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Four years ago, doctors came up with the first treatment to make a dent in the spiraling death rate. Today that treatment works for some patients, but it's not clear how long the results will last. And still there is no cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting AIDS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...nearly 35 million people around the world now living with HIV, there may never be a cure. Once cells are infected with HIV, it's excruciatingly difficult--perhaps impossible--to rid them of the virus. The only sure way to stop the epidemic is to prevent infection in the first place, and only a vaccine can do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting AIDS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...drugs alone may not be enough. To contain the virus effectively, it may take a balance between drug therapy that keeps HIV levels low and a bolstered immune system that can then target and destroy the remaining virus. Until scientists find a vaccine, however, they may control but never cure the century's final scourge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting AIDS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...work on penicillin. He would have no further role in the subsequent development of this or any other antibiotic, aside from happily providing other researchers with samples of his mold. It is said that he lacked both the chemical expertise to purify penicillin and the conviction that drugs could cure serious infections. However, he did safeguard his unusual strain of Penicillium notatum for posterity. The baton of antibiotic development was passed to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...American biochemist Linus Pauling touts vitamin C as a cure for everything from cancer to the common cold

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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