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One day after he had been hit in the left eye with a drinking glass, a 48-year-old man sought medical attention. He could see only light and shadows with the eye.

A large right adrenal mass was noted incidentally on an MRI scan of the lumbar spine, which had been performed for other reasons in a 55-year-old non-obese woman. The bright heterogeneous mass (T2-weighted image) measured 6.2 3 6.2 3 4.1 cm and sat like the head of a serpent on the superior pole of the right kidney. Its margins were smooth, but signal intensity was increased on T2 weighting because of high water content. The left adrenal gland was normal.

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CHICAGO -- Although religious doctors are more likely to consider medicine a calling, that doesn't translate into caring for more underserved patients, a survey has revealed.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Things may not be all quiet on the home front. When soldiers deploy for combat, child abuse and neglect increase as does stress for the spouses left behind, researchers here said.

WASHINGTON -- It should be a woman's right to know what oral contraceptive she is taking, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

GRENOBLE, France -- Drug-eluting stents appear to pose a particular risk for thrombosis in diabetic patients on insulin therapy diabetes and those with multivessel coronary disease, researchers here found.

PHILADELPHIA -- The rising rate of Caesarean deliveries might be slowed by preventive labor induction, researchers here said.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Smoking a single marijuana joint by a heavy user can cause bronchial damage similar to smoking 2.5 to five cigarettes, researchers reported.

SEATTLE -- Screening MRI had a higher rate of breast cancer detection than either mammography or ultrasound screening in high-risk women, but it nearly quadrupled the biopsy rate, researchers here found.

ROCKPORT, Me. -- Chief Justice John Roberts had a benign idiopathic seizure today at his summer home near here and was hospitalized as a precaution, according to the Supreme Court.

CHICAGO -- Racial and ethnic differences in the rate at which older adults with arthritis become disabled by the condition may be largely a function of overall health and access to care, researchers found.

DURHAM, N.C. -- The response rate in renal cell carcinoma more than tripled with both an immunomodulator and an angiogenesis inhibitor compared with typical results with either drug alone, investigators here found.

RIGA, Latvia -- Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with cutting balloon pre-treatment of lesions may be a good therapeutic option for left main artery stenosis, a transoceanic team of investigators affirmed.

ATLANTA -- A spike in outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis in 2006 has spurred the CDC to launch an initiative this summer to improve the safety of swimming pools and other recreational water facilities.

BALTIMORE -- Reading the written word may be mightier than lead poisoning, investigators here reported.

BOSTON -- New genetic contributors to multiple sclerosis have been uncovered for the first time in 35 years, according to researchers here.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Tegaserod (Zelnorm), the irritable bowel syndrome and constipation drug pulled from the market last spring, will make a limited return under an FDA plan that permits its use in certain symptomatic women younger than 55.