Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patients died within five days of falling ill. Cities were decimated in a matter of months. The scourge was so contagious that, according to Guy, "no one could approach or even see a patient without taking the disease." By the time the epidemic subsided a few years later, at least a quarter to a third of all Europeans -- perhaps 25 million people -- had perished...
Doctors generally agree that they will need a two-pronged approach in order to treat AIDS effectively. In addition to eliminating the virus, they must rebuild the patient's ravaged immune system. That may turn out to be the most difficult goal to achieve; researchers have had little success so far with such natural immune boosters as alpha and gamma interferon. Indeed, AIDS therapy may ultimately prove to be most effective in patients whose immune systems are not yet destroyed -- those who show only early symptoms of the disease or perhaps are symptomless carriers. With drugs like AZT, says Broder...
...five or six times, and, in an effort to protect herself, asks for a complete sexual history and finally insists that he use a condom. O.J. Elledge, a former National Ballet of Canada dancer who is now a counselor to AIDS victims, has seen a "dramatic change in approach to sexuality" among performers. "There is a lot less playing around. It's not the way it once was." But Ty Granaroli, 27, a heterosexual corps de ballet dancer at American Ballet Theatre observes, "Straights feel very secure. That's a mistake...
Part of Sugrue's jumping improvement can be traced to a more relaxed approach to the sport...
Harvard's approach to AIDS also centers on education, said Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 after the speech. There have been a total of six known cases of AIDS at Harvard, according to Steiner, and a small group of central administrators and health officials was formed three years ago to coordinate University policy on the issue...