Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Cancer Institute (NCI) last week awarded two Harvard doctors $1.2 million to expand their clinical tests of a promising new drug treatment for cancer victims...
...group of more than 50 cab drivers walked into City Hall yesterday to protest alleged police harassment, unfair treatment by Cambridge businesses, and general disrespect for their trade...
...results were so remarkable, Windom said, that tests in a dozen medical centers were being halted so that control groups of AIDS sufferers -- who had been receiving only placebos, or dummy drugs -- could immediately begin treatment with AZT. Furthermore, Windom has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration for speedy approval to distribute the drug to thousands of other AIDS victims, but only those who have also suffered from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare form of pneumonia that frequently afflicts AIDS patients. David Barry, vice president for research at Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical firm that produces the drug, stressed...
...medical community, it set off a debate over further AIDS testing. If the drug seemed to slow the progress of the disease, some researchers asked, was it ethical to conduct tests in which half the patients got placebos and thus had no chance to benefit from the treatment? Albert Jonsen, a professor of ethics at the University of California, San Francisco, concedes that the placebo question is "an agonizing problem," but he insists that placebos are the only way to find out "whether there is an effect that is attributable to the drug and not to chance...
...with the drug problem would spend more time and money on drug education and rehabilitation and less on attempts to punish drug dealers. Yet Reagan continues to pour money into border patrol programs that have proven utterly ineffective while there remains a three to six-month waiting list for treatment at New York City drug addiction centers...