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Hair removal is not cheap (an average $500 a treatment). But for many women (and some men), it seems a small price to pay to solve a problem that still carries a stigma. Even in this feminist era, female mustaches and chin hair are not openly discussed or even much written about. "A lot of people feel psychologically scarred by heavy hair," says Dr. Edward Tobinick, director of UCLA's Institute of Laser Medicine. "One woman got up at 2 a.m. to shave before her husband...
Still, Nichols wanted to know how FGN-1 worked. Until then, colon cancer was thought to be a disease of uncontrolled growth. Nichols' scientists suspected instead that the problem was uncontrolled death. Cells lining the intestines usually live only 72 hours. But while cells are born at the usual rate in FAP patients, some fail to self-destruct, producing an excess. Johns Hopkins' Giardiello eventually showed that drugs like sulindac work by restoring the natural process of cell death in the colon. Precisely how it does that, however, remains unknown...
Death is quantifiable, as the data sadly show. What can't be measured so easily is the benefit of closeness, both for the baby and the parent. There is no question that parents and their babies should have as much intimate contact as possible. The problem is how to get it. Dr. John Kattwinkel, who headed a task force on infant-sleep positions and SIDS for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told me that if parents can avoid "loose bedding, pillows, soft surfaces, waterbeds, mattresses that might pull away from bed frames, smoking and drinking in bed," then co-sleeping...
Doubts about Columbine victim CASSIE BERNALL'S last words aren't dampening sales of her mother's book, an account of the 17-year-old's journey from a problem youth to model Christian. She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall sold 300,000 copies in its first three weeks...
Finally, these recycled parents are often forced to negotiate an unfamiliar bureaucracy, seeking welfare assistance or legal custody, enrolling kids in school or getting medical care. "The underlying problem is that they don't understand what their rights are and nobody can tell them," says Gerard Wallace, director of the Grandparent Caregiver Law Center at the Brookdale Center on Aging in New York. There is little in law books to help; attorneys and social workers are often unsure how existing laws apply...