Word: chowed
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...February 18, the New York Times reported an amazing discover. Yung-Kang Chow, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D student at Harvard Medical School, discovered a new approach to combatting HIV-1, the most common form of the AIDS virus. Chow found he could prevent the virus from duplicating and spreading through a new technique he called "convergent combination therapy." His method uses three different drugs to render the AIDS virus incapable or reproduction. In the laboratory, Chow was able to overpower the virus...
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would begin testing Chow's new therapy this spring at 10 sites, including Harvard. But all this wasn't soon enough for one patient...
...February 20--two days after the announcement of Chow's finding--Robert A. Rafsky '68 died of AIDS-related complications at New York University Hospital. He was 47, and would have been invited to his 25th Harvard reunion this spring...
Yung-Kang Chow's discovery might have pleased a dying man. But nothing short of a full-fledged cure could have satisfied...
...This spring researchers will try out the combination therapy on 200 volunteer patients. Chow's approach could still wind up on the dustheap of medical history; numerous treatments that looked promising in the laboratory failed miserably in the clinic. Even if it works, the triple-dose treatment cannot eradicate virus particles that have already tunneled their way into human chromosomes. However, Chow's approach might transform AIDS into a more manageable chronic condition...