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...widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers of Americans: heart disease and stroke. That was the implication of a remarkable report published last week in the journal Circulation by a team of researchers from Dr. Judah Folkman's laboratory at the Children's Hospital in Boston...
...drug that is apparently effective against tumors also reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke? The answer lies in the composition of plaque, the fatty deposit that builds up in arteries and can eventually clog them. Plaque consists of a mix of cholesterol, white blood cells and smooth muscle cells, and as it accumulates, a network of capillaries sprouts from the artery walls to nourish the cells. Could endostatin halt the growth of capillaries and starve the plaque...
That's not to say kids who have the smoking habit shouldn't try to quit as soon as they can. After all, there are plenty of other tobacco-related diseases--for example, heart disease, stroke and emphysema--that only get worse the longer you smoke...
...Crimson did stroke five hits, including doubles by sophomore Mairead McKendry and junior Ghia Godfree. But Harvard could not cross the plate until the seventh, and even then it fell shy of tying the score...
...Crimson did stroke five hits, including doubles by sophomore Mairead McKendry and junior Ghia Godfree. But Harvard could not cross the plate until the seventh, and even then it fell shy of tying the score...