Word: cures
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...This is not a cure. We don't want to overpromise to the thousands of people who have AIDS." Robert Windom, of the Department of Health and Human Services, chose his words carefully as he faced the press in Washington last ! week, determined not to raise any false hopes. Despite Windom's caution, the dramatic news he reported was bound to be en couraging to AIDS victims around the world: early results of clinical tests with an experimental drug called azidothymidine (AZT) had shown that it slowed the attack of the AIDS virus and seemed to prolong the lives...
...other AIDS victims, but only those who have also suffered from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare form of pneumonia that frequently afflicts AIDS patients. David Barry, vice president for research at Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical firm that produces the drug, stressed to reporters that AZT was "not a cure for AIDS but rather a treatment." Over the next few months, he said, "we will be continuing a very intensive research program to answer critical questions about the drug...
...sure, I could move my bed, but that would only partly cure my disappointment with the "spectacular" Quad renovations...
Previous recipients of the prize, which is given each year for medical research and public service, include the physicians who invented the pap smear test for cancer, scientists who developed the cure for syphilis and others who originated the polio vaccine...
...metaphors mix.) Why not attack the root causes? In the context of the Middle East, that means "solving the Palestinian problem." Accommodation between Israel and the Palestinians. The way out of the nightmare. Jews and Arabs living together in historic Palestine. An end to war. Peace as the cure for terror...