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Effective new drugs will probably be developed, but a decade may pass before they are ready for use. In the meantime, several measures could prolong the usefulness of antibiotics currently on the shelf. To counter the rise of resistant strains of salmonella, the practice of dosing farm animals with large quantities of antibiotics could be curtailed. Hospitals could do a better job of using late-model antibiotics more sparingly, thereby preserving their effectiveness. Public health departments in major cities could return to the old practice of strictly monitoring the drug therapy of TB patients who haven't been following their...
...caught early, the skin cancer called malignant melanoma is curable. If not, it's almost always fatal. But a new treatment under study at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., appears at least to prolong lives. Researchers injected patients with a tuberculosis vaccine mixed with melanoma cells. Result: average survival went from seven to 23 months, with some staying cancer free for eight years. The doctors warn that an approved vaccine could take a decade...
Economically, AIDS exacerbates the general split in the U.S. between those who have health care and other job benefits and those who do not. For the former group, the chief concern is getting government approval for innovative high-tech treatments that may prolong their lives. For those lacking benefits, the problem is to get care and shelter of any kind. With AIDS treatment often costing well into six figures and patients frequently surviving years while unable to work, those who lack benefits -- or who are manipulated out of them / by employers or insurers -- may find themselves reduced to public charity...
...agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Alvarez-Machain still awaits trial in Los Angeles on federal charges of conspiring to torture and kill dea agent Enrique Camarena, kidnapped and murdered in Guadalajara in 1985. The doctor allegedly injected Camarena with lidocaine, which kept his heart going to prolong his torture and interrogation by Mexican officials and drug kingpins...
...want to do. To ease the frightening burden on their citizens, some politicians and economists advocate government action that will keep afloat giant state enterprises, such as steel and textile mills, which have suffered especially deep drops in production and endured the heaviest layoffs. But renewed subsidies would only prolong the economic agony by keeping inefficient dinosaurs alive...