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...scientists are changing the way they think about AIDS. Clearly, some people can fight off the virus on their own. Over the past five years, doctors have developed more and more treatments to control the opportunistic infections and illnesses that appear in other patients. Scientists may not discover a cure, but if they learn how to control an HIV infection the way diabetes can be managed with insulin, they will have tamed one of the most feared killers of the 20th century...
Stories about medical breakthroughs are tough to resist. A wonder cure. A life restored at the stroke of a scalpel. That kind of article is exciting to writers and captures readers' imagination. This, however, is another kind of medical tale -- one that is more faithful to the way most advances truly take place. It is a story about making many small improvements in patients' treatment and care. It is a story of how each new step builds on the one before until their combined power starts to prolong lives or at least improve the quality of life that remains...
...tuberculosis in New York City had better complete the full course of drug treatment if they want to retain their freedom. Plagued by too many patients who stop taking their medication after a few weeks rather than continuing for the six months to two years needed to achieve a cure, city health officials announced they will soon begin to confine the most recalcitrant patients in hospitals and long-term facilities. Detainees will have legal protections and be released when they finish therapy. Boston and Denver have adopted similar TB quarantines...
...finding will probably shift the focus of the search for a diabetes cure from vaccines aimed at specific T-cell receptors to research on other immune cells, the article said...
...cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy; people from families with histories of these diseases can now be tested for the faulty gene long before any symptoms show up. But little testing has been done so far because the diseases are relatively rare and the results are merely informative; no cure is yet available, and if the test is positive, there is little action the recipient can take, except to avoid having children, who might inherit the gene...