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...team of researchers in the lab of Dr. Martin S. Hirsch at the Massachusetts General Hospital, announced in February that a combination of AZT, ddl and one of two experimental drugs had been found to block the spread of the HIV virus to other cells in the test tube before the virus could develop sufficient resistance to the drugs...
...original report had stated that no resistence was found after 10 generations of test-tube testing. But the Harvard researchers found in the additional tests that the virus became resistent to the drug combination after 20 to 30 generations...
...believes a cure is at hand, but researchers hope thalidomide can slow the progress of the disease and buy precious time for patients. In the original test-tube trials, reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the drug appeared to prevent some, but not all, HIV-infected cells from producing any new copies of the virus. Thalidomide apparently accomplished this feat by inhibiting a naturally occurring substance called tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Its purpose in the body is to fight cancer and infections, and a side effect of its activity is severe weight loss...
When the Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that Nancy Cruzan's parents could remove the feeding tube that was keeping their comatose daughter alive, the Justices affirmed the growing belief that there was no virtue in heroically prolonging life against a patient's wishes. Since then, doctors have invented guidelines, ethicists have organized seminars, and Congress has passed the Patient Self-Determination Act, requiring hospitals to tell people about their right to control their treatment through living wills and powers of attorney. And yet every day in hospitals across the country, patients and their families are learning that...
...that tube breaks and shatters, that's going right through the plastic bag," one worker said...