Word: gel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...range of disorders, including heart disease, transplant rejection, stroke, arthritis, shock and cancer. Michael Gimbrone Jr., head of vascular research at Harvard Medical School, predicts "a whole new generation of therapeutic interventions." Several drugs are now being tried on humans, and early next year the first of them -- a gel that spurs wound healing -- will enter the final U.S. government approval process...
...really didn't gel until the last month, but when we did we saw what we could really do," Lyons continued...
RESTRICTING IMPLANTS: Silicone-gel breast implants are suspected of triggering deformity and disease. An expert panel recommended in February that their use be restricted, and FDA Commissioner David Kessler now agrees. Only women whose implants are leaking and need replacement or who need reconstructive surgery will get them...
...didn't expect the team to gel so quickly. Everyone's putting in a tremendous amount of effort," Kleinfelder said...
...Corning Corp., which pioneered silicone-gel breast implants in 1962, last week became the third manufacturer to abandon the market. The target of hundreds of lawsuits that could cost the company $1 billion, Dow Corning finally succumbed to the national furor that erupted over allegations that the implants can cause major health problems...