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...Dorothy Gilliam of The Washington Post recently wrote, "In the long run, of course, nothing will change until we cure the material and spiritual poverty that has been allowed to settle deep in the heart of our city's poor...
...containing a gene from the bacterium E. coli into cancer patients at NIH. The gene itself will have no therapeutic power, but it will help the researchers monitor the effectiveness of an antitumor treatment. More important, the transplantation techniques being developed for the experiment could someday be used to cure several genetic ills, possibly including Huntington's disease, sickle-cell anemia and some types of muscular dystrophy. Says NIH director James Wyngaarden: "We have reached an important milestone in medical history...
...trying to adapt their mostly liberal views to current conditions. Virtually counted out when inflation surged along with unemployment in the 1970s, the Keynesians now point out that Reagan borrowed from their philosophy in propelling his economic boom with deficit spending, which Keynesians have long advocated as a cure for slumps. "Keynesianism was vindicated by these last eight years," says Princeton economist Alan Blinder, a leading exponent of the school of thought. Blinder insists, however, that the deficits have got far out of hand...
Nonetheless, there is ample cause for concern. Unlike many other diseases, AIDS remains fatal; there is no known cure. It is still spreading rapidly among intravenous drug abusers. They pass along the virus to those who share needles with them or to sexual partners, both male and female. Women who are part of the drug scene often transmit the virus to their unborn children, almost surely dooming them to an early death. Some researchers fear that AIDS could eventually spread, through heterosexual intercourse, from addicts to the population at large. But so far the epidemic has confined itself...
...many people, the AIDS epidemic is a grim waiting game: they wait for the fateful diagnosis, wait for help, wait for a cure. Now at least part of the delay may be cut short. Cambridge BioScience of Worcester, Mass., announced last week that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a blood test that will indicate in five minutes whether a person is infected with the AIDS virus, vs. several hours for the standard laboratory measure. The BioScience product, which will not be sold to consumers, is expected to help time-pressed doctors...