Word: lancet
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That could some day become a standard question among men and women. Writing in the British journal Lancet last week, Researchers Christer Bergquist, Sven Johan Nillius and Leif Wide of the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, reported progress toward an unusual goal: the development of a nasal spray contraceptive. In their work, they used a derivative of a hormone known as LRH (for luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone). In high daily doses the experimental chemical inhibits ovulation by curtailing the secretion of still other hormones called gonadotropins, essential for the maturing and release of the eggs...
...chemical restore lost or weakened memory? In reports to the journal Lancet, scientists suggest that a hormone found in the pituitary gland may have that effect. The remarkable mnemonic is vasopressin, which was previously known to help regulate the body's water content. The levels of vasopressin in the blood appear to decrease after about the age of 50, just when many people begin to complain of failing memories...
Cook and Dowling made their first report in the London medical journal the Lancet. Now they have additional data prepared for publication, and another physician, Dr. Seymour Jotkowitz of Hackensack, has described an "impressive incidence of contact with sick dogs" in MS patients. Perhaps it is significant that among the many viruses that dogs harbor, one that causes distemper is a first cousin to that of the long-suspected human measles. Whether household pet dogs can ever be proved guilty of carrying an MS-related virus and what that virus may be are still open questions. Most veterinary authorities maintain...
Sidney Wolfe of the HRG said this summer, "The major disease in the U.S. this year related to Fort Dix will not be swine flu but, rather, swine flu vaccine disease." The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, concluded that the swine flu virus "seemed to be not very good at infecting man and may have died out as a result" and implied that the U.S. response to a minimal danger," and suggested that the government stockpile the vaccine and administer it only if swine flu reappeared...
...revival of interest in the existence of what doctors call fetal alcohol syndrome was spurred in 1973, when Drs. Kenneth Jones and David Smith at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the Lancet on eight children with similar birth and growth defects. Their investigation revealed that all were born to mothers who were chronic alcoholics...