Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, AZT is not a cure and has a number of serious drawbacks. It must be taken every four hours around the clock to be effective, and can cause severe bone-marrow damage and anemia in some patients. "It's not an answer, and it's very toxic," says Polk, of Johns Hopkins. "Probably half of our patients on AZT will require weekly or bimonthly blood transfusions...
Captain EO kicks into gear--Not that it doesn't land running to begin with--when Anjelica Huston takes the screen as the B-Bad to the B-Bone Evil Queen. She's amazing. Or rather, it's amazing...
...halting the test robbed researchers of the chance to judge, under controlled conditions, any long-range effects of AZT, which might be as dangerous as the untreated disease. In fact, some people taking AZT have developed anemia and suffered bone-marrow degeneration. "AZT may be a genie that we are letting out of the bottle," says Dr. Itzhak Brook, chairman of the FDA advisory committee and the only dissenter in the vote. Dr. Maxime Seligmann, a French immunologist who has experimented with AZT at the Hopital St.-Louis in Paris, agrees: "There simply isn't enough knowledge about the benefits...
...pulls his feet together and deferentially drops his head. Even the flustered moral indignation he displays under attack has an old-world quality. He is not self-pitying, and the business of getting even -- a favorite pastime of other politicians -- does not interest him. "There isn't a bitter bone in the guy's body," says an old congressional friend...
...Bowen served as a general practitioner for more than a quarter of a century in Bremen, Ind. He knows about the ravages of long illness personally as well as professionally: his first wife Beth spent the last three months of her life in a hospital before she died of bone cancer in 1981. The experience was "devastating emotionally," Bowen recalls, adding, "We have all seen how devastating illness can destroy the financial security of a family...