Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, of course, is that HIV takes no such breaks. When the pills stop, the virus roars back--except sometimes it doesn't. Last week researchers at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center reported on four patients who started taking cocktail therapy early and then took a cocktail break. In two of the patients, the virus rebounded and remained at high levels until they went back on their medications. But in the other two, intriguingly, the virus spiked briefly and then went into hiding--staying below detectable levels for at least 14 months...
While patients like these are rare, their cases raise interesting questions. Could it be that the HIV spikes function as booster shots, priming the body's immune system to rally against the virus? Already, several aids-research teams have begun systematically weaning a few patients off their cocktail therapies to see whether the brief drug holidays might somehow be stretched into a permanent vacation...
Currently, the dominant treatment for HIV involves a cocktail of drugs that attack the virus once it has infected. The drugs can significantly reduce the presence of the virus but there is little evidence to suggest that it can actually cure the virus...
...conference ended with a cocktail reception,a presentation of artwork to commemorate the 40thanniversary of female students at HBS and aperformance by "The She-E-O's," HBS's female acappella group...
...chance they might be wrong. Stratfor, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice. The Web's resources provide such a tremendous advantage that the Stratfor team has already been able to do away with at least one staple of 20th century spycraft. Says Friedman: "We never go to cocktail parties...