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Boston researchers receive $2.7m grant to study ‘Dowagers Hump’

By Kay Lazar

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 15, 2012

A team of Boston researchers, led by an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has received a $2.7 million federal grant to investigate hyperkyphosis, also known as “Dowagers Hump,” a little-understood condition that causes an extreme curvature of the spine, typically in older adults.

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