tagline 1998

December, 1998

• Co-receptorcopia: Deluge of Mutant Coreceptor Discoveries Pave Way for Therapeutic Advances in HIV, Allergy, Arthritis
• Talk About a Revolution: From Acting Up to Acts of Congress, AIDS Activist Reviews and Critiques a Decade of Social Change

October, 1998

• Sustiva-A-Day: Third Non-Nuke Receives FDA Imprimatur and Promises to Revolutionize Triple Cocktail Mix
• Abacavir Struggles to Carve Out Niche
• Remission Mission: Dutch, U.S. Researchers Report Partial Success with Flushing Strategies; Plan to Suspend Treatment in Patients

August/September, 1998

• "Me-too"s Rule: Geneva "New Agents" Sessions Betray Dearth of Interest in Imaginative (or Costly) Drug Development
• Recipe for a Cure: One Part Aged Innovation, Two Parts Hubris: Is Remune Merely Reheated '93 Berlin Fare?
• A View from Afar: Conference Circuit Ingénu and Self-Appointed Apothecaire Dispenses Bitter Tonic at Congress' Close
• Highlights from the Resistance Workshop

July, 1998

• Empyrrhic Victory: Jubilation, and Skepticism, Greet Announcement of First Phase III Trial of an AIDS Vaccine
• Down in Flames: Crypto Treatment Hopes Dashed as Sloppy, Divisive Unimed Fails to Provide Clean Data -- or Proof of Efficacy

June, 1998

• Overdose: Mutinous Rumblings of Pill Popping Public Prompts Drug Outfits' Focus on User-Friendly Dosing Schemes
• Buffalo-ed: Veteran Uptown Metabolic Trouble Shooter Argues Crix Belly, Buffalo Hump Are Not What They Seem

May, 1998

• Reservoirs Dog: Joint TAG-AmFAR Scientific Think Tank Assembles Eradication Experts for Marathon Brainstorming Session
• Slicing Up the Pie: Congress Asks Watchdog Agency to Report on NIH's Allocation of Scarce Research Dollars

April, 1998

• Designs Unforgiving: U.S. and French Investigators Alike Are 'Shocked, shocked' to Learn of Maintenance Protocol's Failure
• The Agenda Ahead: TAG Policy Director and Recent McArthur Fellow Warns Against Premature Declarations of Victory
• TAG Takes on an Executive Diretor

March, 1998

• Swift Success: CDC/Thai Vertical Transmission Results Silence Critics and Pave Way for Prevention of Millions of Infections Worldwide
• Immunization to the Fore: Long Languishing in Shadow of the Antiviral Quick Fix, Immune Based Therapies Are Called to Center Stage

January, 1998

• Vaccine Tug-of-War: Laboratory Purists and Renegade Empiricists Duke It Out Over How to Proceed with Vaccine Development Efforts
• Use It. Lose It: Tantalizing Research Paper Contemplates the Restoration of HIV-Specific 'T-Help' After HAART