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...best minds in medicine could not explain the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or why it mainly struck homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Nor could they begin to cure it. Six months ago came news of a breakthrough: scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., and the Pasteur Institute in Paris had discovered a virus that seemed to be closely related to, if not the cause of, the epidemic. The finding was hailed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler as "the triumph of science over a dread disease...
...article in New Scientist magazine based apparently on advance copies of Gallo's papers-a scientific team in Paris rushed to call attention to their own work on an AIDS virus. A Nobel Prize was possibly at stake, and Epidemiologist William Blattner of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) observed: "People are racing to grab the brass ring on this disease...
...discovery will enable doctors to attack a disease that has resisted all attempts at treatment and prevention: 43% of AIDS patients die within a year of diagnosis; no one has been known to recover. "This is the step that everyone has been waiting for," proclaims NCI Director Vincent Devita. Plans for an AIDS vaccine are already being made at Gallo's lab. But the most immediate application of the discovery is a blood-screening test that could be used to protect the nation's blood supply from contamination by the AIDS virus. So far 83 Americans, including...
...Conn., he watched his younger sister die of leukemia. The memory is still vivid: "She was an emaciated, jaundiced child with a mouth full of blood." His sister's pathologist became a family friend, and Gallo grew up accompanying him to his lab. In 1965 he joined the NCI and began the hunt for his sister's killer...
...scientific literature with 'scientific' reports which exculpate their products and focus on the physiological mechanism of cancer. In 1981, industrially supported cancer research totaled $300 million; this amount exceeds the expenditure of non-profit organizations by a factor of four to one, according to a factbook published by the NCI...