Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HEROES ARE GRAZING IN MY GARDEN by Heberto Padilla Translated by Andrew Hurley Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 250 pages...
...been following them religiously since the beginning of the season, and I have only one more question about the marvelous, fantastic, incredible Detroit Tigers. Is there any stopping these phenomenal, sensational, paragons of athletic ability? --Smug in Straus...
REQUIRED WRITING: MISCELLANEOUS PIECES 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 328 pages...
...drug, marketed by Burroughs Wellcome Co., under the brand name Zovirax, has been available in ointment form since 1982. "This is not a cure," emphasizes Virologist Stephen Straus, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who directed one of the studies. But, he notes, "nothing in the past has been able to suppress recurring herpes...
...Straus' study, oral acyclovir prevented herpes outbreaks in twelve out of 16 patients who took the drug three times a day for four months. All 16 herpes sufferers in a control group had outbreaks during the period. In the second study, conducted at the University of Washington in Seattle, 68% of 96 patients taking acyclovir during a four-month test period remained symptom free, while 94% of those taking placebos developed blisters. In both studies, patients suffered flare-ups after they stopped taking the drug...