Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess I can tell my mother that she was wrong all along. Neither chicken soup nor hot cocoa can cure coldrelated illnesses the way a few tickets to see the Harvard hockey team play at Bright Arena...
Wilson cited the example of the rosy periwinkle, a plant in Madagascar that contains two alkaloids used to cure both Hodgkin's disease and acute childhood lympathic leukemia. The plant is the basis for a $100 million industry...
...Dorothy Gilliam of The Washington Post recently wrote, "In the long run, of course, nothing will change until we cure the material and spiritual poverty that has been allowed to settle deep in the heart of our city's poor...
...containing a gene from the bacterium E. coli into cancer patients at NIH. The gene itself will have no therapeutic power, but it will help the researchers monitor the effectiveness of an antitumor treatment. More important, the transplantation techniques being developed for the experiment could someday be used to cure several genetic ills, possibly including Huntington's disease, sickle-cell anemia and some types of muscular dystrophy. Says NIH director James Wyngaarden: "We have reached an important milestone in medical history...
Nonetheless, there is ample cause for concern. Unlike many other diseases, AIDS remains fatal; there is no known cure. It is still spreading rapidly among intravenous drug abusers. They pass along the virus to those who share needles with them or to sexual partners, both male and female. Women who are part of the drug scene often transmit the virus to their unborn children, almost surely dooming them to an early death. Some researchers fear that AIDS could eventually spread, through heterosexual intercourse, from addicts to the population at large. But so far the epidemic has confined itself...