Anabolic steroids had ceased to have an exclusively medical function.

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As Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, notes, the broader question raised by Seasonale is whether suppressing menstruation is merely a lifestyle choice or, rather, whether it is more like turning a normal bodily function into a medical complaint.

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The study authors, Dr Murray Mittleman and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, measured kidney function using a recognised test called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).

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Unfortunately, though health care is changing rapidly, traditional medical education focuses on teaching physicians to function solo, learning the details of diagnosing and intervening, but not so much the complexities of engaging disparate groups of clinicians, including nonphysicians, in common cause.

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Perhaps even worse, they fall and hurt themselves and are unable to fully function for a period of time and they are caught without medical insurance.

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Maybe he was able to compartmentalize, but my medical friends tell me that, in fact, taking the medicines allowed him to function at so high a level.

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Dr Medarov said circadian rhythms of lung function may also have implications for the administration of asthma medications and the timing of medical procedures.

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Researchers from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, US, found that the hormone caused a drop in lung function in asthmatics.

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Mello, working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was looking for a way to turn off specific genes so he could understand their function.

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