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A. Any serious economic assessment of health-sciences research will demonstrate that it has been remarkably cost effective. For example, the funds that were expended to develop the polio vaccine 30 years ago were quite small compared to the value derived from the virtual eradication of poliomyelitis. It has been...
The program will hardly ease a national crisis, but it is a start. Says John Porter, Detroit's retiring superintendent: "Harvard needs to tell these people there is no answer unless someone comes up with a vaccine. The fundamental issue is that the right conditions in cities to educate children...
One sign that an autoimmune attack has begun is the appearance in the bloodstream of antibodies to the pancreatic cells and, later, to insulin itself. For nine years a Joslin Center research team led by immunologist Dr. George Eisenbarth has been tracking the appearance of these antibodies in 10,000...
The ACTU conducts clinical trials on HIV, aswell as some of the diseases that result from abroken-down immune system, to determine howpatients with AIDS can best be treated. Hirschsays although researchers are much closer tofinding a vaccine than they thought they would bea year ago, there is still a...
"I don't think we're there yet, and it willprobably be about five to 10 years before we havea safe and available vaccine," he says.