Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby corridor, a very different scene unfolds. A woman who is six months pregnant undergoes an abortion. Her decision to end the pregnancy so late most likely involves some kind of tragedy: the child she is carrying is seriously defective or perhaps she has learned that she has cancer and requires immediate treatment that would poison her child. Whatever the reason, the aborted fetus is just a few weeks younger than the preemie staffers are furiously working to save...
...gimmicky contests that gave audience volunteers a chance to lead his band, and whose first major musical success, a version of the title song from the movie Rosalie, in 1937, was followed by such hits as The White Cliffs of Dover, Daddy, Remember Pearl Harbor and Harbor Lights; of cancer; in Ridgewood...
...know more about this virus than perhaps any virus one wishes to discuss," declared Dr. Samuel Broder of the National Cancer Institute. But as researchers presented their findings at the International AIDS Conference in Washington last week, it became clear that there is no immediate hope of discovering a vaccine to inoculate people against the AIDS virus. And few new drugs are on the horizon that might alleviate or cure the disease. Said Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "The strides made in the molecular biology of the virus are just phenomenal...
...that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world had been able to reproduce Pert's results...
...American health officials are concerned about the growing popularity of self-medication with drugs purchased south of the border. "Anyone who buys drugs without a prescription is taking a terrific risk," says Dr. Laurance Nickey, director of the El Paso City County Health District. Thousands of American cancer patients still flock to Mexican clinics each year for treatment with Laetrile, whose alleged curative powers have been discredited by U.S. health authorities...