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...superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind, no matter how effective, are not the solution to the world's deadliest epidemic. But a vaccine, which would address the problem, is not a top priority in Western laboratories. Indeed, with the new optimism on AIDS, some are beginning to talk about reducing funding for basic research. That, according to Piot, would be a fatal error. "As long as HIV exists somewhere...
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the bland "Wake-Up Bomb," which seems rife with the trappings of mid-80s rock and roll. "Wake-Up Bomb" packs on the weight of conventional, driving guitar chords, predictable drum patterns, and, deadliest of all, the title sung over and over again as the chorus, a la "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight." A later track, "Bittersweet Me," has the spastic energy, not to mention the intro rhythms and chords, of the Rolling Stones' "Start...
Dustin's remarkable recovery--from medulloblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of childhood brain cancer--is more than a tribute to the skill of the cancer specialists, or oncologists, who treated him. It is also one of many small but significant mileposts that mark how far medical science has come in its fight against the cluster of diseases collectively known as cancer. The struggle has been long and hard and, unlike work in other medical fields, has produced few really dramatic breakthroughs. But patient by patient, tumor by tumor, doctors are beginning to gain ground. "We may not know...
...public-health experts felt they had pretty much triumphed over infectious diseases. Smallpox was on the way to extinction; polio was all but vanquished; and, thanks to antibiotics, improving sanitation and pesticides, such maladies as tuberculosis, cholera and malaria were on the run. One by one, humankind's deadliest scourges were being wiped from the earth...
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control were quick to reassure the public that Ebola Reston is a markedly different virus from the one that killed 244 people in Zaire last year. Ebola Zaire, as that strain is known, is one of the world's deadliest viruses; 80% of its victims bleed to death...