Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard baseball team knew that the return of ace lefthander Bob Baxter would be a cure for some of its pitching woes...
Whatever their age, women with small tumors that have not invaded the lymph nodes have a 90% chance of surviving at least five years. As the disease spreads, however, the odds of survival drop sharply. Thus cancer experts agree that a woman's best hope for a cure, whatever her age, lies in finding tumors early. Mammography can detect tumors as small as an eighth of an inch in diameter. By contrast, most cancers detected by patients themselves are at least half an inch in diameter, and have been growing for eight to ten years, says Dr. Ferris Hall...
Scientists someday might also be able to design a permanent cure for VHL, the researcher said. The cure might involve the creation of a special virus that VHL sufferers would be infected with. The virus, known as a "shuttle vector," would insert correctly functioning copies of the gene into a person's chromosomes, Seizinger said...
...that the Pope visits New York. His mission is to urge the UN to end the fighting in Vietnam. but each of the characters wants him to do something else. Bunny wants him to bless her union with Artie--and Artie's songs. Artie hopes the Pope will cure Bananas, so that he can leave her for Hollywood. He also takes advantage of the occasion to write one of his better lyrics: "The day that the Pope came to New York/It really was comical/The Pope wore a yarmulke." Ronnie, tired of being told he is a failure, goes AWOL from...
Schulman called new constitutional interpretations as important as scientific advances that could cure the disease. "Civil rights for Blacks, women and the disabled provide a legal basis for the social resolution of the AIDS crisis," he said...