Word: cure
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...wants to play basketball, pure and simple. But our society almost demands him to rap, (his compact disk is a real Christmas treat) make movies, find a cure for cancer, and if there's time, teach young kids how they should lead their lives...
...tumors were injected with the gene HLA-B7, which produces a protein that can help the immune system fight the cancer. In all five patients, the genes safely entered the tumor cells and began making protein, and in one case the tumors shrank. The technique is no miracle cure, but the experiment adds a promising new weapon to the arsenal of genetic medicine...
...major drive to find a cure for AIDS was announced last week by Donna Shalala, President Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Researchers from the private sector, gay activists and government officials were teamed up to accelerate the search for an effective treatment. Yet even highly optimistic observers do not expect a cure to be found before the end of this century. Still, as the Shalala announcement's exclusive focus on cure highlights, it is not acceptable to explore publicly the measures that could curb the spread of the disease by slowing the transmission of HIV, the virus...
...physicians caution that taxol is not a cancer cure. "I've been giving it to patients who won't be cured by it," says Dr. Louis J. Ayash, an instructor in medicine at the Medical School. "It will never clearly get rid of the tumor...
...This is a molecule that a tree makes," says Jacobsen. "A tree isn't trying to cure ovarian cancer, but it has given us a great clue as to what might work...