Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epidemic continues. An estimated 20.5 million Americans already have genital herpes, and several times that number live in fear of getting it. Their yearning for relief, a method of prevention and a cure for the virus has driven some to extremes; herpes sufferers have been known to try everything from hair dryers to Clorox to heal their lesions. Now, for the first time, it looks as though help and, more important, a means of preventing the disease...
...moral qualms about some forms of genetic engineering. For example, they do not object to scrambling the DNA of bacteria to make possible the mass production of insulin for diabetics. Nor do all of them oppose a possible future treatment that would change the genes of an individual to cure a disease such as hemophilia...
...Norden Laboratories, a Nebraska-based division of the SmithKline Beckman drug company, has been working on a vaccine that inhibits the growth of leukemia in cats. Says Product Manager Reynolds Davis: "If everything goes smoothly, we could have a product out in 1984." With testing nearly complete and a cure rate of 80% to 95%, Norden is working to expand production to mass-market scale...
...thought of treatment, says Psychologist Thomas Burish of Vanderbilt University. "One woman even vomited in a drugstore when she saw the nurse who administered her therapy." Burish has helped cancer patients control their anxiety and nausea through biofeedback and progressive muscle-relaxation training. While the technique is not a cure, he says, "pa-tients do gain a positive feeling of being in control again. It is one of the few things they can do to help themselves...
...long, intricate comic lines that are his art's hallmark, the cameras would turn. And turn. And turn some more, through hundreds of takes. For it was only by studying what Chaplin the comedian had done that Chaplin the director could judge his work in progress. In The Cure (1917), for example, he starts with a simple entrance, pushing a gouty man's wheel chair. Nothing very funny about that. But as the days wear on, that single chair be comes half a dozen of them, and Chaplin turns himself into a bellboy functioning as a policeman trying...