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...these efforts can help only thousands; they cannot turn the tide. The region is caught in a double bind. Without treatment, those with HIV will sicken and die; without prevention, the spread of infection cannot be checked. Southern Africa has no other means available to break the vicious cycle, except to change everyone's sexual behavior--and that isn't happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

TIES THAT BIND You don't smoke, you're not overweight and your blood pressure and cholesterol check out O.K. And yet, if a family member has cardiovascular disease, the odds are fifty-fifty that your arteries are silently clogging up too. Researchers found abnormal blood flow in 16 of 32 individuals with a parent or sibling who had the disease. The best way to rewrite this family history is aggressive prevention: exercise, diet and, in some cases, medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Feb. 12, 2001 | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...proper," a colleague recalled, and Thomas loved to make sport with him, get under Ashcroft's skin. At times Ashcroft would leave a room when his colleagues joked around or waxed profane. Ashcroft and Thomas did share a deep knowledge of the Bible, but it didn't always bind them. Ashcroft often quoted Scripture to make a point, only to have Thomas cite a verse making precisely the opposite point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: The Fight for Justice | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Trimeris' compound, called T-20, blocks the final structural contortion from taking place. For this reason it and a second candidate, T-1249, are known as fusion inhibitors. Progenics has been testing a different type of entry inhibitor, a molecular decoy for CD4 whose job is to find, bind and lure HIV away from the real CD4 cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: AIDS | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...just one of several new therapies that work by cutting a cancer cell's lines of communication, either preventing it from reproducing or forcing it to self-destruct. Other signal-jamming treatments use monoclonal antibodies, tiny proteins that resemble the human immune system's own antibodies but that bind to the surface of cancer cells. New York City- based ImClone Systems has an antibody called IMC-C225, now in the final phases of testing in colorectal and head and neck cancer, that acts like bubble gum stuffed in a keyhole. It prevents a specialized protein known as a growth factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Cancer | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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