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...groundbreaking 1994 cover, which was written by Claudia Wallis, now the editor of TIME FOR KIDS. This week's cover was written by Nancy Gibbs, mother of two, who took a break from her terrific writing on the Washington scandals to tackle something that hits closer to home. Christine Gorman, who writes a popular health column in the Personal Time section, provided a companion piece on the latest medical findings...
...experimental drug T-20 is just that -- utterly experimental. The results of a preliminary two-week study published in the November issue of Nature Medicine suggest that T-20 can reduce the AIDS virus in the bloodstream by as much 99 percent. But, warns TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, that doesn?t make it a magic bullet. "You don?t learn an awful lot in two weeks," she says. "Remember, protease inhibitors worked great at the start...
...penetrating the body?s cells. That?s important, because HIV is a tricky, genetically unstable little customer. The bad news: T-20 has to be injected, not swallowed as a pill, which suggests the drug gets destroyed by the stomach. "That?s not going to be very convenient," warns Gorman. We?ll find out more in the next round of testing -- but don?t hold your breath for the cure...
...each year, the American Dietetic Association was told Monday. Most alarming is the rate of obesity among the nation's children, which has quadrupled to 20 percent over the past 30 years. The reasons? "TV wasn't as ubiquitous then as it is now," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "Kids are a lot less active now than they were 30 years...
...American diet doesn't help: "We're a fast-food country, which makes us more likely to be consuming a lot of saturated fat," says Gorman. And portion size has grown steadily larger over the years. "The only way to address this problem is through changing people's diet and their exercise habits," says Gorman. "In other words, it's going to require an attitude change...