Word: bone
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...drug is the first to halt bone hardening, which makes most victims of the disease under five feet tall and often causes psychological harm, Crowley said. Previous treatments with steroids could only halt sexual symptoms, he added...
...team, led by Dr. William F. Crowley, assistant professor of medicine, found that injections of an altered version of a chemical found naturally in the human body stopped early puberty. The natural hormone, Gonadatropic Releasing Hormone (GnRH) initiates sexual development, bone hardening, and a sudden final growth spurt...
Researchers administered a modified form of GnRH to five girls with the disease between the ages of two and seven. For all five, menstrual cycles and the bone-hardening process, which would have stunted growth at an early age, stopped. Both symptoms resumed when the treatment was temporarily discontinued, Crowley said yesterday...
Housing is certainly the biggest bone of contention in the bargaining. For their part, the Independents are likely to be trying to persuade Vellucci that his liberal stand on housing issues did not help him in last fall's election, where he received the fewest votes of the nine winners...
Cutter's Way. (Original title: Cutter and Bone.) A murder mystery set on the downslope of the California dream, flavorsomely written by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, directed by Ivan Passer and acted by Jeff Bridges and John Heard...