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WASHINGTON -- The novel agent Actemra (tocilizumab), an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody, is safe and effective in children with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, a Japanese researcher said here.

WASHINGTON -- Pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus face sharply increased risks of a range of both disease -related and pregnancy complications, researcher said here.

PHILADELPHIA -- Infants who are put on food-elimination diets to avoid allergens could be inadvertently robbed of the proteins and nutrients they need to grow, researchers warned here.

PHILADELPHIA -- In patients with refractory allergic eye diseases, the cause of the irritation could be peanut sensitivity, researchers reported here

CINCINNATI -- Firefighters acquire on-the-job elevated risks for multiple myeloma and a variety of other malignancies, according to researchers here.

BOSTON -- Premenopausal women appear to be developing invasive breast cancer at a greater rate than their grandmothers did, researchers said here.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The time-honored "hunt-and-peck" approach to typing at a computer keyboard, using just the index fingers, may trigger a cascade of events that climaxes with carpal tunnel syndrome.

LOS ANGELES -- Physicians need to be more sensitive to whether patients can afford to pay for new prescriptions or, indeed, whether patients even know how to go about filling or refilling them, said researchers here.

BRISBANE, Australia -- Google can pluck diagnoses for tough cases out of the range of stumped into the realm of inspired in minutes, with a decent grade for accuracy, found researchers here.

VALENCIA, Spain -- Heavy cigarette smoking damages the uterine lining, reducing the likelihood of implantation even with donated oocytes in IVF procedures, researchers here reported.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA alerted the public today that some 11 million bottles of generic acetaminophen had been recalled by the Perrigo Company of Allegan, Mich., because of metal fragments contamination in a small number of caplets.

BOSTON -- Protecting children's developing brains from neurotoxicity should be the No. 1 priority of regulation of chemicals used in industry, researchers here said.

PRAGUE -- A key biochemical pathway that leads to prostate cancer has been uncovered in mice and blocked by a previously known compound, a U.S, group reported here.

PHILADELPHIA -- After a lumpectomy, intensity modulated radiation therapy is far less toxic to the skin than the standard wedge approach, researchers reported here.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mortality rates for heart failure patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (non-systolic) are similar to those for patients with a reduced ejection fraction (systolic). However, a higher systolic pressure on admission was a marker of better prognosis.

BOSTON -- For reasons that are not clear, women with disabilities who develop breast cancer are less likely to be given optimum treatment.

TURKU, Finland -- Most children with acute otitis media have infections caused by both bacteria and viruses, suggesting that antibiotics may not be enough to control the infections, researchers here have found.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Chronic iron deficiency in infancy may lead to long-term cognitive deficits, particularly in poor families, according to a study of Costa Rican children.