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Men taking multiple medications for different health conditions may have a higher risk of erectile dysfunction – a link that doesn’t seem to be explained by the health problems themselves, a new study finds.   But in the new study, researchers found a link between medication use and ED independently of those medical conditions.  Of 37,700 men in a large California health plan, researchers found that those on three or more medications had higher rates of ED. Continue reading

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Prognosis: Study Finds Troubles With Gastric Band Surgery. More than a decade after having gastric band surgery for weight loss, patients at a university hospital in Belgium had lost just 43 percent of their excess weight on average, a new study reports. In nearly half of the patients, the bands had been removed because of medical complications, the researchers also found. More of this weeks stories —-> Continue reading