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...team of researchers can claim responsibility for discovering potential drug combinations that they believe may cure AIDS victims. Their discoveries have sparked new hope among AIDS sufferers, but critics have charged that drugs are unlikely ever entirely to eradicate AIDS...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AIDS Researcher Speaks At Eliot House Banquet | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...their older siblings, not to mention their parents, who attacked life with a single-minded career focus and a no-ties-to-hold-you-back attitude--and ended up with no ties at all. Growing up, Angela Lee had her father's rule of thumb: if a doctor, cure cancer; if a businesswoman, be CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company. After her Harvard graduation, Lee went to Oxford and then was scooped up by McKinsey & Co., the topflight consulting firm. She loved the wardrobe, the dinners at Nobu. But when she looked up and down the halls, she saw "armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUNG AND THE NESTED | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Peterson said he felt allowing doctors to consider suicide as an option for a patient would undermine their ability to cure that patient. This fear was especially present due to the huge hold profitability has in HMOs, he said...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Euthanasia Conference Prompts Controversy | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

Like cancer patients who fly to Mexico for the latest miracle cure, many pet owners take the alternative route because they have nowhere else to turn. "By the time they come to me, the choices are pretty much either try alternative medicine or put the animal to sleep," says Susan Wynn, a veterinarian in Atlanta. Wynn, like all other licensed vets, was thoroughly grounded in Western medicine before she turned to unconventional treatments. Some owners seek alternative pet care because they use it for themselves. Other humans have even started taking their pets' medicine. Glucosamine and chondroiton sulfate, two compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. BERNARD'S WORT | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...suggesting that ginkgo will cure dementia or prevent Alzheimer's. At best, the benefit is limited to a third of patients. But the effect was most pronounced on the subjects who were the least impaired, suggesting that if Alzheimer's is treated early enough, dementia might be postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORE THAN A FUNNY NAME | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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