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Associate Professor Ray C. Williams and his research group have been studying the drug, flurbiprofen, in an attempt to treat periodontal disease--which causes bone loss around the teeth and inflammation of gum tissue...
...investigating the possibility of using aspirin-like drugs to block a biochemical passway which is important in the loss of bone around the teeth," said Williams...
...study showed that flurbiprofen can significantly slow the loss of bone around the teeth in patients with moderate to severe periodontal disease...
...harder than Jean Auel, the Oregon chronicler of Ice Age romance, to fathom the mysteries of Cro-Magnon life. From her 1980 best seller, The Clan of the Cave Bear, through three popular sequels, including the just-published The Plains of Passage, Auel has fleshed out the stone-and- bone discoveries of archaeology to create a fully realized world for her prehistoric heroine, Ayla. In the latest 757-page volume, Ayla sets forth from her home among the Mammoth Hunters of the Eurasian steppes and, braving blizzards, a locust swarm and a fall into a glacier crevasse, reaches what...
...chemistry prizes are to be announced today. Last week, Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz won the prize for literature. Two American doctors, Joseph E. Murray, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and E. Donnall Thomas, won the prize in medicine for pioneering organ and bone marrow transplants...