A drug investigated as an influenza treatment blocks the growth in laboratory tests of a virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a new study has found, and researchers are preparing to test it in people who have AIDS. Because the drug, called ribavirin, has already been studied in patients with
BOSTON - (AP) -- The case of a woman who caught AIDS from a transfusion provides some of the strongest evidence yet that a virus called HTLV-3 is the sole cause of the disease, a researcher says. The 60-year-old social worker received four pints of blood during a hysterectomy. One pint was donated by a drug-abusing hom
A doctor who specialized in treating AIDS patients will receive $10,000 in damages and a new lease under a settlement with a Greenwich Village apartment cooperative that tried to evict him, the State Attorney General s office said today. The suit - one of the nation s first dealing with bias against people with acquire
The state prison system is planning to provide special care at Metropolitan Hospital for inmates who are AIDS patients, the city s Health and Hospitals Corporation announced in a statement yesterday. The special unit, the announcement said, will be the first of its kind in the nation to deal with acquired immune defici
WASHINGTON - The head of the Public Health Service said Monday that a blood test will be available soon to determine if someone was exposed to AIDS, but it won t tell whether he has the disease. Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr. said the test will be useful in detecting whether donated blood contains the AIDS-causing virus -- e
The City Health Department said yesterday that the director of the Gay and Lesbian Health Concerns Program is resigning. The director, Dr. Roger Enlow, is returning to private practice after 17 months as head of the unit, which was created to fight the disease AIDS, said a Health Department spokesman, Marvin Bogner.
Researchers in the United States and France have new evidence that a type of virus first identified in AIDS patients in France last year might be the long- sought cause of the deadly disease, scientists said yesterday. The researchers cautioned that the findings did not prove the new virus was the cause of the disease,
NEW YORK - Researchers in the United States and France have strong, new evidence that a type of virus first identified in AIDS patients in France last year might be the long-sought cause of the deadly disease, scientists said Thursday. I think it looks very good, said Dr. Donald Francis, coordinator of AIDS laboratori
Researchers say they have discovered a key, potentially treatable, defect in the immune systems of AIDS victims, strengthening their hope that a type of interferon could be the first effective medicine for the lethal disorder. Interferon is a natural virus-fighting substance produced by the body s cells. The researcher
Forty cases of acquired immune deficiency syndome in 10 cities have been traced through a chain of sexual contacts to a homosexual man who may have been a carrier of the disease, spreading it across the country without knowing he had it. The man had sexual contact with eight other men who were found to have AIDS. Four
WASHINGTON - Some cases of the mysterious disease AIDS are associated with blood transfusions, and a new study says some of the blood donors involved appear to have been infected by a virus previously linked to the deadly condition. The report, to be published today in the journal Science, said people who donated blood
Governor Cuomo has turned down a request by the State Health Commissioner to spend $5.2 million more on AIDS research, it was disclosed today. Mr. Cuomo announced the award of $3.8 million for two-year research grants for the study of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Scientists have discovered a new virus that may be the cause of a monkey disease very similar to humans acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The new virus is one of a small family of germs called type D retroviruses and is related to the human T-cell leukemia virus, which some believe may cause AIDS. Dr. Norma
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