Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping the RSA alive, but a serious crisis lies ahead if the situation does not improve. The fact that the Russians have recently executed a number of complicated spacefaring operations demonstrates the high quality of their system, but their good record won't last much longer under such terrible strain...
...researchers find themselves in a dilemma. Given what they know about how and when the virus reproduces, it makes more sense to try to attack HIV sooner than later. But they also know that if they don't hit it hard enough, the virus will mutate into a resistant strain. That's why drugs are given in combination--so that a virus resistant to one drug might still be wiped out by one of the others. But there are preliminary indications that viruses resistant to protease inhibitors may have already started to appear. "Don't believe anyone who tells...
AIDS researchers are focusing on these rare cases, hoping that somewhere in these people - or in the strain of the virus they are carrying - lie clues to better treatments, an effective vaccine or even, someday, a cure. Scientists now estimate that perhaps 8% to 10% of those infected with HIV are what are called long-term nonprogressors - people who have not suffered any apparent damage to their immune system in at least a decade. And around 6% of those diagnosed with clinical AIDS may be considered long-term survivors (living five years or more...
...serious burden. For a family with three small children, the accumulated co-payment costs from ear infections, sore throats and shots can add up to hundreds of dollars. A serious illness can require multiple medical visits each week, and these amassed co-payments can also be a severe strain on already tight paychecks. For many Harvard workers, these co-payments can eat up more and more of their families' budgets...
...troubling new figures should strengthen the GOP hand. While current budget proposals by both President Clinton and Congressional Republicans could bolster Medicare finances through 2011, McAllister says, "The real problem is that right after that, the Boomers hit." Without significant changes, the Medicare system is not prepared for the strain of providing benefits to the huge Baby Boom generation. For one thing, the payroll taxes of the too-small generation of workers behind it are not expected to be adequate. Neither political party, McAllister notes, is yet willing to play with that political dynamite...