Word: bones
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...research areas taken up at this year's Gordon conferences: the structure and function of "endogenous opiates," pain-killing chemicals produced by the body itself, and the new field of bioelectrochemistry that is beginning to draw attention with the recent discovery that electric currents sometimes help knit stubborn bone fractures...
...create human hybridomas. They took spleen cells from victims of Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer in which the spleen is usually removed during treatment. The cells had already been exposed to the chemical dinitrochlorobenzene and were making antibodies. These cells were then fused with cancerous bone-marrow cells, yielding hybrid cells that could churn out the antibody...
...arch can be felt by touching the back). In the normal, healthy back, the facets of one vertebra line up precisely with those of adjoining vertebrae, creating smoothly functioning facet joints. But sometimes a facet dislocates; all it may take is a sudden twist or bend. The bone may begin to press on the tiny nerves that run to it from the spinal cord. Like a herniated disc, facet-joint syndrome can be accompanied by severe pain...
...such tactics some clinics are able to return as many as 65% of back sufferers to productive, if not pain-free, lives. Robert Sumpter, 45, of Modesto, Calif., sought out Hosobuchi after four back operations and a bout with the bone infection osteo myelitis that left him in such great pain that he required constant medication with narcotics. At first, Sumpter had to use the transmitter four times a day. Now he resorts to it only once daily. He also has resumed a life-style that he had totally abandoned because of his addiction. Says he, with undisguised relief...
Physical punishment and violence was a way of life in the prison. Life was cheap, after all, and a conspiracy of silence spread from within the prison walls to the Arkansas borders. But when a prisoner couldn't be controlled by beatings or chainings or bone-crushing labor in the flat fertile prison fields, the trusties used "The Tucker Telephone." They would take the offending prisoner to the infirmary, strip him and attack electrodes to his big toe and penis, which were wired to an old-fashioned rural telephone. By cranking the handle, the "operator" discharged six volts through...