1996

A SPECIAL REPORT / New AIDS Arsenal Comes With A Massive Dose of Uncertainty
Newsday - December 12, 1996
Laurie Garrett - Staff Writer
FOR MOST of her medical career, physician Victoria Sharp has treated people infected with HIV, from the socially well-connected to convicted murderers who cursed the petite doctor, waving their manacled fists menacingly. Sharp, director of the HIV Comprehensive Care Center at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan, is one o


Research Backs Early HIV Treatment
Newsday - November 15, 1996
Laurie Garrett - Staff Writer
Research results presented this week to a special National Institutes of Health panel show it is highly unlikely - perhaps impossible - that treatment can restore the immune systems of people who have been infected for more than a year with the AIDS virus. Despite genuine breakthroughs in treatment of HIV infection - n


Oral Risk of HIV Hinted
Newsday - June 7, 1996
Laurie Garrett - Staff Writer
Researchers say new tests in monkeys suggest that the AIDS virus can be transmitted orally, without blood-to-blood contact. In a report today in the journal Science, researchers wrote that oral administration of the monkey form of the HIV, known as SIV, caused lethal infection in six of seven macaque monkeys studied.


Upjohn Touts Anti-HIV Drug
Newsday - January 18, 1996
Laurie Garrett - Staff Writer
A sensitive test measuring the amounts of viral genetic material found in patients bloodstreams can apparently accurately predict which HIV-infected individuals will benefit from medication and who is likely to go on to develop AIDS, a study has found. In an unusual publicity maneuver aimed at changing Food and Drug Ad



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