Word: celling
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Citing doctor-patient confidentiality, Mellman will not discuss Johnson's treatment or current condition. But in an interview with TIME last week, Johnson acknowledged that he has in the past taken AZT, the antiviral drug typically administered when a person's helper T-cell count drops to 500. (See following story.) Johnson said that he is no longer taking AZT and that his T-cell count is above 500, "but I don't tell exactly what it is because then I'll have everybody talking about it." His health, he says, "has been wonderful. My doctor told me to watch...
...third stage of infection begins when the helper T-cell count drops from an average of 1,000 cells per milliliter of blood to fewer than 500. Doctors tend to treat that number as an imaginary tripwire. When a patient hits it, they issue a prescription for AZT, the original anti-HIV drug and still the most widely prescribed. Unfortunately, AZT by itself is only marginally effective. The virus is notoriously changeable. Within 18 months, it usually manages to mutate into a form that is no longer susceptible to AZT or any of its chemical cousins...
...official diagnosis of AIDS generally is not made until the helper T-cell count falls below 200. That customarily marks the beginning of a patient's final decline. In the past few years, however, doctors have come to realize that the T-cell number doesn't really tell them how sick a person is. Patients with fewer than 200 helper T cells sometimes seem quite healthy, while others with a higher count are already suffering from opportunistic infections, like Kaposi's sarcoma or pneumocystis pneumonia...
...well be that the more sophisticated and effective HIV treatments become, the fewer people will have access to them. This grim new calculus is painfully apparent to Patrick Roll, 41, of Boston, whose T-cell count has dropped below 50 and who takes nine capsules of the protease inhibitor saquinavir each day. Considering that he first tested positive in 1983, he is in remarkably good health. "I'm from a socioeconomic group that had careers," he notes. "We've been able to keep our insurance or afford to take it on ourselves." Not everyone is as fortunate as Roll...
...storage room in the basement of Quincy House, is not an ideal space for a production: it's difficult to light, oddly shaped, and the ceiling is only about eight feet off the ground. Southerland used it well, though. The audience was put inside the cage, facing the prison cell, flanked on the right by the captain's quarter's, and on the left, through a chain link fence, the hallway of the hold. The actors also walked behind the audience. There was a definite sense that you were in the ship (well, if you can truly suspend disbelief...