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...onset of osteoporosis, a disease that makes bones brittle. Among menopausal women, estrogen-replacement therapy has gained wide usage, despite its risks of depression and endometrial cancer. A newer treatment that received federal approval just last year involves the use of amino-bisphosphonates, a class of drugs that inhibit the cells that govern bone loss...
...breakthrough in OCD treatment came about in the late 1980s, when researchers discovered that a particular antidepressant, clomipramine hydrochloride (brand name: Anafranil), relieved obsessions and compulsions as no others did. The presumed secret of its success was its ability to inhibit the reabsorption of serotonin in the brain. A few years later, the advent of the ssri family made it even more obvious that obsessive-compulsive disorder was at least in part a serotonin problem. Some 75% to 80% of ocd patients today get substantial relief--sometimes complete remission--from one or another member of the SSRIS...
...therapy. "What these patients apparently show is that those genes are not necessary for a person's health," says Wong-Staal. "If it's dispensable for the person but not for the virus, then it's a terrific finding. You could create a mutant copy of CKR-5 or inhibit its expression or use chemicals to inactivate...
...worst worry for teenage girls may be worry itself. Anxious girls seem to grow up to be as much as two inches shorter than nonanxious ones, a study suggests. ANXIETY may somehow inhibit the body's production of growth hormone...
...Pentagon has no enthusiasm for the pullout, and officials hope the desperate consequences it would have for civilians will inhibit politicians from ever ordering the exit. "The plan is limited to the withdrawal of unprofor forces," says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It does not provide for humanitarian or refugee support either during or after the withdrawal operation...