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AIDS is a particularly difficult disease todevelop a vaccine for because most vaccines workby mimicking a virus--thus stimulating the body toproduce antibodies--and the body does not produceantibodies to AIDS, Baltimore said.
Hiatt discussed the impacts of the disease."The absence of a vaccine and therapeutie agentsleave grim prospects for biology and medicine." hesaid. "With no mechanisms to change the prospectsin the near, or perhaps even distant future, ouronly hopes are to encourage serious, enlightenedresearch, and to focus on prevention."
No one ever expected America to age gracefully. How could the country of adolescent spirit, reckless politics, marathons, short skirts, unbounded energy and a restless imagination admit that its body is growing old? Not with Ronald Reagan in the saddle at 77. Or Joe Niekro, a starting pitcher at 43...
Merck's drugs speak for themselves. An astounding 13 each rang up more than $100 million in 1987 sales, well ahead of Britain's Glaxo Holdings, which has five products in that rarefied range. Among Merck's best sellers are Vasotec, a blood pressure-lowering drug; the antibiotics Primaxin and...
Because there is no vaccine or cure for the disease, prevention is still the best bet. "I'd recommend that any sore throat be cultured," New England's Schaller says. Other experts are worried that parents and doctors too young to remember the rheumatic-fever wards of the past may...