Word: cures
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COLD WAR Are scientists closing in on a cure for the common cold? Researchers report that besides alleviating a runny nose and achy muscles, a drug called pleconaril cuts the duration of a cold by one day. Though that may not sound very dramatic, the way pleconaril works is. Other remedies merely fight symptoms; this drug attacks the cold virus itself, destroying its ability to reproduce. FDA approval is not expected until after this year's cold and flu season...
...GABON Ebola Is Back Authorities cordoned off a remote region along the border between Gabon and the Republic of Congo after confirming an outbreak of Ebola disease. Fifteen people have died so far from the hemorrhagic fever, for which there is no known cure. The virus is believed to have spread from Gabon to the Congo after an infected woman fled to a village across the border with her baby. Both mother and child later died...
...Cure for Hospital Boredom...
...Parkinson's is not your worst choice. It is progressive and, at the moment, incurable. But, like its victims, it tends to move slowly. It is not generally fatal--meaning that there's enough time for something else to get you first. There is also enough time for a cure to come along, which might well happen if politics don't get in the way. And Parkinson's is fashionable these days. It's a hot disease, thanks to celebrity sufferers like the Pope, Billy Graham, Janet Reno, Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox. Even, they say, Yasser Arafat...
...administration does not commit to a living wage floor that rises along with the cost of living, the immense power imbalance between Harvard and the workers who maintain the University will return poverty to our campus within a few years. And in a few more years, its cure will be even more difficult to attain. The HCECP and the Harvard administration cannot diffuse our moral indignation by paying the community lip service with short-term fixes that force it to repeat the same battles every few years...