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...prolong the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer. A small but significant study shows that men whose cancer has spread to their lymph nodes are five times as likely to survive if they're castrated--chemically, with medication, or surgically, by removing the testes--soon after the prostate gland is removed. Most doctors hold off, sometimes for years, in part because of the heavy consequences: libido usually plummets, and many men experience hot flashes, muscle loss and fatigue. These may be a small price to pay for survival...
Wilmut cloned "Dolly," a Finn Dorset lamb named after Dolly Parton, in 1996. The original cell was taken from a mammary gland...
...iron in our food. But people with hemochromatosis soak up 75% or more. The body stores the excess wherever it can--in the liver, heart, pancreas, joints--where it eventually causes permanent tissue damage. But the changes can be subtle. For example, iron buildup in the pituitary gland, which controls hormone production in the brain, may trigger impotence in men and early menopause in women. People of Scottish, Irish and Welsh backgrounds appear to be affected more than others--possibly because their ancestors ate a diet deficient in iron. There have also been reports of greater incidence among Hispanics...
...Great War veteran would grow rich serving the children of World War II vets. His confidence in what he had seen was unshakable. As he noted later, "I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced that the best was ahead of me." He was even more convinced than the McDonalds and eventually cajoled them into selling out to him in 1961 for a paltry $2.7 million...
Which disorders and what symptoms? Generally the thyroid causes problems in two different ways. The more common disorder, hypothyroidism, occurs when the gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone. The body's metabolism slows down, and the patient complains of not having any energy and feeling mentally sluggish...