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...drop money on them, not bombs. And Congress, he goes on, Congress should have to rescind some old law every time it passes a new one, to make room. Ordinary stuff is Rooney's beat, with no verbal slickery: how doctors can do a heart bypass but not cure a 101 degrees fever, and why do clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed by the happy illusion that he himself could have said all that stuff. Rooney a celebrity? Come...
...becoming the stuff of safe and potent vaccines. And within the next few years, scientists hope to gain federal approval to conduct gene therapy. Their goal: the use of viruses as "vectors" to carry healthy genes to the chromosomes of people with genetic diseases, genes that may permanently cure them...
...immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago. As a result, no permanent cure for herpes exists, and none is in sight...
...viruses that have plagued human beings through the ages, few have cast darker shadows or proved more formidable than the one that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The current AIDS death toll of 15,000 in the U.S. seems small compared with some of the scourges of old. But no cure or vaccine is in sight, and the figure is expected to rise to nearly 180,000 in five years. By that time, predicts U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, 145,000 Americans with AIDS will need health and other services costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually...
...long doses of the drug will continue to thwart the virus. They also warn that AZT has damaged the marrow of some patients' bones and could have even worse long- range effects. Moreover, says Terry Beirn of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, "we're not talking about cure. At the moment, I don't think it's in the lexicon...