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Tuesday, June 5, 2001


TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY: JUNE 5TH, 1981
'A Previously Healthy 33-Year-Old Man': the Five Original Case Studies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's newsletter Morbidity and Mortality Weekly published its first reference to five cases of an unusual pneumonia in Los Angeles.

THE CRAFTY OPPONENT
On Research Frontier, Basic Questions
By GINA KOLATA
Experts say no virus, even polio, has been more thoroughly studied than H.I.V. But the more scientists learn about AIDS, the more they find themselves confronting a mystery.

PUBLIC POLICY
Advocates for Patients Barged In, and the Federal Government Changed
By ROBERT PEAR
The AIDS epidemic has profoundly altered the way government responds to health emergencies, galvanizing medical research, speeding the review of new drugs.

THE VACCINE SEARCH
Quest for AIDS Vaccine Rises From Ashes of Dashed Hopes
By DENISE GRADY
While there is still no AIDS vaccine and none is even close, research continues into a preventative that will at least provide some protection against H.I.V.

ALSO FROM JUNE 5, 2001
When Death Sentences Are Reprieved
Voices From the Front Lines of Medicine
Volunteers Submit to Science