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Diabetes patients, researchers temper hope for quick cure
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British charity aims to bring vasectomies to French men
For men in France, obtaining a vasectomy has long been all but impossible, thanks to a 200-year-old Napoleonic law prohibiting self-mutilation. Now, a new cross-channel "vasectomy tourism service" set up by a British sexual health charity aims to make getting the birth-control procedure easier.
While headaches may seem like a minor annoyance to some people, they pose a major problem for millions of Americans. One in 10 Americans suffers from migraine headaches. Nearly twice that many -- some 45 million -- get some kind of headaches.
Q. The June 2000 Cosmopolitan magazine published an article about breast cancer in a 20 year old woman. The first page of the article quotes the doctor as saying "the lump could be a cyst caused by too much caffeine." Is this statement correct and does it relate to caffeine in the diet?
To overcome sleeplessness, experts recommend avoiding caffeine, nicotine and alcohol in the evening. If sleep still doesn't come easily, try a nonprescription pain medication that has a proven safety record and is not habit-forming.
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