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...Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor M. Judah Folkman--once touted as the man who would cure cancer, then maligned when his research couldn't be duplicated--this week held the first good news in a long time...
This resulted in a flood of initial publicity, capped by a New York Times cover story in which Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA James D. Watson was quoted as saying that Folkman would have the cure for cancer in two years...
Watson later issued a clarification, saying he was still hopeful but backing away from promises of a cure...
Folkman himself was also quick to caution that the discovery of a cure was not imminent...
...justify the risk: although it isn't as good as full-bore treatment, a shorter regimen of two pills a day significantly cuts down on transmission. But even as the news was presented, two new issues arose to complicate matters. The first was an observation that if you cure babies without curing their mothers, you will create a generation of orphans. The alternative, however, is letting the babies...