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Drastic method targets hard-to-treat hypertension
High blood pressure may be the nation's sneakiest epidemic, a time bomb that's a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure, and one that's growing worse as the population rapidly grows older. A new nerve-zapping method may change that.

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