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BURLINGTON, Vt. - A tart cherry juice blend drunk before and after bouts of strenuous exercise appears to ease the pain of sore muscles, according to a small crossover study.

SALT LAKE CITY - Americans aren't having nightmares-or dreams of any kind-that replay the 9/11 attack on New York, according to sleep researchers.

SAN FRANCISCO ? Women in their Medicare years may claim to have regular screening mammograms but many aren't as good as their word, a study has found.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - If the U.S. states with loose seat belt laws tightened them, the disparity in seat belt use between blacks and whites might be eliminated, researchers here said.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Women with a newly discovered genetic mutation have a higher risk of developing breast cancer, perhaps more than one primary, researchers have reported.

SEATTLE - Sudden cardiac arrest was fatal in eight of nine college athletes who had witnessed events, despite the rapid efforts of athletic trainers, EMS personnel, and the ready availability of automated external defibrillators.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Better scrutiny of lymph nodes in colorectal cancer patients could help to more accurately identify those who need adjuvant chemotherapy and those who don't.

MIAMI - When African-American and Hispanic blacks are diagnosed with malignant melanoma, it's more often at an advanced stage than when it is diagnosed in whites, researchers here have found.

SEATTLE - In a pair of chest-to-chest trials, an automated compression device came up the winner in one but traditional manual CPR did better in the other.

ROCKVILLE, Md. ? The FDA said today that 580 automatic external defibrillators, a model known as AED20, are being voluntarily recalled by MRL, a division of Welch Allyn, because of a malfunction that could result in failure to resuscitate patients.

STANFORD, Calif. ? Herbal remedies are fast approaching hormone therapy as the most-favored treatment by women suffering from menopause symptoms, researchers here said.

CHICAGO - The American Medical Associations wants the FDA to make industry hold off on direct-to-consumer ads for new agents or implantable devices until physicians are brought up to speed.

PHOENIX, Ariz. - A simple but reliable way to distinguish psychogenic nonepileptic seizures from epilepsy is to look at the patient's eyes, researchers here reported.

ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Men exposed to pesticides on the farm or elsewhere have more than double the risk of developing Parkinson's disease as do men who avoid pesticide exposure or women, according to Mayo researchers.

WASHINGTON ? The nation's emergency care system is woefully ill-prepared to handle a natural disaster, disease outbreak, or terrorist attack, according to reports released by the Institute of Medicine today.

BOSTON ? High levels of retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4), which transports vitamin A as its main job, may be an early warning sign for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, according to researchers here.

CHICAGO - The American Medical Association has crafted a radical proposed solution to the problem of Americans with no health insurance coverage.

BOSTON ? Mutations in a recessive gene that causes early-onset Parkinson's disease also occur in about 12% of those whose families have a familial form of the disease, researchers here reported.