Word: cures
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...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...
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...
...though, is a relatively small matter. Better to celebrate the rise to prominence of Harbison and fellow Symphonists Albert and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who won her Pulitzer in 1983. Like Broadway, the symphony is a fabulous invalid: there is nothing wrong with it that a few good works cannot cure...
...Rotisserians, for whom the stats are the life, have flourished. There are even books: Okrent and Waggoner's original Rotisserie League Baseball, published by Bantam in 1984, and How to Win at Rotisserie Baseball by American Dreamer Peter Golenbock, just out from Vintage. "If I were to discover a cure for cancer, my obit in the Times would still read, 'Dan Okrent, invented Rotisserie League Baseball,' " notes Okrent, editor of the regional magazine New England Monthly...
Retrovir is a palliative, not a cure, and frequently causes serious side effects. Nonetheless, demand is expected to be strong, not only from the nation's 14,000 AIDS patients but from an even larger number with ARC (AIDS- related complex). The question before them: How to pay? About 40% of AIDS patients are covered by Medicaid. In New York and California, Medicaid officials have already decided to reimburse the cost of Retrovir treatment, but other states may choose not to pay for the drug...