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World Service,27 Sep 1995,13 mins

Could AZT Help Treat AIDS?

Health Matters

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How the drug AZT is helping fight AIDS, upside-down cure for vertigo and treating ulcers. There are encouraging results for the drug AZT, which is being used to treat AIDS. Also in the programme how vertigo's worst symptoms are being treated by turning people upside down. There is also some evidence that honey is the best way to treat ulcers caused by the parasite leishmaniasis.

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