Word: curing
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...Perhaps the most tragic example is severe combined immunodeficiency disease, a rare condition in which both B cells and T cells are lacking. The most famous SCID victim, a Texas boy named David, lived for twelve years in a germ-free bubble while doctors searched in vain for a cure for his disease. He died in 1984, four months after receiving a bone-marrow transplant that doctors hoped would supply his missing immune cells...
...stimulate certain immature white cells to mature into killer cells that destroy cancer. Since 1984, when the treatment was developed by Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute, more than 400 Americans have received it. Though there have been some spectacular successes, IL-2 is clearly no cure for cancer. Five percent to 10% of patients experience complete remission, and more have partial ones. But the majority reap no benefit at all. Given the expense and the risks, the treatment has come in for some sharp criticism. Even so, University of Pennsylvania Oncologist Kevin Fox notes that...
...beleaguered Chicago, plans are afoot for a number of similar reforms that would take power and funds away from the city's bloated administrative bureaucracy and place them in the hands of teachers, principals and local parents. One such plan, called CURE (Chicagoans United to Reform Education), comes from a grass-roots movement. "We will place authority and responsibility with the people who are closest to the children," explains Renee Montoya of Designs for Change, a child-advocacy group that is helping to lead the way. Efforts like these, says Boyer, constitute a "new agenda," a critical second wave that...
...long- andshort-term issues. He said that the immediateissues are primarily related to critical care forhospital patients. Over the next five to 10 years,the Institute will attempt to address educationaland behavioral issues for those who have alreadycontracted AIDS. And the long-term goal, Finebergsaid, is to discover a cure...
...wide scope of the Harvard Institute makes it different than centers sponsored by other universities about the disease--which usually target either research for a cure, or responses to the social costs of the epidemic...