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BONING UP Women with osteoporosis may reduce the risk of spinal fracture by 50% with the drug raloxifene--one of the new alternatives to bone-building estrogen being prescribed to postmenopausal women. Not bad, considering that two months ago data suggested a remarkable side benefit to raloxifene: the drug may lower the risk of breast cancer as much as 70%.
BRING HOME THE BACON Given the serious shortage of human organs available for transplant, scientists have been hoping that parts harvested from pigs might suffice. One concern, however, has been whether a virus called Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus, which hides in...
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