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Word: giuntoli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during delivery it can be transmitted to the infant; it is also linked to cervical cancer. For years, doctors have searched for a cure. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may have achieved that goal. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Herbert Blough and Robert Giuntoli report testing a cream containing the sugar 2-deoxy-D-glucose on 36 women with genital herpes infections. Within four days, it cleared up symptoms in 90% of the women with first infections. For women with recurring infections, improvement was almost as dramatic. A next step: to see if this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 9, 1979 | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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