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KEELE, England -- Two non-traditional interventional approaches produced short-term improvements in knee pain in older patients, according to researchers here, but the effects did not last.

WASHINGTON -- The Cypher sirolimus-eluting stent out-performed Taxus, a paclitaxel-eluting stent, for long lesions in native coronaries, a finding that was immediately hailed.

PHILADELPHIA -- For most women with early breast cancer, following five years of tamoxifen with an aromatase inhibitor will bring only a slight improvement in disease-free survival, according to researchers here.

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- The answer to intractable refractory tennis elbow may be a single injection of endogenous plasma, treated to increase the concentration of platelets, according to researchers here.

HOUSTON -- The poorer breast cancer survival rates for African-American women can be attributed to unfavorable tumor cell biology, not just socioeconomic factors, researchers here reported.

UTRECHT, The Netherlands -- Reserve antibiotics for children younger than two years old with bilateral acute otitis media infections or for any child with otorrhea, researchers here recommended. For other children, watchful waiting seems justified

MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- Hospital food, quality not withstanding, is less nutritious than anticipated in the kitchen, according to researchers here. Consider the pea and vitamin C.

ATLANTA -- Those years of pot smoking a generation ago may have created an unexpected legacy for baby boomers -- a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease.

CANBERRA, Australia -- Behavioral or cognitive behavioral therapy, with or without medication, is the top choice against obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents, according to a systematic Cochrane review.

ATLANTA -- Older patients are about as likely to be seen in the emergency room for adverse drug events as they are for automobile accidents, according to a CDC study.

NEW ORLEANS -- An emergency department in Albany, N.Y., is using ER visits as teaching moments to instruct patients how to program cell phones with I-C-E (in case of emergency), with contact names and numbers.

ATLANTA -- Brain regions of adults with autism fail to communicate efficiently with one another, according to high-resolution electroencephalography findings.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Women who survive childhood cancer are at a moderately elevated risk of later pregnancy problems, according to researchers here.

NEW ORLEANS -- A brightly colored, attractively packaged household cleaning product called Fabuloso has led to a rash of emergency department visits for accidental ingestion, toxicology researchers reported here.

NEW ORLEANS -- Today's cell phones don't disrupt emergency department telemetry, and patients and visitors should be allowed to use them, contended researchers here.

LONDON -- There's more evidence that vitamin D is protective against breast cancer progression, but the relationship remains less than definitive, researchers here said.

BOSTON -- Compared with the cardiovascular benefits of finfish and shellfish, fears of mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) should be considered dead in the water, according to a review of the evidence.

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- The antioxidant enzyme heme oxygenase-1 may be a potential biomarker or even treatment for silicosis, according to researchers here.