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...render SARS less deadly. At present, about one in every 20 SARS victims dies, usually due to swelling in the lungs, a result of the body's own immune-system response. In Hong Kong, doctors claim they are successfully combating the disease using the antiviral drug ribavirin to inhibit the virus combined with corticosteroids to check an overstimulated immune response. Ribavirin works by interfering with intracellular viral replication, slowing the infection's spread within the body. The problem, as microbiologist Professor John Tam of CUHK points out, is that "if you stop the replication, that means you stop the function...
Even when they do not totally ban outsiders, restrictions that limit House residents to one guest also inhibit friends dining together. If three or more friends, all from different Houses, want to eat together, they must eat in one of the rare unrestricted dining halls—even if no one in the group lives in the House. At the river, this means that Quincy and Winthrop are the only centrally located meeting spots for groups of friends, or for group meetings, and this has placed an undue strain on the dining hall staffs and students of these Houses...
Palmer, who also strongly supports divestment, said that the decision to proceed cautiously will not inhibit more radical action in the future...
...even in face of this threat, House lists should remain unregulated. Regulation, though well-intentioned, will no doubt inhibit list members from posting potentially useful, entertaining or thought-provoking e-mails for fear of warnings or removal. Also, as any regulation of House lists will always be unfairly subjective—it shouldn’t be any individual’s job to moderate. Besides, House lists are inherently self-regulating; when someone posts an offensive, asinine or ignorant e-mail, others on the list will likely ostracize this view with condemnatory e-mails or enlighten the issue with...
...around tumors. Kill the formation of new vessels, they reason, and you kill the tumor. Recent studies into thalidomide treatment of some of the most intractable cancers - lung and pancreatic cancer and multiple myeloma - show promising results. Thalidomide has "three exciting properties to home in on: it can inhibit tumors directly, activate the immune system and be anti-inflammatory," says Keith Dredge of St. George's Hospital Medical School in London, who's working with Revamid, a type of thalidomide, in patients with melanoma and pancreatic cancer. "Tumors seem to be able to hide from the immune system, preventing...