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Although there is no known cure, there are treatments that work. In fact, many patients have managed the disease successfully with a combination of simple exercises and medication. Heat treatments, massage and regular stretching have been of benefit, as have such aerobic exercises as cycling and jogging. Though many patients say these exercises only worsen the pain, working through the discomfort can eventually bring relief...
...provide them inexpensively. The health-care systems required to prescribe and monitor complicated triple-cocktail regimens won't exist unless rich countries help foot the bill. If there is ever to be a vaccine, the West will have to finance its discovery and provide it to the poor. The cure for this epidemic is not national but international...
Syabusi's own family is no different. His younger brother is also a teacher who has just come home from Durban too sick to work anymore. He says he has tuberculosis, but after six months the tablets he is taking have done nothing to cure him. Syabusi's wife Nomsange, a nurse, is concerned that her 36-year-old brother-in-law may have something worse. Syabusi finally asked the doctor tending his brother what is wrong. The doctor said the information is confidential and will not tell him. Neither will his brother. "My brother is not brave enough...
While access to antiretrovirals would bring a medical miracle to Africa, it would still provide no more than a holding action. Only a vaccine that could actually stamp out the virus would provide a lasting cure--and that remains tragically elusive. --Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, William Dowell and Alice Park/New York
There is no cure for osteoporosis, but it can be effectively treated by a powerful class of medications called bisphosphonates; Fosamax and Actonel are the only two that have been approved for men. Some physicians also prescribe testosterone supplements for patients with low testosterone levels, and calcitonin, a drug that slows bone loss...