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Bob Dole, the likely Republican presidential nominee who turns 73 Monday, is in excellent health, Dole and two of his doctors said last week. He also credited quitting smoking more than 30 years ago for helping preserve his health. Dole quit shortly after Surgeon General Luther Terry issued his pioneering report warning about the dangers of smoking in 1964. 'That's when I got the message,' Dole said, adding that quitting 'was not easy.' Dole's health takes on particular significance because if he were elected president, he would be the oldest man to assume that office, only a bit younger than Ronald Reagan was at the start of his second term. And though Reagan and others developed cancer while president, Dole would also be the first cancer survivor to be elected to that office. He had a cancerous prostate gland removed in 1991 and has shown no trace of the cancer since then

Participants at an international meeting on AIDS in Vancouver the week of Jul 8, 1996 were jolted when some scientists said that continued use for a few years of new drug combinations, which already drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in the blood, might eradicate the virus from patients' bodies. Drug treatment could then be stopped forever for such people. For now, there is only the hope of such a result

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - New findings reported at an international AIDS conference last week promise to transform AIDS from a usually fatal disease into a chronic one that is treatable, many experts say. With news rapidly spreading about the landmark studies, which showed that new drug combinations can drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in blood, many people infected with the AIDS virus are questioning their treatment and asking practical questions for which their doctors are likely to have few immediate answers. An immediate question is whether patients should start on the combination drug therapy as soon as they are infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, or wait until the onset of AIDS, which may not occur for many years

New findings reported at an international AIDS conference last week promise to transform AIDS from a fatal disease into a chronic one that is treatable, many experts say. With news rapidly spreading about the landmark studies, which showed that new drug com- binations can drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in blood, many people infected with the AIDS virus are questioning their treatment and asking practical questions to which their doctors are likely to have few immediate answers. An immediate question is whether patients should start on the combination-drug therapy as soon as they are infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, or wait until the onset of AIDS, which may not occur for many years

New findings reported at an international AIDS conference last week promise to transform AIDS from a usually fatal disease into a chronic one that is treatable, many experts say. With news rapidly spreading about the landmark studies, which showed that new drug combinations can drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in blood, many people infected with the AIDS virus are questioning their treatment and asking practical questions for which their doctors are likely to have few immediate answers. An immediate question is whether patients should start on the combination drug therapy as soon as they are infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, or wait until the onset of AIDS, which may not occur for many years

New findings reported at an international AIDS conference in Vancouver in Jul 1996 promise to transform AIDS from a usually fatal disease into a chronic one that its treatable, many experts say. Landmark studies have shown that new drug combinations can drive HIV to undetectable levels in blood

VANCOUVER, British Columbia New findings reported at an international AIDS conference last week promise to transform AIDS from a usually fatal disease into a chronic one that is treatable, many experts say. With news spreading about the landmark studies, which showed that new drug combinations can drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in blood, many people infected with the AIDS virus are questioning their treatment and asking practical questions for which their doctors are likely to have few immediate answers. Experts at the meeting often disagreed with one another about how to manage particular patients. All that is certain is that an earthquake has rearranged the landscape of AIDS therapy, presumably for the better, although even that is not yet certain

New findings reported at an international AIDS conference last week promise to transform AIDS from a usually fatal disease into a chronic one that is treatable, many experts say. With news rapidly spreading about the landmark studies, which showed that new drug combinations can drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in blood, many people infected with the AIDS virus are questioning their treatment and asking practical questions for which their doctors are likely to have few immediate answers. An immediate question is whether patients should start on the combination drug therapy as soon as they are infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, or wait until the onset of AIDS, which may not occur for many years

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- After weeks of hints that scientists were making remarkable progress in treating AIDS, the actual results from several studies were released publicly for the first time as an international meeting on AIDS in Vancouver ended Thursday. Whether people had had AIDS for years or had been infected for only a few weeks, combinations of new and older drugs suppressed the AIDS virus below the limits of detection for long periods of time. But the scientists who conducted the studies and other experts said in interviews that the dramatic findings could not be called a cure. No studies have documented a cure in any person infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, a number of speakers said

After weeks of hints that scientists were making remarkable progress in treating AIDS, the actual results from several studies were released publicly for the first time as an international meeting on AIDS in Vancouver ended Thursday. Whether people had AIDS for years or had been infected by HIV for only a few weeks, combinations of new and older drugs suppressed the AIDS virus below the limits of detection for long periods of time. But the scientists who conducted the studies and other experts said in interviews that the findings, as dramatic as they are, could not be called a cure. No studies have documented a cure in any person infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, a number of speakers said