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...getting their normal exercise. Of the four, Mondale has the highest (but still normal) blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The former Vice President has had hypertension (high blood pressure); he takes several medicines (Dyazide, hydralazine and, lately, atenolol) to control it. Hart had a benign nodule on his thyroid gland removed in 1972, and takes Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid hormone, to forestall any new growths. Apparently neither candidate suffers any side effects from the daily drugs. Jackson has degenerative-disc problems, which cause lower back pain. Reagan (ailments: hearing loss, allergies) takes only vitamins every...
...pervasive boredom and the stifling despair, out of the painful marital situations and the endemic social falsity, into what they take to be a vibrant and desirable life." Kepesh, a randy academic, discovered his freakish freedom in The Breast, a tale about a man who turned into a mammary gland...
Researchers, hoping to avoid controversy, are looking for alternatives to fetal tissues. In the case of Parkinson's disease, says Freed, it may be possible to transplant dopamine-secreting cells taken from the patient's own adrenal gland. Other approaches were discussed at a conference on fetal cell research last month in Brookline, Mass. Among them: the possibility of altering monkey fetal cells for use in humans. Ultimately, as researchers become able to identify the chemicals that give fetal cells their regenerative powers, they may find ways to synthesize these substances or to develop cell cultures that produce...
...gradual growth that a child experiences between birth and maturity is regulated by a powerful hormone produced in the body's "master gland," or pituitary. If too much of the hormone is created, the child may become a giant; too little may cause a rare form of dwarfism. The production of the growth hormone is determined by another hormone, known as growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF). Scientists have known for decades that GRF is produced by the hypothalamus, located in the forebrain. But the problem of isolating GRF and then artificially reproducing it remained unsolved until the breakthrough, reported...
...research on prostaglandin in 1947, almost nothing was known about the hormone-like substance, which had been discovered barely a decade earlier by his compatriot, Ulf S. von Euler. Even the name of the substance was based on the false assumption that it originates in the prostate gland. Over the next 35 years, with Bergström leading the way, researchers discovered that prostaglandin (PG) is not one chemical but a whole family of substances found in almost every tissue of the body. PGS, it was learned, are extraordinarily versatile and play a variety of roles in maintaining normal blood...