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...majority of victims are elderly women, most of whom suffer from osteoporosis, a progressive thinning of the bones that can leave the skeleton too brittle to withstand even minimal stress. Indeed the bones of the spine can become so papery that they collapse; five vertebrae may fill the space normally occupied by three, causing a protuberance known as "dowager's hump." Says Eleanore Bennink, 73. of Southgate, Mich.: "I was 5 ft. 3 in. when it started. Now I'm 4 ft. 10 in. The pain was horrendous." The condition is prevalent among older women because their frames...
Until recently, treatment has generally been limited to prescribing supplemental estrogen, to slow the resorption rate, and calcium, to facilitate the formation of new bone.* Using a computerized axial tomography scanner, doctors at the University of California in San Francisco are able to take three-dimensional X rays of the bones, measure the loss of minerals and devise an estrogen dosage sufficient to maintain the resorption balance. Says Kaiser-Permanente Endocrinologist Dr. Bruce Ettinger, who does research at U.C.S.F.: "We've been trying to find the smallest dose of estrogen that will prevent osteoporosis. I think we have...
Naggling ailments continue to nip at the necks and heels of number three Chip Robie and five Charlie Duffy. Although both will play today. Robie is nursing a strep throat while Duffy is treading gingerly with a bone bruise on his left foot...
DIED. Samuel Rosen, 84, world-renowned ear surgeon who developed a revolutionary operation for curing otosclerosis, a common cause of deafness; of a blood clot; in Peking. He discovered the technique during an operation in 1952 when he accidentally jarred loose a tiny bone in the middle ear, immediately restoring the patient's hearing. After perfecting the procedure on hundreds of cadavers, he taught the operation all over the world, becoming a frequent visitor to China in the process...
...WIFE, Linda, participates unconsciously in perpetuating Willy's delusions; she pretends not to know his salary has been slashed to the bone and that he borrows money from a friend each week to bring her a "salary." She does not confront him with the rubber pipe he hides in the basement and doesn't tell him she knows he wants to kill himself with it. Linda chastizes ungrateful Biff when he rebels; he is trying to shake off the chains of his father's beliefs about him. "You wretch! You don't know, but I'll tell you! That...