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...receive a placebo instead. Because so many people would be involved for a prolonged period, investigators would not have to depend on sketchy evidence but could accurately measure real clinical benefits, such as weight gain or longer life-span, to determine if protease inhibitors are an effective way to combat the AIDS virus...
...stunned some of the victims' families when he told them during an Oval Office meeting that he was surprised the soldiers were trying to apprehend warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. By then, he said, the U.S. was supposed to be emphasizing diplomacy over confrontation. "When the President has troops in combat, that must be his No. 1 priority, and he must be fully aware of what they're doing," Larry Joyce, whose son died in the fire fight, told TIME recently...
...lead over Michael Huffington, a one-term Republican Congressman. The ultrawealthy heir to a family fortune made in natural gas, Huffington has spent $10 million of his own money on the campaign and expects to spend that much again by Election Day, most of it on TV commercials. To combat those, Feinstein's ads concentrate strongly on her anticrime measures -- she was author of the assault-weapons ban that was part of the crime bill -- her support for the death penalty, the balanced budget amendment and limits on illegal immigrants...
Because microbial infections keep finding ways to outsmart antibiotics, doctors are convinced that vaccines are a better way to combat bacterial disease. A vaccine is usually made from a harmless fragment of microbe that trains the body's immune system to recognize and fight the real thing. Each person's immune system is chemically different from everyone else's, so it's very difficult for a bacterium to develop a shield that offers universal protection. Diphtheria and tetanus can be prevented by vaccines if they are used properly. A vaccine against the pneumococcus bacterium has recently come...
...those with weak immune systems. But every so often, a highly lethal strain emerges -- usually from domesticated swine in Asia. Unlike hiv, flu moves through the air and is highly contagious. The last killer strain showed up in 1918 and claimed 20 million lives -- more than all the combat deaths in World War I. And that was before global air travel; the next outbreak could be even more devastating...