WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 20 - A Sunset Boulevard fingernail salon that refused to give a pedicure to a hairdresser who has AIDS has become the first business to be charged under the city s AIDS antidiscrimination law. The establishment, Jessica s Nail Clinic, violated a year-old city ordinance intended to discourag
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 - Despite some internal opposition, the Pentagon s top health official has concluded that the Defense Department should keep its policy of retaining service personnel who test positively for exposure to AIDS. The decision is contained in a draft policy statement produced by a working group under Dr.
WASHINGTON - Scientists think they have discovered how some people fight off the virus that causes AIDS, a finding they say could lead to a new approach to treatment as well as explain why some infected people don t get the fatal disease. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, said Thursday that th
MIAMI, Dec. 10 - A $190,000 settlement that reinstated an employee who has AIDS and paid his medical bills is a tremendous victory for others victims of the disease, civil rights advocates say. The worker, Todd Shuttleworth, a 33-year-old budget policy analyst with Broward County, was reinstated Monday. The settlement
ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 8 - Animal rights activists have stolen four baby chimpanzees to be used for AIDS and hepatitis research from a medical laboratory here, representatives of an animal rights group said today. The animals were stolen from the SEMA Inc. biomedical research laboratory. Dr. Jere Phillips, veterinarian i
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced Saturday that it would not allow an AIDS education group to hold seminars in its churches because the organization condoned the use of condoms. In the issue of AIDS, such use implies either heterosexual promiscuity or homosexual activity, Ar
Researchers have isolated a virus that bears some resemblance to a leukemia virus but appears to cause lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands. They say the finding increases the likelihood that such viruses may play a role in many unexplained human diseases. The new virus, which has been designated HTLV-V by its discov
ALBANY - An Auburn state prison inmate diagnosed as having AIDS was properly denied permission by the state s prison chief to have a conjugal visit with his wife, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court upheld State Correction Commissioner Thomas
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 - Scientists have taken another step toward producing a vaccine against AIDS by showing that only a fragment of protein from the AIDS virus is necessary for developing antibodies against it. A group of industry, government and university researchers says the protein spurs high levels of antibodies th
Two guards who were on duty the night four inmates escaped from an AIDS ward at a state prison were suspended yesterday for neglect of duty, a Corrections Department spokesman said. Corrections officers Jerry Sowa and John Warren were suspended without pay, pending an administrative hearing, by the supervisor of the AI
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - In a case that may affect the rights of AIDS victims, the Supreme Court was told today that a Federal law banning discrimination against people with disabilities did not protect people with contagious diseases. This cannot be what Congress had in mind, Charles Fried, Solicitor General of the
MONTPELIER, Vt., Nov. 29 - The State Health Department is increasing its efforts to educate Vermonters about AIDS. It s important because Vermont has a very low incidence of the disease, said Deborah Kutzko, who was hired in October to coordinate AIDS education programs. We are in a perfect time and place to do prevent
TRENTON, Nov. 30 - Four inmates who were being treated in the AIDS remission unit of Trenton State Prison escaped Saturday night, according to officials. The city police captured one of them driving a stolen car but three were still at large early today. The four prisoners freed themselves from the maximum security pri
A former New York City police officer was convicted yesterday on bribery and tax fraud charges in the illegal operation of the Mine Shaft and Hell Fire sex clubs. The former officer, Richard Bell, 47 years old, of 500 East 77th Street, was convicted by State Supreme Court Justice Myriam Altman after a five-hour nonjury
ATLANTA, Nov. 13 - The AIDS virus has been detected in two Minnesota women belonging to sex clubs whose promiscuous members appeared to be largely unaware that their multiple sexual encounters put them at high risk for the disease, Federal health officials said today. The two women were identified in June at a venereal
INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 8 - A teen-aged AIDS victim, Ryan White, who battled successfully for the right to return to class despite his illness, was listed in satisfactory condition today at Riley Hospital for Children, a spokesman said. Ryan, 14 years old, was admitted Monday for medical tests, according to Mary Sangemino o
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 - A new AIDS virus discovered in west Africa last year may be as deadly as the original virus and could pose an international health threat, according to a prominent French researcher. The researcher, Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said the new virus was first thought to cause
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to further reduce the risk of AIDS, has added prostitutes and their recent heterosexual customers to its list of those who should not donate blood. New recommendations sent Monday to all registered blood collection agencies say men and women should be asked
New York City will begin offering free, anonymous blood tests for the AIDS virus today at a clinic on Manhattan s West Side, a city Health Department official said yesterday. Susan Rosenthal, director of AIDS counseling, said the city also plans to eventually expand the program, starting up at the Baumgartner Health Ce
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 29 - The Birmingham News has been requiring new employees to take tests for AIDS because of health and financial concerns, the publisher of the newspaper said today. The practice was begun about six months months ago, the publisher, Victor H. Hanson II, told National Public Radio. We don t want k
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 29 - A construction worker says he will fight a judge s ruling barring him from seeing his 2-year-old daughter because he carries the AIDS virus. Superior Court Judge Richard L. Milan terminated Thomas R. Stewart s visitation rights Friday, saying the divorced father s condition is a danger to the mi
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 - Researchers say the Government s definition of AIDS excludes many people who almost certainly have the disease under a proposal for a new definition. Dr. Timothy J. Dondero of the Federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta says the proposed changes would include patients who do not meet the f
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - An elderly widow who says she was defrauded of $60,000 by followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has won a Federal District Court order seizing the money of two groups tied to the political conspiracy theorist. An order signed by Judge Thelton E. Henderson in San Francisco, which was made public Frid
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 18 - State officials said they were reluctant to make a televised appeal for a foster home for a 9-year-old AIDS victim, but were flooded with calls and now think the effort will pay off. Jack Stockslager, director of the Arizone Department of Economic Security, made an appeal on a local television
GRANBY, Conn., Oct. 11 - A pupil at a public elementary school has become the first child with acquired immune deficiency syndrome to be allowed to continue attending regular classes in Connecticut, according to state education officials. The child, whose identity was disclosed only to a few administrators and teachers
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - The Senate passed two amendments Friday to its $558 billion spending plan, including one that would overturn a District of Columbia law that bars insurance companies from testing people applying for policies for exposure to the AIDS virus. The amendment to the catchall appropriation measure, which
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control awarded $9.8 million to states and local governments in the 1986 fiscal year for counseling and testing of AIDS patients, the Reagan Administration announced Wednesday. The money is in addition to $14 million that went to local governments for various AIDS educa
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2 - Most of the AIDS victims who could not initially be placed in a high-risk group for the fatal disease can now be placed in such a group, new research shows. Of more than 25,000 AIDS cases reported so far in the United States , 1,133 were initially placed in the no identified risk category becaus
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 - Officials from San Francisco said today that they were offended by jokes attributed by The Washington Post to President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in which they reportedly discussed sending the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to San Francisco and giving him AIDS, or
NEW ORLEANS - The chances are small that a single heterosexual encounter will spread the AIDS infection, new research suggests. Sexual relations between men and women appear to play an important role in the transmission of AIDS in Africa and Haiti , but most cases in the United States are attrib
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 25 - Edward Lebowitz, an AIDS victim for whom a man posing as his doctor prescribed a change in his medication over the telephone, died Wednesday, officials said. Mr. Lebowitz, who was 48 years old, died of complications related directly to his illness, according to a statement by St. John s
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 - Citing scientific evidence, the Secretary of Health and Human Services told restaurant owners today that they should ordinarily let employees with AIDS keep working in the kitchen. A waiter or kitchen worker with acquired immune deficiency syndrome should only be taken off the job if there is ev
CHICAGO, Sept. 24 - A woman who opposes allowing her two daughters to make overnight visits to their divorced father, who is homosexual, today dropped her request that a court order him to take an AIDS test. The woman, who has been identified only as Susan Doe, continued to object to the visits by the girls, who are 9
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 16 - California s 20 Roman Catholic bishops say a voter-initiated referendum that would impose controls on AIDS victims is an attack on civil rights that also threatens development of a cure for the fatal disease. The California Catholic Conference on Monday released the bishops statement atta
CHICAGO, Sept. 14 - A new study has found that white heterosexuals with many sexual partners have a high risk of contracting a serious liver infection that researchers are already studying because it is spread much as AIDS is believed to be spread. The report, published on Friday in The Journal of the
ATASCADERO, Calif., Sept. 13 - A committee has recommended that a 4-year-old boy with AIDS who bit a classmate must take a psychological test before returning to school. The boy, Ryan Thomas, who contracted the disease through a blood transfusion shortly after birth, was attacked Monday by a bigger boy who grabbed him
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has decided that students enrolled in the service academies or college Reserve Officers Training Corps programs must be discharged if tests show they have been exposed to the AIDS virus. However, enlisted men and women in officer candidate schools will be allowed to stay in the service if they
Researchers took issue yesterday with a statement by Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. that an experimental, antiviral drug could extend the lives of patients with AIDS and related disorders. Senator Weicker, a Connecticut Republican, made the assertion Wednesday as he argued successfully for Senate passage of legislation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 - The Senate agreed today to give the National Cancer Institute an extra $40 million to $50 million to provide the experimental drug AZT to 10,000 people dying of AIDS. The funds will be shifted from a $1.9 billion program that helps the poor pay heating bills. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 2 - A vaccine has protected monkeys from a deadly AIDS-like monkey virus for more than a year, according to researchers at the University of California at Davis. It worked even better than we thought it would, said Dr. Preston Marx, a virologist at the university s California Primate Research
HONOLULU, Sept. 1 - G. William Cox has resigned as managing editor of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin and gone on disability leave after writing an editorial column disclosing that he has AIDS, the newspaper said today. We regret but understand Bill s decision and respect his wishes, John E. Simonds, the paper s executive e
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 30 - California has approved legislation barring job and housing discrimination against AIDS victims. The measure was approved Friday by the State Assembly by a vote of 42 to 30 and was sent to Gov. George Deukmejian. It was passed earlier by the State Senate. Assemblyman Art Agnos, a Democrat
GREENSBORO, N.C., Aug. 29 - Large transfusions masked AIDS antibodies in blood samples from a traffic accident victim whose organs were later transplanted into two other people, hospital officials said Thursday. The victim, Joseph Odell Evans, 30 years old, was admitted at Moses Cone Hospital on Aug. 16 with major head
BOSTON - Another case of a hospital worker being infected with the AIDS virus by an accidental needle jab has been reported by French doctors. The infection occurred in a nurse, who received a superficial needle-prick injury in her finger when she recapped a needle that had been used to withdraw fluid from an AIDS pati
KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 25 - Smiling and lugging his books in a school gym bag, Ryan White, a 14-year-old AIDS sufferer, reported for the start of eighth-grade classes today, after parents who opposed his return dropped their battle because of mounting legal costs. It s O.K., he said, bounding off his school bus, when asked
TRENTON, Aug. 20 - The Department of Health is amending a proposal that would force hospitals, physicians and jails to give vital information about acquired immune deficiency syndrome sufferers to the state to no longer require the victims addresses and telephone numbers, officials said today. The officials said the ch
HOUSTON, Aug. 2 - The nation s first hospital dedicated solely to research and treatment of AIDS has been created, and the first patients are to be accepted Sept. 2. Officials of American Medical International Inc. signed an agreement Tuesday with the University of Texas to set up the hospital for acquired immune defic
LAKE BUTLER, Fla., July 26 - Two prisoners have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder by putting blood serum from an AIDS patient in a correction officer s coffee. Robert Elliot, the officer, who is now undergoing monthly tests for the deadly virus for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, said he was pleased ch
INDIANAPOLIS, July 18 - A group of parents who fought to keep a 14-year-old AIDS victim out of school has decided to end its battle, the group s attorney said today. The student, Ryan White, was barred by school officials one year ago from attending classes at Western Middle School in the suburb of Kokomo because of fe
An international committee of scientists, in a letter to be published Thursday and Friday in two leading journals, is proposing that the AIDS virus be called by a new name: human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. The proposed name, to be published in the journals Nature and Science, holds little significance for the publ
WASHINGTON, April 1 - In screening military recruits for an antibody associated with the disease AIDS, the Pentagon has found that older recruits are more likely to be affected and that a tiny percentage of women are testing positive. Statistics compiled from the new screening program show the highest incidence rates f
An African virus that causes a disease in pigs that resemble AIDS may have been present in some American AIDS patients, according to a new study. Evidence of infection with African swine fever virus was found in 9 of 21 American AIDS patients tested but in only 1 of 16 healthy Americans tested, according to a study to
WASHINGTON - Antibodies from animals infected with the AIDS virus protect some cell cultures from death that normally results from the virus, researchers said today. Although an effective human vaccine against acquired immune deficiency syndrome is still considered to be years away, the researchers said laboratory stud
KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 13 - A county medical officer ruled today that a 14-year-old victim of AIDS posed no health threat to his fellow classmates and teachers and should be allowed to return to school. Dr. Alan J. Alder, chief medical officer for Howard County, made the ruling after examining the teen-ager, Ryan White.
ATLANTA, Feb. 6 - Federal health officials today reported the first known case in which a parent caught the AIDS virus from a child, but they attributed it to extensive contact with blood and bodily fluids, not ordinary contact among family members. This is a very extreme example, said Dr. Harold Jaffe, a top AIDS rese
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 - The Army has rejected about 400 recruits because tests indicated they had been exposed to the virus that sometimes causes AIDS, an Army officer says. The officer, Lieut. Col. Gary Quay, assigned to oversee the new blood screening program for the Army, said Friday that the 400 had been rejected out
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 - Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger has rejected the idea of requiring families of servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees to be tested for an antibody associated with the disease AIDS. In what was described as initial policy on the issue, however, Mr. Weinberger did conclude that any depend
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (AP) - City inspectors today ordered the shutdown of a clinic that planned to test people for evidence of the AIDS virus and to issue identity cards to those found free of antibodies to the disease. Frank Kroeger, general manager of the Department of Building and Safety, said inspectors had found i
ALBANY, Jan. 19 - The grants, announced Saturday by Governor Cuomo, raise the total of state funds allocated for research on AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, since 1983 to $7.7 million. The studies, to be carried out at medical centers in the New York City area and in Syracuse, are to be coordinated with f
WASHINGTON - from discharging 11 recruits whose blood tests indicate exposure to the AIDS virus, pending a review of the case by the United States Court of Appeals here. Federal District Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer said the Navy could not discharge the recruits for at least 10 days. However, in his 11-page opinion he
Researchers have found the lock and key by which the AIDS virus zeroes in on its target in the body s immune system. In a report to be published today in Science magazine, the researchers said the finding suggested new ways of stopping or preventing AIDS infections, either by treating immune cells so they will reject t
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 16 (AP) - Robert Bernstein, the State Health Commissioner, today dropped his proposal to add AIDS to the list of diseases for which Texans could be quarantined. The proposal, tentatively approved last month by the State Board of Health, drew heated criticism from homosexual organizations and civil ri
ALBANY, Jan. 15 - Bronx Municipal Hospital has been fined $31,000 for not providing adequate care last year to a man suffering from AIDS, State Health Department officials said today. A spokesman for the department, Peter Slocum, said Bronx Municipal had failed to provide services to the 39-year-old man with AIDS. The
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP) - Blood bank officials said today that more than one-third of Americans surveyed still believed incorrectly that they could get AIDS from donating blood. There have been scattered reports of blood shortages in the past year, and some local officials have attributed the problem to fear of AIDS.
THE Federal Centers for Disease Control will work with New York City health officials to determine if there is a link between the AIDS virus and an increase in the number of tuberculosis cases last year, a spokesman for the centers said yesterday. Preliminary figures show that 1,910 tuberculosis cases were reported in
ALBANY, Jan. 6 - The State Correction Commissioner, Thomas A. Coughlin 3d, said today that he would release more prisoners with AIDS into the care of Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient. As an act of mercy on Christmas Eve, Governor Cuomo and Mr. Coughlin approved the transfer of three Sing Sing prisoners to
Mother Teresa, in a meeting at City Hall yesterday, tried to enlist the support of Mayor Koch for the release of all state prisoners who are suffering from AIDS. The prisoners, she said, should be able to die near their families. Mr. Koch said he would make a request for the prisoner release on her behalf to Gov. Cuomo
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (AP) -Since disclosure of the first drug to help AIDS sufferers, thousands of people have called a Federal hotline to get more information, health officials said today. Federal authorities announced Friday that an experimental drug found to extend the lives of some AIDS patients would be made avail
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