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Neither drug promises to cure AIDS, but both appear to inhibit reproduction of the virus that causes the deadly disease, researchers said...
...This is not a cure. We don't want to overpromise to the thousands of people who have AIDS." Robert Windom, of the Department of Health and Human Services, chose his words carefully as he faced the press in Washington last ! week, determined not to raise any false hopes. Despite Windom's caution, the dramatic news he reported was bound to be en couraging to AIDS victims around the world: early results of clinical tests with an experimental drug called azidothymidine (AZT) had shown that it slowed the attack of the AIDS virus and seemed to prolong the lives...
...other AIDS victims, but only those who have also suffered from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare form of pneumonia that frequently afflicts AIDS patients. David Barry, vice president for research at Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical firm that produces the drug, stressed to reporters that AZT was "not a cure for AIDS but rather a treatment." Over the next few months, he said, "we will be continuing a very intensive research program to answer critical questions about the drug...
Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who served for two years as President Reagan's chief economic adviser, argued that it is point less to expect Japan and Germany to help cure U.S. trade woes. Even sharply increased growth in those two economies would probably lop no more than $15 billion off the American deficit. Said Feldstein: "In terms of the trade deficit, there's nothing...
Harvey's mental circuits are overloaded, and as a result his tongue has short-circuited. He cannot stop from flapping out the news about every new affliction, every false hope of a cure. But this man's self-created problems are an actor's opportunity, and Lemmon responds with what is unquestionably the greatest of his portrayals of the middle-class American male at bay. His Harvey is a grotesquely funny monster, one who somehow engages our sympathy without once asking...