Word: cures
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...invisible legions of malevolent microbes are fighting back, and medicine is no longer so confident of winning the battle. Not only have many diseases caused by viruses, such as AIDS, proved to be extraordinarily difficult to cure, but even old, easily treated bacterial ailments do not always respond to drugs as they once did. Using marvelous powers of mutation, some strains of bacteria are transforming themselves into new breeds of superbugs that are invulnerable to some or all antibiotics...
...Vienna, and the fog is nearly as thick as Schlag on the strudels. Friedrich Nietzsche and Dr. Joseph Breuer, an early associate of Freud's, are striking an odd bargain. The physician will try to cure his patient's migraine attacks; the philosopher will treat the doctor's deep- rooted angst. Soon their roles reverse: healer becomes sufferer and, voila!, the psychoanalytic revolution begins. In WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT (Basic Books; $20), psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom imagines an encounter between two < real people who never met. The novel is strewn with italic sentences to highlight his characters' head-smacking insights. Still...
...where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
There is no vaccine, no cure and not even an indisputably effective treatment. While AIDS education has slowed the epidemic in developed countries, the disease continues to spread rapidly in many poorer nations. The World Health Organization says at least 30 million people around the world could be infected with the AIDS virus by the year 2000. Other experts think the number could reach 110 million...
...news, if a new virus does exist, is that AIDS will become even harder to prevent or cure. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist. Only last year a group of promising anti-AIDS drugs had to be shelved because HIV adapted too easily to the medication. And drugs that prove effective against all forms of HIV will not necessarily knock out an entirely novel virus...