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...subtle but rapid change as the normal curves of fat that define the female form melt away. Longtime steroid users may lose their breasts entirely. Watch too for torn connective tissues. Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them to the bone...
...unchanged for nearly two weeks. A third nursing-home resident was brought to a hospital, where the patient was found to have had a broken leg for at least three weeks and the nursing-home records were missing. A woman whose four bedsores were exposed to the bone and required daily cleaning was rarely given the prescribed pain medicine before the procedure...
...even conceivable that a human with a failing liver could have a new one grown from, say, a cell taken out of his bone marrow. "This is fantasy now," admits Alan Colman, research director of PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish biotechnology firm that holds the license for the process that created Dolly. "But two years ago, so was the work that is now being presented in Nature...
Still, the Louisville team is optimistic. Heartened by their animal experiments, in which flaps of bone, tendon and muscle were attached to young pigs for up to three months, the doctors convinced their review boards at the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital that a hand transplant was, as the team's chief surgeon, Dr. Warren C. Breidenbach of Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, put it, "the next logical step...
...famine brought on not just by bad luck but also by the combined follies of nearly everyone involved. The 15-year-old civil war between the Islamic government in Khartoum and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south has stripped the country virtually to the bone. When the fighting is going badly for its side, the government tries to starve the rebels into submission by cutting off food aid. The rebel fighters routinely take food from civilians to sustain themselves or block supplies from reaching the territory of their factional rivals. And the aid community stands...