Word: cures
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...week after administrators changed Thayer Hall's locks to keep out all non-residents, students in the dorm report no more incidents of vandalism, but some complain that the cure has proved worse that the disease...
...reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using prescription medicines know much more than how often the average person should take them, according to the American Pharmaceutical...
...said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that when investigators traced 21 cases back to their source, they identified raspberries grown in some regions of Guatemala as the culprit. The fruits were contaminated with microscopic parasite that infects the small intestine and causes watery diarrhea. Antibiotics cure the infection, but diarrhea and other symptoms can last weeks. ? Jenifer Mattos
...full stomach, so it can be hard to stick to a regimen. Yet if patients skip even a single dose of any one drug, the HIV could press this small advantage to mutate into a strain that resists all current medicines. Nor is everyone so sure that a cure is in sight. "Virologists have started using that word," says Dr. Donald Abrams of the University of California, San Francisco. "You're not going to hear me use it. I think it's irresponsible...
...reproduce. Hundreds of desperately ill patients are regaining their health. As scientists prepare to attend the 11th International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, Canada, next week, an unprecedented sense of hope has started to spread among physicians and patients alike. Doctors are even daring to whisper among themselves that a cure could be at hand...