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...believes a cure is at hand, but researchers hope thalidomide can slow the progress of the disease and buy precious time for patients. In the original test-tube trials, reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the drug appeared to prevent some, but not all, HIV-infected cells from producing any new copies of the virus. Thalidomide apparently accomplished this feat by inhibiting a naturally occurring substance called tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Its purpose in the body is to fight cancer and infections, and a side effect of its activity is severe weight loss...
...eager to use his research to find a diagnostic test and treatment. At a medical meeting in New York City last week, Roses presented fresh evidence and stirred even more interest. No one, not even Roses, believes that he has answered all questions about Alzheimer's or that a cure is around the corner, but there is a growing consensus that the Duke scientist has opened up a promising avenue for understanding and attacking the disease...
...hope in the AIDS fight, researchers have found that a small number of prostitutes in Kenya -- one of the worst-afflicted groups in one of the worst-afflicted countries -- are evidently immune to the virus. If the underlying reason can be found, it might help doctors understand and even cure the disease...
...cure for influenza has always been elusive to researchers: the virus's outer coat undergoes frequent mutation, so a vaccine can attack only one strain. But newly synthesized enzymes designed by computer may be able to kill a wide variety of flu viruses...