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According to Van Valkenburgh, the elms suffer from several ailments, primarily Dutch elm disease, which affects most elms in the country. There is no known cure for Dutch elm disease...
They're not bestsellers. They're probably not even on class reading lists. But for students searching for the perfect cure for overwork and exhaustion on a Friday afternoon, the Harvard Library System's monthly booksale of discards might be the answer...
...much for their patients, and rarely have patients seemed so ungrateful. Eighty years ago, a sick man who consulted his physician had roughly a fifty-fifty chance of benefiting from the encounter. The doctor's cheery manner and solicitous style were compensation for the uncertainty of a cure. "Medicine originally was mainly talk," says Sidney Wolfe, a physician who directs the Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, "and very little effective diagnosis and treatment...
Even as the FDA was easing its rules, AIDS sufferers were still searching for a cure on the black market for unapproved drugs. It was revealed last week that an underground network of doctors in four cities has been conducting a clandestine trial of a drug known as Compound Q. In test tubes, it can destroy cells infected with the AIDS virus, but it has not yet been proved to be safe and effective in humans. In the unofficial trial, 42 patients have received Compound Q, which is derived from a Chinese cucumber-like plant. Among those taking the drug...
Areturn to American culture may be the cure for America's decline, but Fallows' specific prescriptions for a group of domestic issues may not be acceptable to the patient. For example, the licensing and other regulation of professions--a recent phenomenon that Fallows says creates barriers for competent people seeking new jobs--is certainly not going to disappear in the near future, despite his recommendations...