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Undeterred by the skeptics, the medical pioneer forged ahead and joined forces with a private company to develop his treatment. Now Salk, 80, may get a chance to prove he has one more medical miracle up the sleeve of his lab coat. Last week an expert advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency allow Salk to test his AIDS vaccine on 5,000 volunteers. If the FDA agrees, Salk's preparation would be the first AIDS vaccine to undergo a large-scale trial...
...patients who participated in the early pilot programs. They fear that if the FDA does not expand the trial, they will no longer receive the shots. And many are convinced that the treatments are helping. Mike Slattery of Los Angeles, who began receiving Salk's vaccine in 1988, cites lab tests showing that his immune system is deteriorating more slowly than might otherwise be expected. "I'm going to live 10 years longer because of this," he says. "This may provide a bridge so that I will be alive when effective treatments arrive...
John Cobuzzi, a technician at the CfA, helps to develop mirros for a NASA X-ray studying telescope. Nestled in a lab filled with imposing rhinoceros-sized equipment designed to measure iridium lenses, Cobuzzi says the best thing about the CfA is "the "people here, the living knowledge...
...maser lab at the CfA is one of only threein the world, and "we make the most here," saysNicoll. NASA is currently commissioning the lab todesign masers which will be used in space...
...want to hear: the nation's health is fairly good but should be better, and the failings are mostly not medical. Public health depends more on private behavior--boring, heard-it-before considerations of how much we eat, drink, smoke and exercise-- than on whether somebody in a lab coat squints at a test tube and sees microbes turning up their toes. ``We need to realize,'' says Dr. Alfred Sommer, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, ``that `medical care' by itself still accounts for only a small proportion of actual lives saved...