Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regimen of the capsules will cost from $15 to $18; the tag for six months of use will be a hefty $360. Despite the costs and the limitations as a treatment, health officials are enthusiastic about the new form of acyclovir. "It is a very useful tool," says Mary Guinan, an associate director at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "We welcome it as part of our armamentarium in our war against sexually transmitted diseases...
...every two cases of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a painful, sometimes sterilizing infection that affects about 1 million American women each year. Chlamydia, like herpes, is rapidly becoming the bane of the middle class; up to 10% of all college students are afflicted with it. Says Dr. Mary Guinan of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "Chlamydia is the disease...
...summer of 1931. Millions are unemployed. What people need is something to take their minds off the Depression. Charles C. Flanagan, a flamboyant character composed of equal parts of FT. Barnum, Texas Guinan and unadulterated chutzpah, conceives of a marathon to end all marathons, a 3,000-mile foot race that begins in the Los Angeles Coliseum and ends, months later, in New York's Central Park. To make it interesting, he offers $300,000 in prize money...