The Associated Press - Wednesday December 30, 1998
Erica Noonan, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) - A dentist lost an appeal of a ruling that he broke federal law by insisting that an HIV-infected patient go to a hospital for treatment. The U.S. Court of Appeals found that Dr. Randon Bragdon of Bangor, Maine, violated the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by refusing to treat Sidney Abbott in his
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A South African health official acknowledged Monday that faulty condoms had slipped through government tests, but said a more rigorous control system has been in place for months. Johannesburg s Business Day newspaper reported Monday that South Africa did not adequately test imported c
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A 36-year-old woman was beaten to death after disclosing she was HIV positive, a newspaper has reported. Gugu Dlamini was beaten last Saturday in KwaMancinza, a town in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, where an estimated 20 to 30 percent of the population has HIV or AIDS. She died of he
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South African researchers will participate in an international AIDS vaccine project that will focus on two African strains of HIV, a newspaper reported Sunday. The $9.1 million project is funded by the New York-based International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the Sunday Independent reporte
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - It s been a tough year for Patrick Biggers since he was evicted from a homeless shelter in Ellsworth two days before Christmas 1997 because he has the AIDS virus. A chef who worked at some of the nation s finest restaurants, Biggers, 36, remains homeless, has not found work and underwent triple b
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 24, 1998
ATLANTA (AP) -- Some gay men are avoiding testing for the AIDS virus in part because they don t want their names reported to the federal government, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said the survey, released Wednesday, underscores the need to continue government fund
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 24, 1998
Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press Writer
Treating people infected with the AIDS virus in the United States costs about $20,000 per person per year -- less expensive than generally believed, according to a study published in today s New England Journal of Medicine. The study estimated a total cost of $6.7 billion annually, or less than 1 percent of all U.S. me
The Associated Press - Thursday, December 24, 1998
Robert Keith-Reid, Associated Press Writer
SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Widespread complacency and ignorance among Pacific Island leaders could lead to an explosion of AIDS in the region, two of Oceania s leading anti-AIDS workers say. Steven Vete, the Tongan director of the Suva-based AIDS project run by the U.N. Development Program, said Wednesday that many political l
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton s AIDS advisory council scolded him Friday for insufficiently following up his grandly announced plan to develop an AIDS vaccine within 10 years. In turn, Clinton warned that 2000 will be tight budget year for AIDS research but he endorsed the council s proposal for a national media
The Associated Press - Wednesday, December 16, 1998
NEW YORK (AP) - Three hospitals and medical schools are receiving $6 million to collect the brains of dead AIDS patients for research on the disease s neurological effects. To the outside world it may sound a little ghoulish, said Dr. Susan Morgello, the project s principal investigator. This provides a really needed b
The Associated Press - Wednesday December 16, 1998
Traces of the AIDS virus have been found in the semen of men who responded well to aggressive drug therapy, leading scientists to remind HIV-positive men to continue practicing safe sex. The discovery was first reported by The Associated Press last month when it was presented in Denver at the annual meeting of the Infe
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patients with the AIDS virus are getting another alternative for their drug cocktails, Glaxo Wellcome Inc. s Ziagen . The Food and Drug Administration approved Ziagen, known chemically as abacavir , late Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- States must better track Americans infected with the AIDS virus by reporting HIV cases either with the patient s name or by using a code, according to new government guidelines being proposed Thursday. The proposal puts in writing what some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts have long
SEATTLE (AP) -- A half-dozen passers-by who helped victims of a fatal bus crash may have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS through the blood of a seriously injured person who is HIV-positive, health officials say. After issuing a warning last week about the possibility of exposure, the Seattle-King County Depa
GENEVA (AP) - A Red Cross doctor was found guilty Tuesday in Switzerland of supervising the distribution of HIV-infected blood products to hemophiliacs and was given a one-year suspended prison sentence. A Geneva court ruled that Alfred Haessig, the 77-year-old former director of the Swiss central laboratory of the Red
SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - One after the other, men and women stepped up to a microphone Saturday and in clear voices announced: I am HIV-positive. A crowd of about 150 people clapped and cheered their disclosures, and some even left their seats to hug the speakers. Most of the 3 million South Africans with AIDS or it
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers have identified an inherited gene variation that in some patients causes an HIV virus infection to accelerate rapidly to AIDS. The variation, researchers reported Friday in the journal Science, occurs in a gene called CCR5. Some forms of this gene block the rapid spread of HIV, the virus
CHICAGO (AP) - A New York blood bank is notifying 40,000 Chicago-area residents who received transfusions from 1994 to 1996 that they may have received blood that was improperly tested for viral infections - including HIV and hepatitis. The blood came from the New York Blood Center, which has known about the problem fo
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton used World AIDS Day to reveal his own friendship with a 6-year-old girl who was born with the AIDS virus and abandoned, but today lives happily with her adoptive parents in Iowa. In announcing grants for helping AIDS orphans in other parts of the world, Clinton recalled a 1992 campa
TOKYO (AP) -- Government officials and health advocates marked World AIDS Day with calls for urgent efforts to stop the galloping spread of the disease. In Japan , the Health Ministry organized rallies and charity concerts in a central Tokyo square to publicize the threat of AIDS and demonstrate support with those suff
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton was marking World AIDS Day today by pledging a package of assistance to nations that must combat the spread of the deadly disease while caring for increasing numbers of children orphaned by it. The president planned to announce $10 million in grants for the care of AIDS orphans, and
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia has deported 349 foreigners because they have AIDS, Okaz newspaper reported today. The Jiddah-based daily said the men and women deported were discovered to have the HIV virus, the virus that causes AIDS, when they took tests required for work permits. It said the maids, drivers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Drugs frequently used in pediatric cases will be tested and labeled with children in mind under regulations set by the Food and Drug Administration. We are committed to ensuring that health care providers get the best information they need to treat children, said Dr. Michael A. Friedman, the agency s
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) - Quashawn Donovan dreams of joining the Girl Scouts and doing things other 8-year-old girls enjoy - camping, making crafts and singing songs. The only trouble is no local Girl Scout troop wants her. Quashawn is HIV-positive and her parents think that s why she s been rejected by nine different Br
ATLANTA (AP) - When theologians and AIDS activists met here to discuss how America s religious community has responded to the AIDS epidemic, one group s voice was mostly absent - conservative Christians. The AIDS National Interfaith Network, the event s co-sponsor, said several evangelical groups were invited to attend
LONDON (AP) - Death rates in Europe of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS have fallen 84 percent since 1995, mostly because of new drugs and combinations of treatments, according to a new study. The study, published in this week s issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal, was the largest of its kind
MOSCOW (AP) - More than 3,250 new cases of HIV have been registered in Russia this year, and 90 percent of those who contracted the virus were intravenous drug users, the health minister said Thursday. The new cases bring the total number of people with HIV in Russia to 10,283, including 418 children, Health Minister V
NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a parade through lower Manhattan marking World AIDS Day can go forward, calling the city policy used to deny a permit for the event unconstitutional. Judge Harold Baer Jr. said the city s refusal to permit the Dec. 1 parade and City Hall news conference to follow hint
NEW YORK (AP) -- The pharmaceutical industry added five AIDS drugs to its arsenal this year and has 113 more medicines in development to treat the disease. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which released the figures Tuesday, credit the 54 AIDS drugs now available in the United States
GENEVA (AP) - U.N. experts compiling figures on HIV infection worldwide were stunned to learn over the past two years that they had missed millions of AIDS victims in Africa, a key official said Tuesday. The big rise that we had over the last year was based on some shocking findings, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, w
LONDON (AP) - About 33 million people around the world are infected with HIV, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa, according to estimates in a U.N. report released Tuesday. The report also estimated there would be 2 million AIDS deaths in the region by the end of this year, four times the total for the rest of the
ATLANTA (AP) - Some rural Americans still aren t getting the message about how AIDS is spread. Interviews with HIV-infected patients in rural areas of four states showed that more than half never thought they were at risk of contracting the AIDS virus, though most were engaging in unprotected sex and other risky behavi
BOSTON (AP) - Women, minorities and heterosexuals with AIDS are less likely than others to get a new and effective treatment, and ignorance of the procedure may be one of the reasons, according to a new study. The situation may be particularly bad for women, who, according to another report, may be more susceptible tha
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A mother worried that powerful AIDS drugs might kill her HIV-infected 4-year-old boy can continue to refuse treatment, the state Supreme Court decided today. But the court warned that if the boy s condition worsens or new medical treatments are developed, the state could be given the right to dem
DENVER (AP) -- Federal researchers say they have managed to flush the AIDS virus out from one of its most stubborn hiding places and erase it to undetectable levels in a handful of patients. Dr. Anthony Fauci and other researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases cautioned that their method
DENVER (AP) -- Researchers say they have found genetic material from the AIDS virus still lurking in the semen cells of men whose use of the AIDS drug cocktail had reduced the virus in their blood to undetectable levels. In a study to be released Friday, virologists at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia said t
NEW YORK (AP) -- Starting to feel inundated by all drug advertising on television? There s good reason. Just a year after the federal government relaxed restrictions on prescription drug advertising to consumers, television has become the medium of choice for the pharmaceutical industry. The industry spent $306 million
BOSTON (AP) -- The drug AZT appears to protect babies from catching the AIDS virus from their mothers, even if treatment begins only after birth. AZT is already the standard medicine to prevent maternal transmission of the AIDS virus. Typically, doctors give the medicine to mothers during their last 14 weeks of pregnan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Carrying surprises for mainstream doctors and alternative-medicine believers alike, a series of scientific studies has found that chiropractors can t help relieve tension headaches, but Chinese herbs can help an incurable bowel disease. Acupuncture didn t help HIV sufferers, but an unusual Chinese pr
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- American AIDS researcher Robert Gallo has said that recent work has raised his confidence that a vaccine can be developed against the deadly disease in four years. Speaking to Thai researchers Friday at Bangkok s Chulalongkorn University, Gallo, credited for co-discovering HIV, the virus that
BEIJING (AP) - The number of Chinese infected with the virus that causes AIDS could reach one million by 2000 unless more effective action is taken to prevent the disease from spreading, the state-run China Daily reported today. The number of Chinese infected with HIV may be as high as 300,000 and is increasing rapidly
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A woman who claims her doctor mistakenly treated her for AIDS for 2 1/2 years testified Thursday she was stunned when a second doctor said she didn t have the virus. It was just hard to believe after having gone through everything and everything I had been told, Charlene Riling said. Is all thi
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Alameda County officials voted unanimously Thursday to declare a state of emergency over the rate of HIV infection in the black community. The 5-0 vote appears to be a first, said Helene Gayle, director of the Centers for Disease Control National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. However, sh
CLEVELAND (AP) - A male prostitute with the AIDS virus went on television under court order to warn those who may have had sexual contact with him. Tony Brown, 37, of Cleveland went before cameras from two television stations Monday and urged those with whom he had physical contact to seek medical attention. Judge Shir
NEW YORK (AP) -- An experimental AIDS drug cut HIV levels in patients blood by as much as about 99 percent in two weeks, a preliminary study found. That s as potent as currently approved drugs, which can drive the AIDS virus down to undetectable levels when taken longer. The experimental drug showed the 99-percent redu
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A sudden surge in HIV infections is threatening the population of women of child-bearing age on this twin-island Caribbean nation, the chief medical officer warned. Dr. Rawle Edwards said Friday the rate of infection of people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, jumped from 35 cases per
Two experimental attempts to cut down on the 15 to 20 pills a day that HIV- infected people must take to keep AIDS at bay failed when the virus bounced back quickly in many patients. Over the past few years, the three-drug AIDS cocktail has turned AIDS from a death sentence to a manageable illness. However, patients mu
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The world s population is expected to increase nearly everywhere on the globe next year -- even in Africa, where AIDS is cutting life expectancies dramatically, according to U.N. figures released today. Even though fertility continues to decline as the 21st century approaches, the number of peopl
CHICAGO (AP) -- People seek testing and treatment for the AIDS virus much earlier if screening is kept anonymous, according to research published in today s Journal of the American Medical Association . However, a second study found no significant decline in the number of those tested where names are required to be dis
BOSTON (AP) -- Beginning next year, Massachusetts doctors must report all cases of HIV to state health officials. The Department of Public Health will not receive names of patients from physicians, but codes that will keep the identities secret. Patients will be identified by age, sex, race, hometown and how the AIDS v
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) _ Vietnam has 10,560 people who have tested positive for the HIV virus, but the actual figure could be up to 10 times higher, the National AIDS Committee said today. Overall, 1,901 people have full-blown AIDS, and 1,013 have died since Vietnam s first case was detected in 1990, the committee said.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hit with a congressional ban on funds for its needle-exchange program, an AIDS clinics in the nation s capital has set up a private group to distribute clean needles to drug addicts. Congress, as part of the $520 billion spending package signed into law Wednesday, banned use of local and federal fund
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal inmates whose bodily fluids come into contact with corrections officers would have to be tested for the AIDS virus under a bill the House passed without dissent on its final day of business Wednesday and sent to the White House. The measure cleared the Senate by voice vote a day earlier, and
Associated Press - Wednesday October 21 6:07 PM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) _ A public health emergency was declared after a federal court closed the city s medical marijuana club, leaving 2,200 patients with no legal source for the drug they say quells the pain of AIDS and cancer. Tuesday night s 5-4 City Council vote, believed to be the first of its kind, allows official
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Hemophiliacs infected with HIV during the early days of the AIDS epidemic could get compensation from the government under a bill that won final passage Wednesday. The bill, passed by the Senate on a voice vote, authorizes payments of $100,000 apiece for hemophiliacs who might not have gotten the viru
NEW YORK (AP) _ Gay activists jailed for their part in a huge demonstration complained Wednesday that they were denied access to their AIDS medication, which can lose effectiveness if patients miss even a single dose. I am very angry that a peaceful candlelight vigil could end with my life being threatened, said John I
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Sue Saunders is 65 and has AIDS. As far as she s concerned, the more people who know it the better. Saunders pioneered a project in her hometown of Fort Lauderdale to educate Floridians over age 50 about the risk of developing acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Her first challenge was getting the
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- City officials declared the lack of pot a public health emergency following the closure of one of the largest medical marijuana clubs in California. A 5-4 vote by the City Council on Tuesday night allows officials to develop alternative ways to sell marijuana to about 2,200 patients cut off from
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan pledged $776 million in aid to Africa today for health, education and other projects at an international conference on African development. The ultimate objective of development is to improve living conditions for every human being, Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said in announcing the ai
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Police in Sweden searched Tuesday for an 40-year-old American suspected of picking up women at Stockholm nightspots and having unprotected sex even though he knew he was infected with the AIDS virus. Authorities also were trying to locate 190 women listed in the man s address book. The sea
BOSTON (AP) -- A man infected with the AIDS virus has volunteered to stop taking the three-drug cocktail that has kept him healthy for 18 months so doctors can see if he can do without it. Though other AIDS patients have gone off medication and lived with manageable levels of the virus, this is believed to be the first
LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) -- The patients lie two to a bed and on the floor, waiting to be sent home to die. Tattered blankets brought by relatives drape their shrunken bodies, because Lilongwe Central Hospital doesn t have any linen. The sounds of sawing and hammering in the streets testify to the booming business done by
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- An 18-year-old diligently learning to tailor a shirt in a cheerful church is one small part of an extraordinary campaign to prevent her and other Ugandans from dying as her parents did -- from AIDS. The immune-stripping disease first killed Annet Namuyomba s father, then her mother. In many Afri
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Simon Ngcobo lives under a death sentence in a house called the Place of Hope. One foot sticking out of a hole in his blue-and-white sleeper, he smiles at a visitor from between the rails of his crib. Simon is barely 13 months old. Within three years he will probably be dead. In s
CHIPHWANYA, Malawi (AP) -- The cemetery is nearly full in this village of several thousand people on the parched savannah of central Malawi. Just about every day there is a funeral. Villagers know that AIDS is feeding the burial ground, but they can do little. There is no testing, not much government aid, and the neare
Factors contributing to spread of AIDS in southern Africa: HISTORY: Non-democratic governments often played down AIDS. South Africa s apartheid-era leaders ignored the disease in majority black population, housing black male workers in hostels and creating conditions for multiple sexual partners and spread back home. I
According to U.N. AIDS program, sub-Saharan Africa has: --21 million people infected with AIDS virus, two-thirds of world total. --87 percent of children around globe infected with AIDS virus. --Four of every five AIDS-infected women, total of about 8 million. --83 percent of all AIDS deaths. --AIDS infection rate of o
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) _ Time and again, Janice Trahan Allen said she tried to end her affair with Dr. Richard Schmidt. He d promise he would leave his wife and marry her. Once, he allegedly threatened to keep her from graduating from medical school. Another time, she said he threatened to make public photographs he d tak
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Two senators who want to do right by people who contracted HIV through tainted blood were locked in a game of beat-the-clock Wednesday while competing groups of victims worried both would lose. Sens. Mike DeWine and James Jeffords were pushing at the last minute for floor votes on legislation authoriz
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A study found that the AIDS virus can mutate into separate strains in a patient s semen and blood, suggesting the infection may be craftier and harder to treat than previously thought. The findings challenge the widely held belief that an individual can harbor only one strain of the AIDS virus.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Testing for the AIDS virus should become a routine part of pregnant women s prenatal care, a policy change that could help more mothers-to-be get treatment that can protect their babies from infection, a panel of medical experts told Congress today. The recommendation by the Institute of Medicine is
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Physicians blasted South Africa s decision to cut funding to a program that would treat pregnant women infected with the virus that causes AIDS, a newspaper reported Sunday. The policy was announced on Friday by Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma, who said the $14 million appropriated for
MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Cuban health officials say that the number of people testing positive for the HIV virus that causes AIDS has grown on the island over the past two years and are calling on citizens to practice safer sex. Manuel Santin, national director of epidemiology for the Public Health Ministry, was quoted in Th
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, in an unusual live broadcast, acknowledged on Friday that South Africa had closed its eyes to AIDS and appealed for a nationwide effort to fight the disease. Otherwise, Our dreams as a people will be shattered, he said. Mbeki s speech was part of a maj
WASHINGTON (AP) _ New drugs helped reduced the number of AIDS deaths in the United States by 47 percent last year, dropping the disease from the 10 leading causes of death. AIDS is now the 14th leading cause of death in the United States, with 5.9 deaths for every 100,000 Americans _ the lowest rate since 1987, when mo
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Government advisers recommended approval Tuesday of the first oral therapy for liver-destroying hepatitis B _ a drug now used to fight AIDS. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously that Epivir , better known as 3TC
BOSTON (AP) - Adolescent girls have a lot to worry about: Grades. Friends. Pimples. Parents. A new program is hoping to add another item to the list: HIV. Young women - particularly minorities and those from low-income families - are being infected with the deadly disease at higher rates than ever, many from unprotecte
Maria Welch, a 52-year-old Baker City, Ore., resident who underwent surgery in July to remove most of her cancerous right lung, was in misery after doctors sent her home with some potent pain-killers. The drugs deadened some of the pain, but left her nauseous, hallucinatory and suffering from sleepless nights. I felt l
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ The nation s largest supermarket chain is being accused of discrimination for refusing to let a boy with the AIDS virus use a supervised play area in the store. Georgio Lee Chacon was not allowed into PePe s Playhouse at a Kroger Co. (KR - news) store while his guardian, Barb Cordle, shopped. Ms.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of a Cornell University research lab and the recipient of $2 million in federal grants is under an internal investigation for alleged scientific misconduct, The New York Times reported today. Dr. John L. Ho, 48, allegedly forced subordinates to falsify data in a grant application, used false c
ATLANTA (AP) -- Government health officials warned doctors Thursday that prescribing AIDS drugs as a morning-after treatment for people who have been exposed to the virus through sex and drugs carries heavy risks and hasn t been proved successful. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said doctors should not g
NEW YORK (AP) - A growing number of lawmakers across the country are pursuing laws aimed at protecting the public from the AIDS virus, The New York Times reported today. At least 29 states have laws making it a crime to knowingly transmit or expose others to the virus, HIV, the newspaper said. One-third of those states
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois health officials have decided to track people with AIDS by a special code instead of by their names. The decision Thursday by the Illinois Public Health Department comes as more and more states adopt measures that focus on protecting the public at the expense of AIDS patients privacy.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - For some time, Eric Sawyer has been taking Sustiva as part of DuPont Pharmaceutical s clinical trials of the AIDS drug. As a result, he said, his level of HIV infection is virtually undetectable. That s the good news. The bad news is, now that Sustiva has been approved for sale by the federal Fo
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A federal judge Tuesday barred the eviction of an HIV-positive man who claims a public housing official wants him out to avoid contamination of an apartment complex. Clayton Rawhouser, the caregiver for George Watters, who has the virus that causes AIDS, is suing the Elm Creek Housing Authority for
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is poised to compensate hemophiliacs who contracted the AIDS virus when too little was being done to safeguard the blood supply. But legislation authorizing payments has caught a snag: Hemophiliacs weren t the only ones infected by tainted blood. Now the question is whether to add paym
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese health authorities have noted an alarming rise in the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, the official newspaper Guangming Daily reported Tuesday. Citing figures reported at a research conference on AIDS, Chinese officials said the number of cases of venereal disease had risen
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The deadly AIDS virus spread rapidly through Africa because Africans began imitating the promiscuity of Westerners, Uganda s president said Monday. Yoweri Museveni said Ugandans traditionally shunned extramarital sex, and one tribe used to poke out the eyes of anyone who had sex before marriage.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration approved the easiest-to-swallow AIDS treatment in years today, a once-a-day drug that offers the first good alternative to patients who can t take the lifesaving protease inhibitors . DuPont Pharmaceuticals S
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A mother who feared powerful AIDS drugs would kill her HIV-infected 4-year-old son rather than extend his life won the right Monday to refuse treatment for the boy. A state judge refused to give custody of Nikolas Emerson to the state Department of Human Services, which had argued his mother was je
NEWPORT, Maine (AP) -- Haunted by the pain her daughter experienced before dying of AIDS, Valerie Emerson is trying to spare her son the same fate by refusing to let him have the medication doctors say will keep him alive. Ms. Emerson, 27, believes the three-drug cocktail that has subdued the AIDS virus in many patient
The Associated Press; Thursday, September 10, 1998
PARIS (AP) -- Three former ministers go on trial in February for their roles in the AIDS-tainted blood scandal, climaxing a six-year saga that shook France s public health system. The trial will be held before a special Court of Justice of the Republic, which judges officials for crimes in office, judicial sources said
The Associated Press; Thursday, September 10, 1998
Joseph B. Verrengia, AP Science Writer
Molecular biologists may have discovered how AIDS suddenly can erupt into a catastrophic illness after lurking for years as a low-grade infection. New research by a nationwide team of scientists suggests that the human immunodeficiency virus eventually attacks a class of disease-fighting cells produced by the immune sy
Dr. Jonathan Mann, who became known as the outspoken head of the World Health Organization s AIDS program when the disease exploded in the 1980s, was among the 229 people killed in the crash of Swissair Flight 111. Mann, 51, was dean of Allegheny University of the Health Sciences School of Public Health in Philadelphia
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - An HIV-positive man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for failing to tell his sex partners about his condition. Phillip Carter of Columbus was convicted by a jury Tuesday of breaking a Mississippi Health Department quarantine order that also required him to use both a condom and spe
French researchers have isolated a new strain of the AIDS virus in west Africa that appears to have close genetic links to a version that infects non-human primates such as chimpanzees. It s a reminder, they said, of how genetically flexible and cunning the human immunodeficiency virus can be. The new strain so far has
ATLANTA (AP) - Young, poor women are being infected with the AIDS virus at a higher rate than their male counterparts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The finding arises from a seven-year study that looked at HIV tests for 350,000 youths in the federal Jobs Corps program, which provide
The Associated Press; Saturday, August 22, 1998; 11:13 a.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
BALTIMORE (AP) -- The first time Dr. Joel Gallant laid eyes on Michael Willis, he was struck by how truly awful his new patient looked. A skinny little emaciated creature is what the doctor remembers. Willis was in the full grip of AIDS, covered with eczema, partially paralyzed by a herpes infection of the spine, 140 p
The Associated Press; Wednesday, August 19, 1998; 5:59 p.m. EDT
BOSTON (AP) -- A study challenges the popular belief that spermicides protect against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The research, conducted on prostitutes in Cameroon , found no sign that combining the common spermicide nonoxynol 9 with condoms worked any better than condoms alone. The findings were
The Associated Press; Friday August 14 4:58 PM EDT
David Kligman, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The news in the Bay Area Reporter this week was the lack of news. For the first in more than 17 years, the gay weekly contained no obituaries of AIDS victims. As of Friday, no AIDS death notices had arrived at the newspaper for almost a week and a half. It s nice to pick up the paper and not read a
The Associated Press; Monday August 10 11:19 AM EDT
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Plans are in the works for a national test of a vaccine that could prevent infection from the virus that causes AIDS. Homosexual men will be recruited for the study on AIDSvax, along with women in relationships with HIV positive men. Candidates could begin enrolling as early as October. Nearly 40 cl
The Associated Press; Monday, August 3, 1998; 9:00 p.m. EDT
Peter James Spielmann, Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- If your mouth gets dry in Sydney, spinning a faucet won t quench your thirst -- or not safely, anyway. You need pots and pans, or a trip to the shops. All because of a contamination scare that is forcing most of Sydney s 3.7 million residents to boil their drinks or buy them in a bottle.
The Associated Press; Saturday, August 1, 1998; Page A07
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
Government researchers have temporarily halted the enrollment of pregnant women into studies of the potent anti-AIDS protease inhibitors , as they try to determine whether the drugs might increase the risk of premature birth. The National Institutes of Health stressed yesterday that the safety concerns are very prelimi
The Associated Press; Saturday, August 1, 1998; Page A16
CHICAGO, July 31—It began on a summer day with two boys from a day school program playing at a public pool in suburban Wheaton. The two -- one white, one black -- shared a snorkel. Two years later, the black boy and his mother are suing the program, saying its organizers pressured them into having the child tested for
The Associated Press; Friday, July 31, 1998; 5:34 p.m. EDT
Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government researchers have temporarily halted the enrollment of pregnant women into studies of the potent anti-AIDS protease inhibitors , as they try to determine whether the drugs might increase the risk of premature birth. The National Institutes of Health stressed Friday that the safety concerns
The Associated Press; Friday, July 31, 1998; 1:35 a.m. EDT
Hannah Wolfson, Associated Press Writer
LEWISBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Divorced, widowed and HIV-positive, Pamela Wiser was so angry with a former boyfriend for infecting her that she had to get revenge. Not on him -- on any man she could sleep with. Wiser said she spent the past year having a series of one-night stands with up to 50 men she met at bars in largely
The Associated Press; Thursday July 30 5:31 AM EDT
Joseph B. Verrengia, AP Science Writer
Killer T cells generated by the immune system to fight a virus appear to have difficulty adjusting to new strains, highlighting the difficulty in trying to cure infections that change over time, new research shows. Immunologists have dubbed this reaction original sin. A Swiss study published in the latest issue of the
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities urged greater efforts to slow the spread of AIDS as the official tally of people infected with the virus that causes the disease topped 10,000, an official newspaper said Tuesday. The newspaper said the actual number of people infected with HIV may be as high as 300,000 -- 100,000 mo
The Associated Press; Tuesday, July 28, 1998; 6:09 p.m. EDT
Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With blacks now accounting for more than half of new HIV infections, Surgeon General David Satcher urged black leaders to mobilize against the epidemic. Recalling his childhood in the segregated South, Satcher compared the fight against AIDS to the struggle for civil rights. We need to educate as we
The Associated Press; Tuesday, July 28, 1998; 2:19 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patients who take the AIDS drug Norvir will soon have to use a liquid version of the medicine temporarily because a manufacturing problem means drugstores are about to run out of capsules, Abbott Laboratories said Tuesday. The liquid works identically to the capsules taken by tens of thou
The Associated Press; Wednesday July 22 5:32 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first of a long-anticipated type of genetic drug moved a step closer to the market Wednesday. Scientific advisers recommended that the government approve a new therapy to help save AIDS patients eyesight. Isis Pharmaceuticals Vitravene is the first antisense drug to be reviewed by the Food and Dru
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lulled by life-prolonging AIDS drugs, the nation has slacked off vital efforts to keep Americans - especially young people - from catching the deadly virus in the first place, say AIDS activists who are demanding major increases in HIV prevention work. Activists called Monday for millions more in spen
The Associated Press; Monday, July 20, 1998; 4:59 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In as little as 10 days after symptoms start, the AIDS virus has established a stronghold in immune cells of the body that could last for years, waiting to erupt into disease, a new study shows. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease say that a study of 10 patients sh
CHICAGO (AP) - It began on a summer day with two boys from a dayschool program playing at a public pool in suburban Wheaton. The two - one white, one black - shared a snorkel. Two years later, the black boy and his mother are suing the program, saying its organizers pressured them into having the child tested for HIV a
The Associated Press; Thursday July 16 5:34 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have mapped the entire genetic pattern of the syphilis bacterium, a breakthrough that may lead to a new vaccine and, eventually, eradication of a sexually transmitted disease that has been a worldwide scourge for 500 years. Scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Hou
The Associated Press; Thursday July 16 8:22 PM EDT
OTTAWA (AP) - A group representing Canadian AIDS victims and their families criticized the government Thursday for not giving faster approval to powerful new drugs which are already available in the United States . The Canadian AIDS Society also said the government should take a new approach to dealing with heroin and
LEWISBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Divorced, widowed and HIV-positive, Pamela Wiser was so angry with a former boyfriend for infecting her that she had to get revenge. Not on him - on any man she could sleep with. Wiser said she spent the past year having a series of one-night stands with up to 50 men she met at bars in largely r
The Associated Press; Wednesday, July 8, 1998; 10:59 a.m. EDT
Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Institutes of Health -- target of demonstrations, protest marches and picketing in recent years -- needs to listen more to ordinary people when deciding how to spend its $13 billion research budget, a government advisory panel said today. A report by the Institute of Medicine took the NI
GENEVA (AP) - The hope has been to bridge the gap between rich and poor nations when it comes to curbing HIV infection and treating AIDS. But the message by Friday s end of the 12th World AIDS Conference seemed just the opposite: The chasm between the haves and the have-nots is only widening. Around the world, nearly 3
The Associated Press; Friday, July 3, 1998; 5:09 a.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
GENEVA (AP) -- A genetically weakened virus that many hoped would be a safe and effective vaccine against AIDS instead appears to mutate into a strain that actually causes the disease. The strategy is intended to ward off HIV infection by setting up a low-grade infection with a harmless version of the virus. However, t
The Associated Press; Thursday, July 2, 1998; 7:52 p.m. EDT
Nicolas Marmie, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) -- A French court dealt a blow Thursday to efforts to convict three former Cabinet officials in the 1985 contamination of 1,300 people with AIDS-tainted blood, ruling in a separate case that prosecutors must show intent to kill to prove poisoning. Former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, former Social
The Associated Press; Thursday, July 2, 1998; 1:37 p.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
GENEVA (AP) -- A weakened virus that many consider the best hope for an AIDS vaccine suffered a serious setback Thursday when tests in adult monkeys showed it may actually cause the disease it was meant to prevent. The approach -- what scientists call a live, attenuated vaccine -- initially protects monkeys from gettin
The Associated Press; Thursday, July 2, 1998; 12:57 p.m. EDT
GENEVA (AP) -- Ending discrimination against HIV-positive people is the key to stemming the spread of the AIDS virus, speakers at the World AIDS Congress said Thursday. Many HIV-positive people face bias throughout the world, including denial of the right to marry, refusal of medication and other treatment and job disc
The Associated Press; Thursday, July 2, 1998; 2:10 a.m. EDT
Anita Snow, Associated Press Writer
HAVANA (AP) -- Inez Maria Trujillo talks softly and massages the feet of her AIDS-stricken granddaughter Norma Diaz while they sit in lawn chairs at a sanitarium on the outskirts of Havana. Diaz, 35, used to visit her family home on weekends, but is too sick now. Her grandmother says death is drawing near. Every day I
The Associated Press; Thursday, July 2, 1998; 1:53 a.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
GENEVA (AP) -- Drugs that stop HIV in its tracks may also allow the body s AIDS-wrecked defenses against disease to rebuild themselves, new research suggests. Treatment combinations that include medicines called protease inhibitors have dramatically changed AIDS therapy. The drugs have pulled some patients back from th
GENEVA (AP) -- Delegates at the World AIDS Congress today urged that the number of needle-exchange programs be increased worldwide to halt the rising spread of the AIDS virus through drug injection. But poverty and a collapse in drug prices, along with an increase in drug trafficking and harsh government attitudes in m
GENEVA - Health experts are taking the first tentative steps in a worldwide effort to prevent one of the most poignant tragedies of the AIDS epidemic: the birth each day of 1,600 babies infected with HIV. HIV-infected women have about one chance in three of passing the virus on to their babies during or after birth, an
The Associated Press; Tuesday, June 30, 1998; 2:07 p.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
GENEVA (AP) -- A cure for AIDS? Not yet. But scientists are seriously mapping strategies to achieve this ultimate goal, once so distant it was hardly mentioned aloud. Treatment with drug combinations can stop the inexorable progression of HIV infection to sickness and death. But this means a lifetime of expensive treat
GENEVA - The largest AIDS conference ever began Sunday with a mix of optimism and frustration: Cheer over potent new virus-killing drugs was tempered by despair that AIDS still spreads explosively in parts of the world that cannot afford these medical breakthroughs. About 13,200 scientists, doctors, advocates and journ
The Associated Press; Monday, June 29, 1998; 2:08 p.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
GENEVA (AP) -- Two new medicines are as effective as the breakthrough drugs that revolutionized AIDS care -- and they cut the daunting number of pills patients must take each day by two-thirds. The drugs, described Monday at the 12th World AIDS Conference, may become important alternatives to pro
The Associated Press; Monday, June 29, 1998; 5:03 p.m. EDT
Geir Moulson, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- The United States must be more straightforward about AIDS with its young people, Surgeon General David Satcher told the largest-ever AIDS conference Monday. In a country where sex is happening everywhere -- movies, TV, everywhere you can imagine -- when it comes to addressing it, frankly we have some way
The Associated Press; Monday, June 29, 1998; 7:03 a.m. EDT
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
GENEVA (AP) -- Giving the drug AZT to pregnant women who have the HIV virus could dramatically reduce the number of infected babies born around the world, doctors reported today. Still, large hurdles remain in the effort to prevent infants from getting AIDS, including finding safe alternatives to breast-feeding.
GENEVA (AP) - Hopeful signs that HIV-infected mothers can protect their babies greeted 12,000 of the world s top researchers and others in the war on AIDS as they gathered for a biennial global review. Studies released Saturday in Chicago pointed to the virtual elimination of the risk of AIDS transfer if the mother tak
The Associated Press; Saturday, June 27, 1998; 9:13 p.m. EDT
Martha Irvine, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- French researchers say using Caesarean sections during birth, coupled with the HIV-fighting drug AZT , could nearly eliminate transmission of the AIDS virus from mother to child. As recently as 1994, a baby born to an HIV-positive mother had about a 25 percent chance of contracting the virus.
The Associated Press; Saturday, June 27, 1998; 2:53 a.m. EDT
Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- Of the 30.6 million people infected with the AIDS virus worldwide, only slightly more than 4 percent can afford and obtain the new drug combinations that have proved effective in fighting it, a leader of the World AIDS Conference says. Conference chairman Dr. Bernard Hirschel said people living in Wester
The Associated Press; Friday, June 26, 1998; 5:04 p.m. EDT
Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- AIDS activists are renewing their push to get Medicaid to cover expensive drugs for people with HIV after the Supreme Court decision that HIV-infected people are disabled even if they don t show symptoms. It s one of several ramifications activists see from the precedent-setting case. It has broad pu
The Associated Press; Friday, June 26, 1998; 4:18 p.m. EDT
Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- Only 5 percent of people living with the AIDS virus -- those in Western Europe and North America -- are reaping the full benefits of the dramatic advances in treatment, a leader of the World AIDS Conference says. Of the 30.6 million people infected with the virus worldwide, only about 1.3 million can aff
The Associated Press; Thursday June 25 11:12 AM EDT
Laurie Asseo, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - HIV-infected people are protected by a federal ban on discrimination against the disabled even if they suffer no symptoms of AIDS, the Supreme Court ruled today. The 5-4 ruling ordered a lower court to reconsider whether a Maine dentist violated the Americans With Disabilities Act when he refused to f
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Volunteers began rolling up their sleeves and receiving injections Tuesday in the first-ever large-scale human test of an AIDS vaccine. The three-year trial of VaxGen Inc. s AIDSvax is intended to learn whether it can protect people from infection with the AIDS virus. The testing is the final step b
The Associated Press; Tuesday June 23, 4:54 pm EST
Eileen Glanton, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- In an effort to make AIDS drugs more accessible to HIV-infected people in developing nations, several major drug companies will cut their prices by up to 75 percent. Uganda and the Ivory Coast will receive the first shipments of discounted drugs this week, Dr. Joseph Saba, an infectious-disase speciali
GENEVA (AP) - The lack of AIDS awareness and access to new drug therapies is fueling alarming HIV infection rates in many developing countries - up to a quarter of the population in parts of Africa - U.N. experts said in a report Tuesday. The report provided country-by-country statistics to back up a study released in
CHICAGO (AP) - New tests are helping identify treatment-resistant strains of the AIDS virus, allowing doctors to customize the drug cocktails given to their patients. The AIDS virus rapidly mutates, or changes genetically, to resist the drugs thrown at it. As a result, some patients get no prolonged relief from their f
NEW YORK (AP) - A bill requiring New York doctors to report the names of people with AIDS or the AIDS virus was condemned Friday by activists as a return to the dark ages of the disease. The measure passed by the Legislature calls for the Health Department to then inform the patients lovers and drug needle partners. Su
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York doctors must report the names of people living with HIV and AIDS and notify their sexual partners under legislation approved early today. The state Assembly passed the sweeping notification measure 112-34 after two hours of heated debate that pitted civil liberties concerns against public h
The Associated Press; Friday, June 19, 1998; 2:24 a.m. EDT
Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The spread of AIDS could be reduced significantly by providing training in safe sex practices to inner city residents who are most at risk of contracting the disease, according to a study published today. The study, involving 3,705 men and women recruited from community clinics in five states, showed
The Associated Press; Wednesday June 17 2:01 PM EDT
Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - In an exciting advance that could speed the development of new drugs and a vaccine against AIDS, scientists have figured out the 3-D shape of the key the virus uses to unlock and enter cells. Scientists already knew a lot about the key, a complex protein called gp120 that sticks out from the AIDS virus
BALTIMORE (AP) - A man faces an attempted murder charge in connection with the rape of a woman for not wearing a condom when he knew he was HIV-positive. Ronald Jackson, 51, was arrested Sunday and charged with raping and assaulting the woman May 30 in a vacant rowhouse, police said. He was arrested when a tipster reco
The Associated Press; Sunday, June 14, 1998; 12:08 p.m. EDT
Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some AIDS patients are developing a bizarre syndrome of disfiguring fat deposits on parts of their bodies as their faces and limbs shrink to skin and bones -- possibly side effects of lifesaving drugs called protease inhibitors . Doctors reports to the government paint a stark picture: Three women lo
The Associated Press; Thursday, June 4, 1998; 5:31 p.m. EDT
Eun-Kyung Kim, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Friends of a local AIDS activist marched his body along Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday before coming to a stop outside the White House to accuse President Clinton of being a murdering liar. About 100 people participated in the half-mile procession for Steve Michael, founder of the Washington chapter
The Associated Press; Wednesday, June 3, 1998; 8:00 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has granted permission to VaxGen Inc. for the nation s first large-scale trial for an AIDS prevention vaccine, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Headed by virologist Donald Francis, who successfully battled the Ebola virus in the Su
The Associated Press; Monday, June 1, 1998; 4:24 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Doctors may now offer urine-only testing for the AIDS virus. Calypte Biomedical Corp. announced Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved its urine HIV Western blot test. Calypte already had created a test that screened for antibodies to the AIDS virus in urine. But people who tested
The Associated Press; Thursday, May 28, 1998; 12:57 a.m. EDT
Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A hospital worker accused of injecting HIV-tainted blood into his infant son to avoid paying child support will stand trial. Judge Jon Cunningham made the ruling Wednesday after a two-day hearing for Brian Stewart. Stewart will be arraigned June 5. Prosecutors say the trial will likely begin la
The Associated Press; Tuesday, May 26, 1998; 10:27 p.m. EDT
Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- The lawyer for the man accused of giving his son AIDS by injecting him with HIV-tainted blood tried to show at a hearing Tuesday that the boy could have gotten the disease any number of ways. Brian Stewart, 31, of Columbia, Ill., was arrested in April, accused of injecting his son with HIV in 1
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- If anything, the medical marijuana debate in California has heated up. Marijuana clubs throughout Northern California -- in Oakland, San Francisco, Ukiah, Fairfax -- and in West Hollywood defied U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer s order to close Thursday. Marijuana burned freely at the Cannabis
The Associated Press; Sunday, May 17, 1998; 3:12 p.m. EDT
Martha Irvine, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Dr. James Sullivan s mother grabbed the phone when she heard doctors were volunteering to be injected with a weakened strain of the AIDS virus in a search for a vaccine. You will not do this, she ordered in a message left on her son s answering machine. He didn t volunteer for that live virus test.
The Associated Press; Monday, May 11, 1998; 2:40 p.m. EDT
Hrvoje Hranjski, Associated Press Writer
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- Migration and rape linked to Rwanda s 1994 genocide have led to a six-fold increase in cases of the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Monday. More than 11 percent of adult Rwandans are infected with HIV, according to a study by the Health Ministry, compared to less than 2 percent in 198
The Associated Press; Monday, May 11, 1998; 5:48 p.m. EDT
Darlene Superville, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Congressional Black Caucus said Monday it will ask Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to declare a state of emergency in the black community over HIV and AIDS, which is the leading killer of blacks 25-44 years old. This is a national crisis ... and we cannot rest until it is consid
The Associated Press; Thursday, May 7, 1998; 12:27 p.m. EDT
MIAMI (AP) -- An award-winning insurance agent who is a member of an industry ethics committee has been charged with fraud for allegedly instructing HIV-positive clients to lie on applications. Phillip Scott Plotka, who serves on a professional advisory committee for the insurance industry, was arrested Wednesday and c
The Associated Press; Wednesday, May 6, 1998; 2:04 p.m. EDT
Jonathan D. Salant, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some officials at charitable AIDS organizations are doing well by doing good. At least nine groups pay their top officers more than $100,000. And that has upset both AIDS activists and at least one member of the House, who spoke out Wednesday. I was shocked to discover how many AIDS organizations pay
The Associated Press; Thursday, April 30, 1998; 9:56 a.m. EDT
Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Teen birth rates dropped in every state and across all races in the early 1990s, with births to black teen-agers at the lowest level ever recorded, the government said today. Black teen birth rates fell by 21 percent between 1991 and 1996, though they remain nearly double the rate of white teens. His
The Associated Press; Thursday, April 30, 1998; 2:15 a.m. EDT
Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking to take the initiative against illegal drugs, House Republicans pushed through legislation that would permanently ban federal funding for needle exchanges as they prepared a package of tough anti-drug measures. This is a very important turning point in the United States , House Speaker Ne
The Associated Press; Tuesday, April 28, 1998; 2:36 a.m. EDT
Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hate getting shots? A new study suggests people might be able to get vaccinated just by munching special fruits or vegetables. Volunteers who ate chunks of a genetically altered potato created defenses against a diarrhea germ, raising doctors hopes of one day being able to vaccinate people with food in
The Associated Press; Saturday, April 25, 1998; 5:03 p.m. EDT
Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department has begun an antitrust investigation of the American Red Cross centered on its exclusive contract to sell a possible new blood-scrubbing technology, The Associated Press has learned. Competitors fear that if the Red Cross controls the new technology for scrubbing the AIDS and c
The Associated Press; Saturday, April 25, 1998; 5:15 p.m. EDT
Jeffrey Bair, Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- No one would look at Ron Yeskey and call him disabled. He stands 5-foot-11, weighs a strapping 200 pounds and lifts weights among occasional shifts as a construction worker. But because he once sought to reduce a prison sentence by attending Pennsylvania s rigorous prison boot camp -- and was denied
The Associated Press; Saturday, April 25, 1998; 2:20 a.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New Surgeon General David Satcher said he s disappointed by the Clinton administration s decision not to use federal money for needle exchange programs. We said very clearly that they do not increase drug use, he said in an interview Friday. It would be great if we could do it without the political o
The Associated Press; Friday, April 24, 1998; 7:17 p.m. EDT
Andrew Blasko, Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Two day-care centers that refused to admit a child with HIV have settled with the government after agreeing the boy was protected by federal disability law. A third center still faces trial. The settlements mark the first time the 1990 federal Americans with Disabilities Act has been successfully
The Associated Press; Thursday, April 23, 1998; 5:28 p.m. EDT
Chelsea J. Carter, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- Despite a historic drop in AIDS cases and deaths in the United States in the last few years, the rate at which people are becoming infected with HIV has held relatively steady, the government said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that many people are not heeding warnings abo
The Associated Press; Wednesday, April 22, 1998; 5:30 a.m. EDT
MOSCOW (AP) -- Every minute worldwide, five people between the ages of 10 and 24 become infected with HIV, according to a report released here today. The UNAIDS report also warned that Eastern Europe is set to become one of the next epicenters of the world AIDS crisis, with HIV infection rates having increased at least
The Associated Press; Thursday, April 23, 1998; 6:21 a.m. EDT
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A medical technician was charged with injecting his son with HIV-infected blood so the boy would die and he wouldn t have to pay child support. Brian Stewart, 31, of Columbia, Ill., was arrested Tuesday and jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond. He was charged with first-degree assault, which carries
The Associated Press; Tuesday, April 21, 1998; 3:56 a.m. EDT
Hal Spencer, Associated Press Writer
LACEY, Wash. (AP) -- Tom Deem opened the cardboard box full of used syringes, looked inside and dumped them into a red plastic tub. Then he reached into the back seat of a minivan for another box, this one full of 200 new needles. Here you go, the Thurston County health worker said as he handed the box to a young woman
The Associated Press; Monday, April 20, 1998; 1:57 p.m. EDT
Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Programs that let drug addicts exchange used needles for clean ones fight AIDS and do not encourage illegal drug use, the Clinton administration declared today -- but it will not allow federal tax dollars to fund the programs. The administration hopes that a strong endorsement will encourage communit
The Associated Press; Monday, April 20, 1998; 7:31 a.m. EDT
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- AIDS, once confined in Vietnam to high-risk groups like drug addicts and prostitutes, has begun to spread to the general public, a government official said Monday. Chung A, vice chairman of the National AIDS committee, said 0.12 percent of all pregnant women were infected with the AIDS-causing vi
The Associated Press; Saturday, April 18, 1998; 5:35 a.m. EDT
BOSTON (AP) -- Two researchers whose battle against a common foe turned them into bitter rivals will share a stage later this month when they are honored for their work in AIDS research. Dr. Robert Gallo of the University of Maryland and Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Queens College in New Yor
The Associated Press; Thursday, April 2, 1998; 2:00 a.m. EST
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Richard Gere teamed up with two Indian film stars to launch an AIDS awareness program in a country where the disease has taken hold with a vengeance. Gere, known for his pro-Tibet campaigns, joined former Indian superstar and current member of parliament Vinod Khanna and actress Shabana Azmi at
The Associated Press; Wednesday, April 1, 1998; 5:00 p.m. EST
BOSTON (AP) -- A new study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that a sexually transmitted form of the herpes virus causes a kind of skin cancer often seen among AIDS patients. The cancer, called Kaposi s sarcoma, occurs often among gay men with AIDS. But is rare in those who get AIDS through drugs or heterosex
The Associated Press; Tuesday, March 31, 1998; 5:06 a.m. EST
Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Something in a pregnant woman s urine can wipe out tumors of Kaposi s sarcoma, an AIDS-related cancer, and suppress HIV itself. But what is it? After a false start, scientists say they re on the trail to finding out. It all began with a chance observation a few years ago in a study of Kaposi s, a poten
The Associated Press; Monday, March 30, 1998; 5:16 p.m. EST
Laurie Asseo, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a major test of disability rights, Supreme Court justices sparred Monday over whether HIV-infected people should be considered disabled because of dangers involved in sex and childbearing. The lawyer for Maine dentist Randon Bragdon argued that Bragdon did not illegally discriminate against an HIV
The Associated Press; Monday, March 30, 1998; 5:00 p.m. EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fourteen hemophiliacs who repeatedly got HIV-contaminated infusions resisted infection because they had high levels of certain immune system proteins, a study suggests. The proteins are called chemokines. Prior studies have shown they can block HIV infection in the test tube, and scientists have been h
The Associated Press; Friday, March 27, 1998; 9:49 a.m. EST
Chelsea J. Carter, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- Tony Braswell s staff spends weeks, sometimes months, waiting for people who took anonymous HIV tests to return for their test results. Many never show. It s an anonymous testing site. It s not like you can call these people up and say `Hey, your test came back positive. We need to talk to you, said Bra
The Associated Press; Wednesday, March 25, 1998; 5:09 p.m. EST
David Sharp, Associated Press Writer
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Dr. Randon Bragdon had just finished a routine dental procedure last week when he startled his next patient. He said, `There s blood all over you, the dentist recalled. My mask and glasses were splattered with blood, and I didn t realize it. That s why Bragdon says dentists are at risk of contract
The Associated Press; Tuesday, March 24, 1998; 1:16 a.m. EST
Tara Meyer, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- Chlamydia: 4 million new cases each year. Gonorrhea: 800,000 new cases a year. Genital herpes: 200,000 to 500,000 new cases. In the wealthiest country in the world, an epidemic of sexual infections has silently surged. But the subject largely remains taboo, even in the doctor s office. So the Centers fo
The Associated Press; Monday, March 23, 1998; 5:11 p.m. EST
Erica Bulman, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- The spread of AIDS is expected to trigger more than 3 million new tuberculosis cases worldwide over the next four years, the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday. UNAIDS said tuberculosis is on the increase because it spreads rapidly to HIV-infected people. A person with HIV is 30 times more likely than a non-in
The Associated Press; Friday, March 20, 1998; 9:24 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A quick treatment that could cut in half the number of HIV-infected infants born in developing countries may be more difficult and expensive than initially suggested, say U.S. health officials. First, doctors must diagnose the 2 million HIV-infected women who will get pregnant each year in developing
The Associated Press; Thursday, March 19, 1998; 3:53 p.m. EST
PARIS (AP) -- The French government is getting into the sex film business. It has commissioned five short erotic films to encourage the use of condoms among X-rated movies fans and prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The films, directed by such up-and-coming French directors as Cedric Klapisch ( When
The Associated Press; Wednesday, March 18, 1998; 2:03 a.m. EST
Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drug and alcohol abuse are medical problems that respond to medical treatment just as well as diabetes and other chronic diseases do -- and treatment is cheaper and more effective than jail, says new research. Yet the nation spends only 20 percent of its $17 billion drug-control budget to treat addic
The Associated Press; Tuesday, March 17, 1998; 4:43 p.m. EST
Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton s AIDS advisers unanimously expressed no confidence in the administration s commitment to reducing the spread of AIDS, accusing officials of playing politics with people s lives. The administration s current policy on needle-exchange programs threatens the public health, and directl
The Associated Press; Monday, March 16, 1998; 4:55 p.m. EST
Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton s AIDS advisers demanded Monday that the administration immediately allow local communities to fight the deadly virus by spending federal money on clean needles for drug addicts. Saying 33 people every day catch the AIDS virus directly from a dirty needle, the Presidential Advisory
The Associated Press; Sunday, March 15, 1998; 3:03 p.m. EST
Donna Abu-Nasr, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The promotional video shows New Yorker Norman Barabash checking out scantily dressed women gyrating in dimly lit bars in the Philippines . At the end, it zooms in on naked female wet T-shirt contestants being pinched and groped by a crowd of American judges. The Internet ad for G&F Tours scr
The Associated Press; Thursday, March 12, 1998; 7:39 p.m. EST
Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The levels of HIV virus and a key immune system cell in the blood of infants and children predict their risk of later developing AIDS or dying, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association . Monitoring those levels will help pediatric AIDS specialists tailor th
The Associated Press; Wednesday, March 11, 1998; Page B07
George Washington University Hospital agreed yesterday with the Justice Department not to turn away patients who are infected with the AIDS virus. The agreement stems from a complaint filed with the department under the Americans with Disabilities Act by Ron Flowers, a 32-year-old Washington resident. Flowers, who is H
The Associated Press; Monday, March 9, 1998; 2:48 p.m. EST
Barry Hatton, Associated Press Writer
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Portugal s health minister ordered an investigation Monday into whether a clinic is testing a banned AIDS drug, using patients recruited through the Internet. The daily newspaper Diario de Noticias had reported that the drug, Virodene P058, was being administered illegally by a Portuguese docto
The Associated Press; Thursday, March 5, 1998; 4:00 p.m. EST
ATLANTA (AP) -- Despite living in mostly remote areas, American Indians and native Alaskans have roughly the same rate of new AIDS cases as whites, the government said Thursday. There were about 10 new AIDS cases per 100,000 Indians and native Alaskans in 1996, compared with 11 new cases per 100,000 whites, the Centers
The Associated Press; Thursday, March 5, 1998; 12:52 p.m. EST
LONDON (AP) -- Drugmaker Glaxo Wellcome PLC said today it will slash the price of the AIDS drug AZT for pregnant women in poor countries to help minimize the spread of the deadly disease to their infants. The Glaxo plan marks the first time a giant drug company has cut the price of an AIDS drug in o
The Associated Press; Wednesday, March 4, 1998; 7:01 p.m. EST
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
BOSTON (AP) -- With astonishing ease, three men with tuberculosis unknowingly spread an explosively contagious strain of the bacteria through rural Kentucky and Tennessee in 1994 to 1996, infecting three-quarters of the people they came in contact with. While clusters of TB are not unusual, this one was unique because
The Associated Press; Friday, February 20, 1998; 8:58 p.m. EST
John Flesher, Associated Press Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A drifter who never told 10 young women that he had the AIDS virus before having sex was sentenced Friday to 15 to 22 1/2 years in prison. James Wallace Jones, 33, apologized for keeping his HIV-positive status a secret from his partners, most of whom were in their teens. So far none of the
The Associated Press; Wednesday, February 18, 1998; 9:49 p.m. EST
Evan Perez, Associated Press Writer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A mother who scolded a volunteer worker for disciplining one of her children was stabbed to death Wednesday at a day care center for HIV-positive families. The worker was charged in the killing. Angela Brock, 29, was stabbed in the chest and died in the courtyard of the center, called Thin
The Associated Press; Wednesday, February 18, 1998; 5:49 p.m. EST
Tara Meyer, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- The rate of mother-to-child AIDS transmission was cut in half in Thailand by treating HIV-infected mothers with the drug AZT for less than a month, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. The treatment -- which costs only $80, compared with $800 for the 26-week treatment used in the Western w
The Associated Press; Sunday, February 15, 1998; 8:18 p.m. EST
Frances D'emilio, Associated Press Writer
ROME (AP) -- Doctors have issued a nationwide warning about a prostitute who allegedly had unprotected sex with thousands of people, while knowing she had the virus that causes AIDS. Italian media ran a photo of Giuseppina Barbieri Sunday, and physicians called for her clients to be tested for HIV. More than 1,000 call
The Associated Press; Sunday, February 15, 1998; 9:43 a.m. EST
ROME (AP) -- Italian media on Sunday ran a photo of a prostitute who, while allegedly knowing she was infected with the AIDS virus, is believed to have had unprotected sex with as many as 5,000 men. Doctors issued a nationwide call for her customers to be tested for HIV, the virus which causes deadly AIDS. The woman wa
The Associated Press; Saturday, February 14, 1998 14:10:00
Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Science may be ready to transplant animal organs into humans before society is ready to accept the procedure, according to a San Francisco man who was grafted with the bone marrow of a baboon. Jeffrey Getty, an AIDS patient, said his health improved markedly after he received an experimental transp
The Associated Press; Wednesday, February 11, 1998; 9:55 p.m. EST
Connie Farrow, Associated Press Writer
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An HIV-infected man who had more than 100 known sex partners before being slain last year passed on the AIDS-causing virus to 18 Missouri females, ranging in age from 15 to 29, according to a report released Wednesday. Public health officials said it is the largest known documented case of an HIV-infe
The Associated Press; Wednesday, February 11, 1998; 2:52 a.m. EST
Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A gratified, energized Dr. David Satcher will be sworn in as surgeon general Friday, filling a long-vacant post with a man supporters say will bring excitement and leadership to public health issues. This is an American dream come true, Satcher, 56, said after the Senate confirmed him on a bipartisan
The Associated Press; Sunday, February 8, 1998; 4:45 p.m. EST
Brenda C. Coleman, AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Four out of every 10 HIV-infected people surveyed at two New England hospitals failed to inform sex partners about their condition, and nearly two-thirds of those didn t always use a condom, researchers said. The survey subjects were mostly poor, often illegal drug users and commonly lacked high school
The Associated Press; Sunday, February 8, 1998; 8:30 a.m. EST
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Britain s Prince Charles on Sunday shook hands with HIV-infected girls at a Katmandu shelter for women rescued from Indian brothels . A dozen of the girls greeted the prince with flowers and exchanged pleasantries with him through an interpreter, an attempt to convey to Nepalese that the disease
The Associated Press; Wednesday, February 4, 1998; 2:32 p.m. EST
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
CHICAGO (AP) -- The AIDS cocktail is being shaken and stirred. More than 200 reports at an AIDS conference this week describe new combinations of AIDS drugs, all intended to improve on the spectacular success of the three-drug mixes credited with the steep drop in AIDS deaths over the past two years. The goal is to con
The Associated Press; Tuesday, February 3, 1998; 1:07 p.m. EST
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
CHICAGO (AP) -- Scientists have pinpointed what is believed to be the earliest known case of AIDS -- an African man who died in 1959 -- and say the discovery suggests the virus first infected people in the 1940s or early 50s. Where AIDS came from is still a mystery, although experts assume an ancestor of the virus cros
The Associated Press; Monday, February 2, 1998; 10:19 p.m. EST
Brenda C. Coleman, AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- The government should start a nationwide program to track the hundreds of babies born each year with the AIDS virus, the American Academy of Pediatrics said Monday. Doctors now are required only to report full-blown childhood AIDS to government health officials, not childhood HIV infections, said a stat
The Associated Press; Saturday, January 31, 1998; 7:06 p.m. EST
CHICAGO (AP) -- A physicians group that plans to test an AIDS vaccine with live strains of the virus in humans says test subjects will get free medicine if they contract the disease. Answering criticism that it is moving too fast with the tests, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care said it has lined
The Associated Press; Friday, January 30, 1998; 11:23 p.m. EST
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge ruled that a karate school owner has the right to ban a 12-year-old boy with the AIDS virus from classes with other children. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams ruled Thursday that Michael Montalvo s condition is covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act, but said Jame
The Associated Press; Thursday, January 29, 1998; 11:37 a.m. EST
Joel Stashenko, Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Two HIV-positive babies have been born to women believed to have contracted the AIDS virus from a drifter who had unprotected sex with dozens of women. It brings to 16 the number of HIV cases linked to the man. Health officials thought there was a chance that initial positive test results reflected
The Associated Press; Thursday, January 29, 1998; 2:42 p.m. EST
Michelle Boorstein, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- The women who test positive for the human papilloma virus at Brenda Slade s clinic always ask the same panicked questions, and every time Slade is forced to give them the same answer: We don t know. We don t know if you can ever get rid of it. We don t know if condoms can protect your future sex partne
The Associated Press; Tuesday, January 27, 1998 14:10:00
Brenda C. Coleman, AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- A gene mutation that slows the progression of AIDS in adults also helps newborns infected with HIV fend off serious illnesses associated with the disease, a study found. The mutation, which occurs on a gene called CCR5, is believed to be absent in blacks and Asians but present in 10 percent to 15 percen
The Associated Press; Friday, January 23, 1998; 4:00 p.m. EST
Mike Schneider, Associated Press Writer
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The next time Jerrime Day is about to go to bed with a woman, she will have to sign a form that reads something like this: I ---------, being fully informed of the fact that Jerrime Day is positive with HIV, do consent to have sex with him. A judge ordered Day to have all future sex partners sign
The Associated Press; Friday, January 23, 1998 18:50:00
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A man who authorities say had sex with at least 10 women in the last year pleaded guilty Friday to failing to tell one of them he is infected with the AIDS virus. James Wallace Jones also pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct, admitting he had engaged in sex with a 15-year-old, and bein
The Associated Press; Thursday, January 22, 1998 23:51:00
Kimberly Greuter, Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Dr. Susan Johnson started hearing the rumors in October, before patients began calling her obstetrics-gynecology practice asking to transfer to another doctor. They had heard Johnson had AIDS and didn t want her treating them. Her practice faltered as the rumor spread. It s devastating for any
The Associated Press; Wednesday, January 21, 1998; 2:05 p.m. EST
Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists might have found one way the AIDS virus evades the body s defenses: A single HIV gene can apparently keep infected cells from declaring that they harbor the virus. If doctors can find drugs that hamper the gene s cloaking effect, it might help control HIV infections, the test-tube study sugg
The Associated Press; Wednesday, January 21, 1998; 11:36 p.m. EST
Debra Hale Shelton, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. was sued Wedesday for allegedly placing illegal limits on HIV-related health-care coverage. The lawsuit contends such caps violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Illinois Insurance Code. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the AIDS Legal Council of Chic
The Associated Press; Monday, January 19, 1998; 5:58 p.m. EST
Eloy O. Aguilar, Associated Press Writer
EL RINCON, Cuba (AP) -- Jesus Mejia Lara said words cannot capture how he feels about the visitor who ll call on him this week. Instead, the AIDS patient proudly holds up the gift he ll present Pope John Paul II. An ebony crucifix Mejia wears around his neck was given to him by his mother. He intends to give the 58-yea
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers have found an altered gene that helps to explain why some people infected with the AIDS virus remain healthy and alive for years after their infection. In a study to be published in the journal Science, researchers at the National Cancer Institute said that alteration of a gene called SDF
The Associated Press; Wednesday, January 14, 1998; 6:51 a.m. EST
Verena Dobnik Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tracking people as soon as they become infected with HIV is crucial to saving thousands of lives, the director of the nation s leading AIDS service agency said in a policy reversal. The Gay Men s Health Crisis called on New York state to begin monitoring patients who test positive for HIV but who are n
The Associated Press; Wednesday, January 14, 1998; 5:41 a.m. EST
Heather Lalley, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Some Boston researchers are questioning the cost-effectiveness of treating every AIDS-related ailment -- or whether doctors should focus on preventing only the most serious problems, such as pneumonia. While the benefits of fending off AIDS-related pneumonia are worth the cost, prescribing drugs to prev
The Associated Press; Tuesday, January 13, 1998; 10:00 p.m. EST
Heather Lalley, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Researchers at a Boston hospital have questioned whether it is worth the expense to fight every ailment AIDS can cause in a patient, or if it might be better to treat only the most serious problems. Preventing HIV-related pneumonia is worth the cost, according to study by the co-director of the HIV diag
The Associated Press; Tuesday, January 13, 1998; 3:20 p.m. EST
Alan Thornhill, Associated Press Writer
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A federal court on Tuesday upheld the Australian armed forces right to expel HIV-positive soldiers, saying it was justified because of the inherent risk of bloodshed -- and infection -- during military duty. Three three-judge panel, sitting in Brisbane, ordered Australia s Equal Opportunitie
The Associated Press; Saturday, January 10, 1998 04:55:00
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Nothing Sacred episode involving a gay Catholic priest afflicted with AIDS is being withheld, a network decision that rankles the show s producers. The episode has not been scheduled to air, an ABC spokesman said Friday without elaborating. ABC s decision to bury it was based on cowardice, cruelty
The Associated Press; Saturday, January 10, 1998; 10:33 a.m. EST
Martha Irvine, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The number of AIDS deaths in the most populous state dropped 60 percent during the first half of last year, yet experts cautioned against reading too much into the decrease. It s astonishingly good news, said Derek Gordon, a spokesman for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The big question for us
The Associated Press; Thursday, January 08, 1998 17:35:00
ATLANTA (AP) -- Using names rather than codes is a more reliable way to count cases of HIV, the government said Thursday. Instead of listing patients by name, health officials in Maryland and Texas came up with a system in 1994 that uses a code to identify them. The code is a 12-digit number that uses the person s Soci
The Associated Press; Wednesday, January 07, 1998 15:50:00
David Goodman, Associated Press Writer
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) -- A man with AIDS is suing a drugstore chain and a pharmacy clerk, claiming his children found out about his illness after the clerk told her teen-age son. Stanley Grzadzinski and his wife planned to keep his illness secret from their son and daughter until he was on his deathbed so the child
WASHINGTON (AP) - People infected with the AIDS virus give off large amounts of HIV through genital herpes sores when they have flare-ups, a discovery that may explain why herpes appears to be a major factor in the sexual spread of AIDS. Almost since the start of the epidemic, doctors have noticed a close link between
The Associated Press; Friday, January 2, 1998; 7:05 p.m. EST
Deborah Seward, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) -- French researchers have discovered a second hereditary genetic mutation that appears to help provide resistance to the AIDS virus, a medical journal reported Friday. The findings were announced in the Jan. 3 edition of the respected British medical journal Lancet and made available to reporters Friday.
NASHVILLE -- Physicians will begin testing pregnant women in Tennessee for the AIDS virus, unless they refuse, under a new state law that takes effect Thursday. The Tennessee HIV Pregnancy Screening Act is one of 17 new state laws that kick in with the new year. We initiated that so that women who go to their doctors w
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