Sunday, February 4, 2007

GROWTH HORMONE IS TRENDY YOUTH ELIXIR DESPITE WARNINGS

GROWTH HORMONE IS TRENDY YOUTH ELIXIR DESPITE WARNINGS
On a sunny morning recently, an elegantly dressed woman strolled down Fifth Avenue, turned onto East 72d Street and strode past million-dollar limestone maisonettes into the office of Dr. Adrienne Denese. The patient, a fashion publicity agent from the higher rungs of New York society, revealed that she visits Denese's clinic to receive her weekly dose of the 1990s version of youth elixir: human growth hormone.Denese, a trim blond woman with skin that is smooth but oddly hard...
ENERGY OVERFLOWS FOR SENIOR SIPPING FROM ELIXIR OF LIFE
You meet Harold Goodman and figure if he could bottle life and sell it over the counter, he'd top the Fortune 500 list this year.We'd all be standing in lines a block long with our checkbooks out for what this man could sell us in that youth elixir of his. Not some magic wrinkle-reducing cream, hyped on TV in the wee hours. Regular $45 value but if you call right now, yours for only $19.95 because anybody up at 3 a.m. watching TV and worried about wrinkles deserves...

UNFOCUSED ELIXIR SEEKS NEW LIFE
A Cambridge company searching for the secrets to human longevity, Elixir Pharmaceuticals, has suddenly seen its own time horizons shortened. The company's investors, it seems, don't have the patience to keep funding Elixir while it searches for the fountain of youth. They'd settle for a bottle of Evian and preferably sooner, rather than later.The 30-person biotech has been a media darling because of its ambitious goal: to leverage scientific...

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