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...team of scientists, including several from the Medical School, has identified the gene responsible for a disease that causes the walls of the heart to thicken, marking a significant step toward learning the cause of a common heart disease...
...spinal osteoporosis. The treatment relies on sodium fluoride, the chemical used by dentists to strengthen teeth and in toothpaste to prevent cavities. When the drug was tested years ago as a treatment for osteoporosis, it produced severe side effects like stomach bleeding, and while the fluoride caused bones to thicken, they were still easily broken. But the Texas researchers tried giving patients slow-dissolving fluoride pills that released the drug only after leaving the stomach. The fluoride was administered intermittently and with a calcium compound so that the new bone would form gradually and be strong. When the preparation...
...Hopefully now there will be more eights and fours competing," Metcalfe said. "Hopefully it will thicken up the competition for everybody...
...FROM US to meddle in the internal affairs and politics of the Hasty Pudding Club. But when the University--through its subsidiary, Harvard Real Estate, Inc.--decides to rescue the club from bankruptcy by buying the Holyoke Street property, it is not the time for the Pudding to thicken--that is, to thicken the walls between itself and the undergraduate community...
...Many of the people who respond to Petty's letters recognize this and attempts the same sort of humor. The Admiral Lord Hill-Norton writes: "I am excited to think that one corner of a Kenish field is slowly defended. I have a Roger feel that this would usefully thicken up your defenses. If you are not accustomed to their use you can quites suddenly become about nine inches shorter, usually in the non- master...