LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Despite a state law that allows it, Dr. Victor Beer is worried about jeopardizing his career if he prescribes marijuana to AIDS patients, who say the drug soothes their pain. Beer said an AIDS patients at his Los Angeles clinic says marijuana is the only thing that reduces his nausea. But the doctor
The Associated Press - Saturday, December 28, 1996 10:59:00 PM.
BEIJING (AP) -- China hopes to ban blood sales next year under a proposed law aimed at cleaning up the nation s suspect blood supplies, an official newspaper said Saturday. Half of China s clinical blood supplies and all its plasma for blood products come from paid donors, who are considered at high risk of disease, th
The Associated Press - Monday, December 23, 1996 09:30:00 PM.
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- AIDS is spreading in India despite efforts to teach people how to avoid the disease, a news agency reported. Of 5,300 people studied during a three-year period, 10.2 percent of those who tested negative for the HIV virus that causes AIDS tested positive after a year, despite counseling they had
The Associated Press - Saturday, December 21, 1996 4:31 pm EST.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Time magazine s 1996 Man of the Year is AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, who pioneered a treatment for HIV infection that has shown promise in beating back the deadly disease. Ho, scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, has fundamentally changed the approach to combating
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 19, 1996 5:57 pm EST
Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the National Institutes of Health has endorsed a needle exchange research project despite objections by a health industry watchdog group that says it is immoral and unethical. Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the NIH, said in a letter released Thursday that the $2.4 million study in Anchora
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 19, 1996 4:27 pm EST.
Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Research that led to new AIDS drugs and to a new understanding of how the virus infects cells has been named the Breakthrough of the Year for 1996 by Science, a leading scientific journal. Evidence for ancient life on Mars is the first runner up in the annual selection by the journal of the top 10 re
The Associated Press - Monday, December 16, 1996 14:59:00 PM.
Sonya Ross, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton s strategy for battling AIDS leaves in place a ban on giving clean needles to drug users, despite his promise four years ago to allow federal funds to be used for needle exchange programs. The strategy, to be released Tuesday, offers six general goals described as simple, but vital
The Associated Press - Tuesday, December 17, 1996 17:44:00 PM.
Catherine Wilson, AP Business Writer
MIAMI (AP) -- In the first case of its kind, an entertainer reached a $90,000 settlement with a cruise line and employment agency for having a job offer withdrawn after testing positive for the AIDS virus. The entertainer, who has asked to remain anonymous, applied for a job in 1992 through Columbus, Ohio-based America
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 12, 1996 14:02:00 PM.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A deadly lung infection caused by a soil fungus in the Southwest is on the rise in Arizona, preying on the elderly and those with the AIDS virus. The number of cases of valley fever in Arizona jumped from 255 in 1990 to 623 last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Val
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 12, 1996 03:36:00 PM.
Dan Seufert, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) -- A man who spat at two police officers after telling them he has AIDS has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon: his saliva. Prosecutors will try to prove that 38-year-old Rexford Kidd of Amherst was trying to spread the disease. We felt that he had a contagious disease, and that by him spitti
The Associated Press -December 11, 1996 12.57 pm EST (1757 GMT).
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A San Diego biotechnology firm has received federal backing to develop a highly sensitive test to identify HIV-infected and hepatitis-C infected blood that slips undetected into blood banks. The technology promises to halve the number of tainted transfusions with blood from donors whose infecti
The Associated Press - Wednesday, December 11, 1996 - 10:47 P.M.
Michelle Locke, Associated Press Writer
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Jeff Getty used to measure his strength by how far he could push his AIDS-weakened body up a favorite mountain trail. If he could reach the second waterfall, that was good. The third was better. In June, six months after receiving a transplant of baboon bone marrow, he headed back to the 2,500-f
The Associated Press - Tuesday, December 10, 1996 17:14:00 PM.
Jane E. Allen, AP Science Writer
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A biotechnology company has won a government contract to develop a quick and highly sensitive blood test that promises to halve the number of transfusions tainted by AIDS and hepatitis C. Gen-Probe Inc. hopes by 1999 to provide blood banks nationwide with the three-hour lab test, Frank Nordhoff
The Associated Press - Sunday, December 08, 1996 08:52:00 PM.
Eric Talmadge, Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) -- When he tested positive for the AIDS virus 10 years ago, Ryuhei Kawada didn t know much about the disease. He was just a kid with hemophilia, and AIDS was still a new, mysterious and -- as far as most Japanese were concerned -- foreign disease. Now 20, his liver weak and the side-effects of his medication
The Associated Press - Sunday, December 08, 1996 08:52:00 PM.
Some facts on AIDS in Japan : ------ FIRST CASE: First officially reported AIDS case was in 1985, a Japanese homosexual who contracted AIDS virus in United States . By that time, two Japanese hemophiliacs were thought to have already died of AIDS, however. ------ CURRENT PROBLEM: According to government figures
The Associated Press - Saturday, December 07, 1996 08:19:00 PM.
Mitchell Landsberg, AP National Writer
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- Even now, eight years later, Jose Cruz cannot speak calmly about the events that drove him from his homeland. His voice cracks, his shoulders heave and tears slide down his smooth, delicate cheeks. By his account, Cruz was routinely raped, beaten and humiliated in El Salvador for b
The Associated Press - Saturday, December 7, 1996 9:34 am EST.
Kevin Costelloe, Associated Press Writer
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A winner of this year s Nobel Prize in medicine predicted Saturday that within 10 years there will be a vaccine to delay the outbreak of full-blown AIDS in people infected with the HIV virus. Rolf M. Zinkernagel also said the vaccine he envisioned would vastly reduce chances that an HIV-infect
The Associated Press - Wednesday, 4 December 1996.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- In a precedent-setting settlement, the owners of a seniors-only housing development agreed not to evict a tenant for allowing her son, who has AIDS, to live with her. The agreement settles a claim that the Huntington Shorecliffs Mobile Home Park discriminated against Shirley Lewis and h
The Associated Press - Friday, December 6, 1996 4:53 pm EST.
Patrick McDowell Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- The booming economies of Asia are fueling traffic in children to work in brothels and sweatshops, prompting the U.N. labor agency Friday to launch a campaign to stop the practice. The International Labor Organization announced a three-year drive to draft and ratify a regional convention agains
The Associated Press - Tuesday, 3 December 1996, 15:48 P.M.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two days after the commemoration of World AIDS Day, the Clinton administration pledged to keep pressing to stop the spread of the virus that causes AIDS. We ll continue to fight for better and more affordable prevention strategies, vaccines and other products that can fend off the HIV virus, Vice Pre
The Associated Press - Monday, December 02, 1996 11:51:00 PM.
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosemary Johnson finally felt healthy thanks to powerful new AIDS drugs. But she was still in torment -- unable to give her sick daughter the same medicines because no one knew how they would affect children. Since none of the three new and potent medicines revolutionizing AIDS care is yet approved f
In Rome, taxi drivers distributed safe-sex leaflets. Across Thailand , gas stations offered free condoms. And in New York, activists read out the names of thousands killed by AIDS. World AIDS Day was marked with renewed vigor around the world Sunday after a U.N. agency reported an accelerating death toll, with nearly a
The Associated Press - Sunday, 1 December 1996, 08:37 P.M.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- World Aids Day is being marked by prayer, protests and proclamations. In Washington, the AIDS awareness group ACT UP is staging a vigil across the street from the White House, to urge more government funding for AIDS research. Across the country, in Portland, Archbishop Francis George will celebrate
The Associated Press - Sunday, December 1, 1996 8:10 am EST.
China tried shock treatment, posting photos of an emaciated AIDS victim in a central Beijing park. Gas stations in Thailand started passing out 3 million condoms free to customers, along with a warning: Be careful of AIDS when feeling naughty. A group in the Philippines
The Associated Press - Sunday, December 1, 1996 4:46 am EST.
BEIJING (AP) -- At least 5,157 people in China were infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS by the end of October, the Health Ministry reported Sunday. Of those infected, 133 people have developed AIDS, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said in a report released to mark World AIDS Day. Experts believe the real
The Associated Press - Saturday, November 30, 1996 12:34:00 PM.
Dan Seufert, Associated Press Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- With thousands of gays gathered in Miami for an internationally known AIDS research benefit on World AIDS Day, business is booming in the gay mecca of South Beach. But the community of glitzy shops, hip nightlife and worship of the body beautiful has been stunned by a study that shows its AIDS
The Associated Press - Saturday, November 30, 1996 10:46:00 PM.
Will Lester, Associated Press Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- With thousands of gays gathered in Miami for an internationally known AIDS research benefit on World AIDS Day, business is booming in the gay mecca of South Beach. But the community of glitzy shops, hip nightlife and worship of the body beautiful has been stunned by a study that shows its AIDS
The Associated Press - Saturday, November 30, 1996 10:30:00 PM.
David Foster, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- There was no doubt but that he d die an early, ugly death. Chuck Johnson had come to accept that. He had AIDS, so he was going to die. It was that simple. As a gay man living in San Francisco, Johnson had seen the disease kill hundreds of friends and acquaintances. A year ago, he watched it start
The Associated Press - Saturday, November 30, 1996 10:30:00 PM.
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
During his first 10 years treating AIDS, Bruce Rashbaum watched 600 of his patients die. In those days, taking care of AIDS meant little more than easing the inevitable. It was a depressing business, emotionally numbing and awful for all involved. Death was the only certainty. I was fried, Rashbaum remembers. He took e
The Associated Press - November 28, 1996 4.12 am EST (0912 GMT)
LONDON (AP) -- The death toll from AIDS is accelerating, with one-fourth of all fatalities occurring within the past year, the U.N. agency on AIDS said today. In 1996, 3.1 million people were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, bringing the total of people with HIV or AIDS to 22.6 million,
The Associated Press - Thursday, 28 November 1996 08:55 P.M.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Mayor Cesar Maia said he would seek a court order barring distribution of an AIDS awareness T-shirt showing the Virgin Mary with a shining condom in place of her heart. The T-shirt was designed by Grupo pela Vidda, an AIDS counseling group. It says, in Portuguese: Protect your neighbor a
The Associated Press - Thursday, 28 November 1996 01:02 A.M.
BOSTON (AP) - Infected mothers risk passing the AIDS virus to their babies during birth even if the level of HIV in their bloodstreams is extremely low, a study concludes. The findings are based on a landmark study that found that women reduce their risk of transmitting HIV during childbirth by two-thirds if they take
The Associated Press - Monday, November 25, 1996 16:23:00 PM.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Several pharmaceutical companies said Monday they have decided to proceed with a settlement with thousands of hemophiliacs who contend they were infected with the AIDS virus from blood-clotting products. The companies have proposed paying $620 million to 6,200 hemophiliacs, an offer that was accepted la
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gave comfort today to an 18-year-old girl forced into prostitution and now dying of AIDS. On the second day of her two-day tour of northern Thailand, an area ravaged by AIDS and the sale of girls into sexual slavery, Mrs. Clinton toured a shelter founded by
The Associated Press - Saturday, 23 November 1996.
Anita Womack, Associated Press Writer
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP-Dow Jones)--Medical and statistical reviewers for the Food and Drug Administration say Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. s (PNU) proposed AIDS drug delavirdine has some anti-HIV activity, but officials added the data were not robust. Agency reviewers said one study showed no clinical benefit, but late
The Associated Press - Saturday, November 23, 1996
Jiraporn Wongpaithoon, Associated Press Writer
CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) -- Selling her daughter into prostitution would have netted Chansom Kheunkhamsang a quick $1,000 -- enough to make her family one of substance in their poor village. Instead, Chansom sent her to work in a project to stop the traffic in young women from Thailand s impoverished northern villages
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- Spermicides clearly work better than no contraceptive at all, but there s no way to say how effective they are or whether women should opt for a gel, foam, suppository or film, a scientific panel concluded Friday. The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration heard disturbing evidence Frida
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- Scientific advisers deadlocked Friday over whether to allow AIDS patients to buy a new drug, citing conflicting evidence over whether it works and who should use it. Pharmacia & Upjohn had argued that delavirdine would help kill the HIV virus in early-stage patients blood and slightly bo
The Associated Press - Wednesday, November 20, 1996.
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Writer
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- The government is casting doubt on how well decades-old contraceptive foams and gels actually prevent pregnancy. But its scientific advisers said Wednesday the spermicides do appear to reduce women s risk of catching the common sexual diseases of gonorrhea and chlamydia. The advisers to the Fo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) - Five years ago, Earvin Magic Johnson stunned the sports world by announcing that he had become infected with the virus that causes AIDS and was retiring from the game he helped to revolutionize. Now, after becoming perhaps the most prominent spokesman for HIV sufferers, the former basketball su
NEW YORK (AP) -- Allegations that the New York Blood Center manipulated the results of tests for HIV, hepatitis and other infectious agents in donated blood are being investigated by federal authorities and the Manhattan district attorney, according to published reports. Officials of the federal Food and Drug Administr
The Associated Press - Wednesday, November 13, 1996
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Increased drug use and ignorance about AIDS have quadrupled the number of HIV infections registered in Ukraine since January, health officials said Wednesday. More than 10,000 people in Ukraine have registered HIV-positive, up from about 2,500 in January, the government s Committee for Combating A
The Associated Press - Tuesday, November 12, 1996.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A Brazilian state began distributing a powerful combination of anti-AIDS drugs Monday, in the first government-sponsored program in Latin American to distribute the drugs for free. The latest innovation in AIDS therapy, ``cocktails , are made up of two AIDS medicines plus
HONG KONG (AP) -- A Chinese AIDS expert has warned that the nation s poorly controlled blood supply system is vulnerable to contamination and already has caused at least six people to contract the deadly virus. Satisfactory control of HIV is still not possible, said Zhang Konglai, director of the Beijing-based
The Associated Press - Thursday, November 7, 1996.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia is facing an AIDS epidemic, with the number of people testing positive for the HIV virus more than quadrupling this year, a Russian health official said Thursday. About 800 new cases have been registered so far this year, compared to 190 in all of 1995, Irina Savchenko, an epidemiologist at the Ru
The Associated Press - Wednesday, November 6, 1996.
Mark Evans, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The pungent smell of marijuana smoke hung in the air Wednesday as supporters celebrated the passage of ballot measures in California and Arizona legalizing the drug for medical use. Even though it is uncertain how the mandates will be implemented, users hailed the initiatives as compassionate ways
The Associated Press - Wednesday, October 30, 1996.
BOSTON (AP) -- A new study confirms that a natural protein can help restore immune systems that have been damaged by the AIDS virus. Last year, doctors from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported that regular injections of interleukin 2 can boost the body s production of blood cells that are
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ballot measures to legalize marijuana for medical purposes could increase drug use among youths, three former U.S. presidents asserted in a letter released Tuesday. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush said in the letter that they categorically oppose Proposition 200 in Arizona and Proposition
SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) -- A Superior Court judge has upheld an arbitrator s decision that stripped Johnson & Johnson of its home HIV test business and gave it to the creator. Judge Wilfred P. Diana on Thursday denied the New Brunswick-based company s appeal of the arbitrator s July decision to award Elliott J. Mille
BEIJING (AP) -- China has found signs of the AIDS virus in a common over-the-counter blood product, but health officials have yet to tell the public about the risk of contamination from it. The discovery, the first known case of its kind in China, highlights problems in the poorly policed Chinese medical system -- part
The Associated Press - Thursday, October 24, 1996.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A $100,000 settlement offer to hemophiliacs for claims they were infected with AIDS from blood-clotting products was accepted by more than 90 percent of the eligible victims, a spokesman for pharmaceutical companies said Thursday. The companies have until Nov. 22 to decide whether to go along with the
The Associated Press - Thursday, October 24, 1996.
John Leicester, Associated Press Writer
BEIJING (AP) -- China has banned a widely available blood product found tainted with the virus that causes AIDS, in a case that underscores wider problems in the nation s poorly policed medical system. The blood product, an over-the-counter medicine used to boost resistance to disease, is produced by a military-run fac
The Associated Press - Wednesday, October 23, 1996.
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A private study suggests that North Carolina s effort to end anonymous AIDS testing could deter people from seeking to learn whether they have the deadly virus. In anonymous testing, patients are identified only by a number. In confidential testing, the state records names on a list that, by law, is
The Associated Press - Wednesday, October 23, 1996.
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
BOSTON (AP) -- The chance discovery that some pregnant lab mice are resistant to Kaposi s sarcoma, a form of cancer seen almost exclusively among AIDS patients, has yielded a promising new treatment for the disease. The treatment involves a hormone derived from the urine of pregnant women. Researchers found that inject
BOSTON (AP) -- AIDS warnings are apparently reaching high-risk whites but not many blacks, who continue to contract the disease in disproportionately high numbers, experts said Tuesday. Galvanized by statistics indicating that blacks will account for more than half of new AIDS cases by 2000, black leaders convened an e
KAMPONDE, Zaire (AP) -- It is 4 o clock on a Sunday morning, and the village is sleeping. No one knows I have returned. At daybreak, I step into the red-brick church and follow the tiny toeprints of barefoot children down the dirt aisle. As I begin to speak, I am greeted by astonished eyes. I came back to tell you
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Desperate patients who dial onto the Internet can find medical information from potentially lifesaving research in top medical journals to a site that claims positive thinking can change your genetic base. Now the Food and Drug Administration is wading into the chaos, preparing to regulate promotion
The Associated Press - Thursday, October 17, 1996.
Tara Meyer, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted infection tracked across the country for the first time last year, was the most common infectious disease plaguing Americans in 1995, the government said Thursday. Gonorrhea and AIDS came in second and third on the annual list, according to the Centers for Disease Contr
The Associated Press - Thursday, October 17, 1996.
Jon Marcus, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) -- An unwritten agreement forbidding condom ads on television has begun to crumble, with four network affiliates now airing a commercial featuring a skeleton explaining why he refused to use such protection. WCVB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Boston, this week became the fourth station in the country to agree to
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government agreed to reconsider Thursday whether to pay for a $2.7 million study of needle exchanges in Alaska after a consumer advocate charged the experiment was highly unethical. The study would have recruited 600 intravenous drug users, but only allowed 300 of them to get free clean needles i
The Associated Press - Wednesday, October 16, 1996.
BEIJING (AP) -- China has no time to waste in fighting AIDS as drug abuse, prostitution and ignorance help spread the disease, China s health minister warned Wednesday. Chen Minzhang said a drastic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, illegal blood banks, a huge migrant population and high rates of AIDS in neighb
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hemophiliacs infected with the AIDS virus by tainted blood-clotting products have until midnight to join a $100,000-per-victim settlement already accepted by thousands of others. But as the deadline approached today, it was unclear whether any of the victims would see any money. The four manufacturers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An ever-increasing number of Americans are using medical kits that let them check for high cholesterol, colon cancer and even the AIDS virus without having to leave the privacy of their homes. Yet the government has no policy to guide decisions on when these increasingly sophisticated tests -- with t
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thousands of hemophiliacs who were infected with the AIDS virus by tainted blood clotting products have accepted a settlement offer from manufacturers that would give each $100,000 in compensation. Nonetheless, as Tuesday night s deadline approached for victims to file forms expressing their opinion on
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police on horseback dispersed more than 300 AIDS activists protesting in front of the White House on Sunday after demonstrators tossed funeral urns with ashes inside over the wrought-iron fence. Steven Hardway, of Oklahoma City, a member of the group ACT UP who threw an urn that he said bore the ashe
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The founder of a club that provided marijuana to people with AIDS, cancer and other terminal diseases was arrested Friday, accused of selling pot to drug peddlers. Dennis Peron, also an organizer of a ballot measure to legalize marijuana for medical uses, was arrested two months after state agents
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it was first displayed in the nation s capital in 1988, the AIDS quilt was about a city block long. With eight more years of deaths from the epidemic, the colorful patchwork remembering the victims now stretches nearly a mile from the Washington Monument to the foot of the Capitol. Even so, the
TOKYO (AP) -- In a country where powerful bureaucrats make most of the rules -- and conformity usually is essential for success -- no one ever dreamed that a thorn in the side of officialdom named Naoto Kan could go far. The improbable has begun to happen since Kan, the health minister, took on major drug companies and
MIAMI (AP) -- A public health worker was fired Wednesday for using a confidential list of people with AIDS and HIV to screen potential dates. William Calvert is accused of taking computer disks listing nearly 4,000 patients to a gay bar and offering to look up names for friends. The allegations, however, have heightene
BOSTON (Reuter) - A nationwide team of researchers reported Wednesday that a combination of drugs is better than the drug AZT alone for slowing the development of AIDS. But a second study released at the same time suggests that treatment with a particular combination of drugs apparently offers no added benefit for pati
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Heavyweight Tommy Morrison has had no shortage of offers in his bid for a comeback fight after testing positive for HIV, his promoter says. George Foreman, who faces Crawford Grimsley on Nov. 2 in Tokyo, has formally issued Morrison an invitation to fight on that undercard and repeated his desire t
The Associated Press Monday, October 7, 1996 5:53 pm EDT
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists are discovering the AIDS epidemic is far more diverse in America than previously thought, and they are scouring the globe for AIDS strains to ensure that U.S. tests for the disease are able to detect every type. Doctors here weren t too worried in 1994 when France first sounded th
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Infants in strollers, couples hand-in-hand, dogs wearing red ribbons made their way around the streets of the nation s capital Sunday in an annual trek to raise money for the care of AIDS patients. Organizers estimated that more than 15,000 people participated in the 10th annual AIDS Walk Washington,
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A quiet, wooded grove -- one of the first public places to grieve AIDS victims -- will soon join the ranks of Mount Rushmore, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and other national landmarks. Dozens of people have been gathering at the 15-acre site in Golden Gate Park since the Senate voted Thursday to
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) -- The tuna sandwiches were fresh, the cookies homemade, and a Blood Drive Today sign out front beckoned motorists. But inside Montclair s Red Cross on last month s designated day for donations, rows of beds stood empty and workers passed the time chatting about weekend plans. Across the country, A
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Union on Friday approved the use of two powerful new drugs designed to prolong the lives of AIDS sufferers. The ruling allows sales across the 15-nation EU of the two drugs -- Crixivan , made by Merck & Co.
TOKYO (AP) -- Prosecutors today arrested a former top health ministry official accused of allowing hemophiliacs to be treated with unsterilized blood products even though he knew about the risk of AIDS infection. The arrest was the latest in Japan s largest medical scandal in years, which critics say developed from col
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Oct 1 -- Listeners to a talk show on a popular Haitian radio station are being told that AIDS does not exist and that patients should discontinue their medicine and stop using condoms. One AIDS counselor said Haitian patients from at least four treatment centers have stopped seeing doctors be
NEW YORK (AP) Sep 30 -- Hormones used in injected and implanted contraceptives might make women more susceptible to getting infected with the AIDS virus during sex, a study of monkeys suggests. Monkeys were given implants of progesterone, which resembles synthetic hormones used in the injected contraceptive Depo-Prover
The Associated Press - Wednesday, September 25, 1996 11:57 pm EDT
Cassandra Burrell, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cracking down on illegal aliens, the House passed two bills Wednesday -- one focusing on law enforcement and the other letting states deny public school education to illegal alien children. Only the first had a chance of getting President Clinton s signature. The Senate was expected to reject the sec
The Associated Press Tuesday, September 24, 1996 6:43 pm EDT
Paul Haven, Associated Press Writer
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Arsonists set fire to a rural home for HIV-infected people as a father and son slept inside, police said Tuesday. Townspeople had threatened for months to force them out. The two were not hurt in the fire Monday night in Paicol, 185 miles southwest of the capital, Bogota.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to concerns about the risk of exposing people to animal-borne diseases, the government proposed guidelines Friday for transplanting animal organs and tissues into people. The guidelines, which come years after some hospitals began experimenting with animal-to-human transplants, are needed
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A state health worker denied Friday that he s responsible for leaking a secret list of nearly 4,000 AIDS patients that was mailed to two newspapers. Somebody knows what I do and used my name, I would suggest as a personal vendetta, said William B. Calvert III, who is on paid leave pending an by the
TOKYO (AP) -- Prosecutors on Thursday arrested the president of a major pharmaceutical company and two of its former executives on suspicion of knowingly selling HIV-tainted blood products. The arrests came one day after Dr. Takeshi Abe, 80, a former government official, became the first person to be formally charged i
The Associated Press Wednesday, September 18, 1996 3:49 am EDT
ISSUE: AIDS SPENDING Here are the responses of the major presidential candidates to the question: Would you maintain, increase or decrease federal research grants to universities and hospitals searching for a cure or more effective measures against AIDS? Bill Clinton: Preventing HIV infection and finding a cure for AID
The Associated Press Wednesday, September 18, 1996 10:26 am EDT
MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) -- A leading hemophilia expert was charged Wednesday with professional negligence for giving blood that was not treated to kill the HIV virus to a patient who later died of AIDS. Dr. Takeshi Abe, 80, was the first person to be indicted in one of Japan s worst medical scandals in years. Abe, a former professo
The Associated Press Tuesday, September 17, 1996 1:30 am EDT
MIAMI (AP) -- Equipped with a pack of cigarettes, a water jug strapped to his back and a wooden walking stick, Louie Rochon began a 5,200-mile trek to raise money for children affected by AIDS. He plans to walk for 17 months from Miami to Seattle, averaging 10 to 20 miles a day. Rochon, 43, of Mesa, Ariz., said he was
The Associated Press Tuesday, September 17, 1996 4:20 pm EDT
Here are the responses of the major presidential candidates to the question: Would you maintain, increase or decrease federal research grants to universities and hospitals searching for a cure or more effective measures against AIDS? Bill Clinton: Preventing HIV infection and finding a cure for AIDS is a top priority.
The Associated Press Saturday, September 14, 1996 5:14 pm EDT
Erich Smith, Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A 10-minute test accurately shows whether a person has HIV, much quicker than the standard four hours, and researchers hope it will help get more people who test positive into counseling. In addition to usual hours-long delays, some hospitals run test samples only twice per month, according to a st
The Associated Press Tuesday, September 10, 1996 11:44 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation s drug czar said today he opposes a California referendum proposal to legalize marijuana for medical use, calling the idea dangerous and wrong. As medicine, this proposition is unworthy of the Middle Ages; as politics, it is dishonest. said Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the national drug control p
The Associated Press - Wednesday, September 4, 1996 12:33
BEIJING (AP) -- Laboratories will be set up across China as part of government efforts to step up the fight against AIDS, an official newspaper said Wednesday. Only half of China s 30 provinces, autonomous regions and major cities now have laboratories which can accurately test for HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, the
WASHINGTON (AP)--The Food and Drug Administration issued a nationwide alert, warning of severe infection risk from an unapproved injection drug extracted from the adrenal gland of cattle, sheep and pigs. The FDA said that at least 54 people have contracted serious bacterial infections after receiving injections of a su
The Associated Press - Saturday, August 31, 1996; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya s top Roman Catholic church official burned condoms and safe sex literature Saturday in a ceremony organized by a group opposed to contraception and sex education. About 250 people watched as Cardinal Maurice Otunga and two gynecologists prayed and sang before setting fire to several boxes
TOKYO (AP)--The former head of a Health Ministry panel on AIDS was arrested today for allegedly letting tainted blood products be used even though he knew they could be deadly and a safer alternative was available. Takeshi Abe, a leading authority on hemophilia who helped shape Japanese health policy during the 1980s,
The Associated Press - Monday, August 26, 1996 7:29 pm EDT
Paisley Dodds, Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) -- An AIDS researcher accused of using more than $570,000 in federal grant money for his own use surrendered to authorities Monday, vowing to continue his work. Dr. Lionel Resnick was charged Aug. 21 with 49 federal counts of mail fraud and three counts of money laundering. He was released on $100,000 bond.
The Associated Press - Friday, August 23, 1996 6:20 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten programs that help low-income people with AIDS or the HIV virus find housing will share more than $7.8 million in federal grants, Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros announced Friday. The competitive grants were possible under the Department of Housing and Urban Development s Housing Opportunities f
CHICAGO (AP) - Hemophiliacs who claim they contracted the virus that causes AIDS from tainted blood-clotting products could get $100,000 each under a settlement offer approved by a federal judge Wednesday. The $640 million settlement offer from four major drug companies would also cover survivors of hemophiliacs who di
BOSTON (AP)--A surprising number of people - perhaps one in 100 whites - have genes that will protect them from AIDS even if they have risky sex thousands of times, scientists discovered. The finding answers one mystery of the AIDS epidemic - how some people get away with breaking all the safe sex rules - and opens new
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco s sheriff is refusing to enforce a court order to close down a club that sold marijuana to medical patients to help ease their suffering and boost their appetites. Mike Hennessey said he hoped that Attorney General Dan Lungren would understand that our community does not wish to spend
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A club that openly sold marijuana to people with AIDS, cancer and other diseases briefly reopened its doors on Monday, a day after state drug agents cleaned out its cupboards. We don t have any marijuana, but we have each other, said volunteer Gilbert Baker as a dozen people lined up outside. We h
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A doctor was charged with trying to kill his girlfriend by injecting her with HIV-tainted blood from an AIDS patient. Dr. Richard J. Schmidt, 48, a gastroenterologist, was indicted Tuesday on an attempted murder charge and jailed without bond. His attorney said Schmidt is innocent. The 33-year-old
ATLANTA (AP) - The government is rethinking its policy of giving measles shots to people in the late stages of AIDS because one infected man became extremely ill and died after getting the vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will make its recommendation
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A company that buys life insurance policies from the terminally ill, giving them a source of up-front cash, will suspend the practice because new developments in treating AIDS could hurt profits. Dignity Partners Inc. of San Francisco was among the first companies to offer the discounted payments f
MIAMI (AP) - A woman who accidentally breast-fed someone else s newborn plans to sue the hospital that mixed up the babies after she was told the other child could have the virus that causes AIDS, her lawyer said Tuesday. The mother of the other baby has tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, but it s to
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Can an AIDS infection be cured? Doctors may know soon, when the results of a landmark study start to emerge. Using a powerful new combination of medicines, they are treating nine men from almost the first days of their HIV infections to learn if they can completely and permanently wi
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- In a pioneering attempt to cure AIDS, doctors are giving a powerful combination of drugs to newly infected men to see if they can permanently wipe out all traces of the virus. The idea is to hit HIV fast and hard before it becomes deeply established in the body. No one knows if it wi
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Evidence is so overwhelming that syphilis, herpes and other sexually transmitted disease speed the spread of AIDS that ignoring them amounts to public health malpractice, a top U.S. health official says. Researchers believe that high level of venereal diseases, along with lack of cir
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- People with AIDS often attempt suicide to end their suffering, and doctors appear increasingly willing to help them. Fully half of San Francisco AIDS doctors surveyed admit they have prescribed deadly doses of narcotics. Reports Wednesday from the United States ,
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- The spread of HIV from mother to child has been cut in half in the United States over the past two years since doctors routinely began giving an AIDS-fighting drug to infected pregnant women. The discovery that the drug AZT reduces AIDS transmission
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- The U.S. government pledged $100 million Tuesday to help develop virus-killing creams that would let women protect themselves from AIDS without relying on their partners. The goal is to create alternatives to condoms that women can use without men s permission -- especially creams th
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Less than two of every 1,000 young women in the United States are infected with the AIDS virus, and the numbers are falling sharply in the Northeast, where HIV is most common, new statistics show. The figures provide more evidence that the AIDS epidemic has stabilized in the United S
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Elizabeth Taylor criticized the governments of Canada and the United States for what she called inadequate and even dangerous policies toward the AIDS crisis. I understand that here in Canada, the government isn t sure whether they want to fund AIDS research at all, she said Monday
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Top AIDS officials cautioned Sunday that overly optimistic reports of breakthroughs in AIDS treatment will raise impossibly high hopes among AIDS sufferers around the world. The warning came as 15,000 people attended the opening session of the 11th International Conference on AIDS in
Every day, 8,500 more people become infected with the AIDS virus. Around the world, the United Nations AIDS program estimates that 21 million people are living with HIV, 90 percent of them in developing countries. However, the worldwide spread of the virus may be yielding at last to human intervention. Dr. Peter Piot,
CHICAGO (AP) - The number of people infected with the AIDS virus appears to have leveled off at about one of every 300 Americans age 13 and older, with new infections keeping pace with deaths, federal researchers say. We re running in place, but it s a deadly place to run, said the new study s lead author, Dr. John M.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials have found the first person in the United States to carry a rare form of HIV, and they said Friday that new AIDS tests should be ready within a year to better detect the rare strain. The woman, who lives in Los Angeles County, is infected with a strain of HIV known as Group O, although
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles County woman is the first person in the United States to carry a rare form of HIV, and health officials say the discovery may change how AIDS testing is done, a newspaper reported today. The woman is infected with a strain of HIV known as Group O, although she tested negative for the vi
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The AIDS epidemic raging in parts of Africa will depress population growth on the continent much more severely than previously predicted, according to a demographic analysis. Even AIDS, however, will not significantly dent world population growth, which -- if birth rates in some developing nations co
The 11th International Conference on AIDS opens Sunday with something entirely new in the brief history of the epidemic: a barely containable sense of optimism. The euphoric shift in mood is as dramatic -- and as surprising -- as the scientific breakthroughs that triggered it. For the first time, the idea is beginning
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration approved the first in a new class of AIDS medicines Monday, clearing patients to start adding the drug nevirapine to their treatment combinations this summer. Nevirapine, to be sold under the brand name Viramun
HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas health officials said Thursday that California strawberries are almost certainly the source of a rare parasite that has sickened people here, but federal authorities aren t ready to name a culprit. Scientists have been mystified about the cause of the outbreak of cyclospora, which has sickened peo
NEW YORK (AP) - In a discovery that could lead to new treatments against HIV, scientists say they have identified another chemical foothold that the AIDS virus needs to infect cells. Unlike a similar discovery announced just last month, the new work involves HIV strains commonly spread from person to person. Altogether
BOSTON (AP) - Delivering an HIV-infected woman s baby promptly after her water breaks appears to reduce her risk of passing on the AIDS virus during childbirth. About 7,000 HIV-infected women give birth each year in the United States . Without treatment, about one in four transmits the virus to her child. However, taki
WASHINGTON (AP) -- AIDS patients are accusing animal rights activists of blocking lifesaving medical research. They place the lives of animals above the lives of me and my friends, Jeff Getty of San Francisco said Tuesday. He added that he received death threats during an experiment last year to see whether a baboon s
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Ha sits between women painted in lipstick and rouge, her face as naked and soft as a child s. I like to be natural, she says shyly. The older prostitutes laugh indulgently. At 21, Ha has been streetwalking for only one month. She still has big dreams. I think I won t do this very long,
SAN FRANCISCO - Among the 32,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, among the testimonials to fallen friends and colleagues, one panel attests to the heartache of a San Francisco law firm. With this 3-by-6-foot rectangle, the firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe remembers two dozen staffers who have died of AI
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of the world s leading AIDS researchers and physicians have begun talking optimistically about the possibility of eliminating HIV from infected people. Recent tests of existing and new treatments on tens of thousands of infected patients appear to have left them with no detectable signs of HIV, th
BOSTON (AP) -- The risk of catching the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion is calculated to be just two in 1 million. The safety of the blood supply has dramatically increased over the past decade. While there still is a risk, it is exceedingly small, said epidemiologist George B. Schreiber of Westat Inc., a research
Measuring the concentration of the AIDS virus in the blood gives a more accurate prediction of the disease prognosis than does a test that counts the number of white blood cells, according to a study published last week. In a study of 180 men infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS,
TOKYO (AP)--The president of a Japanese drug company involved in a scandal over selling blood products tainted with the AIDS virus said Friday he will resign in the fall. Green Cross Corp. was one of five drug companies sued by hemophiliac patients for selling unsafe blood products in the early to mid-1980s. The Japane
BOSTON (AP) -- A powerful virus-stopping gel intended to stop the sexual spread of AIDS to women appears to be highly effective in the first testing on monkeys, according to a preliminary study. The substance, called PMPA, totally stopped transmission of SIV, the monkey version of the AIDS virus, when applied protectiv
BOSTON (AP) -- Early tests have shown promise in a powerful virus-stopping vaginal gel that could be used instead of condoms as a barrier to AIDS, according to a study released Monday. For women to have a woman-controlled method is very important so they can protect themselves, said Dr. Zeda Rosenberg of the National I
ATLANTA (AP) -- AIDS cases contracted through intravenous drug use are 17 times more common among black women than white women, and 14 times more common among black men than white men, the government said Thursday. AIDS cases among all IV drug users continue to rise, although the growth rate is slowing, according to 19
ATLANTA (AP) -- Black women who use intravenous drugs or had sex with IV drug users are 17 times more likely than their white counterparts to have AIDS, the government said Thursday. And black men associated with IV drugs were 14 times more likely than similar white men to have the disease, according to 1995 figures re
NEW YORK (AP) -- Doctors first said the boy had an eye infection. Then they diagnosed him with pneumonia. Next came asthma, tuberculosis, salmonella and finally HIV. They say the mother, father, baby must all be infected with HIV. We couldn t sleep, couldn t tell anybody. It was shame, said Muhammed Ali, an immigrant f
WASHINGTON (AP) -- People will soon be able to take an HIV blood test in the privacy of their home using a new blood collection kit approved Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration. The kit will enable patients to take their blood sample at home, send it to a laboratory and then receive the results by telephone. Un
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A protein that plays a key role in the deadly attack of the AIDS virus has been discovered by federal scientists, ending a decade-long search by worldwide research laboratories. A group at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases identified the protein, which they call fusin, that mu
WASHINGTON (AP, May 6) -- Research with monkeys found that a hormone related to one used in popular injectable contraceptive drugs dramatically increased the risk of vaginal infection by an AIDS-like virus, scientists reported Monday. The study at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City demonstrated tha
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials are moving swiftly to start new human research to see if a synthetic hormone used in popular injectable contraceptives increases the risk of AIDS virus infection. The action was prompted by monkey research that suggested the connection. A study at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Cen
WASHINGTON (AP, May 3) -- President Clinton says he s eager to sign compromise legislation that would extend federal AIDS assistance for five more years. The Senate approved the Ryan White CARE Act by voice vote Thursday, the final congressional action on legislation that was stalled for nine months over the issue of m
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation s largest water systems have to begin monitoring and gathering information on cryptosporidium, a microbial parasite that can be fatal, a government agency ordered. There are no federal standards for cryptosporidium in drinking water, which three years ago was blamed for the death of 110 pe
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six cities are taking little action to prevent waterborne Cryptosporidium from sickening residents, concludes an AIDS group that surveyed how the nation s biggest water departments fight the parasite. The government doesn t know how many people are infected every year, but 400,000 people got sick fro
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress neared final passage of a long-stalled bill that increases federal AIDS funding and calls for mandatory HIV testing of newborns if a voluntary screening program for pregnant women fails. The House on Wednesday passed the compromise Ryan White CARE Act by 402-4, authorizing fiscal 1996 fundin
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Some AIDS patients are risking their health by taking an untested combination of two new drugs and should wait for the results of tests aimed at finding a safe combined dose, the manufacturers said. The message is, don t do this on your own. Wait till more data s available, Hoffmann-LaRoche spokes
WASHINGTON (AP, May 1) -- House and Senate conferees have struck a deal to fund a federal AIDS program that delays mandatory HIV testing of newborns in favor of encouraging pregnant woman to be tested for the deadly virus. The deal could lead to mandatory tests, but that will depend upon how the medical profession hand
WASHINGTON (AP) Just how long a patient infected with the AIDS virus can stay healthy may depend upon how well his immune system juggles the many different strains of HIV that develop constantly, researchers say in a new report. A study of six men infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, showed that those with th
ATLANTA (AP) The number of people in the United States diagnosed with AIDS in 1995 fell 7 percent from the previous year, federal researchers said Thursday. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 74,180 AIDS cases, or 27.8 per 100,000 residents, in 1995. That s down from 1994, when there we
TOKYO (AP)--More than 100 Japanese infected with the AIDS virus by tainted blood signed a settlement, ending a 6 1/2-year court battle in which the government and five drug companies apologized and agreed to pay compensation. The agreement comes after the government admitted in February that it knew of the risks posed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An AIDS therapy designed to boost the immune systems of infected patients -- the last work of vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk -- begins testing in some 3,000 Americans this week. Remune is the first immune system-based AIDS treatment to make it to such advanced testing. But scientists caution that patient
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a battle plan for a final assault on AIDS, a panel of top scientists is urging a major shakeup of the $1.4 billion federal AIDS research program. The sometimes-flawed program needs new talent and imagination, the panel says. The committee of more than 100 scientists called on federal officials to
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)--The possible identification of the virus that causes Kaposi s sarcoma may lead to a vaccination against the disfiguring, sometimes fatal complication found in many AIDS patients, a researcher says. The discovery also could lead to blood tests to better identify people who harbor the virus, said Dr.
TOKYO (AP)--Japan s Health and Welfare ministry chose not to import heated blood products in 1983 as it feared the impact on domestic blood supply companies, thus exposing patients to potentially infected blood, the ministry s own files show. The ministry scrapped plans that would have banned the use of blood that hadn
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Charles Hall has AIDS and wants to die before the pain gets worse and the disease robs him of any more dignity. He s found a physician willing to write a prescription that would end his suffering -- permanently. But that would be against a 128-year-old Florida law banning assisted suicide.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) -- A jury on Friday rejected a man s claim that he contracted the AIDS virus while his dentist extracted some of his teeth. Jurors said the dentist, Anthony E. Breglio of Springfield, was negligent in how he treated the dental tools used on 49-year-old James Sharpe. But they said the negligence
ATLANTA (AP) -- AIDS is exacting a growing toll on blacks. The virus is now responsible for a third of all deaths among black men ages 25 to 44, the CDC said Thursday. AIDS also accounts for about a fifth of the deaths among black women in the same age range -- a higher proportion than among young white men, the Center
BETHESDA, Md. (AP)--University of Pittsburgh scientist Sharon Hillier is about to test how well special bacteria that help conquer vaginal infections naturally work as a microbicide, a gel or cream women could use to help protect themselves from sexual intercourse with partners who might have HIV. Hillier is putting la
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Some 500 American and French volunteers will begin testing a potential AIDS vaccine next year in a special partnership between drug companies and the U.S. government to speed the search for an inoculation. Nobody knows if or how well this two-dose experiment will work -- and any AIDS vaccine is st
BALTIMORE (AP) -- AIDS is spreading fast among males in their teens and early 20s who have homosexual encounters, even though they grew up amid widespread awareness of ways to avoid the lethal virus, a study found. Preliminary results presented Saturday from the first national survey of young homosexual and bisexual me
TOKYO (AP) -- Acknowledging the charges of Japanese AIDS victims, Japan s health minister has admitted that ministry officials knew transfusions of untreated blood were risky but didn t stop the practice. Health Minister Naoto Kan s admission is a breakthrough in the long battle waged by hemophiliacs and others infecte
PARIS (AP) -- Contradicting Vatican doctrine against artificial birth control, the French Bishops Conference said Monday that the use of condoms is necessary to prevent AIDS from spreading. Pope John Paul II has insisted that abstinence outside marriage and fidelity within marriage are the only legitimate weapons again
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton promised Friday to fight in Congress and the courts against a new requirement to discharge military personnel with the AIDS virus. But aides said the administration would still enforce the provision. The requirement, contained in a bill Clinton will sign Saturday, is unconstitutiona
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- James Sharpe went to the dentist and says he left with the AIDS virus. Then, he went to a lawyer. But his case, which has now come to trial, will be hard to prove, legal and medical experts said. It is ... difficult to go back and know exactly what happened, said Michael Mone, a prominent med
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) -- An HIV-positive man who sexually assaulted his step-grandson was sentenced to 90 years in prison Thursday for assault with intent to murder. What you ve done is horrific beyond description ... You ve robbed this young man of his childhood, Carroll County Circuit Judge Raymond Beck said. You mad
NEW YORK (AP) -- Public concern about AIDS infection is down, and, perhaps as a result, an overwhelming 74 percent of Americans approve of Magic Johnson s return to professional basketball, said a poll released Thursday. The ABC News poll found that the public still rates AIDS as the nation s greatest health problem, b
CHICAGO (AP-)--A study of nearly 1,100 seriously ill AIDS patients found that a new Abbott Laboratories drug cut the death rate and progression of disease roughly in half, underscoring earlier findings that the drug increased immune cells and reduced patients viral level, reports Thursday s Wall Street Journal. In
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This year, about 10,000 more Americans will die from the AIDS virus than will catch it, researchers say. The projection means that, contrary to popular belief, the number of Americans living with the AIDS virus is actually going down. Dr. Robert Biggar of the National Cancer Institute estimates that
NEW YORK (AP) -- Whey, the watery dairy product best known from the tale of Little Miss Muffet, might provide a new way to keep the AIDS virus from infecting people during sex. A modified version of a protein extracted from whey blocked the AIDS virus from infecting cells in the test tube, researchers report. If furthe
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time, scientists have managed to give AIDS to a chimpanzee, a possible substitute for people in testing ways to control the disease. Since the AIDS epidemic began, about 100 chimps have been intentionally given the AIDS virus in an effort to learn more about the disease. But while these
Dr. Douglas Richman of the University of California, San Diego, speculated that because the combination so sharply suppresses growth of the virus, it will hold down the evolution of resistant strains of HIV, as well. Richman agreed the latest work appears to be a significant advance but added, Although it may be a home
Magic Johnson, who signed Monday to return to a Los Angeles Lakers uniform after an on-again, off-again retirement, is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A few facts about AIDS: --AIDS, an acronym for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a breakdown of the body s ability to fight off infection. It is not
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -AP- No new patients will be accepted into the nation s largest AIDS research program until the federal budget stalemate ends, and doctors say they fear lasting repercussions. The federally funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group, which tests drugs and therapies on more than 13,000 patients at 32 sites natio
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