A new treatment has been approved for excessive sweating, which a team of researchers reports is surprisingly common. Until recently, few data had existed on the prevalence of the condition, known as hyperhidrosis.
So, Jonathan Kowalski of the Irvine, Calif., company Allergan and his colleagues mailed surveys about sweating to people in 150,000 U.S.
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