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...been 16 deaths among the 137 patients receiving the placebo and only one among the 145 taking AZT. Those being given the drug developed fewer AIDS-associated infections, gained weight and showed growing numbers of helper T cells (the immune-system cells attacked by the AIDS virus) in their bloodstream. The independent review board of AIDS experts, set up by a division of the National Institutes of Health in February, promptly recommended that the study be halted and the drug given to the placebo patients...
...agents -- the interferons, tumor-necrosis factor or interleukins, for example. Last year, in one of immunotherapy's most promising clinical trials to date, Rosenberg's team used the hormone-like substance interleukin-2 to turn certain white blood cells into cancer destroyers called lymphokine- activated killers. Reinjected into the bloodstream with more IL-2, LAK cells shrank or eliminated tumors in several patients. As news of the experiment spread, desperate cancer victims around the country besieged the NCI for LAK treatment. Able to take only a handful of patients, the institute is still turning away hundreds each week. Nearly overlooked...
...collection of Soviet and other East bloc weapons captured from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The point was made. Reagan overrides the print press and captures the electronic image-making tools. The image, without the mediation of language, feeds directly into the brain. Reagan goes directly into the American bloodstream, the American consciousness...
...shape. His mucous membranes were clear, indicating that he was probably not a veteran snorter of cocaine. Dr. Smialek reported that Bias had no more than "an average level of sensitivity" to the drug and avoided attributing the 6.5 mg-per-liter concentration of cocaine in the athlete's bloodstream to an "overdose." "This particular concentration might not kill another individual," the medical examiner said. "On the other hand, another individual could die at a lower level...
...help to cause clotting and provide immunity against disease. Victims of damaged marrow can die within weeks of severe anemia, hemorrhaging and infection. To transplant the tissue, physicians use a syringe to draw out healthy marrow--usually from a donor's hipbone--and inject it into the patient's bloodstream. The marrow cells make their way naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor and the patient must match exactly, or the donated cells must be treated to make them compatible. In Moscow, all the donors were siblings or parents...