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...assault over the past decade. The immediate result is a crop of new, highly specific antidepressant drugs that offer fast relief with relatively few side effects. Today depression can be treated -- quickly and effectively -- in 7 cases out of 10. If a second round of treatment is required, the cure rate jumps...
Nonetheless, it is doubtful that the first Russian-American summit did Bush much good. He is in such poor political shape that Yeltsin, world peace and a cure for the common cold might not revive him. The public's regard for the dithering President has sunk to all-time lows: more than 50% of those + questioned in a recent survey disapprove of his handling of his job. "Bush had a pretty good substantive week," said a campaign official last Friday, "but the sad thing is that what we do has very little effect on folks. He's had such...
Despite energetic research into the nature and mechanics of the allergic immune response, and some improvement in treatment, no easy, surefire cure is in sight. Without question, says Washington University's Wedner, "the very best way of curing an allergy is to take away the allergen. No one is allergic to something that isn't there." In a few cases, that prescription is simple. Sufferers can get rid of the cat, for example, or avoid obviously allergenic foods and switch to nonlatex (but more expensive) gloves...
Permanent cures are more elusive. But for more severe allergies, doctors have had some success with a course of treatment that resembles the folk- medicine cure for hangover: patients are immunized with a little hair from the dog that bit them. In this seemingly primitive therapy, allergy shots consisting of allergens taken from such exotic sources as cat saliva, dust- mite droppings and pollen and mold spores are often administered over a few years. Early on, the shots are given as little as six days apart, but as the treatment progresses, the frequency of shots is decreased until it levels...
Most doctors are convinced that a faster, more successful cure for allergies is bound to come. Using molecular-biology techniques, researchers have already identified IgE receptors on the mast cell, basically little berths in which the antibody docks. If they can find or synthesize another substance that blocks those receptors, they can prevent IgE from docking and unleashing the mast cell's stream of debilitating chemicals. And as scientists isolate and analyze more and more human genes, they may find the ones that, when defective, cause allergic reactions. Such discoveries could quickly lead to precise tests for allergies and eventually...