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Coping with Diabetes Diabetes is a Greek work, meaning to "siphon". Mellitus, a Latin word, relates to a word meaning, "honey" or sweet tasting. Due to the high sugar content and the lack of earlier testing methodologies, testing the urine did give an indication that the ...

All of us know what sleep is. We know how it feels. The meaning of the word is generally not questioned in ordinary conversation and we do not have to look it up in a dictionary. But no one really knows what happens when we sleep. Once we get beyond the simple level of recognizing sleep as a tim...