Word: prolongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical tale -- one that is more faithful to the way most advances truly take place. It is a story about making many small improvements in patients' treatment and care. It is a story of how each new step builds on the one before until their combined power starts to prolong lives or at least improve the quality of life that remains. It is the story, unheralded by headlines, of growing progress in the treatment of AIDS...
...recently made headlines when studies linked it to aging. Scientists were able to prolong the lives of fruit flies and nematodes by increasing levels of the enzyme in experimental subjects of both species
Also popular with notebook buyers are systems built around Intel's 386SL CPU/A member of the successful 80386 series, the chip was designed to prolong battery lives on notebooks, one of the biggest concerns for notebook users. It does so through a lower power requirement, an internal memory cache that Intel claims can speed up operations by up to 20 percent, and built in power-management circuitry that helps per serve as much power as possible...
Chow added, "At the very least, we hope this new strategy will prolong the lives of people infected with HIV-1. Only time will tell...
MORE THAN 20,000 AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DIAGnosed each year with ovarian cancer, many with the disease in an advanced stage, and chemotherapy seldom helps prolong their life. There is one effective treatment: taxol, a substance found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Taxol doesn't cure the cancer but does slow its progress for months in up to 30% of patients. Now it has received the blessing of both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canadian authorities as an approved treatment for ovarian cancer. It is also being investigated for possible effectiveness in combatting breast...