Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High above the street, in Massachusetts General Hospital's Grey Building, behind steel double-doors and space-age airlocks, scientists are busily searching for the "cure" to a deadly disease that may kill hundreds of thousands before it is conquered. The malefactor is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS...
...Martin S. Hirsch and his colleagues at the Harvard-affiliated hospital also work in other, ordinary medical research laboratories, eschewing what Hirsch calls such needlessly elaborate facilities. In the regular labs, they search for a sensible way to control the illness--not for some magical super-cure...
...regulations forbid labeling that "represents, suggests or implies that the food ... is adequate or effective in the prevention, cure, mitigation or treatment of any disease or symptom...
...maldistribution of health care is far too great a problem for the school to cure, Fein says. "There is not much that can be done short of state or federal legislation that would provide incentives for doctors to settle in less wealthy neighborhoods...
...Once I finish this paper, once the semester's over, when I'm done with my thesis.' And then they realize they cannot stop. By the time bulimics come in for help, they may have been bulimic for four years. They come in and say 'make this stop' or 'cure me,"' says McKenna...