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...Joan Scala, a young couple in sales management and owners of a large four-bedroom home in Jamison, Pa., sought help from Dana Noonan of Decorating Den. For $5,000, Noonan finished the dining room with a new rug, a lambrequin over the windows and matching chair cushions, designed a sunny "Florida" solarium adjacent to the newly outfitted family room, and dramatized the guest bathroom with mauve, black and white accents. The Scalas are happy with the result. Says Joan: "I'm saving money in that I count my time as valuable...
...AIDS virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world had been able to reproduce Pert's results...
Doctors studying a common type of tumor at the Harvard-affiliated Dana Farber Cancer Institute have developed a treatment that has yielded encouraging preliminary results, according to reports published in today's New England Journal of Medicine...
...patients treated in the Dana Farber study, 65 percent are now disease-free, with several of them out of treatment for as long as five years. The mortality rate in the study was less than 5 percent, far lower than the approximately 75 percent death rate of other types of treatment, said Dr. Lee M. Nadler, one of the 12 researchers...
...Dana Farber study has a high survival rate in part because of the methods the researchers used to select the patients treated with the new treatment. "Selecting the patients leads to a very low mortality rate and very high success rate," Nadler said...