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Many survivors acknowledge their indebtedness to such modern AIDS drugs as AZT, which is believed to hinder the replication of the virus and is the only federally approved drug to treat the disease. But many also cling to the belief that AIDS can be controlled largely through mental attitude. That is the case with Ronald Webeck, 40, of St. Petersburg, who found "positive thinking" last year, nearly two years after he was discovered to have AIDS. He marvels that he is still alive while more than 50 of his acquaintances have succumbed to the disease. Although he tires too easily...
...seem to matter. Says Researcher James Goedert of the National Cancer Institute: "The study demonstrates that the infected population gets more infectious as time passes, and that the level of risk increases as time goes on." That led Goedert and his colleagues to speculate that early treatment with AZT, the only approved anti-AIDS drug known to inhibit replication of the virus, may actually make AIDS less contagious. "That's among the most urgent questions we have to answer," says Samuel Broder, director of clinical oncology at the National Cancer Institute...
...said the discovery of the drug AZT--orazidothymide--was an important step forward fortreatment, because it has generally been verydifficult to find drugs to treat viruses. "Wecan't expect that AZT will be followed by betterdrugs." he said. "It is very frustrating,especially for those suffering...
...glands without bad side effects, alleviating a problem that vexes millions of men over 40. Other teams are studying cures for cataracts, arthritis, cancer and AIDS. But so are Merck's rivals. London-based Burroughs Wellcome last week won, as expected, the U.S. patent on use of the drug AZT against AIDS, thus giving the company an early lead in that market...
...commission is expected to turn out a preliminary report on the dimensions of the AIDS epidemic in 90 days. Meanwhile, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the drug AZT prevents patients with only a few symptoms of AIDS from fully developing the disorder. Says Co-Author Margaret Fischl of the University of Miami: "The next step will be to try the drug on people who test positive for the virus but have no symptoms...