Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past there has been no safe and effective treatment, but now a remedy seems at hand. A research team headed by Dr. Charles Alford of the University of Alabama in Birmingham reported last week it has successfully tested a drug that will not only prevent death in most cases of herpes encephalitis but also radically reduce the incidence of neurological damage in survivors. "Even with its limitations," said Alford, "this represents a major breakthrough in antiviral therapy...
...crimes. Thus as a sign of political mellowing, the prisoner release has become, as one dissident churchman puts it, "basically meaningless and hypocritical." Moreover, though Marcos has promised that mistreatment of prisoners will be harshly dealt with, the Commission of Jurists charges that torture continues in Manila's "safe houses," where pre-detention center suspects are held...
...most important reason that most geneticists and molecular biologists now oppose the legislation is a growing conviction, based on continued experiments, that current recombinant DNA research is safe. Some strains of E. coli normally reside in billions in the human intestine, a fact that encouraged the fear that new laboratory forms would spread like the plague among human beings. But research has shown that E. coli K12, which traces its ancestry to bacteria taken from a human patient at Stanford University in 1922, altered genetically during its life in the labs; among other changes, it can no longer colonize...
What nags institutional investors most of all is the realization that common stocks are no longer a safe hedge against inflation. Robert Salomon Jr., of Salomon Brothers, the New York investment banking house, has measured the compound growth of nine assorted investments from 1968 to June 1977, a period in which the consumer price index increased at an annual rate of 6.2%. His findings...
...public airing, and could be modified after drug companies weigh in with their objections. But the FDA seems determined to deal with the national headache of analgesic misuse. As the FDA's Kennedy put it: "Consumers must be assured that the drugs they buy are rationally formulated with safe and effective ingredients and labeled and advertised with information that is complete, honest and understandable...