Word: redfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never helps a single person with full-fledged AIDS, the Walter Reed team has sketched out a blueprint for a potential new weapon against the disease. "This is the first time anyone has proved that you can change the immune system in a chronically infected person," says Dr. Robert Redfield, research-group leader. "Now we have to find out whether or not this makes a difference...
...radar screen. As a result, the body may not manufacture all the different kinds of antibodies that could attack the virus. "We thought that if we could make the virus in a slightly different way, the immune system could see it better and mount a more effective response," Redfield says. "In other words, we'd be augmenting Mother Nature's own strategy...
...From a conceptual standpoint, the study is quite interesting," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But he cautions that any dangerous side effects from the vaccine could take years to show up. Even so, the preliminary effects were intriguing enough that Redfield has begun a second trial -- with results expected in 18 months -- to see if the vaccine can produce long-lasting benefits...
...satire, except the indispensable: lurch into believable love-struck madness when his cherished cashbox is stolen. Other actors in this Broadway revival swoop and flutter and generally diminish the text, save for splendidly real and moving bits by John Christopher Jones as a long-suffering servant and Adam Redfield as a splenetic...