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Another alarming trend is that more and more AIDS patients are developing tuberculosis. Normally, they respond to the traditional treatments for this degenerative lung disorder. However, a growing number of AIDS patients are contracting a much deadlier form of TB that is resistant to standard drug therapy. In Amsterdam Dr. James Curran, head of the AIDS program at the CDC, called the combination a "double epidemic...
...substantial and enlarging body of medical information and opinion to the effect that these deformities ((small breasts)) are really a disease." Not a fatal disease, perhaps, to judge from the number of sufferers who are still hobbling around untreated, but a disease nonetheless, like the flu or TB. And anyone tempted to fault the medical establishment for inaction on breast cancer or AIDS should consider its quiet but no less heroic progress against the scourge of micromastia: in the past 30 years, 1.6 million victims have been identified and cured. Who says our health system doesn't work...
Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. No, nothing to do with age spots or those indoor-tanning creams we use to get us through the | winter without looking like the final stages of TB. Nor am I talking about the fact that we all go home and practice funky dance moves behind drawn shades. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. Yep. At least it's no more black than Vanilla Ice is a fair rendition of classic urban...
Until the 1980s such cases were rare. But the sudden surge in TB among AIDS patients as well as the homeless and rural poor has greatly increased the odds. "These are people that have a lot more to worry about than just taking their medicine," notes Dr. Lee Reichman, president-elect of the American Lung Association. Over 20% of TB patients in the U.S. fail to complete their therapy...
Many doctors are urging the government to restore funding for the old TB- control programs and even revive sanatoriums so that infectious patients may be quarantined during their treatment. Cuts in such programs may have laid the groundwork for the recent outbreaks. "We've not been too wise over the years," concedes Dr. Dixie Snider of the Centers for Disease Control. Snider points out that almost everything about the science of TB is too old or too slow. Simply diagnosing the resistant strain can take three months or more, and treatment efforts, which succeed only half the time, last...