Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversial report suggests the disease often begins in younger women who have no outward sign of bone problems. The findings, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team from the University of British Columbia, raise the possibility that more than half of all healthy women in their 30s and 40s could be suffering from bone damage as a result of subtle, undetected disturbances in their menstrual cycles. But some experts doubt the conclusions and call for follow-up trials before doctors change their approach to the disease...
...Bone, like many tissues, is constantly being broken down and rebuilt. In younger women this balance is thought to be maintained, at least in part, by the hormone estrogen. The sharply reduced production of estrogen after menopause, many researchers believe, upsets that balance, triggering a gradual loss of bone tissue. In about one-quarter of women, this deterioration eventually results in the porous, brittle bones characteristic of osteoporosis...
...disrupted. The upset was caused either by a failure to ovulate (or produce an egg) or by a shortened "luteal phase," a critical stage of the menstrual cycle during which the hormone progesterone is produced. More important the researchers found that these disturbances were directly related to dramatic bone loss: the 20% who missed ovulation at least once, for example, suffered as much as a 4% reduction in bone density in one year...
...hospital garb and bearing such names as Dr. Comfort, Dr. EBDBD and Disorderly Gordoon, visit ailing children and their families. The clowns' purpose: to alleviate the fear and confusion of hospital stays and provide bright moments with humorous routines, such as "drawing blood" -- with red crayons -- and giving funny-bone examinations. Christensen has found the C.C.U. so fulfilling that he quit performing with the Big Apple Circus last fall to devote full attention to improving and expanding the project...
...with any audience, some patients just refuse to see the humor. Christensen once paid a call on a teenage boy who was sitting by a window with his head lowered. He kept it down as Stubs conducted his exam. "I asked, 'Have you ever had your funny bone examined?' " Christensen recalls. "He said nothing. 'Does your nose ever turn red?' No answer. 'Are you ticklish?' And then, with his head still down, the boy asked, 'Are you retarded?' I said no. 'Then why don't you act like a normal doctor?' I said, - 'Because I'm not a normal doctor...