Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis, the company said last week that it will cut the wholesale price of AZT 20%, to $1.20 a pill. One reason the company is able to do so is that the potential market for the drug has grown substantially in recent weeks with the discovery that AZT can help a far larger group. A Government study released in August concluded that the drug, besides helping people who have AIDS, can also postpone the appearance of the disease in people who are infected by the AIDS virus but are not yet ill. Since no other antiviral drug has been approved...
...Government-funded scientist in Michigan who was searching for a cancer treatment. Although that application never panned out, investigators at the National Cancer Institute, along with scientists from Burroughs Wellcome, discovered in 1984 that the drug blocks the AIDS virus from reproducing. By some estimates, the help provided by the Government scientists eventually allowed Burroughs to hold its development costs to less than $100 million, in contrast to $125 million for the average drug...
...found only in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. The study, reported in last week's Nature, suggests that Alzheimer's may not begin in the brain, as has generally been assumed. This new knowledge could lead to a practical skin test for detecting the disease and may eventually help scientists learn how to prevent...
When Ralph and Christine Dull of Brookville, Ohio, arrived in the Ukraine last spring, they thought they knew what to expect. After all, they had visited the Soviet Union six times since 1983 under the auspices of international peace groups. They believed the U.S. was not doing enough to help promote peace and understanding, so they decided to take matters into their own hands. "We felt that it was up to the American people to establish contacts with the Soviets." Now near the end of their sojourn, however, the Dulls are finding that their ideals of cross-cultivation...
When he arrived, Ralph Dull thought he could best assist his Soviet friends by serving as a kind of senior adviser who would help the Soviets improve their outmoded agricultural methods. He had not expected to work in the fields...