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...only stay in denial so long," Clinton told TIME. "He was exposed to two articles by people--I'm ashamed to say they were Americans--who said HIV doesn't cause AIDS, and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound up spawning some more virulent, drug-resistant strains." But by the time Clinton was in Johannesburg in July for Nelson Mandela's 85th birthday, Mbeki had come around. "He said, 'You'll promise me these drugs will be administered with...
...only stay in denial so long . . . He was exposed to two articles by people - I'm ashamed to say they were Americans - who said HIV doesn't cause AIDS , and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate substantive issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound up spawning some more virulent, drug-resistant strains. But we just kept on working...
Until recently, the outlook for patients with drug-resistant TB could not have been gloomier. The last major anti-TB drug, rifampin, was approved more than a quarter-century ago. In the interim, the TB bacillus has managed to develop resistance to the cocktail of drugs physicians have long used to treat it, including that old standby streptomycin. New drugs, with different mechanisms of action, would be a great help, particularly if they shortened the present six months' time required for treatment. The linezolid family, for example, appears to hold some promise, as does a compound the Seattle-based PathoGenesis...
...when Celine was 19, he enlisted in the cavalry and was wounded -in the arm, not the head, as he often claimed. After World War I he worked on a Rockefeller Institute project in France as an anti-TB propagandist, screaming at Breton villagers to boil their milk. He got into medical school, it was rumored, only by marrying the daughter of the head of the faculty...
...Corning (for charging widely different prices in neighboring countries). EEC regulators have forced the dissolution of a price-fixing aluminum cartel, broken up a sugar price-fixing arrangement, and punished with a $200,-000 fine the Italian subsidiary of New York-based Commercial Solvents Corp. for refusing to sell anti-TB drugs to an Italian company that had resisted a takeover bid. Some 40 department detectives now show up without warning at company offices throughout the EEC and poke into files...