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Though ERA lobbyists won a three-year extension of the original ratification deadline, which expired in 1979, they failed to profit by it. In fact, three states have voted to rescind their approval of the amendment, though such recisions are of questionable validity. Last year the movement suffered another blow...
The discovery that made the biggest headlines--in Boston, where it was lauded, as well as in Los Angeles, where its originality was challenged--concerned the induction of bone growth in humans. Announced at the beginning of May, "osteoinduction," a technique advanced by surgeons and researchers at the Medical School...
Researchers at the Medical School and the Children's Hospital Medical Center last week announced that they had perfected a method for inducing bone growth by using crushed cadaver bones instead of bones removed from patients' bodies. Osteoinduction--the name of the new process--should be 100-per-cent effective...
Developed over the past decade by Surgeon John F. Burke of Massachusetts General Hospital and Mechanical Engineer Ioannis V. Yannas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the artificial skin has so far been used on ten patients, ranging in age from three to 60. All had third-degree burns over...
Though as written the role is little more than a smiling Abra cadaver, Allen brings strength and warmth to her task; also, she is as cute as a button on a calico dress.