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NEW YORK -- Community-based interventionalists and surgeons can be trained to perform catheter-based carotid stenting in high-risk patients just as well as those who tested the devices in the studies that led to FDA approvals, researchers reported.

NEW YORK -- Community-based interventionalists and surgeons can be trained to perform catheter-based carotid stenting in high-risk patients just as well as those who tested the devices in the studies that led to FDA approvals, researchers reported.

SAN ANTONIO -- Breast cancer patients may get similar benefit with less toxicity from adjuvant chemotherapy containing Taxotere and Herceptin but not the cardiotoxic anthracycline Adriamycin, researchers said.

SAN ANTONIO -- Breast cancer patients may get similar benefit with less toxicity from adjuvant chemotherapy containing Taxotere and Herceptin but not the cardiotoxic anthracycline Adriamycin, researchers said.

LUND, Sweden -- Men are more likely than women to achieve rheumatoid arthritis remission, researchers here have found.

LUND, Sweden -- Men are more likely than women to achieve rheumatoid arthritis remission, researchers here have found.

ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Even experienced gastroenterologists may miss neoplastic lesions if they hurry through screening colonoscopies, according to a small study here.

ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Even experienced gastroenterologists may miss neoplastic lesions if they hurry through screening colonoscopies, according to a small study here.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Health care costs are gobbling up more family income than they did a decade ago, according to a report by federal researchers.

PHILADELPHIA -- Performance measures for hospitals adopted by Medicare and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations may only be loosely related to patient outcomes.

PHILADELPHIA -- Performance measures for hospitals adopted by Medicare and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations may only be loosely related to patient outcomes.

ORLANDO -- For preventing recurrent DVT, once-weekly idraparinux, an investigational synthetic oligosaccharide, was comparable to the combination of low-molecular-weight heparin and a daily vitamin K antagonist, Dutch researchers reported here.

ORLANDO -- For some patients with acute myeloid leukemia, an unfavorable prognostic marker could mean a better response to allogeneic stem cell transplantation, a German-Austrian research team reported here.

PHILADELPHIA -- For Medicare-age prostate cancer patients, action extends survival better than observation, according to investigators here.

PHILADELPHIA -- For Medicare-age prostate cancer patients, action extends survival better than observation, according to investigators here.

ORLANDO -- For older patients with follicular lymphoma, the addition of Rituxan (rituximab) to standard CHOP chemotherapy boosted overall response rates, prolonged time to treatment failure, and improved overall survival.

ORLANDO -- An investigational oral platelet growth factor increased platelet levels in patients with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) reported investigators here.

HEIDELBERG, Germany -- Older children in big families may be at elevated risk of brain and other nervous system tumors, according to a large epidemiologic study.