Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just what are those prospects? The panel endorsed five-year projections that were made by the Public Health Service last summer. Key numbers: by the end of this year, 35,000 people will have developed AIDS, and 18,000 of them will have died. By the end of 1991, those numbers will multiply to 270,000 cases and 179,000 deaths -- 74,000 new cases and 54,000 deaths during 1991 alone, costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually in health care. Unhappily, these numbers are not mere guesswork: the vast majority of those who will sicken...
Insurance companies are now banding together with university representatives to develop health care plans. TIAA-CREF recently sent a letter to 3800 universities to "start them thinking about the issues" of long-term medical insurance, said Sheahan...
Students laud Brandt for his ability to apply his historical work to current concerns and for his compelling and accessible teaching style. "His course, [History and Science 142] 'Values and Ethics in Modern Medicine and Science,' has helped me develop a sense of social awareness and a historical perspective," says Robert Lowe '88, a biology concentrator...
...role of other infections, use of drugs, poor nutrition, stress and lack of sleep, any of which may weaken the immune system. "If the person's immune system is not compromised by such events," he says, "I believe they will be able to fight off the virus and not develop the disease...
...matter how effective drugs such as AZT and others currently being tested prove to be, they represent only one part of a three-pronged attack on AIDS. Bolstered in June by $100 million in federal funds, Government and industry scientists are also scrambling to develop therapies to help rebuild immune systems devastated by the AIDS attack. "The real goal," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), should be "to simultaneously suppress the virus and build up the immune response in the patient." Other researchers are concentrating on preventing the disease, experimenting with vaccines...