From the world of
AIDS treatment comes the term
Cocktail Therapy referring to several medications taken in combination to treat retroviruses, primarily
HIV, an approach known as
Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy, or
HAART. As John Henkel writes in
Attacking AIDS with a 'Cocktail' Therapy, such treatment often leads to the...
"...so-called "Lazarus Effect," named for the biblical figure who was raised from the dead, [which] has occurred with many AIDS patients who take the triple therapy. "It returns many who were debilitated and dying to relatively healthy and productive life," says Richard Klein, HIV/AIDS coordinator for the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Special Health Issues. Many health experts, in fact, credit the powerful HAART therapy with helping the domestic AIDS death rate to drop [dramatically.] So far, the combination HAART treatment is the closest thing medical science has to an effective therapy. The key to its success in some patients lies in the drug combination's ability to disrupt HIV at different stages in its replication."
But scientists and doctors and biomedical engineers still don't really know
how it works. What's key is
that it works! Given this, what other similar "cocktail" solutions might serve as compelling "therapies" for social, economic, political, or even other physiological ailments?
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