Evidence suggesting that an unknown virus causes a disease in monkeys and apes that resembles acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the human disorder known as AIDS, was reported today by a team of 13 researchers from the National Institutes of Health and from the University of California at Davis. Simian AIDS has been
Hospital wards and laboratories are not the only places where the battle is being waged against acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. In the past several months, as increasing numbers of victims have been diagnosed, the battle has increasingly been fought in the offices, committee rooms and legislative chambers
A city-owned building would be offered for sale to the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center for use as a health, counseling and social facility, under a tentative agreement announced yesterday by city officials. Mayor Koch said selling the building was one of a number of steps to be taken by the city to combat AID
The new director of the national Centers for Disease Control says a top priority is solving the mystery of AIDS, but that warning people about environmental hazards is almost as important. Dr. James O. Mason, who took over last week as the 10th director of the agency, believes that of the pressing problems that we need
A Baptist nursing home in Brooklyn said yesterday that it would admit a patient suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome, thus becoming the first nursing home in New York City to accept an AIDS victim. The decision is regarded by public health authorities as significant because many AIDS victims rejected by t
Cold in a warm hospital room, Stephen Lamb pulled his yellow blanket tighter around his emaciated body. My friends have abandoned me, Mr. Lamb said, his voice a tired whisper. They re afraid of AIDS. But instead of just saying that, they would promise and promise to come and see me and then not show up. That really hur
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two years ago, many of Haiti s low-paid workers were still building and staffing new luxury hotels and nightclubs, evidence of the widening circle of Americans drawn by the conviviality, art and grace of the people of this preindustrial Caribbean land. But since the summer of 1982, when American
GENEVA ACQUIRED immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become a worldwide problem with cases now being reported in 33 countries and all inhabited continents. Of particular concern is a spurt in cases diagnosed in Europe, where the number has doubled in the last year, as it did soon after the disease became known in the
There may be no single cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, one expert on AIDS has suggested, even though many scientists are urgently searching for proof that some single virus or other infectious agent is responsible. There is no need to invoke a specific infectious agent, said Dr. Joseph A. Sonnabend in a r
Social workers will soon start identifying prospective foster parents among hundreds of callers who offered to take in a homeless 14-month-old girl who has acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, state officials have reported. The officials have given up tallying the number of telephone inquiries about the frail,
Nearly 30 people have responded to a public plea and offered to take in a homeless 14- month-old girl suffering acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, health officials said today. She has no more than three years to live. The child, whose Haitian mother died three weeks ago of the syndrome, was abandoned by her
Nearly 30 people have responded to a public plea and offered to take in a homeless 14- month-old girl suffering acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, health officials said today. She has no more than three years to live. The child, whose Haitian mother died three weeks ago of the syndrome, was abandoned by her
Cold in a warm hospital room, Stephen Lamb pulled his yellow blanket tighter around his emaciated body. My friends have abandoned me, Mr. Lamb said, his voice a tired whisper. They re afraid of AIDS. But instead of just saying that, they would promise and promise to come and see me and then not show up. That really hur
An official of the Federal Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that a California blood product company withdrew 16 lots of a blood clotting factor used by hemophiliacs after it was discovered that it contained plasma drawn from a commercial blood donor in Texas who died last month of acquired immune deficiency
President Reagan signed a huge money bill today for social programs that exceeds his requests by more than $9 billion. The President invited key members of Congress to witness his signing of a $104.4 billion appropriations bill that is a landmark not so much for what it does, but because it passed. Its passage 11 days
The acquired immune deficiency syndrom, or AIDS, may be caused by a fungus that mimics a drug used to lower immunity in organ transplant patients, Federal scientists say. But a report by the research group emphasized, These results are extremely preliminary. The fungus, which has never been known to cause disease in hu
A study of Haitians suspected of suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, reported today that many lived in a Haitian prostitution center and several reported they had had homosexual relations with Americans, providing a link in the spread of the disease. A study of 61 Haitians suspected of sufferin
Two city patrolmen have been suspended and face departmental charges for disobeying orders for refusing to drive two prisoners - one of them ill with acquired immune deficiency syndrome - to a hospital, according to the police. The patrolmen, Kevin Oras and Neil Visone, were suspended without pay pending an investigati
A doctor who treated patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome was granted a temporary injunction yesterday barring tenants of a Greenwich Village cooperative building from evicting him. Acting Justice Ira Gammerman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ordered the injunction against the tenants group that owns t
WHAT if the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) were discovered tomorrow and a reliable diagnostic test developed? Obviously, such an advance would go far toward relieving the anxieties of many people about their risks of getting the disease. But such advances would not necessarily save the lives of any
Amy Ashworth, a housewife from Bronxville, N.Y., was talking about the day her son Tucker first told her he was homosexual. For the first 24 hours, I felt awful, she said. I kept thinking, What did I do wrong? The next day I called him and said, Tucker, I love you, but I need help. Variations on her story were told ove
AMARKED decrease in casual or promiscuous sex has been occurring in the United States in the last several years, many experts believe. Psychiatrists, public health workers and law-enforcement officials say their suspicions are being confirmed that such a decrease has been taking place. The reasons, they say, go well be
The same virus that causes mononucleosis may also be responsible for a rare kind of brain cancer that has shown up among victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, researchers say. The doctors said they had found a link between the Epstein-Barr virus and central nervous system lymphoma. The virus may also
The New York City Health Department says that although there has been an increase in reported new cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, the monthly average is less than officials expected. AIDS is certainly not going away, Dr. Mary Chamberland, who is on assignment to the city department from the Feder
So says Robert S. Gottfried, the author of The Black Death (The Free Press, New York, $16.95), The Black Death, writes Dr. Gottfried, a resident of Highland Park and a professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, devastated the Western world from 1347 to 1351, killing 25 percent to 50 percent of Europe
The state said yesterday that it was suing a cooperative apartment house in Greenwich Village, charging that the tenants illegally tried to evict a physician because he treated patients afflicted with AIDS. The doctor was told by a the chairman of the building s board of directors that tenants had decided to evict him
A medical study group at the University of California in San Francisco has concluded that there is no scientific reason why health care personnel who are reluctant to treat victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, should be excused from doing so. The statement was made as part of a set of guidelines for
A medical study group at the University of California in San Francisco has concluded that there is no scientific reason why health care personnel who are reluctant to treat victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, should be excused from doing so. The statement was made as part of a set of guidelines for
A former nun who died after contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, apparently contracted the illness in Haiti in the 1970 s, two Canadian doctors have reported. The case indicates that AIDS was present in Haiti before it appeared among homosexuals in the United States , lead
IT is the final operation. It is one that can be done in any hospital, one that provides the most vital medical information to families and future generations and one that is probably the best measure of the quality of medical care provided for all Americans. The operation is called the autopsy, and, despite its enormo
A blood test that measures a rare form of the substance interferon may help doctors detect people who have early stages of AIDS disease but no outward symptoms, researchers say. We do not have a test for AIDS, said Dr. M. Elaine Eyster of Pennsylvania State University Medical School, one of the researchers. What we hav
In a notice similar to that issued for other health care professionals, the Federal Government is urging dentists, morticians and medical examiners to take special precautions against contracting the fatal acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The notice was issued Thursday by the national Centers for Disease C
I believe that the designation of Haitians as a high-risk group for aquired immune deficiency syndrome is a vicious medical calumny against a defenseless, impoverished people. It is an outrageously racist libel which will have long-lasting social and political consequences. Can anyone imagine what embarrassment and sha
BLOOD donations in the county, which had dropped more steeply than expected earlier this summer because of public uncertainty over the transmission of AIDS, now appear to be on the increase. However, health officials caution that continual educational efforts will be needed to prevent repetition of what they view as a
Margaret M. Heckler, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said in New York yesterday that she would press Congress next year to approve $40 million for research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, doubling the Federal financial research commitment. Mrs. Heckler said she would press for Congressional approval
THE link between Haitians and acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the terrifying disease known as AIDS, is baffling and will probably remain so for some time. For Haitians, the association is especially damaging. The nation s income from tourism has fallen and many Haitians regard the AIDS connection as a personal aff
To improve public information on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the editors of four major scientific journals say they are expediting publication of articles on the mysterious deadly disease. In an unusual move, the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Journal of the
Legislation that provides $5.3 million for medical research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome and for community assistance to AIDS victims was signed into law yesterday by Governor Cuomo. The Governor, during a bill signing ceremony in his office at the World Trade Center, described the measure as a clear statem
The number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome that are reported weekly has more than doubled in the last six months, Federal health officials said today. The national Centers for Disease Control said the number of cases of the disease, known as AIDS, increased to a weekly average of 53 in July, as against
Reagan Administration officials today denied that prejudice against homosexuals was slowing the fight against the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. They also outlined steps the Government had taken to combat the disease. It is a charge I consider insulting to a lot of dedicated physicians and scientists try
There is no comprehensive Federal plan for dealing with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDs, and the delay in formulating one is due partly to the fact that many of its victims are homosexual, witnesses told a Congressional panel today. More than two years after this medical crisis became generally recognized,
MIGHT the infusion of more money for biomedical research at an earlier point in the epidemic of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have led to the discovery of its cause and produced a cure by now? Hundreds of AIDS victims have wasted away, while doctors could do nothing for them but treat each bout of opportunistic i
The acute shortage of blood in the New York metropolitan area has eased, the director of the Greater New York Blood Program said yesterday. The director, Dr. Johanna Pindyck, said her organization was no longer asking hospitals to postpone any nonemergency surgery because of a lack of blood for transfusions. However, t
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. - A brisk, autumn-like wind swept off Cape Cod Bay and clouds loomed in the west. Storm warnings were broadcast. But on MacMillan Wharf here, the docks were filled with boats. Seamen, thankful for the cool morning, moved about the pier. Six days a week these fishermen, most of them of Portuguese des
HOBOKEN NOT yet 21 and still in braces and sneakers, Edward Johnson has created a novel and, he says, much more reliable, way of interpreting electrocardiograms. Others his age - and younger - have found enzyme differences in the livers of victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), built artificial lungs or
An international controversy has arisen over whether American health officials have unfairly categorized residents of Haiti and Haitians in the United States as having an increased risk of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a fatal and thus far incurable disease. Haitian medical experts say U
The New York City Health Commissioner said yesterday that he had removed Haitians from the city s list of major AIDS risk groups. The Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, said he had taken the step because the small percentage of cases involving Haitians no longer justified stigmatizing the city s Haitian community. Dr.
The Government s special telephone information number on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has been swamped with 8,000 to 10,000 calls a day, so the system will be expanded from three to eight lines. The toll-free number is (800) 342-AIDS.
San Francisco General Hospital will open a special care unit Tuesday for patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Hospital officials said it would be the first separate hospital ward in the country for victims of AIDS, a mysterious fatal malady that breaks down the body s immune system. They said the ward wou
We are witnessing at the present time the evolution of a new disease process of unknown etiology with a mortality of at least 50 percent and possibly as high as 75 to 100 percent, and with a doubling of the number of patients afflicted every six months. This grim pronouncement by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, chief of the lab
IF the three patients suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the University Hospital at Stony Brook look out their windows, they can see acres of deep green woods stretching to the pale waters of Long Island Sound and Connecticut like a shadow on the horizon. Unfortunately, it s a view that may do little
HAVE fears about herpes and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome given sex a bad name? There s no question that AIDS has frightened p eople in the gay community and that many are cutting down on the n umber of partners and the number of sexual contacts, said Yehudi M . Felman, director of the Bureau of Venereal Disease
Fears that acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, could be transmitted by needles used to collect blood have eased, alleviating the concerns of health officials about blood shortages. Several major cities reported problems with blood collection last month but blood donations have picked up, according to two orga
Four cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have turned up among health-care personnel, although there is no evidence that they contracted AIDS through casual contact with patients, Federal officials said today. The Centers for Disease Control said the four cases provided no new information regarding occupational
The director of the Greater New York Blood Program said yesterday that blood supplies remained critically low and that hospitals in the metropolitan region were being advised that type O negative blood should be used only in emergency cases. We have asked hospitals to forgo all surgery requiring O negative that is not
It s incredible that in the 20th century in this country we can have this mentality, Mary Fugate, a Red Cross nurse, said at the first of a series of workshops on home care for the victims of AIDS. Sometimes, she said, hospitals discharge patients just to get rid of them. Home care by friends and family has become inc
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have begun preliminary experiments on AIDS patients to determine if a naturally occurring substance could be used to treat the usually fatal disease. The substance, called interleukin-2, is so named because it is derived from a type of leukocyte, or white blood cell. Th
The director of the Greater New York Blood Program said yesterday that there had been a sharp drop in blood donations over the last six weeks, creating a shortage that might force hospitals to forgo some surgery. We have an impending blood emergency, said the director, Dr. Johanna Pindyck. Dr. Pindyck said that unless
I t was a memorable party, even for the Hamptons. More than 1,000 guests paid $50 each for a cocktail buffet and art auction Saturday at Craig Claiborne s home in East Hampton. The event raised $100,000, half of it from the auction, for patient care and research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the disease kno
The State Health Department issued a 60-day emergency rule yesterday requiring that it receive reports of all cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Previously, reporting of such cases had been voluntary, according to a spokesman for the department, Fran-ces Tarlton. She said that reports had been filed
RESEARCHERS at Yale-New Haven Hospital want to learn more about AIDS, and they have found the area s homosexual community eager to help. Most victims of the disease, known formally as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, have been male homosexuals or intravenous drug users. The researchers at the hospital -Dr. John Dwy
Health officials from 11 cities called on President Reagan today to provide more funds to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, an incurable disease claiming an increasing number of victims and causing public anxiety. There have been 1,737 cases of AIDS diagnosed since 1979, and 678 of the victims have d
To counteract the idea that AIDS can be spread by donating blood, Mayor Koch gave a pint of his own, type A positive, yesterday. There is misinformation going around that if you give blood you can contract AIDS, he stated That s ridiculous. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which impairs the body s immune system, is
AIDS is proving to be one of the most challenging problems ever to face medical researchers. Scientists know virtually nothing about the natural history of the syndrome that is causing one of the most frightening epidemics in recent years. Since it was first detected two years ago, acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
A group of physicians and scientists said in New York yesterday that they believed Haitians were not more susceptible than most people to the fatal disorder called acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The group, the International AIDS Task Force, said Federal studies showing Haitians to be at risk were wrong.
THE county has established an informational program to separate fact and fiction about AIDS, the disease that destroys the body s immunity system and leaves its victims highly vulnerable to a wide range of fatal illnesses. The program, designed for inmates and corrections officers in the county s jail, penitentiary and
The New York City Health Commissioner said yesterday that the number of cases of AIDS has continued to increase in the city but at a rate slower than had been predicted. We are not seeing in the past six months the doubling of cases that has been predicted, said the Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer. Over the last seve
With band music and banners, homosexuals and their supporters marched yesterday from Central Park West to Washington Square in Greenwich Village. The Lesbian and Gay Pride March, the 14th annual such parade, was dedicated to the victims of AIDS. Among the tens of thousands of marchers were groups called Parents of Lesb
The new disease known as AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, has set loose a deadly epidemic. Morticians, prison guards and policemen have expressed an understandable but probably excessive fear of AIDS. The Reagan Administration, on the other hand, yawned through the first two years of the crisis and has now
Blood supplies in New York and New Jersey have slipped below their normal summer levels, blood bank officials said. They said this was the result of a number of factors, including the unfounded fear that AIDS can be contracted by donating blood. There has been a 12 percent decline in donations through the Greater New Y
A private medical foundation has been established in New York City to undertake independent research into the fatal disorder called acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. At the same time, Cornell University Medical College announced that it had received a three-year $1.3 million grant by the National Institutes
Governor Cuomo today announced a program to help find a cure for AIDS and to protect the rights of victims and their families. We must not permit AIDS sufferers and their families to be subjected to irrational and unscientific behavior born out of fear rather than fact, Governor Cuomo said. AIDS, or acquired immune def
An official of the Reagan White House met with representatives of a national homosexual organization yesterday for what the latter said was the first time since the President took office. The place was the Department of Health and Human Services. The subject was acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a disease that has c
The New York State Funeral Directors Association, the state s largest such group, urged its members yesterday not to embalm victims of AIDS until the government issues guidelines for safe handling of such cases. Governor Cuomo characterized the action as unfortunate. He said he had asked state officials to investigate
As public awareness of the disease known as AIDS has grown in the last few months, a picture has begun to emerge of the emotional and physical agony of those afflicted and of the fear, among homosexuals and about homosexuals, that has spread around the country at a rate much faster than the disease itself. In New York,
The United States Conference of Mayors, declaring that there was a national hunger crisis, adopted by a narrow vote a resolution today urging President Reagan to solve it by delaying his tax-cutting program and by spending less for the military and more for the poor. The attacks on Mr. Reagan s economic and military po
In neighborhoods throughout the city and across a broad spectrum of New York life, the influence of homosexual men and women is being seen and felt more than ever before. The yearly Gay Pride March, scheduled for June 26, is only one sign of the broadened awareness of homosexuality and the changes it has brought over t
A team of New York scientists say they have found a link between a moderately common virus, called adenovirus, and acquired immune disorder syndrome, or AIDS. The researchers, who are at Albert Einstein Medical College and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, cautioned, however, that much more testing needed to be d
The Secretary of Health and Human Services today defended the Reagan Administration s efforts to find the cause and cure of the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome disease, or AIDS, describing it as the nation s No. 1 health priority. But the Secretary, Margaret M. Heckler, also told a meeting of the
Fear of contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as the incurable AIDS and herpes helped reduce the gonorrhea rate in Los Angeles County in 1982, health officials say. Gonorrhea, a form of venereal disease, peaked in the county in 1980 when 52,851 cases were reported. In 1982 that dropped to 39,834, the lowest si
More than 1,500 people attended a candlelight vigil and memorial service in Central Park yesterday evening for a New York City hardware store manager who became a national symbol of the discrimination and pain suffered by victims of a condition that ravages the body s immune system. The store manager, 27-year-old Ken R
A special task force at the U.S. Conference of Mayors called on the Federal Government today to commit itself to finding a cure for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Mayors are scheduled to vote Wednesday on the task force s recommendation, one of 35 proposals made today. Dr. Jeffrey Kopland of the Centers for D
The New York City Health Department s chief epidemiologist and the director of the Greater New York Blood Program say hospital patients requiring transfusions face little risk of contracting a disorder that destroys the body s immunological defenses. More than half of the 1,450 cases of the disorder - acquired immune d
SINCE 1980, at least 1,420 cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, an illness that ravages the body s natural defenses against disease, have been reported in the United States . Nearly half of these cases were in the New York City area, and the Westchester Board of Health has reported two cases in the county, wit
A New York Congressman has charged that the Public Health Service rebuffed Congressional efforts to monitor its search for the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a mysterious disease that has killed more than 550 people in the last two years. Representative Ted Weiss, Democrat of Manhattan, said a
Late on the afternoon of Friday, May 13, a phone rang in Dr. Polly Thomas s cubicle on the third floor of Department of Health headquarters. A nurse was calling to say that three days earlier a 26-year-old New York City sanitation worker, a father of three, had been hospitalized, suffering from a severe lung infection
Mayor Koch, responding to requests from city officials and homosexual groups, said yesterday that he was considering converting a former Manhattan high school into a health center for AIDS victims. Mr. Koch issued a statement saying that he had directed Health Commissioner David J. Sencer, to determine whether the form
The tragic medical consequences of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS, have been measured in the 558 known deaths caused by the disease. But for the living victims, AIDS has profound psychological consequences that are only beginning to be understood. It just hangs over your head, said Philip Lanzaratta
The mysterious and deadly illness known as AIDS has long been a concern among homosexuals, whose numbers it apparently strikes most often. Last week it became the No.1 priority of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced six new resea
THE emergence of new sexually transmitted diseases and the resurgence of old ones have given rise, health officials say, to an outbreak of fears and fallacies, particularly about AIDS -acquired immune deficiency syndrome - and herpes. Apart from the fears and fallacies are these facts: - As of mid-May, New Jersey had r
The head of the union representing the state s prison guards today demanded that the state isolate prisoners suffering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and that all correction officers who guard such prisoners be given special training and protective clothing. The union head, James Sipe, president of Council 82
The Government s top health official said today that the investigation of acquired immune deficiency syndrome had become the No. 1 priority of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr., an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, said the Government was taking steps in an effort to iden
Although the news media and some segments of organized medicine were slow to recognize the seriousness of the illness, that lethargy seems over and we are now being flooded with reports and warnings about the new disease the mystery of whose origin is reflected in its cryptic name - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome,
THE problem of AIDS is growing internationally, but not yet with the frightening speed seen in this country. In many parts of the world there is anxiety, bafflement, a sense that something has to be done - although no one knows what - about this fatal disease whose full name is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and w
It first seemed that the new and often deadly disease called AIDS was limited to a few groups - homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians, and hemophiliacs and others who receive blood transfusions. A study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, however, suggests the disease may also be tran
Growing alarm over 236 diagnosed cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has prompted the city s Finance Committee to urge the Mayor to spend $2.1 million on research on the disease and on community education. Some landlords have evicted tenants who contracted AIDS, a mysterious disease that is usually a
A New York City sanitation worker has contracted what appears to be Acquired Immune Defeciency Syndrome, the City Health Commisioner said yesterday. But the Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, said the case was not evidence AIDS was a threat to the general population. Dr. Sencer, who said the worker did not fit into any
A study of seven female sexual partners of men with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, suggests that the disease may be sexually transmitted between heterosexual men and women, according to its authors. Of the seven women in the study, which was reported in today s issue of The New England Journal of Medicin
A deadly syndrome that ravages the body s natural defenses against disease has reached epidemic proportions among homosexuals and intravenous drug users in New York City, medical experts told a legislative hearing yesterday in Manhattan. The experts said that the number of cases involving the illness, known as Acquired
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a strange and deadly new disease. Five hundred people have already died, half of them in New York City, and the epidemic is still gathering pace. Assuredly frightening, the disease has caused too much alarm among some groups at risk. But it also has caused too little in the Federa
Some inmates of the state prison in Auburn, N.Y., are refusing to eat meals or use utensils from the mess hall because they are afraid of contracting a deadly disease that breaks down the body s immunological defenses, prison authorities said yesterday. Many inmates boycotted the mess hall last weekend after Michael Sa
MODERN medical practice is based partly on what has been learned from enormous tragedy: the common plagues and rare disorders that scientists would never dream of creating in experiments but that nature thrusts on us as part of life. When these outbreaks occur, scientists investigate them primarily to find a cure for t
A study of eight families in Newark, N.J., shows that some children may have contracted a deadly disease of the immune system from routine close contact with their families, a researcher says. The study reported on eight children with a disease closely resembling acquired immune deficiency syndrome and that some cases
Large doses of genetically engineered interferon, an infection-fighting protein, may be useful in fighting a rare skin cancer that afflicts homosexual men with a deadly immune system deficiency, doctors reported today. Interferon was also effective in combating the breakdown of the body s disease-fighting system that i
Evidence of an unusual virus has been found in up to one-third of blood samples from some victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrone, or AIDS, an immunological disorder that has killed about half of the 1,352 people known to have acquired it, according to the Federal scientist in charge of investigating the epidemi
Several years ago, healthy young men began to die in large numbers from an unknown disease. As so often happens in the history of medicine, the early cases were considered isolated extremes in the normal spectrum of an illness and there was, in retrospect, an inadequate appreciation by the health profession of a growin
LEFT HANDED people, already burdened by minor inconveniences in a right-handed world and by a language full of such ego-deflating figures of speech as two left feet, out in left field and left-handed compliment, also seem to face an increased risk of certain disorders that can further impair the quality of their lives.
NORMA LISS gave herself a welcome home party the other evening and too many people came. This didn t make Miss Liss unhappy, but for the doorman and the elevators in her West End Avenue apartment it was not an easy night. Miss Liss, a librarian at a Manhattan private school, had just returned from a year teaching Engli
For the first time in at least five years, all 17,597 seats at a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Madison Square Garden have been bought by a single group for resale as a benefit. The group is the Gay Men s Health Crisis, a volunteer agency begun last year to provide information an
When an infant developed a severe immune deficiency last year after getting blood transfusions from a man who had AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, alarm spread about the safety of blood bank supplies. Now, in response to a Public Health Service recommendation, the American Red Cross says it will tell group
The American Red Cross says it will inform homosexual males, Haitian immigrants, drug users and others considered at high risk of carrying a dangerous disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, that they should not donate blood. The organization acted in response to Public Health Service recommendations announced Fr
When scores of monkeys mysteriously sicken and die in a laboratory, it s sad for the monkeys and bad for researchers. But when the animal epidemic resembles a sometimes deadly human disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a tool for treatment may be at hand. That is what scientists believe is happening at
Medical detectives are calling it the century s most virulent epidemic. It is as relentless as leukemia, as contagious as hepatitis, and its cause has eluded researchers for more than two years. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, was first seen in homosexual men - particularly those who were promiscuous - bu
A ban on accepting blood donations that may reach hemophiliacs from those likely to be carriers of a disease that cripples the body s immune system has been recommended by the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the National Hemophilia Foundation. The disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a r
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