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...Holloszy's study, one had had a heart attack and another severe high blood pressure. The rest were in good health, but all of them had become soft from lack of exercise, and their blood contained abnormally high levels of complex chemicals known as serum triglycerides, which some experts now regard as more important than cholesterol in setting the stage for artery disease and heart attacks...
...those serum triglycerides, they fell from an average of 205 milligrams to a healthy...
...difficult choice. He can give toxoid, which takes a while to build up immunity and may work too slowly. Or he can give tetanus antitoxin, which confers brief but prompt immunity. Trouble is, the antitoxin, almost always prepared from the blood of horses, carries a heavy risk of serum sickness, which can be as deadly as tetanus...
Expensive Escape. Every year, said Dr. Christensen, about 500,000 Americans get a shot of horse-serum antitoxin. Some 25,000 get a bad reaction, and about 20 die. Tetanus experts see an escape from such dangers-at a price. Two West Coast companies, Cutter Laboratories and Hyland Laboratories, are extracting tetanus antibody from human volunteers in the form of immune globulin. But the price of one shot of human serum extract ranges from $7.50 to $11.50, whereas the horse serum costs less than $2.00. And even where price is no problem, an overriding handicap remains: human globulin is likely...
...Crimson fifteen finally began playing rugby, not football. It seemed like a different team from their opener against New York. The backs worked together, and play was kept loose, but looseness often meant fumbling. The still-developing Harvard serum just managed to hold its own against a mediocre Villanova pack...