WASHINGTON - AIDS is now the ninth leading cause of death among children 1 to 4 years old and the seventh leading cause of deaths among young people age 15 to 24, a federal official said Monday. If present trends continue, said Dr. Antonia Novello, the disease soon will be the No. 5 killer of Americans from birth to th
NEWARK, N.J. - Doctors warning of a second wave of AIDS cases began a major study of drug-free heterosexuals Thursday to determine why the usually low-risk group shows rising susceptibility to the fatal disease. Unfortunately, we see women and children as the newest wave of victims, said researcher James Oleske. Th
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BOSTON - The first five-minute test for AIDS has been approved by the U.S. government, and authorities say it is 99.6 percent accurate and offers the fastest results. The test was cleared Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Its maker, Worcester-based Cambridge Bioscience, said it should be on the market i
ATLANTA - A new survey of high school students has found that many teen-agers are misinformed about AIDS and more than a few are at risk themselves for the deadly disease, a federal agency said Thursday. According to the survey, many high school students mistakenly believe AIDS can be transmitted by mosquito bites, toi
The first World AIDS Day was marked Thursday by a concert in Beijing, a march through the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe , and a speech by a San Franciscan who has had the deadly disease for six years and says his life was made richer because of it. The World Health Organization sponsored the event, aimed at encou
WASHINGTON - A plant toxin combined with a special protein is able to attack and kill cells infected with the AIDS virus while leaving healthy cells untouched, a group of Texas researchers report. Dr. Jonathan W. Uhr, chairman of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in D
WASHINGTON - Federal health officials, moving to tap into grass-roots experimental treatment and offer hope to AIDS patients, announced plans for a community- based research network. The program, to be financed by the National Institutes of Health, is designed primarily to pull together in one place the various kinds o
BOSTON - A study of AIDS virus screening among military recruits at low risk of the disease found that only one was wrongly identified as infected, discounting fears that too many people will be mislabeled if there is widespread testing, a researcher said. The public should know that if they choose to, they can do earl
BOSTON - Children with AIDS improve dramatically when given the drug AZT , regaining lost intelligence, speech and the ability to walk, according to a study. However, the drug does not cure the disease, and children die despite the treatment, researchers said. A detailed report on the treatment was published in Thu
WASHINGTON - In an effort to protect the unborn children of women infected with the AIDS virus, scientists have begun planning for a clinical test of the drug azidothymidine, or AZT , in pregnant women, a researcher said Tuesday night. Most new infections of children with AIDS are related to an infected mother, said D
NEW YORK - Armed with data that may change national estimates of the scope of the AIDS epidemic, city health officials said Tuesday that 200,000 residents are infected with the AIDS virus-half as many as they had estimated earlier. But city Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Joseph said the lower figure does not mean ther
WASHINGTON - A California research team has isolated from an African blood sample a strain of virus that can cause a fatal AIDS-like disease by infecting, but not killing, cells in the human body. Jay Levy, leader of the University of California at San Francisco team that made the discovery, said Thursday that the newl
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the White House AIDS commission recommended Thursday that federal laws be written to protect people infected with the AIDS virus from discrimination. Retired Navy Adm. James Watkins included nearly 600 recommendations in a 269-page draft report to be considered by the full 13-member commiss
NEW YORK - The AIDS virus probably did not jump from monkeys to humans but could have infected the common ancestors of humans and monkeys millions of years ago, researchers say. That conclusion comes from Japanese biologists who have mapped out the entire genetic code of the AIDS virus that infects African green monkey
WASHINGTON - The National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday the hundreds of thousands of Americans unknowingly infected with the AIDS-causing HIV virus should be considered as suffering from a disease even if they don t have full-scale AIDS. Viewing HIV infection as a disease is important because it may eventually be
WASHINGTON - Six men who volunteered for the first American test of an experimental AIDS vaccine have shown an immune response, an early but critical step toward developing a vaccine against acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced Saturday that the men sh
BOSTON - People who receive transfusions face a one in 40,000 chance of receiving AIDS-tainted blood despite screening intended to keep the blood supply clean, according to a federal study published Thursday. The researchers emphasize that despite this remote but real risk, people who need transfusions should not be de
NEWARK, N.J - A second AIDS virus that was discovered 2 1/2 years ago in Africa and can escape detection by tests in use at blood banks has been found for the first time in a patient in the United States , scientists said Wednesday. Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey said it is the fi
WASHINGTON - A new test for the AIDS virus that is faster, more accurate and may help determine the effectiveness of treatment drugs has been developed by National Cancer Institute researchers. George Pavlakis, an institute researcher, said Thursday that he and Barbara Felber, another scientist, developed the AIDS test
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