The Associated Press; Thursday, THU December 19, 1991
PARIS - Worried about the spread of AIDS by transvestite prostitutes, officials urged Wednesday that they be tested for the virus and proposed that a huge park on the city s western edge be locked every night to keep out motorists cruising for sex. Each night, police estimate 400 to 600 prostitutes line the pathways an
NEW YORK - Merck & Co. has given up a promising AIDS drug, L 661, after it lost its effectiveness on all seven test patients in less than 12 weeks of treatment. The company had rushed L 661 into clinical trials less than a year ago. The drug ran into the same problem that limits the effectiveness of the leading AID
NEW YORK - The nation s medical bill for treating people with AIDS or infected with the AIDS virus will reach $5.8 billion this year and will almost double to $10.4 billion in 1994, a federal study estimates. The study is the first national estimate to consider not only people with AIDS, but also other people infected
The Associated Press; Thursday, THU November 28, 1991
TALLAHASSEE - Since basketball star Magic Johnson announced two weeks ago he has the AIDS virus, Florida health officials have seen a surge in the number of people seeking information and getting tested. The state laboratory performing tests for most Florida counties has seen a 20 percent increase in tests. Some of tha
The Associated Press; Wednesday, November 27, 1991
CHICAGO - Nearly one-third of general physicians see nothing wrong with declining to treat patients who have the AIDS virus, a new study indicates. But American Medical Association spokesmen countered that physicians who refuse should be candidates for disciplinary action, including possible loss of their licenses.
Floridians know less about AIDS than residents of most other states, despite having one of the nation s highest rates of AIDS infection, according to a new survey. On each of five basic questions about the AIDS virus, how it is transmitted and how it can be treated, Floridians demonstrated less knowledge than other Ame
GAINESVILLE - A California company has reached an agreement with a Florida firm to acquire and commercialize overseas a family of quick, inexpensive saliva tests for the AIDS virus. The easy-to-use and inexpensive test, developed and patented at the University of Florida, will be manufactured by the newly formed Oracle
LOS ANGELES - Magic Johnson s prominence as an AIDS spokesman who proclaims his heterosexuality is stirring fears among some gay rights activists that he may divide rather than unify the fight against the disease. They fear he will come to be associated only with acceptable AIDS patients -- those relatively few America
SARASOTA - Fourteen-year-old AIDS patient Ricky Ray and his 17-year-old fiancee postponed their wedding, planned for next month, because of his repeated hospitalization, according to a Ray family spokeswoman. Due to the changes in the past few months in Ricky Ray s medical condition, he and Wenonah Lindberg will not be
The Associated Press; Wednesday, November 13, 1991
NEW YORK - Magic Johnson says he s certain he was infected with the AIDS-related HIV virus by having unprotected sex with a woman who has the virus and says he has never had a homosexual experience. I can t specify the time, the place or the woman. It s a matter of numbers, Johnson writes in this week s issue of Sports
NEW YORK - The stocks of the nation s leading condom maker and several biotechnology companies conducting AIDS research rose Friday in an apparent reaction to Magic Johnson s disclosure that he is infected with the HIV virus. Wall Street traders and analysts said the moves reflected speculation that the notoriety of th
NORTH FORT MYERS - A nursing home s refusal to admit a black AIDS patient could result in a $25,000 fine and possible closure, state officials said. Pines Village Care Center violated the rights of the patient, who was not identified, according to a complaint registered with the state Department of Health and Rehabilit
ATLANTA - Many medical groups -- but not the nation s largest -- on Monday assailed the federal government s attempt to list which medical procedures pose a risk to patients when performed by doctors with AIDS. The American Dental Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians and the
BOSTON - An AIDS-infected Marine who had battled the federal government over the AIDS deaths of his wife and son died early Friday, less than a month after he won $3.8 million in damages, a spokesman said. Martin Gaffney died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he had been hospitalized since September, a hospital
MEMO: see end of text for AIDS CHILDREN GAINESVILLE - A University of Florida researcher is conducting studies to try to learn why infants born to mothers who carry the AIDS virus often develop the full-blown disease before their infected mothers do. Newborns infected with HIV usually develop full-blown AIDS within the
LAKE BUENA VISTA - The policy-making arm of the Florida Medical Association has voted overwhelmingly against mandatory testing of the AIDS virus for health care workers. At the annual FMA convention, doctors took less than 15 minutes Saturday to vote down the proposal for mandatory testing. The public expects more of u
STUART - Insurance company investigators are digging deep into the personal life of an AIDS-carrying dentist s former patient, preparing for a potential legal test of the scientific conclusion that the dentist infected him. A circuit judge last week ordered Richard Driskill, 31, to submit a new blood sample for analysi
The Associated Press; Saturday, September 21, 1991
GAINESVILLE - An inexpensive over-the-counter saliva test for AIDS may be available within a year to people outside the United States . Roger Clemmons, a professor at the University of Florida s College of Veterinary Medicine, said his simple dipstick saliva screening test also is effective in detecting hepatitis. He i
The Associated Press; Wednesday, September 18, 1991
Scott Williams, Associated Press
* In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story, 8-9 tonight, channels 2, 42; 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Channel 25 The statement from the Centers for Disease Control is staggeringly scary: The number of diagnosed AIDS cases among adolescents aged 13 to 19 has more than doubled in the 18 months ending June 1991. That s more than en
Newark, N.J. - Jim Nissley says he always heeded warnings to use condoms to protect himself against the AIDS virus, but he was found to have the disease anyway. The reason, the California man said in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, is that he used lambskin condoms, about which the Food and Drug Administration had fa
Los Angeles - A man was charged with attempted extortion yesterday for allegedly demanding $10,000 to keep quiet about a doctor who carries the virus that causes AIDS. John Michael Fountain, 21, was arrested Tuesday night at a West Hollywood bar after trying to pick up an envelope with the money, the district attorney
Ashford, Conn. - They look like any children at camp, splashing in the pool, pulling on life jackets before a paddleboat ride on the pond, singing exuberantly around the campfire. Until a counselor points out they re small for their age, and frail. Munchkins, she calls them. These 23 young campers are infected with HIV
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