Word: adapation
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...tougher challenge. More than 40 million Americans are uninsured, and some who are insured aren't adequately covered. Some HMOs, for example, consider the cocktail therapy too expensive to offer their clients. To fill at least part of the gap, Congress in 1990 created the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Each state administers its portion of the $165 million budget as it sees fit, however. States like New York and California, which supplement the federal money with state funds, are among the most generous, covering more than 50 different medications. Georgia, by contrast, makes just five different drugs available...
...become so used to the idea that antiviral treatments don't work that they didn't bother to apply for assistance. But as word of the effectiveness of the new drugs spreads, the current clamor for protease inhibitors is likely to become a roar. Already, the Washington, D.C., ADAP has begun turning down requests for new prescriptions. The increased demand on ADAP funding is expected to cause an estimated $100 million shortfall by March of next year...
Last week researchers at Abbott Laboratories near Chicago announced they had developed a new biochemical test that may prove to be highly reliable in detecting a collection of molecules, called Alzheimer's disease-associated proteins (ADAP), found in substantial quantities only in patients with the illness...
...rest died from unrelated causes. Using a simple procedure involving common laboratory techniques, the scientists were able to identify 86% of the patients who had been stricken with Alzheimer's. The scientists expect that within two years they will be able to develop a similar test that would detect ADAP in spinal fluid taken from living patients...
...theological debate with school friends become strangely wooden when, instead of reading them on the printed page, we are forced to watch actors trying to speak these abstractions with realistic spontaneity. As for Joyce's famous epiphanies, they seem disastrously flat on the screen, at least in this adap tation. It falls to John Gielgud to deliver the most famous of them, a priest's vivid description of the torments of hell. He speaks the words well enough, his precise diction giving them something like the burning power of dry ice. But in the truncated form the screen...