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...could possibly make the immune system impervious to HIV attack. Another promising line of research centers on a group of molecules called chemokines, which may one day be used to shield cells from HIV. Other scientists, including Ho, are intensifying their search for a vaccine. Two weeks ago, the nih increased its budget for AIDS-vaccine research 18%--to $129 million--and named Nobel-prizewinning molecular biologist David Baltimore to head the effort...
...also lies in the priorities of those funding the research. Even after the announcement two weeks ago of a new AIDS-vaccine initiative at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, vaccine research remains the poor stepsister of the anti-AIDS effort. It still constitutes less than 10% of NIH's overall AIDS budget...
...National Institutes of Health (NIH) will test the new vaccine during the next year to prove that it is safe enough and works well enough to administer...
...company is working with the NIH to determine whether the vaccine would harm the fetus. The vaccine may possibly be used on teen-age girls, to give them antibody protection before they become pregnant...
...Joseph Jacobs, a former director of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and a Yale-trained physician, feels the present distinction between alternative and conventional medicine will eventually be blurred. Jacobs, whose father was part Cherokee and mother a full-blooded Mohawk, appreciates how folk medicine can effectively combine with modern methods: his mother used herbal remedies but still took her children to the family doctor when necessary. "I'm neither a proponent nor a naysayer," he says, "but there's a whole gray zone there, and eventually it will just be a matter of different approaches...