Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detailed information about future accidents. While Soviet papers did not report the new death toll, some publications continued to complain about exaggerated foreign reports of the disaster and wildly distorted rumors. One tale making the rounds, according to the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, was that vodka and red wine could cure the effects of radiation exposure. First Deputy Health Minister Oleg Shchepin called that boozy prescription dangerous nonsense...
...announcement of the findings comes at a time when drug treatments are on the rise and psychotherapists are under heavy pressure from health- insurance programs to find quick and cheap treatments that work. Though the art and experience of the therapist may be crucial to a cure, these are factors that hardly lend themselves to scientific analysis, which is one reason that the NIMH study chose talk therapies that can be packaged and dispensed relatively easily. The 18 therapists who conducted the two talk therapies were certified in those treatments after two years of training...
Chemically creating a drug which stops a specific viral function, a method called rational drug design, is not the only way researchers go about looking for a chemical cure for AIDS. Haseltine's lab is also helping to design a drug screening program...
Drug screening programs test tens of thousands of chemicals, first in the lab, and then in animals, to find a drug which might cure or arrest AIDS. The possiblities are gradually narrowed down as a chemical meets or fails to meet a set of criteria...
Even after scientists find drugs which can cure or arrest the AIDS virus, they face additional challenges. In order for the drugs to work patients will probably have to take a lot of them over a long period of time. Therefore researchers have to worry whether the chemicals could harm the body over the longterm. "We must imagine lifelong high dose therapy to keep the virus continually suppressed. We have to think about what those chemicals will do to the liver and kidneys," Haseltine says...