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...panel was sufficiently impressed to recommend -- by a vote of 7 to 2 -- that the FDA approve the drug for the 30% of MS patients who, like Arens, have a mild or moderate form of the disease, characterized by months of quiescence interrupted by terrifying relapses...
...path that led medical researchers to beta interferon was hardly straightforward. Initially, some scientists believed attacks characteristic of multiple sclerosis might be triggered by chronic viral infections. So in 1984 they began testing gamma interferon, one of the body's own antiviral weapons, in MS patients. To their horror, patients became dramatically worse. The false step proved instructive however. "It told us that gamma interferon was a major player in this disease," explains neurologist Dr. Kenneth Johnson of the University of Maryland at Baltimore...
...also pleased that the Special Committee has condemned the way in which Ms. Sahyoun and Haneen Rabie '95, the current SAS president, publicly accused me of racism in letters and statements to The Crimson...
...also offended by the manner in which the charges were made. Why did neither Ms. Sahyoun nor Ms. Rabie even once attempt to speak with me before publicly airing their thinly-veiled charge of racism? Why did they make no effort to get my side of the story? Why, instead, did they rely wholly on hearsay in making their very serious, very wrong accusations...
...look forward to continuing to work on the SAC for the betterment of race and intercultural relations at Harvard. False and unsubstantiated charges of racism--like those with which Ms. Sahyoun and Ms. Rabie attacked me--are a source or racial and ethnic tension on this campus, not the solution...