Word: treatments
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Even without a vaccine, however, there is hope. The arsenal of treatment options has expanded considerably in recent years. Antivirals given to pregnant mothers have proved effective in preventing transmission to newborns, and a new, shorter treatment shows promise for use in developing nations...
...change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mold, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency. When it was finally recognized for what it was--the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world--penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections. By the middle of the century, Fleming's discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind's most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis...
...soon be completed, will be simply the springboard for understanding what all the genes do. Only when the network of their interactions with one another has been mapped will enduring benefits follow: in the surer design of drugs, in the growth of replacement organs, in the early detection and treatment of many kinds of diseases, including cancer. Only then shall we understand the subtleties of human behavior and how human personality evolves in the course of early life by the interaction of genetic and environmental influences...
...Albert Schweitzer, a missionary, opens a hospital in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), for the treatment of leprosy and sleeping sickness
...Canadian physician Frederick Banting and colleagues find a treatment for diabetes: insulin isolated from the pancreas of fetal calves...