Even though he labels AIDS research a top administration priority, President Reagan has only spoken out once about the deadly disease, and then only when prompted by reporters, says Rep. Gerry E. Studds, the only acknowledged homosexual in Congress. ... The president said last night it is one of the top priorities of t
ATLANTA - In revised guidelines aimed at eliminating AIDS virus from the blood supply, federal health officials recommended Thursday that any man who has had sex with another man even once in the last eight years refrain from donating blood. The national Centers for Disease Control has for years considered homosexual o
ATLANTA - Most children with AIDS should be allowed in the classroom, and officials should do their best to protect the pupils confidentiality, federal health authorities said Thursday amid mounting controversy over AIDS victims in public schools. For most infected children, the benefits of an unrestricted setting woul
BOSTON - Scientists have discovered a master control switch in the AIDS virus that allows it to reproduce with dazzling speed and helps make acquired immune deficiency syndrome such a devastating disease. It s an important new finding for the virus from a fundamental research point of view, said Dr. William Haseltine o
BOSTON - Most donors of AIDS-tainted blood are still healthy and capable of infecting others several years after inadvertently passing the lethal disease through transfusions, a study published Thursday shows. This tells us that there is a chronic carrier state of this infection, said Dr. Harold W. Jaffe of the federal
BOSTON - A new AIDS test will falsely suggest that thousands of healthy blood donors have the fatal disease, and this inaccuracy could scare away donors unless blood banks double-check results before releasing them, public health officials warn. The test is intended to screen out donated blood that is contaminated with
The Department of Health said yesterday that it had established a hot line to answer questions on an AIDS- related test that blood collection centers will soon administer to prospective donors. The test, for the HTLV-3 antibody, indicates whether a person has been exposed to the virus associated with AIDS, or acquired
WASHINGTON - The American Red Cross, awaiting release of a test to screen blood for evidence of AIDS, on Thursday described plans to put the test into use nationally within days of its approval. Red Cross officials said they have planned an intricate phase-in period for the test in all of their 57 blood regions and sho
A new vaccine to protect cats from feline leukemia could not only save the lives of many of the nation s 50 million cats but also point the way to a vaccine for a closely related human illness: AIDS. The vaccine is the first ever developed to prevent infection with retroviruses, an unusual class of viruses only recentl
WASHINGTON - Striking similarities have been found between the virus believed to cause AIDS and one that infects sheep, a development that could indicate that the deadly human disease originated in animals and that developing a vaccine against it could be difficult, scientists said Thursday. Researchers at the National
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