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Undeterred by the skeptics, the medical pioneer forged ahead and joined forces with a private company to develop his treatment. Now Salk, 80, may get a chance to prove he has one more medical miracle up the sleeve of his lab coat. Last week an expert advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency allow Salk to test his AIDS vaccine on 5,000 volunteers. If the FDA agrees, Salk's preparation would be the first AIDS vaccine to undergo a large-scale trial...
...want to hear: the nation's health is fairly good but should be better, and the failings are mostly not medical. Public health depends more on private behavior--boring, heard-it-before considerations of how much we eat, drink, smoke and exercise-- than on whether somebody in a lab coat squints at a test tube and sees microbes turning up their toes. ``We need to realize,'' says Dr. Alfred Sommer, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, ``that `medical care' by itself still accounts for only a small proportion of actual lives saved...
They arranged to meet in a New York hotel and McArthur arrived first. Shad, looking quite disheveled, shuffled in, dropped an envelope on McArthur's table, still carrying his suitcase under one arm and briefcase under the other and then shuffled out to put his coat and bag away...
...reconsidered. Hanselman did take his council presidency seriously--almost too seriously. During his campaign, he sent reporters thank-you notes on "David Hanselman, Candidate for U.C. President" stationary. His "statements" were labeled "for immediate release." The guy probably showers in a coat...
...graduate student, whose name police refused to release, declined. One of the teens then threatened him with a six-inch, camouflage hunting knife and began to search his coat and pants pockets. The student gave the suspects $80, and they fled from the scene...