Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AIDS. In the quite understandable attempt to get public support, it fixed on a strategy of claiming that AIDS was everyone's problem. Since we were all potential sufferers -- anyone can get AIDS, went the slogan -- society as an act of self-protection should go all out for cure and care...
...people with AIDS have got it through homosexual sex and/or intravenous drug use. The NIH demonstrators, therefore, now appeal less to solidarity than to guilt: every person who dies is more blood on the hands of a society unwilling to give every dollar demanded for a cure...
...refuse either to treat or research lung cancer simply because its sufferers brought it on themselves. But we would find it somewhat perverse and distasteful if lung cancer sufferers began demonstrating wildly, blaming society and government for their problems, and demanding that they be first in line for a cure...
What is a TV viewer, particularly one who has AIDS, to make of this story? Is the treatment a miracle cure? Or is it a mirage that cruelly raises the hopes of AIDS sufferers -- the medical equivalent of cold fusion? No one, and certainly not journalists, can know the answers. The case illustrates the press's growing lack of restraint in medical coverage, especially where AIDS is concerned. CNN called the treatment "experimental and controversial," but by leading off newscasts with the story and cutting to the hospital for frequent live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood...
...little more than an hour, the body's temperature reaches 108 degrees F, and it is kept there for an additional two hours. Crawford came through the operation with no ill effects, as did Tony -- so far. Logan and Alonso were careful not to call their treatment a cure for AIDS. Said Logan at a press conference: "It may not be the total answer. We're not expecting that really...