AN FRANCISCO - A few miles from this city s banking and financial center, the Castro Street shopping area has long been a flourishing outpost of quality shops, bookstores and restaurants that cater to homosexuals. Many of its businesses are run by homosexuals. In recent months, however, the area s business has slipped.
BOSTON - Body builders who use steroids to make their muscles bigger may risk contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, from shared needles used to inject the drugs, a group of New York doctors warned today. Doctors at Nassau Hospital in Mineola, L.I., found a 37-year-old body builder they believe might
WASHINGTON - Hepatitis B, an infectious viral disease that can lead to death from liver cancer or cirrhosis, is on the rise in the United States despite the availability of a safe, effective vaccine to prevent it, medical experts say. A coalition of public, private and professional groups on Thursday opened a national
The 31st annual Bishop Loughlin Games, the oldest continuous major high school indoor track meet in the country, were held yesterday at the 102d Engineers Armory on West 168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. But not everybody showed up. We are not only the oldest, but until this year we were the largest high school
He died in the streets, Harvey Fierstein recalled about someone he knew. He was a respected person in the black community and the gay community. And he died in the streets, thrown out of his apartment. The tragedy of AIDS is compounded for many victims when they return from the hospital to find that they are no longer
British doctors say a nurse developed an infection from the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome after she stuck her finger with a needle on a syringe that contained blood from an AIDS patient. The physicians said the nurse developed temporary symptoms of the disease, and her blood tests showed antibod
Epidemiologists are investigating a case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. contracted by a medical laboratory worker in Boston. According to Federal, state and local hospital officials in Massachusetts, the patient is not a homosexual, drug abuser, hemophiliac or Haitian, which are the known risk factors
ALBANY - A former State Assemblyman and three other men have been indicted on charges that they tried to steal at least $250,000 from the state by inflating the cost of an AIDS research project, authorities said today. The former Assemblyman is Stephen Greco, 65 years old, of Buffalo. He currently holds the $43,500-a-y
For the last three decades, the Bishop Loughlin track and field games at the 102d Engineers Armory at Fort Washington Avenue and 168th Street has been the largest indoor meet for high school athletes in the country, drawing as many as 4,000 competitors from 300 schools in a 10-state area. But according to the meet dire
After 40 years together, Marvin and Murray decided an anniversary party was in order. So they booked the Pool Club of the United Nations Plaza Hotel and sent out formal invitations to friends and relatives. Among the 130 guests at the party, held last month, were Marvin s aunt from New Orleans, his sister from Las Vega
One of the first blood tests to detect AIDS virus in humans will be used on as many as 10,000 samples next year, researchers say. The researchers, at the University of California at Davis, said Monday that they would take many of the samples at random from blood donated to the Sacramento Medical Foundation Blood Center
The number of AIDS cases in New York City continued to increase this year and remains the city s most critical health problem, Dr. David J. Sencer, the city s Health Commissioner, said yesterday. Dr. Sencer said that in the first six months of 1984 the city had 113 reported cases a month of AIDS, or acquired immune def
The number of AIDS cases reported in the United States is continuing to climb at a fairly steady rate, the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported yesterday in their weekly morbidity and mortality report. The centers reported that as of Nov. 26 there had been a cumulative total of 6,993 cases of the ai
SAN FRANCISCO - Bathhouses catering to male homosexuals, closed last month in an attempt to control the spread of AIDS, may reopen under strict limitations on sexual behavior, a Superior Court judge ruled today. Judge Roy L. Wonder lifted the Oct. 15 temporary restraining order that closed the bathhouses. But he said b
For years this city has been known as the exclusive playground of wealthy, influential sun worshipers and Hollywood stars. Shielded from the daily grind by the San Jacinto Mountains and miles of scrubby desert, Palm Springs bloomed with golf courses, tennis courts and swimming pools into a refuge for those seasonal vis
Forty percent of the single men in San Francisco are homosexual, and most of them are well-educated and earning more than $20,000 a year, according to a professional survey. The survey by the Research and Decisions Corporation, commissioned by the city-financed San Francisco AIDS Foundation, was designed to produce the
AN unusual group of viruses, never implicated in human illness during more than a half century of study, have now been linked to three important diseases: cancer, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and, most recently, hepatitis. These viruses are called retroviruses. Some of them have been known since the early 19
Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., reports on medicine for The New York Times. A HEMOPHILiac, Tom Kincer could not keep a job. Any move he made might touch off an alarming surge of bleeding, then debilitating stiffness and pain. In the late 1960 s, an important medical advance in the understanding and use of donated blood helpe
A man with symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, was ordered to leave Boston City Hospital because workers feared he would infect them, but hospital officials said today that a mistake had been made and one doctor might be disciplined. This is a very unusual circumstance, said the hospital s public
Six infants in New York have contracted aquired immune deficiency syndrome from their healthy mothers, supporting the theory that the disease can exist in a remissive state that can become deadly when passed on to infants, researchers said today. The six mothers were all considered to face a high risk of contracting AI
RECENT statistics released by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reveal that reported cases of AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - have more than doubled so far this year when compared with a similar period last year. New York, with about 40 percent of the cases, led all other states. Although the major
Over the years Dr. Mathilde Krim has worn many hats: noted cancer researcher, civic leader, Democratic Party activist, wife of a powerful New York lawyer turned film executive, mother, hostess. She has lent her name to a number of charity events, and next Friday night she will be co-chairman of one that she says she fe
The state s First District Court of Appeal refused today to reopen five bathhouses for homosexuals that were closed by a judge last week amid a drive by city health officials against the spread of AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Five bathhouses had asked the appeals court to let them reopen pending a hearing
Manhattan court officers wore surgical masks and gloves yesterday as jury selection began in the murder trial of a 34-year-old man who has AIDS, the immune-system disease for which there is no known cure. The defendant also wore a mask, and a clerk covered her nose and mouth with a yellow legal pad in an apparent attem
WASHINGTON ISOLATING a new microorganism among people afflicted with a disease of unknown origin is only the first step toward establishing a cause and effect relationship between the microbe and the disease. Such proof must come from additional laboratory tests that are usually done in conjunction with experiments on
Recent cases of AIDS reported in New York City show that, proportionally, fewer homosexuals and more intravenous drug users are contracting the deadly immune disorder, according to Dr. David J. Sencer, the city s Health Commissioner. Until mid-1983, 71 percent of AIDS cases reported in New York involved homosexuals, wh
Judge William E. Mullins of the Superior Court today ordered nine bathhouses catering to homosexuals closed temporarily, calling them a health menace that could promote the spread of acquired immune difficiency syndrome, or AIDS. A hearing on the closure order will be held Oct. 30. Most AIDS victims are homosexual men,
A new blood test that detects the virus thought to cause AIDS has become the focus of controversy among homosexuals in New York. Leaders of homosexual groups say that the test may be used to discriminate against them, and are urging homosexuals not to take it without greater assurances of confidentiality. But governmen
A tongue infection found in male homosexuals appears to be a possible early warning sign of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco report. Nine of the 37 homosexual men on whose tongues the infection was found developed AIDS a month to 19 months later,
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - In the last 18 months six tourist hotels here have closed and at least three others are in trouble with the banks, according to an official of Haiti s Hotel and Tourist Association. A handful of hotels that have been aggressively catering to repeat business travelers have managed to operate at a
Owners of at least six bathhouses and sex clubs frequented by homosexuals here have refused to obey Tuesday s order to close, health officials said today. The closing of 14 such establishments was announced by Mervyn Silverman, the City Health Director, as part of efforts to halt the spread of acquired immune deficienc
Genetic variations have been found in samples of the virus believed to cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, and they could pose significant problems for vaccine development according to one of the leaders in research on the deadly disorder. Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute called the
NEW scientific evidence has raised the possibility that acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, may be transmissible through saliva. The evidence, based on human and animal studies, is no more than suggestive in implicating saliva. But researchers said in interviews yesterday that they are convinced the studies r
The city s Public Health Director today ordered 14 bathhouses and sex clubs catering to homosexuals to close immediately, saying they were fostering disease and death by allowing indiscriminate sexual contacts that could spread AIDS. Scientists say AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is spread through sexual
THE discovery of delta hepatitis a deadly form of liver infection produced by two viruses acting in concert in a manner never previously detected - has renewed the challenge to scientists to find previously unknown infectious agents as the cause of human diseases. The cause of most human diseases is unknown. The concep
It took centuries for blood transfusions to be perfected and accepted. Now, a panel of doctors is worried that one application of the idea has caught on far too well. After a conference at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., last week, 11 health experts convened by Federal health agencies to make recomm
Health experts warned today that as many as ten thousand patients a year might be contracting hepatitis and other infectious diseases from transfusions of a major blood product that these experts said was not needed by 90 percent of the patients who received it. They said that the use of the blood product, fresh-frozen
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - A new drug has proved promising in tests to treat recurrent outbreaks of a herpes virus and to help prevent the development of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a pharmaceutical concern said Friday. It was the first public confirmation by Newport Pharmaceutical International that the
The government will collect as many as 200,000 blood samples from healthy donors to use for research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome once a diagnostic test for the disease is available, Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler said today. The Public Health Service will ask volunteer blood donors a
Scientists in California disclosed yesterday that they had successfully grown in the laboratory all of the genetic material from a virus that is a probable cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Cloning the genes of the virus is considered an important step in the research aimed at developing a treatment for AID
Homosexuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are also susceptible to a rare form of fast- growing cancer that attacks the bone marrow, brain and abdomen, doctors reported today. Researchers in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston said they had found 90 homosexual men with AIDS who also had
AIDS: PROFILE OF AN EPIDEMIC is terribly solemn but not very serious. It is not so much about the disease as about the victims of the disease. This is its strength and its weakness, too. For one thing, the victims we see aren t representative of AIDS victims. The one-hour documentary, followed by a discussion, will be
WARWICK, N.Y. - IN a small, dark room in a prison infirmary, an inmate lay on his cot watching television - glimpsing images of the world he left behind three years ago following his arrest for a burglary he committed to support his heroin addiction. He has been serving his sentence in seclusion for the last 16 months
Scientists have succeeded in infecting chimpanzees with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, and have thus taken a crucial step toward development of a vaccine against the disease. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health said yesterday that both animals injected w
Scientists reported yesterday that they had discovered a viral gene that they believed could change human cells to cause immensely diverse biological effects such as cancer and acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The gene discovery has led the scientists at Harvard and the National Institutes of Health to the
ALBANY, July 11 - New York State has awarded an additional $1.2 million to research institutions in the state to finance the study of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The award, announced today by the State Health Commissioner, Dr. David Axelrod, brings the total state contribution for the AIDS research pr
George Cargulia was out of prison on parole, living with his aunt and grandmother in Brooklyn, when he collapsed on the street. Doctors at Coney Island Hospital told him it was pneumonia at first, but three weeks later they said he had AIDS - acquired immune deficiency syndrome. My family got scared, and so when I got
The director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health told a House subcommittee today that physicians should be required to report cases of work-related injury or illness, as they now do communicable diseases. Dr. J. Donald Millar, the NIOSH director, said the gathering of up-to-date information on
Last June, the foster parents of a 3-year-old girl suffering from respiratory distress took her to Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Her condition deteriorated and she lost weight. After extensive tests, doctors found that the girl, whose name is Tracy, had AIDS, the disorder that attacks the body s immune system. Soon af
With concern over AIDS dominating health care for homosexuals, authorities in the field gathered in Manhattan over the weekend and called for increased attention to a broader range of physical and mental ills afflicting homosexuals. The meeting, the First International Lesbian/Gay Health Conference, brought more than 7
Four scientists who made discoveries that have had a major impact on cancer research and treatment were named yesterday as winners of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation prizes for 1984. Three awards totaling $390,000 were given to Dr. J. Michael Bishop and Dr. Harold E. Varmus of the University of California
An updated sex-education curriculum that deals with such issues as the rise in teen-age pregnancies and cohabitation outside marriage has been changed to meet the objections of some religious leaders, according to New York City school officials. Most of the new course of study, however, remains as written, they said.
THE AIDS hot line at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has been in operation only three months, but the calls are confirming what health professionals on the Island have known for a long time - that the disease is not limited to homosexuals and intravenous drug users in the big cities. Described as an epi
The first experimental vaccine for humans produced through gene-splicing methods has given healthy adults immunity to hepatitis B virus, a major cause of liver disease throughout the world, scientists reported yesterday in The Journal of the American Medical Association . The importance of such a vaccine, made artifici
THE American Red Cross announced yesterday that it plans to start evaluating the accuracy of a test to detect acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, in blood donated for transfusions. Despite what most experts consider a small risk - estimated at one case in 100,000 blood transfusions - there has been widespread
WASHINGTON - The good news last week was that scientists at the National Cancer Institute here and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris had found viruses they believe to be the cause of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a terrifying disease that destroys the body s immune system and renders its victims helples
What causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the deadly disease that has terrorized the homosexual community in America in recent years? Within the week, two officials have declared that the guilty virus has at last been found. Less reassuringly, each named a different candidate. Some kind of progress is surely bei
Scientists reported yesterday that they had produced the largest and most complex protein ever created artificially in the laboratory, a substance vital to the normal clotting of blood. That feat is considered a major step toward artificial commercial production of the human blood substance, which is crucial to the liv
Federal researchers announced today that they had found a virus that they believe is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. They called it HTLV-3 and said they had developed a process to mass-produce it for the purpose of developing the tools needed to finally conquer the mysterious disease that has
Dr. James O. Mason, head of the Federal Centers for Disease Control, said today that he believed a virus discovered in France was the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. I believe we have the cause of AIDS, and it is an exciting discovery, Dr. Mason, who is a virologist, said in an interview here. T
THE incidence of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, in Zaire may be 10 to 20 times higher than it is in the United States , according to estimates by African, Belgian and American doctors. The doctors fear that an epidemic of the recently recognized syndrome is in progress in Zaire and neighboring Central Af
ORANGE, Calif., A man donated blood 13 times in northern California over the past four years before discovering he had AIDS, and 12 people are known to have received his blood in transfusions, doctors say. Nine of the 12 recipients died, but their deaths were unrelated to the transfusions, Dr. Sudhir Gupta of the Unive
In an attempt to control the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a fatal disease mainly affecting homosexual men, the city s director of health today banned sexual activity in San Francisco s 14 bathhouses. What we are doing today is taking steps to eliminate bathhouses as places of sexual encounters between
A TINY parasite that seemed to be only a curiosity a few years ago is now coming to be recognized as an important factor in human disease. The parasite, a protozoa called cryptosporidium, which causes an illness called cryptosporidiosis, was discovered in a mouse at Harvard in 1907. But the parasite was not linked to h
Researchers say they have discovered a key, potentially treatable, defect in the immune systems of AIDS victims, strengthening their hope that a type of interferon could be the first effective medicine for the lethal disorder. Interferon is a natural virus-fighting substance produced by the body s cells. The researcher
Governor Cuomo, facing sharp criticism from the Episcopal Bishop of New York, reversed himself today and said he expected to provide $4.1 million in his budget for victims of AIDS. The Bishop, Paul Moore, led a delegation of AIDS victims and supporters here in an appeal to the Governor and legislative leaders for funds
Scientists have isolated a previously unknown virus and used it to infect monkeys with a disease that closely resembles acquired immune deficiency in humans. The scientists, at the University of California at Davis, believe the finding may represent an important step in determining the cause of human AIDS. Most reseach
Scientists have isolated a previously unknown virus and used it to infect monkeys with a disease that closely resembles acquired immune deficiency in humans. The scientists, at the University of California at Davis, believe the finding may represent an important step in determining the cause of human AIDS. Most reseach
The first New York State-financed research grants aimed at discovering the cause of and possible protection against AIDS, the disorder that destroys the body s immune defenses, have been awarded by a scientific research panel appointed by Governor Cuomo. The 20 grants account for nearly $4 million in state research fun
Governor Cuomo has turned down a request by the State Health Commissioner to spend $5.2 million more on AIDS research, it was disclosed today. Mr. Cuomo announced the award of $3.8 million for two-year research grants for the study of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Scientists have discovered a new virus that may be the cause of a monkey disease very similar to humans acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The new virus is one of a small family of germs called type D retroviruses and is related to the human T-cell leukemia virus, which some believe may cause AIDS. Dr. Norma
Efforts to ease the distress of the seriously ill or their families are being supported this year by many contributors to The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. Contributors for the last 26 years, the James and Barbara Brown family of Great Neck, L.I., gave $25 to be applied to a case involving an elderly person, part
Many of the cases dealt with by Dr. Ruth Macklin involve issues of life and death. Some involve limited hospital resources; others concern the baffling dilemmas of urban life. Virtually none are simple to resolve. Here are some of the cases she has had to consider: An alcoholic has come to the hospital with internal bl
The New York State Health Department yesterday released a draft of guidelines to dentists for the care of patients who have AIDS. The guidelines advised dentists to wear protective gowns, masks, rubber gloves and eye goggles when treating a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. They also said that all elect
Concern over the possible transmission of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, through blood transfusions was buttressed by new data reported yesterday. But health officials said the benefits of blood transfusions still greatly outweighed the very small risk. In recent months there has been the fear, which blo
To the end of 1983, more than 3,000 cases of AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, had been reported across America since the strange disease first appeared in the spring of 1981. As with other new maladies, like Legionnaires disease and toxic shock, the cause and means of prevention will doubtless be discovered i
Fewer new cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, were reported in the United States in the second half of 1983 than in the first half of the year, Federal health officials said yesterday. However, they cautioned that it was too soon to draw conclusions about a long-term trend. As of Dec. 19, a total
New evidence was reported yesterday that acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, can be spread heterosexually and transmitted even before a person shows outward manifestations of the disease. A team of doctors from the University of Miami and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said the new report involved
THE doctor suffered what, strictly speaking, was a minor accident, the kind that is surprisingly common in hospitals and offices. While suturing a patient, his hands slipped and he jabbed himself with the needle. But this accident could not be taken lightly. The patient had the deadly disease known as acquired immune d
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