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...methods -- frying, for example -- also generate small amounts of carcinogens. As for the URPs, they are not new creations at all, says the FDA, but simply existing chemicals that have not been detected before in the human diet. "There's no food that is completely known," points out FDA Biochemist Clyde Takeguchi. "You can't identify everything that's in an apple. The basis for establishing safety is not absolute safety. It's reasonable safety...
During her teens, Maria Menna Perper, 42, a New Jersey biochemist, suffered intestinal problems around the time of her period. By her late 30s, she felt "excruciating, burning pain" in her colon every month "like clockwork." Eventually the pain became continuous, and it was impossible for her to work or even sit down...
...recline for three to four hours as their blood circulates through two specialized devices. The first separates blood cells from blood plasma; the second filters the plasma through a jar of porous beads coated with an antibody that traps LDL. The beauty of the procedure, says its developer, German Biochemist Wilhelm Stoffel, is that "the antibody picks out only LDL." Other important blood components, including a valuable form of cholesterol called HDL (high-density lipoprotein), are all returned to the patient. In fact, according to a study published this week by the Rogosin group, this "good" cholesterol actually rises...
...enough, plaque may actually begin to melt away. Only in the past few years have doctors had the tools to achieve such reductions. LDL-pheresis is one example, while new experimental drugs like Mevinolin, particularly when combined with existing drugs, also hold great promise. "What's exciting now," observes Biochemist Thomas Parker, director of the Rogosin lipid laboratory, "is that for the first time researchers all over the world can begin to study the possibility of reversing atherosclerosis...
Addressing an audience of 25 in a speech sponsored by the Women in Science organization, Med School biochemist Linda Brink said that sexism is a fact of life in medical, scientific, and hi-tech careers...