Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same combination of powerful anti-HIV drugs that has given so many patients with advanced AIDS a new lease on life--would last six weeks and make the man very sick. But if it worked, the potent cocktail could destroy any viral particles that might have been transmitted and prevent a potentially fatal infection from taking hold...
...growth of nerve cells and inhibiting the production of apolipoprotein E, a fatty acid linked to the brain disorder. Scientists also think the hormone helps increase levels of acetylcholine, a crucial transmitter of nerve messages in the brain. The finding helps to support previous indications that estrogen may help prevent the onset of Alzheimer's. Other research, however, suggests that women taking estrogen might be at higher risk of breast and uterine cancer if they have family histories of those diseases...
After working so hard to prevent a circus, Judge Richard Matsch was not about to preside over a lynching--or risk seeing the biggest case of his career reversed on appeal. So on Wednesday, with prosecutors ready to explain in grisly detail why Timothy McVeigh deserves death, Matsch ordered the jurors to lock away their feelings and remain "free from the influence of passion." He ruled that government evidence designed to stir those emotions--wedding portraits, poetry, the testimony of a boy who missed his mom--would all be inadmissible...
...GREEN TEA Researchers have found the component in the tea that may help prevent cancer. The compound ECGC seems to inhibit the activity of an enzyme that breaks down healthy tissue...
...workers were baffled at the reasons behind the change, especially after they accepted a contract for lower wages. Workers believed the cuts they accepted were to prevent the loss of contracts to outside cleaners...