Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work combines the efforts of three top NIH scientists: Steven Rosenberg, an expert in cancer therapy, and W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese, two master gene manipulators. For several years Rosenberg has been developing a novel cancer treatment using a type of cancer-fighting cell called TILs (tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes). He removes TILs from cancer patients and clones large quantities of the cells in the laboratory. When this army of cells is reinjected into the patients, their tumors can shrink significantly. In one experiment with metastatic melanoma patients, 60% of them benefited from the therapy. But Rosenberg still needs...
...Food and Drug Administration announced last October that it would allow promising but unproven treatments for AIDS to move onto the market more swiftly than other new drugs. Last week the agency made good on that promise. It said it would approve an aerosol drug, pentamidine, for treatment of a deadly form of pneumonia that is a leading killer of AIDS patients...
...move is a major departure from the FDA's traditional practice of requiring rigorous tests, which can take up to seven years, to establish a drug's safety and effectiveness before granting approval. Black-market versions of the aerosol pentamidine have circulated for years, but the treatment has been studied in controlled clinical tests only since July 1987. The change of policy came after organized protests by AIDS patients, who argued that the Government's stringent regulations were blocking access to potentially lifesaving medicines...
...maybe shouldn't be made." Ovitz has had his share of feuds, most notably with David Puttnam, who lost his job as chairman of Columbia Pictures last year after alienating much of the Hollywood establishment. Insiders say the abrasive Puttnam's most expensive gaffe may have been his brusque treatment of Ovitz and CAA client Bill Murray. Recalling a spat with Ovitz, agent Bernie Brillstein explains, "I didn't pander ((to Ovitz)), which was probably the source of our fallout...
...form that the show took at the hands of its curator, Kynaston McShine. The show's emphasis falls on Warhol up to 1968, the year he was shot by a mad lumpen-feminist named Valerie Solanis, one of the hangers-on at his studio, the Factory. The treatment of post-1970 and especially of 1980s Warhol is, by comparison, skimpy...