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The advent of AIDS demolished that thinking. The sight of tens of thousands of young people wasting away from a virus that no one had known about and no one knew how to fight was a sobering experience -- especially when drugs proved powerless to stop the virus and efforts to...
-- Nearly 80 medicines to control infectious diseases are under development, according to a drug-industry survey. Among them: a vaccine for Lyme disease and a drug derived from cow's milk to fight a parasite that strikes many AIDS patients.
Despite the difficulties, however, Cuba's mortality rate for infants and children under five continues to improve. At 9.4 deaths per 1,000 infants last year, Cuba's rate is surpassed only by Canada's (7 per 1,000 in 1992) and the U.S.'s (9 per 1,000) in...
The excitement was running especially high last week, as encouraging news poured out of several labs all at once. From Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia came word that an experimental vaccine had given patients unusually long remissions from advanced melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. From Canada's McMaster...
Still, as pharmaceutical companies well know, many surprises can pop up on the way to developing a new drug, and other approaches to cancer therapy may win out in the end. Among the possibilities are anticancer vaccines designed to stimulate the immune system to combat tumors. Currently being tested in...