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...both the drugs and the blood tests. If the nodes are clear, Ho plans to take some of the patients off their medication and see whether HIV bounces back. And if the biopsies do turn up infectious particles, Ho will have to choose another ingredient to add to his cocktail. Either way, Ho says, "the whole field has progressed in such a way that people are beginning to address the question--which was unheard of before--of eradicating the virus...
...center of this optimism is a bold new approach to AIDS treatment called combination, or cocktail, therapy. It's a simple idea: HIV mutates so fast it eventually becomes resistant to any drug that doctors throw at it. Two drugs, attacking the virus in two different biochemical ways, can keep HIV off balance and make its evasive tactics harder--though not impossible--to sustain. But even a slippery virus like HIV can't deal with a three- or four-pronged assault. So said computer models, at least. But until late last year, no one had come up with a third...
Doctors first tried the treatment on their sickest patients. Not everyone responded or could even tolerate the combination of powerful drugs. But in a number of cases, the cocktail forced the disease into remission. Doctors watched in amazement as their patients' blood tests showed a precipitous drop in the amount of HIV. "We have seen patients whose viral load has gone below our ability to find it," says Dr. Paul Volberding of San Francisco General Hospital. "The question is, Can we keep it that low, and what will happen to the body with that kind of treatment?" There...
...International AIDS Society to announce new treatment guidelines next week. Scientists are starting to isolate naturally occurring compounds called chemokines that appear to protect some people who are infected with HIV from the effects of the virus. These substances could form the basis for a future, even more powerful cocktail. For the first time in a long while, it doesn't seem naive to dream that there will one day be an end to AIDS...
...plot are mimed-out with plucky good-naturedness by the cast, which is completely dominated by its women. Deneuve looks so breakably pure as Genvieve, replete with little bows and white gloves, that even she seems relieved by her deflowerment. Her feline mother slinks about in tight black cocktail dresses and blood red suits, exuding sheer power via over-ripe sensuality and bartering Genvieve off to the highest bidder. Madeline, the 'plain girl' whom Guy eventually settles for, looks exactly like the goody-good martyr she is, with immaculately well brushed hair and the inevitable hairband. Measured against these luscious...