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...from 155 pounds to less than 80. Those who saw his body, and there were thousands who filed through the parlor of his project home, said two Bobby Sands could have fit in the coffin, that his face, what face was left, was yellow wax, stretched tight over sharp bone. Bobby Sands is a hero...
...child is born with a putty face: gaping hole for a mouth, eyes spaced widely apart, the facial bones not yet developed. Another, born without any bone in his nose, has nostrils projecting forward so grotesquely that his face resembles that of a pig. A third youngster loses his jawbone in an accident, and, as a result, his teeth are about to fall...
...children with such horrific structural defects, the only solution is extensive and grueling surgery. Doctors take bone from the patient's own body, usually from the ribs or hips, and graft it to the existing bone in the head and face. Unfortunately, the patient has a limited amount of spare bone, the "harvesting" process can mean additional trauma, and frequently the transplanted material is absorbed back into the body before new bone has formed. But now doctors may have a way of overcoming these difficulties. Last week Boston researchers announced that they had made successful repairs in more than...
Researchers at the Medical School and the Children's Hospital Medical Center last week announced that they had perfected a method for inducing bone growth by using crushed cadaver bones instead of bones removed from patients' bodies. Osteoinduction--the name of the new process--should be 100-per-cent effective, compared to grafting's success rate of 65 per cent, Julie Glowacki, head of the research team that developed the new process and an associate in surgery at the Med School, said last week. Using the new process, doctors implant demineralized bone matter into the site where bone growth...
...Americanized from Ibsen's Torvald. His mugging and blustering gives the character a sort of musical comedy quality; a cute shallowness. His tone never changes. He's not believable for a second as an ambitious, willful man, tortured by the demands of respectability--he's just a sissy, a bone-headed dolt...