Health & Fitness: It's Not All in Your Head

New therapies keep impotence from being a hopeless condition

As many as 10 million American men suffer from chronic impotence, but not many of them are willing to talk about it, much less seek help. Besides being embarrassed, most sufferers figure that the problem must be "all in your head" and therefore difficult to treat. But they could hardly be more wrong. Medical researchers have determined that up to 75% of all cases of impotence stem from physical problems, most of which can be treated. As new types of remedies, ranging from drug therapy to surgery, come into increasingly widespread use, impotence is no longer a hopeless condition.

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