For years, researchers have been puzzled by why some people infected with the AIDS virus remain healthy for 15 or 20 years, while others fall ill within a few years? The surprising answer may lie in newly discovered immune responses, reported Wednesday by scientists in Germany and the Unite
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended approval of a capsule implanted in the eyes of AIDS patients to help them fight off blindness. The committee, by a vote of 6 to 1, agreed that Chiron Vision s Vitrasert implant should be approved for sale. The agency is not bound by advisory co
The New Jersey State Insurance Commissioner, Elizabeth Randall, has scrapped a proposal that would have let group insurers use blood tests to screen for the AIDS virus, then deny coverage for those who tested positive. The proposed regulation was one of the last actions taken by the former Insurance Commissioner, Drew
A man with AIDS from Oakland, Calif., could receive a transplant of baboon bone marrow within two weeks. The patient, Jeff Getty, 38, and his family in Waterford won Federal approval last summer for the procedure. On Friday, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital approved the transplant, The Day of New London report
Saying he does not believe that condom demonstrations in the classroom are appropriate for any age group, Chancellor Rudy Crew will ask the Board of Education next week to adopt a curriculum on AIDS and H.I.V. that would offer instruction on how to use a condom only to high-school students who specifically request it.
Pity the do-good project that winds up more irritating than illuminating. Pity indeed Positive: A Journey Into AIDS, an Afterschool Special on ABC at 4 P.M. today. The primary players here are two actors who figured in a recent AIDS story line on ABC s General Hospital. Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), hard-working
For two hours today, President Clinton had his ear bent and, once or twice, his arm twisted -- by advocates for people with AIDS who pleaded with him to protect Medicaid, to support needle-exchange programs and to exert greater leadership in the fight against the AIDS epidemic. Mr. Clinton declared that a reduction in
Two groups of scientists are reporting that they have identified long-sought chemicals produced by the immune system that in laboratory experiments have stopped the AIDS virus in its tracks. AIDS researchers said the discoveries, reported in papers released yesterday afternoon by two major scientific journals, could ha
The homeless man charged with stabbing a child with a hypodermic needle on a subway train last weekend had already escaped twice from the Rochester Psychiatric Center before he walked away from that state mental hospital for a third and final time in 1993. Despite the earlier escapes and a criminal record, the man, Ang
Abbott Laboratories said today that starting next month it would give away doses of its experimental AIDS drug ritonavir to 2,000 people worldwide who are in late stages of the disease. Americans will compete for the drug through a lottery and can sign up immediately. Patients outside the
The director of a new program to coordinate and strengthen the work of the United Nations in battling the spread of AIDS has an odd assortment of allies: a prostitutes union in Calcutta, the Thai Army and a grass-roots group in Uganda that is teaching women to move beyond their traditional roles and become militant in
The numbers are startling. New Jersey, where the number of AIDS cases is growing faster than in most states, ranks first in the percentage of women who have tested positive for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and third in the percentage of children infected. Of the 27,945 AIDS cases reported in the state as of the
A German court today found three company officials and a laboratory technician guilty of distributing inadequately tested blood products that infected at least three people with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. Two of the three have died, prosecutors said. The case, in Koblenz, arose from disclosures two years ago t
The blood transfusion took place on May 23, 1984, during surgery to correct a congenital heart defect. The patient, Joey DiPaolo, was 4 years old. He got four units of red blood cells, up to seven units of frozen plasma and five units of platelets. He also got H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. Today, Joey DiPaolo, wh
Their voices could barely be heard, because the city would not let them turn on the microphones until dawn. Their faces could barely be seen, because there were no streetlights in the forgotten sliver of park. But to the small cadre of concerned people who took turns at a podium near City Hall in the earliest, most des
FACES and voices that are familiar from places like Broadway and Seventh Avenue -- as well as Madison Avenue -- are beginning to be featured in advertising meant to encourage the fight against AIDS. Celebrities are the central elements of several public service and pro bono campaigns being introduced on or around World
Over the last month, the New York State Health Department has been recalling thousands of potentially defective condoms sent last summer to community-based organizations in the state for distribution to poor people, college students and other clients of safe-sex programs, health officials said yesterday. While the reca
Low-income people with the AIDS virus will no longer get state money to pay for most painkillers, antibiotics, vitamins and psychotropic drugs, the New York State Department of Health said yesterday. Starting next year, the state will stop paying for about 70 percent of the drugs used by more than 10,000 uninsured and
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