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DIED. JONATHAN MANN, 51, aids and human-rights activist who in 1986 founded the World Health Organization's program to fight AIDS; aboard Swissair Flight 111. His wife, MARY LOU CLEMENTS-MANN, 51, an AIDS vaccine expert, also died in the crash.
After those at the Geneva WHO headquarters heard that Mann and his wife, Mary Lou Clements-Mann, an AIDS vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins, had died in the crash, they gathered to react to the news in the same auditorium where Mann had announced his resignation eight years earlier.
Another nail in the coffin for an old illness: The FDA has just approved a new vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough. Unlike previous vaccines, this version uses only one protein, making it safer for infants who sometimes had reactions to older vaccines--and bringing us closer to eradicating pertussis...
Lyme disease can be treated, but the common tick-borne illness has never quite been preventable. Two new vaccines using genetically engineered bacteria have been proved effective in protecting adults against Lyme disease. Both await FDA approval, and at least one is expected to be available for next summer's...
"Protease inhibitors are the cornerstone of our HIV therapy," Dr. Frederick Hecht of the University of California and San Francisco General Hospital told the conference. "People had hoped that PIs would be significant enough to make it difficult or impossible for the virus to be transmitted." Sadly, this patient, part...