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Victims of AIDS must not only combat the virus that causes the disease but must also fend off potentially fatal infections that overrun their weakened immune systems. A team of researchers in Boston and Los Angeles, led by Hematologist Jerome Groopman of New England Deaconess Hospital, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last week that a genetically engineered version of a naturally occurring hormone partially restored depressed immune systems in 16 AIDS patients...
...greatest danger faced by volunteers is anaphylactic shock, a sometimes fatal but rare overreaction of the immune system to a foreign substance. A more probable response, says Fauci, will be redness and soreness at the site of the injection, and perhaps a fever. Although no one can get AIDS from the vaccine, recipients who respond to the inoculation may come up positive on the AIDS antibody-screening test. Other tests, however, will show that they are not really infected by the virus. Another potential drawback: the injection could impair the response to a future, more powerful vaccine. Still, NIAID...
...groups for house staff to help them cope with emotional difficulties. In some cases, fear of malpractice suits has served as incentive for medical centers to limit the hours that residents spend in the emergency room or in such specialty services as anesthesiology, where the slightest error can be fatal...
Throughout the summer, anxiety about an air disaster climbed along with the temperature. The skies were judged to be particularly crowded; reports multiplied of near collisions, of overworked air-traffic controllers, of indifferent maintenance. Yet the crash of Flight 255 ended a remarkable two- year stretch without a single fatal accident involving a major domestic carrier. Moreover, 255's demise may have had less to do with unfriendly skies than with the eternal variable of human fallibility. Preliminary reports suggested that the pilot may have failed to take a routine, essential step: extend the wing flaps and slats that provide...
...hits and a fatal plane crash. How many films can be squeezed out of this formula? O.K., The Buddy Holly Story and Patsy Cline's Sweet Dreams were good movies. But . . . La Bamba? Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he, Holly and J.P. ("Big Bopper") Richardson died in 1959. His music is surely worth remembering; his life is hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin...