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Nearly 40 percent of the small adrenal tumors that cause big problems with high blood pressure share a genetic mutation that causes patients to retain too much sodium, researchers report.
Republican governors are pressing the Obama administration to make it easier for states to cut Medicaid enrollment, setting up a fight over one of states' costliest programs (Adamy, 1/7).
In the first of a series titled "Imagine a world...," posted on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Paula Franklin, U.K. medical director for Marie Stopes International, writes, "For the most part, only people who really need or want something care much about it being available, and that's why it can be hard to make people in the developed world tune in to the huge unmet need for contraception globally - 222 million people who want to use contraception can't get it, at the last count."
Researcher Michael S. Irwig, M.D., F.A.C.E., assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the Center for Andrology at The GW Medical Faculty Associates, found that men who used the medication finasteride (Propecia) and developed persistent sexual side effects, are also drinking less alcohol than before.
Dr Ian Reid, professor of mental health at the University of Aberdeen, told delegates that for many years psychiatrists believed that poor mental health was just caused by imbalances in various brain chemicals.
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