Word: immunologist
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...Americans and ultimately 20 million worldwide. A million Russians may have died of cholera in 1848 alone. But during these scourges there were always the possibility and hope that the fever would lift, strength would return, and life would go on. With AIDS, says Dr. Michael Gottlieb, the UCLA immunologist who is overseeing Hudson's care, "the word cure is not yet in the vocabulary...
...have in some cases tried bone-marrow transplants and infusions of interferons and interleukin-2, another substance produced naturally by white blood cells. But such efforts, like those aimed at arresting the virus, have failed to influence the course of the disease. The answer, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "may lie in a two-pronged approach to suppress the replication of the virus at the same time that we are enhancing the immune response." This strategy, Fauci and other researchers think, will probably involve the use of several drugs...
...have to tell them we have nothing to offer," says Dr. Donald Abrams, assistant director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. One major obstacle, researchers agree, is a lack of federal funds. "The Administration is giving lip service to this disease but not the funding," complains Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University. Federal allocations for AIDS research have risen steadily from $5.5 million in 1982 to $106.5 million this year, but much of the money has come at the expense of other health programs and much of the initiative has come from Congress, not the Administration...
...Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: "What we need to do is apply that know-how and organization to AIDS." Current U.S. trials of antiviral drugs are being conducted in a piecemeal way, often with each research group setting its own standards and protocols. Dr. Martin Hirsch, a Harvard immunologist, complains that it is difficult to learn much from these uncoordinated studies. "My great fear," he says, "is that two years from now, instead of having only half a dozen drugs to consider, we'll have a dozen, all with data that are no more useful than what we have...
Everywhere they turn, doctors are finding evidence that inflammation plays a larger role in chronic diseases than they thought. But that doesn't necessarily mean they know what to do about it. "We're in a quandary right now," says Dr. Gailen Marshall, an immunologist at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. "We're advancing the idea to heighten awareness. But we really can't recommend specific treatments...