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CHICAGO, June 12 ? It is unethical for physicians to participate in interrogation of prisoners by the military or law-enforcement agencies, pronounced the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA).

MILAN, Italy - Variations in morphology categories may help explain why Hodgkin's disease prognosis differs from place to place in the world.

WASHINGTON ? Preeclampsia is an independent risk marker for type 2 diabetes, even when gestational diabetes is taken into account, reported researchers here today.

EDMONTON, Alberta ? Enuresis alarms proved safe and reasonably effective for helping children keep a dry bed, according to an "umbrella" review of several hundred trials.

ROCKVILLE, Md. ? In the opening salvo of an FDA initiative to cleanse the market of unapproved drugs, the agency has ordered some 120 cough and cold medicines that contain carbinomoxamine off store shelves. The two approved carbinomoxamine-containing products can continue to be sold.

WASHINGTON ? Asbestos, long associated with mesothelioma and other lung malignancies, also appears to cause laryngeal cancer, according to the Institute of Medicine.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C ? Genetic profiling may have uncovered a strong clue about why African-American women have such a high breast cancer mortality rate.

OAKLAND, Calif. ? Anemia, polycythemia, and chronic kidney disease are independent predictors of outcome for patients with heart failure, researchers here reported.

NEW YORK ? The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has enlisted a fitness coach and TV personality for a new campaign aimed at challenging patients with type 2 diabetes to get their blood sugar under control.

BOSTON ? Carbohydrate nutrition in older nondiabetic persons is related to the development of nuclear and cortical lens opacities, according to a study.

SAPPORO, Japan - Adding whole-brain irradiation to stereotactic radiosurgery does not improve survival of patients with metastatic brain cancer, but it may reduce recurrence of the metastases, researchers here reported.

LIVERMORE, Calif. - As healthy men age, they become less likely to father a successful pregnancy. They have an increased risk for having children with musculoskeletal and craniofacial mutations.

TORONTO ? Second-hand smoke can boost the risk of osteoporosis in pre-menopausal women, researchers reported here.

NEW YORK ? The number of children and adolescents being treated with second-generation antipsychotics, not approved for pediatric patients, has increased steadily in almost a decade, according to national data.

TORONTO ? The concept of calcium and vitamin D supplementation for prevention of osteoporosis, relegated recently to the realm of unfounded notion, got a spirited defense here.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with angioplasty within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital stand a much better chance of being discharged alive, no matter how long it's been since their symptoms started.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. ? A diagnosis of autism in a two-year old, when made by a trained clinician and backed by parent interviews and observation, has a fairly high degree of accuracy, investigators here reported.

ATLANTA ? Adding Avastin (bevacizumab) to either standard chemotherapy or Tarceva (erlotinib) may improve progression-free survival in advanced non-small-cell-lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a phase II study reported here today.