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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PART BECAUSE OF THE EMERGENCE OF AIDS, IN PART because of breakdowns in public health services, the incidence of tuberculosis has jumped 25% since 1984, when 22,000 cases were documented in the U.S. Physicians from the American Lung Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend a series of more aggressive countermeasures to prevent a general outbreak of TB, some new strains of which are particularly virulent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TB's Return | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...recommended list is more extensive screening for TB infection among high-risk groups, including children, hospital patients and the homeless. Because people with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to TB, the doctors also advise that anyone who lives in close + contact with a TB patient should also be screened for AIDS-spawning HIV. For those tubercular patients who refuse treatment, thereby needlessly endangering their fellow citizens, the health experts recommend mandatory quarantine as a last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TB's Return | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

According to the agreement by which the Ihara Fund was established, the Forum will assist in organizing up and supervising a nonprofit affiliate organization in Tokyo. This satellite group will sponsor lectures by Forum-affiliated speakers and recommend Japanese speakers to address the Forum in the U.S., the Gazette reported...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Buddhist Studies Takes Japanese Group's Grant | 12/16/1992 | See Source »

...breaking the addiction is drinking decaf, with the hope that I could maybe trick my body into thinking it was getting the real thing. Well, it didn't work for me any better than it did for them, and perhaps that's why rehab centers today don't recommend snorting flower as an intermediate step for recovering crack junkies...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: Getting Hooked | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...women nationwide use the device, which consists of six capsules inserted under the skin on a woman's upper arm. Inserting the capsules is a simple medical procedure, and they can later be removed to restore fertility. Despite the new option, however, officials say they will continue to recommend abstinence as the best way to avoid pregnancy, and even students who receive the contraceptives will be urged to use condoms to avoid AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Prophylaxis | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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