Word: sandborn
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Desperate for relief, and facing the possibility of radical surgery, Trebilcock went to the Mayo Clinic, where Dr. William Sandborn offered an unusual treatment. He gave the 23-year-old college student a nicotine patch as part of a study to determine its effect on colitis. Normally prescribed to help smokers kick the habit, these patches release a predetermined amount of nicotine through the skin into the bloodstream, where it eases the craving for cigarettes. Physicians have known for some time, however, that nicotine also seems to quiet the symptoms of colitis. So, although the Food and Drug Administration...
...MBTA is always innovating," said George M. Sandborn, reference librarian of the state transportation library. "These trains will take us into the year...