Word: cures
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Inspired by a friend who had stopped drinking, Wilson went to meetings of the Oxford Group, an evangelical society founded in Britain by Pennsylvania Frank Buchman. And as Wilson underwent a barbiturate-and-belladonna cure called "purge and puke," which was state-of-the-art alcoholism treatment at the time, his brain spun with phrases from Oxford Group meetings, Carl Jung and William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, which he read in the hospital. Five sober months later, Wilson went to Akron, Ohio, on business. The deal fell through, and he wanted a drink. He stood in the lobby...
...cure for cancer might be modern medicine's holy grail, the greatest medical discovery since the polio vaccine...
About one year later, a front-page article in the New York Times led a media blitz that managed to blow even this important discovery out of proportion, making Folkman sound steps away from a cure for cancer in humans...
...media's response to his work has been puzzling to Folkman, who stresses he never used the word "cure"--"only the New York Times did." He also says his positive results in trials with mice did not seem to warrant the front page of the Times, since the so-called "third generation" drugs used in his research--angiostatin and endostatin--have yet to be tested in humans...
...firm believer that cancer will not be cured per se,"he says. "Rather it will be managed much like we now manage tuberculosis or diabetes. In sum, if [anti-angiogenesis therapy] is not a cure it will break the back of the disease...