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...doctor, and the patient is dying from AIDS. A new drug called azidothymidine (AZT) might temporarily suppress the virus and prolong his life. But you hesitate: AZT may do nothing for his manifestation of the disease. It could even hasten death. And prescribing the drug could bring malpractice suits, since AZT has so far worked only on AIDS sufferers with symptoms different from this patient...
...Committee of the Food and Drug Administration recommended by a 10-1 vote that the FDA approve AZT as the first commercially available treatment for AIDS. The news generated heavy demand from America's 13,000 AIDS victims. For among potential AIDS drugs being tested, only AZT seems to prolong life, specifically for people with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). The prospect of public release intensified ethical concerns surrounding not only drugs for AIDS treatment but also vaccines to prevent...
...Boston Red Sox lost, the World Series left enough hands and heads wringing and ringing to get all sides through the winter. The MVP was benched in the second game and threw a ball over the first baseman's head in the sixth. Ray Knight also singled to prolong the sixth game and homered to win the seventh. "You only can get so excited," reasoned the Mets' third baseman, "but it seemed, every game, I got more and more excited." October was unreasonable this year...
...false hopes. Despite Windom's caution, the dramatic news he reported was bound to be en couraging to AIDS victims around the world: early results of clinical tests with an experimental drug called azidothymidine (AZT) had shown that it slowed the attack of the AIDS virus and seemed to prolong the lives of many of its victims...
...combat his administration's headaches, Bok has used open-ended discussions to prolong debate, and mitigate dissent...