Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clomid (clomiphene citrate) is a drug that stimulates the pituitary gland to release hormones and so prepares the ovaries for ovulation. Pergonal (menotropins), a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, induces ovulation by directly stimulating the ovaries...
Once, the only treatment for Rh disease was to replace virtually the entire fetal blood supply with massive transfusions before or shortly after birth. Now prevention is possible in the form of a blood extract called Rh immune globulin. Developed independently by research teams in England and the U.S. nearly a decade ago, the globulin acts as a vaccine to curtail the Rh-negative woman's production of antibodies and greatly reduces the risks to future Rh-positive children...
...Friday, Tennis Pro Lornie Kuhle. He is also on a vitamin-based, high-protein diet planned for him by a Los Angeles nutritionist before the Court match. The program calls for Riggs to take approximately 450 pills a day: 100 black pellets of soybean-wheat germ concentrate, 75 liver-extract pills, 75 plastic phials of pure powdered protein, smaller quantities of vitamins E, C, Bl, B2, B complex, one vitamin A pill and several calcium pills...
...Bonn, the first ever by a Soviet leader to West Germany. In the Russian view, the improving relations between Moscow and Bonn can only be further improved by Brezhnev's talks with Chancellor Willy Brandt. More important, perhaps, the Soviets feel that the time is ripe to extract increased practical benefits from the growing climate of detente...
...Antioch's experiments in educating the poor have led to serious financial and administrative strains that have aroused student militants. They struck the campus for six weeks last winter in support of cafeteria workers who had been laid off. Last week, scholarship students and their sympathizers picketed to extract a promise from trustees not to cut financial aid. College employees refused to cross picket lines to collect trash. As part of their protest, striking students piled it in front of the administration building. Professors could hold classes only in their own homes because militants refused to let them into...