Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miracle drugs. No wonder cures. No promises of panacea. The AIDS breakthrough announced Thursday in the journal Nature is a far more critical step: The decoding, if you will, of HIV's encryption key. For the first time, scientists have been able to snap X-ray pictures of what exactly happens when the virus that causes AIDS latches on to our immune cells -- and it's proving itself to be a more pernicious predator than anyone imagined. Dozens of spikes of protein stick out of its side, swathed in sugar so our antibodies won't be able to tell...
...vaccine is not a panacea, however. "Right now the [immunization] schedule is not really user-friendly," admits Dr. Vijay Sikand of Tufts University School of Medicine, one of the participating physicians. "You have to remember to come back 11 months after the second shot." Nor did the panel recommend, pending further testing, use by pregnant women, people with chronic arthritis or youngsters under 18--a group with one of the highest risks of exposure. So even if the FDA gives Lymerix a quick O.K., it won't be of much help against this summer's tick onslaught...
...antibody is not a panacea. It didn't work as well for Bradfield's fellow guinea pigs in the initial study. But results of a just completed trial with 470 women do show it to be a significant improvement over chemo alone for women with this awful form of breast cancer. The details of the study will be revealed by Slamon this Sunday at a meeting in Los Angeles of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Manufactured by Genentech under the name Herceptin, the drug is on a fast track for approval by the FDA, perhaps before year...
...Side quickly remedied the situation and couldpossibly be the panacea for any level of boredomor depression. Kicking the audience into actionwith a cool pairing of freestyle rap and funk,B-Side infused the Pforzheimer dining hall withmood melody like it had never experienced before.Key to B-Side's performance were the sleekstylings of the Rhodes keyboard player, the punchytones of the upright bass and the drivingexactness of the percussionist, all infused with afreestyle rap intuition that few groups can calltheir...
...noted Rupert Murdoch's recent visit to Dow Jones headquarters for a meeting with Kann, and both Microsoft's Bill Gates and Buffett have privately expressed interest in the company, believing the Journal and Dow Jones brands are all underleveraged assets. Jettisoning one weak division may not be a panacea. The company will probably take an estimated $800 million write-off. And strategically it will become weaker in electronic distribution, a critical channel in the media industry's future...