1988

"AIDS Film Benefits AIDS Victims": United Press International (12/30/88); Wilson, Deirdre; Boston-- Mother, Mother is a 30-minute film that will raise money for community AIDS help organizations. Micki Dickoff, a teacher at Boston s Emerson College and a producer of documentaries and public service announcements for 15 years, wrote and directed the story, which is about a man dying of AIDS and his mother, wh
"AIDS Inmate to Stand Trial": Associated Press (12/29/88); An inmate in Pennsylvania will stand trial on charges he tried to infect a prison guard with the AIDS virus. The prisoner, William Brown, allegedly threw feces at guard Allan Hepner, and threatened him with AIDS infection. Brown faces attempted homicide charges, among others, in the case, which assistant district attor
"AIDS Victim...Shows Need for Intermediate Care Factility": United Press International (12/29/88); The case of a Houston AIDS patient highlights the need for an intermediate AIDS care facility, says the chairman of the board of Houston s AIDS Foundation. According to John PAUl Barnich, the story of Steven, whose last name was not released, is proof that AIDS patients who can no longer manage on their own but do not
"Governor Signs Sweeping Reforms in State's Approach to AIDS": United Press International (12/29/88); The governor of Michigan recently signed into law a comprehensive package of bills aimed at upgrading the methods used by local and state health officials to monitor, counsel, and treat AIDS patients. Gov. James Blanchard said the bills represent a great deal of hard work and negotiation, and are a responsible response
"Advance Work Against AIDS Among Hispanic in the Southwest": United Press International (12/29/88); Haines, Renee; The South Texas Outreach Project for AIDS Prevention, or STOP: AIDS, is one of several organizations trying to prevent the AIDS epidemic from hitting Hispanics in the Southwest as hard as Hispanics and blacks on the East Coast. Through surveys and studies, STOP:AIDS and the others are trying to determine how best to re
"AT+T Foundation Announces AIDS Education and Support Grants": PR Newswire (12/29/88); The AT+T Foundation will give $135,500 in grants to nonprofit organizations nationwide involved in AIDS education and support services for AIDS patients. According to AT+T Foundation executive director Edward Bligh, the grants represent support for groups who are doing their best to combat the spread of AIDS. Those gro
"Parent + Child: Talking with a Teen-ager About Sex": New York Times (12/29/88), P. C6; Kutner, Lawrence; With parents frightened about AIDS, parents who came of age in the 1960s and 70s are counseling their children to be more cAUtious about sex than they were as adolescents. However, parents also worry that their newfound conservatism will alienate them from their children. One mother, who says she feels like I m more of
"Study Finds Students Ignorant on AIDS": New York Times (12/29/88), P. B4; New Jersey s State Department of Education has issued a report saying its high school students are ignorant about AIDS despite the efforts of public school educators and administrators. In a survey based on interviews with students in 15 school districts earlier this year, the department found that 59 percent of the st
"Va. Judge Throws Out Suit by AIDS Clinic": Washington Post (12/29/88), P. B3; Baker, Peter; A landlord acted legally in canceling a lease with Washington, D.C. s Whitman-Walker Clinic, an Arlington, Va., judge ruled yesterday. In rejecting the clinic s suit against C.J. Coakley Co., Circuit Court Judge Thomas R. Monroe ruled the company could cancel the lease on the Falls Church office becAUse the clinic did
"Project Open Hand Receives Big Grant": Bay Area Reporter (12/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 52, P. 20; A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant of $447,554 will allow Project Open Hand in San Francsico to add staff, develop a manual on developing a similiar project, and put together a cookbook. The funding will also allow the organization to initiate the first research and development project to investigate the nutritiona
"State Prosecutes Man for Possible HIV Transmission": Bay Area Reporter (12/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 52, P. 20; Wockner, Rex; The trial in Charleston of a man whose former lover accused him of hiding his HIV-positive antibody status while having unprotected sex is the first case of a law passed by the South Carolina Legislature making it illegal to knowingly pass on the virus. The law allows for maximum penalties of a $5,000 fine and 10 years
"Feds Hold Confab for Health Worker": Bay Area Reporter (12/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 52, P. 13; AIDS: Frontline Healthcare, a three-day conference beginning Sunday in Washington, D.C. s Grand Hyatt Hotel, will start the process of instituting standards to protect America s health care workers from HIV and other deadly viruses. The idea for the conference came from a key recommendation of the Watkins Commission r
"Panel to Study Expediting Drug Development Process": Bay Area Reporter (12/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 52, P. 13; The goal of a new national committee established by the President s Cancer Panel is to undertake a systematic study of drug regulation as it affects available AIDS and cancer therapies and to suggest improvements in the system, according to Dr. Thomas Merigan of Stanford University s School of Medicine. Merigan, one of
"Complaint Filed Against Use of Typhoid Vaccine for AIDS": Bay Area Reporter (12/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 52, P. 1; Newquist, Jay; The California Board of Medical Quality Assurance has received a complaint from a person with AIDS who charged a San Francisco physician with unprofessional conduct. Craig Black says he made two visits in November 1988 to the offices of Dr. Lewis E. Mehl + Associates, physicians who administer typhoid vaccine as an AID
"Harlem Clinic Offers Cheap, Easy Way to Fight AIDS Spread": Reuters (12/28/88); Ross, Caren; New York--An experimental clinic in Harlem is providing methadone to 150 heroin addicts a day in attempt to prevent the further spread of AIDS. The participants are all among the 1000 addicts who are on waiting lists for a city treatment program, but unlike the others, these addicts can give up their needles for methad
"Teenagers Said Having More Sex Depite AIDS": Reuters (12/28/88); Teenagers are not listening to warnings about the danger of contracting AIDS through sex, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said in a Wednesday morning appearance on the television show, Good Morning America. The Surgeon General said that in 1987 infectious syphilis and penicillin-resistant gonorrhea spread faster t
"Jesuit Priest Who Told His Parishioners a Year Ago He Had Contracted" AIDS...: United Press International (12/28/88); Portland, Ore.--The Rev. Peter Davis, who is believed to be the first priest actively serving in a U.S. Catholic parish to announce publicly that he had AIDS, died yesterday at a hospice where he had lived since October. The Jesuit priest told his parishioners in Portland last year that he contracted the disease in a s
"New Ideas for New Drugs": Wall Street Journal (12/28/88), P. A6; Some of the people who have worked most closely with the drug approval system are joining the cAUse of reforming it, says the Wall Street Journal, which notes it has called for reform for some three years. On Jan. 4, the National Committee to Review Current Procedures for Approval of New Drugs for Cancer and AIDS, a Ge
"Cutbacks, AIDS Emphasis, Seen Slowing Cancer Fight": Washington Post (12/28/88), P. A1; Okie, Susan; At a time when scientific work on the biology of cancer cells seems about to yield major advances, budget cuts, hiring freezes, and the emphasis on AIDS may slow the fight against cancer. Cancer strikes about 1 million Americans each year and kills almost half a million. At the National Cancer Institute (NCI), many top
"Englebert Humberdinck Sues National Enquirer": United Press International (12/27/88); Rapattoni, Linda; Arnold Dorsey, better known as pop singer Engelbert Humperdink, is suing the National Enquirer for $50 million becAUse the tabloid ran a story claiming he is HIV-positive. The Dec. 27 issue of the Enquirer says that Kathy Jetter, a 32-year-woman who won a paternity suit against the singer in 1980, filed an affadavit la
"State Slow to Organize AIDS Care": United Press International (12/27/88); Providence, R.I.--The cost of caring for a person with AIDS, usually between $50,000 and $80,000, may be as high as $150,000 in Rhode Island becAUse of the state s slow response to the disease, says Rhode Island Project AIDS. The Project s Client Services Director Robert Hitt blames prejudice against gays and IV drug u
"Black Churches Slow to Join AIDS Fight": United Press International (12/27/88); Atlanta--Blacks are dying of AIDS in numbers disproportionate to their share of the population, but the black church has been slow to address the AIDS crisis. The Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference called on black ministers to head the fight against the disease a year ago, but few have t
"Irving Sigal, 35, Merck Scientist, Dies in Pan Am Disaster": PR Newswire (12/27/88); Rahway, N.J.--Recombinant DNA expert Dr. Irving Sigal, who spearheaded a major effort to discover new AIDS drugs, died on Pan Am Flight 103 when it crashed Dec. 31. Sigal, 35, was senior director of Molecular Biology at Merck Sharp + Dohme Research Laboratories. He was returning from a lecture at the Royal Biochemical
"A Tiger in the House: Gay Black Men Take on AIDS": Village Voice (12/27/88) Vol. 33, No. 52, P. 15; Howard, Michael E.; AIDS is now a tiger in our house, says a black New York City internist who often treats people with AIDS. Black gay men are an invisible group within a forgotten minority, says the Village Voice s Michael E. Howard. Few black doctors, politicians, and ministers provide support. In New York, gay or bisexual men make up
"Ending AIDS Apartheid": Village Voice (12/27/88) Vol. 33, No. 52, P. 14; Goldstein, Richard; The manner in which experimental drug trials for people with AIDS are conducted may be why they are attracting so few patients in New York City. Although the system requires that teaching hospitals team up with city hospitals on drug trials, few poor and minority patients ever make it into a study. Part of the problem
"Broder Will Focus on Prevention at Cancer Institute": Wall Street Journal (12/27/88), P. B2; Chase, Marilyn; The appointment of Dr. Samuel Broder, a 43-year-old cancer and AIDS researcher, to head the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a vote for uncompromising science, say his colleagues. Broder plans on maintaining his AIDS laboratory while he serves as NCI director. Investigator-instigated research, in which researchers in
"AIDS and Cremation": New York Times (12/27/88), P. C8; The bodies of New York City residents who die from AIDS are more than twice as likely to be cremated, says a group of researchers from the Columbia University School of Public Health. In a report in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine, the researchers say, It is impossible to determine from thes
"How Drugs Attack the Brain": Washington Post (Health) (12/27/88), P. 12; Thompson, Larry; Scientists have partially uncovered the effects of drugs on the body, such as the ability of cocaine and other drugs to stimulate the brain s pleasure center. They continue to search, however, for the key to how drugs compromise the body s immune system. Several studies show that natural killer cells [of the immune sys
"Getting Hooked, Getting Help": Washington Post (Health) (12/27/88), P. 10; One of the people who are addicted to drugs who have contracted AIDS is 31-year-old Cheryl McPhatter, of Washington, D.C. s Anacostia section. She was diagnosed with the disease 14 months ago, after using heroin and cocaine intravenously since 1983. Two of her former boyfriends, both IV drug addicts, have died of AIDS
"The Law: On the Virtues of Planning Ahead": New York Native (12/26/88) Vol. 9, No. 3, P. 15; Leonard, Arthur S.; The modern advances in medical science that allow longer life sometimes merely prolong agony, writes the New York Native s Arthur S. Leonard. That means the law must grapple with claims and counter-claims about a terminally ill person s right to refuse medical treatment. AIDS highlights this problem, as does the failur
"Gay Organizations: Albany": New York Native (12/26/88) Vol. 9, No. 3, P. 11; Whelan, Jim; A coalition of 70 AIDS service organizations in New York has requested additional funding for community-based organizations fighting AIDS. The New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC), which represents community, social welfare, gay, health, women s, and minority groups throughout the state, compiled a funding agenda to address
"News Briefs: Prop 96 Enforced": New York Native (12/26/88) Vol. 9, No. 3, P. 10; A California judge ordered a man convicted of biting a police officer to undergo HIV testing less than 24 hours after voters in that state approved Proposition 96, a ballot initiative to allow such testing. The man received a one year jail sentence and three years probation for the incident, in which he bit an officer
"Sick and No Place to Go": New York Native (12/26/88) Vol. 9, No. 3, P. 7; Whelan, Jim; Sick and No Place to Go is a 20-page report on New York City s homeless people with AIDS. City Council President Andrew Stein, who released the report on Dec. 12, charged the city with failing to provide adequate housing to date and being grossly unprepared to meet housing needs in the near future. The report, which f
"Condoms, Cont'd.": Time (12/26/88) Vol. 132, No. 26, P. 81; The Vatican hit the Sistine ceiling when U.S. Roman Catholic bishops voiced, in a report now undergoing revision, cAUtious approval of public information campaigns about using condoms to limit AIDS. Now one of Rome s favored conservative bishops, the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, has further vexed
"Vernacular Lowdown on AIDS": Insight (12/26/88-1/2/89) Vol. 4, No. 52, P. 26; Holzman, David; BecAUse the inner city blacks and Hispanics who are now most at risk of HIV infection do not receive messages from the public health establishment, the federal government is beginning to support indigenous outreach workers to dispense AIDS education and prevention information. Hundreds of grass-roots organizations nati
"Effectiveness of Condom Use in Preventing HIV Infection in Prositutes": Lancet (12/26/88) Vol. 2, No. 8622, P. 1249; Roumeliotou, Anastasia; A study of Greek prostitutes supports the suggestion by E.N. Ngugi in the Oct. 15 Lancet that health education based on individual counseling is effective and leads to the use of condoms, say Anastasia Roumeliotou and colleagues from the AIDS Reference Center at the Athens School of Hygiene. Greek prostitutes must repo
"HIV in Saliva": Lancet (12/26/88) Vol. 2, No. 8622, P. 1248; Levy, Jay A.; In a study of the possible transmission of HIV by saliva, three of 55 samples of whole saliva and one of 16 samples of parotid gland fluid tested positive for extremely low levels of the virus, report University of California at San Francisco researchers Jay Levy and Deborah Greenspan, writing in response to an article
"A Bountiful Harvest for the Academy": Scientist (12/26/88) Vol. 2, No. 24, P. 3; The recently adjourned 100th Congress asked the Institute of Medicine and other divisions of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct 20 studies, including a study on the ability of university-industry-government consortia to strengthen AIDS research. The new AIDS study follows the Academy s landmark 1986 study, Con
"Television: Teens Air Views on Sex, AIDS": San Francisco Chronicle (Dateline) (12/25/88), P. 50; Teens, Sex, and AIDS is a half-hour special that was aired Wednesday by about 100 television stations that are members of the AIDS Lifeline Project. TV stars Jim J. Bullock of Too Close for Comfort and Rebecca Street of The Young and the Restless hosted the show, which also featured sex-education AUthor Lynda Madaras
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Examiner (12/25/88), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; In an editorial in Annals of Internal Medicine, the developers of aerosol pentamidine said the drug should be used only to prevent pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). People with AIDS who develop the disease should use system-wide treatments, they said. A new 12-bed unit for HIV-infected persons opened at Mt. Zion Ho
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Examiner (12/25/88), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; In Japan , legislators have approved a law similar to California s Proposition 102. Beginning in 1989, doctors must report patients testing HIV-positive. The bill also approves an $800 fine for those who refuse to take a test. It also punishes doctors who tell anyone but the governor s office of test results, and bans
"Pope Asks for More Help for Armenia, Love for AIDS Victims": Reuters (12/25/88); Pullella, Philip; Vatican City--In a message during which he wished millions of people around the world a Happy Christmas in 45 languages, Pope John PAUl II called for greater sympathy for people with AIDS and more help for the victims of the Armenian earthquake. The Pope said AIDS victims face not only illness, but the mistrust of a fe
"Faster AIDS Tests Evaluated": United Press International (12/24/88); Gainesville, Fla.--Futuretech Industries, working with researchers at the University of Florida, hopes to make a deal soon with a major manufacturer to market a three-minute test to detect HIV in urine. David Fowler, president of the company, says the test can detect both antibodies and antigens, allowing for earlier d
"AIDS and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome": Lancet (12/24-31/88) Vol. 2, No. 4826/4827, P. 1488; Breitbart, William, et al.; William Breitbart of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell Medical College and his colleagues report on what they believe to be the first three reported cases in people with AIDS-Related Dementia of neuroleptic malignant syndrome caused by the dopamine-blocking effects of potent neuroleptic drugs. In all t
"Bronchial Bleeding with Nebulised Pentamidine": Lancet (12/24-31/88) Vol. 2, No. 8626/8627, P. 1488; Miller, R. F.; In response to other letters on the side effects of nebulized pentamidine to treat Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in people with AIDS, R.F. Miller and S.J.G. Semple of University College and Middlesex School of Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in London report on bronchial bleeding as an additional side effect. The resea
"Breastfeeding and the Transmission of HIV": Lancet (12/24-31/88) Vol. 2, No. 8626/8627, P. 1487; Colebunders, Robert, et al.; The child of one of three mother who became HIV-positive from blood transfusions following delivery also became positive after breastfeeding, reports a team of Zairean, Belgian, and U.S. researchers. The group, which conducted the research at the Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire, said the mother of the child who s
"Low Condom Breakage Rate in Commercial Sex": Lancet (12/24-31/88) Vol. 2, No. 8626/8627, P. 1487; Richters, Juliet; Male and female prostitutes taking part in a study in AUstralia showed very low rates of condom breakage, according to researchers from the University of Sydney and Enersol Consulting Engineers. Of 664 condoms used for anal sex and 605 for vaginal sex by the four female and 30 male prostitutes taking part in the survey
"Torch Song Premiere Nets $20,000": Washington Blade (12/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 52, P. 31; Hinckle, Doug; The Washington, D.C., premier of Harvey Fierstein s film, Torch Song Triology, raised $20,000 for the Whitman-Walker Clinic. Jim Graham, the executive director of the clinic, read a message from Fierstein apologizing for not being able to attend. The AUthor and actor, who won a Tony for the stage adaptation the film is
"Engraftment of Immune-Deficient Mice with Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells": Science (12/23/88) Vol. 242, No. 4885, P. 1706; Kamel-Reid, Suzanne; Suzanne Kamel-Reid and John E. Dick of the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto report on the repopulation of immune-deficient mice with cells from the human myeloid lineage. The resulting system provides an in vivo stem cell assay for human hematopoietic cells. During five weeks of in-vivo growth f
"Infection of the SCID-hu Mouse by HIV-1": Science (12/23/88) Vol. 242, No. 4885, P. 1684; Namikawa, R., et al.; Researchers from Stanford University report on the inoculation with HIV-1 of SCID-hu mice that had human fetal thymic or lymph node implants. The virus replicated in the human lymphoid organs in time- and dose-dependent fashion. In most infected cells, combination immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization showed o
"Development of Disease and Virus Recovery in Transgenic Mice Containing" HIV Proviral DNA: Science (12/23/88) Vol. 242, No. 4885, P. 1665; Leonard, John M., et al.; A team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health reports on its construction of transgenic mice containing intact copies of HIV proviral DNA. The first mice were not viremic for HIV and remained healthy over a nine-month observation period. One of the founder mice, however, gave birth to progeny that develo
"Progress Reported on Mouse Models for AIDS": Science (12/23/88) Vol. 242, No. 4885, P. 1638; Marx, Jean L.; Three groups of researchers have now reported on mouse models to facilitate the understanding of AIDS and the production of vaccines and drugs to prevent and treat the disease. While investigations into the ability of the mouse models to mimic human AIDS continue, the advances hold the possibility of filling the need f
"Maryland to Open Gay Division of AIDS Effort": Washington Blade (12/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 52, P. 14; Howard, Wendy; In Baltimore, a new outreach center to house the Gay and Bisexual Outreach Division of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene s Center for AIDS related Educational Services will open in January. The new center will conduct programs to reach the Hispanic and black communities, the hearing impaired, and gay
"Church Both Friend and Foe to Eastern European Gays": Washington Blade (12/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 52, P. 11; Anderson, Shelley; A Vienna, AUstria, gay organization, Homosexuelle Initiative (HOSI), has been the best source of news about the gay rights movement--including information having to do with AIDS--in Eastern bloc countries. In Poland , where most gays are closeted and the Roman Catholic church condemns homosexuality, HOSI reports that m
"Activist Planning Suit Against Police Department for Brutality": Washington Blade (12/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 52, P. 4; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; Washington, D.C., AIDS activist Gary Green says he will file a lawsuit against city police charging them with brutality and gross misconduct for their treatment of him after a protest in the District Building. Green, who has AIDS, said he suffered overexposure to cold and convulsions when police forced him to spend 15
"Researchers Report Discoveries About AIDS": United Press International (12/23/88); Discoveries about the tat gene in HIV may lead to major advances in AIDS research, according to MAUrice Green and PAUl Lowenstein of the St. Louis University Medical Center. The gene regulates the virus and is essential for HIV replication. In the lab, researchers say, a chemically synthesized version of the tat regula
"Cuomo's Holiday Season Cruelty": New York Times (12/23/88), P. A39; Rold, William J.; If history holds, nearly all the prisoners who have applied to New York Gov. Mario Cuomo for clemency will be disappointed, says William J. Rold, staff attorney for the Prisoners Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society in New York. Cuomo has never granted clemency to anyone with AIDS, although inmates suffering termina
"Groups Urge Cuomo to Free Prisoners Dying of AIDS": New York Times (12/23/88), P. B4; Lambert, Bruce; Prisoner-advocate groups are urging New York Gov. Mario Cuomo to use his powers of clemency to free prisoners who are dying of AIDS during this holiday season. Although his predecessor, Hugh Carey, freed about 25 prisoners each Christmas season, Cuomo has freed only 10 prisoners in the past four years. Cuomo has releas
"The Sexual Behavior of Adolescents and Risk of AIDS": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/23-30/88) Vol. 260, No. 24, P. 3586; Keller, Steven E.; Passive AIDS educational programs do not appear to substantially reduce sex risk behaviors in sexually active adolescents, according to Steven E. Keller and his colleagues at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School. The researchers report that they interviewed 73 teens attending
"Trials of Colony Stimulating Factors Grow, So Do Applications, Side" Effects: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/23-30/88) Vol. 260, No. 24, P. 3555; Merz, Beverly; A wealth of leukocytic riches may result from the use of colony stimulating factors (CSF) to amplify celluar immune response, but early clinical trials also show that toxic effects are beginning to appear at high-dose levels. One CSF, granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), has been tested on patient
"'Wings' Funds for Women with AIDS": Bay Area Reporter (12/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 51, P. 29; Newquist, Jay; An early December benefit concert called Wings of Shelter will help San Francisco s Shanti Project to open a residence for women with AIDS. Two other area groups will also benefit from the concert. Chris Williamson with Tret Fure and several other acts performed at the benefit, and Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson declared
"'Have a Mary Christmas'": Bay Area Reporter (12/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 51, P. 22; Richards, Mary; This year, as in 1987, the children of San Francisco have drawn pictures and written messages to send to people with AIDS on Christmas. After coming up with the idea as a way to show that one person can make a difference, Robert Meslinksy of San Francisco wrote a letter to children of all ages and mailed 115 copies to
"Chainsaw Wielder is Taken to Court": Bay Area Reporter (12/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 51, P. 14; Wockner, Rex; An employee of the Acme Tree Service in Rockville, Md., was scheduled for a December day in court as a result of an incident during the October civil disobedience at the Food and Drug Administration in which he allegedly threatened AIDS activists with a chain saw. Louis Kola reportedly became so angry when an AUtomobil
"Give a Gift": Bay Area Reporter (12/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 51, P. 6; The season of Christmas and New Year is a time for renewal and looking forward. It is also a time for giving gifts, says the Bay Area Reporter. First, you can write a check to any of a number of worthy services supplying food, clothing, emergency financial help, and other services to people with AIDS and ARC. Other gro
"Teen Wins Poster Contest": Washington Post (12/22/88), P. D.C. 9; Elder, Charles; The American Red Cross has awarded a prize in an AIDS awareness poster contest to Kevin Taylor, a 15-year-old ninth grader at Buchanon Secondary Learning Center, a special education school for the learning disabled in Washington, D.C. Taylor won a $50 U.S. savings bond and an AIDS educational video to play for his clas
"New Clinical Trial Programme for AIDS in the United States": Nature (12/22-29/88) Vol. 336, No. 6201, P. 702; Ezzell, Carol; Under the new community-based clinical trial program announced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) last month, community physicians and clinics will systematically monitor their AIDS patients who receive experimental therapies and report the results to NIAID. The agency hopes this progr
"The Kiwanis Club of Biscayne Bay to Deliver Christmas Gifts for Children" with AIDS: Business Wire (12/21/88); Miami--Thanks to the Kiwanis Club of Biscayne Bay, Santa s elves will visit the approximately 300 children with AIDS at Jackson Memorial Hospital s Special Immunology Section. Gary Wilson and Art Brooks, the club s president and project coordinator respectively, have led the elves in wrapping presents for the children,
"Inmate with AIDS Virus Charged with Attempted Homicide": United Press International (12/21/88); Bellefonte, Pa.--State police have charged an HIV-positive Philadelphia man with attempted homicide, aggravated assAUlt, simple assAUlt, assAUlt by a prisoner, and harassment for reportedly defecating in a cup and throwing its contents in the face of a guard at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview in Centre C
"Information and Education Programs for Blacks in Alabama, Louisiana," Mississipi, and Tennessee...: United Press International (12/21/88); Jackson, Miss.--The Centers for Disease Control, which is awarding grants to 33 community-based groups nationwide, yesterday awarded one to Jackson State University for a four-state program to educate African-Americans about AIDS. Bettye Ward Fletcher, director of the Interdisciplinary Alcohol-Drug Studies Center, said
"Nursing Home to Accept AIDS Patients": United Press International (12/21/88); St. Petersburg, Fla.--Employees at the TLC nursing home in St. Petersburg are training to care for AIDS patients in anticipation of a second-floor AIDS ward that will open when the nursing home completes renovations next month. Canadian Robert E. Martin and the Pennsylvania-based Health Care Services Group recently bou
"Japanese Firm Moving into U.S. Condom Market": United Press International (12/21/88); Stratford, Conn.--Japan s largest condom maker is looking to corner a part of the market in the U.S., where the AIDS epidemic has contributed to a yearly increase in sales of about 25 percent since 1985. Okamoto USA, Inc., which controls 60 percent of the condom market in Japan, plans a $2 million print advertisement i
"Cuomo Urged to Issue Order in AIDS Cases": New York Times (12/21/88), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; New York Gov. Mario Cuomo should overrule local opposition to housing for people with AIDS and drug treatment centers by issuing an emergency executive order, says the State Health Department, which has compiled a five-year strategy to fight the AIDS epidemic in New York. Cuomo aides and budget officials are reviewing
"Chronic Health-Policy Ills": Washington Post (12/21/88), P. A17; Rich, Spencer; The national health policy problems George Bush will inherit are tough, costly, and intractable, says the Washington Post s Spencer Rich. Treatment of AIDS is on the list of problems to be solved in a society that can barely afford the medical services it is getting and has many unfilled needs. Neither Bush nor Congres
"Pioneering Anchorman Max Robinson Dies": Washington Post (12/21/88), P. A1; Barnes, Bart; Television newsman Max Robinson died at the age of 49 in Washington, D.C. s Howard University Hospital yesterday. Robinson had AIDS. In 1978, Robinson became the first black newsman to anchor a network television news program when ABC-TV named him one of three coanchors on World News Tonight. He had become the first bl
"Blow the Whistle on AIDS": Advocate (12/20/88), P. 66; Artes Magnus, an international publisher of unique fine-art limited editions, has joined with museums across the U.S. to raise money for the American Foundation for AIDS Research ( AmFAR ). Gerald Benney, the royal silversmith to the English court, has designed elegant whistles for sale at participating museums or thro
"UN Says AIDS Striking Children": Associated Press (12/20/88); Helsinki, Finland--In some African cities, nearly one child in 10 is HIV-positive, according to a UNICEF deputy director, who said the disease is becoming a matter of urgent concern to the United Nation s Children s Fund. Nyi Nyi, the UNICEF official, said that some older men are turning to younger girls for sexual int
"Quebec Babies Tested for AIDS": Associated Press (12/20/88); Montreal--Doctors say they will test one in three babies born in Quebec under a new program to measure the seropositivity rate among women of child-bearing age. Dr. Catherine Hankins of the Montreal Community Health Department said the program will create a statistical picture of the infection rate to show the spread o
"Soviet Woman with AIDS is Jailed for Four Years": Reuters (12/20/88); Moscow--Soviet officials have given a four-year jail sentence to a woman who reportedly infected at least eight other men with HIV, as well as giving her husband syphilis. The Moscow newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya said doctors tested the woman, identified only as Olga L., for the HIV antibody after she injure
"Robinson AIDS Disclosure Helpful in Education Efforts": United Press International (12/20/88); Hooper, Celia; Chicago--The revelation that Max Robinson died of AIDS continues a positive process that started with Rock Hudson, say AIDS activists who praised the newsman for his post-mortem disclosure. Family friend Roger Wilkins disclosed that Robinson wanted his death made public to emphasize the importance, especially to blacks
"Watkins Turns Around AIDS Commission": Investor's Daily (12/20/88), P. 1; Stroud, Michael; Three corporations who took notice of retired Admiral James D. Watkins firmness, outspokenness, and compassion have asked him to sit on their boards. They were attracted to Watkins by the turnaround he engineered when he took over as chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic l
"A Charity's 1,000 Parties to Raise Money and Spirits": New York Times (12/20/88), P. B2; Dullea, Georgia; God s Love We Deliver is a non-profit organization that delivers gourmet meals to homebound people with AIDS. Buddy Noro, the group s special events coordinator, came up with the idea of a Gift of 1,000 Parties to raise $100,000 for the organization. Since November, groups ranging from a Latino family to members of the
"This Nursing Shortage is Different": The New York Times (12/20/88), P. A26; Higher pay is only part of the answer to the nursing problem that is hindering the efforts of hospitals to deal with AIDS, drug abuse, and penniless patients, says the New York Times. Although a higher percentage of trained nurses are working than ever before, the demand is rising sharply at a time when fewer young peo
"Judge Won't Bar Defendants with AIDS": Washington Post (12/20/88), P. A9; A Jefferson County, Ala., district judge who joined two colleagues in saying they would bar defendants with AIDS from their courtroom has announced that he will put his professional beliefs before his personal beliefs and reverse his position. Judge Jack Montgomery, who, along with O.L. Johnson and Mike McCormick, said
"AIDS is Reported as No. 9 CAUse of Death Among Children 1 to 4": New York Times (12/20/88), P. A18; Among children aged one to four, AIDS has become the ninth leading cAUse of death, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Deputy Director Dr. Antonia Novello reported yesterday. Among people aged 15-24, the disease ranks seventh. AIDS has been reported in 1291 infants and children under 13 and in 325
"Study for Congress Criticizes Slow AIDS Education Effort": New York Times (12/20/88); Delays in mass mailings and limited broadcasts of public service announcements have marred the Centers for Disease Control s AIDS education program, according to a General Accounting Office report issued yesterday. The report finds the education program s efforts to focus national attention on AIDS were impaired by the
"News in Brief: Mexico": Advocate (12/20/88), P. 28; Boxers, trainers, and promoters should be aware of the danger of HIV transmission in the ring, said the World Boxing Commission s medical commission at its 25th annual convention in Mexico City in November. To increase awareness of the need for cAUtion when blood is drawn during matches, the commission says it will dis
"Prescriptions for the Here and Now": Advocate (12/20/88), P. 62; Bean, Joseph W.; Novelist PAUl Reed s world is the world of gay men in the age of AIDS, a world of tragic circumstances and unfortunate situations that also has love, hope, and the possibility of transcendance, writes the Advocate s Joseph W. Bean. Reed wrote the first AIDS novel, Facing It, in 1982-83, followed by How to Convince Your
"The Helquist Report: Anal Sex: For and Against": Advocate (12/20/88), P. 32; Helquist, Michael; As in the U.S., AIDS organizations in Europe have had a difficult time reaching consensus on what advice to give gay men about anal sex. The Swiss AIDS Foundation advocates condom use, and even started its own condom production and distribution firm, Hot Rubber Co. Their campaign has brought about an increase in condom
"Mary Starvus: 'We Were Here'": Advocate (12/20/88), P. 58; After a friend died of AIDS in November 1986, San Francisco painter Mary Starvus went to work for Project Open Hand, a group that delivers meals to people with AIDS or ARC who cannot prepare their own food. The project delivers more than 200 meals a day, every day of the year. Many of the people the group serves live i
"Who Says This is Funny?": Advocate (12/20/88), P. 52; Gaydos, Steven; AIDS Activists, politicians, and entertainers have attacked Warner Brothers for releasing Have You Seen Me Lately, a comedy album by Sam Kinison. The album contains such anti-gay material as a piece accusing homosexuals of starting the AIDS epidemic by having sex with monkeys. BecAUse of the album, Surgeon General C. E
"If You Need a Break: Rest Stop is There": Bay Area Reporter (19) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 19; Newquist, Jay; Rest Stop Support Services is a five-day-week drop-in center where HIV-positive people and those with AIDS or ARC can sit down for a while and visit with friends, families, and other caregivers. The San Francisco center is an apartment with two living rooms and a kitchen stocked with decaffeinated coffee, donuts, and c
"Utah Shanti Model Closes Down": New York Native (12/19/88) Vol. 9, No. 2, P. 6; Whelan, Jim; Salt Lake City s AIDS Project Utah, a service agency modeled after San Francisco s Shanti Project, will close its doors in the next few weeks becAUse of a lack of funds. Ben Barr, formerly of the AIDS Project and now the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation s executive director, says the political atmosphere in Utah is such that
"Effects of Hardwick Felt: Spectrum of Law Discussed": New York Native (12/19/88) Vol. 9, No. 2, P. 6; Whelan, Jim; At the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund s Lambda Law 88 in early December, a panel moderated by Justice Richard C. Failla conducted a year-end review of legal issues affecting the gay community. David Wertheimer of the Gay + Lesbian Anti-Violence Project reported that anti-gay remarks and AIDS references are inc
"Emergency Rooms Overwhelmed as New York's Poor Get Sicker": New York Times (12/19/88), P. A1; French, Howard E.; In New York, as well as in other urban areas with many indigent people and illegal immigrants, AIDS is among the problems that are overwhelming hospital emergency rooms. Many patients with minor injuries wait hours, and experts say seriously ill patients waiting to get intensive care units stay in beds moved into the h
"Syphilis May be Rising in Inner Cities, Complicating AIDS Fight, Study" Shows: Wall Street Journal (12/19/88), P. B2; Schiffman, James R.; Among inner city drug users and prostitutes and their customers, a rise in syphilis is a bad sign in the war on AIDS. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) researchers believe that sharp rises in the disease among inner city groups in Connecticut and Philadelphia reflect a nationwide trend. Dr. Joel Greenspan, CDC surveill
"A Time for Living": San Francisco Examiner (12/18/88), P. 22; Fallon, D'Arcy; Sister Mary Martha Agellar, Brother Tolbert McCarroll, and Sister Julian DeRossi--Sister Marti, Brother Toby, and Sister Juli--are the caretakers at the Starcross Monastery in California s Sonoma Valley, lay Catholic monastery where children with AIDS find a home. The monastery s philosophy is, no matter how short, lif
"AIDSWEEK: In Court": San Francisco Examiner (12/18/88), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; A MilwAUkee jury awarded John Carroll, 63, $3.9 million after finding that a blood center was negligent for not screening donors. Carroll testified that he contracted AIDS during heart surgery.
"AIDSWEEK: What They're Saying": San Francisco Examiner (12/18/88), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; In a coment about the controversial AIDS episode of the television show Midnight Caller, Trisano Palermino, a person with AIDS and the former director of social services for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said, Among the more than 200 men and women with AIDS I have counseled, more often than not the issue of whom t
"AIDSWEEK: Eurowarning Against AIDS Discrimination": San Francisco Examiner (12/18/88), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; Health ministers of the 12 Common Market Nations issued an official statement last week calling HIV testing of employees unjustified and not an appropriate measure in the fight against AIDS. The memo, issued in the middle of a growing business controversy, urged employers to make clear to their workers that HIV-positiv
"ACT UP/NY Addresses Alternative/Holistic Treatments": Gay Community News (12/18/88) Vol. 16, No. 23, P. 2; Miller, Andrew; The Alternative and Holistic Treatments Subcommittee is a new offshoot that ACT UP/New York formed to investigate solutions to the AIDS crisis that go beyond drug treatments. Bob Lederer of the new subcomittee said, Growing evidence suggests that only by broadening treatment strategies to include holistic and alternati
"Surviving and Thriving II": Gay Community News (12/18/88) Vol. 16, No. 23, P. 2; McKnight, Jennie; The newly published Surviving and Thriving With AIDS Volume Two--Collected Wisdom is a companion piece to Surviving and Thriving With AIDS: Hints for the Newly Diagnosed, which the People With AIDS Coalition of New York published in summer 1987. The new book, which includes first-hand accounts of drug treatments and ho
"New York Building Housing PWA Groups Opens": Gay Community News (12/18/88) Vol. 16, No. 23, P. 3; Miller, Andrew; Five New York groups celebrated the official opening of their six-story building, the first building in the country to be completely operated by and for people with AIDS. Rep. Ted Weiss (D-N.Y.) and Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins were among the dignitaries at the cermony at 31 West 26th Street in Manhattan.
"Sylvester: Singer": Washington Post (12/18/88), P. B16; Sylvester, the 42-year-old Queen of Disco, whose falsetto voice and drag costumes made him famous during the late seventies disco craze, died of AIDS Dec. 16. After becoming well known among gays in San Francisco, Sylvester had a million-seller, Dance (Disco Heat), in 1978. His five gold records included You Make Me Fe
"The Lessons of Cruel Betrayal": Washington Post (12/18/88), P. F2; McCarthy, Colman; The story of a 28-year-old female legislative assistant to a nationally known member of Congress who developed AIDS after an affair with a man from her hometown in the midwest illustrates the risks of sexual trust, says Colman McCarthy of the Washington Post. The staff member had no idea the man was bisexual and at ris
"Bias Seen in AIDS Studies": New York Times (12/18/88), P. 46; In New York, the AIDS activist group ACT UP says trials for experimental drugs at three New York City medical centers do not do enough to include women, the poor, or minority group members in their studies. New York University, Albert Einstein, and Mount Sinai medical schools are the three. The group praised NYU for ta
"Recruiting Problems in New York Hinder U.S. Trials of AIDS Drugs": New York Times (12/18/88), P. 1; Kolata, Gina; In the New York City portion of a nationwide study of AZT , the small number of volunteers and widespread suspicion that the few who volunteer are cheating threaten to slow the progress of the entire study. The federal study, which seeks to determine if the early use of AZT can prevent or delay the onset of AIDS in HIV
"Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Pneumocystis Carinii" Pneumonia: Lancet (12/17/88) Vol. 2, No. 4825, P. 1414; Kesten, Steven; Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) applied with a nasal mask may be a useful method for AUgmenting oxygenation in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in AIDS patients, say Steven Kesten and Anthony S. Rebuck of Toronto Western Hospital. They report on the use of the procedure in nine patients with AIDS and PCP
Simultaneous Isolation of HIV-1 and HIV-2 from an AIDS Patient: Lancet (12/17/88) Vol. 2, No. 8625, P. 1389; Evans, Louise A., et al.; A team of researchers from the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, and Treichville Hospital in Abidjan, Ivory Coast , report on using the polymerase chain reaction test to isolate two distinct HIVs in a patient from the Ivory Coast. The researchers located strains of HIV-1 and HIV-2. Noting tha
"Unexpectedly High Levels of HIV-1 RNA and Protein Synthesis in a" Cytocidal Infection: Science (12/16/88) Vol. 242, No. 4885, P. 1554; Somasundaran, M.; In a study to determine whether the life cycle of HIV-1 influences the cytopathicity of the virus, researchers M. Somasundaran and H.L. Robinson of the University of Massachusetts Department of Pathology found that HIV-1-induced cell killing may in part be determined by a life cycle that allows the production of high l
"AIDS Mice Die in NIH Accident": Science (12/16/88) Vol. 242, No. 4885, P. 1502; Marx, Jean L.; Research using a line of mice born with HIV genes in their cells will be set back by four to six months following the death of all but three mice in a specially secured National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory, says researcher Malcom Martin. Martin and his colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infec
"Wright Honored by 'New Family'": Washington Blade (12/16/88) Vol. 19, No. 51, P. 19; Howard, Wendy; Many key AIDS activists gathered at a Capitol Hill fundraiser Dec. 6 to honor Patrisha Wright, executive director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. The group lobbies Congress to pass legislation protecting the rights of people with AIDS and other disabilities. Nan Hunter of the American Civil Liberti
"Small British Study Tests Benefits of Antibodies": Washington Blade (12/16/88) Vol. 19, No. 51, P. 16; Everett, Melanie; In Britain, 10 AIDS and ARC patients are receiving HIV antibodies from infected but asymptomatic people in a small study. Abraham Karpas of Cambridge University Clinical School reports in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that asymptomatic people have neutralizing antibodies not found
"Mayor Proposes AIDS Services Coordinator": United Press International (12/16/88); Luther, Robina; Los Angeles--With Los Angeles County already having reported nearly 6000 cases of AIDS and expecting as many as 30,000 by 1991, Mayor Tom Bradley says it is time to hire an AIDS coordinator. Bradley also wants to spend $1 million to construct hospices and build or renovate low-income housing for people with the disease
"Survey Finds Reluctance to Treat AIDS Victims": United Press International (12/16/88); Marshall, G.L.; Richmond, Va.--A Virginia Department of Health report released yesterday shows that nearly three-quarters of dentists, one-third of doctors, and 15 percent of therapists in the state are either not too willing or not willing at all to treat people with AIDS. According to State Health Commissioner C.M.G. Buttery, the pe
"Group Asks F.D.A. to Drop Approval of 2 New Condoms": New York Times (12/16/88), P. A26; Leary, Warren E.; The National Women s Health Network, a non-profit public-interest health group, yesterday asked the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to withdraw marketing approval for two novel types of condoms. The group says the two products, a microcondom that attaches to the tip of the penis with a special adhesive, and a fema
"Health Officials Plan New AIDS Study with Focus on High-Risk" Heterosexuals: Wall Street Journal (12/16/88), P. B2B; The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID announced that it will fund a five-year study of heterosexual men and women at risk of contracting AIDS. Dr. Stanley H. Weiss, a leading AIDS expert from the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersy, said,
"Why Fear Persists: Health Care Professionals and AIDS": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/16/88) Vol. 260, No. 23, P. 3481; Gerbert, Barbara; There are three reasons for health care professional s continuing fear of HIV transmission, writes a group of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. First, health care AUthorities minimize the risk of transmission to health care workers. Second, arguments for universal precAUtions seldom or never
"AIDS, AUtoposies, and Abandonment": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/16/88) Vol. 260, No. 23, P. 3466; Ratzan, Richard M.; Pathologists must not refuse to perform AUtoposies on AIDS patients, just as other physicians must not refuse to treat such persons, say Richard M. Ratzan and Henry Schneiderman of the University of Connecticut Health Center. Although AIDS has brought a risk to medicine that has not been present since the discovery of
"These Christmas Blues are of a Cheerier Kind": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 20; McMillan, Dennis; Decades ago, the March of Dimes urged every household in America to light a porch light from seven to nine each evening to symbolize the country s determination to fight polio. More recently, Americans tied yellow ribbons around trees to signal a refusal to rest until the Iranian hostages returned home. Now, David Will
"Maintaining Links for Family Visits": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 18; Newquist, Jay; The Family Link is a nonprofit agency in the San Francisco area providing affordable accomodations to families who come to town to visit relatives with life-threatening illnesses. The group has five rental apartments with a total of eight bedrooms. A former Franciscan brother, Ray Cope, manages the house, with Sister R
"Two New AIDS Videos Out on the Market": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 37; Francis, William; Two new videos deal with different aspects of the impact of AIDS on society. One, Never to be Forgotten, is a 54-minute documentary directed by Karen Peper and produced by Peper Productions. It chronicles part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt s 20-city national tour in 1987, including opening and closing ceremonies and the s
"Prop. 102 Docs Say Confidentiality Okay": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 13; O'Loughlin, Ray; The California Physicians for a Logical AIDS Response, led by Dr. Lawrence McNamee, is continuing its push to force the California Department of Health Services to record the names of everyone who tests positive for HIV. The group is suing the health department in an attempt to win mandatory reporting in the courts. Ma
"Active Legislative Year Planned for State, Feds": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 4; Newquist, Jay; Both federal and California state legislators are gearing up for an active year in AIDS legislation. Antidiscrimination legislation for HIV-infected people is at the top of the list of priorities announced recently by the California Democratic congressional delegation. In Sacramento, the Lobby for Individual Freedom an
"HUD Office Blocks PWA Housing Plan": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 4; Kolbe, Miranda; A Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) memorandum written earlier this fall says that people with AIDS (PWA) are either not handicapped enough or too handicapped to qualify for special federal housing. Robert S. Kenision, HUD associate general counsel, wrote the memo to Thomas T. Demery, Federal Housing Co
"Quilt Returns to Fill Moscone Hall": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 3; White, Allen; The return of the Names Project Quilt to San Francisco s Moscone Center for a five-day stay that ended Dec. 18 generated funds for 18 volunteer organizations in the Bay Area. The display, three times as large as the one in Moscone Center last year, contained 6000 of the Quilt s 9000 panels, including each one by and fo
"There is No Compromise": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 6; The gay community has no reason to compromise with the losers of the AIDS reporting ballot initiatives, says the Bay Area Reporter in response to a proposal that legislation could be devised that would satisfy part of the right wing and still preserve individual rights. It is not possible to have a system of some HIV r
"Rate of New Cases Leveling Off in S.F.": Bay Area Reporter (12/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 50, P. 1; Newquist, Jay; The real number of HIV-infected persons and the future implications of trends in known cases of AIDS seem to be a matter of educated guesswork. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statistics say there is a marked decrease in new AIDS cases in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, but rates for that group continue to
"Syphilis Cases on the Rise": Associated Press (12/15/88); The number of prostitutes and drug abusers being treated for syphilis has risen sharply, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC reported. CDC officials say they fear the sharp increases reported in Connecticut and Philadelphia reflect a nationwide trend. In Connecticut, syphilis patients who reported practicing prostitut
"Body Frozen at a Cryonics Laboratory...": United Press International (12/15/88); Appel, Ted; Los Angeles--A cryonic laboratory has frozen the body of Dick Clair, an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer who died of AIDS Monday, in hope that he can be revived when a cure for AIDS is discovered. His body became the third placed in cryonic suspension by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside, Calif. Th
"Doctor Accidentally Contracted AIDS Virus": United Press International (12/15/88); New Haven, Conn.--A doctor working at the Yale-New Haven Hospital has contracted HIV following an accidental needlestick several months ago, according to hospital officials. The doctor has shown no symptoms and continues to work at the hospital, according to Dr. John Fenn, Yale-New Haven Chief of Staff. Although accide
"Neuropsychological Outcome of Zidovudine (AZT) Treatment of Patients with" AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex: New England Journal of Medicine (12/15/88) Vol. 319, No. 24, P. 1573; Schmitt, Frederick A.; AZT , or zidovudine, may partially ameliorate HIV-associated cognitive abnormalities, report Frederick A. Schmitt and his colleagues, including members of the AZT Collaborative Working Group. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 159 AIDS patients and 122 ARC patients, patients receiving AZT showed improved
"Patients Who Test Positive for the AIDS Virus But Who Fail to Notify" Those They Might Have Infected: United Press International (12/15/88); Seattle--Health care providers in Washington state can now notify county health officers of HIV-positive patients who refuse to notify others they might have infected. The state Board of Health drew up the new regulation to meet a requirement in recently passed AIDS omnibus legislation. The law, however, does not force
"Government is Funding a Major Study...": United Press International (12/15/88); Bethesda, Md.--The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will fund a major study to develop more effective ways to reduce the spread of AIDS among non-IV drug using heterosexuals, NIAID director Anthony Fauci will announce today. Only 4 percent of total AIDS cases are heterosexually acquired, sa
"AZT Appears to Reduce Mental Effects From AIDS": Washington Post (12/15/88), P. A10; Mental deterioration in people with AIDS may be partially ameliorated by AZT , say Dr. Frederick Schmitt and colleagues from the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington. In today s New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers present the results of a 16-week study on 281 patients with AIDS or ARC who rec
"Judges to AIDS Trio: Stay Away": Associated Press (12/14/88); Birmingham, Ala.--AIDS activists say three Jefferson County judges took unnecessary and discriminatory actions against three defendants with AIDS who they asked to deliver their pleas by telephone. Judges Mike McCormick and O.L. Pete Johnson said their bailiffs are afraid of contracting HIV from the defendants. Judge J
"AIDS Experts Cite Progress on Debunking Mosquito Threat": Reuters (12/14/88); Rio de Janiero--Health experts are beginning to convince Brazilians and the populations of other tropical countries that AIDS cannot be spread through mosquito bites, according to international AIDS experts taking part in the second Pan-American AIDS Tele-Conference. Jonathan Mann, head of the World Health Organization
"AIDS Test Center Stays Closed": United Press International (12/14/88); Luther, Robina; Los Angeles--Mayor Tom Bradley called the United Way and the president of Lexington Insurance Co., but Los Angeles largest AIDS testing center remained closed yesterday becAUse it could not find malpractice insurance. The Boston insurance company cancelled malpractice coverage for the Gay and Lesbian Community Services
"Discrimination, Education Top AIDS Issues": United Press International (12/14/88); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--The major event of 1988 in the battle against AIDS may have been the start of a change in the American people s attitude about prejudice and discrimination against those with the disease. President-elect George Bush promises to do more than his predecessor to fight the disease. His associates say he likely
"D.C. Sets Recycling Deadline": Washington Post (12/14/88), P. A1; Knight, Athelia; In an hourlong session repeatedly interrupted by the shouts of members of the gay community, the Washington, D.C., Council gave final approval last night to a repeal of its law barring insurers from testing applicants for HIV antibodies. Police arrested five persons for disorderly conduct. The gay community urged the C
"Speedy, Simple AIDS Test Approved by FDA": Washington Post (12/14/88), P. A5; Specter, Michael; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) yesterday gave Cambridge Bioscience Corp. of Worscester, Mass., permission to market a rapid screening test to detect HIV antibodies. The test, known as latex agglutination, uses genetically engineered proteins and microscopic latex beads to detect antibodies. The test is simpl
"New Test for Research Use...": Business Wire (12/13/88); Framingham, Mass.--The GENE-TRAK assay, a new test produced by GENE-TRAK Systems, will provide researchers with a new way to detect and measure HIV type 1. The test, developed under a joint agreement between Integrated Genetics Inc. and Amoco Corp., measures HIV-1 specific RNA to allow researchers to estimate the amoun
"New Hybrid AIDS Test": Business Wire (12/13/88); Vancouver, British Columbia--A new format for AIDS screening tests will allow for the simultaneous use of both natural and artificially created antigens to detect HIV antibodies more reliably than currently available tests that rely on a single source of natural, synthetic, or genetically engineered antigen, Murex, the
"AIDS Drug AZT Seems Effective Against Mental Dysfunction": Reuters (12/13/88); New York--Mental dysfunction in AIDS patients may be ameliorated by AZT , according to a study that will appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Frederick Schmitt and his colleagues report that patients with AIDS and neurological symptoms of HIV infection often suffer a rapid progression of symptoms and a ve
"City's Largest AIDS Preventive Treatment Clinic Closed...": United Press International (12/13/88); Luther, Robina; Los Angeles--The Edmund E. Edelman Health Center at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, Los Angeles largest AIDS preventive treatment clinic, closed Tuesday becAUse Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston canceled the clinic s malpractice insurance coverage for physical exams, laboratory work, and drawing blood.
"Oh, How the Money Rolls In": Bay Area Reporter (12/13/88) Vol. 18, No. 49, P. 6; Whether they are gay men with AIDS or blacks with sickle cell anemia, the health care of Americans should be a top priority says the Bay Area Reporter, in an editorial that says one group should not be pitted against another in a bloody scramble for insufficient funds. The editorial is in response to the local Sickle C
"Debated Episode on AIDS": New York Times (12/13/88), P. C22; O'Connor, John; Nearly all television shows to deal with AIDS present it as if it is solely a disease of children infected by tainted blood, says the New York Times reviewer John O Connor. Networks are reluctant to portray gay AIDS victims with compassion or with dignity. That makes it less than surprising that gay groups and AIDS act
"'Pervasive' Shortage of Registered Nurses Reported": Washington Post (12/13/88), P. A3; Rich, Spencer; AIDS is one of several problems contributing to a critical shortage of nurses, a federal panel said yesterday. Carolyn K. Davis, nurse and head of the Commission on Nursing, said the shortage has started to erode the quality of care as well as access to services. The panel s report says hospitals, nursing homes, and ot
"Swedish Researchers Develp More Effective AIDS Drug": New York Times (12/13/88), P. C3; A new AIDS drug has proved very effective in laboratory and animal tests, according to Swedish researchers working with the Karolinska Institute. The compound--FLT--is related to AZT . Researcher Bo Oberg, who announced the study results, has formed a company with his colleagues to market the drug. National Cancer Ins
"Despite Promise in AIDS Cases, Drug Faces Testing Hurdles": New York Times (12/13/88), P. C3; Kolata, Gina; There will be new restrictions on the use of gancyclovir, a drug widely used to fight blindness in AIDS patients, until researchers complete controlled clinical trials on the drug, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) announced last week. Since 1984, Syntex Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., has distributed the drug, whic
"Urban League to LAUnch AIDS Education Campaign": United Press International (12/12/88); Baltimore s Urban League chapter will start an education program for the city s adolescent blacks, officials say. Teens who have raging hormones and feel they are invulnerable will be the focus of the program, said Project Director Antonio Carpenter. The project will also stress to doctors, dentists, and pharmacists th
"AIDS Terminology was Misused in Waste Case, Mo. Court Rules": Journal of Commerce (12/12/88), P. 17B; Plaintiffs attorneys wrongly used the term chemically induced AIDS to describe victims injuries in a $43 million toxic waste case, an appellate court in Missouri has ruled. The National Law Journal reported in its most recent issue that despite the questionable rhetoric, the judge upheld the plantiffs victory in a case
"Court Won't Force Listing of AIDS": Insight (12/12/88) Vol. 4, No. 50, P. 49; Hudson, Kathryn; A New York State appellate court recently ruled that Health Commissioner David Alexrod was acting properly by refusing to officially place AIDS and HIV on a list of communicable and sexually transmitted diseases. To put AIDS on the venereal lists would allow doctors to test for the disease without patient consent, whic
"Get Ready for the 5-Minute HIV Test": Gay Community News (12/11/88) Vol. 16, No. 22, P. 1; Bull, Chris; Cambridge BioScience Corp. s five-minute HIV test may make testing faster, cheaper, and more accurate. Some AIDS activists, however, fear that it will prompt calls for needed research funds to be shifted into widespread mandatory testing efforts. According to results of a study in Zaire , the test is 99.58 accurate,
"AIDSWEEK: In Court": San Francisco Examiner (12/11/88), P. A16; Hilton, Bruce; A former captain and 24-year veteran of the L.A. County Fire Department, Jon Galiher, has sued the department for $1.75 million in a wrongful termination suit. Galiher, who led a paramedic crew that treated a man with AIDS after a car accident, said the department failed to address the crew s fears about HIV infection,
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Examiner (12/11/88), P. A16; Hilton, Bruce; At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), nearly all the rare, gene-spliced AIDS mice died when maintenance workers shut off their air supply. Also at NIH, Dr. Daniel Hoth said that money may be one reson researchers are not paying as much attention to AIDS-related opportunistic infections as they should--HIV infects
"AIDSWEEK: Assembly to Try Again on AIDS Bias": San Francisco Examiner (12/11/88), P. A16; Hilton, Bruce; California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos (D-San Jose) last week introduced AB65, a bill to protect HIV-positive persons from housing and job-related discrimination. Gov. George Deukmejian vetoed a similar bill last year, calling it unnecessary. According to Vasconcellos, 300,000 Californians at risk have not been teste
"New York's Bold AIDS Project": San Francisco Examiner (12/11/88), P. A1; Raine, George; Health officials in San Francisco and elsewhere are watching closely New York City s pilot needle exchange program. The program has caused such a political furor that San Francisco epidemiologist Andrew Moss questioned whether a public health tool can be successful in such an environment. In one shooting gallery in New
"Fear of AIDS Changes Hospitals": Associated Press (12/11/88); Boston--Fear of AIDS has made every patient a potential vessel of contagion in many hospitals. Issues of ethics, privacy, and legality prevent most hospitals from testing incoming patients for HIV antibodies to set the minds of doctors and nurses at rest, so all activities involving blood, needles, and knives must be t
"HIV and Orogenital Transmission": Lancet (12/10/88) Vol. 2, No. 8624, P. 1363; Goldberg, D.J.; No orogenital sex without a condom, should be eveyone s message, says D.J. Goldberg and colleagues from Ruchill Hospital Clinical Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Counseling Clinic s Communicable Diseases Unit in Glasgow, Scotland. In response to a letter by Willy RozenbAUm and his colleagues, the researchers
"Training Initiatives on Drugs and HIV": Lancet (12/10/88) Vol. 2, No. 8624, P. 1380; The Health Education AUthority has asked the Drug Training Unit of London Buroughs Training Committee to carry out the HEA/LBTC Drugs, HIV, and AIDS Training Project. The end result will be an overview of current training initiatives to provide drug and HIV/AIDS education to professionals in specialist drug agencies, t
"AIDS in the U.K.": Lancet (12/10/88) Vol. 2, No. 8624, P. 1379; As of the end of November, 1035 people had died of AIDS in the United Kingdom . The total number of cases was 1926, according to Department of Health figures. A working group led by Sir David Cox predictions that England and Wales will have up to 30,000 cases and 17,000 deaths by 1992. The report says that, thanks mos
"Caribbean AIDS Fight Funded": Associated Press (12/10/88); Bridgetown, Barbados--The fight against AIDS in the Caribbean will benefit from the $12.4 million international donor countries and organizations have pledged to 13 countries in the region. Supplemented by $7.4 million from the Caricom nations, the funds will support a three-year program of education in AIDS prevention
"$16 Million to Go to 54 AIDS Projects": Associated Press (12/10/88); New York--The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will announce $16.7 million in grants to 54 AIDS projects in 25 states today. The grants, which range from about $5,000 to more than $1.8 million, include $70,185 in funds to a Salvation Army project to place infected infants from areas with a high incidence of AIDS in foste
"Bill Will Enable More People to Use PWA Homes": Washington Blade (12/09/88) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 17; Howard, Wendy; The Community Residence Facility Licensure Amendment Act of 1988, which the Washington, D.C., City Council gave preliminary approval Nov. 29, will make it easier for community residence facilities to meet eligibility requirements. The bill will benefit Mother Teresa s Gift of Peace House and the Whitman-Walker Clinic s
"AIDS Discrimination Pervasive, Attorney Says": United Press International (12/09/88); WeinrAUb, Lori K.; Arlington, Va.--The pervasiveness of AIDS discrimination is demonstrated by a northern Virginia company s refusal to rent office space to a clinic that helps people with the disease, says Kennth Labowitz, an attorney who is representing the Whitman-Walker Clinic in a suit against C.J. Coakley, Inc. of Merrifield, Va. T
"Waxman Expects Gov't to Look at Helping Uninsured AIDS Patients": McGraw-Hill News (12/09/88); Washington--Congress likely will look into legislation designed to help uninsured people with AIDS, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee s subcommittee on health and the environment, said. Waxman also said language banning AIDS discrimination will most likely be included in
"The Legal Limits of AIDS Confidentiality": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/09/88) Vol. 260, No. 22, P. 3274; Dickens, Bernard M.; In response to letters about his earlier piece on the limits of AIDS confidentiality, Bernard Dickens says he did not present discrimination against AIDS as being either induced or justified by the law. Dickens says his aim was not to advocate antidiscrimination laws instead of shoring up confidentiality efforts, but t
"The Legal Limits of AIDS Confidentiality": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/09/88) Vol. 260, No. 22, P. 3273; Natale, William K.; In a second response to a letter on the legal limits of AIDS confidentiality, William K. Natale of United Hospitals, St. PAUl, notes that neither the notion of privacy nor the affliction of AIDS is fully understood by legal and medical professionals. The tension between legitimate confidentiality and the needs of socie
"The Legal Limits of AIDS Confidentiality": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/09/88) Vol. 260, No. 22, P. 3273; Stryker, Jeff; Responding to a letter by Bernard M. Dickens of the University of Toronto about the legal limits of AIDS confidentiality, Jeff Stryker of the University of Michigan School of Public Health says that thoughtful laws and regulations combined with the vigilance of health care providers and administrators are necessary to
"Breast Cancer Drug Megace May Help in Weight Gain": Washington Blade (12/09/88) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 15; Howard, Wendy; Megace, a drug used to treat breast cancer, may alleviate the debilitating weight loss associated with AIDS. Dr. Robert Murphy, director of the AIDS Clinic at Chicago s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, is a co-AUthor of a study reported in the Nov. 15 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine that says 14 people with AID
"NCRI Fundraiser Nets $38,000": Washington Blade (12/09/88) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 17; Hinckle, Doug; The National Community Research Institute (NCRI) had $18,000 in hand and another $20,000 in pledges following a holiday-season fundraiser in Washington, D.C. NCRI, founded in the D.C. area, is a year-old non-profit organization that is promoting the development of a network of community-based researchers and hastening
"Dental Firm Settles with Man Asked to Take Antibody Test": Washington Blade (12/09/88) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 4; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; Dental Benefit Providers, a private dental care firm associated with the George Washington University Health Plan, will make payments to Washington, D.C., AIDS organizations as part of a legal settlement with a D.C. resident who accused the firm of refusing him treatment unless he took an HIV antibody test. In a compla
"AIDS Group Pleased with 'Positive Tone' of Bush Visit": Washington Blade (12/09/88) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 1; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; AIDS activists were pleasantly surprised recently when President-elect George Bush made a brief and unscheduled appearance at a Nov. 30 meeting between National Organizations Responding to AIDS (NORA) members and three top officials of the Bush transition team. Thomas Sheridan, director of public policy for the AIDS Ac
"Evaluation of the WHO Clinical Case Definition for AIDS in Uganda": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/09/88) Vol. 260, No. 22, P. 3286; Widy-Wirski, Roslaw; The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of AIDS for use in areas where HIV infection is common but there is little access to laboratory testing and sophisticated diagnostic facilities is generalizable and useful, says Roslaw Widy-Wirski and a team of researchers from WHO and Ugan
"Something is Missing": Bay Area Reporter (12/08/88) Vol. 18, No. 49, P. 6; Middleton, Lee; Something is missing at Shanti Project, writes Lee Middleton, a black person who volunteered for the project to pay back some of the services his lover received during his illness with AIDS. During his training, Middleton was one of only three black volunteers and there were no people of color among the group facilitat
"Shanti Struggles to Regain Credibility; Image Tarnished, But Services are" Met: Bay Area Reporter (12/08/88) Vol. 18, No. 49, P. 16; Newquist, Jay; Following a year in which troubles with former executive director Jim Geary contributed to temporary freeze on city funding and a big drop-off in volunteers and donations, Shanti Project is trying to work its way back. The group s major challenge is building up in the community a renewed faith in Shanti and its develop
"Dentists Feel Bite of Anti-Bias Act, Thanks to Lawsuit": Bay Area Reporter (12/08/88) Vol. 18, No. 49, P. 18; McMillan, Dennis; A case in which a California dental group allegedly refused treatment to an HIV-positive man may set a precedent in protecting the rights of HIV-infected people. The suit, similar to ones filed in New York and Chicago, alleges that after Douglas Bearden checked a box on a standard health form stating that he had tested
"Incubation Periods for Paediatric AIDS Patients": Nature (12/08/88) Vol. 366, No. 6199, P. 575; AUger, I.; A study of pediatric AIDS cases reveals that the incubation period for HIV-infected infants is longer than previously thought, say researcher I. AUger and his colleagues. The data also suggest there are two risk groups, one that develops AIDS within the first seven months of life, and a second that appears to have a me
"Names Project Charged with Altering Panel": Bay Area Reporter (12/08/88) Vol. 18, No. 49, P. 1; McMillan, Dennis; A man who made a panel for the AIDS quilt in his lover s memory has charged the Names Project with altering the quilt against his wishes. Jim McClard made a panel for Thomas Bullman, whose family refused to admit their son was gay or his death was HIV-related. After receiving a photo of the panel from McClard, the fami
"Deal Denounced on HIV Reporting": Bay Area Reporter (12/08/88) Vol. 18, No. 49, P. 1; O'Louglin, Ray; Supporters of Proposition 102 and the other two AIDS reporting measures that California voters have defeated the past two years vow to return with new initiatives. But, rather than wait, California Physicians for a Logical AIDS Response, small group that broke from the California Medical Association to support Prop. 10
"Condoms Condemned": Nature (12/08/88) Vol. 336, No. 6199, P. 508; Coles, Peter; Only six of 41 brands of condom would provide adequate protection, says the influential French consumer magazine, 50 Million de Consommateurs. After the magazine published the results of a study by France s national consumer institute. Veronique Neiertz, French Secretary of State for consumer affairs, ordered five bran
"AIDS Predictions Until 1992": Nature (12/08/88) Vol. 336, No. 6199, P. 508; Newmark, Peter; England and Wales will have at least 10,000 new cases of AIDS by 1992, according to a panel of experts. The panel, headed by Oxford statistician Sir David Cox, said it believes the exponential growth of the recent past will not continued becAUse of limited heterosexual cases and behavior changes among gay men. However,
"World AIDS Day": Nature (12/08/88) Vol. 336, No. 6199, P. 508; Perlman, Lisa; The worldwide count of AIDS cases was 129,385 on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. The U.S. makes up about 60 percent of the total. BecAUse of the lack of accurate statistics from Africa, the World Health Organization believes the real number is twice the official total. In 39 African countries, information campaigns are now und
"Coordination is the Key for New AIDS Research Programme": Nature (12/08/88) Vol. 336, No. 6199, P. 508; Coles, Peter; France announced a new pluridisciplinary program to back AIDS research on the eve of World AIDS Day. Hubert Currien, French research and technology minister, says although this year s AIDS budget is double last year s allocation, if researchers say they need more money, I have the assurance of the minister for financ
"Patients Unaware of AIDS Tests": Associated Press (12/08/88); Little Rock, Ark.--An Arkansas State Health Department Clinic mistakenly tested 50 patients for HIV antibodies without their knowledge or consent, a department official said Wednesday. Donnie Smith, director of the departments s AIDS and sexually transmitted disease program, said the patients gave the blood for other t
"Chinese Newspaper: AIDS is a Vengance of God": United Press International (12/08/88); Del Vecchio, Mark S.; Beijing--AIDS is the vengance of God on sexually promiscuous Westerners, writes Zhang Huimin in a commentary in the English-language China Daily. The excessive freedom in the U.S. gave the disease an environment in which to thrive, according to Huimin, who goes on to say, Call me a straight-laced moralist if you will,
"AIDS Group Protests Series Episode": New York Times (12/08/88), P. C24; Farber, Stephen; On Tuesday, NBC plans to broadcast the disputed episode of Midnight Caller in which a bisexual man who knows he was AIDS continues to have sex. The show s creator and supervising producer calls the episode urgent and hard-hitting topical drama. Many AIDS groups in San Francisco, where the show is set, call it sensation
"New York Health Care Failure Charged": New York Times (12/08/88), P. B3; French, Howard W.; The Society of Urban Physians, a group of senior doctors from New York City s municipal hospitals, charged Mayor Ed Koch s government with failing to supply the financial support necessary for the city s health care system to deal with AIDS, drug abuse, and the growing numbers of poor people. Without action, says the g
"A Good Way to Fight Drugs and AIDS": New York Times (12/08//88), P. A34; State and national officials should pay broad attention to the apparent success of a new methadone drug treatment program in Harlem, say the editors of the New York Times, becAUse it offers a glimmer of hope in the war against drugs and AIDS. A reform of methadone programs cut earlier excesses and abuses, but also limi
"Lab Mishap Destroys AIDS Mice": Washington Post (12/08/88), P. A3; Specter, Michael; The rapid pace at which scientists are discovering how the AIDS virus works is likely to be slowed by the accidental death of the first group of genetically altered mice. The mice, whose cells each contained a copy of HIV s genes, died when maintenance workers mistakenly cut off all air to the sealed chambers they live
"Iran Reports at Least Four People Diagnosed with AIDS": Reuters (12/07/88); Nicosia--Four people have been diagnosed with AIDS in Iran , an Iranian health minister said Wednesday. The report was the third about the disease in the country, according the national news agency IRNA. The first admission of AIDS patients there came last Saturday. Health Ministry adviser Bijhan Sadrizadeh, who said t
"Nobel LAUreate Thinks AIDS Drug Can Cure Some Patients": Reuters (12/07/88); Foyen, Lars; Stockholm-- AZT used early in the course of HIV infection may be able to cure some patients, Nobel Prize winner George Hitchings told a news conference Wednesday. It is still too early to tell, but I have high hopes for the potential of curing some patients with early AZT (azidothymidine) treatment, said Hitching, who
"Change of Tactics Urged in Dealing with AIDS Among Minorities": United Press International (12/07/88); Kazal, Russ; Albany, N.Y.--Efforts to fight the spread of AIDS must move away from middle class values and perceptions of the world, says Alex Carballo, a clinical psychologist at Manhattan s Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Noting that both blacks and Hispanics have disproportionately high rates of infection, Carballo said me
"Illinois Public Health Director to Recommend a Repeal of the State Law" Requiring AIDS Tests for Marriage Licenses...: United Press International (12/07/88); Chicago--After releasing figures showing that only 23 of 242,808 people tested positive this year under an Illinois law requiring premarital testing for HIV antibody, Illinois Public Health Director Dr. Bernard Turnoc called for the repeal of the 1986 law. This is a very expensive way to identify people who have been i
"'Quiet End:' Compassionate AIDS Drama": Washington Post (12/07/88), P. B2; Brown, Joe; The Deux Ex Machina company had many obstacles to overcome in producing its first play, A Quiet End, at the Takoma Theater in Washington, D.C., writes the Washington Post s Joe Brown. The troubles included the choice of a play on AIDS, a profoundly unpopular subject, and a lead actor s departure becAUse he was uncomfor
"Judge Reverses $1.6 Million Award in AIDS Case": New York Times (12/07/88), P. B10; A federal judge on Monday reversed a $1.6 million October decision against Miles Inc. for cAUsing AIDS in a man with hemophilia. Judge Orinda Evans said that Randy L. Jones did not present sufficient evidence to prove negligence on the part of the drug manufacturer, which makes Koate, the blood-based clotting product t
"Stark AIDS Projections Made for New York": New York Times (12/07/88), P. B10; Lambert, Bruce; The cumulative number of AIDS cases in New York will increase from the current 20,000 to 90,500 by the end of 1994, according to New York State health officials extended AIDS projections. During the same period, the State Health Department predicts that the death toll will rise to 71,000. The current total is 10,000. D
"Tak Mak to Lead Top AIDS Team": Associated Press (12/06/88); Toronto--Tak Mak, a researcher at the Ontario Cancer Institute, will lead of a team of four North American scientists who are seeking a cure for AIDS. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has given Mak and researchers from Harvard University and the University of California $2.5 million to examine
"Leveling Off Seen in Spread of AIDS": United Press International (12/06/88); Radical changes in sexual behavior appear to be responsible for the slowing of the spread of AIDS among gay men in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, according to public health officials. The slowdown has not been apparent elsewhere in the country, however, and cases among intravenous drug users and black and Hi
"Krim Predicts AIDS Will Eventually Be Epidemic Among Middle-Class" Heterosexuals...: United Press International (12/06/88); AUstin, Tex.--AIDS will become epidemic among middle-class heterosexuals, AIDS researcher Mathilde Krim predicted Monday. The spread will be slower than among gays and intravenous drug users, she said. Krim, the director of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, based her prediction on the prevalence of bisexuality
"AIDS Victim Began His Sixth Day of a Hunger Strike": United Press International (12/06/88); Eugene, Ore.--Richard Carper, a 36-year-old former drug addict who has AIDS, entered his sixth day of a hunger strike to extract a promise from President-elect George Bush that he will do all he can to address the AIDS epidemic. I don t want to die, but I don t want to live under an administration that denies there s a
"Mainstream Medicine Joins Growing Debate About Drug Approval": New York Times (12/06/88), P. C3; Altman, Lawrence K.; Jere E. Goyan, past head of the Food and Drug Administration, has startled some in the medical establishment by commenting in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association that the agency should re-examine all of the assumptions on which the scientific requirements of the present [drug approval] system are based
"TV Mustn't Reinforce Myths About AIDS": New York Times (12/06/88), P. A34; Aledort, Louis M.; A CBS television show aired on Nov. 1, Toward the Light, raised two issues of great concern to those committed to the treatment of AIDS patients, says Louis M. Aledort of Mount Sinai Medical Center. One is the psychosocial and financial support that both patient and family need. CBS portrayed this well, says Aledort.
"Philadelphia: Rise in Syphilis": Washington Post (Health) (12/06/88), P. 5; The safe sex message is not reaching Philadelphia heterosexuals, say officials who are alarmed at a sharp increase in syphilis cases in the city. The outbreak is alarming becAUse syphilis-infected people are more likely to become HIV-infected, says David Fair, director of the city s AIDS Activities Coordinating Office.
"Stopping AIDS Before It Starts": Washington Post (Health) (12/06/88), P. 7; Berg, PAUl; Chemoprevention is a new strategy aimed at keeping HIV from getting a foothold in the body. The strategy, which has attracted scientists frustrated by the lack of progress in finding a vaccine, involves giving people virus-fighting drugs immediately after exposure, or even before. The approach is similar to giving chlo
"AmFAR Announces Grants": New York Native (12/05/88) Vol. 8, No. 52, P. 13; Washington, D.C. s National Urban Coalition and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Women in Atlanta will receive $75,000 each in American Foundation for AIDS Research grants. In Washington, the money will fund several projects, including the creation of a model school curriculum for AIDS education in i
"Joseph Walks Out of Meeting": New York Native (12/05/88) Vol. 8, No. 52, P. 11; Whelan, Jim; Following an angry exchange with the crowd, New York City Health Commissioner Stephen C. Joseph stormed out of the November monthly meeting of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR). Joseph agreed to attend the meeting to make himself more accessible to the gay community. During Joseph s remarks, ACT UP member
"AIDS/Syphilis Symposium": New York Native (12/05/88) Vol. 8, No. 52, P. 10; Ostrom, Neenyah; New York City s Committee to Resolve the AIDS-Syphilis Link and Health Education AIDS Liason (HEAL) are sponsoring a symposium, What is the AIDS-Syphilis Link? on Saturday in New York City. Barry Gingell of the Gay Men s Health Crisis and lay scientist Salvatore Catapano, who received a patent for a typhoid vaccine tre
"Catapano's Protocol Gains Foothold on West Coast": New York Native (12/05/88) Vol. 8, No. 52, P. 8; Whelan, Jim; Mike Smith, an advocate of using a typhoid vaccine to treat patients with AIDS, has been crossing the country promoting the protocol, which lay scientist Salvatore Catapano developed. Smith says that what others call AIDS is really syphilis. He cites his own medical history as proof that latent syphilis cAUses all the
"New Methods for Saving Blood": Time (12/05/88) Vol. 132, No. 23, P. 57; Langone, John; Although the blood supply is now more carefully screened than ever, fears of AIDS and other diseases that can be transmitted through transfusions have led to a search for ways to circumvent the donor system. AUtologous transfusions (storing your own blood), synthetic hemoglobin, and a drug to increase red blood cell pr
"New Methods for Saving Blood": Time (12/05/88) Vol. 132, No. 23, P. 57; Langone, John; Blood Supply# Hematology# Medical Equipment# Medical Care/Treatment#
"Health Insurer Unveils AIDS Treatment Plan": Journal of Commerce (12/05/88), P. 9A; Blue Cross + Blue Shield of Rochester, N.Y., started a new program Friday that will encourage early AIDS intervention in the hopes of keeping patients healthy longer and cutting treatment costs. Company officials noted that a San Francisco study showed that insurance providers can save about $5,000 per year per patient
"AIDS Teleconference to Focus on Social, Psychological Aspects": Wall Street Journal (12/05/88), P. B7A; More than 100,000 health specialists in 28 countries will take part in an AIDS teleconference to be held in Brazil later this month. The three-day teleconference, which will focus on the social, psychological and medical impact of the epidemic, will try to get rid of all of the myths that surround AIDS, said Richard L
"Waking Up to a Nightmare": Newsweek (12/05/88) Vol. 112, No. 23, P. 24; Padgett, Tim; In the Hispanic community, machismo, homophobia, and Roman Catholic sexual taboos mixed with poverty and poor education have helped make the Hispanics one of the last groups in the U.S. to fight against AIDS. Hispanics comprise 15 percent of AIDS cases, though only 8 percent of the population. Hispanic women are 11 tim
"The Helquist Report: A Closer Look at Behavior Change": Advocate (12/05/88), P. 37; Helquist, Michael; Annick Prieur and her colleagues--all lesbians and gay man studying criminology at the University of Oslo in Norway--found in a study of 64 gay men that social integration, acceptance of one s sexual identity, and leading a stable social life with friends and a lover were the most influential factors in the successful
"Midnight Madness: AIDS Activists Take Aim at a TV Show": Advocate (12/05/88), P. 10; Peterson, Robert F.; The San Francisco ACT UP chapter s early November protests at the set of After it Happened, an episode of the television show Midnight Caller, and the efforts of other AIDS groups led to a compromise settlement between the activists and the show s producers. Following negotiations that involved San Francisco s motion p
"New Light on a Chemical Network": Insight (12/05/88) Vol. Vol. 4, No. 49, P. 54; Holzman, David; A newly explored class of chemicals in the body called neuropeptides may provide the link between the brain and the immune system and explain the connection between mental attitude and physical health. The neuropeptide system is a vast new communications system in the body that complements the nervous and hormonal syst
"S.F. Nurse Recalls Little Friend": San Francisco Examiner (12/04/88), P. B1; Walsh, Diana; Maria Prophet was two in 1980 when she was ready to be released from the hospital after a bout with viral pneumonia. The child, both of whose parents were in jail, had damaged lungs, persistent pneumonia, and a mysterious disorder of the immune system. She needed extra care that her foster parents could not provide. J
"A Weekend of Symbols in AIDS Battle": San Francisco Examiner (12/04/88), P. 1; Raine, George; The AIDS conference sponsored by the American Society of Law + Medicine and Harvard AIDS Institute was a weekend of symbols. The conference passed a resolution that was itself both a symbol of frustration with President Reagan s response to AIDS and of hope that the federal response will change. Larry Gostin, president
"AIDS Treatment Notes: HIV Transmission Study for Lesbians": Gay Community News (12/04/88) Vol. 16, No. 21, P. 2; McKnight, Jennie; New York University researchers are looking for lesbians to take part in a study of HIV transmission. The study will consist of pre-test counseling with a lesbian counselor, a discussion of risk reduction for lesbians, a description of the HIV antibody test, and a discussion of the participant s feelings about being te
"AIDS Treatment Notes: Some Chinese Herbs May Inhibit HIV": Gay Community News (12/04/88) Vol. 16, No. 21, P. 2; Schmidt, Ray; Researchers studying 27 herbs to which Chinese folklore attributes anti-infective properties found that five of them inhibit HIV in laboratory cells by 97-100 percent. The researchers suggested that further evaluation of V. yedoensis and perhaps other herbs as anti-HIV drugs is indicated. BecAUse of the long time it ma
"Trying to Develop Drugs That Can Knock Out the AIDS Virus": United Press International (12/04/88); San Francisco--A research team of scientists from the University of California at San Francisoc, Stanford University, and the University of Utah is one of 10 groups sharing $6.4 million in National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grants. The funds come from the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups fo
"Study: AIDS Virus Found in 1.7 percent of TrAUma Patients": United Press International (12/04/88); Baltimore--Of nearly 1500 patients admitted to the Maryland Shock TrAUma Center in Baltimore during 1987-1988, 1.7 percent tested HIV positive, according to a University of Maryland study. The frequency of HIV infection is one-third of that found in a 1987 study of 2300 emergency room patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital
"AIDS Victim Writes for His Children": New York Times (12/04/88), P. 70; Riddle, Lyn; Bill Vincent, a 36-year-old man who has hemophilia and AIDS, decided to chronicle his struggles in a book so he can remain a part of his young children s lives. Vincent intends the book to be a simple guide for Chad , 11 years old, and Dawn, 7. It will give advice on the important times of their lives, such as high sch
"AIDS Verdict May Affect Other Blood Banks": New York Times (12/04/88), P. A6; Zonana, Victor F.; The lawyer for a family whose son contracted AIDS from transfusions during open-heart surgery in 1983 says a decision in favor of his clients likely will encourage blood banks around the country to settle some of the 200 lawsuits that are pending against them. On Thursday, a jury voted 9-3 that the Irwin Memorial Blood
"AIDS Figures World Wide": Lancet (12/03/88) Vol. 2, No. 8623, P. 1320; The World Health Organization s (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) now believes there are more than 300,000 cases of AIDS throughout the world. The official count, as of Nov. 1, was 124,114 in 142 countries. GPA is beginning a new monthly bulletin, in collaboratoration with the BureAU of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases
"Effects of Zidovudine in 365 Consecutive Patients with AIDS or" AIDS-Related Complex: Lancet (12/03/88) Vol. 2, No. 8623, P. 1297; Dournon, E.; For AIDS and ARC patients, zidovudine ( AZT ) seems to be effective for only a few months, according to researchers involved in the ClAUde Bernard Hospital AZT Study Group in Paris, France . To determine the effects of the drug over a significant period of time, the researchers followed 80 patients with ARC and 285 pat
"Differences in Relative Efficiency of Nebulisers for Pentamidine" Administration: Lancet (12/03/88) Vol. 2, No. 8623, P. 1283; O'Doherty, M.J.; In a study of nine patients with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), researchers from St. Thomas Hospital in London tested different nebulizer systems used to deliver nebulized pentamidine. The drug is currently advocated as the sole treatment for acute, mild, and moderate cases of PCP and as a suppressive therapy af
"The 'Rational Suicide' Dilemma": Science News (12/03/88) Vol. 134, No. 23, P. 366; An article in the November General Hospital Psychiatry discusses cases of rational suicide, including one in which physicians do not attempt to resuscitate a man with AIDS whom, after being admitted to a hospital in rapidly deteriorating physical condition, they find comatose in bed with an empty vial of an unprescribe
"Social Engineers Confront AIDS": Science (12/02/88) Vol. 242, No. 4883, P. 1237; Booth, William; The attempt to change human behavior may be the most important experiment conducted in AIDS research. The federal government will spend $480 million this year on AIDS education and HIV-infection prevention strategies. The practices these social engineers are trying to change involve the most powerful but poorly underst
"Seropositivity for HIV at Alternate Sites": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/02/88) Vol. 260, No. 21, P. 3128; GrabAU, John C.; In 1985 the first anonymous HIV counseling and testing site in New York state opened, reports John C. GrabAU and Dale L. Morse of the New York State Department of Health. The site, part of a Centers for Disease control alternate test site program to help protect the nation s blood supply, tested 17,724 people between t
"AIDS Victim Begins Fast for Federal Help": United Press International (12/02/88); Eugene, Ore.--Richard Carper, a 36-year-old person with AIDS, announced at a World AIDS Day rally last Thursday that he will stage a water-only fast until President-elect George Bush promises to accelerate federal efforts against the disease. Carper, who wrote in a letter to Bush that I am not a kook, said, I want to l
"Study of IV Drug Users and AIDS Finds Differing Infection Rate, Risk" Behaviors: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/02/88) Vol. 260, No. 21, P. 3105; Raymond, Chris Anne; Researchers investigating HIV transmission in intravenous (IV) drug users may be missing sizable pockets of infection, according to the initial results of the AIDS Outreach Intervention Project at the University of Illinois. Researcher Wayne Weibel and his coworkers make up one of four groups using the same protocol as
"Study of IV Drug Users and AIDS Finds Differing Infection Rate, Risk" Behaviors: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/02/88) Vol. 260, No. 21, P. 3105; Raymond, Chris Anne; Researchers investigating HIV transmission in intravenous (IV) drug users may be missing sizable pockets of infection, according to the initial results of the AIDS Outreach Intervention Project at the University of Illinois. Researcher Wayne Weibel and his coworkers make up one of four groups using the same protocol as
"D.C. Council Passes Bill to Help Incapicated Patients": Washington Blade (12/02/88) Vol. 19, No. 49, P. 15; Howard, Wendy; A new bill in Washington, D.C., may make it easier for gay partners to care for people with AIDS. On Nov. 14, the D.C. Council passed the Health Care Decisions Act, which allows unmarried District residents to appoint someone to make medical decisions for them if, as the result of illness or injury, they are declared i
"No Buying Speeches at International Conference": Washington Blade (12/02/88) Vol. 19, No. 49, P. 14; Howard, Wendy; Following the protests of the Canadian scientific community, the Canadian government has decided not to allow drug company sponsors to select the speakers at next June s Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal. According to a story in the Nov. 17, Chicago Sun-Times, promotional materials for the event said t
"Council Turns Its Back Twice": Washington Blade (12/02/88) Vol. 19, No. 49, P. 1; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; Washington, D.C., AIDS activists are upset with the D.C. Council for ignoring their pleas to add nondiscrimination amendments to two bills, one repealing the city s ban on HIV testing by insurance companies, and another AUthorizing low-interest revenue bonds for Georgetown University. Councilman John Ray (D-At Large) s
"New York City AIDS Housing Plan is a Mirage": New York Times (12/02/88), P. A30; Hayes, Robert M.; The New York Times praised New York City Mayor Edward Koch for a mirage, not a reality, in a Nov. 21 editorial commending him for his proposal to house people with AIDS, say Robert M. Hays and Virginia Shubert of the Coalition for the Homeless in a letter. The road from announcement to housing is a long one indeed, say
"AIDS is Beginning to Raise Basic Cost of Life Insurance": Wall Street Journal (12/02/88), P. C1; Slater, Karen; Citing AIDS as the reason, three major insurers--Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and Executive Life Insurance Co.--have raised mortality charges. The charges are fees insurers collect to pay for death benefits. Declining mortality rates had led to cuts in mortality charges f
"Bush is Urged to be a Leader in the Fight on AIDS": New York Times (12/02/88), P. B6; Johnson, Julie; A coalition calling itself the National Organizations Responding to AIDS met briefly with President-elect George Bush Wednesday and held a news conference Thursday to urge him to take an aggressive role in fighting the disease. They especially urged the Vice President to support increased spending for research and to b
"Side Effects Reported for AIDS Drug": Washington Post (12/02/88), P. A4; Specter, Michael; Aerosolized pentamidine, a drug that has been hailed as the most promising therapy for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, may have dangerous, previously unsuspected side effects, several AIDS researchers fear. Researchers Donald Armstrong and Ed Bernard of New York s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center report in the cu
"AIDS Education Grants Available": Bay Area Reporter (12/01/88) Vol. 18, No. 48, P. 13; About 15 community-based AIDS risk-reduction education programs targeting racial and ethnic minorities will be funded by U.S. Conference of Mayors grants. The group recently filed a Request for Proposals for the grants, which will last up to a year and will range from $20,000 to $42,000. Organizations with established
"Rockefeller Fund Contributes $25,000": Bay Area Reporter (12/01/88) Vol. 18, No. 48, P. 13; The Rockefeller Family Fund announced last week that it has granted $25,000 to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund to help support the group s AIDS Project. The AIDS Project accounts for nearly half of Lambda s budget, which this year reached $1 million. Several foundations have greatly increased the AIDS Proje
"Typhoid Vaccine Draws Criticism From Doctors": Bay Area Reporter (12/01/88) Vol. 18, No. 48, P. 12; Wockner, Rex; Two Chicago doctors say that despite published news reports, they are not offering a typhoid vaccine as an AIDS treatment. Howard Slotten, a co-director of the Howard Brown Memorial Clinic, said he would never offer the drug for AIDS treatment. A second doctor, who would not allow his name to be used, said he was looki
"No FDA Approval for Vaccine": Bay Area Reporter (12/01/88) Vol. 18, No. 48, P. 7; McDonald, Janet; An article by Jay Newquist in the Nov. 10 Bay Area Reporter contains some errors, writes Janet McDonald, Consumer Affairs Officer for San Francisco s Department of Health and Human Services. The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has not approved typhoid vaccine for the treatment of AIDS, although some physicians use
"Congress Raps Feds on Slow Drug Trials": Bay Area Reporter (12/01/88) Vol. 18, No. 48, P. 5; Newquist, Jay; A recent congressional report, AIDS Drugs: Where Are They?, says there is unnecessarily limited access to potentially therapeutic, experimental drugs for people with AIDS. In the report, the Committee on Governmental Operations endorsed a five-year action plan by the Public Health Foundation to develop drugs and expand
"Current Trends: HIV-Related Beliefs, Knowledge, and Behaviors Among High" School Students: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (12/01/88); Since 1987, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has assisted state and local departments of education in areas of high HIV-1 infection to assess the beliefs, knowledge, and and behaviors of high school students. Sample questionnaire answers taken from New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities and st
"'AIDS-Free' on Patient Charts?": Associated Press (12/01/88); Boston--To allay most of the concerns of surgeons and other health care workers who may be exposed to patients blood, hospital charts should list those who are AIDS-free rather than those who are infected, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop suggested Thursday to an AIDS conference sponsored by the American Society of Law
"World Marks First AIDS Day": Associated Press (12/01/88); In 140 nations, officials held special AIDS prevention activities yesterday to commemmorate the first World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization , which sponsored the event, held opening ceremonies in Geneva. China held a nationally televised lecture on AIDS and a concert in Beijing to benefit an AIDS foundation and
"A. Brad Truax: Physician, 42": New York Times (12/01/88), P. B21; Dr. A. Brad Truax died Tuesday in San Diego of complications associated with AIDS. The 42-year-old physician was active in advocating laws protecting people with the disease from discrimination. Truax became a member of the Mayor s Task Force on AIDS in San Diego County in 1983. He was a former Navy flight surgeon and
"FDA Approves Elan Plan to Start AIDS Drug Tests": Investor's Daily (12/01/88), P. 16; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) gave its approval to Elan Corp. PLC s plan to begin clinical tests among people with AIDS of EL10, a drug that has proved effective against HIV in laboratory tests, the company said. Tests will begin soon in San Francisco, Elan officials said. The Irish firm received exclusive r
"Full-Size Designers, Miniature Mansion": New York Times (12/01/88), P. C7; Seven New York interior designers have decorated a doll house donated by a child to help fight AIDS. The dollhouse will be for sale at the 33d annual art and antiques AUction of the Irvington Institute for Medical Research Wednesday at Sotheby s. The institute s pediatric AIDS project at the Albert Einstein College of
"Teen-Agers Ignore Dangers of AIDS, Report Contends": Wall Street Journal (12/01/88), P. B3; Davidson, Joe; The Children s Defense Fund has released Teens and AIDS: Opportunities for Prevention, a report that says young Americans know the facts about AIDS, but are not changing their sexual behavior to avoid the disease. Report AUthor Kay Johnson said, In fact, they overwhelmingly reject the idea of abstinence, are skeptical
"Insurers Like DC Vote to Amend AIDS Law": Journal of Commerce (12/01/88), P. 9A; The American Council of Life Insurance applAUded a new AIDS insurance testing law in Washington, D.C., saying the revamped law alleviates many of the problems of insurance availability that occurred after the law went into effect in 1986. Life insurers responded to the law, which barred HIV antibody testing in the Dist
"Insurers Await Final Vote on District AIDS Law": Washington Post (12/01/88), P. C4; Knight, Athelia; Major life insurance companies will wait for the D.C. Council to take final action on a new AIDS insurance law before deciding whether to resume writing policies in Washington, D.C., insurance representatives said yesterday. The council is scheduled to take final action Dec. 13 on the bill to repeal the city s controve
"Bowen Hits Proposal to Curb State Medicaid, AIDS Funds": Washington Post (12/01/88), P. A11; Rich, Spencer; Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen yesterday strongly challenged Office of Management and Budget proposals to slow the growth of funds to fight AIDS and to cut projected fiscal year 1990 Medicaid payments to states by more than $1.1 billion. Bowen protested a proposed increase in Public Health Service fu
"Use of Hospitals by Patients with AIDS in San Francisco": Letter; Chen, Robert T.; Short-term inpatient hospital care makes up a large part of the high cost of AIDS, according to Robert T. Chen and his colleAUges at San Francisco s Department of Public Health and Mental Hygiene and San Mateo s West Bay Hospital Conference, who suggest that AIDS-related costs are lower becAUse AIDS patients there spen
"APHA Endorses Some State Health Insurance Efforts": Nation's Health (12/88) Vol. 18, No. 12, P. 9; Several of the 27 new policy statements issued by the American Public Health Association s (APHA) Governing Council at its recent meeting addressed AIDS and HIV infection. One resolution called for adequate funding for drug prevention efforts and encouraged state and local governments to consider the implementation of
"Teenage Girls Know About AIDS, But Don't Act Accordingly": Nation's Health (12/88) Vol. 18, No. 12, P. 8; Fishein, Janet; Teenage girls know about the risk of HIV but do little to protect themselves, according to a study by Carol Weissman and her colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. A survey of 250 girls aged 12 to 18, 81 percent of whom were black inner-city residents, found that 90 percent knew unprotected
"AIDS Claims Hit P/C Insurers": Claims (12/88) Vol. 36, No. 12, P. 8; AIDS is now producing workers compensation and liability claims for property and casulaty insurers. The Social Issues for Our Industry - AIDS, Drugs, Alcohol panel session presented at the recently held annual meeting and seminars of The Society of CPCU (Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters) explorerd the range
"Washington Newsletter: Bans on Insurers Using Test for HIV are Losing Out": Nation's Health (12/88) Vol. 18, No. 12, P. 5; Sorian, Richard; California is now the only state limiting HIV testing by insurance companies. New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., have all had testing laws overturned recently. State supreme courts overturned HIV testing laws in New York and Massachusetts, and Congress ordered D.C. legislators to repeal their law. The Massa
"Washington Newsletter: Senate Panel Will Be Changed by Elections": Nation's Health (12/88) Vol. 18, No. 12, P. 5; Sorian, Richard; The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee will undergo some changes in the next Congress that may slow progress on AIDS and other public health legislation. Among Republicans, Dan Quayle (Ind.) will assume the vice-presidency, moderate Robert Stafford (Vt.) will retire, and the maverick liberal Lowell Weicker (Ct.
"Washington Newsletter: Congress Gears Up for '89: Health Insurance on" Agenda: Nation's Health (12/88) Vol. 18, No. 12, P. 4; Sorian, Richard; AIDS will join universal health insurance for all working Americans as major items on the 101st Congress agenda. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) plans to introduce a bill to cover two-thirds of the 37 million Americans who currently have no insurance. In the House, Democrats Henry Waxman and Pete Stark of California also
"Under CDC: New AIDS Clearinghouse is Offering Range of Services": Nation's Health (12/88) Vol. 18, No. 12, P. 1; The Centers for Disease Control s National AIDS Information Clearinghouse is now fully up and running. The operation maintains two databases, one on resources and one on materials, to assist managers of state and local AIDS programs, public health officials, and others responsible for developing AIDS information resour
"The Risk of AIDS in Young Gay and Bisexual Males": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research (12/88) Vol. 4, No. 1, P. 3 (Gibson, PAUl; We need to admit that gay and bisexual males exist and provide them with the basic care they need to minimize the risk of contracting AIDS, says PAUl Gibson, AIDS consultant and former director of a home for runaway youths. American society refuses to recognize homosexuality in the young and has not targeted this group
"The Black C.A.R.E. Project": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research (12/88) Vol. 4, No. 1, P. 2; The Black C.A.R.E. (Community AIDS Research and Education) project includes a national study as part of an effort to document how black gay and bisexual men have coped with the threat of HIV infection. To reach this diverse group of men, the study s designers, Vickie Mays and Susan D. Cochran, want to reach black men i
"Black Gay + Bisexual Men Coping with More than Just a Disease": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research (12/88) Vol. 4, No. 1, P. 1 (Mays, Vickie M.; Black gay and bisexual men with AIDS already may be facing the pervasive burdens of racial discrimination when they have to deal with the profound psychosocial disruptions the disease brings, say clinical psychology professors Vickie M. Mays and Susan D. Cochran, the Director and Co-Director of Black C.A.R.E. AIDS has
"Surveillance of Condom Distribution and Usage in Baltimore, Maryland": American Journal of Public Health (12/88) Vol. 78, No. 12, P. 1596; Kalter, Henry D.; A group of researchers in the Baltimore, Md., area report on designing a study to measure condom distribution and usage in Baltimore. The researchers are tracking distribution of the condoms through a multi-point tracing system of retail systems and thefts, as well as through state and local distribution programs. To d
"Impact of HIV Antibody Testing on Changes in Sexual Behavior Among" Homosexual Men in the Netherlands: American Journal of Public Health (12/88) Vol. 78, No. 12, P. 1575; Van Griensven, Godfried J. P.; The primary effect of HIV testing among a group of 746 homosexual men living in and around Amsterdam appeared to be a reduction in the number of partners, according to a group of researchers in the Netherlands . All of the patients received some counseling and were informed of their status. Participants completed self
"Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Risk of AIDS in the United States": American Journal of Public Health (12/88) Vol. 78, No. 12, P. 1539; Selik, Richard M.; Blacks and Hispanics show an overall risk of AIDS nearly three times as great as whites, according to Centers for Disease Control researchers Richard M. Selik, Kenneth G. Castro, and Marguerite Pappaioanou. Black and Hispanic women and children are especially at risk when compared to white women and children. The risk
"Patterns of Sexual Behavior and Condom Use in a Cohort of Homosexual Men": American Journal of Public Health (12/88) Vol. 78, No. 12, P. 1535; Schechter, Martin T.; The annual number of sex partners decreased among a cohort of homosexual men, according to a comparison of questionnaire responses from April 1984-March 1985 and from October 1986-September 1987. The group of 231 seronegative and 130 seropositive men, known as the Vancouver Lymphadenopathy-AIDS Study, decreased their a
"When is HIV Testing Cost-Effective?": Best's Review (12/88) Vol. 89, No. 8, P. 14; Szper, Douglas A.; Life insurers can use a methodology, based on return of investment, to determine at what policy size a medical examination and HIV test (in areas they are legal) become cost-effective, according to Douglas A. Szper of The Actuarial Network. The model is a basic tool to which individual companies can add additional assu
"Book Marks: 'The AIDS Book,' by Louise Hay": Lambda Rising Book Report (12/88-1/89) Vol. 1, No. 8, P. 15 (Guilliams, Will; Holistic health guru Louise Hay was one of the first writers to flouish in the category of books that take spiritual and metaphysical approaches to dealing with AIDS, writes reviewer Will Guilliams. Her latest book, The AIDS Book: Creating a Positive Approach, is an application of her self-healing philosophy to living
"Sounds Good: 'Purple Heart' by Michael Callen": Lambda Rising Book Report (12/88-1/89) Vol. 1, No. 8, P. 13 (ChAUncey, Sarah; Purple Heart is an album by Michael Callen, who, although he has AIDS, wants people to know he is not the singing PWA (person with AIDS). Callen, writes reviewer Sarah ChAUncey, evaluated his life when he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and decided he d better start making music. The first side of the album is Elton J
"Twelve Tips to Help Avoid AIDS Malpractice": AIDS Alert (12/88) Vol. 3, No. 12, P. 207; To protect themselves from malpractice cases, experts advise doctors first of all to document everything. In addition, they advise maintaining strict confidentiality of all information. Physicians should avoid situations involving breaking confidentiality, but if absolutely necessary, should inform sexual partners or n
"AIDS Malpractice Seen as Growing Problem for Health Care": AIDS Alert (12/88) Vol. 3, No. 12, P. 205; Doctors will face a growing number of AIDS malpractice cases over the next several years, according to AIDS experts Donald J. Hermann of the DePAUl University Health Law Institute, Doug Phillips of the Physician Insurers Association of America, and attorney PAUl Collier. One physician has already lost a $750,000 decisi
"HIV Counseling and Testing: Does It Work?": American Journal of Public Health (12/88) Vol. 78, No. 12, P. 1533; Cates, Willard Jr.; The answer to whether HIV screening and counseling helps prevent transmission of HIV appears to be a qualified yes, say Willard Cates Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and H. Hunter Handsfield of Seattle s Harborview Medical Center. Studies suggest that testing with counseling seems associated with some change in
"AIDS Watch: The Shaky Case for an AIDS-Syphilis Connection": Discover (12/88) Vol. 9, No. 12, P. 24; Grady, Denise; Last year medical journals began printing disturbing reports of HIV-positive young men developing palsy, strokelike muscle weakness in their limbs, and other symptoms that normally occur in late-stage syphilis. HIV can infect the brain, but tests showed these men were infected with Treponema pallidum, the bacterial org
"Vermont's Comprehensive Insurance Law": State AIDS Reports (12/88-01/89) No. 6; In 1988, Vermont enacted one of the most detailed, free-standing AIDS insurance laws in the U.S. Although recent court and legislative actions have made HIV testing by insurers legal in nearly every state, Vermont s law clearly details when such testing is allowed and balances the competing interests of the insurance c
"AIDS 1988: Legislative Trends": State AIDS Reports (12/88-1/89) No. 6, P. 1; As of late November, state legislatures had passed 127 AIDS-related laws, or about 20 percent of the 642 introduced. During a year in which legislators considered the most laws dealing with the disease since the epidemic began, a total of 29 states adopted AIDS laws. HIV testing was the most commonly addressed issue, w
"Survey Finds Many People with AIDS are Homeless": United Press International (11/30/88); Byron, Peg; New York--A national survey of 45 of the nation s largest cities has found that some 20,000 people with AIDS live on city streets or in homeless shelters. Peter Smith, head of report sponsor Partnership for the Homeless, said AIDS is now on the cutting edge of the growing homelessness problem in most of our larger citi
"Fresh Call for Cooperation to Start on AIDS Day": United Press International (11/30/88); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Health leaders urged nations to celebrate World AIDS Day today by setting aside rivalries and discrimination to step the up the fight against HIV infection. Pan American Health Organization head Dr. Carlyle Macedo said, Clearly, World AIDS Day is not a time for celebration but neither is it a time for despa
"Imreg Inc.: FDA Holds Up Application on Anti-AIDS Compound": Wall Street Journal (11/30/88), P. A22; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has placed Imreg Inc. s application for investigational drug status for its compound to fight HIV on clinical hold, the biomedical concern said.
"D.C. Yields on AIDS Insurance": Washington Post (11/30/88), P. A1; Pianin, Eric; Succumbing to a congressional edict, the D.C. Council voted yesterday to repeal its ban on insurance company testing for AIDS virus antibodies. AIDS and gay rights activists immediately blasted the council for abdicating its responsibility to protect city residents from discriminatory practices by insurers. The city ha
"WHO Reduces AIDS Predictions": Associated Press (11/29/88); Geneva--While reporting that the worldwide total of reported AIDS cases grew 4.1 percent in November to a total of 129,385 cases in 142 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) drastically reduced its longterm projections for the disease. A WHO press release Tuesday said that in 1991, 6-7 million people may have
"International Battle Against AIDS Lacks Coordination": Reuters (11/29/88); Bagley, Walter; New York--There is still no coordinated effort against AIDS nearly a decade after the disease began spreading death and fear around the word. Although there have been 129,385 cases of AIDS reported in 142 countries, a Reuters survey showed that there are as many approaches to dealing with the disease as there are count
"America Grapples with AIDS Epidemic": Reuters (11/29/88); Ross, Caren; New York--America remains deeply divided over how to respond to AIDS. To date, 79,985 Americans have developed the disease and an estimated 1.5 million carry the virus that cAUses AIDS. According to a recent Reuters survey, there has been a patchwork approach across the nation toward coping with the legislative, humani
"A Way to Combat Viruses...": United Press International (11/29/88); New Haven--Researchers at Yale University say they have developed a new technique that could lead to the creation of powerful vaccines against AIDS and other communicable diseases. Ira Mellman of the school s School of Medicine said the researchers spent three years developing an efficient way to develop antibody-AUtob
"FDA Approves Tests of Drug for AIDS-Related Eye Infections": McGraw-Hill News (11/29/88); Washington--The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Syntex Cop. can begin clinical trials of ganciclovir, a promising drug for the treatment of cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) retinitis in AIDS patients.
"NIH Director Calls Rumors He is Leaving Premature": Wall Street Journal (11/29/88), P. C26; James Wyngaarden, director of the National Institutes of Health, said it is premature to say he is handing over the reins to AIDS researcher Dr. Anthony Fauci, who currently directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. I think someone with his own agencda is floating a trial balloon, said Wyngaard
"Carrington Laboratories Inc.: FDA Approval is Received to Test Drug on" Humans: Wall Street Journal (11/29/88), P. B4; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has given Carrington Laboratories Inc. approval to begin testing its Carrisyn drug on humans. The firm said it will give varying doses of the the drug to 24 healthy patients in an eight-week test of the drug s toxicity. Carrington expects a final report in four months. Carrisyn
"Speedier New Tests for the AIDS Virus": U.S. News + World Report (11/28/88) Vol. 105, No. 21, P. 79 (Findlay, Steven; The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and another test, called the HIV quick test, are helping to make HIV testing faster and more accurate. The PCR detects the virus itself. The quick test relies on antibodies, which take months to show up, but it can be processed in minutes on the spot. The new tests also have dra
"Schools Give Lessons on AIDS": Associated Press (11/28/88); San Francisco-- A is for AIDS, a videocassette starring Andy Answer, a cartoon dog, will teach about 4000 fifth graders in San Francisco about the disease. Starting in the spring, Andy will tell kids that it is not dangerous to be around people with AIDS and that they don t have to worry about contracting the disease b
"AIDS Dementia Threat Disputed": Associated Press (11/28/88); Denver--AIDS dementia could become a public health hazard in the workplace, says Edward Richards, a public health lawyer and visiting professor at the University of Denver. However, other researchers and AIDS support groups say his view is wrong and could encourage discrimination against HIV-positive people. Richards
"Patient Claims Hospital Gave Him AIDS": United Press International (11/28/88); Paterson, N.J.--A patient who has asked that his name remain confidential has sued St. Joseph s Hospital in Paterson, saying the hospital gave him HIV-tainted blood during a 1984 operation. The patient, who has yet to develop AIDS, says that better screening of the 13 pints of blood he received during the open-heart op
"China Acknowledges 21 Cases of AIDS": United Press International (11/28/88); Beijing--Health officials acknowledged Monday that there are 21 HIV-infected persons in China , including seven citizens. They said 14 foreigners living in China are either HIV-positive or have developed AIDS. The Ministry of Health said it has tested 67,200 people for the virus. Of the 21 HIV-infected people, three of
"Big Landlords Say They Will Help Fight AIDS Discrimination": United Press International (11/28/88); Byron, Peg; New York--In New York, which has a third of the nation s 75,000 AIDS cases, representatives of the city s real estate industry said they would take steps to fight discrimination in housing against the victims of the disease. Jerome Belson, president of the Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York, said his gr
"AIDS Peril Grows for Cocaine Users": New York Times (11/28/88), P. A22; Lambert, Bruce; Research in San Francisco and New York indicates that drug users who inject cocaine are spreading HIV faster than heroin addicts. Cocaine injecters may use syringes several times an hour, while a typical heroin user shoots up much less often. Drug abuse experts say the higher the frequency of injection, the greater the
"Vacancies in Military Hospitals Seen as Helping in Drugs and AIDS Cases": New York Times (11/28/88), P. A22; Freudenheim, Milt; The Defense Department has agreed to evaluate the approximately 100 military hospitals in the U.S. to determine whether unused space in the facilities could be used for civilian AIDS patients and intravenous drug users. Only 250,000 of the country s estimated 6.5 million drug addicts could be treated in civilian hospit
"Error-Prone Step Found in Replication of the AIDS Virus": Washington Post (11/28/88), P. A6; Rensberger, Boyce; A key step in HIV s mechanism for reproducing within cells is unusually prone to typographical errors when it tries to copy the genes of the parent virus into the form that will dictate the genes of the offspring, molecular biologists have found. This discovery explains the rapid mutation and evolution of the virus tha
"Drug Bringing Hope, Time to AIDS Patients": Washington Post (11/28/88), P. E1; Boodman, Sandra G.; Aerosolized pentamidine has become popular in both the AIDS drug underground and among mainstream researchers for two reasons: it is unusually effective in preventing recurrences of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the leading killer of people with AIDS; and it does not have the toxic side effects of
"AIDS Instruction Made Part of Probation": Insight (11/28/88) Vol. 4, No. 48, P. 60; Hudson, Kathryn; The municipal court in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles has instituted an unusual sentencing program to fight the spread of HIV. The court requires misdemeanor sex offenders to attend AIDS-education seminars as a part of probation. On Jan. 1, a new state law will make the novel program a model for other California c
"Ozone: A Catalyst in the Killing AIDS Virus?": Insight (11//28/88) Vol. 4, No. 48, P. 56; Van Pelt, Dina; Ozone may be able to kill HIV without harming infected blood cells, two recent preliminary studies suggest. The Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland conducted tests on HIV-infected blood in which the major air pollution component killed the virus without damaging the cells that contained it. Dr. Kenneth F. Wagner, senio
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Examiner (11/27/88), P. A-3; Hilton, Bruce; On Thursday, World AIDS Day, the Names Project will display panels from the memorial quilt at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva; in AUstralia, Belgium , Brazil , Canada , Germany , Norway
"AIDSWEEK: Rights": San Francisco Examiner (11/27/88), P. A-3; Hilton, Bruce; Nevada prostitutes who test positive for HIV, gonorrhea, or syphilis will have their names sent to the news media, the state s Board of Health announced. During the two years that the prostitutes have been tested weekly, not one has been HIV-positive. In Washington, D.C., an AUdit by the National Gay and Lesbian Task F
"Threads of Love: How a Quilt Changed Her Life": San Francisco Examiner (11/27/88), P. A-2; Boldenweck, Bill; Cindy McMullin left her job to work--first for nothing, and then for a small sum--for the Names Project. The Examiner and KPIX are highlighting her story as part of The Thread of Love, which will focus on people memoralized in quilt panels and those who have helped them. The stories will also ask readers to help 19 non
"What AIDS Hasn't Harmed": San Francisco Examiner (11/27/88), P. A-14; Garrison, Jayne; Despite the devasting effect of AIDS on San Francisco s economy, some of the most dire predictions of harm have yet to occur. Some experts predicted the epidemic would take a $1 billion toll on the real estate industry nationwide, but prices in San Francisco rose 29 percent last year. UC-Berkeley economics professor Ro
"The High Price of AIDS": San Francisco Examiner (11/27/88), P. A-1; Garrison, Jayne; By 1993, San Francisco will face nearly $244 million in costs for high-quality AIDS treatment, triple the $89.3 million that municipal, state, federal and private sources will pay this year. The city says that to spend more than the $11 million it is spending this year would cripple other city services. Insurers, gover
"Anti-Retroviral Effects of Interferon-[alpha] in AIDS-Associated Kaposi's" Sarcoma: Lancet (11/26/88) Vol. 2, No. 8622, P. 1218; Lane, H. Clifford; In a study of 21 patients with AIDS and Kaposi s sarcoma, eight showed a complete or partial anti-tumor response when treated with recombinant interferon-[alpha], report H. Clifford Lane and his colleagues. Patients with high CD4 counts prior to treatment showed the greatest response. Five of the partial responders sho
"Transmission of HIV by Blood from Seronegative Donors": Lancet (11/26/88) Vol. 2, No. 8622, P. 1248; Jullien, Anne-Marie; More sensitive and specific HIV antibody kits, more careful control of lab operations in blood centers, and more effective self-exclusion or deferment in at-risk donors can further reduce the small possibility of HIV transmission by seronegative blood donors in the serologically silent window period between exposure to
"Clinical and Virological Effects of High-Dose Recombinant" Interferon-[alpha] in Diseminated AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma: Lancet (11/26/88) Vol. 2, No. 8622, P. 1214; De Wit, Ronald; Interferon-[alpha] is an effective treatment for Kaposi s sarcoma in people with AIDS, reports researcher Ronald DeWit and his colleagues at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam s Division of Medical Oncology and AIDS-Unit. In a non-randomized, Phase II clinical trial, 28 AIDS patients with Kaposi s received high d
"The Accuracy of Reverse Transcriptase From HIV-1": Science (11/25/88) Vol. 242, No. 4882, P. 1171; Roberts, John D.; In a study of the fidelity of DNA synthesis catalyzed in vitro by the reverse transcriptase from HIV-1, researcher John D. Roberts and his colleagues from the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the National Institute of Environmental Health Studies confirmed the notion that the exceptional diversity of the HIV-1 genom
"Fidelity of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase": Science (11/25/88) Vol. 242, No. 4882, P. 1168; Preston, Bradley D.; The hypermutability of HIV-1, which mutates at a rate 1 million times as great as that of eukaryotic DNA genomes, may be central to the pathogenesis of HIV-1 and could thwart efforts to develop effective vaccines, report Bradley D. Preston of the University of Washington and his colleagues. HIV-1 shares this high rate
"On Owning and Disowning the Plague": Washington Blade (11/25/88) Vol. 19, No. 48, P. 19; Bittmann, Joe; AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism is a book that addresses the problems of the gay community s association with the AIDS epidemic, writes the Washington Blade s Joe Bittmann. In Paula Treichler s essay, The Epidemic of Signification, the narrative current of society equates errant sex and errant disease. As
"Benefits Vary, But Few Health Plans Indicate an AIDS Pinch": Washington Blade (11/25/88) Vol. 19, No. 48, P. 1; Keen, Lisa M.; A Washington Blade survey of health insurance plans available to federal employees shows that, despite the well-publicized concerns of insurance industry representatives that AIDS would endanger the financial stability of the industry, few plans have made changes in what they cover. Of 33 plans that employees in the Wa
"Gay D.C. Doctor to Head New NIH AIDS Research Project": Washington Blade (11/25/88) Vol. 19, No. 48, P. 1; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; Dr. Lawrence Deyton, an openly gay physician, will head the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci announced last week that Deyton, who has monitored AIDS patients receiving experimental t
"HIV-Infected Cells Are Killed by rCD4-Ricin A Chain": Science (11/25/88) Vol. 242, No. 4882, P. 1166; Till, Mark A.; A soluble derivative of recombinant CDr (rCD4) that binds to the gp120 enveloped glycoprotein on the surface of HIV-infected cells is an attractive vehicle for a cytotoxic reagent, reports Mark A. Till and his colleagues from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Genentech Inc. The cytotoxic reag
"Survival Experience Among Patients with AIDS Receiving Zidovudine": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/25/88) Vol. 260, No. 20, P. 3009; Creah-Kirk, Terri; A group of 4805 patients with AIDS who previously had pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) have been receiving AZT (Retrovir) under a compassionate plea, or Treatment Investigational New Drug, program. Following 44 weeks, the overall survival rate was 73 percent. Pretherapy clincal status--defined by hemoglobin level,
"From the Food and Drug Administration: Efforts to Improve Safety of Blood" Supply: Journal of the American Medical Association (11/25/88) Vol. 260, No. 20, P. 2980; Nightingale, Stuart L.; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the American Red Cross recently signed an agreement specifying steps the Red Cross will take to further ensure the safety of the blood supply, reports Stuart L. Nightingale, FDA Associate Commissioner for Health Affairs. The agreement results from FDA inspections that uncove
"From the Food and Drug Administration: New Procedures to Expedite the" Approval of Drugs for Life-Threatening and Severely Debilitating Illnesses: Journal of the American Medical Association (11/25/88) Vol. 260, No. 20, P. 2980; Nightingale, Stuart L.; The Food and Drug Administration s ( FDA ) new procedures to speed the availability of new therapies to desperately ill patients aim to encourage researchers to accelerate and condense their studies while ensuring that the FDA will realistically balance the risks and benefits of promising drugs, says Associate Commissi
"HIV Therapeutics: An Emerging Science": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/25/88) Vol. 260, No. 20, P. 3051; Bartlett, John A.; Zidovudine ( AZT , Retrovir, Azidothymidine) is now the standard of care for people with ARC and AIDS, writes John A. Bartlett of Duke University Medical Center. However, 40 percent of patients ultimately develop anemia serious enough to require dosage reduction or transfusion. At the standard dose of 200 mg orally ev
"Dec. 1 Designated World AIDS Day: Message is 'Join the Worldwide Effort'": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/25/88) Vol. 260, No. 20, P. 2969; Goldsmith, Marsha F.; Dec. 1 will be the culmination of several days of activity leading up to World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization s (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS has been encouraging governments, communities, groups, and individuals since June to plan events around the theme Let s Talk About AIDS. WHO expects 1000 organizations
"Plant Toxin Kills AIDS-Infected Cells in Test Tube": Washington Post (11/25/88), P. A10; Recer, PAUl; A synthetic CD4 molecule combined with ricin, a plant toxin, holds some promiser as a killer of cells infected with HIV, Dr. Jonathan W. Uhr of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and his colleagues report. Working with researchers from the San Francisco biotechnology firm Genente
"Bush Eyes Fauci, Gradison for Top Health Posts": Washington Post (11/25/88), P. A25; Specter, Michael; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) associate director in charge of AIDS research and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is George Bush s likely choice to become head of NIH. Bush listed Fauci as one of his heroes during the second presidential debates. Rep.
"Quilt Overcomes Isolation": Bay Area Reporter (11/24/88) Vol. 18, No. 47, P. 6; Jones, Cleve; The Names Project Quilt is a memorial to all people who have died of AIDS, say Cleve Jones and Michael Smith of the Names Project. Responding to criticism by Michael Standman in an open letter to the Bay Area Reporter that the project deliberately decided to limit the association between AIDS and gay men, Jones and Smi
"AIDS Foundation Plans on Growing Demand for Services and Education": Bay Area Reporter (11/24/88) Vol. 18, No. 47, P. 16; Newquist, Jay; With a budget of more than $6 million and a full-time staff of nearly 70 people, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is a world-wide model for the fight against AIDS. The foundation acts on public policies in the health field, provides education materials on the disease, and offers services to people with AIDS. Executive
"Social Club for People with AIDS to Open on Castro": Bay Area Reporter (11/24/88) Vol. 18, No. 47, P. 5; McMillan, Dennis; By Christmas, three longtime San Francisco residents plan to open a social club for HIV-positive people. Although there has been some opposition by neighbors on Castro Street, the city Planning Commission unanimously approved the proposed club on Nov. 17. J.W. Leo, Rita Reel, and David Peck are planning the club. Leo s
"Postmaster General Nixes AIDS Awareness Stamp": Bay Area Reporter (11/24/88) Vol. 18, No. 47, P. 4; McMillan, Dennis; Despite the endorsement of public figures as disparate as Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Postmaster General Anthony Frank says an AIDS awareness stamp is unworkable. The stamp, designed by nurse and support group organizer Jean Anne Hlavacek, has a Stop AIDS design bordered by the words
"AZT Expert to Direct Cancer Unit": Washington Post (11/24/88), P. A1; Specter, Michael; Dr. Samuel Broder, a cancer researcher who has become famous for his work with AZT , is President Reagan s choice to become the next head of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), senior health officials said last Wednesday. Other researchers said that, as head of NCI, Broder could be expected to stress cancer prevention
"AUstralia Considers Drastic Measures to Fight AIDS": Reuters (11/23/88); Canberra--An AIDS policy proposal under consideration in AUstralia would require testing of every member of the population and permanent quarantining of anyone who tests positive for the virus. The proposal, presented to parliament by the Health Minister, is an attempt to develop a national strategy to curb the spread
"Babies to be Checked for AIDS": United Press International (11/23/88); Allison, Sue; Nashville, Tenn.--Tennessee will test newborn babies for AIDS, the state s chief medical officer, Dr. Richard Light, told a legislative study committee on AIDS Tuesday. Light said the state will test routine blood samples that are already drawn for a PKU test. The tests will be anonymous. The state will also test 3000
"Schering Sets $9800 Limit for Year's Supply of Drug": Wall Street Journal (11/23/88), P. B3; A year s supply of a newly-approved drug for fighting a cancer related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome will cost no more than $9,800, says one company which will manufacture the drug. An announcement by Schering-Plough Inc. after the Food and Drug Administration approved its drug alpha interferon confirmed that
"U.S.-Sponsored AIDS Drug Trials to Include Private Doctors' Efforts": Wall Street Journal (11/23/88), P. B3; Chase, Marilyn; The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced recently that it will establish a program to bring doctors who are treating AIDS patients privately into the fold of federally-sponsored AIDS drug trials. According to NIH, the Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS will be coordinated by a physician with the
"Incomplete Message on Sex": New York Times (11/23/88), P. A22; New Jersey requires sexual education in public schools, and local districts determine the content and message of that education. But a new measure passed by the New Jersey State Assembly limits the community s right to decide what to teach about pregnancy and AIDS. The editors of the New York Times believe the new law
"U-M Researcher Discovers Process that Activates Immune System": United Press International (11/22/88); Ann Arbor, Mich.--A good news and bad news discovery by a University of Michigan researcher documents a series of biochemical reactions that activate the immune system. The discovery, by Michael A. Marletta, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at the university s College of Pharmacy, could have
"Simple AIDS Manual Developed": Associated Press (11/22/88); Hagerstown, Md.--Sixty-four school systems in Maryland and surrounding areas are reviewing a booklet that explains AIDS in simple terms to students with learning disabilities. Hood College Assistant Professor of Education Roberta Strosnider compiled the 20-page booklet becAUse, she says, most AIDS information is writte
"Say Doctors Don't Report AIDS": Associated Press (11/22/88); Columbia, S.C.--South Carolina s efforts to fight AIDS have been hampered by doctors who fail to report cases and to pursue new forms of treatment, AIDS expert Dr. Robert Ball said. Ball, who is the state Department of Health and Environmental Control s AIDS consultant, says doctors fearful of being labeled AIDS doctor
"Man Charged with Exposing a Nurse to the AIDS Virus...": United Press International (11/22/88); MilwAUkee--Scott Fleming, a 24-year-old man who says he has AIDS, was in jail late Monday, charged with aggravated battery and endangering safety by conduct regardless of life following an incident in which he caused a nurse to stab herself in the arm with a needle. Fleming was taken to the MilwAUkee County Medical Com
"Lawmaker Sets Up Fund to Help Children with AIDS": United Press International (11/22/88); Detroit--The Speaker Pro Tempore of Michigan s House has established the Resource Endowment Aiding Children Together (REACT) to help finance medical and support services for children with AIDS. Rep. Teola Hunter said a visit to a hospital that cares for children with AIDS last year convinced her to start the foundation
"Committee Approves Bill Requiring Testing for Blood, Organs, and Sperm": United Press International (11/22/88); Kellogg, Sarah; Lansing, Mich.--The state Senate Health Policy Committee adopted legislation Tuesday which will require all donated blood, organs, and sperm to be tested for the AIDS virus prior to donation. Most facilities already test for the deadly virus, according to officials from the Department of Public Health, who applAUded th
"A Crossfire of Blame at New York Drug Treatment Hearing": New York Times (11/22/88), P. B4; Lambert, Bruce; The rhetoric is there; the money is not, is how New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen C. Joseph characterized New York state s response to the city s intravenous drug crisis. State officials, who appeared with Joseph and other city officials at a hearing on the spread of AIDS by intravenous drug abusers, fAUlt
"China Expels Foreigners Found With AIDS Virus": Reuters (11/22/88); Peking-- China has expelled 14 foreigners found to carry HIV, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday. Since mid-1987, China has required all non-diplomats applying for long-term residency permits to take an HIV antibody test. AIDS expert Sun Zinghua, in a rare disclosure of official figures, said that 14 foreigners ha
"AIDS War Moves to Communities": Washington Post (Health) (11/22/88), P. 8; Thompson, Larry; The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID has $6 million budgeted to lAUnch the Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS. NIAID hopes the program will draw community physicians and their patients into the battle on AIDS. In the program, the agency will trade researchers, statisticians, an
"F.D.A. Approves First Drug for an AIDS-Related Cancer": New York Times (11/22/88), P. C3; Altman, Lawrence; The first drug designed to treat a cancer related to AIDS received approval from the Food and Drug Administration Monday. The drug, called alpha interferon and by the Schering-Plough Corporation and Roferon by Hoffmann-La Roche , is a hormone-like protein made by the body in small amounts and by laboratories in large a
"Imreg Attacks FDA Committee's Refusal to Back Distribution of Its Drug" for AIDS: Wall Street Journal (11/22/88), P. B4; Solis, Diana; Biomedical company Imreg Inc. blasted an announcement by an outside advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) that its new AIDS drug will not be recommended for limited distribution. According to the FDA, Imreg s clinical trials contained insufficient safeguards in the placebo control group, and an
"Health Workers' Hepatitis Risk Cited": Washington Post (11/22/88), P. A6; Okie, Susan; The risk to U.S. health care workers of contracting hepatitis is far greater than that of contracting AIDS, according to a panel of experts. At a national meeting on safeguarding health care workers from such infections, experts said that 200 workers a year are killed by hepatitis B acquired on the job. Hepatitis B can
"AIDS Survey Planned for Pa.": Associated Press (11/21/88); Pittsburgh--Allegheny County will be the site of a pilot door-to-door survey to determine the prevalence of HIV. Following the approval of a citizens advisory committee, the Allegheny County Health Department told the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to go ahead with a survey of 350 randomly chosen households. Triangl
"World AIDS Day Telecast to Educate Millions Through Multinational" "Spacebridge" Broadcast: Business Wire (11/21/88); Palo Alto, Calif.--As many as 500 million viewers in 50 countries will be able to watch a live, global telecast of World AIDS Day events on Dec. 1, thanks to the efforts of an international production team lead by Spacebridge Broadcasting Co. in Palo Alto. The $4 million, hour-long telecast, sponsored by the
"New Federal Rules Will Seek to Protect Workers Against AIDS": Reuters (11/21/88); Washington--The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced Monday that next year it will propose strict new rules to protect workers against exposure to HIV. John Pendergrass, OSHA head, told the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases-sponsored third annual U.S. conference on hepatitis B and th
"Assembly to Vote on Abstinence Bill": United Press International (11/21/88); Shearman, J. Craig; Trenton, N.J.--New Jersey s state Assembly was ready to vote Monday on legislation to require public schools sex education and AIDS prevention programs to emphasize that abstinence is the only totally reliable method of avoiding sexually transmitted disease. The bill would not ban schools from teaching about condoms or
"Study:Teen Girls Familiar with AIDS": United Press International (11/21/88); Baltimore--A recent survey by researchers at Johns Hopkins indicates that, while a large percentage of teenage girls are familiar with how AIDS is spread, less than half take proper precAUtions to avoid the disease. The Hopkins study surveyed 285 girls age 12 to 18 years who attended an inner-city clinic to obtain cont
"Salk Institute's President, F. de Hoffmann, Resigns": Wall Street Journal (11/21/88), P. A11A; The president of the Salk Institute, a biological research institution, resigned recently after he revealed he is infected with the AIDS virus. Frederic de Hoffmann, who has served the Institute since 1970, was diagnosed as positive for the HIV virus several weeks ago, according to an institute spokeswoman. She said de
"Novaferon Labs Says It Formulated a Drug to Inhibit AIDS Virus": Wall Street Journal (11/21/88), P. B5; A new drug developed by a consultant to Novaferon Labs Inc. inhibits the multiplication of the HIV virus, according to the Akron, Ohio-based biomedical research and development firm. The company says consultant Nicola Di Ferrante formulated the antiviral compound, called Novapren, which studies show can protect sensiti
"Housing AIDS Victims Helps Everyone": New York Times (11/21/88), P. A18; All New Yorkers share an interest in the city s attempt to solve the housing crisis that people with AIDS face, says the New York Times in an editorial. Patients who have lost their rental units are often hospitalized longer than necessary becAUse there is nowhere for them to go. That denies others hospital space and i
"Faster Test for AIDS Called Near": New York Times (11/21/88), P. D1; Freudenheim, Milt; The Cambridge Bioscience Corp. of Worcester, Mass., says its new genetically engineered test for HIV, called Recombigen, should receive Food and Drug Administration approval by the year s end. The company s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gerald F. Buck said the test produces results in five minutes and will make
"AIDS Tests Often Performed Without Patients' Knowledge": Washington Post (11/21/88), P. A1; Boodman, Sandra G.; Doctors and lawyers who work with AIDS patients say that hospitals and physicians regularly flout HIV testing guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control, the American Medical Association , and the American Hospital Association agree that the test should only follow the patient s consent and should be accompanied by co
"Special Report: Malaysian Gold": United Press International (11/20/88); Youngblood, Ruth; Kuala Lampur--The world s largest producer of natural rubber, Malaysia , is reaping great rewards as the AIDS epidemic spreads. In Malaysia, the demand for condoms and rubber gloves has turned latex into gold. In 1980, Malaysia exported $32 million in latex. The 1982 total was $42 million. 1986 saw a jump to $94 milli
"HIV-Infected Women": Lancet (11/19/88) Vol. 2, No. 8621, P. 1208; Women with HIV infection and AIDS can now receive advice, counseling, and referrals from a telephone line run by Positively Women. The two-year-old voluntary support group operates as part of Central London Action on Street Health (CLASH) at the Soho Women s Hospital.
"AIDS in the UK": Lancet (11/19/88) Vol. 2, No. 8621, P. 1207; Britain s Department of Health released data showing that over a thousand people have now died of AIDS there. Minister of Health David Mellor described the figure as a sombre milestone in the fight against AIDS. Funds spent to fight the disease will double next year, from 60 million pounds to 128 million pounds, Mellor
"Isvestia Suggests Soviet AIDS Death Toll Higher": Reuters (11/19/88); Moscow--The number of persons in the Soviet Union who have died of AIDS may be higher than official estimates indicate, according to a recent article in the government newspaper Isvestia. The paper published its commentary in the wake of the story of the first AIDS death in the USSR. Isvestia claims Soviet health syste
"Panel Considering Condom Sales at Texas Prisons": United Press International (11/19/88); AUstin, Texas--The Texas Legislative Task Force on AIDS drafted recommendations to the state legislature Saturday, including a controversial plan to sell condoms to Texas inmates. Rev. Chris Steele, the Episcopal priest who heads the panel, said the condoms would sell for about five cents apiece. Currently, inmates rec
"Surgeon Claims AIDS Facts Withheld": United Press International (11/19/88); Charlotte, N.C.--Government and public health officials are withholding evidence on how HIV spreads, says Dr. Lorraine Day, chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Speaking at a symposium in Charlotte, Day said a 1987 report in the British medical journal Lancet noted that the Langerhans cells in
"The CAUse of AIDS": Science (11/18/88) Vol. 242, No. 4881, P. 997; Duesberg, Peter; In reply to letters questioning his assertion that HIV does not cAUse AIDS, Peter Duesberg of the University of California, Berkeley s Department of Molecular Biology says an unbiased investigator might look at three hypotheses: AIDS is caused only by HIV; AIDS diseases are caused only by AIDS risks; or AIDS risks are
"The CAUse of AIDS": Science (11/18/88) Vol. 242, No. 4881, P. 997; Trachtenberg, Alan I.; Peter Duesberg s position that HIV doesn t cAUse AIDS not only flies in the face of a large and convincing body of data, but it is an example of a deadly kind of denial, say Alan I. Trachtenberg and Sharon L. Winter of the California Department of Health Services Office of AIDS. Denial can be a helpful psychological to
"The CAUse of AIDS": Science (11/18/88) Vol. 242, No. 4881, P. 997; Moss, Andrew R.; In a first letter replying to a commentary by Peter Duesberg, who says HIV is not the cAUse of AIDS, Andrew R. Moss and colleagues from the Department of Epidemiology and International Health, University of California, San Francisco General Hospital say that Duesberg misrepresents the conclusions they drew from a prosp
"Continuous Varicella-Zoster Infection Associated with Acyclovir" Resistance in a Child with AIDS: Journal of the American Medical Association (11/18/88) Vol. 260, No. 19, P. 2879; Pahwa, Savita; A four-year-old girl congenitally infected with HIV developed a continuous cutaneour infection with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that persisted for 14 months until her death, reports Savita Pahwa and his colleagues. Initital episodes of varicella and zoster responded to acyclovir treatment. Recurrences, however, req
"AIDS Cases Nearly Double in Ireland in 1988": Reuters (11/18/88); Dublin--Official figures published recently by the Irish Health Department show the number of reported AIDS cases in the Irish Republic has nearly doubled in 1988. According to the figures, 65 people have contracted the disease, of whom 28 have died. Figures compiled January 1, 1988 show that prior to that time 33 AIDS
"Blood Cells Might Prove a Promising Weapon Against the Deadly AIDS" Virus...: United Press International (11/18/88); San Antonio, Tex.--The co-discoverer of the AIDS virus said Thursday that special white blood cells may hold the key to the battle against the deadly virus. According to Dr. Jay Levy, a University of California cancer expert who was speaking at a medical conference in San Antonio, while the actual white blood cell subs
"US-Soviet Scientific Research Accord": United Press International (11/18/88); Washington--The United States and the Soviet Union will engage in cooperation in 11 scientific areas under an agreement signed recently by the health agencies of both countries. The agreement, which concludes 3 days of meetings in Moscow between Assistant Health Secretary Robert Windom and Igor Denisov, the Soviet firs
"From the National Institutes of Health: Saliva Inhibits HIV Infectivity": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/18/88) Vol. 260, No. 19, P. 2791; Wyngaarden, James B.; Saliva infects HIV infectivity, according to a preliminary study by Philip Fox, DDS, and colleagues at the National Institute of Dental Research. The researchers incubated HIV-1 in growth medium with whole saliva samples and samples of individually collected submandibular and parotid gland secretions from three healthy
"Maryland Delivers Safer Sex Kits": Washington Blade (11/18/88) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 17; Howard, Wendy; Maryland s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene AIDS Administration is distributing a kit including two condoms with instructions and nonoxynol-9 lubricant. The Safer Sex Kit comes with an abstinence message from Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Interested people can call or mail away for the kit to the AIDS Adminis
"Quilt Going Around the Globe for World AIDS Day": Washington Blade (11/18/88) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 17; Howard, Wendy; The World Health Organization (WHO) will include the AIDS Quilt in programs for World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 1988. Quilt panels will be displayed in seven countries and 25 U.S. cities as part of the commemoration. WHO planned the day to give AIDS organizations an opportunity to tell their communities what is going on in AID
"Iowa High School Students Protest Cancellation of Play": Washington Blade (11/18/88) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 17; Howard, Wendy; Following the decision by school administrators to cancel a drama class production of Warren--A True Story, angry students took a petition with 200 signatures to the county school board last month. The play, written by Rebecca Ranson of Atlanta, deals with a gay man s death from AIDS. School Superintendant Joseph Kirch
"Whitman-Walker Opens Low-Cost Pharmacy": Washington Blade (11/18/88) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 5; Hinckle, Doug; Washington s Whitman-Walker Clinic has opened a pharmacy to provide medication at wholesale prices to HIV-infected people. The pharmacy will not stock narcotics or mood altering drugs, but will provide AZT for about $100 less than area drug stores charge for a four-week supply. The clinic will offer 300mg of pentamidi
"12 Are Participating in Needle Exchange": New York Times (11/18/88), P. B4; The director of the controversial needle exchange program begun in New York City earlier this month said the program has attracted 12 intravenous drug addicts, about half of which have been accepted to the program. According to Charles Eaton, the experimental program has accepted long-term addicts who are willing to ov
"Schering, Sandoz to Work on Protein for Medical Use": Wall Street Journal (11/18/88), P. B5; Two pharmaceutical concerns announced recently they will cooperate on a project to develop and market a protein to help fight infection in the human body. East Hanover, N.J.-based Sandoz Pharmaceutical Corp. and Schering-Plough Corp. said they will work jointly on the development of the protein GM-CSF, or granulocyte m
"Bush Expected to Be Active, Hear Better Advice on AIDS": Bay Area Reporter (11/17/88) Vol. 18, No. 46, P. 1; O'Loughlin, Ray; Some gay and lesbian lobbyists saw George Bush s presidential victory as a catastrophe, but others, such as AIDS activist Jeff Levi of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, see Bush as one who understands the importance of the AIDS issue. Bush has endorsed the recommendations of the Watkins commission on AIDS, altho
"City Okays Funds for Shanti Project": Bay Area Reporter (11/17/88) Vol. 18, No. 46, P. 1; Kolbe, Miranda; San Francisco s Shanti Project will receive $1.2 million from the city through the end of its funding cycle in June 1989. The Health Commission voted the extension, which observers believe is a vote of confidence for the new management of the AIDS volunteer organization and for the work of its Internal Review Committee
"AIDS Dementia Still Untreated": Associated Press (11/17/88); Toronto--None of the experimental AIDS drugs now available combat AIDS dementia , says Dr. Richard Johnson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Johnson, speaking at a news briefing at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, said that becAUse the condition appears to be directly caused by HIV, treat
"Chile to Require AIDS Tests for Foreigners": Reuters (11/17/88); Santiago--Any foreigner desiring to remain in Chile for more than six months must take an AIDS antibody test, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. The new measure takes effect on the first of 1989. Chile has registered 103 people with AIDS, of whom 43 are dead.
"Study Shows AIDS Has Forced Lifestyle Changes on Gays": Reuters (11/17/88); Chicago--Another study has provided evidence that gay men in the U.S. have drastically cut back on high-risk behavior, researchers reported on Thursday. A Centers for Disease study of 31 gay men in Atlanta found that 24 men reported having from 1-10 sexual partners in the previous six months. Seven reported having no p
"Man Indicted in Threat to AIDS-Stricken Wife": United Press International (11/17/88); Bridgeton, N.J.--The state of New Jersey has brought charges against a man for allegedly trying to disconnect intravenous tubing from his wife, who is infected with the AIDS virus. According to Assistant Cumberland County Prosecutor Ronda Forstein, Julio Estepa, who claimed the incident was a mercy-killing, has tried t
"Salk Institute President Contracts AIDS": United Press International (11/17/88); La Jolla, Calif.--Dr. Frederic de Hoffman, president and cofounder of the Salk Institute, announced he was leaving the prestigious research center immediately following his diagnosis with AIDS. De Hoffman has served the institute for 18 years. He contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during coronary surgery in March
"Chicken Pox Presents Big Problem for AIDS Patients": United Press International (11/17/88); Hooper, Celia; Chicago--Chicken pox can cAUse severe problems for people with AIDS, Dr. Savita Phawa of Cornell University Medical College s North Shore University Hospital reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association . In her report on a 4-year-old child with AIDS, Phawa notes that treatment of the condition with low d
"Bush to Get Tough on AIDS Discrimination, Doctor Says": United Press International (11/17/88); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--An associate of President-elect George Bush said Thursday that Bush would act more strongly against the threat of AIDS than did his predecessor. According to Dr. Burton Lee III, who served on the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, Bush will take stronger steps to end AIDS
"A Combination of Drugs Should be Used to Fight the AIDS Virus": United Press International (11/17/88); To combat AIDS, researchers should be looking for the right combination of drugs to fight HIV and prevent the body from releasing chemicals that lower its natural defenses, French AIDS researcher Luc Montagnier said Wednesday. We hope to have some combination of these drugs in the future, said the head of virus studies
"Gay Rights Conference": New York Times (11/17/88); Binder, David; Members of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will gather in New York tomorrow for a three-day conference to map out strategies for their civil rights movement. Among the topics at the conference, whose theme is Creating Change, will be AIDS legislation, city and state laws on homosexual rights, lobbying, and work
"Maxicare Unit Settlement": Wall Street Journal (11/17/88), P. B9; An agreement has been reached between the San Francisco district attorney and a health maintenance organization accused of refusing to allow enrollment of some applicants for fear of AIDS. In the case, which involved HealthAmerica Corp., a unit of Maxicare Health Plans Inc., the HMO agreed to pay $250,000 in cash and m
"State Court Rules for Insurance Firms on AIDS Regulations": Wall Street Journal (11/17/88), P. B9; The state insurance commissioner does not have the AUthority to issue regulations restricting AIDS testing of potential policyholders, according to a recent ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In its decision, the court said it is for the Legislature to decide what AUthority the commissioner has to regulate life
"Dutch Battle AIDS with Tapes": Associated Press (11/16/88); Amsterdam, Netherlands--Illiterate prostitutes from Ghana and Spanish-speaking countries will receive portable stereo cassette players with recorded information about AIDS as part of a program to cut the spread of HIV, city spokeswoman Henriette Loogman said Wednesday. The $8,000 project, sponsored by a condom manufact
"Is Drug Development Inhibited?": Associated Press (11/16/88); Washington--Huge jury awards in drug manufacturer liability cases are impeding the research and development of new treatments for AIDS and other diseases, drug manufacturers and medical groups said Wednesday. Bruce J. Brennan of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association said, The current climate has created strong d
"AIDS Virus Estimate Said Low": Associated Press (11/16/88); The Centers for Disease Control estimate of the number of people in the U.S. infected with the AIDS virus may be as little as half the actual number, says Admiral James Watkins, the head of the Presidential Commission on AIDS. According to Watkins, the CDC figure of 1 million to 1.5 million Americans is low, and he cla
"Pop Magazine Banned for Distributing Condoms": Reuters (11/16/88); Sugo, Aly; Picketers in New York distributed free condoms to passersby outside Waldenbooks Tuesday night to protest the bookstore chain s decision not to sell a copy of Spin magazine that contains a free condom. The pop magazine, which promotes safe sex in the age of AIDS, included the condom along with an editorial that explicit
"New Drug May Help Protect Hemophiliacs from AIDS Virus": Reuters (11/16/88); Frank, Jacqueline; A new blood factor developed by the Genetics Institute of Cambridge, Mass. may protect hemophiliacs from contamination by AIDS through blood transfusions. The blood-clotting agent is made from hamster cells instead of human blood plasma. Genetics expert Randy KAUfman said his group of researchers isolated the factor 8
"Zairean AIDS Researcher Remains the Center of Controversy": Reuters (11/16/88); Roddy, Michael; A Zairean doctor who announced last year that he had discovered an effective, non-toxic cure for AIDS, recently announced a new and improved version of the drug. Dr. Lurhuma Zirmwabagabo last year reported the discovery of MM-1--named for Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak--and this
"Zairean AIDS Researcher Remains the Center of Controversy": Reuters (11/16/88); Roddy, Michael; A Zairean doctor who announced last year that he had discovered an effective, non-toxic cure for AIDS, recently announced a new and improved version of the drug. Dr. Lurhuma Zirmwabagabo last year reported the discovery of MM-1--named for Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak--and this
"Head of Federal Government's Battle Against AIDS No Longer Hopes to Find" a Cure in His Lifetime...: United Press International (11/16/88); Dallas--The massive research effort against AIDS will find drugs to extend the lives of people with the disease, but will not find a cure in his lifetime, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS program. In a news conference, Fauci said, I don t think that AIDS is going to be wiped
"Bishops Study Vatican Document": Associated Press (11/16/88); Washington--The Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. are holding their annual meeting this week in the nation s capital, and they have promised to publish major statements some time next year on issues ranging from AIDS to the situation in the Middle East. Claiming the bishops, who are members of the National Conference
"Cocaine Addicts Pose a Major New Threat in the Spread of AIDS...": United Press International (11/16/88); San Francisco--Intravenous drug addicts who are turning from heroin to a cheaper drug--cocaine--pose a major new threat in the spread of HIV among the heterosexual population, warns University of California-San Francisco researcher Andrew Moss. At a time when gay men in the city have changed their behavior and cut new
"For Sale: 'Engineered' Mice": Washington Post (11/16/88), P. A1; Galdwell, Malcolm; The first animals ever to be patented in the U.S. are now for sale, according to the Du Pont Co., which holds the patent. The animals, mice called OncoMice becAUse they carry human cancer genes, or oncogenes, will be sold for as much as $100 apiece. Du Pont officials say the mice will be sold to pharmaceutical companie
"Firm Won't Ask U.S. to Allow Use of Drug in Pre-AIDS Patients": Wall Street Journal (11/16/88), P. B4; A Newport Beach, Calif.-based pharmaceuticals company announced Tuesday it has decided not to seek federal approval for the use of its drug Isoprinosine on certain pre-AIDS conditions. According to Newport Pharmaceuticals, tests of Isoprinosine on patients with ARC indicated the drug was not effective in treating those
"Advertising: Resistance to U.S. Ads About AIDS": New York Times (11/16/88), P. D19; Rothenberg, Randall; When President Reagan signed the omnibus health legislation on Nov. 4, he allowed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to spend up to $45 million on advertising to raise public awareness on AIDS. The advertising industry, often regarded as a hotbed of avaracious hucksterism, says it is concerned that paid AIDS ad
"Judge Refuses to List AIDS as Sexual Disease": New York Times (11/16/88), P. B1; Lewin, Tamar; New York s Health Commissioner does not have to list AIDS and HIV infection as communicable and sexually transmitted diseases, a State Supreme Court justice in Albany ruled yesterday. Justice F. Warren Travers ruled that David Alexrod had the discretion to determine whether AIDS should be placed on the list. Once such
"Judge: AIDS No Escape Excuse": Associated Press (11/15/88); Williamsport, Pa.--A judge seeking AIDS treatment is no excuse to escape prison. U.S. Senior Judge Malcolm Muir sentenced Nicholas Juliano to an additional 18 months for escaping from the Allenwood Federal Prison Camp. Juliano was serving three years for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Wayne P
"Filtration Device to be Tested": Associated Press (11/15/88); Seattle--Tests may begin soon on a blood filtration device to treat AIDS patients, according to officials of Imre Corp., the company that developed the device. The Prosorba Column is a silica-filled cylinder that filters blood outside the body. Imre Vice President of Medical Affairs Dr. Carl M. Pinsky said the company
"Researchers Seek Answers to the AIDS Riddle in Zaire": Reuters (11/15/88); Kinshasa--Dr. Jean-Jacques SalAUn, head of the French-financed National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa is involved in plans for largescale testing of a vaccine developed by Dr. Daniel Zagury, who stunned the world by injecting himself with the vaccine two years ago. Despite rumors that 1000 Zairean soldie
"Co-Discoverers of AIDS Virus Says Progress is Being Made Toward a Cure": United Press International (11/15/88); Ricks, Delthia; Los Angeles--We are still a long way from curing AIDS, but new experiments are producing exciting leads, say Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier, who have received credit as co-discoverers of the virus that cAUses AIDS. Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and Montagnier, from the Pasteur Institute in
"Health AUthorities LAUnch New Efforts...": United Press International (11/15/88); San Francisco--Health officials have lAUnched a new program intended to reach 115,000 people who received blood transfusions in San Francisco. Earlier attempts to alert the recipients, who may be at risk for exposure to the AIDS virus, have been unsuccessful due to changes of address and the inability of some recipient
"Study Finds AIDS Education Success": United Press International (11/15/88); Boston--Massachusetts teenagers are engaging in more sexual activity, but they are also using condoms more, according to a study by Boston University s School of Public Health. The study, which involved 825 randomly selected youths in 1986 and 1762 in 1988, found that the percentage of young people between 16 and 19 wh
"Condoms Are Free For All in Sweden's New Anti-AIDS Drive": Reuters (11/15/88); Stockholm--Swedish officials announced Tuesday that they will supply city youngsters from the age of 14 with unlimited free condoms to fight the spread of AIDS. Young Swedes aged 14 to 25 will receive the condoms along with literature explaining why they should be used, said City Council Chairman Lennart Loof. The cond
"Koop Cites Poverty and Bias as Factors in AIDS Spread": New York Times (11/15/88), P. C9; Surgeon General C. Everett Koop spoke to a meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges on Sunday about AIDS. Koop cited discrimination, poverty and language problems as major factors in the spread of the fatal disease. Those factors are as much at the heart of the epidemic as promiscuity and drug use, he sa
"AIDS Research Shows Benefit of Cancer Drug": Wall Street Journal (11/15/88), P. B5; Ruffenach, Glenn; The results of a study to be published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that a drug manufactured to treat breast cancer could alleviate the weight loss and progressive weakness many AIDS patients suffer. The drug is called Megace, and is made by Bristol-Myers Co. The study, conducted at the Northwestern
"Researchers Discover How AIDS Virus Lurks in Bone Marrow Cells": New York Times (11/15/88), P. C3; Kolata, Gina; A new study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) may help scientists understand why the AIDS virus is difficult to eliminate and why the human immune system seems so helpless to fight it. According to the study, HIV erodes the cells that support a large part of the immune system, very immature bone marrow cells. Th
"New York City Youth: Living in the Shadow of AIDS": New York Times (11/14/88), P. A1; Daley, Suzanne; For New York City s street kids, those who live on the street and survive by selling their bodies, AIDS is just another piece of bad news. According to Dr. James Kennedy, the medical director of Covenant House, a private social welfare agency, most street youths aren t particularly fearful of the deadly virus, and mere
"The Drug-Approval Dilemma": Newsweek (11/14/88) Vol. 112, No. 20, P. 63; Clark, Matt; The Food and Drug Administration s ( FDA ) Damned if you do, damned if you don t position has become even more uncomfortable during the AIDS epidemic. AIDS activists, joined by the Reagan administration, have pushed for quicker access to promising drugs. Some consumer advocates, however, argue that easing regulatory pr
"A Scary Little Survey of AIDS on Campus": U.S. News + World Report (11/14/88) Vol. 105, No. 19, P. 12; Health professionals hope that alarming preliminary results in a survey of HIV infection among college students will, in the words of American College Health Association President Richard Keeling, wake some people up and make every college realize it has an obligation to educate its students. Although the study showed
"The FDA: Quicker O.K.'s May be a Long Time Coming": Business Week (11/14/88) No. 3079, P. 154; Hamilton, Joan O'C.; Frank Young s late-October announcement that the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) would streamline regulations for the approval of drugs for life-threatening illnesses did not receive the applAUse the FDA commissioner expected. Stock prices did not rise, and activists charged the agency with attempting to boost the
"Amid the Ivy, Cases of AIDS": Newsweek (11/14/88) Vol. 112, No. 20, P. 65; Leslie, Connie; A University of Wisconsin in Madison official celebrated Safer Sex Awareness Day last September by dressing as Pat the Prophylactic, a six-foot condom and host of the school s Condom Olympics. The humorous test of the strength of 10,000 condoms underscored a more serious message--college campuses are not safe havens fr
"Cabot Medical Corp. Introduces Berkeley SafeTouch Collection System": Business Wire (11/14/88); Langhorne, Pa.--The Berkeley SafeTouch Collection System will reduce the risk of HIV and Hepatitis B exposure from patient tissue and body fluids during OB/BYN surgical procedures, Cabot Medical Corp. announced Monday. The new product uses a patented clear tissue trap and a separate, unbreakable fluid collection contai
"On the AIDS Frontline in Zaire, a Nation Faces Health Crisis": Reuters (11/14/88); Roddy, Michael; Kinshasa, Zaire--Zaire, a country that is impoverished despite vast mineral wealth, faces an enormous public health crisis triggered by AIDS. The World Bank predicts that 18,000 Zaireans will die of the disease in 1989, almost as many as the reported total in all of Africa to date. The report says that if the disease g
"$4.8M for AIDS Research in Jersey": United Press International (11/14/88); Newark--The National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $5 million to researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The money will be used to study how HIV passes from pregnant mothers to their babies. Dr. James Oleske, Dr. Edward Connor, and Dr. Joseph Apuzzio at the University s New Jers
"AIDS Seen as Suicide Method": United Press International (11/14/88); Stein, Rob; Boston-- Passive suicide may be the aim of many people who engage in unsafe sex despite the knowledge they may be exposed to HIV, say researchers at Tennessee State University in Nashville. Researcher Roe Roberts and a doctoral student, Philip Plubell, studied 152 students and found that those who engaged in high risk
"Ciba-Geigy to Take $20 Million Stake in Chiron": United Press International (11/14/88); Emeryville, Calif.--Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer Ciba-Geigy will buy 1 million shares of California s Chiron Corp., the biotechnology company announced Monday. The $20 million deal involves 7.9 percent of Chiron, and the new common stock issue will sell for $20 a share. Ciba-Geigy will not be represen
"The Free-Needle Program Is Under Way and Under Fire": New York Times (11/13/88), P. 6; Lambert, Bruce; New York City s controversial free-needle program began last week amid a flurry of debate over whether the program is the proper response to the spread of AIDS among intravenous drug users. Opponents of the plan include representatives of the black and Hispanic communities, who feel the program will promote drug use, n
"The Case Against Placebos in AIDS Drug Trials": Gay Community News (11/13/88) Vol. 16, No. 18, P. 3; Rose, Steve; There are practical as well as humanitarian reasons to discontinue the Food and Drug Administration-mandated practice of placebo-controlled trials, writes Steve Rose, a person with AIDS. Federal clinical trials are often the way for people with AIDS to receive promising new treatments, but patients often are reluctant
"AIDS Legal Services Project in Texas": Gay Community News (11/13/88) Vol. 16, No. 18, P. 2; Fechner, Jennifer; A statewide tollfree AIDS Legal Assistance Line is now available for people with HIV infection in Texas. The AIDS Legal Resource Project of the Texas Human Rights Foundation established the service, which provides legal assistance and attorney referral to HIV-positive people and people with AIDS and ARC. The project co
"Heroin Problem Growing in Italy Growing at Alarming Rate": San Francisco Examiner (11/13/88), P. A28; Gruber, Ruth E.; Italy s heroin population has grown from 30,000 in 1975 to between 200,000 and 300,000. The growing number of addicts has coincided with an increase in HIV infection. Two-thirds of people with AIDS in Italy are intravneous drug users. As the crisis grows, so does the controversy among politicians and social workers abo
"AIDSWEEK:The World": San Francisco Examiner (11/13/88), P. A8; Hilton, Bruce; A London firm, LEP Scientific Limited, announced a new HIV testing machine that uses a process similar to genetic fingerprinting to find the virus. The machine bypasses the wait for antibodies to develop, has results in hours, and is 99 percent accurate. It costs less than $11,000.
"AIDSWEEK: Coming Soon: Son of Prop. 102": San Francisco Examiner (11/13/88), P. A8; Hilton, Bruce; California s Proposition 102 lost after its opponents spent $3 million against it. However, Neil Schram of the American Civil Liberties Union says it will be back in another form. Schram says it is going to get worse in the next three years...there will be greater pressure to reintroduce these kinds of initiatives. On
"AIDS Legal Services Project in Texas": Gay Community News (11/13/88) Vol. 16, No. 18, P. 2; Fechner, Jennifer; A statewide tollfree AIDS Legal Assistance Line is now available for people with HIV infection in Texas. The AIDS Legal Resource Project of the Texas Human Rights Foundation established the service, which provides legal assistance and attorney referral to HIV-positive people and people with AIDS and ARC. The project co
"Heroin Problem Growing in Italy Growing at Alarming Rate": San Francisco Examiner (11/13/88), P. A28; Gruber, Ruth E.; Italy s heroin population has grown from 30,000 in 1975 to between 200,000 and 300,000. The growing number of addicts has coincided with an increase in HIV infection. Two-thirds of people with AIDS in Italy are intravneous drug users. As the crisis grows, so does the controversy among politicians and social workers abo
"AIDSWEEK:The World": San Francisco Examiner (11/13/88), P. A8; Hilton, Bruce; A London firm, LEP Scientific Limited, announced a new HIV testing machine that uses a process similar to genetic fingerprinting to find the virus. The machine bypasses the wait for antibodies to develop, has results in hours, and is 99 percent accurate. It costs less than $11,000.
"AIDSWEEK: Coming Soon: Son of Prop. 102": San Francisco Examiner (11/13/88), P. A8; Hilton, Bruce; California s Proposition 102 lost after its opponents spent $3 million against it. However, Neil Schram of the American Civil Liberties Union says it will be back in another form. Schram says it is going to get worse in the next three years...there will be greater pressure to reintroduce these kinds of initiatives. On
"Minorities-AIDS Tie Discussed": Associated Press (11/13/88); Chicago--The numbers don t begin to tell the story of AIDS, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said in a press conference Sunday before he addressed the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Minorities, poverty, discrimination, access to care...all these are part of the whole story, Koop said. O
"AIDS Drug Research is to be Extended to Communities": United Press International (11/13/88); Hooper, Celia; Chicago--The testing of new AIDS drugs will expand to include groups who now fall outside the reach of large academic centers, National Institutes for Health (NIH) Assistant Director for AIDS Research Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. Fauci, addressing the American Association of Medical Colleges, said that within the cur
"CDC: 5,000 AIDS Births in 1988": Associated Press (11/13/88); Philadelphia--The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predicts that 5000 HIV-positive women will give birth this year, CDC AIDS Program Director James Curran said Saturday. Many of the infants will die of AIDS during the first few years of their lives, Curran said. The CDC official said the births are particularly tragic
"Viruses Revisited": New York Times Magazine (11/13/88), P. 70; Henig, Robin Marantz; The study of viruses has recently become one of the most important concepts in medical research, and some experts feel it could lead us to revolutionary new treatments. Viruses are now thought to have played a vital role in not only the history of human suffering, but in the evolutionary process as well. They are conne
"AIDS Toll Underestimated in IV Drug Users": Science News (11/12/88) Vol. 134, No. 20, P. 311; Fackelmann, K.; AIDS-related deaths among New York City s intravenous (IV) drug abusers are greatly underestimated, according to a report in the Nov. 11 Science magazine by Don Des Jarlais of the New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services, Rand L. Stoneburner of the New York City Department of Health, and their colleagues. Be
"Pope Believes Contraception Unacceptable, Even With AIDS": Reuters (11/12/88); Pullella, Philip; Vatican City--Pope John PAUl says no personal or social circumstance could justify the use of contraceptives, including using condoms to protect against AIDS. In one of his toughest stands ever against artificial birth control, the Pope asserts that the Catholic church s ban must be respected becAUse it was divinely in
"A Larger Spectrum of Severe HIV-1-Related Disease in Intravenous Drug" Users in New York City: Science (11/11/88) Vol. 242, No. 4880, P. 916; Stoneburner, Rand L.; Deaths among IV drug users in New York City increased from 492 in 1981 to 1996 in 1986, an annual rate of increase of 32 percent, says researchers Rand L. Stoneburner and Don C. Des Jarlais and their colleagues. That total included 902 AIDS deaths, but many of the others were from infectious diseases that may have been
"France Boosts AIDS Funds": Science (11/11/88) Vol. 242, No. 4880, P. 862; Dickson, David; France announced early this month that it will spend $25 million on AIDS in 1989, a figure that brings it in line with spending with countries such as Britain and West Germany . In announcing the new funds, Health Minister ClAUde Evin said, both health needs, and the industrial and scientific stakes, mean that it is
"No Longer Ignored, AIDS Funds Just Keep Growing": Science (11/11/88) Vol. 242, No. 4880, P. 858; Booth, William; This year, AIDS funding, now approaching $1.3 billion, will pass heart disease funding and become the largest program in the federal health bureAUcracy. The committment to fighting a disease that largely strikes gay men and drug addicts is remarkable considering the intolerance Congress and the administration often sho
"No Longer Ignored, AIDS Funds Just Keep Growing": Science (11/11/88) Vol. 242, No. 4880, P. 858; Booth, William; This year, AIDS funding, now approaching $1.3 billion, will pass heart disease funding and become the largest program in the federal health bureAUcracy. The committment to fighting a disease that largely strikes gay men and drug addicts is remarkable considering the intolerance Congress and the administration often sho
"U.S. Cities Struggle to Implement Needle Exchanges Despite Apparent" Success in European Cities: Journal of the American Medical Association (11/11/88) Vol. 260, No. 18, P. 2620; Raymond, Chris Anne; Following fierce public debate, Portland, Ore., and New York City have begun pilot programs to test the effectiveness of dispensing free needles to drug addicts to stem the spread of AIDS. The politically charged nature of the experiment, however, may mean that combatants for and against the idea of giving needles to a
"Group Announces Revised AIDS Info Cards for Police": Washington Blade (11/11/88) Vol. 19, No. 46, P. 19; Howard, Wendy; Revised and updated AIDS information cards for police are available from the Human Rights Resource Center (HRCC), a national information clearinghouse for law enforcement agencies and educational institutions. The cards describe the level of risk associated with activities that police officers commonly perform. The poc
"Some Virginia Shelters Won't House Infected People": Washington Blade (11/11/88) Vol. 19, No. 46, P. 19; Howard, Wendy; HIV-positive people are not welcome at two Christian-sponsored shelters for the homeless in Virginia. Other shelters say they deal with such people on a case-by-case basis. According to a report in the Norfolk, Va., gay newspaper, Our Own, the Norfolk Union Mission will transfer a person it discovers to be HIV-positive
"Activists Hope Bush Will Be Better on AIDS Than Reagan": Washington Blade (11/11/88) Vol. 19, No. 46, P. 1; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; AIDS activists and gay leaders have hope that President-elect George Bush will fight AIDS harder than President Reagan. Jeff Levi, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said, The bottom line is we are seeing the end of an era where a president actively denied the existence of the AIDS crisis.
"A Six-Year Follow-up of HIV-Infected Homosexual Men with Lymphadenopathy": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/11/88) Vol. 260, No. 18, P. 2694; Kaplan, Jonathan E.; In a follow-up of 75 HIV-positive homosexual men with generalized lymphadenopathy that began in Atlanta in 1982 and 1983, 22, or 29 percent, had developed AIDS by Nov. 30, 1987. Two cases developed in each of the first three years following the onset of lymphadenopathy. Years four, five, and six showed six, seven, and
"AIDS Reporting Initiative Likely Will Return...": United Press International (11/11/88); Sacramento--Despite the two-to-one margin of defeat for California s Proposition 102, spokesmen on both sides of the measure predict similar measures will appear on future ballots. Dr. Stephen Morin, chairman of the American Psychological Association s AIDS task force and an opponent of Prop. 102, predicted mounting pr
"The Wellcome Formula for Success": Financial Times (11/10/88), P. 29; Marsh, Peter; The announcement of U.K. pharmaceutical company Wellcome s yearlong profits through AUg. 30 was expected to raise more questions about the company s profits on Retrovir, or AZT . Although the only approved AIDS drug for the past 19 months, new drugs that may be available in two or three years make Retrovir s future clo
"Asia May Escape AIDS Explosion, WHO Official Says": Reuters (11/10/88); Chua, Reginald; The world-wide AIDS epidemic may spare Asia, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) official. I think the proportion of cases from Asia will decrease, said the official, who declined to be identified becAUse WHO has yet to approve his projections. Asian AIDS cases should make up less than 2000 of the expected w
"A Lonely Dissent on 'Yellow Rain'": New York Times (11/10/88), P. A30; A recent case in the Soviet Union and the reaction to it accurately showcase the responsibility of scientists to speak out when they have special knowledge, say the editors of the New York Times. Roald Sagdeyev, past director of the Soviet Institute of Space Science, criticized his colleagues for their failure to prote
"The People Also Have Spoken on Issues From AIDS to Taxes to Nuclear" Plants: Wall Street Journal (11/10/88), P. A24; Voters in California made choices on two AIDS initiatives on Tuesday s ballot, rejecting a measure that would have forced the divulging of HIV-positive patients names but approving another which calls for AIDS tests for suspects in some crimes. Proposition 102, sponsored by tax reform leader PAUl Gann and Rep. William
"Japanese Join World Push to Cure AIDS": Wall Street Journal (11/10/88), P. B4; Graven, Kathryn; In Japan , the spread of AIDS is blamed on bad Western influences, but despite the few cases the Japanese admit to having, Japanese pharmaceutical companies have energetically joined the race to develop AIDS drugs. One Japanese physician who cares for AIDS patients says that while no one wants to face the AIDS issue, t
"Current Trends: Trends in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among" Civilian Applicants for Military Service--United States, October 1985-March 1988: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (11/10/88); Peterson, M.R.; The seroprevalence rate among military applicants tested for HIV dropped from 1.5 per 1000 following the first six-month period beginning in October 1985 to 1.2 per 1000 for the period ending in March 1988, according to this Centers for Disease Control (CDC) update. To date, the military has tested 1,525,869 recruits f
"Loss of 102 Sends Signal to Pres.-Elect": Bay Area Reporter (11/10/88) Vol. 18, No. 45, P. 1; Newquist, Jay; Elated and relieved AIDS activists and public health officials in California said they hoped the defeat of Proposition 102, the mandatory reporting measure, sent a message to George Bush. Dana Van Gorder of the No on 102 campaign said he hoped the defeat would let the president-elect know that California rejects such r
"Wellcome Pretax Profit Rose 31 Percent for Year Ended AUg. 27": McGraw-Hill News (11/10/88); Wellcome PLC, the British drug company that manufacturers Retrovir ( AZT ), announced a pretax profit of 221.2 million pounds, or $391.5 million, for the year ended AUg. 27. The profit is a 31 percent increase over the previous 12-month period. The company said 42 percent of its revenue and 60 percent of its trading pr
"'Dionne Warwick + Friends' Documents AIDS Benefit Weekend": Business Wire (11/09/88); New York-- Dionne Warwick + Friends, a follow-up to last month s That s What Friends Are For, will air on Showtime Nov. 12 at 10 P.M. The special will feature interviews and scenes from the golf and tennis tournaments and the Saturday night dinner from the Warwick Foundation s AIDS Benefit Gala Weekend in June. Perform
"CMA Reaction to Prop 102 Defeat": Business Wire (11/09/88); San Francisco--The defeat of Proposition 102, the Dannemeyer AIDS Initiative, by California voters brought this reaction from California Medical Association President LAUrens P. White: By defeating this misguided scheme, the voters of California have once again demonstrated their common sense in dealing with AIDS. They
"'No on 96' March...": United Press International (11/09/88); West Hollywood, Calif.--Protesters chanting No on 96 marched on Sunset Boulevard and other major streets in this heavily gay city to protest California s passage of Proposition 96. The ballot proposition will allow for courts to order the testing of persons charged with sexual offenses or with certain offenses against
"Virus Infection Study Attracts More Than 2400 Volunteers": United Press International (11/09/88); Baltimore--An AIDS virus infection study at the University of Maryland has attracted 2400 student volunteers. Officials said the drive to recruit students will continue until the goal of 6000 volunteers is met. The study is the first of its kind at a major U.S. university, and while Maryland University officials say th
"Calif. AIDS Measure Defeated": Associated Press (11/09/88); Los Angeles--With 39.3 percent of California precincts reporting, Proposition 102 was failing by a margin of 63.9 percent to 36.1 percent. A second AIDS measure, Proposition 96, was ahead, 63.6 percent to 36.4 percent. The first measure would have forced doctors to report AIDS patients and required health professionals
"AIDS Deaths Climbing in Britain, N. Ireland": Journal of Commerce (11/09/88), P. 9A; The British Department of Health announced Tuesday that more than 1000 people in Britain and Northern Ireland have died from AIDS. The total number of AIDS cases in Britain and the province of Northern Ireland reached 1862 last month with the addition of 68 new cases, the department said.
"Company FAUlted for AIDS Claim": Associated Press (11/08/88); Wilmington, Del.--The Environmental Protection Agency has filed a civil complaint against Airwick Professional Products Delaware Inc., a Wilmington company that allegedly promoted a bathroom disinfectant as a protection against the AIDS virus. Richard Ventresca, president of Airwick, denied all charges, saying, It didn
"AIDS in the 1990s: Unstoppable Plague or Preventable Malady?": Business Wire (11/08/88); Pasadena--This weekend, Nov. 12 and 13, an internationally syndicated television program will look at the history and development of AIDS. David Hulme, the host of The World Tomorrow, which will be seen in the U.S., Canada , Europe, the Carribean, and AUstralia, will interview international AIDS experts and discuss alt
"Baby Dies of AIDS in Soviet Black Sea Resort": Reuters (11/08/88); Soviet newspaper Stroitelnaya Gazeta reported Tuesday that a four-month old baby boy has died of AIDS in the Black Sea resort of Odessa, the second reported Soviet AIDS death. The Soviet press reported the death of a Leningrad woman, Olga Gayevskaya, last month. Doctors reported that the baby s 19-year-old mother had a
"Elizabeth Ramos, 33; Won an AIDS Verdict": New York Times (11/08/88), P. D23; Elizabeth Ramos, a 33-year-old woman with AIDS who won a $750,000 jury verdict in an AIDS malpractice suit, died Friday in Boston. In January, a jury decided that her physician, Dr. Kenneth Bernstein, was negligent in diagnosing and treating the woman in 1985. Ramos, whose pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was originally
"Preliminary Results of College Survey Suggest AIDS Virus is Present Among" Students: Washington Post (Health) (11/08/88), P. 5; Thompson, Larry; The tiny bit of information available from a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggests that HIV infection rates in the student population match those of other population samples tested for the virus. An analysis of the blood of 5000 of the 20,000 students that will take part suggests that three of every 1000 students
"D.C. Clinic Suit Alleges AIDS Bias": Washington Post (11/08/88), P. B3; Priest, Dana; Washington, D.C. s Whitman Walker Clinic and Gary Thomas, one of its patients, Monday filed what housing officials believe is the first class-action lawsuit in the region to allege housing discrimination against people with AIDS. The suit alleges that Arlington physician Mounzer F. Sibay refused to rent a house he owne
"Bumper Crop of Initiatives Awaits Voters in 41 States": Washington Post (11/08/88), P. A14; Peterson, Cass; The election ballots that voters in many states will cast today are full of initiatives ranging from proposals to allow 17-year olds to vote to banning corporate ownership of pig farms. The California ballot contains quite a spate of initiatives, not the least of which are two AIDS proposals that have raised a great de
"Needle Program Is a Small One to Test Concept": New York Times (11/08/88), P. B5; Altman, Lawrence K.; The free needle exchange program for intravenous drug users that began Monday in New York City is a pilot program designed to determine whether a larger-scale study is feasible. While the present experiment will likely shed some light on whether a needle exchange program is an effective way to stop the spread of AIDS a
"Two Addicts Seek Needles on First Day": New York Times (11/08/88), P. B1; Daley, Suzanne; The controversial needle exchange program, the center of much debate in New York City, attracted only two drug addicts on its first day. But city Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph said he was pleased with the turnout, which he said he expected to be low at first. The needle exchange program, supportd by Mayor Edward K
"AIDS Housing: Too Little, Too Late": Village Voice (11/08/88) Vol. 33, No. 45, P. 15; Borges, Ed; A hearing on homeless people with AIDS that City Council President Andrew Stein scheduled for Nov. 7 got Mayor Ed Koch moving. Koch s office leaked a memo from the Mayor to Deputy Mayor Stanley Brezenoff instructing Brezenoff to create housing for homeless people with AIDS at eight locations. No money has yet been budg
"Miles to Appeal AIDS Award": Business Insurance (11/07/88) Vol. 22, No. 45, P. 2; A major pharmaceutical company says it will appeal the $1.6 million a jury awarded to Randy J. Jones of Douglasville, Ga., who contracted AIDS after using a blood-clotting product the company manufactured. A jury found that Miles Laboratory Inc., of Elkhart, Ind., was liable becAUse it manufactured the product, Koate,
"Inmates May Sue Over Mandatory AIDS Testing": United Press International (11/07/88); Atlanta--A Georgia state law mandating AIDS testing of each new prison inmate is likely to be challenged when a test case in Alabama is resolved, said a Georgia Legal Service attorney. According to Bob Cullen, who represents inmates, inmates have complained that testing and the resulting segregation from the rest of th
"AIDS Activists Seek Drug Treatment Center": Journal of Commerce (11/07/88), P. 15A; A group of protestors who last week pressured Blue Cross + Blue Shield of Massachusetts into covering the AIDS treatment aerosolized pentamidine blocked entrances to the Boston headquarters of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. in an effort to force them to cover the treatment as well. Pentamidine is prescribed to
"Governor's Backing Ignites Fight on AIDS Measure": New York Times (11/07/88), P. B8; Reinhold, Robert; California Gov. George Deukmejian s unexpected endorsement last week of Proposition 102 brought a wave of new attention to the controversial AIDS reporting measure. The endorsement galvanized opposition to the measure, which includes university presidents, health experts, members of the state s AIDS Advisory Committee,
"Needle Exchange Angers Many Minorities": New York Times (11/07/88), P. B1; Marriott, Michel; New York City s medical and political leadership are deeply divided over the city s pilot needle exchange program, which begins today. Criminal justice officials are also troubled by the program to exchange new needles for old ones. Black and Hispanic leaders, joined by some drug treatment experts, have been vehement i
"Gay Voters an Unknown Factor in Election": Washington Post (11/07/88), P. A20; Mintz, John; Although the huge majority of gay voters share a main concern--AIDS--lobbyist Stephen Smith of the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF) says it is a mistake to assume that gays vote as a bloc. The gay leadership is solidly Democratic, says Smith, but gays cover the entire political spectrum. Another HRCF official Eric Ros
"Uganda Claims Success in Battling AIDS": Insight (11/07/88) Vol. 4, No. 45, P. 40; Uganda s National Committee on Prevention of AIDS reports that the country is having some success in the war against AIDS. Recent figures on the zero grazing campaign shows fewer visitors to sex education clinics, which suggests that Ugandans have become less promiscuous. However, the report warned that more men are ha
"Should HIV Carriers Have Secrets?": Time (11/07/88) Vol. 132, No. 19, P. 36; California s Proposition 102 has gathered the most attention of the 29 ballot initiatives voters have to choose from this year. The measure would require the reporting of HIV-positive people and trace their sexual and needle-sharing partners. One of the several aspects of the measure that troubles opponents is the requ
"Sold: A French AIDS Quilt": Newsweek (11/07/88) Vol. 112, No. 19, P. 130; Ames, Katrine; Paris nightclub owner ClAUde Challes paid $35,000 at an Oct. 26 AIDS benefit for a 10-foot-square AIDS quilt. The French quilt, designed around the theme of hearts by fashion designers Christian Lacroix, Kenzo, and others, has 36 squares. Money raised at the AUction will benefit AIDS research.
"AIDS and the Elusive Power of Belief": Newsweek (11/07/88) Vol. 112, No. 19, P. 92; Although most scientists agree HIV can kill by itself, some researchers are searching for co-factors that assist the virus in its deadly work. A few are focusing on the mind as a possible co-factor. Lydia Temoshok of the University of California, San Francisco, says that a preliminary study of 18 men with AIDS shows th
"A Weapon That Could Backfire in the War on AIDS": Business Week (11/07/88) No. 3078, P. 92; Ehrlich, Elizabeth; Although the debate over AIDS often pits public health imperatives against the rights of individuals, Elizabeth Ehrlich writes that California s Proposition 102 could damage public health efforts precisely becAUse it overrides individual rights. In addition to mandatory reporting of HIV-positive people, it would requir
"Ending Prisons as Breeding Grounds for AIDS": Gay Community News (11/06/88) Vol. 16, No. 17, P. 2; Riegle, Mike; The American Civil Liberties Union-National Prison Project in Washington, D.C., is notifying ARC/ARC/HIV-positive federal prisoners that they can join in a class action suit charging that the BureAU of Prisons is not in conformity with community standards in its medical care for prisoners with AIDS or who are carrying
"Polish Translator Needed for Safer Sex Ed Project": Gay Community News (11/06/88) Vol. 16, No. 17, P. 2; McKnight, Jennie; The newsletter of the National Leather Association of Seattle says that a project to send safer sex materials to Poland is being held up by the lack of a translator.
"AIDSWEEK: No Longer a Sentence to Quick Death": San Francisco Examiner (11/06/88), P. A4; Hilton, Bruce; The medical community is beginning to see AIDS as a chronic disease of life, not a death sentence, says southern California physician Dr. Stephen Gabin. If a person is newly diagnosed with AIDS, he says, It is not necessarily going to be a fatal illness for that person. Gabin said he did not feel that way a year and a
"Safe-Sex Poster Not for Sale?": San Francisco Examiner Image (11/06/88), P. 3; The Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) at San Francisco s City College has come under fire for a safe sex poster hanging in the group s offices. Dean of Admissions and Records LAUrent Broussal calls the poster blatantly sexually explicit and posted in a public area where everyone does not share the same values. Student me
"Early Data Issued on College AIDS Survey": New York Times (11/06/88), P. 22; Preliminary results from an HIV antibody test of 1000 students from each of 20 colleges indicate that about 3 in every 1000 students carries the fatal virus. The study, one of several conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American College Health Association to assess the prevalence of AIDS in the A
"Colleagues Turn Time into a Gift": New York Times (11/06/88), P. 22; Gross, Jane; Fellow employees of Phil Buchacher, a California State Lottery worker infected with the AIDS virus, have found a novel way to help their friend fight the ravages of the fatal disease. Workers around the state have donated 936 hours of vacation time to Buchacher through a time bank to keep him on the payroll and enrolle
"Vertical Transmission of HIV": Lancet (11/05/88) Vol. 2, No. 8619, P. 1057; Early reports about the risk of vertical--mother-to-child--transmission were misleading, says the Lancet. Many problems exist with accurately measuring the risk: insufficient information on terminated pregnancies, mothers who are not diagnosed in advance of a child s diagnosis, the persistence of maternal antibody in i
"Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Prognostic Factors of Paediatric HIV" Infection: Lancet (11/05/88) Vol. 2, No. 8619, P. 1043; Researchers participating in an Italian Multicentre Study followed 486 children born to HIV-positive mothers, 57 children infected by contaminated blood products, and 1 child for whom a personal history was not available beginning in 1985. Children infected perinatally had more varied clinical pictures and worse outcom
"Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Infection": Lancet (11/05/88) Vol. 2, No. 8619, P. 1039; A collaborative study at eight European centers is following 271 children born to HIV-infected mothers. Most of the mothers are intravenous drug users. As of June, 1988, 45 percent of the children had been followed for more than a year. Ten of the children had developed AIDS or ARC by the age of nine months, and five o
"AIDS Cases May Mount in Women": Associated Press (11/05/88); Chicago--There may soon be a rise in the number of AIDS cases reported among women, say experts. At a recent meeting of the American Medical Women s Association, researchers said the crack cocaine craze will likely result in higher rates of infection among women who have sex with intravenous drug users. Women are tradi
"Doctors to Ignore AIDS Measure": Associated Press (11/05/88); San Francisco--If the controversial AIDS initiative on the California ballot is passed on November 8, some 500 health care workers, including doctors and AIDS testing facility employees, have vowed to defy the measure. Proposition 102 calls for doctors and health care workers to report the names of people who either te
"Cuban AIDS Center 'Unsettling'": Associated Press (11/04/88); Los Angeles--Health officials returning from a four-day trip to Cuba , the only nation in the world that quarantines people infected with the AIDS virus, say that although its quarantine center is not dungeon-like, it is morally unjustified. Cuban officals told the visiting group that one-third of the nation s 10.2 mil
"World AIDS Cases Rising": United Press International (11/04/88); Callcott, John; Geneva--The World Health Organization reports the number of global AIDS cases increased by 3.6 percent last month to a total of 124,114. The U.S. accounted for three-quarters of the increase, although its share of the world total has fallen from 70 percent to 62 percent. This decrease is due to improvements by Third Wo
"President Reagan Signed Legislation Friday Establishing the First" Comprehensive Federal AIDS Program...: United Press International (11/04/88); Washington--On Friday, President Reagan signed a bill to provide for two years of funding for a wide range of AIDS testing, counseling, treatment, and research programs. The bill, which includes $400 million for block grants to states, is the first comprehensive federal AIDS measure. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who thre
"Transmission of HIV Through Bone Transplantation: Case Report and Public" Health Recommendations: Journal of the American Medical Association (11/04/88) Vol. 260, No. 17, P. 2487; A woman who denied other risk factors for AIDS developed the disease after receiving a bone transplant in November 1984 from a bone donor who was later discovered to have AIDS, according to the Centers for Disease Control s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In February 1988, tests on the woman revealed that
"Erol's Provides Free AIDS Videos and Pamphlets": Washington Blade (11/04/88) Vol. 19, No. 45, P. 19; Howard, Wendy; Washington, D.C., and Baltimore area Erol s video rental stores are offering two AIDS videos free of charge to customers. Erol s Committed to AIDS Research and Educational Support (Erol s CARES) program designed the two videos, AIDS: Everything You and Your Family Need to Know and Were Afraid to Ask and AIDS: Changing
"First AIDS Death Sets Off Fullest Soviet Debate on Disease": Washington Post (11/04/88), P. A27; Remnick, David; In October, Olga Gayevskaya of Leningrad became the first Soviet citizen to die of AIDS. The newspaper Sovyetskaya Rossiya recently focused on what it called doctors careless and inexplicable treatment of Gayevskaya, who was originally derided as a heedless prostitute. Health Minister Yuri Feodorov said doctors at Leni
"Taking the Pledge": Bay Area Reporter (11/03/88) Vol. 18, No. 44, P. 35; McMillan, Dennis; Dr. LAUrens P. White, president of the 34,000-member California Medical Association, has joined over 200 Californians in signing a petition pledging noncompliance with Proposition 102 should the AIDS testing initiative pass on Tuesday. If the measure, which requires mandatory reporting of persons testing positive for H
"AIDS Vigilers Celebrate Their Third Anniversary": Bay Area Reporter (11/03/88) Vol. 18, No. 44, P. 4; McMillan, Dennis; On Oct. 27, the ARC/AIDS Vigil celebrated its third anniversary at a makeshift campsite on San Francisco s United Nation s Plaza. About 80 people gathered to mark the 1095th day of the vigil. Three years ago, protesters chained themselves to the city s old Federal Building to protest government inaction and neglect. S
"Proposition 96 is a Civil Rights Disaster": Bay Area Reporter (11/03/88) Vol. 18, No. 44, P. 14; Hennessey, Michael; Proposition 96 s supporters say it is a protective measure for crime victims and peace officers, but it is actually a disaster for civil rights, AIDS prevention and education, and for California s county jails, says San Francisco County and City Sheriff Michael Hennessey. The law allows court-ordered HIV tests for pers
"Governor Blasted on Support for Dannemeyer Proposition": Bay Area Reporter (11/03/88) Vol. 18, No. 44, P. 1; White, Allen; Many AIDS activists feel that California Gov. George Deukmejian s endorsement of Proposition 102 may backfire, but recent polls say the election is still close. On Friday, Oct. 28, 2000 people marched through the streets of San Francisco to register their anger with the governor. Supporting activists belief that Deukme
"French to Triple AIDS Budget": Associated Press (11/03/88); Paris--French Health Minister ClAUde Evin announced Thursday that France will triple its budget for AIDS research and quadruple funding for education to prevent the spread of the disease. Evin said the government will mobilize every Frenchman and woman in the fight. Evin told the daily Le Monde that AIDS will kill more
"AIDS/HIV Continues to Decline in San Francisco": Business Wire (11/03/88); Berkeley, Calif.--The incidence of HIV infection in San Francisco has declined substantially since the first half of 1985, says a recent report from the San Francisco Men s Health Study. According to Dr. Warren Winkelstein, who directs the Men s Health Study and who is a professor of epidemiology at the University of C
"Proposition 102: Far-Reaching Threats to Patient-Physician" Confidentiality: Business Wire (11/03/88); San Mateo, Calif.--The November ballot in California has been the center of debate over several controversial initiatives, including one that would require doctors and blood banks to report the identities of those who test positive for AIDS to public health officials. The San Francisco Human Rights Commission has come
"AUstralian Addicts to Get Free Heroin in AIDS Plan": Reuters (11/03/88); Sydney--AUstralian officials announced Thursday that they will give drug users free heroin in disposable syringes in an attempt to stop the spread of HIV infection. Federal government AIDS adviser Tony Basten developed the pilot program, which the National Health and Medical Research Council adopted. A large percentage
"Judge Exercises Own Wisdom in Sentencing": United Press International (11/03/88); While most stories about prisoners with AIDS involve discrimination, isolation, and lack of medical care, a story that appeared in the Beckley Register-Herald is about a prisoner with AIDS who was treated with mercy by his sentencing judge. In the case of Willie Carroll, who has served one year of his grand larceny sen
"Deukmejian Says AIDS Measure Will Protect 'Innocent Victims'": United Press Internaitonal (11/03/88); Sacramento, Calif.--The controversial AIDS testing measure on the November ballot in California would protect...innocent people , said California Gov. George Deukmejian. The initiative, Proposition 102, would require doctors and blood banks to report to public health officials the names of those who test positive for t
"Public Health Officials May Need to Change Safe Sex Campaign Focus...": United Press International (11/03/88); Gainesville, Fla.--Safe sex campaigns may need a change in focus, says University of Florida (UF) researcher Rebecca Cline. Along with graduate student Kim Freeman, Kline interviewed 38 heterosexual students and determined that although most are knowledgable and concerned about AIDS and know they should discuss past se
"Koop Calls Prop 102 'Bad Medicine'": United Press International (11/03/88); Leavitt, Carrick; San Francisco--California ballot initiative Proposition 102 has been at the center of controversy between AIDS activists and health officials who feel it will frighten AIDS patients away from being tested and supporters of those who see it as the solution to the quiet spread of the fatal disease. Those opposing the ini
"Koch Cancels Needle Test Near School": New York Times (11/03/88), P. B1; Lewis, Neil A.; A New York City needle exchange program will be moved to another site becAUse of complaints that the original Chelsea site is next to a neighborhood elementary school, Mayor Koch announced Wednesday. City Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen C. Joseph said the program will begin Monday at the Health Department s headquarter
"AIDS-Tainted Blood is Ruled Toxic Substance": New York Times (11/03/88), P. B7; Buder, Leonard; Dr. Veronica Prego, a 30-year-old physician who has AIDS, can sue New York s Kings County Medical Center under a law covering victims of toxic substances, according to New York State Supreme Court Judge Aaron D. Bernstein. Dr. Prego contends that she became HIV-positive from a carelessly discarded syringe needle while
"Sex Attitudes More CAUtious?": Associated Press (11/02/88); London--A recent survey of sexual attitudes in Britain indicates a greater feeling of condemnation towards homosexuals. Analysts say the results could be a reaction to the spread of AIDS. According to the Social and Community Planning Research group, an independent research organization, those people likely to be less
"Study: Campus HIV Rate Is High": Associated Press (11/02/88); Atlanta--Federal health officials who are in the midst of conducting a group of surveys designed to measure the rate of HIV infection on college campuses say early numbers indicate that about 3 of every 1000 students is HIV positive. According to the Centers for Disease Control and the American College Health Associati
"AIDS Plan Drawn": United Press International (11/02/88); Providence, R.I.--Neither teachers nor children who are infected with HIV would be fired or dismissed under a preliminary set of guidelines that a state advisory committee has issued. The guidelines, which are subject to alteration and approval by the state health director, recommend that employees wear disposable glov
"Nearly 21 Percent of Chicago Intravenous Drug Users and Their Sex" Partners Infected with the AIDS Virus...: United Press International (11/02/88); Chicago--The University of Illinois at Chicago s AIDS Outreach Intervention Project released a study Wednesday claiming that almost 21 percent of the city s intravenous drug users and their sex partners are HIV positive. Prinicipal Investigator Wayne Wiebel reported that 29.5 percent of the addicts on Chicago s West Si
"Bush Nixes AIDS Discrimination": Associateed Press (11/02/88); Washington--Vice President George Bush s top domestic policy adviser said Wednesday that if he is elected president, Bush will use his power to urge federal legislation banning discrimination against those with AIDS. According to Deborah Steelman, Bush s support for recommendations from a report issued by the White Hou
"Program Offers Pediatric AIDS Treatment": United Press International (11/01/88); Baltimore--Despite a $3 million federal grant, doctors say the Johns Hopkins Hospital AIDS Clinical Trials Unit is having trouble finding enough children to conduct studies on the effects of the drug AZT on pediatrics. Clinic Dr. John Modlin said the problem is finding parents or caretakers who are reliable enough to
"AIDS Pioneer Quits": Washington Post (11/02/88), P. A12; In response to California Gov. George Deukmejian s announcement that he endorses an AIDS proposition on that state s November ballot, Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb has quit the California state AIDS Advisory Committee. Gottlieb, who is a pioneer in AIDS research, resigned in protest over Deukmejian s decision to ignore the c
"Reagan Proclaims October AIDS Awareness Month": Wall Street Journal (11/02/88), P. A22; President Reagan yesterday--Nov. 1--announced that October was AIDS Awareness Month. The White House said the late announcement was unavoidable due to legislative delays. The proclamation was apparently signed by Reagan on Oct. 28, when the White House formally recieved the document from Congress, but the announcement
"Hemophiliac with AIDS Awarded $1.6 Million in a Suit Over a Drug": New York Times (11/02/88), P. A17; A federal jury has awarded $1.6 million to Randy J. Jones in a lawsuit in which he alleged he became HIV-positive after receiving Koate, a blood-based clotting product he took to control bleeding after minor surgery in 1983. In a similar case earlier this year, a jury in Florida ruled in favor of Miles Inc., a subsidia
"P.S. 33 Fights Needle Test Next Door": New York Times (11/02/88), P. B1; Lewis, Neil A.; Community groups and school officials are upset that the New York City Health Department has chosen a Chelsea clinic next door to Public School 33 as part of a pilot program to give free needles to drug addicts. P.S. 33 Principal Dr. John V. Natoli s suggestion: don t put it there. A spokesman for Health Commissioner S
"Is Contact Tracing an Answer to AIDS?": Wall Street Journal (11/02/88), P. A20; Gapen, Phyllis; Contact tracing to locate the sexual partners of HIV-infected persons has become a cutting edge issue in public policy relating to AIDS. No states now mandate listing of sexual or intravenous drug partners, but an increasing number require the names of HIV-positive people to be reported to health departments. The diffe
"Health Experts Say Prostitutes Can Help Halt AIDS": Reuters (11/01/88); Geneva--The World Health Organization (WHO) AIDS experts said Tuesday that AUthorities should enlist the help of prostitutes in fighting the deadly disease. A report from a WHO four-day conference said prostitutes are considered to be the main source of sexually transmitted diseases in many countries. They could help
"Rarely-Used Military Facilities Nationwide may Become Drug Treatment" Centers: United Press International (11/01/88); Surgeon General C. Everett Koop announced Monday that a number of rarely used medical facilities throughout the country may soon be used as drug treatment centers. The spread of AIDS in the drug community makes it so important to establish centers quickly, Koop told the 95th meeting of the Association of Military Surge
"Public Health Officials Concerned About Proposal A and AIDS": United Press International (11/01/88); Kellogg, Sarah M.; Lansing, Mich.--Public health officials in Michigan who oppose an initiative on the November ballot that would ban the use of Medicaid funds for abortions say the proposal goes too far becAUse it doesn t provide exceptions in cases of AIDS or when the birth could threaten the life of the mother. According to Raj Weiner
"Critics Say Koch Plan Is Not Enough": United Press International (11/01/88); Andrews, Dan; New York--A meeting at City Hall Tuesday on the recently announced Koch administration plan to house homeless people with AIDS was rife with criticism for the plan from several groups. Andrew Stein, president of the City Council, called the meeting becAUse something horrible is happening , and many in the AUdience said
"Taxes, AIDS, Nuclear Power Plants Lead List of Questions on the Ballot in" States This Year: Wall Street Journal (11/1/88), P. A30; In California, where voters say they are confused by the welter of ballot measures, Proposition 102 is the center of controversy. The measure would require the reporting to public health AUthorities of anyone who has or is reasonably believed to have HIV. Confirmed or suspected carriers would be required to divulge a l
"Of a Child Who Dies of AIDS": New York Times (11/01/88), P. C22; O'Connor, John; On Tuesday night one of the major networks, CBS, will air a prime-time movie about AIDS. AIDS is a topic the networks have widely ignored becAUse of the sensitivity involved with discussing homosexuality or drug addiction. However, CBS s Go Toward the Light , is not really about AIDS, but about preparing a terminally i
"Koch Criticized on Plan to Open AIDS Shelters": New York Times (11/01/88), P. B1; McFadden, Robert D.; A plan from Mayor Edward Koch s office to create housing for AIDS patients in three boroughs of New York City has met with varied responses from city officials and community boards. According to the plan, which city officials announced Sunday, 840 patient beds would be created in 8 existing buildings by 1991 in residen
"Hepatitis B Seems to Worsen AIDS Infection": Washington Post (Health) (11/01/88), P. 10; A new study at the University of California-San Francisco reveals that the hepatitis B virus may speed the development of HIV infection. Dr. T.S. Benedict Yen, who headed the study, said if scientists can understand the mechanism that triggers proliferation of the AIDS virus they could possibly prevent the progression
"Clinicians Report Cases of AIDS Delusions, Phantom Symptoms": AIDS Alert (11/88) Vol. 3, No. 11, P. 202; Some healthy people can be so convinced they have AIDS that they develop phantom symptoms and prepare to die, according to Carlo Altamura, a psychiatrist from Milan, Italy . In a recent British Journal of Psychiatry, Altamura reported the case of a 30-year-old heterosexual man who, despite no history of family or perso
"HIV Seropositivity and IVDUs: Ethnic/Gender Comparisons": American Journal of Public Health (11/88) Vol. 78, No. 11, P. 1499; Lewis, Diane K.; Black women intravenous drug (IV) users are more likely than white women users to be HIV-positive, according to a study of women from drug treatment clinics and street settings by Diane K. Lewis of the University of California and John K. Watters of the Urban Health Study. Although more white women reported sharing nee
"Response from Drs. Lange and Snyder": Lancet (11/88) Vol. 2, No. 4871, P. 1498; Lange, W. Robert; Responding to the comments of Des Jarlais and Friedman, researchers W. Robert Lange and Frederick R. Snyder of the National Institute on Drug Abuse say that the history of ever having shared needles among both HIV-positive and HIV-negative intravenous drug users (IVDUs) is so high that it is difficult to infer a cAUse-
"Needle Sharing Among IVDUs at Risk for AIDS": American Journal of Public Health (11/88) Vol. 78, No. 11, P. 1498; Des Jarlais, Don C.; Responding to a report on HIV infection among intravenous drug users (IVDUs) in six American cities, researchers Don C. Des Jarlais and Samuel R. Friedman contend that the finding that lifetime needle sharing does not correspond with HIV infection runs counter to other studies. Furthermore, the study, by Lange and coll
"'Hospitals, Health Care Professionals, and AIDS' is Conference Theme": American Journal of Public Health (11/88) Vol. 78, No. 11, P. 1431; Hospitals, Health Care Professionals, and AIDS is the topic of a major national conference taking place Dec. 1-2, 1988 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. The American Society of Law and Medicine, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, and the Harvard AIDS Institute will sponsor the event. Leading national speake
"Screening Prospective Blood Donors for AIDS Risk Factors: Will Sufficient" Donors be Found?: American Journal of Public Health (11/88) Vol 78, No. 11, P. 1468 (Gregorio, David I.; Several factors--including increased efforts to recruit former donors and medically suited new donors, effective laboratory testing of all blood products, and expanded educational efforts to encourage self-deferral of high-risk individuals--should guarantee a safe blood supply, say David I. Gregorio and Jeanne V. Linde
"NEA LAUnches National Training for AIDS Education Program in Schools": American Journal of Public Health (11/88) Vol. 78, No. 11, P. 1414; The Centers for Disease Control has given the National Education Association (NEA) $175,000 to inagurate a five-year program to educate school-children about AIDS. Using the national Health Information Network, the NEA will develop educational strategies and train teachers. NEA expects to use 1300 existing professional
"The San Francisco Men's Health Study: Continued Decline in HIV" Seroconversion Rates Among Homosexual/Bisexual Men: American Journal of Public Health (11/88) Vol. 78, No. 11, P. 1472; Winkelstein, Warren Jr.; New infections among a sample of bisexual/homosexual men in San Francisco dropped from 5.9 percent during the first six months of 1985 to 0.7 percent during the final six months of 1987, according to Warren Winkelstein and his colleagues. The estimated rate from 1982 through 1984 was 18.4 percent. The researchers studi
"AIDS Watch: The Search for an Animal Model": Discover (11/88) Vol. 9, No. 11, P. 6; Revkin, Andrew C.; Malcolm Martin and other National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) researchers have combined novel techniques and luck to infect rabbits and mice with HIV, providing two models that, while not perfect, should help our understanding of HIV infection considerably. Martin injected a DNA copy of HIV int
"Growth Factor Boosts Cell Counts in AIDS Patients and Bone Marrow" Recipients: Research Resources Reporter (11/88) Vol. 12, No. 11, P. 1 (Proujan, Barbara J.; Granulocyte-macrohage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) can increase the number and in some cases boost the performance of white blood cells in patients with AIDS, say researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California. GM-CSF, known as a hematopoietic ( blood cell-forming ) hormone, temporarily in
"The HIV Testing Debate": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research (11/88) Vol. 3, No. 12, P. 1 (Goldblum, Peter; Those involved in the HIV-testing debate both politically and personally should see the test as one of several approaches to coping with the epidemic rather than as a goal in and of itself, say Peter Goldblum, co-AUthor of Strategies for Survival: A Gay Man s Health Manual for the Age of AIDS, and Robert Marks, assista
"AIDS: Words From the Front": Spin (11/88) Vol. 4, No. 8, P. 44; Leishman, Katie; Patent Number 4,711,876 contains the statement, It has been found that a complete immunization and remission of a person afflicted with AIDS may be acheived by the administration with typhoid vaccine with no observed toxicity. Salvatore Catapano, a 72-year-old medical technologist, the holder of the patent, believes th
"Top Spin": Spin (11/88) Vol. 4, No. 8, P. 6; Guccione, Bob Jr.; The condom included in the November issue of Spin is a statement, says Editor Bob Guccione Jr. It is an attempt, or a symbol of an attempt, to do something. BecAUse the magazine is a youth/music culture magazine, and young people tend to be the most sexually active and the most likely to feel they are invulnerable, it
"AIDS Experts Quit Over Governor's Support for Ballot Measure": Reuters (10/31/88); Los Angeles--Three members of California s AIDS Advisory Committee resigned Monday to protest Gov. George Deukmejian s endorsement of Proposition 102. Dr. Michael Gottleib, a pioneer among AIDS researchers, said the Republican governor has chosen to follow political rather than medical advice. Gottleib resigned along w
"Jail for Promoter of 1986 AIDS Initiative": United Press International (10/31/88); Los Angeles--Stanley I. Dale, a political consultant from Kansas City, Mo., received a sentence of 30 days in county jail for frAUdulently gathering signatures for a 1986 AIDS ballot initiative. Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin also placed him on three years probation and ordered him to perform 300 hours of public s
"State Urged to Extend Medicaid to AIDS Patients": United Press International (10/31/88); Allison, Sue; Nashville, Tenn.--The director of Tennessee s Hamilton County Health Department told Cabinet members that the state should expand Medicaid to cover health care for poor AIDS patients and should also contribute $100,000 to hire a social worker, medical residents, and nurses. According to Howard Roddy, the escalating AID
"Koch Picks 8 Sites in 3 Boroughs to House Homeless AIDS Patients": New York Times (10/31/88), P. A1; Marriott, Michel; New York City Mayor Edward Koch announced Sunday that the city has selected eight sites for housing for homeless people with AIDS. City officials acknowledged that they expect community opposition to the housing, which will include medical and social services, but said it is crucial. Koch said he was in total accord w
"A Venereal Disease": New York Times (10/31/88), P. A18; Klein, Robert S.; AIDS is clearly a venereal disease, says Dr. Robert Klein, writing in response to an article on a judge in Connecticut who, in a case where the prosecution wanted to test a rape suspect for HIV antibody, ruled that AIDS was not a venereal disease. Klein, co-director of Montefiore Medical Center s AIDS center, says that
"California's Prop. 102": New York Times (10/31/88), P. A18; Dannemeyer, William E.; In response to David Kirp s Op-Ed piece, California s Anti-AIDS Quackery, Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) says the success of Proposition 102, California s AIDS reporting measure, is displayed by the fact that its opponents have gone out of state to oppose it. He says the measure s opponents have linked arms with
"Work on AIDS and Fatherhood Still Theoretical": New York Times (10/31/88), P. A18; Poiesz, Bernard J.; Although recent findings that HIV-1 does not lurk in sperm cells are epidemiologically important, they should not be construed to suggest there is any less danger in the venereal spread of AIDS, says Bernard J. Poiesz, head of the division of hematology-oncology at the State University of New York Health Science Center
"Cutting Red Tape to Save Lives": Time (10/31/88) Vol. 132, No. 18, P. 57; Gorman, Christine; Under the Food and Drug Administration s ( FDA ) new streamlined procedures to approve new drugs for seriously debilitating or life-threatening illness, the development and marketing time for a new drug could be cut from eight years to as little as three years. Cooperation between the agency and pharmaceutical companie
"AIDSWEEK: Prop. 102 Support Drops Below 50%": San Francisco Examiner (10/30/88), P. A8; Hilton, Bruce; Support for Proposition 102, once as high as 72 percent, fell to under 50 percent for the first time, according to the California Poll. The bill to outlaw anonymous testing and require the reporting of actual and suspected HIV-positive persons is favored by 44 percent in October, with 32 percent opposed and 24 percent
"Prop 102: What Does Deukmejian Move Mean?": San Francisco Examiner (10/30/88), P. A1; Capps, Steven A.; Some political analysts feel that California Gov. George Deukmejian s surprise announcement that he favors Proposition 102 will not necessarily help the measure. Instead, they feel, it will focus more attention on the AIDS reporting proposition, which will in turn focus more attention on the arguments against it. That
"Election Crib Sheet: There Will be a Quiz": San Francisco Examiner (10/30/88), P. A3; Morse, Rob; One of the backers of California s Proposition 102, Dr. Stanley Monteith, wrote the John Birch Society last November when the measure was organized to urge them to start organizing around the issue of AIDS. Monteith, a member of Physicians for a Logical AIDS Response, wrote, In many ways, this horrible epidemic gives u
"ACLU Challenges Helms Amendment": Gay Community News (10/30/88) Vol. 16, No. 16, P. 1; Bull, Chris; The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed suit in federal court Oct. 20 on behalf of a coaliton of AIDS educators to challenge the so-called Helms amendment. The amendment says that funding cannot be used for AIDS education and other programs designed to promote or e
"Alien AIDS Workers Have Few Health Care Options": United Press International (10/30/88); Belle Glade, Fla.--AIDS advocates in South Florida say alien workers with AIDS have few health care options, and could go underground. According to lawyers and immigration officials, the likelihood of being denied legal residency will force dozens of illegal aliens with AIDS into hiding. Henrietta Johnson, a social wor
"Hepatitis Virus May Speed Up AIDS Virus": United Press International (10/30/88); San Francisco--Scientists at the University of California-San Francisco announced Sunday they have found evidence that the hepatitis B virus can speed up the progression of the AIDS virus. According to the researchers, in patients infected with both viruses, genes in the AIDS virus become activated and speed the develo
"HIV and Orogenital Transmission": Lancet (10/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8618, P. 1023; RozenbAUm, W.; To defend their study of five patients who they claim became HIV-infected without anogenital contact, RozenbAUm and his colleagues say that two of the five said they had only had oral sexual contact in their lifetime, and the other three had not had anal sex for periods of between six months and 10 years. The researche
"HIV and Orogenital Transmission": Lancet (10/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8618, P. 1023; Detels, R.; While disputing the claim of RozenbAUm and his colleagues that they have evidence in five cases of HIV seroconversion not related to anal intercourse, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health epidemiologists R. Detels and B. Visscher say it is important to continue studies into other possible route
"HIV and Orogenital Transmission": Lancet (10/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8618, P. 1023; Dassey, David E.; Researcher W. RozenbAUm and colleagues add nothing to the discussion of the risks of HIV transmission via orogential contact, writes David E. Dassey in the first of two replies to RozembAUm et al. s letter claiming to have traced several incidents of HIV infection through oral sex. The researchers assume that becAUse a
"Hemophiliacs and AIDS: Really at Risk": Science News (10/29/88) Vol. 134, No. 18, P. 283; Many of the approximately 15,000 hemophiliacs in the U.S. who received blood-clotting factors derived from human plasma before the development of heat and chemical treatments in 1984 are now HIV-positive. Some unconfirmed studies suggesting that there is a low incidence of clinical AIDS among HIV-positive hemophiliacs
"AIDS Education": Lancet (10/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8618, P. 1035; Children from preschool to school-leaving age need AIDS education, according to a new book on the subject. In preschool, teachers, parents, governors, and students need to be aware of any risks involved in accidents such as blood spills if one child in a class is HIV-positive. As children become sexually mature or are
"Mass Voluntary HIV Testing": Lancet (10/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8618, P. 1035; Berl Kutchinsky, psychologist and senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Science, University of Cophenhagen, tells gay and straight couples who are ready to settle down in a monogamous relationship, Before you put away the condoms, make sure you are not infected--get the test. Kutchinsky believes everyone who has
"AIDS Control in India": Lancet (10/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8618, P. 1035; India had screened 91,924 people for HIV infection by the end of March. Of those tested, 266 were HIV-positive and 17 had developed AIDS. Nine of the 17 were visitors to India, leading the country to require that foreign students and foreigners intending to stay in India for more than a year to be certified HIV-free
"AIDS Vote Initiative Protested": Associated Press (10/29/88); San Francisco--Protestors opposed to California ballot Initiative 102, which would require doctors, blood banks, and others to report the identities of patients and blood donors they reasonably feel have been exposed to the AIDS virus, marched in the streets of San Francisco Friday night. Prompted by an announcement fr
"Ray Backs Off Plan to Rush Insurance Law Alterations": Washington Blade (10/28/88) Vol. 19, No. 44, P. 1; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; Following protests by gay groups and AIDS activists, Washington, D.C., City Councilman John Ray decided not to ask the council to expedite movement on approving Congressionally-mandated changes in the District s AIDS insurance law. Congress approved amendments to the city s budget bill that would cut off all federal sp
"AIDS Virus Coat Activates T Cells": Science (10/28/88) Vol. 242, No. 4878, P. 515; Barnes, Deborah M.; Gp120, or the coat glycoprotein of the AIDS virus, binds to the CD4 antigen on the surface of normal T4 lymphocytes. Researchers David Center and Hardy Kornfeld of Boston University School of Medicine and their colleagues say gp120 also triggers a rise in intracellular calcium and stimulates resting T cells to enter th
"Foundation Promotes Flexibility": Science (10/28/88) Vol. 242, No. 4878, P. 509; Dickson, David; The European Federation for AIDS Research (EFAR) is Luc Montagnier s attempt to counter some of the deficiencies he sees in French support for AIDS research. He particularly hopes the independence he finds in private funds will complement public spending and provide the flexibility that directly state-financed research
"France Failing to Build on Early AIDS Research?": Science (10/28/88) Vol. 242, No. 4878, P. 509; Dickson, David; Luc Montagnier, who became the most famous French scientist when he isolated HIV five years ago, is now getting attention for his outbursts against the French government s policy on AIDS and the rigidities of the French research system. France has the most AIDS cases in Europe, but lacks a long-term national AIDS strat
"D.C. Human Services Committee to Vote on Hospice Bill": Washington Blade (10/28/88) Vol. 19, No. 44, P. 19; Everett, Melanie; The D.C. City Council should vote by mid-November on a bill to establish a hospice for people with AIDS and other terminal diseases at D.C. General Hospital. The bill, introduced by H.R. Crawford, is now before the council s Human Services Committee. Under the bill, the D.C. General Hospital Commission will appoint a m
"HRCF Doubles the Amount of Contributions it Made in 1986": Washington Blade (10/28/88) Vol. 19, No. 44, P. 1; Keen, Lisa M.; Candidates, political action committees (PACs), and battles against anti-gay ballot initiatives have received more than $300,000 from the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), the only national gay rights lobby. The amount is double the 1986 total for HRCF, which expects to spend over $400,000 by the end of the 1987-88 el
"New Mexico Lost Out on $150,000 for AIDS Education...": United Press International (10/28/88); GAUssoin, Helen; Santa Fe, N.M.--New Mexico failed to apply for a federal grant for AIDS education and became the only state to lose out on the $150,000 grant. Some AIDS advocates in the state are calling the failure to apply an indication of the state education department s committment to fighting the deadly virus, but state school Su
"Gay Groups Say Contact Tracing will not Slow Spread of AIDS": Washington Blade (10/28/88) Vol. 19, No. 44, P. 17; Sullivan, Mark; Contact tracing will not slow the spread of HIV, representatives from northern Virginia gay organizations told a panel that is preparing recommendations for Virginia s 1989 General Assembly on controlling the AIDS epidemic. BecAUse the state sodomy law bans homosexual behavior, a gay man is unlikely to reveal partners,
"Activists Call New FDA Rules a 'Pre-Election Gambit' for Bush": Washington Blade (10/28/88) Vol. 19, No. 44, P. 17; Sullivan, Mark; Some AIDS activists say Food and Drug Adminstration ( FDA ) Commissioner Frank Young s recent announcement of new drug approval procedures to hasten access to promising treatments to people with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses was merely a media event to help George Bush. Young said the changes resulted from
"Free Needles, Mandatory Sex Education Among AIDS Task Force" Recommendations: United Press International (10/28/88); ClAUsing, Jerry; AUstin, Texas--A state task force in Texas charged with formulating recommendations for curbing the spread of AIDS has suggested that the state fund clinics to give free needles and bleach to intravenous drug users and mandate sex and AIDS education in public schools. According to the Legislative Task Force on AIDS, wh
"Boycott Threat Doesn't Scare Wells Fargo": Bay Area Reporter (10/27/88) Vol. 18, No. 43, P. 4; Newquist, Jay; Political gadfly PAUl Gann has called for a boycott of Wells Fargo Bank, one of the 18 private firms to publicly oppose California s Proposition 102. The bank, however, said it expects business as usual despite the planned boycott. Kim Kellog, the bank s new bureAU manager, said, We dont think the boycott will be effec
"HIV Reporting Laws in 3 States Called 'Mistake'": Bay Area Reporter (10/27/88) Vol. 18, No. 43, P. 1; O'Loughlin, Ray; AIDS activists and physicians in three states that have laws similar to Proposition 102 have advised California voters that the required HIV test reporting laws do not achieve their stated purpose of identifying HIV carriers. In Colorado, people are more afraid of reportability than they are of the virus itself, says G
"Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Employees in an African" Hospital: New England Journal of Medicine (10/27/88) Vol. 319, No. 17, P. 1123; N'Galy, Bosenge; Researcher Bosenge N Galy of the Projet SIDA and the National AIDS Control Program in Kinshasa, Zaire , and colleagues report on a study of 2002 adult hospital workers in Kinshasa to determine the prevalence and course of HIV infection. Prevalence increased from 6.4 percent to 8.7 percent between 1984 and 1986. During
"Surveillance of Health Care Workers Exposed to Blood from Patients" Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: New England Journal of Medicine (10/27/88) Vol. 319, No. 17, P. 1118; Marcus, Ruthanne; Only 4 of 963 health care workers tested for HIV antibody following exposure to HIV-infected blood or body fluids tested positive, according to Ruthanne Marcus and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Cooperative Needlestick Surveillance Group. The tests, which the group conducted at least 180 days following exposure,
"AIDS Antibody Unhelpful?": Associated Press (10/27/88); Washington--HIV may be actually be carried from cell to cell by certain antibodies that normally protect the body from bacteria, according to Francis A. Ennis and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In a study using diluted blood serum from AIDS patients, antibodies known as enhancing antibodi
"Catholics Urged to Help AIDS Victims": United Press International (10/27/88); Hartford, Conn.--Roman Catholic church leaders in Connecticut are urging the faithful not to ignore the suffering of AIDS patients. Catholics around the state are the target of an education and prayer campaign which is intended to make them face the reality of the disease, and not try to escape from it in the church.
"State Distributes AIDS Videos": United Press International (10/27/88); Indianapolis--A statewide video rental store chain in Indiana will begin loaning three new AIDS videos soon. For a two-month trial period, the videos, distributed by the State Board of Health, will be available free of charge. Entitled Introduction to AIDS , Letter from Brian , and Don t Forget Shari , the videos are p
"U.N. Says No Cure for AIDS in Sight": United Press International (10/27/88); United Nations--The World Health Organization (WHO) marked its 40th anniversary Thursday with a debate in the U.N. General Assembly on AIDS. New WHO Director-General Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima of Japan told the gathering that 2-3 million people may develop the disease over the next 10 years, but no cure for AIDS is yet in s
"Red Cross Opposes AIDS Measure": United Press International (10/27/88); San Jose, Calif.--The American Red Cross announced Thursday its opposition to Proposition 102, the California ballot measure that would require the reporting of all persons testing HIV-positive to public health officials. Dr. J. Lawrence Naiman, Central California director of blood services, said the organization took
"Koch Admits Needles Program May Fail": United Press International (10/27/88); New York--Mayor Edward Koch Thursday endorsed a plan to distribute clean needles to drug users to stem the spread of HIV, although he said he did not think it would work. Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph joined Koch in defending the plan, which will give 200 intravenous drug users clean needles to see if it slows the
"Prop. 102 Sponsors Sue State Over AIDS Virus": United Press International (10/27/88); Rapattoni, Linda; Los Angeles--The directors of a doctors group that supports California Prop. 102 have filed suit in Superior Court seeking a court order requiring that all HIV-positive people be reported to state health AUthorities. According to Drs. Lawrence McNamee and Larimore Cummins of California Physicians for a Logical AIDS Res
" 'Nighthawk' Protests": New York Times (10/27/88), P. C26; Gerard, Jeremy; The producers of NBC s new prime time series Midnight Caller have agreed to change the ending of one episode of the show which depicts a bisexual man with AIDS who knowingly infects his sexual partners with the disease and is subsequently murdered by a woman he has infected. National and local AIDS groups in the San Fr
"French Fashion Leaders Join AIDS Fight": New York Times (10/27/88), P. C12; Morris, Bernadine; The French fashion industry gathered at a gala event Wednesday in the first large-scale benefit sponsored by the industry for the fight against AIDS. The event was designed as a sober event where the fashion establishment could raise money for AIDS patients and doctors, but even so, the tent in the courtyard of the Lou
"Health Workers AIDS Risk Slight": Washington Post (10/27/88), P. A4; Health care workers, while at some risk of HIV infection from needle pricks and other accidents, become infected with HIV in fewer than one half of 1 percent of cases in which they are exposed to HIV-infected blood, according to a Centers for Disease Control study of 1201 health care workers at 335 hospitals who came i
"Changes Asked on Licensing of AIDS Drug": Washington Post (10/27/88), P. A3; Gladwell, Malcolm; The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has come under attack for its plan to give a single manufacturer the rights to develop and sell CD4-PE, a promising new AIDS treatment developed in its labs. NIH AIDS director Anthony S. Fauci said, if you try to have government regulation or encroachment on the the rights of var
"Local Anti-Bias AIDS Law Urged": Associated Press (10/26/88); New Haven, Conn.--If it follows the recommendations of a mayoral task force, this city will adopt the state s first local law to specifically ban discrimination against people with AIDS and their families. The ordinance, which the task force endorsed Tuesday, would outlaw bias in hiring, housing, and medical care. Foll
"Ozone May Limit AIDS Symptoms?": Associated Press (10/26/88); Los Angeles--Two recent studies indicate that the gas ozone, the main ingredient in smog, may hinder symptoms of the AIDS virus. According to one study by Dr. Kenneth Wagner, formerly of the AIDS unit at Bethesda Naval Hospital, in tests ozone stopped the virus from multiplying in donated blood samples, and left almost
"AIDS Education Package for Workplace Unveiled": United Press International (10/26/88); Boston--Calling education our only defense against AIDS, nine corporations announced Wednesday the availability of a $190 kit to teach AIDS education to employees. The kit includes a video narrated by ABC medical editor Dr. Timothy Johnson in which three local workers with AIDS talk about the illness. The video attempt
"Gloves Used in Hospitals Leak?": Associated Press (10/26/88); Los Angeles--Three studies released Tuesday show that gloves used in hospitals are prone to leakage. Participants in the 28th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy learned that up to half of the gloves from some manufacturers allowed blood to penetrate through to the skin, leaving health work
"Very Few Workers Exposed to AIDS Showed Infection": Wall Street Journal (10/26/88), P. B4; Bishop, Jerry E.; Only four of 1200 health care workers exposed to HIV-infected blood subsequently tested positive for the virus, according to an ongoing Centers for Disease Control (CDC) survey. The agency began the survey in 1983 to track doctors, nurses and hospital workers who were accidentally exposed to the blood of people with AI
"AIDS-Portrayal Protest Limited": Associated Press (10/25/88); San Francisco--Protestors who claim that an upcoming episode of NBC s new show Midnight Caller unfairly depicts a person with AIDS have been restricted from disrupting the filming of the show. The San Francisco Superior Court issued a court order forbidding protestors from getting within 100 feet of the set and from ma
"Activists Protest DC AIDS Bill": Associated Press (10/25/88); Washington--City police dragged eight gay rights advocates from the District of Columbia Council chambers Tuesday after they protested against a bill that would allow insurance companies to require AIDS testing of health insurance applicants. Referring to the congressional amendments that will freeze city funds unless
"Demand Spawns Chimp Sperm Bank": Associated Press (10/25/88); Atlanta--Dr. Kenneth Gould, chief of reproductive biology at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center, has started the nation s first sperm bank for chimpanzees. AIDS research has created a growing demand for the animals, which can no longer be captured legally in the wild. Chimpanzees do not develop AIDS from HIV, but they
"San Francisco AIDS Foundation Kicks Off New AIDS Education Campaign...": United Press International (10/25/88); San Francisco--A new AIDS education campaign directed at teens was announced by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation as it presented a comic book called Risky Business . The book is designed to reach teens most at risk of infection from HIV-1, especially black teens. According to Ralph DiClemente of the University of Cali
"Level of Voter Approval of Prop. 102 Is Diminishing...": United Press International (10/25/88); San Francisco--Voter support for California s Proposition 102 is decreasing, the California Poll said Tuesday. According to the poll, support for the initiative, which woud require doctors to report to state health officials the identities of patients who have tested positive for the AIDS virus, as well as those who ar
"City Council Votes to Support Prop. 96": United Press International (10/25/88); Luther, Robina; Los Angeles--A measure that calls for AIDS testing of some criminal suspects has been approved by the Los Angeles City Council. Proposition 96, which would allow testing of suspects charged with sex crimes and other violent crimes, gives victims, police, and fire workers who believe they have been exposed to a communic
"Woman Inseminated with AIDS-Infected Sperm Sues UW Hospital": United Press International (10/25/88); Drake, Thomas; Madison, Wis.--A suit has been filed against the Wisconsin University Hospital and Clinics, a doctor, and several other parties by a woman who claims she was artificially inseminated with HIV-infected sperm at the hospital. Madison lawyer Raymond Schrank filed the suit in Rock County Circuit Court on behalf of Diane an
"Pregnant Drug Users Avoid Pre-Natal Care": United Press International (10/25/88); Crabbe, Robert; Sacramento--Doctors told a California Senate Select Committee on Substance Abuse Tuesday that many drug-abusing pregnant women shun pre-natal care. Dr. Hanns Haesslein of the American College of Obstreticians and Gynocologists told the committee that substance abusers already perceive health care procedures as a puniti
"How Accurate Are Medical Tests?": Washington Post (Health) (10/25/88), P. 7; Thompson, Larry; A recent push by legislators to enact stronger regulation of medical testing labs in the U.S. has resulted in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments to the Public Health Act, which is expected to be signed by President Reagan before Nov. 2nd. Several organizations, including the Health Care Financing Administra
"Cellular Products Presentation at New York Society of Security Analysts": Business Wire (10/24/88); New York--The scientific adviser to Buffalo, N.Y.-based Cellular Products Inc. announced Monday to the New York Society of Security Analysts that definitve data is available to demonstrate the presence of two deadly diseases caused by an AIDS-related virus. According to Dr. Bernard Poiesz, who pioneered retroviral rese
"AIDS Cases in Delaware Doubling": United Press International (10/24/88); Troy, Tom; Dover, Del.--State health officials in Delaware predict the number of AIDS cases in that state in 1988 will double from last year, with many of the new cases likely among intravenous drug users. According to State Epidemiologist PAUl Silverman, 56 new cases of AIDS have been reported in Delaware as of Oct. 8 of this ye
"Activists Assail NIH on AIDS Drug": United Press International (10/24/88); Washington, D.C.--AIDS activists and public health officials have joined forces to assail the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for asking pharmaceutical companies to bid for the exclusive license of CD4-pseudomonas exotoxin (CD4-PE), a promising AIDS drug. The American Public Health Association, the Public Citizen H
"Doctors to Give AZT to Unborns": United Press International (10/24/88); Miami--Pregnant women with AIDS will receive AZT as part of a study to determine if the drug can prevent newborns from contracting the disease. About 10 women will take part in the initial phase of the drug study at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Gwendolyn Scott of the U
"AIDS Programs for Employees Begin to Become More Common": Investor's Daily (10/24/88), P. 5; Alger, Alexandra; In 1984, Levi StrAUss + Co. joined 13 other big companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in adopting the first comprehensive corporate policies on AIDS. Some other large corporations have followed, but B.J. Stiles of the National Leadership Coalition of AIDS in Washington, D.C., says that only a nominal percentage of Am
"Genentech May Have Gone Wrong Way on AIDS Drug, But Outcome is in Doubt": Wall Street Journal (10/24/88), P. B4; Chase, Marilyn; A report scheduled for publication this week in the journal Biotechnology indicates that Genentech Inc., which has claimed the lead in the race to develop the protein CD4 as an AIDS drug, may be working with the wrong biochemical recipe. According to Biotechnology research editor Harvey Bialy, instead of beginning the
"Ethical Imperialism? Ethics in International Collaborative Clinical" Research: New England Journal of Medicine (10/24/88) Vol. 319, No. 16, P. 1081; Angell, Marcia; Human subjects, no matter what part of the world they are from, should be protected by an irreducible set of ethical standards, says New England Journal of Medicine Executive Editor Dr. Marcia Angell, commenting on research in general and on a commentary by Dr. Michele Barry on AIDS research in Africa in particular. Th
"The AIDS Bill": Time (10/24/88) Vol. 112, No. 17, P. 7; Miller, Annetta; The deletion of the confidentiality clAUse from the $1 billion AIDS testing, research, and education bill passed by Congress made the victory bittersweet for AIDS activists. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), the bill s principal sponsor, said the silence of the White House and the threats of a few senators caused the om
"Blue Cross to Cover Aerosolized Pentamidine": Gay Community News (10/23/88) Vol. 16, No. 15, P. 3; Harris, Judy; Bowing to pressure from state officials and AIDS activists, Massachusetts Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BC/BS) on Oct. 17 agreed to reimburse their clients for aerosolized pentamidine (AP), a drug that has had wide success in preventing and treating pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. The insurer is the largest in the state and
"Sacramento AIDS Foundation Struggles to Keep Pace": United Press International (10/23/88); Sacramento--AIDS patients are falling through the cracks on all levels, says Neil Foundation, a board member of the Sacramento AIDS Foundation. Despite the deaths from the disease of several of its founders and early leaders, the counseling, home-health care, and support services group continues to try and meet the nee
"Pennsylvania Medical Society Suggests New AIDS Policy": United Press International (10/23/88); Philadelphia--The Pennsylvania Medical Society, which represents approximately 19,500 doctors in the state, approved a new AIDS policy at their recent two-day business meeting. According to spokeswoman MAUreen Hoepfer, the group approved a policy recommending mandatory reporting of AIDS carriers to their sexual partner
"Protestors Attack Archbishop's Stand on AIDS": United Press International (10/23/88); Yost, Cheryl; Hartford, Conn.--In response to his criticism of an ad campaign designed to promote the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS, demonstrators gathered outside the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford Sunday to protest Roman Catholic Archbishop John Whealon s position. According to Jane Fleishman of Connecticut Act
"Hill Report Backs AIDS-Drugs Charge": Washington Post (10/23/88), P. A10; Specter, Michael; A congressional report made available Friday blamed needless delays in testing and research with preventing people with AIDS from gaining access to experimental drugs. Federal health officials, activists, and congressional staff members said that most of the problems cited in the report have been at least partially rem
"Notification of HIV Carriers: Possible Effect on Uptake of AIDS Testing": Lancet (10/22/88) Vol. 2, No. 8617, P. 947; Ohi, Gen; Japan is on the verge of passing the AIDS Prevention Bill, a law Gen Ohi and his colleagues say would be counterproductive in the surveillance of potential HIV carriers. They report on a survey that suggests that if the bill--which requires the notification of HIV carriers--takes effect, those at the greatest self-pe
"Envelope Cross-Reactivity in Western Blot for HIV-1 and HIV-2 May Not" Indicate Dual Infection: Lancet (10/22/88) Vol. 2, No. 8617, P. 927; Tedder, R.S.; Although sera samples from patients in West Africa and in the United Kingdom showed positive antibody reactions in western blot tests for both HIV-1 and HIV-2, researchers from the United Kingdom and the Gambia report that tests with competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) indicate that dual infection is
"Homosexual Role Separation and Spread of AIDS": Lancet (10/22/88) Vol. 2, No. 8617, P. 965; Trichopoulos, D.; Mathematical models to trace the spread of AIDS in the Mediterranean and the Middle East might do well to include role separation among male homosexuals along with classical AIDS variables such as promiscuity and intravenous drug abuse, say D. Trichopoulos and colleagues from the University of Athens Medical School s D
"World AIDS Day": Lancet (10/22/88) Vol. 2, No. 8617, P. 976; Concerts, conferences, and contests will be part of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. The World Health Organization has lAUnched various activities to lead up to the day, and has mailed suggestions on how to commemorate World AIDS Day to 166 countries. Over 250 organizations have announced plans to conduct events on Dec. 1. S
"Former President Ford Opposes Dannemeyer Initiative": Washington Blade (10/21/88) Vol. 19, No. 43, P. 19; Sullivan, Mark; Former President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty have joined Michael Dukakis, Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley among public figures who have voiced their opposition to California s Proposition 102, the mandatory AIDS and HIV reporting measure. Ford wrote Bruce Decker, a White House staffe
"Hemophiliacs with HIV Antibody are Actively Infected": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/21/88) Vol. 260, No. 15, P. 2236; Jackson, J. Brooks; BecAUse many HIV antibody-positive hemophiliacs have remained asymptomatic and culture negative, some investigators have speculated that HIV-1 may have been inactivated during preparation or storage of non-heat-treated factor VIII and IX concentrates, resulting in immunization by noninfectious viral proteins. A study o
"Man with AIDS Sues Hechinger Company": Washington Blade (10/21/88) Vol. 19, No. 43, P. 3; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; The Hechinger Company illegally fired a gay Montgomery County, Md., man becAUse he has AIDS, according to a suit the man filed in federal court. William McCormick also charges the company, which owns a chain of hardware stores, with illegally refusing to pay AIDS-related medical bills through the company s in-house ins
"Critics Say Ray Insurance Bill is too Broad": Washington Blade (10/21/88) Vol. 19, No. 43, P. 1; Keen, Lisa M.; The new insurance bill written by Washington, D.C., Councilman John Ray takes a broader view of the Congressional mandate to repeal or amend the existing law, says Steve Smith, spokesman for the Metropolitan Committee on AIDS. According to Smith, the bill would allow insurance companies to use the test selectively, ins
"CAUtion Urged in Care of People With Syphilis and AIDS": Washington Blade (10/21/88) Vol. 19, No. 43, P. 17; Sullivan, Mark; A group of AIDS experts who met in March to discuss a theory that the presence of HIV inhibits the routine treatment of syphilis recommended that doctors of HIV-positive patients with the condition monitor them carefully, according to a report in the Oct. 7 Centers for Disease Control s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly R
"Researchers Hopeful About Carbovir": Washington Blade (10/21/88) Vol. 19, No. 43, P. 17; Sullivan, Mark; Carbovir, which like AZT is designed to prevent HIV from multiplying, shows promising results in preliminary trials, according to the University of Minnesota researchers who developed the drug. According to university spokeswoman Kathleen Terry, the school hopes to complete an agreement soon with a pharmaceutical firm
"Angiogenic Properties of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Derived Cells After Long-Term" Culture in Vitro: Science (10/21/88) Vol. 242, No. 4877, P. 430; Salahuddin, S. Zaki; Researchers S. Zaki Salahuddin and a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute s Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology and other institutions report on the inoculation of cells derived from lung bioposies and pleural effusions from AIDS patients into nude--or immune-system lacking--mice. The KS-AIDS cells resem
"Kaposi's Sarcoma Cells: Long-Term Culture with Growth Factor from" Retrovirus-Infected CD4+ T Cells: Science (10/21/88) Vol. 242, No. 4877, P. 426; Nakamura, Shuji; Researcher Shuji Nakamura and other members of Robert Gallo s National Cancer Institute research team report on a study in which they cultured AIDS-Kaposi sarcoma-derived cells in vitro with one or more growth factors released by CD4+ T lymphocytes infected with HIV-1, HIV-2, and human lymphotropic virus type I or II (
"Congress Passes First AIDS Bill": Science (10/21/88) Vol. 242, No. 4877, P. 367; Booth, William; Although certainly a compromise, the AIDS bill recently passed is the first on which Congress has been able to reach an agreement. Although many public health officials and the president s AIDS commission believe those most at risk may not come forward for testing without confidentiality and anti-discrimination protect
"New Clues About Kaposi's Sarcoma": Science (10/21/88) Vol. 242, No. 4877, P. 376; Barnes, Deborah M.; Robert Gallo s research group at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) says that Kaposi s sarcoma appears not to be a cancer. Another NCI researcher, Gilbert Jay, says that the condition is a cancer that in lab tests shows up in male, but not female, mice that carry a regulatory gene from HIV. Gallo s group says that a c
"The Impact of the Revised Case Definition of AIDS": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/21/88) Vol. 260, No. 15, P. 2213; Robertson, A.D.J.; In the second of two letters discussing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) AUgust 1987 revised AIDS case criteria, A.D.J. Robertson of RTD Corp. in Lexington, Ga., reports on an analysis of cases reported to the CDC since the revision that would only have been reported under the new criteria. Nearly 33 percent of th
"The Impact of the Revised Case Definition of AIDS": Journal of the American Medicial Association (10/21/88) Vol. 260, No. 15, P. 2213; Casabona, Jordi; In the first of two letters discussing the Centers for Disease Control AUgust 1987 revised AIDS case criteria, Jordi Casabona and colleagues at the Generalitat de Catalunya report that a survey of AIDS cases in Catalonia, Spain , showed that during a January-April 1988 period in which researchers first used the revised
"AIDS 'Poster Boy' Celebrates": Associated Press (10/21/88); Washington--The Warwick Foundation, Showtime Networks, and the Public Health Foundation planned a birthday party for Bill Travis last Friday night. Travis, whom government figures have cast as an unofficial poster boy for AIDS, joined Dionne Warwick, C. Everett Koop, and other entertainment figures and public health of
"Panel Urges AIDS-Test Changes": Associated Press (10/21/88); Washington--HIV antibody tests are very, very good, but they are not 100 percent, said DuPont Co. AIDS expert Thomas A. O Brien, a member of a National BureAU of Standards panel that issued a report following three days of discussion about medical screening. O Brien noted that some medical professionals continue to use
"Surgeon General Says AIDS Vaccine is Wishful Thinking": Reuters (10/21/88); Kearns, Robert; Washington--It is a little fantastical to expect either a vaccine or a cure for AIDS any time soon, said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in an interview Friday. Koop said that we have never cured a viral disease, and warned that although Hepatitis B is a relatively simple virus, it took 19 years to develop a vaccine to
"Television Program Degrades and Misrepresents People With AIDS...": United Press International (10/21/88); San Francisco--An episode of the NBC Network and Lorimar Productions television show Midnight Caller degrades and misrepresents people with AIDS, says San Francisco AIDS Foundation Executive Director Timothy R. Wolfred. The episode, which takes place in San Francisco, depicts a fictitious bisexual man who knowingly spr
"Some Are Slipping Through Criminal Justice System Without Being Tested...": United Press International (10/21/88); Tacoma, Wash.--Washington State passed a mandatory AIDS testing law for those arrested for sexual crimes, certain prostitution crimes, and felony drug offenses involving intravenous drug use, but so far, very few tests have been conducted. According to a story published Friday in the Tacoma News-Tribune, although hundr
"Increase in Pneumonia Mortality Among Young Adults and the HIV" Epidemic--New York City, United States: Journal of the American Medical Association (10/21/88) Vol. 260, No. 15, P. 2181; In New York City and in other cities, the number and rate of pneumonia-attributable deaths among younger persons seem to have increased in association with HIV infections among intravenous drug abusers (IVDAs), according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The
"Condom Giveaway by Spin Magazine Meets Resistance": Wall Street Journal (10/21/88), P. B4; Crossen, Cynthia; Many stores, including all 1300 Waldenbooks, are refusing to carry the November issue of Spin magazine. The music and life-style publication, aimed at the 18-30 year-old AUdience, included condoms in all 140,000 copies. The magazine included a Trojan condom, along with a discreet pitch from manufacturer Carter-Wallace
"Drug Firms Hope FDA Broadens Plan to Speed Approval of Some Medicines": Wall Street Journal (10/21/88), P. B3; Waldholz, Michael; Some drug company executives and Food and Drug Adminstration ( FDA ) watchers greeted Wednesday s announcement that the agency will quicken approvals for drugs against AIDS and cancer with skepticism, but others hope the program will lead to faster approval of all experimental medicines. The new plan allows for smalle
"Kaposi's Sarcoma Not a True Cancer, Research Suggests": Wall Street Journal (10/21/88), P. B3; Chase, Marilyn; Kaposi s sarcoma, or KS, an AIDS-linked tumor long thought to be a form of cancer, seems to be caused by a previously unknown growth factor and may not be a malignancy at all, according to the National Cancer Institute. KS in AIDS patients takes the form of a virulent and fatal condition marked by flat purplish plaques
"Gay Health Groups File Suit Over Funds Against U.S. Officials": Wall Street Journal (10/21/88), P. C6; Wong, Betty; A Jesse Helms amendment to the Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill for fiscal 1988 violates the constitution, according to five gay health groups. The organizations have sued Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and James O. Mason, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), for
"From the Food and Drug Administration: New Protocol for Trimetrexate in" Refractory Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP) in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS): Journal of the American Medical Association (10/21/88) Vol. 260, No. 15, P. 2178; Nightingale, Stuart L.; A new study will enroll AIDS patients with PCP who have not responded to standard treatments (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and parenteral pentamidine) within 14 days or who have failed to respond to one for at least seven days and have developed serious reactions to the other. The patients will take trimetrexate, whic
"Drug Abuse: More Help Available for Addicted Persons, But Main Problem" Continues Unabated: Journal of the American Medical Association (10/21/88) Vol. 260, No. 15, P. 2170; Kirn, Timothy F.; The drug problem looms as large as ever despite years of warnings, scare tactics, drug education, counseling services, and law enforcement programs. The already complex problem is complicated by AIDS. In New York City, home of approximately 200,000 of the country s 1.4 million intravenous (IV) drug users, 53 percent of
"Four Sites are Chosen for Needle Exchange": New York Times (10/21/88), P. B3; New York City has selected four sites for a pilot plan to give drug addicts clean needles in exchange for used ones to fight the spread of AIDS, Health Commissioner Stephen C. Joseph said yesterday. At two sites, the Lower Manhattan District Health Center and the Bushwick District Health Center, addicts will receive co
"Pro-102 Campaign Tops Anti-102 Fundraising": Bay Area Reporter (10/20/88) Vol. 18, No. 42, P. 4; Jones, Brian; California state campaign records show that contributors in favor of Proposition 102 have outspent the AIDS testing and reporting measure s opponents $608,000 to $246,300, nearly a three to one margin. One group, the Stop AIDS Initiative Committee, headed by bill sponsors Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Orange County) and P
"Funds may be Granted for Regional Hospital": Bay Area Reporter (10/20/88) Vol. 18, No. 42, P. 3; Newquist, Jay; The recently passed AIDS bill, which gives California $18 million in a block grant for AIDS services, seems to put the on-again, off-again status of a regional AIDS hospital for San Francisco back on. A provision stating that California can apply for a waiver to use some of the money to renovate existing facilities cou
"Canadian Sex Guides Greeted with CAUtion": Bay Area Reporter (10/20/88) Vol. 18, No. 42, P. 20; Wockner, Rex; Some American educators believe that Canadian HIV transmission experts went too far in revising safe-sex guidelines for community-based AIDS organizations. The educators are particularly concerned by guidelines listing oral sex with ejaculation as less than a high risk activity. The Canadian AIDS Society requested the
"Hongisto Asks for 'Benefits Transfer'": Bay Area Reporter (10/20/88) Vol. 18, No. 42, P. 19; Newquist, Jay; San Francisco City Supervisor Richard Hongisto has asked City Attorney Louise Renne to prepare a new law that would allow civil servants to donate their sick days and vacation time to co-workers who have AIDS or another catastrophic illness. The law would allow the transfer of accrued leave to seriously ill colleagues
"Discontent Sparks Concerns for '89 Internat'l AIDS Meet": Bay Area Reporter (10/20/88) Vol. 18, No. 42, P. 19; Kolbe, Miranda; AIDS activists have already begun organizing for the Fifth International AIDS Conference, scheduled for June 4-9, 1989, in Montreal. Activists were frustrated by the limited participation of gays and people with AIDS at the conference held in Stockholm last June. Many complained that The Face of AIDS, a series of lunch
"Ethical Considerations of Human Investigation in Developing Countries:" The AIDS Dilemma: New England Journal of Medicine (10/20/88) Vol. 319, No. 16, P. 1083; Barry, Michele; Despite the urgent need to control AIDS, researchers must consider the ethical implications and cultural obstacles involved in conducting research in developing countries, says Michele Barry of the Yale University School of Medicine s Tropical Medicine and International Health Program. In many developing countries, imp
"2 Get AIDS-Contaminated Blood": Associated Press (10/20/88); Lagos, Nigeria--Two patients at an unidentified teaching hospital received HIV-contaminated blood transfusions, according to the independent Lagos newspaper The Guardian. The paper says the victims will not be told of the mistake. Health Minister Olikoye Ransome Kuti said that becAUse he hospital has blood screeing equ
"AIDS Strikes Even Remote Areas": Associated Press (10/20/88); Ixtapa, Mexico--AIDS has appeared in some of the most remote spots in the world, according to researchers, sociologists, and health workers at the First International Symposium on Education and Communication About AIDS. Seven percent of homeless children in Khartoum, Sudan , test positive for HIV. In Suriname s jungle
"AIDS Victim Sentenced to Prison for Continued Contacts": United Press International (10/20/88); Prague, Czechoslovakia--A Czechoslovakian student has been sentenced to three years in prison for his failure to discontinue his homosexual contacts. According to the news agency CTK, the student ignored repeated warnings to stop sexual contacts. He was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1987, but continued to engage in homo
"Broadway Ticket Service Will Help AIDS Victims": United Press International (10/20/88); New York--Theatregoers in New York will be able to obtain prime house seats and help AIDS patients at the same time, American Express President Louis Gerstner Jr., said Thursday. Gerstner, whose company is underwriting the program, said that tickets for selected performances at all Broadway and off-Broadway shows will
"Red Cross Recalls 1,400 Units of Blood Products": United Press International (10/20/88); Los Angeles--The counties of Los Angeles and Orange, Calif., will be the target areas for a recall of about 1,400 units of blood that were not tested according to federal regulations for the AIDS virus and hepatitis B, the American Red Cross announced Thursday. There is not evidence the blood is infected, said spokesma
"Study Shows Hemophiliacs with HIV Antibody Can Have Active AIDS Virus": United Press International (10/20/88); Minneapolis--This week s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Society reveals that hemophiliacs with HIV antibodies present in their system can develop AIDS. University of Minnesota researchers conducted studies of hemophiliacs who had HIV antibodies, developed when they were exposed to AIDS through transfusion
"Measure 8 Test of Gay Rights in AIDS Era": United Press International (10/20/88); Towslee, Tom; Salem, Ore.--An initiative on the November ballot will be the first test in Oregon of gay rights in the era of AIDS. The measure would repeal an executive order from Gov. Neal Goldschmidt that forbids discrimination based on sexual preference in state government employment and services. Supported by the Oregon Citizen
"Father With AIDS Wins Custody Battle": United Press International (10/20/88); San Francisco--The nation s first court custody battle involving a parent with AIDS was decided Wednesday in California when a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge awarded custody of Shawn Wallace to his father Artie. Artie Wallace is a homosexual whose former wife Julia, a fundamentalist Christian, disappeared w
"Outfitting an AIDS Agency's New Space": New York Times (10/20/88), P. C7; Brown, Patricia Leigh; When the New York-based Gay Men s Health Crisis in 1981 became the first volunteer organization there to address the needs of AIDS patients, it was housed in five cramped buildings in the Chelsea section of the city. But when it went to look for new space recently, it was seeking space for an organization with a $10 mi
"Explicit Ads on AIDS Ruled Out": Washington Post (10/20/88), P. D3; Henderson, Nell; An advertising campaign being developed by a private firm for the District of Columbia Public Health Commission has met with opposition from some D.C. Council members, and officials in the nation s capital have decided against using some of the ads. Those who find fAUlt with the ads say they are too graphic. They claim
"Incidence of AIDS, High Now and Growing Fast, Alarms Central America": New York Times (10/20/88), P. A23; Gruson, Lindsey; Central American health officials are worried about the rapid spread of AIDS in the region. Honduras and Costa Rica , under the guidance of the Pan-American Health Organization, have begun intensive public education campaign and are trying to screen more blood.
"FDA Amends Rules to Speed AIDS Drugs": Washington Post (10/20/88), P. A1; Specter, Michael; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) yesterday announced that it will make major regulatory changes intended to make drugs for life-threatening illnesses available more quickly. The regulatory change calls for the agency to use a sliding scale in evaluating drugs, to reflect the recognition that the benefits of the
"Group Pushes AIDS Awareness": Associated Press (10/19/88); Phoenix, Ariz.--Groups nationwide are spreading the word about the danger of becoming infected with HIV, and many use novel techniques to reach AUdiences who are not particularly interested in hearing about AIDS. In Phoenix, customers at many of the city s busiest nightclubs are familiar with the ladies of Project AWAR
"Albany Medical Center Gets AIDS Grant": United Press International (10/19/88); Albany, N.Y.--The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Albany Medical Center $180,000 to finance an outreach program to train health care professionals in the treatment and prevention of AIDS. Elmer Streeter, a medical center spokesman, said the center will use the grant to develop and implement speciali
"Seven Religious Leaders Wednesday Denounced Proposition 102...": United Press International (10/19/88); San Francisco--Leaders of seven religious organizations, all of which have active AIDS-related programs in Northern California, announced their opposition to Proposition 102, the mandatory HIV reporting measure. According to Episcopal Bishop William E. Swing, should the measure pass, It will pit churches and medical pe
"Insurer to Pay for AIDS Drug": United Press International (10/19/88); Boston--Massachusetts largest insurer has agreed to include coverage for aerosol pentamidine, a treatment for AIDS which has not yet been approved for use as preventive therapy for patients with the disease by the Food and Drug Administration. Spurred by pressure from several groups, including gay activists and the Duk
"Bar Association Warns of AIDS Suit Threat": Journal of Commerce (10/19/88), P. 15A; HIV-infected physicians who pass the virus on to patients may face lawsuits, warned William Carlson, who heads the American Bar Association s health-care law committee. The medical community is concerned about contracting the virus from patients, Carlson said, but he cAUtioned that health care workers must also be conc
"AIDS Impact Is Spreading to Workers Comp Market": Journal of Commerce (10/19/88), P. 15A; AIDS is a common topic at meetings of members of the insurance industry. When the Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters met last week in Cincinnati, discussions on AIDS centered around the effect the disease is having on the workers compensation market. Life and health insurers have already felt some of t
"Geographical Testing for AIDS Triggers Discrimination Charges": Journal of Commerce (10/19/88), P. 15A; A report in the Dallas Times Herald on Monday reveals that the Midland National Life Insurance Co. requires screening for AIDS only for policy applicants who live in certain metropolitan areas known to have high numbers of AIDS cases. According to a Texas gay rights group, the Texas Human Rights Foundation (THRF), thos
"AIDS Finding Kept Secret From Ex-Wife": Washington Post (10/19/88), P. A10; A state court in Kansas yesterday barred a Kansas City Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) from notifying the ex-wife of John Doe that he tested positive for HIV. The ruling--in a suit that the man filed to block the HMO from notifying the woman--is believed to be the first of its kind. According to the suit, the wif
"D.C. Panel Backs Bill to Let Insurance Firms Test for AIDS": Washington Post (10/19/88), P. D5; Knight, Athelia; Legislation to repeal Washington, D.C. s controversial AIDS insurance law and allow insurance companies to test applicants for HIV is on its way to the D.C. Council. A council committee approved the measure yesterday. Congress mandated that the city repeal the law, which bars insurers from denying coverage to HIV-posit
"New AIDS Ads are Displayed": New York Times (10/19/88), P. D23; The Centers for Disease Control is continuing its two-year-old America Responds to AIDS campaign with a set of powerful new commercials. Several of the new ads address marital infidelity, including one about a young executive who gives up his night out with the boys becAUse of fear of AIDS. Ogilvy + Mather, which creat
"50 Million 1990s AIDS Deaths?": Associated Press (10/18/88); Washington, D.C.--The AIDS epidemic may claim more lives than the Black Plague of the Middle Ages, according to the November-December issue of The Futurist, a magazine published by the World Future Society. The prediction of 50 million lives lost to AIDS in the 1990s is the bleakest estimate of the impact of the fatal
"State Alerts Employees About AIDS": United Press International (10/18/88); Kellog, Sarah M.; Lansing, Mich.--The state Department of Civil Service is preparing a three-hour program to provide state employees with accurate information about AIDS. The program will center around a videotape that discusses risks and problems associated with AIDS in the workplace. Program co-coordinator Terry Curry said the departm
"Center to Fight for Civil Rights of AIDS Patients": United Press International (10/18/88); Philadelphia--The non-profit AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania plans a series of legal actions to insure enforcement of civil rights laws, the organization said Tuesday. Project Director David Webber said, Based on the number of discrimination complaints we receive, there is no doubt tht discrimination against persons w
"Studies Link AIDS Virus Directly to Cancer and Dementia": New York Times (10/18/88), P. C7; Schmeck, Harold Jr.; Two new studies of the effects of HIV on animal cells has shed light on the connection between AIDS and two symptoms that often accompany it, cancer and dementia . Previously researchers thought that the link between AIDS and Kaposi s sarcoma, a rare skin cancer, was indirect and due to the effect of the virus on the i
"The Fetus: Medicine, Law and Morality": Washington Post (Health) (10/18/88), P. 17; Colburn, Don; The national debate over whether scientists should use aborted fetal tissue for pioneering medical research has been discussed widely recently, and will be looked at again this week when an expert panel meets at the National Institutes of Health. Fetal tissue research includes some on the cutting edge of medical discov
"Sobol Backs Course on AIDS in Sayville": New York Times (10/18/88), P. B5; Despite the protests of parents who said it was nothing more than sex education under a different guise, New York State Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol ruled Monday that a curriculum intended to teach about AIDS is proper. The Board of Education of Sayville, on Long Island, determined that the materials were consis
"2 Americans, Briton Win Nobel Prize in Medicine": Washington Post (10/18/88), P. A1; Okie, Susan; Researchers Gertrude B. Elion, 70, and George H. Hitchings, 83, Monday were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for research on celluar metabolism that began in the 1940s and produced some early chemotherapy drugs, as well as AZT and other antiviral agents. Sir James W. Black of King s College Medical School in London
"New Technique to Allow Rapid Diagnosis of Diseases": Wall Street Journal (10/18/88), P. B1; Bishop, Jerry E.; By late next year, doctors may be able to quickly detect viral, bacterial, and genetic diseases using a new gene-amplification technology. Like the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) developed by Cetus Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., the new Q-beta replicase technology involves taking infinitesimal bits of genetic material fro
"Pact: AIDS Soldiers Stay Home": Associated Press (10/17/88); Washington--Under the new U.S. military bases agreement with the Philippines , HIV-positive American soldiers and sailors are explicitly banned from serving in another country. The clAUse, which the State Department says is the first of its kind, may cAUse a dispute with Manila over reported AIDS cases among bar hostes
"City Asks Dismissal of Suit by AIDS-Infected Doctor": United Press International (10/17/88); New York--A $175 million lawsuit filed by a New York doctor who contracted HIV from a needle-stick in Kings County Hospital in 1983 should be dismissed becAUse the woman waited too long to file it, city attorneys argued Monday. Dr. Veronica Prego, a graduate of an Argentine medical school who served a residency in New
"Lawsuit Claims the Texas Department of Corrections Discriminates Against" Inmates Infected with AIDS...: United Press International (10/17/88); Houston--The Texas Department of Corrections discriminates against inmates infected with HIV, according to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit that says the department denies HIV-positive inmates access to a pre-parole halfway house program. Texas prisons have 200 inmates with AIDS or ARC and 46 other HIV-
"Johnson Foundation Thinking Small": Scientist (10/17/88) Vol. 2, No. 19, P. 19; The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hopes to expand the types of organizations that solicit funds from it, according to Leighton E. Cluff, president of the Princeton, N.J., organization. The group will encourage promising single-site projects at the community level, said Cluff, to bring in groups that don t ordinarily t
"Awarded the First Federal Funds for Construction of Health Care" Facilities for AIDS Patients...: United Press International (10/17/88); The federal government awarded the first of several funding packages for health care centers for AIDS patients nationwide. Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, handed out the awards, and said they will be seed money for such projects. Almost $7 million will be given by the government to fund the 19 facil
"Government Targets Women in New AIDS Ads": United Press International (10/17/88); Washington, D.C.--A new advertising campaign against AIDS sponsored by the federal government will be targeted at women who are in high risk groups. The $6 million program will be directed at women whose sexual partners use intravenous drugs and those who have multiple sexual partners. The ads, in newspapers and magazi
"Keeping Fragments of the Quilt": Washington Post (10/17/88), P. B7; Swisher, Ken; Although most of the 9000 panels of the AIDS Quilt are going back to the quilt s home base in San Francisco, the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History (NMAH) will acquire a few commemorative panels in the coming year. The museum will select panels based on design, messge, gender, and age of the person remem
"European AIDS Rate Highest in Switzerland": Journal of Commerce (10/17/88), P. 11A; A new World Health Organization survey reveals tha of all European countries, Switzerland has the highest AIDS rate, with 76.1 cases per million population. The countries with the next highest rates are France , with 75.7 per million, and
"Discovery on AIDS Virus Raises a Possibility of Safe Fatherhood": New York Times (10/17/88), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; HIV-positive men may be able to father children safely, according to Dr. Bernard Poiesz and his colleagues at the State University of New York in Syracuse. Using the sensitive polymerase chain reaction test, the researchers found the virus in the seminal fluid in which sperm cells are suspended, but not in the sperm it
"Administration Found Guilty of Criminal Neglect": Gay Community News (10/16/88) Vol. 16, No. 14, P. 1; Pincus, Elizabeth; On Oct. 10, the evening before the massive AIDS demonstration and civil disobedience at the Food and Drug Administration, presiding judge Carol Leigh of ACT UP/San Francisco found President Ronald Reagan and his cohorts guilty of criminal neglect and murder in the deaths of over 41,000 people and the widespread sufferi
"Leningrad Paper Publishes Photo of First Soviet AIDS Victim": Reuters (10/16/88); Moscow--A Leningrad newspaper, Leningradskaya Pravda, published a picture of the first person in the Soviet Union to die of AIDS, says the Soviet Tass news agency. The paper printed her full name and urged her sex partners to be tested for the virus. Olga Gaevskay was a 29-year-old prostitute who died in Leningrad on S
"Gann Hits Prop. 102 Campaign Contributions": United Press International (10/16/88); Sacramento--Anti-tax activist PAUl Gann said he is utterly disgusted that the nonprofit San Francisco AIDS Foundation contributed $17,530 to the campaign against Proposition 102, the California AIDS reporting initiative. Gann also called for his supporters to withdraw their funds from Wells Fargo, a bank that bought a
"6 Connecticut Bishops Urge Better Education on AIDS": New York Times (10/16/88), P. 30; The first unified message on AIDS was released today by six Connecticut Roman Catholic bishops, who signed a pastoral letter that calls on Catholics to learn about AIDS and to care for those with the fatal disease. In the letter, the bishops asked followers to lobby legislators to provide more money for research and tr
"AIDS Test for Suspect Splits Experts": New York Times (10/16/88), P. 30; Hevesi, Dennis; A recent ruling by a Superior Court judge in Connecticut who refused to allow a rape victim to have her assailant tested for AIDS has divided health experts, public officials, and civil rights advocates. Although state law allows testing of rape defendants for venereal disease, Judge Richard Damiani decided against the
"Prevention of Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Africa:" Effectiveness of Condom Promotion and Health Education Among Prostitutes: Lancet (10/15/88) Vol. 2, No. 8616, P. 887; Ngugi, E.N.; Condom use among three groups of Nairobi prostitutes increased following a program of education and the distribution of free condoms, according to E.N. Ngugi and a team of Kenyan and Canadian researchers. The women were divided into three groups, one of which received AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease educati
"IPPF Guidance on HIV Transmission": Lancet (10/15/88) Vol. 2, No. 8616, P. 918; The International Planned Parenthood Foundation s (IPPF) AIDS Prevention Unit has constructed three documents to help family planning associations (FPA) include HIV and AIDS advice in their existing programs. One is a manual for senior FPA staff with detailed information on the disease and the implications of that info
"National AIDS Trust": Lancet (10/15/88) Vol. 2, No. 8616, P. 918; Since March, the National AIDS Trust has distributed more than 400,000 pounds to 22 projects that provide a variety of AIDS services in the United Kingdom , including counseling, helplines, and sheltered accomodation. The government helps meet administrative expenses for the Trust, which also aims to provide a forum fo
"Truth in Testing": Science News (10/15/88) Vol. 134, No. 16, P. 244; Critics of widespread screening for HIV antibodies point to the low rate of HIV infection in most segments of society and to the high rate of false positive test results in populations at low risk as evidence that only high-risk populations should be tested. Now, however, Donald S. Burke of the Walter Reed Army Institu
"HIV: More Tricks Up Its Sleeve": Science News (10/15/88) Vol. 134, No. 16, P. 244; Weiss, Rick; HIV may interfere directly with the functions of other body cells in addition to destroying the body s immune cells, according to two new studies. Research by Jonathan Vogel and his colleagues using mice whose cells had permanently incorporated a critical HIV regulatory gene called tat suggests that the gene may be abl
"Abnormal Eye Movements May Precede AIDS Dementia": United Press International (10/15/88); Hooper, Celia; Some AUstralian doctors believe that abnormal eye movements may be one of the first signs an HIV-positive person is developing AIDS dementia . About 66 percent of people with AIDS develop the brain disorder. Doctors from the Mental Health Research Insititute of Victoria, Melbourne, said they found abnormal eye movement
"Number of Sex Partners and Potential Risk of Sexual Exposure to Human" Immunodeficiency Virus: Journal of the American Medical Association (10/14/88) Vol. 260, No. 14, P. 2020; In a General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center from Feb. 14 to April 25, 1988, 21.5 percent of 1482 respondents said they had no sex partners in the previous year, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Nearly 60 percent reported one partn
"Sex Tied to Drugs = STD Spread": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/14/88) Vol. 260, No. 14, P. 2009; Goldsmith, Marsha; Some segments of the population are seeing a rise in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that hasn t been equalled in almost 40 years. Experts believe the rise in STDs is closely correlated with crack use. Scientists fear that the increase in STDs may lead to a corresponding growth in heterosexual AIDS cases. In Afric
"Volunteers Needed for Study of Anti-Viral Agent": Washington Blade (10/14/88) Vol. 19, No. 42, P. 19; Sullivan, Mark; Fifty people with AIDS will take part in a study of the effectiveness of the anti-viral agent foscarnet against cytomegalovirus retinitis. The condition, a form of herpes, affects immune-impaired people. The National Institutes of Health s National Eye Institute is recruiting people with AIDS who have cytomegalovirus t
"$4 Million Federal Grant to Fund Clinic Using Experimental Medications to" Treat Children...: United Press International (10/14/88); Houston--Four Houston institutions will use a $4 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant to fund a clinic that will treat HIV-positive children with experimental medications. Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Ho
"High-Ranking Air Force Officer Charged in AIDS Case": United Press International (10/14/88); Sacramento--An Air Force pilot has been grounded by Air Force officials on charges that he had sex after he knew he was infected with the AIDS virus. Lt. Colonel David Eckert, a pilot for 19 years, stands accused of endangering life with sexual acitivity, according to spokesman Lt. Col. Duane Roberts. Eckert s case mar
"Poor Results Bring End to Anti-AIDS Drug Study": New York Times (10/14/88), P. A17; Kolata, Gina; HEM Research of Philadelphia announced yesterday that it has halted a study of Ampligen, a drug once believed to be one of the most promising anti-AIDS treatments. Preliminary studies indicated that the drug--which was made from two strands of RNA--stopped the virus from replicating and strengthened the immune systems
"EPO May Ease Effect of AZT, Researchers Say": Wall Street Journal (10/14/88), P. B5; Waldholz, Michael; EPO, an experimental, genetically engineered version of the human hormone erythropoeitin, may counter the severe anemia AZT cAUses in many people with AIDS, according to a preliminary study. Ampligen Inc. developed the substance and Johnson + Johnson s Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. is conducting the study. In a prelimina
"U.S., Soviets Agree to Unite on AIDS, Drug Abuse, Polio": Washington Post (10/14/88), P. A14; The U.S. and the Soviet Union have agreed to conduct joint research into AIDS, drug abuse, alcoholism, and polio. Valentin Pokrovosky, president of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, and Samuel O. Thier, president of the National Institute of Medicine, signed a five-year agreement yesterday. Under the terms of the
"Hill Approves $1 Billion AIDS Bill": Washington Post (10/14/88), P. A1; Congress, after fighting off a Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) effort to kill its first comprehensive AIDS bill, passed a $1 billion compromise effort yesterday. The bill lacks the extra safeguards for ensuring confidential testing that its sponsors had sought. It will, however, sharply increase the number of federal employees in
"Documentation of an AIDS Virus Infection in the United States in 1968": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/14/88) Vol. 260, No. 14, P. 2085; Garry, Robert F.; Although scientists first recognized AIDS in the U.S. in the early 1980s, Robert F. Garry and his colleagues report that a case study of a 15-year-old black male hospitalized in 1968 shows evidence of infection with HIV or a nearly identical virus. The patient entered St. Louis City Hospital with extensive lymphedema o
"AMA Insights": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/14/88) Vol. 260, No. 14, P. 2041; Under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control, the American Medical Association (AMA) will continue its efforts to encourage practicing physicians to educate youth about AIDS and HIV infection and how to protect against them. Representatives of 30 medical societies will receive training in the grant s first year t
"Memorial Planned for Sam Puckett": Bay Area Reporter (10/13/88) Vol. 18, No. 41, P. 19; A memorial service will be held Oct. 26 for Sam Puckett, a leading figure in AIDS education. Puckett died of AIDS-related complications in San Francisco on Oct. 8. He designed much of San Francisco s prevention program, which became a model for similar programs worldwide. As well as serving as a consultant to the San F
"Governor Vetoes Two Marks Bills": Bay Area Reporter (10/13/88) Vol. 18, No. 41, P. 5; Newquist, Jay; In California, Gov. George Deukmejian recently vetoed several AIDS-related bills. Among them are two sponsored by San Francsico Democrat Sen. Milton Marks. One gave priority to people with AIDS and other terminally ill persons in processing discrimination complaints through the Department of Fair Employment and Housing
"Regarding the San Francisco Asian AIDS Project": Bay Area Reporter (10/13/88) Vol. 18, No. 41, P. 6; HIV/AIDS Committee, Gay Asian/Pacific Alliance; The Asian AIDS Project (AAP), started a year ago by the Asian American Recovery Services (AARS), has taken recent actions that alienate the community they are intended to help, says the HIV/AIDS Committee of the Gay Asian/Pacific Alliance. Although gay and bisexual men make up 84 percent of the Asian/Pacific AIDS cases
"Discrimination Against People with AIDS: The Public's Perspective": New England Journal of Medicine (10/13/88) Vol. 319, No. 15, P. 1022; Blendon, Robert J.; Most Americans agree that the AIDS epidemic will lead to increased discrimination against people who have the disease or carry HIV, according to a review of 53 national and international surveys conducted by Robert J. Blendon and Karen Donelan of the Harvard AIDS Institute, Harvard School of Public Health. An overwhelm
"Routinely Offered Prenatal HIV Testing": New England Journal of Medicine (10/13/88) Vol. 319, No. 15, P. 1018; Minkoff, Howard L.; Howard L. Minkoff and his colleagues from the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn report on a program of routine prenatal HIV counseling and testing they adopted to allow women to be tested without disclosing any risky behaviors. Of 332 pregnant women offered counseling and testing, 134 patie
"HIV Testing is the Answer--What is the Question?": New England Journal of Medicine (10/13/88) Vol. 319, No. 15, P. 1010; Weiss, Robin; The wide discussion of false positive rates in HIV antibody testing distracts from the more important questions, say Robin Weiss and Samuel O. Their of the National Academy of Science s Institute of Medicine. The main questions should be Why test?, and How good is the proposed test? Answers to those two help determine
"Measurement of the False Positive Rate in a Screening Program for Human" Immunodeficiency Virus Infections: New England Journal of Medicine (10/13/88) Vol. 319, No. 15, P. 961; Burke, Donald S.; Donald S. Burke and his colleagues report their conclusion that a screening program for HIV infection in a low-prevalence population can have an acceptably low false positive rate. The researcher, from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues report that in a review of 135,187
"Methadone Sub Said Effective": Associated Press (10/13/88); Washington, D.C.--A new methadone substitute is being heralded by scientists as the latest hope for weaning heroin addicts from their addiction. According to researchers at Yale University who are working with the National Institutes of Health, a successful 1-month pilot study of 41 subjects has given way to a larger s
"Seven AIDS Centers, Three in Calif., Funded": United Press International (10/13/88); San Francisco--Grants to continue accelerated AIDS research programs sponsored by the federal government have been awarded to three Northern California universities and four other schools. Stanford University, UC-San Francisco, UC-Davis, the University of Washington, the University of Alabama, Purdue University, and th
"WSU Gets $3.2 Million to Study AIDS, Drug Use in Central Ohio": United Press International (10/13/88); Grant, Alison; Dayton, Ohio--The federal government has awarded a $3.2 million grant to Wright State University for the study of AIDS and intravenous drug use in the Dayton and Columus areas. The grant will allow researchers to compile data on 800 drug users and 400 of their primary sexual partners. The study will include education t
"Israel Reports Decline in AIDS Cases": United Press International (10/13/88); Berry, Orielle; An Israeli AIDS experts says increased cAUtion among homosexuals, drug users, and other persons at risk for the disease has resulted in a decrease in new cases of the disease in Israel. Dr. Shlomo Ma ayan, director of the Hadassah Hospital AIDS clinic, said there were 10 cases so far this year, down from 16 cases in 19
"Purdue Named Center for AIDS Research": United Press International (10/13/88); West Lafayette, Ind.--The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) has named Purdue University as one of seven universities that will receive five-year grants to establish AIDS research centers. Institute Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said the seven centers will cost $6.7 million in their first year
"Insurers Duck Battle Over AIDS Testing Ban": Journal of Commerce (10/13/88), P. 9A; Young, Leah R.; Insurers abandoned the District of Columbia when it passed a 1986 law forbidding testing of prospective policy-holders for HIV. Congress last month ordered the District to repeal or amend the law or face a cutoff of federal money. According to a Howard University survey, 80 percent of insurers stopped writing individua
"Clinical Testing is Started for on CD4 Drug for AIDS": Wall Street Journal (10/13/88), P. B4; Clinical tests of Biogen Inc. s version of CD4 are underway, the Cambridge, Mass., company announced. The genetically engineered substance mimics a molecule found on the surface of certain immune system cells. Researchers hope the drug will act as a decoy for the virus. The trials, which are taking place at the Massach
"Military Testing for AIDS is Found to be Highly Accurate": New York Times (10/13/88), P. B19; Altman, Lawrence K.; An initial screen test for HIV antibodies followed by a backup test for suspicious samples is proving highly accurate for testing military recruits, according to a team of military scientists. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research scientist Dr. Donald S. Burke and his colleagues say the test only falsely identified 1
"New Services in AIDS Cases are Urged": New York Times (10/13/88), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; The New York City AIDS Task Force says that to deal with the growing AIDS crisis the city needs a rapid overhAUl and major expansion of medical and social services. New York expects 11,000 residents to have AIDS and another 100,000 to have related illnesses in 1991. The AIDS Task Force is trying to include private grou
"Much Hostility Seen Toward AIDS Carriers": Washington Post (10/13/88), P. A7; Okie, Susan; A study in today s New England Journal of Medicine says that Americans know more about AIDS, but continue to harbor hostility toward its victims. Robert J. Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health conducted the study, which reviewed 50 surveys taken from 1983-1988. The study says 25 percent of Americans would ref
"UK to Ban Home AIDS Test Kits": Associated Press (10/12/88); London--Great Britain s Department of Health announced Wednesday that it will ban the sale of home testing kits for AIDS. Only registered medical practitioners should carry out the tests so that necessary counseling can be given and confirmatory tests carried out, said Health Minister David Mellor. The clAUse will be i
"Judge Chides State on AIDS Inmates Dorm": United Press International (10/12/88); Syracuse, N.Y.--U.S. District Judge Howard Munson Wednesday ordered the state to stop transferring inmates in the early stages of HIV infection to a dormitory at Greene Correctional Institute in Coxsackie. Munson s one-page opinion chastised the Department of Correctional Services for starting the program. He said it s
"Businessman Gives $3 Million to U.Va.": United Press International (10/12/88); Charlottesville, Va.--Roanoke businessman Beirne Carter has given the University of Virginia more than $3 million to open a center for human immune system research. The funds will also help attract an internationally known scientist in the field of immunology. University of Virginia Vice President for Health Sciences D
"National Institutes of Health Awarded the University of Georgia More than" $1 Million...: United Press International (10/12/88); Athens, Ga.--The University of Georgia will receive more than $1 million for its Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) as part of a $6 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS research program. The school, which is studying carbohydrate chains on the surface of HIV, joins Harvard University s Medical Scho
"Smuggler Must Open AIDS House": Associated Press (10/12/88); Portland, Maine--A convicted marijuana smuggler has been ordered to open a hospice for AIDS patients instead of serving a jail term. U.S. District Judge Gene Carter, who has the reputation of levying stiff penalties in drug related crimes, ordered Harvey Prager to run an AIDS house in Maine for his crimes, which includ
"Campus Group Urges Safer Sex": Associated Press (10/12/88); Knight, Susan; Tucson, Ariz.--Students on campuses around the nation have changed their sexual practices as a result of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases. University of Arizona students have formed a discussion group called Frisky Business, which holds frank discussions on the consequences of sex. Even though more students
"IV-to-Sex AIDS Spread Targeted": Associated Press (10/12/88); Cleveland--Two Cleveland scientists who have been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Addiction say they will target the spread of AIDS from intravenous drug users to their sexual partners. Dr. Shadi Roman, who directs the Cuyahoga County Drug Abuse Services Program and Richard Stephens, a
"Three Groups Experimenting With AIDS Vaccine in U.S.": Reuters (10/12/88); San Marino -- American virologist Dani Bolognesi told an international AIDS symposium that three experimental AIDS vaccines are currently being tested on humans in the U.S. One test is underway in Switzerland . The tests were done on healthy people from groups considered to have a high r
"Impressive First Effort in Battling the Spread of the Fatal Disease...": United Press International (10/12/88); Tacoma, Wash. -- Tacoma s controversial hypodermic needle-exchange program is an impressively well-run operation, says Don Des Jarlais, a leading expert on AIDS from New York City. Des Jarlais, coordinator of AIDS research for the city of New York, was in Tacoma to study the nation s first needle-exchange program while
"AIDS Virus May CAUse Cancer": United Press International (10/12/88); Ricks, Delthia; Los Angeles--AIDS researchers announced Wednesday they have evidence that a form of cancer linked with AIDS may not attack the human system after the virus has weakened its defenses, but may be directly caused by the AIDS virus. According to scientists at the University of California, Davis and the National Cancer Inst
"East Flatbush Cast Wary Eye on AIDS Babies": New York Times (10/12/88), P. B1; Martin, Douglas; With the number of pediatric AIDS cases by 1991 estimated at 20,000, some might despair. Phyllis Susser, executive director of the Herbert G. Birch Community Service Inc. in Brooklyn, is fighting back. The mental health professional is overseeing the final touches on a Brooklyn residence for babies with the disease who
"AIDS Screening Tests Said Highly Reliable": Journal of Commerce (10/12/88), P. 9A; A study of a group of civilian applicants for military service reportedly revealed that AIDS screening tests are nearly 100 percent accurate. The study showed that only 1 of 135,187 people tested false positive, a rate of .0007 percent.
"Dr. B. Frank Polk is Dead at 46; Expert on Epidemiology and AIDS": New York Times (10/12/88), P. D28; Fowler, Glenn; Dr. B. Frank Polk, an epidemiologist who led the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to the forefront of AIDS research, died of a brain tumor Tuesday in Boston. He was 46 years old. Polk conducted studies tracing the spread of AIDS in the U.S. and throughout the world. Studies Polk initiated to trace the spread of th
"FDA Under Siege": Wall Street Journal (10/12/88), P. A18; AIDS advocates who blocked the entrances to the Food and Drug Adminstration ( FDA ) headquarters yesterday would find out if they got inside the most hidebound agency in the federal government that career bureAUcrats supported by powerful members of Congress are the real enemies, says this Wall Street Journal editorial
"1,000 Swarm FDA's Rockville Office to Push Approval of AIDS Drugs": Washington Post (10/12/88), P. B1; Duggan, PAUl; Nearly 1000 people waved placards and shouted, and police made 176 arrests as AIDS activists demonstrated at the entrances to the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) headquarters in Rockville, Md. Demonstrators smashed police barriers and broke a glass door and two windows, but the nine-hour demonstration was for the
"When This You See, Remember Me": Advocate (10/11/88), P. 56; Perry, David; A speech by a young man-- There s nothing so boring as someone preaching from beyond the grave. So I won t. But I just have one question, so bear with me. How come nobody ever paid this much attention to me when I was alive? --is in many ways the central motif of David Lemos new play, More Than Names, writes reviewer D
"British Scientists Develop New Hemophilia Treatment": Reuters (10/11/88); London--Medical treatment for hemophiliacs could be much more readily available if predictions from scientists in Britain come true. Dr. Peter Kernoff of the London Royal Free Hospital announced Tuesday doctors there have begun treating hemophilia patients with a genetically engineered version of Factor Eight, a substa
"University of Florida May Reconsider Condom Machines": United Press International (10/11/88); Gainesville, Fla.--Officials at the University of Florida may again consider installing condom machines on campus in an attempt to halt the spread of AIDS. Following the rejection last November of a similar proposal, a recent article in the Florida Times-Union suggests the university is reconsidering placing the machin
"Biotech Industry Threatened by Red Tape": United Press International (10/11/88); Sandoval, Rick; Laguna Miguel, Calif.--The U.S. biotechnology industry is on the verge of losing out to Japanese and West German companies if the government does not provide the necessary approval for genetic innovations and if the industry cannot get the funding it needs to survive, said a government official Tuesday. According to Fo
"FDA Approves Tests of Imre Corp.'s Filter for AIDS Treatment": Wall Street Journal (10/11/88), P. B8; Miller, James Pl.; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved clinical testing of Imre Corp. s Prosorba blood-filtration device as a treatment for people with AIDS, the company said. The 12-to-18 month tests, which the company hopes to begin this year, will determine if the device can remove HIV from the patient s blood. Proso
"Sighting the AIDS Virus: Eyes Hold an Early Clue": Washington Post (Health) (10/11/88), P. 11; Dosa, Laszlo; The retina may be the first place to detect the onset of AIDS, according to University of California at San Diego researcher Dr. William R. Freeman. Freeman told a conference of the Research to Prevent Blindness organization in Arlington, Va., recently that non-infectious retinopathy or viral retinitis may show up in t
"AIDS Coalition Targets FDA for Demonstration": Washington Post (10/11/88), P. A17; Okie, Susan; AIDS activists planned to demonstrate at the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) in Rockville, Md., this morning to demand that the agency make experimental drugs available to AIDS patients who want them before the agency has completed trials to determine the drugs effectiveness. The FDA demands too much evidence of a
"News in Brief:New Jersey": Advocate (10/11/88), P. 16; A program that placed a three-year-child with AIDS in the home of a gay transvestite shows that New Jersey is breaking new ground in the way it handles pediatric AIDS cases, according to a Division of Youth and Family Services spokesman. The man, whom the agency did not identify, said he was a little surprised that [st
"News in Brief:Nevada": Advocate (10/11/88), P. 16; Only one state prison inmate has contracted AIDS while incarcerated during the past 13 months, say Nevada prison officials. Nevada tests inmates for HIV antibodies when they enter and exit the prison system, the only state to do so. About 2 percent of the entering prisoners test positive, according to a report from sta
"On the Front Lines with the Not-So-Funny Pages": Advocate (10/11/88), P. 68; Perry, David; Strip AIDS U.S.A. is a collection of AIDS-themed cartoons put together by Trina Robbins, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Robert Triptow for Last Gasp Publishers. Reviewer David Perry says that the collection, whose profits will benefit the Shanti Project, makes one smile, think, and sometimes cry--just like any good cartoon. The
"California Bill, Cases May Shut State's Baths": Advocate (10/11/88), P. 13; Peterson, Robert W.; A California state bill restricting bathhouses, as well as the recent court-ordered shutting down of a Los Angeles bathhouse, may hasten the end of gay bathhouses in the state. Scores of the once-thriving establishments have closed their doors in the face of the AIDS epidemic. On AUg. 30, superior court judge Miriam Vo
"New York ACT UP's 'Freedom Ride' Jeered in Florida": Advocate (10/11/88) Vol., P. 13; Harding, Rick; The residents of Arcadia, Fla., gave New York s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) an unfriendly welcome when the group culiminated their freedom ride across the South there. ACT UP staged a rally on the steps of the DeSoto County courthouse exactly one year after an arsonist destroyed the home of Ricky, Randy, a
"AIDS Study is Planned at U-Md.": Washington Post (10/10/88), P. C1; Goldstein, Amy; A study sponsored by the University of Maryland s medical school in Baltimore and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to find out how widespread AIDS has become among a diverse population of young, sexually active people is underway at the university s College Park campus. Researchers say the stu
"In Zaire, AIDS Awareness vs. Prevention": New York Times (10/10/88), P. B4; Brooke, James; A recent survey of people in Zaire , which has one of Africa s highest AIDS rates, shows that although 99 percent of men know AIDS is spread through sexual contact and 60 percent know condoms can help halt transmission of the disease, only 5 percent of married men use condoms. According to Bosenge N Galy, director of t
"AIDS Spurs Soviet-U.S. Relations": New York Times (10/10/88), P. B1; Barron, James; The AIDS crisis has brought many unlikely groups together. Recently two of those groups met to discuss the future of the fatal disease. At New York s Montefiore Medical Center s AIDS unit, researchers from the Soviet Union talked about AIDS with doctors at the center. Dr. Valentin Pokrovsky, the Soviet Union s leading
"Honoring the Lives of the Lost": Washington Post (10/10/88), P. B1; Feinman, Barbara; The Names Project, organizer of the AIDS quilt, coordinated a four-hour performance at Washington, D.C. s Kennedy Center Sunday night. The message of the show, A Tribute to Friends in the Performing Arts Lost to AIDS, was as much about living as dying, says reviewer Barbara Feinman. Performers both famous and unknown s
"Songs 'Til Things are Brighter": San Francisco Examiner (10/09/88), P. F-1; Millman, Joyce; Til Things are Brighter...A Tribute to Johnny Cash, is an album of songs by the country and western legend recorded by a group of impassioned oddballs to benefit people with AIDS, says reviewer Joyce Millman. The Mekons, Michelle Shocked, Pete Shelley, and others recorded Cash songs to raise money for the Terrence Hi
"AIDS in Prison Bibliography Available": Gay Community News (10/09/88) Vol. 16, No. 13, P. 2; Fechner, Jennifer; The American Civil Liberties Union s (ACLU) National Prison Project has compiled a 31-page bibliography of prison policies on AIDS, education materials for prisoners, AIDS litigation materials, and articles and studies on AIDS in prison. The 1988 AIDS in Prison Bibliography is available for $5 from the National Prison
"D.C. Crowd Recall AIDS Victims Through a Common Thread": Washington Post (10/09/88), P. B1; Duke, Lynne; An estimated 15,000 people gathered on the ellipse in Washington, D.C., Saturday to view the AIDS quilt, with its 8288 handmade rectangular panels, each created in memory of a person who died of AIDS. The quilt is five times bigger than one laid out along two blocks of the Mall last year. The emotional impact of the qu
"Stricken With AIDS, Californian Presses for More Disclosure": New York Times (10/09/88), P. A1; Gross, Jane; California tax activist PAUl Gann, who was infected with the AIDS virus through a blood transfusion, is pushing for a new AIDS testing and reporting policy in that state. Through Proposition 102, cosponsored by Orange County Republican Rep. William Dannemeyer, Gann hopes to require doctors to report the names of AIDS c
"The California Ballot: Big Business Worries Over Proposition 102": United Press International (10/09/88); Motamedi, Beatrice; San Francisco--Levi StrAUss + Co., American Telephone + Telegraph Co., Pacific Telesis, Chevron Corp., Apple Computer Inc, and AZT manufacturer Burroughs Wellcome are among the California companies that have lAUnched a massive effort to beat Proposition 102, the California mandatory AIDS reporting measure. It s a sim
"The California Ballot: Californians Consider Sweeping Changes in AIDS" Policy: United Press International (10/09/88); Bancroft, Ann; Sacramento--Should California pass two AIDS measures on its Nov. 8 ballot, the state would have the nation s most sweeping laws that favor the rights of employers, insurers, and health care workers over the protection of people tested for HIV antibodies. The most controversial, Proposition 102, would require doctors to
"HIV Infection in Drug Misusers": Lancet (10/08/88) Vol. 2, No. 8615, P. 862; The British government will allocate 3 million pounds to health AUthorities in 1988-89 to fight the spread of HIV infection among drug misusers. Health AUthorities should use the funds to increase efforts to make services known and accessible to addicts, according to a Department of Health circular. The circular also c
"AIDS and the Workplace": Lancet (10/08/88) Vol. 2, No. 8615, P. 841; The World Health Organization s (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS has released a consensus statement following a June conference it convened in association with the WHO Office of Occupational Health and the International Labour Office. The conference examined issues surrounding AIDS and the workplace. Among the recommenda
"Out of Sight": Economist (10/08/88) Vol. 309, No. 7571, P. 33; From listening to the presidential candidates, a voter could hardly tell that a lethal virus continues to spread through the electorate. The Economist says this is becAUse neither candidate sees any votes to be won among gays and drug users, the two groups the epidemic most affects. The AIDS quilt is one example of the
"Judge Bars Test for AIDS Virus In a Rape Trial": New York Times (10/08/88), P. 30; A Superior Court judge in Connecticut has ruled that a state law that permits testing of rape suspects for venereal disease cannot be applied in a rape case becAUse, he said, AIDS is not a venereal disease. A woman had requested that the man accused of raping her be tested for the disease. The defendant, Earl J. Volpe,
"Brazil's Condom Confusion": New York Times (10/08/88), P. 27; Isaacs, Stephen; As the world health community continues its fight against the spread of AIDS, it is continually faced with situations which make its battle twice as difficult, says Stephen Isaacs, lawyer and Columbia University professor of clinical public health. In Brazil , where the combination of pleasure-seeking tourists and the
"Justice's New AIDS Policy": Washington Post (10/08/88), P. A26; The Justice Department recently released a revised memorandum that includes AIDS patients under the Rehabilitation Act, which guarantees they will not be removed from their jobs unless they cannot perform their duties or pose a threat to coworkers. The editors of the Washington Post believe the agency s newest memo is
"Your Health: Can the FDA Improve the Balance for Drug Safety and Speed?": United Press International (10/08/88); Byron, Peg; New York--Vice President George Bush, head of the Reagan administration s Task Force on Regulatory Release, is expected to announce before the presidential election plans to merge two of the Food and Drug Administration s ( FDA ) clinical trial phases, thus cutting down on the length of time it takes to receive FDA app
"Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1943; Handsfield, H. Hunter; Until researchers know for certain the extent of heterosexual HIV transmission, health officials and funding agencies must assume and prepare for the worst, says Seattle researcher H. Hunter Handsfield. Most data do not indicate that extensive heterosexual HIV transmission occurs in the U.S. BecAUse of the stigma attac
"The Epidemiology of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Among" Heterosexuals: Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1922; Haverkos, Harry W.; National Institute of Drug Abuse researchers Dr. Harry W. Haverkos and Robert Edelman report that following the reporting of heterosexual transmission of AIDS in Africa and Haiti in the early 1980s, the Centers for Disease Control started to report heterosexually transmitted cases in the U.S. in 1984. Although a numbe
"Preventing the Heterosexual Spread of AIDS": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1879; Padian, Nancy S.; Commenting on an evaluation of efforts to prevent the heterosexual spread of AIDS, researchers Nancy S. Padian of the University of California, Berkeley, and Donald S. Francis of the Centers for Disease Control and the California Department of Health Services commend the work of Drs. Heart and Hulley. However, they war
"Tuckson Says City Has Begun Outreach to Black Gays": Washington Blade (10/07/88) Vol. 19, No. 41, P. 5; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; Washington, D.C., has begun implementing suggestions and proposals from the black gay community to reduce the outbreak of AIDS among the city s black gay men, said D.C. Public Health Commissioner Reed V. Tuckson. He held a meeting with about 40 representatives of the city s black gay community Oct. 5 to follow up on an
"FDA Memo Warns Employees About Tuesday's Protest": Washington Blade (10/07/88) Vol. 19, No. 41, P. 7; Keen, Lisa M.; In anticipation of Tuesday s AIDS Coalition to Network, Organize, and Win (ACT NOW) demonstration at its Rockville, Md., headquarters, Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) officials sent a memorandum to employees telling them they should not meet with representatives of private industry. The memo said that ACT NOW tr
"Helms Moves to Sabotage AIDS, Hate Crimes Bills": Washington Blade (10/07/88) Vol. 19, No. 41, P. 1; Keen, Lisa M.; Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) is holding up the AIDS Research and Education Bill, as well as a bill to document crimes motivated by hatred of gays. A Helms staffer, Barbara Lukens, said she did not know of Helms opposition to either bill, but staffers for Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), said that Helms has threatened a fili
"Medically Unnecessary Hospital Use in Children Seropositive for Human" Immunodeficiency Virus: Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1906; Kemper, Kathi; More than half of the days HIV-positive children spent in the Yale-New Haven Hospital through October 31, 1987 were medically unnecessary, report Kathi Kemper and Brain Forsyth of the Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn, who studied the hospital stays of 34 HIV seropositive
"The Medical Care Costs of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Children" in Harlem: Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1901; Hegarty, James D.; The average lifetime cost of hospital care for a child with AIDS between 1981 and 1986 was $90,347, report James D. Hegarty and colleagues from the Department of Pediatrics at Harlem Hospital Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York. About one third of the cost resulted from social
"AIDS Quilt, Larger Than Last Year, Returns to Mall": Washington Post (10/07/88), P. A16; Boodman, Sandra G.; The Names Project AIDS Quilt, now containing 8288 panels and representing 50 states and 12 foreign countries, will return to Washington, D.C., this weekend. The quilt, unfurled last on the Mall in the capital city, returns after a tour of 20 American cities and an appearance at the international AIDS conference in Stoc
"Sen. Helms May Stymie AIDS Measure": Washington Post (10/07/88), P. A19; Boodman, Sandra G.; Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) is threatening to block this year s major piece of AIDS legislation becAUse he opposes guarantees of confidentiality for people tested for HIV antibodies. Supporters of bills passed by the House and Senate hoped a conference would come up with a final version for the president to sign this wee
"Justice Dept. Reverses Stance on AIDS Bias": Washington Post (10/07/88), P. A1; Marcus, Ruth; The Justice Department, in an about-face, abandoned yesterday its controversial opinion that people with AIDS are not protected by anti-discrimination laws barring discrimination against handicapped people. The Department has also decided that people infected with the virus but who are not ill are also protected, as lo
"Md. AIDS Lawsuits Filed": Washington Post (10/07/88), P. C3; A woman who was refused service at two Baltimore beAUty parlors becAUse she has ARC has sued the two shops, claiming her civil rights have been violated. Tema Luft, who recieved widespread publicity for her involvement with an AIDS conference in Washington, D.C., was refused service by All That Glitters and The Nail Ga
"AIDS Issue Lingers in Florida Town": New York Times (10/07/88), P. A16; Schmalz, Jeffrey; The town of Arcadia, Fla., is a typical southern small town, removed from the hustle and bustle of urban life and settled in its home town ways. But more than a year ago, this town was the site of a controversy over AIDS that brought it and its residents to the national spotlight. The principals in that controversy, th
"Child AIDS Victims' Medical Costs Are Exploding, Two Reports Say": Wall Street Journal (10/07/88), P. B4; Waldholz, Michael; The number of AIDS cases in children has increased dramatically over the past 8 years. That fact, combined with the high numbers of unnecessary hospitalizations of children with AIDS, has caused the cost of treating those children to explode. Two different studies have recently reported that the cost of treating childr
"On the Road": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1946; Pence, Gregory E.; Gregory E. Pence, a PhD in Philosophy and former real-estate agent, says his series of lectures to nonacademic AUdiences as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities programs on AIDS and ethics sometimes makes him feel like he is part peripatetic philosopher, part sophist--becAUse he gets paid, and part dog and p
"HIV Prevalence Data Mount, Patterns Seen Emerging by End of This Year": Journal of the American Medical Association (10/07/88) Vol. 260, No. 13, P. 1829; Goldsmith, Marsha F.; A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) blood sample and interview survey of 300 to 500 households in a medium-sized, mid-Atlantic city will help determine whether a full-scale National Household Seroprevalence Survey is a feasible way to measure the level of HIV infection in the U.S. Should the first sample survey work ou
"U.S. Panel Affirms Stand on Research on Tissue of Fetuses": New York Times (10/07/88), P. B13; It is acceptable for the federal government to support medical research that involves transplanting tissue from intentionally aborted fetuses, according to the final report of a special advisory committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The report, which was not substantially different from earlier drafts,
"A Warning on Quacks from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" Consumer Affairs Office: Bay Area Reporter (10/06/88) Vol. 18, No. 40, P. 6; Speakers at the National Health FrAUd Conference told participants that quack cures for cancer and other diseases are now being foisted on people with AIDS. Among the frAUds panelists at the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and Trinity Lutheran Hospital in Kansas City-sponsored conference described was immuno-AUgme
"Effect of Continuous Intravenous Infusion of Zidovudine (AZT) in Children" with Symptomatic HIV Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (10/06/88) Vol. 319, No. 14, P. 889; Pizzo, Philip A.; AZT helps children with symptomatic HIV-infection, say Philip A. Pizzo and his colleagues, who studied the effects of continuous intravenous doses of the drug on 21 children aged 14 months to 12 years. Although some patients required blood transfusions to counter bone marrow suppression, there were no other signs of
"Chicago AIDS Tests Fall Off": Associated Prtes (10/06/88); Chicago--Concern about Illinois new secret AIDS testing law is responsible for a 40 percent drop in those being tested at the city s best-known AIDS clinic in the past month, says Curt D Achille, Howard Brown Memorial Clinic s head of testing. Two city clinics are down 16 percent in tests. On Sept. 2, Gov. James Thomps
"Faster Approval of AIDS Drug Pledged by FDA Commissioner": Reuters (10/06/88); The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) will find a way to speed up the approval of drugs to treat AIDS, FDA Commissioner Frank Young told the International Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations at their annual meeting Thursday. Young told a delegation of 10 people with AIDS Wednesday that AIDS hAU
"Designers (and Friends) Hold Gala to Help AIDS Charities": New York Times (10/06/88), P. C6; Hochswender, Woody; Metropolitan Home magazine transformed the 26th Street Armory on Lexington Avenue in New York City into a post-modern dreamscape Wednesday evening for a star-studded event to benefit the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, also known as Diffa. The setting included scenes of downtown Zanzibar from an opera set by Da
"Teen-Ager with AIDS": New York Times (10/06/88), P. C30; I Have AIDS--A Teen-Ager s Story, will run on New York public television this Sunday night. The Children s Television Workshop produced the special, which is about Ryan White, a 16-year-old who is something of a national hero since getting AIDS from a blood transfusion. During the show, White answers questions from ch
"Fatal Ignorance": New York Times (10/06/88), P. A30; Although the fear of AIDS has become a national issue, there are very few television advertisements advocating the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the fatal disease. Commercials explaining how to cure headaches and bad breath are everywhere, complain the editors of the New York Times, but NBC and ABC have run o
"U.S. Widens Effort to Refine Estimate of AIDS Carrier": Wall Street Journal (10/06/88), P. B4; Ricklefs, Roger; Federal efforts to discover the number of people in the U.S. with AIDS are continuing, but are hampered by the unwillingness of citizens to discuss their health. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta will begin a pilot survey to find out what percentage of the population is infected. Starting in the Pittsbur
"Drug Helps Children With AIDS, Researchers Say": New York Times (10/06/88), P. A26; A study to be published in today s New England Journal of Medicine says that children with AIDS respond favorably to treatment with azidothymidine, or AZT . In those studies, the results of which were first released at the international AIDS meeting in Stockholm in July, children with AIDS showed improved IQ scores, an
"Homosexual Groups and the Politics of AIDS": New York Times (10/06/88), P. B20; Johnson, Julie; The Human Rights Campaign Fund, the only gay political action committee (PAC) in the U.S., is at the center of the debate on the politics of AIDS and its relevance to the 1988 election. The fund s communications director, Robert F. Bray, says there are 12 million registered gay voters, many of whom are dismayed with Pr
"Human Rights Commission Settles Lawsuit Over AIDS Cases": United Press International (10/05/88); AUstin, Texas--AIDS patients who have filed job discrimination charges against their employers in Texas won a battle Wednesday as the Human Rights Commission in that state agreed to change its rules to expedite the filing of those charges. A class action lawsuit that Texas Rural Legal AIDS filed prompted the changes.
"America Lacks Overall Health Care Policy": Wall Street Journal (10/05/88), P. A33; Christen, Patricia; In this response to a previous letter to the editors of the Wall Street Journal, the AUthor, the director of public policy for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, criticizes the point of view that we as a society must look closely at the costs, medical and societal, of dealing with AIDS. The cost of health care in the U
"Finding Test Animals to Use in AIDS Study": Wall Street Journal (10/05/88), P. B1; Bishop, Jerry; One of the problems faced by AIDS researchers has been the lack of laboratory animals to infect with HIV. Attempts to inject rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, rats, hamsters, and musk shrews with the AIDS virus have failed. The only successes have come in infecting chimpanzees, which unfortunately have never developed the di
"D.C. Moves to Repeal AIDS Law": Washington Post (10/05/88), P. A1; Boodman, Sandra G.; The District of Columbia seems to be taking grudging action to repeal the city s pioneering law barring insurers from routinely testing policy applicants for AIDS. Gay activists who met with D.C. Council member John Ray (D-At Large) said Ray is drafting legislation to comply with a congressional edict altering the AIDS
"An AIDS Bill in Danger": Washington Post (10/05/88), P. A24; The final passage of a bill that would make great strides in shaping a comprehensive federal policy on AIDS is endangered by a simple delay, says the Washington Post in this editorial. The House last month and Senate in April passed differing but not incompatible bills. Neither bill addresses the controversial question
"Reagan Signs Legislation to Provide Poor with AZT": Washington Post (10/05/88), P. A21; President Reagan averted the possible cutoff of AIDS drug AZT to about 6000 people when he signed legislation yesterday to continue funding for a program that provides the drug to low-income people with the disease. Under the bill, the Department of Health and Human Services will provide $10 million to extend the progr
"AZT Tests Seek to Stem Fetal AIDS": Washington Post (10/05/88), P. A1; Okie, Susan; HIV-positive pregnant women will take azidothymidine ( AZT ) to find out if it will reduce the chance of their children being infected with the virus. AIDS researchers said promising results in experiments with mice justify the break with traditional medical wisdom, which says that drugs should be avoided whenever poss
"Court Teaches AIDS Education": Associated Press (10/4/88); New York--A new program has employees of the state court system are learning about the problems of fellow workers who have AIDS or ARC. Court security personnel will also learn how to handle people with AIDS under the program, which will attempt to increase sensitivity and decrease misunderstanding, according to Chief
"AIDS Victims Turn to Courts": Associated Press (10/04/88); Tampa, Fla.--PAUl Severino, a North Fort Myers firefighter, says he was fired becAUse he is HIV-positive. David Portlock, a Sarasota car salesman, filed suit against Aetna Life Insurance Co. under a new state law that guarantees continued coverage for AIDS patients with group policies. Severino said that now-retired Fi
"First Day Care Center for AIDS Children": United Press International (10/4/88); Burns, Frances Ann; Newark, N.J.--State officials on Tuesday dedicated the nation s first community-based day care center for HIV-positive children. Organizers say the center will serve10 residents within a few weeks and, they hope, will have 30 children within a year. Mary Smith, executive director of Babyland Nursery, a community sponso
"Playwright Uses Life for Work": Associated Press (10/04/88); Playwright Larry Kramer has been fighting the AIDS epidemic for eight years, fueled by the memory of the hundreds of people he knew who died of AIDS. Kramer co-founded the Gay Men s Health Crisis and later formed the protest group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). The New York Shakespeare Festival Festival prod
"AZT Found Effective in Treating AIDS in Children": Reuters (10/04/88); A new study conducted by scientists from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health finds that the drug AZT is effective in treating children who have AIDS. The study reported that all 21 children treated with the drug, which prolongs the lives of adult AIDS patients, showed improvement quickly
"Rep. Robert Dornan's Brother-in-Law Tested Negative for AIDS...": United Press International (10/04/88); Rep. Robert Dornan s (R-Garden Grove) brother-in-law recieved a negative result in his AIDS test, disproving what his sister told a Garden Grove Town Hall meeting last month. Sallie Dornan, who is running her husband s reelection campaign, apparently got upset at gay activists who accused Rep. Dornan of opposing anti-d
"AIDS 'Spots' Ordered Changed": United Press International (10/04/88); Connecticut Governor William A. O Neill has ordered changes in an AIDS-prevention television ad that depicts a couple in bed. O Neill asked the Connecticut Department of Health Services to change the video portion of the ad showing the moving legs of two people under the sheets of the bed. O Neill says he wants the ad
"Cartoon Explains AIDS to Third World Street Kids": United Press International (10/04/88); Lanthier, Jennifer; Toronto--A cartoon depicting the dangers of AIDS to street children in developing nations will be screened in New York today. Although the film contains explicit language and drawings, the makers say it is the only way to explain to these children the dangers of AIDS. Survivors tells the story of Pedro and Mario, two s
"Genetic Battle Against AIDS is Proposed": Washington Post (Health) (10/04/88), P. 8; Thompson, Larry; Human gene therapy, although still in the theoretical stage, may become one of the most exciting new approaches to treating AIDS. Writing in Nature magazine, Dr. David Baltimore, head of Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., described an approach called intracelluar immunization that involves
"Pittsburgh Area Likely to be Site of First Voluntary AIDS Survey": Washington Post (10/04/88), P. A3; Boodman, Sandra G.; A controversial Centers for Disease Control (CDC) voluntary door-to-door AIDS testing survey first planned for Washington, D.C., will likely begin in Allegheny County, Pa., in January. Health officials in Allegheny County--which includes Pittsburgh and 128 municipalities and has 1.4 million residents--agreed to partici
"Prelate Criticizes State Condom Ads": New York Times (10/04/88), P. B4; A statement Monday by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hartford, Conn., criticized that state s AIDS prevention advertising campaign. John F. Whealon said that although the state s efforts are commendable in the face of the threat posed by AIDS, the use of condoms is not the answer to the threat. According to Whealon,
"Medical Newsletters on AIDS Therapies Crop Up Across U.S.": Wall Street Journal (10/04/88), P. B6; Ricklefs, Roger; AIDS is one of the top medical stories of this decade. The scarcity of approved drugs to combat the fatal disease, combined with the desperation of those infected with AIDS, has allowed the market for medical information of any kind about AIDS to grow rapidly. Since 1985, 15 newsletters devoted to AIDS have started up.
"TV Networks Agree to Air AIDS Ads Mentioning Condoms": Washington Post (Health) (10/04/88), P. 9; Boodman, Sandra G.; The three major television networks have agreed to air several public service messages that will warn viewers of the risk of becoming infected with AIDS and promote the use of condoms during sex. The ad campaign is part of the effort by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to make people aware of the dangers of AIDS, and is
"Dems Disown AIDS-Rumor Starter": Associated Press (10/03/88); Denver--Colorado Democratic Party executive committee officials voted 33-1 Sunday to deny John Mitchell the use of the name Democrat in his campaign when the congressional candidate failed to respond to allegations stemming from a lawsuit Trans World Airlines (TWA) filed against him. In the lawsuit, filed July 19, TWA
"AIDS A Growing Pandemic, Health Official Says": Reuters (10/03/88); Anthony Meyer, head of health promotion for the World Health Organization s Global Program on AIDS, warns that the disease is on the upsurge and speading through the entire human population. His organization has counted 250,000 to 300,000 cases of AIDS to date, and estimates that from five million to 10 million people
"AIDS Patients Demand Access to Experimental Drugs": Reuters (10/03/88); Ross, Caren; New York--On Oct. 11, several thousand demonstrators will gather at the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration to protest what they perceive as that agency s failure to speed up the process of approval for new drugs to fight AIDS. To this point, nearly 10 years into the AIDS crisis, only one AIDS drug,
"'More Than': Too Much": Washington Post (10/03/88), P. C1; Richards, David; More Than Names, a play written and directed by David Lemos that deals with the making of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, premieres Saturday at the New Playwrights Theatre in Washington, D.C. The drama takes the AUdience behind the scenes of the NAMES Project in San Francisco, to see not just the stitching together
"2 Md. Boys Free of AIDS": Washington Post (10/03/88), P. D7; Armao, Jo-Ann; After two Montogmery County elementary school pupils picked up a used hypodermic needle eight months ago, concern grew over whether the children might have become infected with the virus that cAUses AIDS. The boys, second and fourth graders from the Beall Elementary School, were tested for HIV antibodies. According to
"Dr. Gallo Meets the Press": New York Native (10/3/88) Vol. 8, No. 43, P. 4; Ortleb, Charles L.; New York Native publisher Charles L. Ortleb says that the Chicago Tribune s John Crewdson will soon publish an article that may cost Robert Gallo the Nobel Prize, if not his job and a congressional investigation. In anticipation, Ortleb includes an excerpt from a book tentatively entitled The Epidemic of Lies. Ortleb n
"U.S. Experts Discount Data in French AIDS Study": New York Times (10/03/88), P. A17; Kolata, Gina; French scientists have reported that Imuthiol, or sodium diethyldithiocarbamate, a drug similar to Antabuse, works as a temporary stimulant of the immmune system. In the study, which is published in the Sept. 24 issue of The Lancet, Dr. Jean-Marie Lang of HAUtepierre Hospital in Strasbourg and his colleagues report tha
"AIDS Patient Sues for Cryonic Storage": Insight (10/03/88) Vol. 4, No. 40, P. 60; Hudson, Kathryn; The Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverdale, Calif., has joined a person with AIDS in a suit to force the California Health Department to issue a permit allowing him to have his body frozen at death in the hope that he can be revived when a cure is available. Health Department spokesman Peter Weisser says that alt
"A Clear-Eyed Tale of Living with AIDS": Gay Community News (10/02/88) Vol. 16, No. 12, P. 11; Kyper, John; To All the Girls I ve Loved Before: An AIDS Diary, by J.W. Money, is a spirited, often entertaining, and sometimes almost profound collection of 50 vignettes written in March 1986, about six months before the AUthor died, says reviewer John Kyper. Determined to complete the book, Money writes that Lung infections and
"Congressional Show of Muscle Leaves D.C. Officials Bruised": Washington Post (10/02/88), P. B1; Pianin, Eric; The House and Senate, in a hurry to get through pending legislation before the end of session voted to force Washington, D.C., to drop a law that bars insurance companies in D.C. from denying health coverage to applicants who test positive for HIV antibodies. That measure was tied to several other D.C. bills, involving
"Family Afflicted by AIDS Finds a Better Life": New York Times (10/02/88), P. 20; Schmalz, Jeffrey; A family whose three sons are infected with the AIDS virus have found a new home in Sarasota, Fla., and with it a better life. Clifford and Louise Ray were driven from their Arcadia, Fla., home after their home was torched by an arsonist in AUgust 1987. The fire was the last in a series of threats and insults at the ha
"The Quilt: A Battle Flag in the War on AIDS": Washington Post (10/02/88), P. F1; Brown, Joe; When the NAMES Project Quilt returns to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Oct. 8, it will have come full circle. First unfolded in Washington, the Quilt , as it is internationally known, is a 16-ton blanket containing squares dedicated to those who have died from AIDS. The Quilt occupies the equivalent of seven football fi
"Conference Discusses Growing AIDS Concern in Gulf": Reuters (10/01/88); Abu Dhabi--An Islamic states conference on AIDS opened Saturday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), signalling a new concern about the disease, which Islamic rulers did not feel a need to worry about until recently. AIDS has made its way into the region. They know they cannot underestimate the danger anymore, said a U
"Theater Called 'AIDS Breeding Ground' Closed": United Press International (10/01/88); New York--State Supreme Court Justice Stanley OstrAU Friday ordered a Manhattan theater temporarily closed down for allowing high-risk sexual activity in violation of state health regulations. City Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Joseph called the Cinema 14 Theater, which caters to a largely homosexual AUdience, an AID
"One Quarter of AIDS Suits in New York Employment Related": Employee Benefit Plan Review (10/88) No. 4, P. 30; New York City s human rights agency s AIDS unit has handled 1200 discrimination cases since its inception in 1983. In 1987, it handled 600, or twice as many as the preceding year. In New York and other cities, cases are sometimes filed under statutes prohibiting discrimination based on physical handicap or sexual orien
"Coverage for AIDS": Employee Benefit Plan Review (10/88) No. 4, P. 28; Only 8.3 percent of companies taking part in an Alexander + Alexander Consulting Group survey have formal policies on AIDS. One in ten, however, have had at least one employee with AIDS. Two of the eight companies with formal policies exclude people with AIDS from insurance companies. Thirteen set maximums of from $2,0
"The International Epidemiology of AIDS": Scientific American (10/88) Vol. 259, No. 4, P. 82; Mann, Jonathan M.; Denial and a gross underestimation of its potential magnitude have met AIDS since the pandemic s recognition in 1981, write Jonathan Mann of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Program on AIDS (GPA) and his colleagues. GPA estimates that more than 250,000 cases of AIDS have already occurred and that 5-10 million
"An Era of Indifference: AIDS and the Death of Passion": American Health (10/88) Vol. 7, No. 8, P. 87; Black, David; David Black, AUthor of The Plague Years: A Chronicle of AIDS, says that the difficulty of contracting HIV and the testimony of experts that it will not spread in any significant way among the middle class, heterosexual population makes AIDS hysteria seem more about a fear of sex than a fear of disease. The apparent dou
"Do Free Needle Programs Decrease HIV Infection?": AIDS Alert (10/88) Vol. 3, No. 10, P. 176; The first two years of a needle exchange program in Amsterdam, Holland, indicate that giving clean needles to addicts doesn t encourage addiction and may be effective in controlling the spread of HIV. According to the Medical Tribune s coverage of a report from the recent First International Conference on the Global Im
"The Effects of AIDS Education on Mental Health Professionals": Focus (10/88) Vol. 3, No. 11, P. 3; Irish, Thomas M.; Psychologists Thomas M. Irish and Nancy Gourash Bliwise report that mental health practitioners surveyed before and after an intensive three-day seminar by the AIDS Health Project felt more positively about gay men, people with AIDS, and I.V. drug users. The practititioners, many of them from rural areas with low incid
"Communicating About AIDS": Focus (10/88) Vol. 3, No. 11, P. 1; HochhAUser, Mark; Although education is the primary tool to fight AIDS, we know very little about effective techniques to provide information that will change behavior, writes Mark HochAUser, a consultant on AIDS issues. What little research that has been conducted has mostly shown the inability of print ads and brochures to change beha
"'Shooting Galleries' Almost Perfect for Spreading HIV": AIDS Alert (10/88) Vol. 3, No. 10, P. 175; Shooting galleries --like bathhouses before them, are becoming known as nearly perfect environments for the spread of HIV. Don Des Jarlais, director of the New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services, said that intravenous drug users in shooting galleries often share and even rent needles from each other. Smal
"The Epidemiology of AIDS in the U.S.": Scientific American (10/88) Vol. 259, No. 4, P. 72; Heyward, William L.; There are enough possible chains of infection that no population group in the U.S. is completely unaffected by AIDS, say Centers for Disease Control (CDC) AIDS Program officials William L. Heyward and James W. Curran. Several years into the epidemic, children are the fastest growing group of new cases. Blacks account f
"The Origins of the AIDS Virus": Scientific American (10/88) Vol. 259, No. 4, P. 64; Essex, Max; Harvard University s Max Essex and Phyllis J. Kanki describe their search for the origin of HIV not as an attempt to identify a particular group of people or a site, but to learn more about the viruses related to AIDS and how HIV evolved into a deadly disease. Research into possible primate-infecting predecessors of HI
"The Molecular Biology of the AIDS Virus": Scientific American (10/88) Vol. 259, No. 4, P. 52; Haseltine, William A.; The full power of contemporary molecular biology and genetic analysis has been focussed on HIV since it became available for laboratory work in 1984, say researchers William A. Haseltine and Flossie Wong-Staal. Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the National Cancer Institute have uncovered numerous and
"Local Governments Can Help AIDS Patients Live with Dignity": Governing (10/88) Vol. 2, No. 1, P. 86; Sharpton, David; The rest of society must address the other problems AIDS brings while the medical community searches for a cure, says David Sharpton, director of the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah, in a commentary adapted from a speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting. Now is the best time for public officials to fa
"AIDS Orphans": Newsweek (10/88) Vol. 112, No. 15, P. 4; Howard, Lucy; The National Women s Health Network says that the orphans of women who die of AIDS will become a crushing burden for big-city social agencies. Christopher Norwood, a New York researcher, estimates that women with AIDS have 7.3 times more uninfected infants than HIV-positive babies. If 80 percent of the infected mothers
"AIDS in 1988": Scientific American (10/88) Vol. 259, No. 4, P. 41; Gallo, Robert C.; The advent of AIDS shattered the belief that infectious disease no longer poses a threat to mankind, report Robert C. Gallo and Luc Montagnier. Following a burst of discovery in 1982-84, AIDS research has settled into a pattern of slow, steady progress. However, the virus in some ways outpaces science--there is yet no
"The Treatment Dilemma": Discover (10/88) Vol. 9, No. 10, P. 26; Patlak, Margie; Estimates that nearly all HIV-positive people will go on to develop AIDS, combined with the improvement seen in many people who take zidovudine ( AZT ), have raised questions about who should be treated and when treatment should begin. Some researchers hope that in HIV-positive but asymptomatic patients, early AZT trea
"AIDS and the Election": Scientific American (10/88) Vol. 259, No. 4, P. 14; Beardsley, Tim; Although 250,000 Americans will likely be dead or dying of AIDS during the next president s term and the annual cost of caring for AIDS patients will reach $10 billion in 1991, AIDS has not been much of an issue in the election, writes Tim Beardsley. That is perphaps becAUse political strategists see AIDS as a no-win i
"AIDS Reference Service at National Library of Medicine": American Journal of Public Health (10/88) Vol. 78, No. 10, P. 1348; AIDSLINE is a new database containing about 13,000 references to scientific articles about AIDS. The National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research created the online service, which covers clinical and research aspects of AIDS, epidemiology, and health policy issues. The arti
"Local AIDS Services: Directory Available": American Journal of Public Health (10/88) Vol. 78, No. 10, P. 1311; The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Fund for Human Dignity, Inc., have prepared Local AIDS Services: The National Directory, May 1988. The directory lists more than 2000 entries covering state and local health departments, AIDS service organizations, federal agencies, Social Security AIDS coordinators, hospitals, and
"Lowering Your Defenses": Outside (10/88) Vol. 13, No. 10, P. 29; Brant, John; PAUl Reese--a pseudonym for a person with ARC--abandoned his exercise routine when he learned he was ill. However, this past February he cut down on the number of hours he worked to reduce stress, improve his diet, and leave time for trainer-supervised four-morning-a-week workouts with weights. By reducing stress, exer
"AIDS and Home Buyers": Changing Times (10/88) Vol. 42, No. 10, P. 18; Giese, William; Real estate professionals have been debating whether agents should be required to tell potential buyers that a person with AIDS once lived in a house. The Texas Association of Realtors told its members earlier this year that a person with AIDS tenancy might be considered a material fact --bad news that the agent must t
"The Engineer's Role in Halting AIDS": Technology Review (10/88) Vol. 91, No. 7, P. 22; Zimmerman, David R.; To fight AIDS, we need to isolate the narrowest and most vulnerable link in the disease s chain of transmission and interrupt it, says David R. Zimmerman, a free-lance journalist who writes about AIDS. BecAUse intravenous drug users are fast becoming the main spreaders of AIDS, that link is the shared needle. The feder
"Fetal Tissue in Research": Science (09/30/88) Vol. 241, No. 4874, P. 1733; Koshland, Daniel E. Jr.; There is an element of nostalgia for a simpler era in the endless what ifs accompanying the current attacks on scientific research, says Science editor Daniel E. Koshland Jr. Scientists counter with their own nostalgia--what if we could do our research without politics and moral issues. The debate over using fetal tiss
"October is AIDS Awareness Month": United Press International (09/30/88); Henry, Tamara; Washington--October is AIDS Awareness Month, and federal health officials want entertainers, clergymen, and elected leaders to talk about the disease and its prevention througout the month. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen announced that he, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, and other officials have sent l
"House Passes Legislation to Supply AZT to AIDS Victims": United Press International (09/30/88); Zentz, Wendy; Washington, D.C.--A federal program to supply the drug AZT to victims of the AIDS virus was extended Friday when the House approved the legislation by voice vote. The drug program was set to expire Friday if not extended by Congress, and would have left about 6,000 AIDS patients without access to AZT. The program supp
"Projections of AIDS Cases Too Low, Report Indicates": Washington Blade (09/30/88) Vol. 19, No. 40, P. 19; Sullivan, Mark; A report summarized in the Sept. 16 Center for Disease Control s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report says that the Public Health Service s (PHS) 1986 estimate that there will be approximately 270,000 AIDS cases diagnosed by 1991 may be too low. The Domestic Policy Council noted that the PHS changed its estimate
"Three Quarters of Americans Receptive to Condom Use": Washington Blade (09/30/88) Vol. 19, No. 40, P. 17; Sullivan, Mark; A survey published in the October Psychology Today says that three-fourths of unmarried men and women between the ages of 18 and 44 would approve if a new partner suggested using a condom during sex. Only 12 percent of women and 17 percent of men said it would put a damper on their sex life. A small percentage said con
"BWMT Gets $207,000 Grant to Educate Black Gays": Washington Blade (09/30/88) Vol. 19, No. 40, P. 3; Chibbaro, Lou Jr.; The National Association of Black and White Men Together (BWMT) won a $207,737 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) grant for AIDS prevention work. BWMT will gear its efforts to black gays in the 22 cities with BWMT chapters. The group is the only gay organization of the 31 national or regional minority organizations to r
"Some Insurers Said to Balk at Cover for AIDS Drugs": Journal of Commerce (09/30/88), P. 4A; Some insurance companies have refused to pay for certain drug treatments for AIDS, say doctors and AIDS patients in California. According to Dr. PAUl Rothman, a partner at Pacific Oaks Medical Group, insurers refuse to cover an aerosol version of the drug pentamidine, which Rothman says saves the lives of some of those
"Drug Makers Try Biotech Partners": New York Times (09/30/88), P. D1; Freudenheim, Milt; The big drug companies-- Pfizer Inc., the SmithKline Beckman Corp., F. Hoffmann-LaRoche + Co. among them--are racing to strengthen their ties to the most promising members of the biotechnology industry. The pharmaceuticals believe the industry is on the verge of supplying important new drugs, including AIDS treatments.
"AIDS Suit Settled": Washington Post (09/30/88), P. A16; Louise and Clifford Ray s three sons will receive $820 a month each for the next 10 years to settle a civil rights suit against the DeSoto County, Fla., school district. The parents will each receive $50,000 now and about $300 monthly for 30 years, with a built-in 3 percent inflation rate. The school district barred th
"Wellcome Offers $5 Million to U.S. for AIDS Program": Wall Street Journal (09/30/88), P. 30; Lublin, Joann S.; British pharmaceutical giant Wellcome PLC has offered $5 million to continue AZT treatments for indigent Americans. The offer is contingent on the House approving a $15 million, six-month extension of a program to provide the drug to low-income AIDS patients that ends today. The Senate passed the extension late Thursd
"Senate Approves Funds to Provide AZT": Washington Post (09/30/88), P. A4; An estimated 5000-6000 indigent people with AIDS will continue to receive the drug AZT if the House follows the Senate s lead and passes a six-month extension of a federal program to supply the drug. The Senate approved the extension Thursday night. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.) said the reAUthorization would allow
"Enough is Enough": Bay Area Reporter (09/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 39, P. 6; The passage of Rep. Henry Waxman s (D-Calif.) AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1988 may represent the breakthrough that shows the House of Representatives has finally grown up on AIDS, says a Bay Area Reporter editorial. The good news is that Members of Congress--including conservative Republicans--resoundingly defeated the
"Dannemeyer Asked to Represent George Bush in AIDS Debate": Bay Area Reporter (09/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 39, P. 11; Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) was scheduled to represent George Bush in a mid-September AIDS debate, according to a Boston Globe report. Bush campaign spokesman David Sandor said Dannemeyer was a logical choice and well-qualified to discuss health policy and AIDS with Dukakis campaign health adviser Dr. Jonathan F
"Prop. 102 Would Cost State Billions": Bay Area Reporter (09/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 39, P. 1; Newquist, Jay; The first year cost of the controversial AIDS measure Proposition 102--the Dannemeyer Inititative--could be mammoth, according to two University of California at Berkely economists. Robert M. Anderson and John M. Quigley prepared a working paper on the measure that estimates state and local governments could lose $1.75
"Dannemeyer Defends His Proposition 102": United Press International (09/29; Washington, D.C.--Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) defended his controversial AIDS-reporting initiative, Proposition 102, Thursday, asserting it represents sound public health policy to control the spread of AIDS throughout the state. The initiative would allow AIDS testing as a condition of employment or insurance.
"Strong Opposition to Anti-AIDS Initiate": United Press International (09/29/88); Means, Ray; San Francisco--Health officials attending the 2nd National AIDS Conference have overwhelmingly come out in opposition to Proposition 102, a measure appearing on the ballot in California this November that would require people with AIDS to reveal their names and sex history and would require testing for the disease for
"California May Have a Comprehensive Plan...": United Press International (09/29/88); San Francisco--Addressing delegates at the 2nd National AIDS Conference, California Health Director Ken Kizer said the state may have a comprehensive plan to fight the deadly disease by the end of the year. The new plan will help determine how to spend money allotted for AIDS in the state budget. Kizer indicated the pl
"AIDS Job Exemption Blocked": United Press International (09/29/88); Nashville, Tenn.--The Nashville, Tenn., Bar Association blasted a recently-approved law in the state that exempts people with AIDS from statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment. At a conference sponsored by the legal organization, lawyers said the law, which protects handicapped people from being discriminated
"Pneumonia Deaths Highly Suspect as AIDS Related": United Press International (09/29/88); Atlanta--Federal health officials said Thursday they suspect AIDS was involved in the rapid increase of fatal pneumonia and influenza cases which occured in New York in the past decade. According to Dr. Ruth Berkelman of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the death rate from pneumonia and flu in that city more
"Students Found Uninformed on AIDS": United Press International (09/29/88); Boston--A survey of middle and high school students in Boston shows that more than 40 percent say they are sexually active. Fifty percent of the students say they believe they are not at risk for HIV infection if there partner appears healthy. The results show that, We still have a lot of work to do, according to Kenne
"AIDS Case Definitions for African Children": Lancet (09/29/88) Vol. 2, No. 8612, P. 690; Jonckheer, Tijl; Tijl Jonckheer and colleagues from Belgium report on a comparison of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) case definition for AIDS and a World Health Organization (WHO) provisional clinical case definition. The WHO developed its definition becAUse most African nations lack the facilities to screen blood for HIV.
"Californians Mull Proposed AIDS Law": Wall Street Journal (09/29/88), P. 33; Chase, Marilyn; California s Proposition 102 could radically change California s status as a pacesetter in protecting the rights and privacy of those infected with AIDS. The bill, sponsored by conservative Republican Rep. William Dannemeyer and Whittier radiologist Lawrence McNamee, would levy a fine of $250 on doctors who fail to rep
"New Genes Make Cells Resist Virus": New York Times (09/29/88), P. A25; Schmeck, Harold M. Jr.; Scientists hope that a technique in which genes are transplanted into animal cells to make them resistant to a virus may eventually help in the treatment of people with AIDS. Researchers at the Carnegie Institute of Washington report in this week s Nature magazine that the technique could allow for a gene that inhibits
"NYC AIDS Discrimination Fined": Associated Press (09/28/88); A Greenwich Village dental clinic must pay $47,000 to two HIV-positive men it refused to treat, the New York City Human Rights Commission ruled Wednesday. Northern Dispensary of 165 Waverly Place violated the city s Human Rights Law when it refused to treat George Whitmore, who has AIDS, and David Wittacre, who has tes
"'Persistent Prejudice' Marks AIDS Fight, Report Says": United Press International (09/28/88); Philadelphia--The fight against AIDS in Philadelphia is characterized by persistent prejudice and discrimination , said the city s Commission on AIDS in a report publicized by the Philadelphia Enquirer. According to the commission, which recently concluded a study on attempts to fight AIDS in Philadelphia, the efforts
"Dawkins: Don't Discriminate Against AIDS": United Press International (09/28/88); Shearman, J. Craig; Trenton, N.J.--Republican Senate hopeful Pete Dawkins said Wednesday that discrimination against people infected with HIV should be against the law. Dawkins, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Frank LAUtenberg (D-N.J.) in his first reelection bid, split from President Reagan s position. Dawkins had also stated he suppor
"Low-Income AIDS Patients Will Likely Continue Receiving AZT": Mcgraw-Hill News (09/28/88); New York--AIDS patients who receive federally-funded AZT treatment likely will not be cut off from the only drug approved by the FDA for fighting AIDS, even though the funding program officially ends Friday. According to a spokesman for Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.), the senator plans to introduce a bill into Congress
"Glass Cage for AIDS Student?": Unted Press International (09/28/88); Tampa, Fla.--An attorney for 7-year-old AIDS patient Eliana Martinez told a federal appeals court in Tampa that a court order that she attend school in a glass cage separating her from other students is going too far. According to Stave Hanlon, who is representing the family of the severely retarded child, the same eff
"British Scientists Plan Tests Aimed at AIDS Vaccine": United Press International (09/28/88); London--An AIDS vaccine could be developed as early as 1989 by a group of British scientists who say they have isolated potential vaccine materials from the HIV virus. According to Dr. Geoffrey Schild, who directs the Medical Research Council s AIDS program, the first tests of the substance will begin in late 1989 or e
"Legal-Service Group Files Suit Against Segregating Inmates with AIDS": New York Times (09/28/88), P. B2; Kolbert, Elizabeth; Lawyers from the Prisoners Legal Services of New York have filed suit against New York in Federal District Court in Syracuse, charging the state s corrections department with segregating some HIV-positive prisoners who are not ill. The lawyers say the policy violates the prisoners rights of confidentiality by confining
"AIDS Said to Claim a Victim a Minute": Washington Post (09/28/88), P. A27; Worldwide, it seems likely that a new person becomes infected with the HIV (AIDS) virus every minute, says a Panos Institute report, AIDS and the Third World. The report estimates, During 1988, 150,000 new cases of full-blown AIDS are expected--as many as are thought to have occurred in all the years of the epidemic s
"Changes in AZT Payment Plan Approved": United Press International (09/27/88); Boinest, Page; Annapolis, Md.--AIDS patients in Maryland will have better access to federal funds designed to provide them with the drug AZT , which is the only medication approved by the FDA for fightin AIDS. A state legislative oversight committee agreed Tuesday to relax restrictions on federal funding for the distribution of AZT,
"Hoover Scholar Disputes AIDS Figures": United Press International (09/27/88); Stanford, Calif.--A researcher at the Hoover Institute told an AIDS conference at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health that AIDS estimates by federal AUthorities are too high. According to Dr. Joel Hay, Centers for Disease Control figures of between 945,000 and 1.4 million AIDS infected Americans are 2 or 3 times
"Protect All Hospital Workers from AIDS": Washington Post (09/27/88), P. A20; Lewis, Joan H.; A Richard Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) amendment to the AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1988 that would have mandated routine HIV testing of all hospital patients between the ages of 15 and 49 fell in subcommittee, full committee, and on the House floor for more reasons than previous Washington Post editorials and letters articula
"Needle Exchange to Prevent AIDS: Not Ready for Widespread Use": Washington Post (Health) (09/27/88), P. 10; Schwartz, Richard H.; A closer look at programs to distribute sterile needles to drug addicts might temper the enthusiasm of experts who have called for similar experiments here to stem the spread of HIV among intravenous drug users, says Richard H. Schwartz, Georgetown University School of Medicine clinical professor of pediatrics. Fifteen
"Joseph Gets Nasty": Village Voice (09/27/88) Vol. 33, No. 39, P. 14; Walters, Barry; The Village Voice s Barry Walters says that he learned that cops can be brutal and that the man in charge of his health is a bully during a recent ACT UP zap of New York City Public Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Joseph. A series of protests following the health department s reduction of its estimate of the number of
"AIDS Poses a Dilemma in the U.S.": Business Insurance (09/26/88) Vol. 22, No. 39, P. 15; Aldred, Carolyn; Existing government regulations and statutes make it difficult for group health and life insurers to limit AIDS-related losses. Participants at the 1988 International Insurance Society Inc. conference in London this past summer blamed federal and state officials for trying to shift future costs to the insurance industr
"British Insurers Take Stand Against AIDS": Business Insurance (09/26/88) Vol. 22, No. 39, P. 14; Aldred, Carolyn; British health, life, and disability insurers are beginning to exclude coverage for AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses, screen applicants, and increase premiums as part of a series of harsh underwriting measures to fight the threat of an onslAUght of AIDS-related claims. The British approach contrasts that of U.S. insurer
"Benefit Conference Eyes AIDS": National Underwriter Property/Casualty (09/26/88) No. 39, P. 41; The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans 34th Annual Employee Benefits Conference, to be held in New Orleans Nov. 11 to Nov. 16, will cover several AIDS topics. One seminar will wrestle with the question of whether it is legal for an employee benefit plan to restrict coverage for AIDS. Other sessions will
"Rural AIDS Patients Suffering": Associated Press (09/26/88); Bowling Green, Ky.--AIDS patients in rural Kentucky are ostracized and often find it difficult to obtain medical care, says Reginald Lasell, AIDS Southern Kentucky (ASK) president. Laswell said his group--which along with one Paducah group and local health departments are the only organizations serving the state s rura
"Regional HIV Study Announced": Business Wire (09/26/88); Oakland, Calif.--Seven Bay Area city and county health departments will receive federal grants to study the spread of the HIV virus, according to the Association of Bay Area Health Officials. The grants, which are part of a five-year Centers for Disease Control study, are similar to AIDS studies conducted in the Los An
"March Trial Date Set...": United Press International (09/26/88); Princeton, W. Va.--A civil suit filed against a West Virginia hospital for allegedly failing to inform a funeral home that a body from the hospital sent for burial was infected with the AIDS virus will be heard in March. According to the suit, which seeks $4 million in damages for emotional distress on the part of the
"AIDS Center Funded...": United Press International (09/26/88); Providence, R.I.--An AIDS support group in Rhode Island will be the recipient of up to $365,000 from federal, state, and health care sources, and will use the money to establish a residential program for families of children infectd with the AIDS virus. According to an announcement by Rhode Island Gov. Edward DiPrete M
"UI Shares $4.6 Million Blood Study Grant": United Press International (09/26/88); Iowa City, Iowa--University of Iowa officials announced Monday they will share part of a $4.6 million blood study grant sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The study is designed to identify a chemical substitute for blood which will reduce the risk of spreading diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS, which are
"The U.S. Gets Its Act Together on AIDS": U.S. News + World Report (09/26/88) Vol. 105, No. 12, P. 28; Findlay, Steven; Several bills on their way through Congress are paving the way for the establishment of a coherent approach to fighting AIDS, says the U.S. News + World Report s Steven Findlay. A legislative package that may be enacted before Congress October adjournment would triple the total spent to date on education and prevention
"House Approves AIDS Bill by Overwhelming Margin": New York Times (09/26/88), P. 9; Molotsky, Irvin; Following the passage of a Senate AIDS bill that emphasizes education, the House Friday passed a bill to use testing, counseling, and research to fight the disease. The bill, budgeted at $1.2 billion over three years, passed by a vote of 387 to 13. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) expressed hope that the two bodies could r
"Dornan In-Law Denies Story": Washington Post (09/26/88), P. C1; Luther, Gloria; The brother-in-law of Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Calif.) denied he is a homosexual and that he has AIDS, and said he is considering a lawsuit against his sister Sallie Dornan and her husband for remarks made at a political gathering in Garden Grove, Calif. on Sept. 18. During a heated exchange between Rep. Dornan and a gay
"Dining on Arena Floor for AIDS Benefit": New York Times (09/26/88), P. B4; Burros, Marian; The Boston Garden was transformed Saturday night from a sports arena into a huge decorated dining room as it served as the site of a benefit dinner for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. The $250-a-plate meal was the brainchild of American Institute of Wine and Food Chairman K. Dun Gifford, an investment banke
"Of Mice and Medicine Men": Newsweek (09/26/88) Vol. 112, No. 13, P. 70; Researchers expect that several hundred bioengineered West Coast mice may become living labs for the study of certain human diseases, including AIDS. The mice are a recently discovered mutant strain with virtually no immune defenses. They have severve combined immunodefiency, or SCID, and don t reject foreign tissues b
"Mass. Prisons Violate Health Regs + All Sense of Decency": Gay Community News (09/25/88) Vol. 16, No. 11, P. 5; Shields, Deborah; Prisoners on the 8N Ward of the Shattuck Hospital report deplorable conditions that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health would not tolerate, says Deborah Shields, a lawyer for Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services in Boston. Neither would the Department of Corrections (DOC) want to incur liability for pati
"The Power of Community Unity in DC": Gay Community News (09/25/88) Vol. 16, No. 11, P. 4; In the face of an inadequate federal response to the AIDS crisis, the national network struggling against AIDS will bring a show of community solidarity and organization to Washington, D.C., Oct. 6-11, according to a Gay Community News (GCN) editorial. Although organizers of the various events differ on the balance bet
"No Sparks Fly at Boston AIDS Activism Forum": Gay Community News (09/25/88) Vol. 16, No. 11, P. 3; Pincus, Elizabeth; With a series of nationally coordinated AIDS and lesbian/gay activities scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C., in early October, Boston activists met Sept. 15 to open lines of discussion among groups with differing strategies. MASS ACT OUT convened the forum, which also brought together members of ACT UP/Boston,
"Unique AIDS Support Service Hits the Road": Gay Community News (09/25/88) Vol. 16, No. 11, P. 3; Pincus, Elizabeth; Boston s Victory House, a 13-year-old residential treatment center for male drug users and alcoholics, recently lAUnched the Mobile AIDS Resource Team (MART). MART is an AIDS education program designed to help staff and clients of substance abuse treatment centers in the Boston area. The Massachusetts Department of Pub
"AIDS Not a Priority for U.S. Rockers": Gay Community News (09/25/88) Vol. 16, No. 11, P. 2; Wadler, PAUl-David; AFRAIDS or fear of being associated with AIDS, seems to plague U.S. rock stars. Although many pop stars have taken part in AIDS benefits, the Boston Globe reported that it took the organizers of a Boston Garden AIDS benefit scheduled for this week three months to find a headliner. Boston was the only major act to say
"Data on Youths' Promiscuity Stir Concerns on AIDS": New York Times (09/25/88), P. 31; Although a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report released last Thursday reported that a survey of sexual habits shows that most Americans appear to be at relatively low risk of infection with HIV, the percentage of young men reporting 10 or more sexual partners in the previous year has raised concerns that they may
"The Health-Screening Debate": Washington Post (09/25/88), P. H2; Swoboda, Frank; A new study by Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) shows that, for the moment, most companies do not plan to test prospective employees to screen out those who are susceptible to serious diseases. Most companies are able at this time to absorb the costs of catastrophic illness among their workers, the study
"Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Ditiocarb Sodium" ('Imuthiol') in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Lancet (09/24/88) Vol. 2, No. 8613, P. 702; Lang, Jean-Marie; Jean-Marie Lang and colleagues from several French hospitals describe the effects of sodium-diethyldithiocarbamate (Ditiocarb Sodium, or Imuthiol ) in a study of 83 HIV-positive volunteers. In two 16-week periods, roughly half of the patients received the drug, which has immunorestorative qualities. The other participa
"NAN Announces New Book on Buddy Programs": Washington Blade (09/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 39, P. 17; Buddy Programs: Volunteer Peer Support Programs for People with HIV-Related Illness addresses recruitment, screening, training, supervision, volunteer burnout, and other issues that are important to people establishing volunteer-based peer support groups for people with AIDS and ARC. The National AIDS Network (NAN) ha
"Cytokines Alter Production of HIV-1 from Primary Mononuclear Phagocytes": Science (09/23/88) Vol. 241, No. 4873, P. 1673; Koyanagi, Yoshio; Researcher Yoshio Koyanagi and his colleagues from UCLA and the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center report on the effects of various cytokines on the production of a particular strain of HIV-1 taken from the brain of a person with AIDS. The researchers treated primary peripheral blood mononuclear ph
"Panel Laments "Disarray" in Public Health System": Science (09/23/88) Vol. 241, No. 4873, P. 1591; Byrne, Gregory; The nation s slow response to the AIDS epidemic is a sign of a public health system in disarray, according to a 22-member panel of public health experts. The panel spent two years gathering information on a system it says is weakened by poor leadership, fragmented services, and public complacency. The commission s repo
"Fetal Research Morally "Acceptable"": Science (09/23/88) Vol. 241, No. 4873, P. 1593; Culliton, Barbara J.; Following three days of hearings, 19 of 21 members of a National Institutes of Health panel voted recently that using human fetal tissue in biomedical research and therapy is acceptable. The panel recommended the research be allowed to continue under certain guidelines. The fetal research panel met following Assistant
"The SCID-Hu Mouse: Murine Model for the Analysis of Human Hematolymphoid" Differentiation and Function: Science (09/23/88) Vol. 241, No. 4873, P. 1632; McCune, J.M.; Researchers J.M. McCune and colleagues from the University of Stanford and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, report on the engraftment of human fetal liver hemotaopoietic cells, human fetal thymus, and human fetal lymph node onto mice with genetically determined severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome. The
"Reconstruction of an Immune System": Science (09/23/88) Vol. 241, No. 4873, P. 1581; Yancopoulos, George D.; Lucille P. Markey Scholar G.D. Yancopoulos and professor F.W. Alt of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia University say that the mouse-human chimera created by McCune, Wessman, and their co-workers--who reconstructed a human immune system inside immune-deficient mice--raises fascinating possiblities for ana
"State Signs Contract to Supply AZT to AIDS Patients": United Press International (09/23/88); Springfield, Ill.--In order not to lose its remaining funds under a program to provide AZT to low-income AIDS patients who are ineligible for Medicaid, the Illinois Public Aid Department signed a contract Friday to provide for mail-order delivery of the drug. Under the $500,000 contract, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke s H
"Dentists Urged to Use PrecAUtions Against Infections": United Press International (09/23/88); Wasowicz, Lidia; San Francisco--A researcher from the Department of Macrobiology and Biochemistry at the University of Detroit School of Dentistry warned dentists to take precAUtions to protect themselves from the risk of infection. According to John Molinari, dentists should wear rubber gloves, protective eyewear, and other protective
"Mail Order Firm Stops Selling AIDS Test After Being Sued...": United Press International (09/23/88); North Las Vegas, Nev.--A mail order firm here will no longer sell its $50 home AIDS test after the Nevada Attorney General filed suit against the company accusing it of false advertising. TBA Inc. has stopped marketing its device, say attorneys for the firm, and the company has been dissolved. The suit accused TBA of f
"FDA Commissioner Plans to Meet with Protesters": Washington Blade (09/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 39, P. 17; Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) Commissioner Frank Young plans to meet with protesters who are planning an Oct. 11 demonstration at the agency, an FDA spokesman said last week. The spokesman, Don McLearn, said Young originally planned to meet with the protesters on the date they plan to demonstrate, but a conflict
"Doctor's Orders: ...But Disagree When Treatment Should Start, Which" Drugs, and What Dosages: Washington Blade (09/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 39, P. 1; Keen, Lisa M.; Sixteen doctors interviewed in a Washington Blade survey were asked what to do if you test positive for HIV but otherwise feel fine and are asymptomatic. The only suggestion with a clear consensus was that you should take a blood test to measure your T-cell count every three to six months. Although some doctors are usi
"Doctor's Orders: Doctors Agree That 'Early Intervention' is the Key to" Battling HIV Infection...: Washington Blade (09/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 39, P. 1; Drabelle, Dennis; Washington, D.C. s Dr. Warren Chamberlain and his associates treat several HIV-positive but asymptomatic men with lower doses of AZT . Chamberlain says some of the literally dozens of men receiving AZT as a preventive measure have lowered T-cell counts, but not one has yet developed AIDS. Chamberlain uses the antivira
"The 'Names Behind the Quilt"": Washington Post (Weekend) (09/23/88), P. 13; Brown, Joe; David Lemos, a San Francisco playwright who was formerly the director of the San Jose Repertory Company, has written a play entitled More than Names , about the collaboration that brought about the NAMES Project. The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, known as The Quilt , will be spread on the Ellipse Oct. 8 and 9; Lem
"Personalities": Washington Post (09/23/88), P. B3; Conconi, Chuck; Hugh Panaro, one of the stars of the company of Les Miserables now playing at Washington, D.C. s Kennedy Center, is taking Saturday night off, with the company s blessings. Panaro will sing his sad lament from the show, Empty Chairs and Empty Tables, at the fifth annual Human Rights Campaign Fund Dinner at the Sheraton
"GM-CSF, Potential Therapy, May Assist AIDS Virus in Some Cells, Group" Reports: Wall Street Journal (09/23/88), P. 24; Chase, Marilyn; The protein GM-CSF, a blood-cell growth factor researchers are testing as a possible therapy for AIDS and other diseases, may boost the production of a particular strain of HIV in certain cell types, according to University of California at Los Angeles scientists. The protein is used to combat suppression of white bloo
"Rights Panel Reassigns Attorney Who Criticized Administration on AIDS": Washington Post (09/23/88), P. A19; Randolph, Eleanor; An article he published last year in Commentary magazine led the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to hire lawyer Michael A. Fumento as an AIDS specialist a year ago. Now Fumento says he has been banished from completing his work on the commission s AIDS report becAUse of a story he wrote for The New Republic. Fumento ac
"Number of AIDS Cases in New York Still Varies": New York Times (09/23/88), P. B3; Lambert, Bruce; A meeting of New York State officials and national AIDS experts in New York City Thursday could not agree on the much disputed number of AIDS patients in that city, but those in attendance did agree that the city s facilities for combatting the spread of the disease are woefully inadequate. James Curran, who directs AI
"AIDS, Transfusion": Journal of the American Medical Association (09/23/88) Vol. 260, No. 12, P. 1793; Pierce, Edgar H. Jr.; Blood, Blood Products, and AIDS, edited by R. Madhok, C.D. Forbes, and B.L. Evatt, brings together a group of contributors with an international scope of experience, says Edgar H. Pierce Jr. of Parkview Medical Center in Nashville. The book appropriately does not give a clinical description of AIDS, but the AUthors co
"Finance Planning Service LAUnched to Help PWAs": Bay Area Reporter (09/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 38, P. 14; McMillan, Dennis; San Francisco has a new service to provide individual money management and legal support to people with AIDS, ARC, and other life-threatening diseases. Coming Home Support Services is modeled after the Support Services for the Elderly program and, following a mid-July start, expects to have a clintele of 120 people. Th
"Agnos Orders Inquiry into Police Actions at Bush Protest Rally": Bay Area Reporter (09/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 38, P. 1; McMillan, Dennis; Mayor Art Agnos has called for a full investigation into police actions at a Sept. 14 demonstration at San Francisco s St. Francis hotel that began as a protest of Reagan-Bush AIDS policies and ended as a violent confrontation between police and protesters. United Farm Workers Union Vice President Dolores Huerta, an ou
"Castro Health Center to Refuse New Clients": Bay Area Reporter (09/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 38, P. 5; Douthwaite, Gregory; Facing cutbacks amid an ever-growing number of patients with AIDS-related ailments, District Health Center 1 in San Francisco s Castro will stop accepting new adult male patients on Oct. 3. Clinic director Dr. Ken Dunnigan said, We re as busy as we possibly can be, adding that the clinic s patients are getting sicker a
"Prop. 96 Would Set Back AIDS Education Efforts, Warn Health-Care" Activists: Bay Area Reporter (09/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 38, P. 4; Kolbe, Miranda; Representatives of AIDS service groups and activists met in San Francisco on Sept. 7 to begin organizing Californians Against Prop. 96. The proposition, sponsored by Sheriff Sherman Block of Orange County, would allow for the pre-trial testing of alleged perpetrators of sex crimes at the victims request. Prison workers
"House Rejects AIDS Test Bill": Associated Press (09/22/88); Washington, D.C.--On Thursday the House defeated amendments to an AIDS bill that would have required all prisoners, most hospital patients, and many marriage license applicants to be tested for HIV antibodies. The bill under consideration would give $400 million a year to states for widespread, voluntary AIDS testing a
"Democratic Party Officials Try to Persuade Candidate to Withdraw...": United Press International (09/22/88); Cannon, Charles; Denver--A Democratic party candidate in Colorado who is being sued for conducting a personal smear campaign against Trans World Airlines will be urged to withdraw from the November ballot by State Democratic officials. John J. Mitchell, unsatisfied with damages awarded him from a small claims case against the airline,
"Statistics Shed New Light on AIDS": United Press International (09/22/88); Wasowicz, Linda; San Francisco--The U.S. could have avoided many major errors in handling the AIDS crisis if the government had called in the statisticians earlier, says Victor De Gruttola, assistant professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Estimates of the number of infected people now range from 600,000 to 2
"More Than Fifth of Americans in Study say They Abstain from Sex": United Press International (09/22/88); Sugar, Ken; Atlanta--A survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found that many Americans have limited the number of their sexual partners. But a substantial number of single men say they have had 10 or more sexual partners in the last year, the report says. According to the study, 21.5 percent of those quest
"AIDS Testing: Never Routine": Washington Post (09/22/88), P. A29; Akman, Jeffrey S.; Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) has called the routine testing for AIDS of all patients admitted to hospitals good public policy and good medicine. But the AUthor of this letter to the editors of the Washington Post, a psychiatrist who has dealt with patients who have been told they have AIDS, says Dannemeyer s stan
"Southern Baptists Stop Distributing AIDS Report": Washington Post (09/22/88), P. A4; Hyer, Marjorie; The Southern Baptist Convention will no longer distribute the Surgeon General s AIDS pamphlets becAUse they do not condemn sexual activity outside of marriage. According to Alma Ruth Morgan of the Christian Life Commission, only material containing a message advocating total abstinence from sex outside marriage will us
"Federal Policy Against Discrimination is Sought for AIDS Victims": New York Times (09/22/88), P. A35; Lambert, Bruce; Although at least half of the 50 states offer AIDS patients some protection against bias, neither the President nor Congress has acted on the presidential AIDS commission s call for a federal ban against AIDS discrimination. Benjamin J. Schatz, National Gay Rights Advocate AIDS civil rights project director, called the
"Chicago Patients Gain Curb on AIDS Carriers": New York Times (09/22/88), P. A34; In Chicago, the Cook County Board voted to approve a policy to allow patients in the county hospital to refuse treatment from HIV-positive health care workers. The Board has not developed a way to implement the policy, which the American Medical Association (AMA) and AIDS experts have called misinformed and unnecessary
"Africans Weigh Threat of AIDS to Economics": New York Times (09/22/88), P. A34; Perlez, Jane; AIDS scientists, social workers, and nurses at the Third International Conference on AIDS, conducted by the government of Tanzania and the World Health Organization (WHO), heard that the economic consequences of the disease could reduce the growth of already fragile African nations to zero. The meeting brings together
"Scientists Study Approach to Kill AIDS-Tainted Cells": Wall Street Journal (09/22/88), P. 41; Hudson, Richard L.; A new process using a chemical called recombinant human CD4-pseudomonas exotoxin hybrid protein may be valuable as a biological weapon against AIDS. Researchers working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the approach, which would kill HIV-infected cells without harming healthy ones, say it may end up being o
"Mandatory NJ Condom Machines?": Associated Press (09/21/88); Jersey City, N.J.--The City Council is considering a measure to require hotels, bars, and restAUrants to install condom vending machines. The ordinance s supporters say it would cut the spread of AIDS, but its detractors say that intravenous drug use is the main source of transmission in Jersey City. Council President
"Children's Surgical Hospital Revises Controversial AIDS Plan": United Press International (09/21/88); Wilmington, Del.--The Alfred I. Du Pont Institute, a hospital specializing in orthopedic surgery for children, announced Wednesday it has revised its controversial AIDS testing program. According to hospital spokesman W. Jeff Wadsworth, the new plan is merely a clarification of the old one, which called for mandatory A
"Economists See Steep Cost to AIDS Measure": United Press International (09/21/88); Motamedi, Beatrice; San Francisco--Two researchers at the University of California at Berkeley released a study which claims an AIDS legislation initiative on the November ballot in California could cost taxpayers as much as $1.7 billion in its first year. According to Berkeley economists Robert Anderson and John Quigley, if Proposition 1
"Ukrainians Cede Ellipse to AIDS Quilt Group": Washington Post (09/21/88), P. B4; Boodman, Sandra G.; A Ukrainian group agreed to move its Oct. 8 rally to the Washington Monument, ending a dispute and clearing the way for the Names Project to bring the AIDS quilt to the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. The National Park Service promised the Ukrainians last month they could use the space for the Ukrainian Millenium Celebrati
"AIDS Child Faces New Protests": Associated Press (09/20/88); South Roxana, Ill.--The family of a boy who contracted AIDS through tainted blood for treatment of hemophilia says it doesn t want to be in the spotlight, it only wants the child to go to school. Jason Robertson, who left Granite City, Ill., with his family becAUse of harassment from residents there, has applied for en
"Dining for Dollars Set for Oct. 7...": Business Wire (09/20/88); Los Angeles--RestAUrants and chefs in Los Angeles will gather on Oct. 7 to raise money for women and children with AIDS. Dining for Dollars is a fundraiser sponsored by Barbara Lazaroff of Spago and Chinois on Main restAUrants and the Women s Culinary Alliance. Proceeds will go to AIDS Project Los Angeles, and accordin
"AIDS Education Program at Wooster High School...": United Press International (09/20/88); Reno, Nev.-- Parents at Wooster High School in Reno gave mixed reviews to material that will be used in the school s AIDS education program this year. Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders will be introduced to the program by specially trained sex education teachers. Students whose parents have recieved permission from thei
"Buffalo Schools to Teach AIDS-Prevention": United Press International (09/20/88); Buffalo, N.Y.--The Buffalo, N.Y., school board adopted an AIDS-prevention program Monday night. Parents will have the option of removing their children from the program, which officials said will stress abstinence from sex as a way to avoid the disease. A board of medical and lay leaders developed the program after a y
"Inmates Unfairly Stigmatized by Being Required to Wear Pink Uniforms..": United Press International (09/20/88); (New Orleans) -- Four HIV-positive inmates filed suit in Civil District Court that says they are being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by being forced to wear pink uniforms. The suit claims the four have been stigmatized and are kept segregated in cramped quarters. They also claim they have been denied regula
"Workers with AIDS Rejectable": Associated Press (09/20/88); The Cook County Hospital will become the first in the nation to allow patients the right to refuse treatment from care givers who test positive for the AIDS virus. Although the decision was criticized by the American Medical Association and AIDS and civil rights groups, the county board voted 15-2 Monday to give patien
"Selling Health": Washington Post Health (09/20/88), P. 8; Colburn, Don; Some public and private health agencies concerned over issues such as AIDS, drug abuse, and smoking have tried a different method of educating people. Marketing has become the new buzzword in public health circles, where ad campaigns like one in San Francisco using Bleachman--who educates intravenous drug users and hom
"Fetal Tissue and Fine Lines": Washington Post Health (09/20/88), P. 7; Trafford, Abigail; The discovery last week that fetal immune tissue can successfully be transplanted into mice gave researchers hope that human fetal tissue research might assist them in their search for a cure for AIDS, but it also gave new fuel to the debate over the ethics of fetal tissue research. Scienists argue vehemently that such
"Official Advocates AIDS Testing of Pregnant Women": Washington Post (Health) (09/20/88), P. 5; Chapman, Fern Schumer; A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) researcher says pregnant women in areas of high risk for AIDS should be tested for the disease. According to Dr. James Curran, director of the CDC AIDS program, the rising number of babies born with AIDS is a national tragedy. Since 1981, there have been an estimated 1157 cases of pe
"Personalities": Washington Post (09/20/88), P. C3; Conconi, Chuck; Sallie Dornan, wife of conservative Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Calif.), revealed that one of her four brothers is dying of AIDS after she called a gay activist a fag at a debate in Garden Grove, Calif. She called Jeff LeTourneAU, one of 25 demonstrators at the meeting, a fag when she became angry at the group s protest of h
"Scientists From Western Countries Pressing for AIDS Studies in Africa": New York Times (09/20/88), P. B5; Perlez, Jane; Dr. Robert Gallo, who recently told an AIDS conference in Tanzania that it was critically important that any feasible AIDS vaccine be tested in that African country, is one of many western scientists asking African countries to agree to take part in wide-scale studies. The reduction of high-risk behaviors makes large-s
"AIDS Among Prostitutes Not as Prevalent as Believed, Studies Show": New York Times (09/20/88), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; Recent HIV antibody tests on prostitutes and their customers show that rates of infection are lower than experts expected. Of 1829 prostitutes tested in New York City and eight other areas, 12 percent were HIV positive. Most of those testing positive were intravenous drug users. Two studies of men who use prostitutes s
"Safer Blood Products Have Cost Drawbacks": Insight (09/19/88) Vol. 4, No. 38, P. 58; Van Pelt, Dina; Nationwide shortages and the high cost of factor VIII are making it difficult for hemophiliacs to obtain blood products that increase protection against HIV. Higher research and development costs and the increased labor costs that go with the advanced biotechnology techniques to make the blood safer have made the blood
"Facing Up to AIDS": Industry Week (09/19/88) Vol. 237, No. 6, P. 19; Miller, William H.; A Fortune magazine survey of 1400 firms in late 1987 showed that only 10 percent had adopted written policies for dealing with AIDS, while 11 percent said they were considering such policies. However, B.J. Stiles, president of the National Coalition on AIDS, says, We re receiving anecdotal evidence that many more compa
"Chinese Herbal Medicine Probed": Associated Press (09/19/88); The Chinese Medicinal Material Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is beginning to unlock the secrets of centuries-old Chinese herbal medicine. Researchers believe some of the ancient remedies may help in the development of new drugs. Research into the use of Chinese medicine to reinforce the body s
"Doctor Who Said She Contracted the AIDS Virus While Handling Contaminated" Hypodermic Needles is Suing: United Press International (09/19/88); Gevirtz, Leslie; South American-born Dr. Veronica Prego, who says she became HIV-positive after a needlestick accident while she was an extern at Brooklyn s Kings County Hospital, is suing the hospital for $175 million. The extern program encourages foreign medical students and doctors to work in New York City. Prego is also suing Dr.
"'Condom Man' Out to Save a Generation": United Press International (09/19/88); There are many ongoing efforts to educate groups at high risk of contracting AIDS, but one such effort is making itself felt in Miami s low-income neighborhoods. David Scotkin, or Condom Man , as he has become known, drives around Miami s ghettos handing out free condoms and brochures on AIDS to youths most at risk fro
"Circle K Drops Proposal to Limit Health Benefits": Wall Street Journal (09/19/88), P. 2; Convenience store chain Circle K has dropped a plan to limit health insurance coverage for employees whose medical conditions were a result of certain personal life-style decisions. Benefits managers, civil rights groups, and AIDS advocates protested the proposed limitation, which would have affected conditions related
"Questions About New HIV Test": Gay Community News (09/18-24/88) Vol. 16, No. 10, P. 2; FAUntleroy, Jim; Dr. Joseph Sonnabend of the Community Research Initiative and others interviewed for an AIDS Treatment News article on the new polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) for HIV raised several questions about the new ultrasensitive test. It can detect even a single piece of genetic material, so it can generate a false positi
"AIDS Info Book Available": Gay Community News (09/18-24/88) Vol. 16, No. 10, P. 2; FAUntleroy, Jim; Roads to Recovery is an 860-page looseleaf book of AIDS information from the perspective of a person with the disease. Jeremy Bell of the AIDS service organization Face to Face compiled the book, which concentrates on non-approved or alternative treatment options. The book has chapters on basic AIDS information, legal
"Why Do Some People Survive AIDS?": Parade (09/18/88), P. 4; Gavzer, Bernard; An individual diagnosed with AIDS has a 50 percent probability of surviving one year, according to a study done for the New York City Department of Health in 1987. However, at least 2000 Americans diagnosed with the disease as of mid-1985 are still alive. The Centers for Disease Control classifies people with AIDS surv
"AIDS in the UK and Globally": Lancet (09/17/88) Vol 2, No. 8612, P. 697; The Department of Health and Social Security reports that the United Kingdom had 1730 cases of AIDS with 949 deaths at the end of AUgust, compared to 1669 and 916 respectively at the end of July. BecAUse of the long interval between HIV infection and the onset of AIDS, the current figures do not reliably indicate the c
"Passive Immunoneutralisation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Patients" with Advanced AIDS: Lancet (09/17/88) Vol. 2, No. 8612, P. 647; Jackson, George Gee; George Gee Jackson and his colleagues from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Abbot Laboratories, and the London Hospital Medical College report on the results of infusing six patients with advanced AIDS with 55-500 ml plasma from one of two donors selected for high anti-p24 antibody titre and neutralizing
"The Reading Man's Condom": Science News (09/17/88) Vol. 134, No. 12, P. 188; Effective condom use may be hampered by an individual s lack of reading ability, Gary A. Richwald and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles say. The scientists applied three standard readability formulas to 14 different sets of instructions included with condoms, and found that a user would need t
"The AIDS Delusion": Science News (09/17/88) Vol. 134, No. 12, P. 187; Researchers reporting in the September American Journal of Psychiatry say that as AIDS gets more media attention, an increasing number of people with psychiatric disorders who are not in high-risk groups are demanding to be screened for HIV antibodies. Steven L. Mahorney and Jesse O. Cavenar Jr. of the Veterans Adminis
"AIDS Quilt Plan Hits Snag": Associated Press (09/17/88); The U.S. Park Service mistakenly assigned two groups the same space at the same time for their gatherings in Washington, D.C., cAUsing logistical problems for the groups. The Names Project, a 16-ton quilt bearing the names of the 10,000 victims of AIDS and a group of Ukrainians who are celebrating 1000 years of Ukraini
"Pat the Prophylactic to Lead Madison Parade": United Press International (09/17/88); Drake, Thomas S.; The Madison, Wi., AIDS Support Network and the Wisconsin Student Association planned a parade Sunday to open a local sporting event that was intended to raise student awareness of the dangers of AIDS. Pat the Prophylactic, a six-foot tall, bright blue, dancing condom, was scheduled to lead the parade. Student associati
"Deukmejian Signs Budget Compromise Bills": United Press International (09/17/88); Among the bills signed by California Gov. George Deukmejian last week are those which represent the governor s compromise with the Legislature on the 1988-89 budget. One of those bills will provide money to fund the drug AZT for AIDS patients, said Deukmejian in a radio address to the state, and will provide the necess
"AZT Funding Runs Out": United Press International (09/17/88); AIDS patients in Florida who depend on the drug AZT to help them fend off infection from life-theatening diseases face the possibility of having to pay for the drug themselves. Florida s federally funded AZT treatment program has run out of money. Despite the implementation las July of a special Medicaid coverage progr
"Protestors Decry Failure to Renew AIDS Drug Funding": United Press International (09/17/88); Ryan, James; Protestors angry at the failure of Congress to renew funding for AIDS drug AZT marched outside the federal building in Westwood, Calif., on Saturday. Ramona Ripston, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union s Southern California Chapter, said the failure of the lawmakers to renew the funding is the
"NIH Budget Boost Mostly for AIDS": Science (09/16/88) Vol. 241, No. 4872, P. 1427; Sun, Marjorie; The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received more than a 7 percent increase in funding for the second year in a row. The NIH appropriations bill now before Congress will give the agency $7.152 billion for fiscal year 1989. AIDS research funding under the bill will jump to $606 million, an increase of more than
"Illinois Enacts Law Allowing Secret Testing by Doctors": Washington Blade (09/16/88) Vol. 19, No. 38, P. 7; Keen, Lisa M.; A new law will allow doctors in Illinois to test their patients for HIV antibodies without their consent or knowledge. Gov. James Thompson signed the bill this month. Howard Brown Memorial Clinic Executive Director Judith Johns said the new law could result in loss or denial of health insurance and possible refusal of
"Reagan Signs Housing Bill Banning Bias Against PWAs": Washington Blade (09/16/88) Vol. Vol. 19, No. 38, P. 3; Sullivan, Mark; AIDS activists said that the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, which President Reagan signed last Tuesday, is a major victory against AIDS discrimination. Although the bill does not mention AIDS, it extends protection against housing discrimination to handicapped people. In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled that people
"New LyphoMed Head Targets Woes": Associated Press (09/16/88); New LyphoMed President and Chief Executive Officer Gary E. Nei says he will make solving the pharmaceutical company s problems his first priority. The Food and Drug Administration is continuing an investigation after finding contaminated products and unsatisfactory manufacturing procedures at two of the company s plant
"Scientists Use Blood From AIDS Carriers to Fight Killer Disease": Reuters (09/16/88); An article appearing in the latest issue of British medical journal The Lancet claims blood serum from infected AIDS patients could prove helpful in finding a cure for the deadly disease. According to a team of British and American researchers who AUthored the article, six AIDS patients who received blood transfusions
"Little Progress Being Made on Vaccine for AIDS": Reuters (09/16/88); Conlon, Michael; The chief executive of a major pharmaceutical firm told business and labor leaders that although great strides have been made in the past two years to understand the way the AIDS virus attacks the human immune system, researchers are no closer to finding a cure for the deadly disease than they were two years ago. Accor
"Medical Society Offers Free AIDS Care for Indigent": United Press International (09/16/88); People with AIDS in the Hampton, Va., area will be able to receive health care regardless of their ability to pay, thanks to a pledge by the Hampton Medical Society. The voluntary medical society is the first in Virginia, and possibly the nation, to make such a promise. Society President Hedley Mendez III said Thursday
"Right to Bar Treatment by Any With AIDS Virus Weighed": New York Times (09/16/88), P. B7; The Cook County, Ill., Board s Health and Hospitals Committee Thursday approved a recommendation to allow patients at Chicago s Cook County Hospital to refuse treatment from workers who are HIV-positive. The full board should endorse the policy next week, officials said. Cook County Hospital Director Terrence Hansen sa
"Panels Asks for Major Expansion of Drug Clinics to Combat AIDS": New York Times (09/16/88), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; The Citizens Commission on AIDS appealed Thursday to local officials in New York and New Jersey to combat AIDS by lAUnching a major expansion of drug clinics. The group is sponsored by 18 foundations and has a membership of 15 business and civic leaders. Their appeal to overcome neighborhood opposition to clinics went
"AIDS Cases May Hit 365,000 in 4 Years": Washington Post (09/16/88), P. A4; The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) forecast Thursday that AIDS cases will grow fivefold, to 365,000, by 1992. Deaths from the disease are expected to reach 263,000, or 72 percent of total cases. Currently, the CDC count is 72,766 cases, with 41,064 dead. The totals are from the CDC s quarterly report to the White Ho
"Intravenous Cocaine, Crack, and HIV Infection": Journal of the American Medical Association (09/16/88) Vol. 260, No. 11, P. 1556; DesJarlais, Don C.; In reply to a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association criticizing their suggestion that crack or freebase cocaine may reduce the risk of HIV infection associated with injecting cocaine, Don DesJarlais of the New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services and Samuel R. Friedman of New York s Narco
"Intravenous Cocaine, Crack, and HIV Infection": Journal of the American Medical Association (09/16/88) Vol. 260, No. 11, P. 1555; Grove, Vernon Eugene Jr.; In response to a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Don DesJarlais of the New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services and Samuel R. Friedman of New York s Narcotic and Drug Research Inc., Dr. Vernon Eugene Grove Jr. says he is shocked that DesJarlais and Friedman would suggest one for
"'More Than Names' to Debut in D.C.": Bay Area Reporter (Arts + Entertainment) (09/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 37, P. 26; Richards, Mary; Playwright David Lemos was moved by the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt to write the play More Than Names. The play will debut at the New Playwrights Theater in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29. Lemos began writing the play in December 1987 on the day he saw the quilt for the first time. The first name he saw was that o
"Good Medicine": Bay Area Reporter (09/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 37, P. 20; Newquist, Jay; Psychologists say that AIDS humor can be therapeutic and often expresses a heroism against all odds. Don Clark, AUthor of Loving Someone Gay, says good humor offers the realization of truth, providing an unexpected perspective. Comedian Danny Williams says mainstream comics are using many jokes about safe sex and the f
"Confidentiality Guaranteed": Bay Area Reporter (09/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 37, P. 9; O'Malley, PAUl; PAUl O Malley and his colleagues at the San Francisco City Clinic AIDS Research Study write that in light of California s Proposition 102, they wish to reinforce their commitment to the confidentiality of their records, including those relating to HIV-antibody status. The researchers say their work would not have been
"Mag Tries to Cash in on AIDS Story": Bay Area Reporter (09/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 37, P. 5; White, Allen; A spokeswoman for Hal Riner, a major California ad agency, said the agency received over 75 phone calls to protest an advertisement for California Magazine that said, The AIDS Epidemic was not spread in America by a virus. It was spread by a single man. The ad--run in the AUg. 23 New York Times and in Ad Week--promoted
"Shanti Project Places Geary on Paid Leave": Bay Area Reporter (09/15/88) Vol. 18, No. 37, P. 1; Kolbe, Miranda; Following a report by San Francisco s Human Rights Commission (HRC) that found the Shanti Project has underutilized women and minorities, the AIDS services group s board of directors has placed executive director Jim Geary on administrative leave. The HRC did not examine charges of sexual harassment against Geary. The
"AIDS Babies' Nursery Planned": Associated Press (09/15/88); Palm Beach County, Florida, is expected to be the site of one of the nation s first nurseries for babies infected with the AIDS virus. The facility will called Connor s Nursery , after Thomas Connor Cray, a 26-year-old AIDS patient whose dying wish was that such a place be opened. Cray s uncle, a stockbroker in North P
"Gossip Line to Benefit AIDS Charities...": Business Wire (09/15/88); Tipton Blass Productions Inc. and 900 USA Inc. have established The Gossip Line , where callers can hear the latest gossip circulating in social circles. The new program will donate a substantial contribution from each call to several organizations that provide day-to-day care of AIDS patients, and several renowned gos
"Bay Area Businesses Confront AIDS Crisis...": Business Wire (09/15/88); Businesses in the San Fransisco area are gearing up to bring attention to the problem of AIDS as it affects the corporate community. Managing AIDS in the Workplace is a one-day seminar to be held on Sept. 23 at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in the Bay City. The seminar will be aimed at human resource, communications, and h
"Prison Rights Group Sues to Keep AIDS Unit Closed": United Press International (09/15/88); The Prisoners Legal Services (PLS), an organization representing inmates in court, has sued the New York Department of Correctional Facilities to prevent the opening of an AIDS treatment unit at the medium-security Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie. According to Corrections Commissioner Thomas Coughlin, the fac
"Red Cross: Tainted Blood May Have Been Sent to Hospitals": Unitd Press International (09/15/88); An announcement by the Red Cross in Charlotte, N.C., revealed that 50 hospitals in the Carolinas may have recieved blood tainted with AIDS or hepatitis B. But Dr. Jerry Squires, medical director of the Carolinas region, said the chances of tainted blood cAUsing an AIDS or hepatitis B infection in a transfusion recipien
"Acquittal in AIDS-Related Death": Washington Post (09/15/88), P. A20; A Laguna Beach, Calif., man who strangled his former roommate becAUse the man threatened to infect him with HIV by biting him was acquitted of murder. Dale David Dalton testified that he used a shirt to strangle Edward Ihling in self-defense after Ihling lunged at him with his teeth bared, threatening to infect Dalton.
"Red Cross, FDA Set Tighter Blood Rules": Washington Post (09/15/88), P. A17; Following a six-month investigation that revealed the mistaken release of 2,420 blood products, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the Red Cross signed an agreement Wednesday to tighten procedures. Under the voluntary agreement, District of Columbia and St. Louis testing facilities will close, and the Red Cro
"That AIDS Amendment is No Ambush": Washington Post (09/15/88), P. A24; Dannemeyer, William E.; Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) charges the American Hospital Association (AHA) and other special interest groups with bending legislation to suit their own needs in their attack on his amendment to require hospitals to routinely test incoming patients between the ages of 15 and 49 for HIV infection in states wit
"Human Immune Defenses are Transplanted in Mice": New York Times (09/15/88), P. 1; Schmeck, Harold M. Jr.; Two research teams working indepedently have transplanted the major elements of the human immune system into living mice. In today s Nature magazine, researchers from the Medical Biology Institute in LaJolla, Calif., report on their success in injecting purified lymphocytes from normal human adult cells into the mice s
"Researchers Find Gene Which Helps Spread AIDS": Reuters (09/14/88); Researchers at the National Cancer Center in Tokyo announced Wednesday they have isolated a gene they belive helps the spread of the AIDS virus. According to Yoshiyuki Kuchino, who represents the group of Japanese and West German scientists, also announced the discovery of suppressor transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA), w
"Biotech Industry Said to Survive Bad Times": Washington Post (09/14/88), P. F9; Following stock market plunges and regulatory delays, the biotech industry is thriving commercially. Product sales are up 25 percent in the past year, according to a survey of nearly 300 companies by Arthur Young. The success of one product that controls blood clots is responsible for much of the boom, but Young s Nati
"A Federal Response to AIDS": Washington Post (09/14/88), P. A22; Despite not expanding current antidiscrimination laws to cover AIDS bias in housing, public accommodation, schools, and jobs that do not receive federal funds, the AIDS bill that should come to the floor of the House of Representatives this week is a good one, says the Washington Post. Two of the bill s three sections
"A Federal Response to AIDS": Washington Post (09/14/88), P. A22; Despite not expanding current antidiscrimination laws to cover AIDS bias in housing, public accommodation, schools, and jobs that do not receive federal funds, the AIDS bill that should come to the floor of the House of Representatives this week is a good one, says the Washington Post. Two of the bill s three sections
"Panel OKs New AIDS Restriction": Associated Press (09/14/88); A proposal approved Tuesday by the Cook County Board s Health and Hospital Committee could make Cook County Hospital the first in the nation to allow patients to refuse treatment from health care workers who test positive for HIV. Under the proposal, patients at the hospital would be asked if they object to treatment f
"Board of Education Approves New Health Objectives...": United Press International (09/14/88); New health objectives for seventh and eighth graders in Lincoln, Neb. have been approved by the Lincoln Board of Education despite some concerns that the program will expose the children to potentially dangerous information about AIDS, premarital sex, and other subjects. The new curriculum will cover mental health, per
"Koop Criticizes Those Who Discriminate Against AIDS Victims": United Press International (09/14/88); Martin, Harold H.; Speaking to a group of Blue Cross insurance company employees in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop criticized those who discriminate against AIDS patients. In his presentation, Koop centered his criticism especially on those in the medical profession who continue to turn AIDS patients away. Koo
"Mass. Insurance Industry Seeks to Overturn AIDS Testing Limits": United Press International (09/14/88); Carafell, Ken; Regulations on AIDS testing by insurers in Massachusetts established last year by the administration of Gov. Michael Dukakis are under fire as the insurance industry in that state presses for repeal of the regulations. The Life Insurance Association of Massachusetts asked the Supreme Court to strike down rules banning
"ACT UP/KC Holds First Zap at Circle K": Gay Community News (09/14/88) Vol. 16, No. 9, P. 2; McKnight, Jennie; Kansas City s new chapter of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) picketed a Circle K convenience store and handed out leaflets on AUg. 26. The demonstration was one of many held in several states to protest the company s policy of denying insurance to employees on the basis of personal lifestyles. Most of Circle K
"Change in AIDS Test Rule Urged": Associated Press (09/13/88); A petition filed on behalf of an 11-year-old boy who may have AIDS would change Arizona s law to allow people to take AIDS tests without their names being sent on to the Department of Health Services (DHS). The boy, a hemophiliac, said he would not take an antibody test in Arizona for fear government officials might le
"Gay Bathhouse Closure Upheld": Associated Press (09/13/88); A recent Los Angeles County order requiring closure for any bathhouse in which oral or anal sex was taking place was supported by a recent decision by the California Supreme Court. That body refused to hear an appeal brought by a gay Los Angeles bathhouse affected by the order, which officials issued under a new county
"AIDS and Prison--Homosexuality as Natural as Breathing": Reuters (09/13/88); Two groups are conducting programs designed to study the extent to which prison life is a breeding ground for AIDS. One of the programs, run by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, requires each inmate to give a vial of blood before he enters prison. In the other study, doctors at three Illinois prisons take pris
"Physicians Have the Right to Refuse to Perform Non-essential Surgery on" Patients Carrying the AIDS Virus...: United Press International (09/13/88); Surgeons have the right to refuse to perform non-essential surgery on HIV-positive persons, according to two-thirds of doctors taking part in a Washington state survey. The group was evenly divided on whether they should conduct HIV screening without the patient s consent, but three-quarters said they had the right to
"AIDS Agency Accuses Two Real Estate Companies of Discrimination": United Press International (09/13/88); An agency that gives support to people with AIDS in the Philadelphia area says two real estate firms in the area refused to rent it space becAUse of the nature of its work. According to Ennes Littrell, executive director of ActionAIDS, a non-profit organization that provides support services for AIDS patients, when the
"AIDS May be Underreported in Women, Experts Ponder": Bay Area Reporter (09/13/88) Vol. 18, No. 36, P. 14; Kolbe, Miranda; There are 52 reported cases of AIDS in women in San Francisco, but no count of women with ARC or who are HIV-positive. Some experts speculate the number of cases may be drastically underreported. One San Francisco AIDS Foundation official said that doctors may not know what to look for. BecAUse the Centers for Disease
"Heaven Only Knows What Comes Next in Pakistani Science": Wall Street Journal (09/13/88), P. 1; Walsh, Mary Williams; At the First International Conference of Scientific Miracles of the Koran and Sunnah, originated last year by the late Pakistani President, Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq, the papers delegates presented showed a peculiar blend of high tech and faith. One of the papers was titled, The New Disease AIDS in the Light of Korah and Sun
"Rights vs. Duty: Colorado's Efforts to Trace AIDS Victims' Contacts": Washington Post (09/13/88), P. A3; Boodman, Sandra G.; Colorado recently became the first of 12 states to require that names and addresses of people testing positive for HIV antibodies be reported to state health officials. It is also one of five states to take part in contact tracing. Infected people are asked to name their sexual partners, who are then contacted by state
"Safe-Sex Remix": Advocate (09/13/88) Issue 507, P. 41; A song by the group Cruise Control, No Condom, No Sex, is a Billboard pick dance single. All of the record s proceeds will go to AIDS education programs. The Sire/Warner Brothers release, produced by Randy Morrison and Stewart Pfalzer of Random Records, is being played in clubs throughout the country. For many of the i
"When Lovers Die": Advocate (09/13/88) Issue 507, P. 36; Rowland, Craig; Although some people with AIDS avoid dealing with wills becAUse they are an acknowledgment of death, Gay Men s Health Crisis Assistant Director Gary Wiseman says, It s better to take the inititive and take control of your life. For gays to ensure that others honor their wishes in the event of death or incapacitation, t
"A Case Study: AIDS Education in Rural Wisconsin": Advocate (09/13/88), P. 11; Peterson, Robert W.; Wisconsin s Marinette school district s AIDS education program is fairly representative of other state and local programs. In Wisconsin, it is up to the officials in each school district to decide whether and what to teach about AIDS. AIDS education in Marinette begins in the fourth grade. The school nurses have the st
"AIDS Education: What Does Work?": Advocate (09/13/88), P. 30; Helquist, Michael; A federal Office of Technology Assessment report, How Effective is AIDS Education, says the connection between education campaigns and the profound behavior changes in some populations at risk for AIDS is unknown. The difficulty of evaluating education efforts suggests that programs should be designed to make it easier
"Targeted Messages": Advocate (09/13/88), P. 30; Helquist, Mark; The experience of AIDS hot lines and advice columns is that people want specific answers to particular questions. In his Helquist Report column, Michael Helquist suggests that besides education efforts aimed at the whole gay male community, AIDS-education agencies should aim efforts at particular subgroups. For example
"Adult Education: What Public School AIDS Courses Say About You and Your" Sexuality: Advocate (09/13/88) Vol., P. 10; Peterson, Robert W.; AIDS education will be offered in more than half of the 16,000 school districts in the U.S. this fall. Some educators say the programs have been so sanitized that they couldn t possibly offend anyone. Some states forbid discussion of same-sex transmission or require parental permission before their children can be tAUg
"AIDS Cases Rising in Asia--World Health Organization": Reuters (09/12/88); The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that the number of AIDS cases in the Asia-Pacific region have nearly doubled. AUstralia, Japan , and New Zealand account for 96 percent of the total. WHO s annual report, presented at the beginning of a five-day meeting of health officials from 24 Asia-Pa
"Boston AIDS Advocate Named to Head Rhode Island Project AIDS": United Press International (09/12/88); Anne Marie Silvia, the first AIDS coordinator for Boston, will become the new director of Rhode Island Project/AIDS. Kenneth E. Fish, president of the non-profit group, said Silvia helped lay the groundwork for a collaborative citywide effort addressing a broad range of AIDS issues during her four years as director of
"Family Enjoying Anonymity": United Press International (09/12/88); The family of Jason Robertson, an 8-year-old with ARC, is enjoying its anonymity in the St. Louis area, according to the Rev. George Humbert, spokesman for an interfaith AIDS response group. The Robertsons left Granite City, Ill., after the nearly constant harassment the family suffered after a federal court ordered th
"Syphilis Cases on the Rise in North Carolina": United Press International (09/12/88); State health officials in North Carolina are concerned over the increase in the number of cases of syphilis, the most severe venereal disease, in their state. According to James Prugh, assistant head of the Health Services Sexually Transmitted Disease branch, figures show an 18.2 percent rise in syphilis cases, and he
"Jordan Reports New AIDS Cases": United Press International (09/12/88); With the recent discovery of two more persons with AIDS in Jordan , the total number of patients in that country has risen to 16, according to Hani Shamout, director of the communicable diseases department at Jordan s health ministry. Shamout said that one of the victims, a 9-year-old boy, was infected after receiving
"Doctors Given AIDS Classes": United Press International (09/12/88); Doctors in Indonesia will begin to take classes on AIDS as the Department of Health in that country attempts to halt the spread of the virus there. According to the Indonesion National News Agency, 25 doctors and 25 nurses from regions regarded as high risk for AIDS, such as tourist areas, will be educated about the di
"AIDS Antibody Testing Clinic Using Shoddy Procedures...": United Press International (09/12/88); The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and the National Gay Rights Advocates (NGRA) have filed suit against a private AIDS antibody testing clinic in San Francisco, accusing it of using shoddy procedures. The suit was prompted by a patient at the clinic who was read a positive test result over the telephone without prior
"AIDS Spawns Glove Shortage": United Press International (09/12/88); The fear of AIDS caused a shortage of rubber gloves recently. Although that shortage has been eased somewhat in recent months by huge production increases, many experts predict another shortage could be imminent. According to Edward Skonezny, president of a company which imports rubber gloves, if the rest of the world
"Agency Suspends Pre-Hiring AIDS Tests": Washington Post (09/12/88), P. A9; Havemann, Judith; The National Oceanic and Atomospheric Administration (NOAA), which had a policy of testing new se