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...perspective. After all, the reasons for conversion are economic: it is important for U.S. industry to compete in international markets, but there is no particular value in changing the weather report on the nightly news. For most Americans, it seems, an ounce of prevention was worth a kilogram of cure...
Decades after it was first reported, fatigue syndrome still lacks a formal name, a cause or a cure. It saps both physical and intellectual reserves, producing symptoms that include swollen glands and fever. Its most devastating physical effect is extreme exhaustion. People use similar words to describe the weakness ("It's hard to lift my coffee cup," "It's like an anvil on my chest"). Many sufferers report suicidal depression and mental impairments, such as flawed memory and inability to read...
...Cancer Institute. But as researchers presented their findings at the International AIDS Conference in Washington last week, it became clear that there is no immediate hope of discovering a vaccine to inoculate people against the AIDS virus. And few new drugs are on the horizon that might alleviate or cure the disease. Said Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "The strides made in the molecular biology of the virus are just phenomenal. But that hasn't yet translated into something we can use to stop...
Even as President Reagan urged "routine" screening of immigrants and marriage- license applicants, experts argued over how best to combat the disease. In Washington and around the world, governments are reacting to a possible pandemic with programs -- and politics. Sadly, no immediate hope of a cure or vaccine emerged from the third International Conference on AIDS...
Increasingly, outraged spouses and lovers -- most of them women -- are suing their partners for infecting them with the sometimes painful and debilitating condition. Genital herpes, most commonly caused by the herpes simplex Type 2 virus, is thought to have infected up to 20 million Americans, and has no cure. The surge of litigation is largely based on the claim that one partner did not inform the other about his or her infection. This, the suits often charge, constitutes negligence...