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BOSTON--Discoveries reported in recent days are peeling away the mystery from Alzheimer's disease and pointing toward the cause and perhaps the cure of the leading cause of senility among elderly Americans...
...such cure exists for Alzheimer's disease, and none is imminent. But another new study suggests a possible way to at least relieve some of the worst symptoms. Dr. William K. Summers of the University of California, Los Angeles, last week published his experiments with a long-forgotten drug that seems, at least temporarily, to sharpen victims' memories...
Learning about this gene and the protein it makes could help scientists understand the underlying mechanisms that go awry when Alzheimer's strikes. Such basic insights should be valuable for tailoring a treatment or cure for the disease...
Despite the high hopes raised among AIDS patients by the experimental drug AZT, the panel predicts that development of a safe, effective drug to halt or cure the disease or a vaccine that would prevent infection looks to be at least five years away. The time could be even longer, the panel said, if efforts are not stepped up greatly now. In France, however, some AIDS researchers appear more hopeful. Dr. Marc Girard of the Pasteur Institute in Paris announced last week that a vaccine developed there should be ready for human trials sometime next year. The vaccine was developed...
Nevertheless, although AIDS may be difficult to acquire, it is impossible to cure. At the very least, AIDS now threatens anyone who is promiscuous. The risk of the illness, said one AIDS researcher, "doesn't mean an end to sexual life. It means a rethinking...