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Dates: during 1980-1989
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We weren't born with the ability to taste carbon dioxide or see the ozone layer, but science and technology have evolved to fill the gap to help us measure what we cannot feel or taste or see. We have old numbers with which, like old photographs, we can gauge...
What if the spirit doesn't hit? We can't afford to wait if we want to survive. While we are waiting for this sea change of attitude, we could pretend -- a notion that sounds more whimsical than it is. Scientists have found that certain actions have a feedback effect...
Hope flashed through the nation's AIDS community last April, when researchers from the University of California at San Francisco announced that, in test tubes at least, Compound Q could kill HIV-infected cells while leaving healthy cells unaffected. The substance quickly found its way into the U.S. and to...
To Delaney, such haphazard self-medication posed its own threats. "We said, 'Instead of just passing it out to see what happens, let's channel it into controlled clinical use,' " Delaney recalls. He contacted James Corti, a Los Angeles-based activist and importer of AIDS drugs who shipped 400 doses...
Without revealing the purpose, Project Inform asked Genelabs, Inc., a California biotechnology firm that manufactures the drug in the U.S., to test samples of Compound Q that Corti brought back from China. They wanted to make sure it was identical to the Compound Q used in the FDA-approved study...