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Fifteen years ago, Dr. Terry Ernest, an ophthalmologist, had to tell his own father the news that he so dreaded giving his patients: Your eyesight is progressively deteriorating, and there is no cure for the condition. Despite tremendous medical progress in treating many forms of vision loss, Ernest could do nothing but watch as his father's eyesight slowly faded, eventually robbing him of the pleasure of pursuing the pages of his favorite books or seeing the smile on his son's face. "At one point, I actually apologized to my father for all the tuition he'd paid," says...
...certain they are on the right track. Too many promising treatments for macular degeneration, they caution, have failed to produce discernible benefits. But if they--and other researchers around the world--are on to something basic, then eventually ophthalmologists will be able to help their patients, perhaps not to cure macular degeneration (that would be too much to hope for), but at least to stop its relentless progression...
...AIDS research says people might be developing an immunity to protease inhibitors ? the HIV 'cure' (TIME Daily...
...that September day in 1995, we of the Class of 1999 looked at each other, wondering which ones of us would become heads of state, who among us would discover a cure for epilepsy, which pairs of people in the crowd would become husbands and wives, but we mostly thought about that exciting and formidable pronouncement that one of the speakers made, that this would be the last time our entire class would be sitting in one place until we reunited for Commencement in June...
After all the hoopla over these trials, it may be that AZT is not the cure-all Angell suggests. Recent studies show that even though HIV may be decreased in the blood, where it is measured as an indication of efficacy of treatment, it may still be harbored in higher concentrations in lymph nodes, where it is equally if not more dangerous to the body's immune system. Already, drug-resistant strains have appeared. A recent study from the National Cancer Institute even shows that AZT causes cancer in the offspring of pregnant mice treated with...