Word: groopman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerome Groopman, a doctor at New EnglandDeaconess Hospital, said he questions the methodsused by community groups. He said that communitygroups, unlike government agencies, may not takeinto consideration the necessary legal, scientificand ethical ramifications of their research...
...benefit the estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Americans who are infected with the AIDS virus but who have not yet developed full-blown symptoms. Last week a federal study showed that they were right. "This is the first clear proof that early intervention makes a difference," says Jerome Groopman, a physician with New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. "It's exciting, and it's a finding of real importance...
...Although Groopman, Byrn and their colleagueswere not available for comment, Schooley said theDeaconess study involved a drug known as Solublet4...
...think [that plan] would have any effect because the Institute is a group of free standing, non-profit individuals," says Dr. Jerome Groopman, who co-directs the Center for Clinical Care with Hirsch...
Using bioengineering techniques, medical researchers have begun to mass- produce these substances and use them, sometimes in combined "cocktails," to boost the immune system against specific diseases. In clinical trials at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital, Dr. Jerome Groopman has found that granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor reverses bone-marrow failure and boosts white-cell counts in AIDS patients. Gamma interferon seems to remedy the defective functioning of monocytes and macrophages in a wide variety of diseases. Alpha interferon has been particularly effective against two types of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system...