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Cellasene contains, among other things, extracts of Ginkgo biloba, sweet clover and bladder wrack (a seaweed). It arrived in U.S. drugstores last week and got lots of attention on TV news shows. Yet experts say there's no solid evidence that Cellasene has any beneficial effect on cellulite. The pill's 15 minutes of fame provides a lesson in the power and perils of hype...
...also want to know more about the potential risks cited on the label. Sweet clover contains powerful anticlotting factors that could be dangerous if taken with aspirin or other blood-thinning medications. Bladder-wrack extract contains extra iodine, which could be a problem if you have a thyroid disorder. But only the amount of iodine, and not the other herbs, is listed...
...machinist in Massachusetts is using his own cells to grow a new thumb after he lost part of his in an accident. A teenager born without half of his chest wall is growing a new cage of bone and cartilage within his chest cavity. Scientists announced last month that bladders, grown from bladder cells in a lab, have been implanted in dogs and are working. Meanwhile, patches of skin, the first "tissue-engineered" organ to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, are healing sores and skin ulcers on hundreds of patients across...
LIVERS AND BLADDERS. Anthony Atala, a surgeon who makes bladders at Boston's Children's Hospital, has taken muscle cells from the outside of dog bladders and lining cells from the inside and grown them in his lab. The cells, fed the proper growth-prompting chemicals, happily go forth and multiply. "In six weeks we have enough cells to cover a football field," Atala says. He placed a few muscle cells on the surface of a small polymer sphere and some lining cells on the inside. When he inserted the sphere in a dog's urinary system, the artificial bladder...
...sense. For more than a generation, observes Rosemond, experts like Dr. T. Berry Brazelton have advised parents to let kids decide for themselves when to make the transition from diapers to potty. As a result, the age of toilet training has risen dramatically--as has the incidence of constipation, bladder-control problems and other potty-related ills...