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...space shuttle Endeavour prepares for its return to earth, researchers at Harvard Medical School eagerly await the data of an experiment they designed to test the effects of weightlessness on bone and muscle tissue...
Scientists already know that bone cells lose mass when they must live under the influence of the small amount of gravity in space, says Gerstenfeld who is associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. But the reasons behind the loss of mass are unknown, he says...
...William J. Landis, associate professor oforthopedic surgery at Boston Children's Hospital,says he hopes the experiment will provide insightinto the causes for the loss of bone and muscletissue in patients who are bed-ridden or sufferingform osteoporosis. The bones of patients withosteoporosis become weak and break easily...
...year-old woman died of natural causes but in agony nonetheless. She had suffered from arthritis, osteoporosis and malnutrition; her teeth were rotten; and an improperly set broken leg had led to a huge bone abscess. The infant, probably a girl, was malnourished too. Her last weeks had been marked by spinal meningitis and a brain inflammation. The man had been sedentary and overweight; his death at around 50 was sudden, perhaps from a heart attack...
State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) is a moderate Democrat who has a bone to pick with current Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld...