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...September, Alan J. Kuo '85, who suffered from chronic myelogenous leukemia, was told by his doctors that unless he found a bone marrow donor, he had only one month to live...
Rice Will Miss Playoffs What does it profit a team to win home field but lose Jerry Rice? The Niners find out after their star receiver cracks a bone in his surgically repaired left knee during the team's 34-17 rout of the Broncos, CNNSI reports...
Never has a small purple fruit caused so much heated debate. From the 1960s to the 1990s, California table grapes have been a bone of contention between labor activists and agricultural interests...
Scientists first became interested in designer estrogens in the early 1990s. While studying a powerful new anticancer drug called tamoxifen, which works by blocking estrogen's ability to stimulate breast tissue, they discovered that it also helped prevent osteoporosis. The drug seemed to act like an estrogen in the bone but an anti-estrogen in the breast. Unfortunately, it also acted like an estrogen in the uterus, dramatically increasing the risk of uterine cancer. So researchers set out to find a chemical cousin of tamoxifen that would be easier on the uterus...
Raloxifene seemed to fit the bill. Studies showed it increased older women's bone density 1% to 2%. It also seemed to reduce the incidence of breast cancer--by 58% over the course of a year in one study--and to cut the level of so-called bad cholesterol in the blood. Best of all, researchers have found no hint of trouble in their patients' uterine or breast tissue--at least...