Word: dwarfism
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Presidential politics is afflicted with political dwarfism. The Democrats started out the year with seven dwarfs. Now there is one. Republicans say many things about George Bush. That he is a political giant is not one of them...
Presidential dwarfism, however, is not a recent condition. When F.D.R. ran for President in 1932, Walter Lippmann described him as a "highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs...
...year when biotechnology begins to live up to its vaunted potential. A number of new products are working their way through the arduous testing process. Some of the most promising substances that researchers hope will soon reach the market: a human growth hormone that combats dwarfism, a protein that may stop heart attacks in progress, substances that diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like herpes, drugs for treating AIDS, and a form of interferon that can be used on several types of cancer...
...products in the next few years, including an agent that dissolves blood clots and could be useful in treating heart patients, and a human growth hormone that has successfully been tested for more than a year and could be available within twelve months to treat children afflicted with dwarfism...
...Laureate Roger Guillemin, got its sample from a patient with a rare cancer that causes overproduction of GRF. Once isolated, the substance, which is structurally simple, was easily synthesized. Scientists now start the process of determining how to use GRF to solve certain growth problems in humans, like pituitary dwarfism. GRF may also be used to treat some kinds of diabetes and to speed the healing of wounds and burns...