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...Sui-nong loves thunder. "It makes the mushrooms so scared, they simply jump out of the ground," he jokes. Sui-nong spends each summer scaling 3,500-m ridges in China's Yunnan province searching for mushrooms of a very special sort: the matsutake, a fungus prized above all others by Japanese gourmets. Matsutakecan't be cultivated - attempts to do so have eluded the world's experts. And they're anything but easy to find, growing under beds of pine needles or on the roots of ancient fir trees. They have to be rooted out extremely carefully to avoid damage...
Remedies for SUI have improved in recent years. Today 90% of women who seek help find relief, and new treatments are on the way. Although there is no drug available in the U.S. for SUI (those "gotta go" TV ads are for Detrol, which curbs urge incontinence), duloxetine has done well in trials, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve it within a year. It works by strengthening the urethral sphincter's contractions...
...simple changes in behavior--losing weight, reducing intake of liquids or cutting back on irritants like caffeine, alcohol and cigarettes. If the patient's pelvic floor is weak, she will need to learn how to train her muscles with Kegel exercises--pelvic contractions that are commonly taught to prevent SUI after childbirth but that can also help restore control. Dr. Norton likens the urethra to a garden hose and the pelvic floor to the ground beneath it. When a cough comes along, it's like someone stepping on the hose. Having a strong platform beneath it--a sidewalk as opposed...
Biofeedback techniques can help women isolate and work the pelvic muscles. A study published last July in the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION showed that biofeedback-assisted behavioral training reduces episodes of SUI almost 70%. Electrical stimulation also helps some women strengthen their pelvic muscles...
Women looking for a quick and lasting remedy often choose surgery. Approximately 135,000 SUI surgeries are performed a year in the U.S., with a success rate of 75% to 95%. The two most common are the Burch procedure, which uses permanent stitches to support the bladder neck, and the sling procedure, which tightens the sphincter knot. Bartosh and Lynch say they are happy with their sling surgeries and report no leakage, though each had some initial complications afterward. "I feel so much better about myself," says Bartosh, gripping her coffee cup in the parking lot. "I've taken ownership...