patients with melanoma of the uveal tract of the eye seem to be at an increased risk for colon cancer as well, suggesting a common genetic or molecular basis, reported investigators here.

CHICAGO -- The use of drug-eluting stents was off-label, or for untested purposes, for at least half the Americans who received them in 2004 and 2005, and those patients fared worse than those who met the approved indications.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- For secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, a single 81 mg aspirin seems to be the superior approach.

NEW YORK -- Rapid repair of a torn rotator cuff is the best guarantee of a return to full mobility with minimal loss of arm strength, orthopedic researchers reported.

SAN DIEGO -- Those who battled the FDA for non-prescription status of Plan B (levonorgestrel) apparently won only half the struggle. Prescription or nor, Plan B can be hard to get.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Lipid-lowering statins cut the relative risk of lung cancer 55%, according to a retrospective study.

DALLAS -- New evidence-based guidelines for treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage suggest reserving surgery for bleeds greater than 3 cm in deteriorating patients or when there is brainstem compression.