LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY December 22, 1987
John Dart; Times Religion Writer
The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese on Monday released a five- sentence revision of a controversial church policy paper on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, saying flatly that it cannot endorse public health recommendations on condoms to prevent the spread of the disease. Archbishop Roger M. Mahony had announ
An obscure venereal disease called chancroid, which has been largely unknown in the United States since 1956, appears to have re-established itself in Los Angeles County. The re-emergence of chancroid, which is characterized by genital warts, has raised new concern among health officials that it could facilitate the sp
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY December 9, 1987
Bill Billiter; Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - A legislative committee heard testimony Tuesday that a state law that forbids insurance companies from requiring the most sophisticated AIDS tests for life and health insurance applicants is causing havoc in the industry and jacking up premiums for all consumers. The committee chairman, after a five-hour h
Dr. Robert J. Huse, the Texas pediatrician forced to close his thriving practice after public disclosure that he has the AIDS virus, hopes to take a giant step Tuesday toward putting his life back together: He will take the licensing examination here for permission to practice medicine in California. It has been almost
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY November 17, 1987
Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writer
While long-term counseling for people who test HIV positive is limited, a number of organizations have formed support groups. The Women s AIDS Project, part of the Wholistic Health for Women center in West Hollywood, has support groups for women who test positive. Information: (213) 650-1508. The Edelman Health Center
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY November 17, 1987
Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writer
The woman, attractive, with short grayish-brown hair, arrived at the Westwood restaurant in a jogging suit. Fit and cheerful, she shook hands, then slipped into a booth and ordered tea and yogurt. I d like to tell you what this is like, she said softly. But you can t use my real name or some things about me that would
A Cedars-Sinai Medical Center pediatrician acknowledged Friday that 21 newborn babies who received blood transfusions at the hospital are known to have been infected with the AIDS virus, including five who have died of the disease. The acknowledgment by Dr. Thomas Mundy followed an inquiry from The Times, prompted by c
Two to five percent of newborns who received blood transfusions at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center between 1980 and 1985 may have been infected with the AIDS virus although none tested so far have developed the deadly disease, the director of a $500,000 federally funded study at the hospital said Thursday. Dr. Thomas Mundy
The American Medical Assn., taking note of public statements by some doctors refusing to treat patients infected with the AIDS virus, advised physicians Thursday that it is unethical to deny care in such situations if the care required is within the doctor s normal range of practice. And in a new statement on doctors
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY October 22, 1987
Janny Scott; Times Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - A top AIDS specialist predicted Wednesday that medical records increasingly will list the fact that a person has been exposed to the AIDS virus--a controversial practice currently barred under California law as a violation of confidentiality. Dr. Paul Volberding, chief of medical oncology and AIDS activitie
A survey of Orange County cardiopulmonary resuscitation volunteers that found two-thirds would refuse to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on an AIDS patient has forced into the open an issue troubling public health officials nationwide. The results of the survey raises this question: Is it safe for a lay rescuer to
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY September 23, 1987
The effort to contain and control the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS--has been made more difficult by stands taken by the Reagan Administration in Washington and by Gov. George Deukmejian in California. Dr. Otis R. Bowen, secretary of health and human services, has now made official President Reaga
People with AIDS recite the names like a prayer. They whisper the words at bedside, pass them along to the newly sick: Dan Turner, diagnosed in February, 1982, Michael Callen, diagnosed in the summer of 82 . . . . They are the names of AIDS survivors, people who have lived far longer than the average 18 months normally
The condom industry has launched an intensive campaign to weaken, delay or possibly shut down a federally funded Los Angeles study of the effectiveness of condoms in preventing transmission of the AIDS virus. The industry s trade group, the Health Industry Manufacturers Assn., has also suggested that its own condom tas
Orange County has recorded 312 AIDS deaths since 1980, but the incidence of new cases has slowed slightly, health officials said Wednesday. The county has logged 515 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 174 so far this year, in contrast with 161 in all of 1986, Orange County Health Care Agency records show.
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY August 24, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,060
Allan Parachini; Times Staff Writer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering requiring the equivalent of a warning label on lambskin condoms--especially popular in some segments of the gay community--to underscore the possibility that they could permit the spread of the AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases. And the
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY August 18, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 5 Word Count: 2,142
Allan Parachini; Times Staff Writer
One of every five batches of condoms tested in a government inspection program over the last four months failed to meet minimum standards for leaks, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which termed the failure rate, 1 out of 50 condoms, unexpectedly high. At the same time, ongoing laboratory research in
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY August 16, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 17 Pt. 6 Col. 1 Story Type: Sidebar Word Count: 867
Janny Scott; Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writers
Only one anti-AIDS drug is licensed for use in the United States : Azidothymidine ( AZT ), sold under the name Retrovir. AZT costs from $8,000 to $12,000 a year per patient and can cause serious anemia resulting in frequent blood transfusions, especially for patients with more advanced AIDS.
I believe patients who get actively involved in their own care do better. And if a patient wants to try various things I go along with them as long as what they try won t hurt them. Like acupuncture and herbal teas. If they ask me, I tell them I don t think they re of any value. But the last thing I would want to tell
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY August 9, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: Special Section Page: 3 Word Count: 3,355
Scott Kraft; Times Staff Writer
KYOTERA, Uganda - Margaret Nandawula s father, a once-prosperous trader, sold the family home last year to pay a few doctors and, when they did not help, a few witch doctors, who could not help either. Then he was buried amid the banana trees behind her grandparents house here, gone before 35. This year, Margaret s mot
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY July 19, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 2,033
Mark A. Stein; Times Staff Writer
VACAVILLE, Calif. - Jimmy Bozeman doesn t want to die in prison, but he knows he is likely to do just that. Although he killed a man in a fight seven years ago, the chunky 28-year-old has not been sentenced to death. He developed AIDS-related complex, a deadly ailment that has weakened his system s resistance to infect
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY July 16, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 25 Pt. 1 Col. 3 Word Count: 542
Harry Nelson; Times Medical Writer
Younger people and women increasingly are being infected with the AIDS virus, according to blood test results on more than 300,000 civilians who applied for military service, researchers said in a report published in today s New England Journal of Medicine. The results, they said, suggest that heterosexual transmission
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY July 15, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 4 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 686
Petitions are now being circulated to qualify for next year s ballots another initiative on AIDS, similar to Proposition 64 that was defeated in November, 1986. It is a mischievous move, once again risking the diversion of the energy and resources of the state from the serious business of controlling the pandemic. It i
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY July 12, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: Opinion Page: 4 Pt. 5 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 672
The California Medical Assn. has withdrawn its support of AIDS legislation to implement the recommendations of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in California and now opposes the bill. It is a grave disappointment, coming just as Assembly approval of the legislation had set the stage for negotiations with Gov. George Deu
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY June 18, 1987 Edition: San Diego County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,068
Janny Scott; Times Staff Writer
San Diego County health authorities are calling for a dramatic loosening of the legal limits on AIDS testing to make possible the widespread testing and informing of people who may have been exposed to the deadly virus. Under the recommendations, to be submitted to the Board of Supervisors, health authorities would be
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY June 8, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,893
Mark A. Stein; Times Staff Writer
CARSON CITY, Nev. - Brothels have been a part of Nevada s frontier heritage at least since that day in 1859 when a river of silver ore first began to flow from the legendary Comstock Mine. Since 1971, they even have operated formally within state law. Now, however, that remnant of frontier heritage is facing a modern s
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY June 7, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 2,225
Marlene Cimons; Harry Nelson; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - When Dr. Michael Gottlieb showed up to register for the Third International Conference on AIDS last week, he learned the hard way that fame is fleeting--perhaps even non-existent. The Los Angeles immunologist, who in 1981 identified the first cases of AIDS in the world, had neglected to register in advance
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY June 4, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: Calendar Page: 9 Pt. 6 Col. 4 Story Type: Television Review Word Count: 975
Diane Haithman; Times Staff Writer
First, a stretcher bearing an unidentified body is rushed to an ambulance from an apartment building. Later, several vials of blood are pulled from a refrigerator. A hospital technician runs a test on the blood. Then, floating on the impersonal face of a computer screen, come the following words: HIV POSITIVE. AIDS POS
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY June 3, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 3 Word Count: 2,373
Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writer
There s no reason for those who carry the AIDS virus to wear a scarlet A, President Reagan told guests at a fund-raising dinner for AIDS research this week in Washington. Yet, in light of reactions to his speech, it appears that candidates in the coming primaries will carry brands of their own when it comes to the AID
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY June 2, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 2 Word Count: 913
Marlene Cimons; Harry Nelson; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - Vice President George Bush defended President Reagan s AIDS antibody testing proposals Monday, saying it is the responsibility of the political leadership to decide among competing principles. Bush was booed and hissed by some in the audience when he discussed the testing proposals and later was heard to r
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY April 16, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 32 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 613
Harry Nelson; Times Staff Writer
A second type of AIDS virus identified by French researchers in West Africa in 1985 has significant genetic differences from the virus responsible for the worldwide epidemic of the disease, the researchers announced Wednesday. Dr. Luc Montagnier announced at a London press conference that he and other researchers had d
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY April 16, 1987 Edition: Orange County Edition Section: Metro Page: 7 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Word Count: 387
Ken Chavez; Times Staff Writer
A spokesman for a 2-month-old company that offers AIDS anti-body tests through the mail defended its operation Wednesday, saying the criticism that the procedure offers inadequate counseling to persons who test positive for the AIDS virus can be overcome by pre-counseling literature included in the $59 test kit. Still,
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY April 1, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 22 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 1,097
Marlene Cimons; James Gerstenzang; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - President Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac announced Tuesday that the United States and France have agreed to share patent rights for tests to screen blood for the presence of AIDS antibodies, ending a longstanding legal dispute that has divided AIDS researchers on both sides of the Atlantic
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY March 30, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 2,001
Mark Fineman; Times Staff Writer
MANILA - Sometime in February, 1986, the Philippine Health Department discovered that Christy was infected with AIDS. But when health workers went back to the go-go bar where the 20-year-old prostitute had been tested just a few days earlier, Christy was gone. She had moved to another of the dozens of sleazy strip join
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY March 22, 1987 Edition: Orange County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Word Count: 738
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
Since laboratory tests to detect exposure to the AIDS virus became available two years ago, millions of Americans have had their blood checked. The most widely used tests do not detect the virus particles themselves. Rather, the tests identify proteins called AIDS antibodies, which are produced by the body s immune sys
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY March 8, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: Opinion Page: 4 Pt. 5 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 844
The public health crisis that has been created by the AIDS epidemic is about to become the center of a budget battle in Los Angeles County. As it must. Only New York and San Francisco have graver problems. The Los Angeles County supervisors are faced with new and grim evidence that they risk the entire population unles
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY March 4, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 4 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 512
Legislation to implement the AIDS recommendations of the U.S. surgeon general and the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine is being introduced in Sacramento this week, providing an opportunity for California to move quickly and effectively to meet this increasingly dangerous health problem. The bill is AB
The Orange County AIDS testing center s workload has more than doubled in the past three months as heterosexuals, many of them hysterical with fear that they may have contracted the fatal disease, have flooded the facility, county health officials said Thursday. Penny Weismuller, county AIDS coordinator, said an averag
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY February 17, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Story Type: Correction Word Count: 539
Thomas H. Maugh II; Times Science Writer
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED FOR THE RECORD In a story that appeared on Feb. 17 reporting that a rare form of leukemia had been tentatively traced to a specific virus, it was incorrectly reported that hairy cell leukemia usually results in death within about six months after diagnosis. Actually, victims of t
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY February 12, 1987 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 4 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 808
Larry Green; Times Staff Writer
KENOSHA, Wis. - A Circuit Court judge has ordered all women in his court convicted of prostitution to undergo testing for the presence of AIDS antibodies, and is meeting criticism from civil libertarians and defense lawyers who contend that he is infringing on individual liberties and privacy. Judge Bruce E. Schroeder
In a unique research project, scientists in Los Angeles soon will begin a federally funded human study to see if condoms and spermicides can prevent the spread of the AIDS virus. Tests have suggested that spermicides can kill the AIDS virus in a laboratory dish, but no tests have ever been done to test their effectiven
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