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...Salem fire department deputy chief. Robert Crowley, said yesterday "Our average has gone way up." Before there were 10 to 12 men in their 20's on the force, but now there are only two, he added. He also said the total number of men has decreased from 114 to 95 over the last two years and more will probably be laid off this summer...
...drug is the first to halt bone hardening, which makes most victims of the disease under five feet tall and often causes psychological harm, Crowley said. Previous treatments with steroids could only halt sexual symptoms, he added...
...team, led by Dr. William F. Crowley, assistant professor of medicine, found that injections of an altered version of a chemical found naturally in the human body stopped early puberty. The natural hormone, Gonadatropic Releasing Hormone (GnRH) initiates sexual development, bone hardening, and a sudden final growth spurt...
Researchers administered a modified form of GnRH to five girls with the disease between the ages of two and seven. For all five, menstrual cycles and the bone-hardening process, which would have stunted growth at an early age, stopped. Both symptoms resumed when the treatment was temporarily discontinued, Crowley said yesterday...
...Crowley speculated that eventually doctors may be able to use the drug to "tamper with the natural growth process." People who produce insufficient natural growth hormones, or who failed to grow normally because of kidney disease, malnutrition, or other disorders, might be able to use the drug to "catch up," he said...