NEW YORK - HIV-hunting blood cells may play a big role in protecting some African prostitutes from infection with the AIDS virus, a small study suggests. The results imply that creating those cells may be an important goal in developing an AIDS vaccine. Scientists studied prostitutes in Gambia who used con
The Associated Press, Wednesday, December 28, 1994
Brenda C. Coleman; The Associated Press
CHICAGO: Women infected with the- AIDS virus die faster than men with the infection, a large study found. No medical reason for the difference was apparent, said the study s authors, led by Sandra L. Melnick, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Instead, the researchers said, women
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are beginning two studies on humans to test an antibiotic that some doctors consider one of the best for extending the life of AIDS patients. Bactrim is used to treat a form of pneumonia that preys on people with severely damaged immune systems and was at one ti
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- John E. Boswell, former chairman of Yale s history department who theorized that homosexual marriages were celebrated liturgically in the Middle Ages, died at age 47 of AIDS complications. Boswell died Friday at the Yale infirmary, said Jerry Hart, a friend who provided the cause of death.
LOS ANGELES - Martin Caprow, whose lawsuit alleging he was fired from a law firm because he had AIDS mirrored the movie Philadelphia,died Wednesday. He was 38. Caprow drew national attention in February when he claimed the firm of Frank & Freedus in San Diego didn t want to pay for his health insurance. The company
WASHINGTON - An AIDS-virus test that uses fluid from the mouth instead of blood has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The new test will be available only from physicians and administered only by people trained in its use, the FDA announced Friday. Dr. Jeff Lawrence, a consultant to the American Foundat
LOS ANGELES - Martin Caprow, whose lawsuit alleging he was fired from a law firm because he had AIDS mirrored the movie Philadelphia,died Wednesday. He was 38. Caprow drew national attention in February when he claimed the firm of Frank & Freedus in San Diego didn t want to pay for his health insurance. The company
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first AIDS virus test that uses saliva instead of blood was approved Friday by the Food and Drug Administration. The test, called OraSure, is made by the biotechnology company Epitope Inc., in Beaverton, Ore., and will cost about $2 to $4, a fraction of the price of blood tests. Although the test
ST. PETERSBURG - A couple with AIDS should never have been allowed to adopt a 3-year-old girl, says a judge who plans to remove the child unless the parents give up their parental rights first. Circuit Judge Horace Andrews, who was not told of the parents condition when he granted the adoption in March, said he intends
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deadly cancer that strikes more than a fourth of all homosexual men with AIDS may be related to a herpes virus, according to researchers who report Friday on discovery of genetic evidence of the virus. In a study published in the journal Science, researchers led by a husband-and-wife team at Columb
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A judge has decided to take a 3-year-old girl from the adoptive parents who raised her since infancy after learning they are infected with the AIDS virus. Circuit Judge Horace Andrews said he didn t know the couple was infected when he approved the adoption in March. He said he would nullif
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration, despite tight budget constraints, will seek $91 million more next year to care for people with AIDS, officials said Tuesday. The administration also has decided not to kill a special housing program for those suffering with the disease. President Clinton, who has already b
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A plastic membrane that slowly releases drugs into the eye may be able to control an infection that strikes one in four AIDS patients and sentences thousands to blindness. The double-layered plastic membrane, just four millimeters in diameter, delivers a powerful anti-viral drug inside the eyeball an
BEIJING (AP) -- The discovery that three recent blood donors in Beijing and Shanghai were carrying the AIDS virus is leading to calls for nationwide checks of blood donors, an official report said Monday. Unlike most Western countries, China has no policy of testing blood donors for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Ins
GENEVA - Heterosexual male drug users in Thailand and homosexual men in Brazil will be the key volunteers in the first major human tests of two AIDS vaccines, the chief of the U.N. AIDS program said Friday. Dr. Peter Piot of Belgium , appointed this week to head the new U.
STUART, Fla. (AP) -- The fourth of six people infected with the AIDS virus by a dentist died Saturday. Barbara Webb, 68, slipped into a semi-coma earlier in the week, according to Hospice of Martin. She died on her 45th wedding anniversary to her husband, Robert. She was never bitter about her death, said hospice couns
GENEVA (AP) -- Heterosexual male drug users in Thailand and homosexual men in Brazil will be the key volunteers of the first major human tests of two AIDS vaccines, the chief of the U.N. AIDS program said Friday. Dr. Peter Piot of Belgium , appointed this week to head the new U.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark Woodley s Santa costume hangs in his closet like an old tuxedo. Five years ago he was Macy s grand old elf, and children opened their hearts to him every day. Then he got the virus that causes AIDS and the world s largest department store refused to rehire him. He s been fighting to get his job ba
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- The Duchess of York says she has been tested for AIDS twice, news reports said Tuesday. The former Sarah Ferguson, estranged wife of Britain s Prince Andrew, was in Portugal to help raise money for an AIDS awareness campaign. Asked by Portugal s Diario de Noticias if she had had a test for
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Both were South Florida dentists. Both died of AIDS. Both treated patients who ultimately tested HIV-positive. But federal researchers found one crucial difference between Dr. David Acer and a second, unidentified Miami dentist: The latter, they say, didn t give his patients AIDS. Two years after a
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A virus infection that causes blindness in thousands of AIDS patients can be controlled successfully by surgically implanting a plastic membrane that slowly releases a powerful drug inside the eyeball, researchers report. In a study published Wednesday in the Archives of Ophthalmology, researchers sa
PHILADELPHIA - Three large placards are posted on a tiny church in a rundown neighborhood. One says, All Are Welcome, but a second, smaller one, adds that only those who have tested negative for the AIDS virus are welcome. Bishop Nathan Giddings, leader of the 38-member Old Ship of Zion, said that people with AIDS aren
PHILADELPHIA - Three large placards are posted on a tiny church in a rundown neighborhood. One says, All Are Welcome, but a second, smaller one, adds that only those who have tested negative for the AIDS virus are welcome. Bishop Nathan Giddings, leader of the 38-member Old Ship of Zion, said that people with AIDS aren
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservative groups signaled Tuesday they may seek legal or legislative remedy if the Food and Drug Administration doesn t swiftly approve an experimental home test kit to detect the virus that causes AIDS. The FDA now for seven years has sat on a proposal for home-access HIV testing and counseling,
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Clinical trials of a new drug designed to stop diarrhea in advanced AIDS patients have been disappointing for a Portland biotechnology firm. The trial concluded that the milk-based antibody product from ImmuCell Corp. lowered the number of parasites but did not significantly reduce diarrhea.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) -- A Kenyan musician was found guilty Tuesday of knowingly engaging in unsafe sex with five women when he carried the AIDS virus. Peter Mwai, 29, was convicted of causing one woman grievous bodily harm -- she became infected -- and five charges of endangering lives by failing to tell lovers h
INVERNESS - A nurse charged with raping five anesthetized patients in a hospital recovery room has tested negative for the AIDS virus, according to a state laboratory report. Bruce Alan Young, 45, was ordered to undergo the test after he was arrested in October and more than 70 other women come forward with fears they,
INVERNESS - A nurse charged with raping five anesthetized patients in a hospital recovery room has tested negative for the AIDS virus, according to a state laboratory report. Bruce Alan Young, 45, was ordered to undergo the test after he was arrested in October and more than 70 other women come forward with fears they,
NEW YORK (AP) -- Life couldn t get much tougher for Abel Martinez. He s raising his sisters six children in a one-bedroom apartment in one of the city s poorest neighborhoods. One sister died of AIDS and the other may soon follow. Martinez tried to put his troubles aside Sunday at a Christmas party for 103 children who
LAUREL, Miss. - A 16-year-old accused of murdering two unarmed gay men acted in self-defense, his lawyer says: He was afraid of being sexually assaulted -- and of being infected with AIDS. This defense strategy has drawn protests from gay activists, who see it as an attempt to play upon jurors fears and bigotry. AI
LAUREL, Miss. - A 16-year-old accused of murdering two unarmed gay men acted in self-defense, his lawyer says: He was afraid of being sexually assaulted -- and of being infected with AIDS. This defense strategy has drawn protests from gay activists, who see it as an attempt to play upon jurors fears and bigotry. AI
ORLANDO - A survey of 1,150 Florida undergraduate students suggests that while most engage in sexual intercourse, about two-thirds do not always use condoms. The survey found that risky sexual behavior was just one way college students endanger their health and lives. Many drink, smoke marijuana and ride with friends w
PHILADELPHIA - An HIV-positive dentist who used imperfect infection-control techniques apparently did not transmit the virus to his patients, according to a new study by federal and Florida researchers. The conclusions contrast sharply with earlier federal research into the practice of another dentist, Dr. David Acer,
VENICE - Gary Kangesier, who was sued by Longboat Key because the town feared that as a town plumber he could spread AIDS in the water supply, has died of heart failure. The town became alarmed in 1989 after Kangesier tested positive forHIV, the virus that causes AIDs. Kangesier s family said he was working out with a
WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration debates a tricky side issue of the AIDS epidemic this week: Should Americans test themselves for the deadly virus at home? Three companies are seeking FDA approval for drugstore sales of home test kits for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. People would send spots of dried bloo
WASHINGTON The American Red Cross regional blood bank for South Florida distributed 18 pints of blood during a two-month period last year although the donors medical records were incomplete, federal investigators say. Investigators with the Food and Drug Administration found that some of the blood distributed between M
CHICAGO - A new study sharply questions the reported early promise of a drug for treating Kaposi s sarcoma, the purplish skin cancer that afflicts many AIDS patients. Authors of the study say a 1992 report that found the drug effective in animal studies was highly flawed. They say a respected journal that published the
ROCKVILLE, Md.--A panel of scientists recommended that the government approve a new drug to battle the AIDS virus--but with strong warnings that doctors still don t know enough about the medicine to say who should take it. An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that
Associated Press, Health & Science, Saturday, May 21, 1994
Paul Recer, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON--A seaweed extract commonly used in ice cream and candy is to be tested as a vaginal gel that could block the AIDS virus and allow women to protect themselves from infected sexual partners. Dr. Christopher J. Elias of the Population Council said Friday that his organization will apply to the Food and Drug Ad
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