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Implants of cow adrenal-gland cells have been shown to reduce chronic pain in humans. The cells produce natural pain-killing chemicals...
...this, half the task of saving these animals lies in understanding how these products are effective. China, for example, has recently successfully synthesized deer musk, an ingredient in fully 11% of that country's herbal pharmacology. This timely discovery, which will eliminate the need for the animal's musk gland, has probably gone as far to save endangered musk deer as an army of environmentalists. It is not difficult to see how international cooperation in developing substitutes for products from endangered wildlife and subsidizing their use could become a highly effective tactic. Unfortunately, the focus is almost entirely...
Israeli scientists have found that giving elderly insomniacs melatonin -- a hormone produced in the human pineal gland, which regulates sleep cycles -- dramatically improves their chances of getting to sleep. It also seems to work for people whose insomnia is caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders...
...Over the telephone she told me. It looks like you have a tumor in your pituitary gland, but it's really no big deal," Smith says. "It's hard for someone who has just been told she has a brain tumor to comprehend the words, 'no big deal.' I was very upset with the way the information was presented...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, men who have had vasectomies are 1 1/2 times as likely to develop prostate cancer as men who have not had the operation. Harvard's Dr. Edward Giovannucci, who directed both studies, speculates that the reduction in seminal fluids to the prostate gland could trigger the development of a malignancy. But no one knows for certain how that might happen. Moreover, the link is relatively weak. Men who smoke, by comparison, are 17 times as likely as nonsmokers to develop lung cancer...