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Scranton said that while some previous studies had found an association between statins and bone fractures, others...
...study “Statin Use and Fracture Risk,” which appeared in the Archive of Internal Medicine on Sept. 26, concluded that those who take statin cholesterol pills are 32 percent more likely not to endure a bone fracture than those on lipid-lowering therapy, a common alternative to statin use. They are also 36 percent more likely not to endure a break than those receiving no cholesterol therapy...
...that slope gracefully down. The rear is compact, musclebound and squat, accentuated by sculpted fairings behind the seats. The overall profile conveys a neat blend of attitude: a little daring, just shy of being menacing. It doesn't drip machismo like Nissan's 350Z or feature the delicate bone structure of a Mazda Miata. With a starting price around $20,000 the Solstice is the cheapest roadster on the market (a hair under the new Mazda MX-5). GM plans to produce just 16,000 to 18,000 units for the 2006 model year and dealers are already asking several...
Chester Douglass, chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), submitted written testimony to the National Research Council last year claiming that there was no significant link between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer...
...accepting foreign tissue grafts-something that Dr. Andrew Lee and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are trying to do. Dr. Lee prefers to think of face and hand transplants as "composite tissue transplants" because several kinds of tissue-fat, skin, muscle and possibly even bone-may be involved. (He didn't say this but maybe it's also a way to tone down some of the more ghoulish reporting on the topic.) "Composite tissue transplants have the potential to revolutionize reconstructive surgery," says Dr. Lee, who is chief of the school's division of plastic...