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...advanced glycosylation end products. If residue from AGES do indeed gum up the body's works, however, there may now be a way to get things unstuck. Investigators at the Picower Institute for Medical Research in New York are working on a drug that acts as an AGES solvent. Known as pimagedine, the medication dissolves the connections between the AGES protein and the proteins that cluster around it. In one study, 18 patients taking pimagedine showed reduced blood levels of lipoproteins, the substances that act as precursors of artery-clogging cholesterol. In another, rats taking pimagedine did not exhibit...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There have to be some changes to Medicare if the program is going to remain solvent. It's one of the reasons I want to go back...
...merit fund was proposed to correct what some council members saw as a flaw in the grants process--that groups with no cash reserves are given money while financially solvent groups receive none...
Currently, the grants process as overseen by the council's Finance Committee does not give money to groups that are financially solvent, which student leaders have criticized as a disincentive for groups that are financially responsible...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company also has run into scheduling conflicts with the OFA. Co-director Miranda J. Hodgson '97 praises the new Studio 74 rehearsal space and the grant money her organization receives from the OFA "without which we could not stay solvent." But she complains of the difficulty of performing at Radcliffe Dance Center because the Company must clear its stage set (including flats, scrim, strip lights and trees) after every performance to accommodate dance classes given by Radcliffe. Performance, it seems, gets second priority at Radcliffe...