Word: glandular
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...Joey Ramone Joey was a gangling glandular freak with skin like milk, thin but with wide, girlish hips, topping out at 6'5" or 6'6". He was probably the oddest-looking physical specimen to ever front a successful rock band. He never looked healthy, always pasty and white like something hidden from the sun for a long time...
...DENSE Postmenopausal women, add this to your worries about hormone-replacement therapy. Women on HRT are three times as likely to have "dense breasts" as those who don't use hormones, say researchers. The problem: dense breasts, which are more glandular, look a lot like cancerous tissue on a mammogram, making it more difficult for radiologists to spot real tumors...
...older people too, memory problems may be the result of poor diet, vitamin deficiencies or glandular imbalances (all reversible with treatment) rather than the classic types of dementia associated with old age. Even if a physician ultimately diagnoses Alzheimer's disease--which is done by eliminating other possibilities rather than by a direct test, because none is available other than a brain biopsy--the news needn't be as bleak as it once might have seemed...
...example. We have all seen her, we have been asked for change by her, and most of us, at some point in time, have found the idea of an obese beggar amusing, if not counterintuitive. Maybe she is fat because she eats fast food. Maybe she has a glandular problem. Maybe there is some evil capitalist socioeconomic principle at work and we are all in danger. I don't care. Tell it to your gov section...
...decision will please women who want nonsurgical abortions. It will also give researchers the green light to look into RU-486's promise as a treatment for cancer and a glandular condition known as Cushing's syndrome...