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...venereal-disease clinic in Nairobi, Microbiologist William Cameron reported that uncircumcised men are 9 1/2 times as likely as circumcised males to become infected after exposure. According to Cameron, "The mucosal membrane underneath the foreskin may trap the virus, making it more likely to enter the bloodstream...
CAPTION: The new drug inhibits cholesterol production, reducing excess in the bloodstream...
...pair spent much of the 1970s painstakingly deciphering how the body regulates cholesterol levels. Just as oil and water cannot mix without a detergent, cholesterol cannot enter the bloodstream unless it is ferried within a complex of molecules called low-density lipoprotein, or LDL. The Texas researchers found that the LDL ferries travel to docks called LDL receptors. More important, they learned that low cholesterol levels in the liver trigger the production of more receptors, which pull LDL out of the blood. But if the liver does not make enough receptors, the LDL levels in the blood will rise...
...researcher, they tried it in 1982 on six patients. Within a few weeks, blood-cholesterol levels had dropped from an average of 350 to 250. Furthermore, the drug actually boosted the amount of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), a natural substance that seems to scavenge excess cholesterol out of the bloodstream. "That study really opened people's eyes," recalls Grundy...
...Through his bloodstream Tuck does swerve...