Dan Cusick, 37, of San Francisco learned last July that an AIDS-related illness was eating away at his brain and would probably kill him by October. In a last-ditch effort to save his life, his doctors gave him three anti-HIV drugs all at once. Within weeks, the lesions inside his head started to disappear. And tests could no longer find even a trace of the virus.
John Rife, 54, of Waimanalo, Hawaii, was getting clobbered by everything from virulent pneumonia to malignant lymphoma. His doctors started him on three anti-HIV drugs. Within a month, his devastated immune system showed signs of...