Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost in the short-lived uproar over the French findings was Chermann's belief that the insects may offer valuable clues to a central riddle. The AIDS virus does not appear to reproduce in insects, he said; if scientists could find out why, they could perhaps develop an AIDS treatment. Such a solution is a long way off, though, and the prognosis for AIDS victims remains grim. Their comforts must be derived chiefly from the effort to live as normally as possible in the face of a ticking clock -- an exhausting enough business without prejudice or the threat of quarantine...
While many would consider factory work "educational," I am living testimony to the fact that the Tolstoyan concept of the warmth and nobility of the working class doesn't always apply to its treatment of "college boys." In fact, in my case, it was a bunch of stinkweed...
Discovering new treatment methods will not be enough to control disease in developing countries, three Harvard School of Public Health researchers said yesterday at a symposium entitled "Saving Lives in the World's Poorest Countries...
However, not all the news is bad. "Sometimes high tech science brought to bear on common problems does produce a low-cost simple effective treatment," Cash said, citing a treatment for diarrhea--a major child-killer--which uses water, sugar and isotonic salt. This treatment has proved particularly effective because all the ingredients are inexpensive and mothers can administer the medicine to their children...
...opposed fair and equal treatment of minorities at every turn: in the legislature (where he opposed local public accommodations laws), at the polls (where he sought to block blacks and Hispanics from voting), and in his personal dealings (where he accepted racial and religious restrictive covenants on his real estate holdings)," the report said...