Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute, which awards the prize, said Black developed a drug called propranolol in 1964 used in the treatment of heart disease. The work of Elion and Hitchings, who have collaborated since 1945, led to a series of drugs for the treatment of cancer...
...Americans' research also led to the development of drugs for the treatment of leukemia and malaria and to the creation of medicines designed to fight the rejection of transplanted organs, the awarding committee said...
...institute cited the three researchers "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment...
...discovered a group of histamine receptors, a finding that led to the development of the drug cimetidine. The drug introduced "a new principle in the treatment of peptic ulcer," said the institute's announcement...
...report includes entries on the Soviet Union and Nicaragua, South Africa and Paraguay, as well as Israel, France and even Switzerland (for sentencing 600 people to imprisonment or suspended imprisonment for refusing military service). The U.S. is cited for executing 25 convicts in 1987 and for its harsh treatment of more than 2,000 Cubans detained in Georgia and Louisiana since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. The Soviet Union's black marks include sending at least 300 people to prison, into exile or to psychiatric hospitals. Explains Amnesty's U.S. executive director, John Healey: "Making people uncomfortable is part...