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...Then along came Vichai Jirathitikal's little pink pills. Branded V-1 Immunitor and distributed free of cost?for now, anyway?the new wonder medicine is raising patients' hopes and inspiring reveries of recovery. For one thing, it was invented by a bona fide pharmacist?never mind that his scientific expertise was with prawns and not people. For another, dozens of his patients are eager and willing to vouch for Vichai's miracle...
...pharmacist appears reluctant to reveal the active ingredients of his new drug. All he says is that it contains magnesium, calcium and "non-living chemical matter." He claims the active ingredient is similar in molecular structure to the HIV virus and teaches antibodies the secret to fighting the real virus. Aldar Bourinbaiar, an American scientist who is connected to Salang's foundation, claims that within 15 days many patients start putting on weight and their sores begin to heal; over six months the viral load drops and the CD-8 interceptor cells, which protect the body's immune system, start...
...Health asked Vichai to let scientists study nine V-1 patients over six months. But after three months, Vichai claimed that the patients had all wandered off and could not be traced. The health authorities stopped the tests in mid-June. Their verdict: inconclusive. That hasn't deterred the pharmacist and the ex-police chief, however. On June 2, Salang organized a free handout of V-1 at a Bangkok soccer stadium. It was a spectacle right out of a medieval plague tableau: hollow-eyed and ravaged by the disease, more than 4,000 AIDS sufferers limped onto the field...
...instruction, against the high noise level at pep rallies and for more-demanding instruction at the junior high. "When a principal says, 'It's my school,' I tell him, 'It's our school. You have to do what the community wants,'" says Kanofsky, who limits her work as a pharmacist to every other weekend so that she has time for tasks like volunteering at the junior high school store...
...ready, financially or psychologically, to have a baby. So the next day you cancel your meetings and head to your doctor's office, where you wait hours for a cursory appointment - after which you're handed a prescription for the morning-after pill. At the local drugstore, the sole pharmacist on duty informs you that he is morally opposed to filling your prescription. The only other pharmacy in town is closed for renovations, and if you don't get the pill soon you might just have to go through the pain and expense of an abortion...