Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few weeks, before the fall season begins, Arledge has been practicing in public. The results have been lively but confusing. One night ABC gave Son of Sam, the New York lovers'-lane killer, lengthy and sensational treatment. On another night Barbara Walters, ABC's million-dollar anchorwoman, appeared for only a minute or two on-screen at the beginning and end. Next night, in a different hairdo, she was dispatched, like any local girl reporter, to stand before a bombed-out glass front to talk about Puerto Rican terrorists-a story on which ABC breathlessly lavished twice...
...deaths of these patients were in no way due to denial of proper care; until the new drug's effectiveness was proved, doctors had no reason to believe that adenine arabinoside would be any better than no treatment...
...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...
...study in the New England Journal of Medicine and simultaneously announced it at a press conference at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md. The findings are based on work with a drug called adenine arabinoside, a compound originally discovered in sponges, and on treatment of 50 patients with symptoms of herpes encephalitis...
...histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb on the jacket phrases it). Another writer might not have pulled it off. Mee writes with force and vitality, using personalities, incidents and daydreams from his own life as tools to evoke and historical mood...