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...very scared to die such a young man. I'd like a little more time," says a 28-year-old patient. He is waiting for the results of tests that will determine if his recent exhaustion, bouts of fever and severe headaches are what he and his doctors fear it is: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The man is not gay. He is married and the father of two children. But he readily admits to a life of promiscuity and a history of many liaisons with prostitutes. "I lived in the fast lane," he confesses. "If only God will give...
...field and fun to the clubhouse, and we'll learn down the road whether we made the right move at short. All these new pitchers-Clement, Miller, Mantei, our old whipping boy Wells-weren't they all dinged up, only yesterday? Our pitching roster could be the in-patient list at a Newton-Wellesley rehab clinic by July...
...said, 'Doctor, if I lose my leg, I will never be married, never work again.' And the doctor said, 'You are not the only patient here. Think hard about your choice by the time I return.' I was in despair. All I ever hoped for was to be taken away in a single act. I wanted...
Treatment for AIDS patients is for the most part a matter of damage control. Doctors use antibiotics and other drugs to battle against each successive infection, but overall the war is slowly lost as each illness takes its toll and the immune system continues to deteriorate. "We know of no patient who has regained the total strength of his depleted immune system," says Charles Fallis of the CDC. "We've observed that AIDS is almost always fatal...
...researchers at a handful of medical centers around the country are testing another antiviral preparation, called Suramin, which was originally used to combat African sleeping sickness. Like HPA-23, the drug appears to stop the proliferation of the AIDS virus, but it does not necessarily improve the patient's condition. Other antiviral substances, including Ribavirin and Foscarnet, now being studied in Sweden and Canada, are in even earlier stages of investigation...