Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of knees and shoulders and elbows. She looks as if she should be playing power forward on the UCLA women's basketball team. That's obvious. But what is on view is not merely the result of 19 years of good groceries. Connie, the girl seduced by the Treat Williams character in Smooth Talk, is supposed to be physical, a fretful, yearning high school sophomore whose lush, gawky body has outgrown the controls of fear and reason. In Mask, Dern was equally convincing as a very different type, the shy, innocent blind girl...
...opportunity to learn how to cope with large-scale exposure to deadly radiation. So far, the lessons have been sobering. "This incident has demonstrated our very limited ability to respond to nuclear accidents," says Dr. Robert Gale, 40, a bone-marrow-transplant expert from UCLA who helped Soviet counterparts treat Chernobyl victims. "If we are very hard pressed to deal with 300 cases, it should be evident how inadequate our response would be in a thermonuclear...
Beneath commonplace Laminar Flow Hoods and in hospital examination rooms. Hirsch, an associate professor of medicine, is diligently directing a two-pronged quest for an AIDS remedy. "The most important questions from a clinician's point of view are how can you treat it and how can you prevent it," Hirsch says, and that is exactly what he is trying to do. By developing drugs to knock out the AIDS virus, and by determining why some infected patients die while others live, he hopes to move toward a solution to a problem that has galvanized the nation...
Four approaches to the disease now look most promising. The two doctors and their teams want to develop anti-viral drugs to treat infected patients, engineer antibody-based vaccines to ward off the disease, elucidate how the virus attacks the body, and discover what "cofactors"--or additional factors--cause some people infected with the virus to contract full-blown AIDS while others go unaffected...
However, the outlook is not completely grim. Although Haseltine says he thinks finding drugs to treat AIDS will take time, he remains optimistic. "We are where cancer chemotherapy was in the 1950s. We have drugs that are beginning to work...