LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY October 29, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 3 Word Count: 1,560
Kevin Roderick; Times Staff Writer
Proposition 64 on the Nov. 4 ballot is the first time voters anywhere have been asked to set health policy on AIDS. It is also a rarity for a measure to draw such widespread opposition from California leaders. Besides dealing with an emotional subject, Proposition 64 can be confusing to people not familiar with state h
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY October 21, 1986 Edition: Orange County Edition Section: View Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 1 Word Count: 1,933
Peter Baker; Times Staff Writer
One day in the shower not too long ago, Martin (not his real name) cut himself shaving. With the water cascading over him, he froze, just staring at the blood and thinking about the reflection of his own mortality that dwelt inside that small red trickle. I was just watching the blood and I kind of freaked out, Martin
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY October 31, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 518
Harry Nelson; Times Medical Writer
Scientists at UCLA have shown for the first time that two non-lethal strains of a virus can combine their genetic material inside an infected host to produce a virus that is lethal. The implication of this work, according to Dr. Jack G. Stevens, chairman of microbiology at UCLA Medical School, is that it suggests a sec
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY August 17, 1986 Edition: Orange County Edition Section: Metro Page: 14 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Story Type: Opinion Word Count: 1,099
Pearl Jemison-Smith; nurse epidemiologist in the infection control department at the UCI Medical Center.
I am a woman, a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a nurse. After a recent lecture to school nurses, I was approached by several people with questions. In the periphery was a pale, thin but attractive young brunette. After the questions were answered, she approached me asking to speak with me privately. Jane (not her re
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY August 3, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 2 Word Count: 2,567
Robert Steinbrook; Kevin Roderick; Times Staff Writers
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and his followers hold a unique view of AIDS and the virus that causes the deadly infectious disease--including many beliefs that are dismissed as preposterous in the prevailing medical consensus. For instance, they say AIDS is a tropical disease that is commonly transmitted by mosquitoes, bed bu
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY July 13, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: Opinion Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 4 Story Type: Opinion Word Count: 1,112
Robert L. Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
Some of the mysteries surrounding the transmission of the AIDS virus were removed by extensive new data presented at the International AIDS Conference in Paris last month. Seeking to understand why infection with the deadly virus occurs in some people but not in others, medical detectives called epidemiologists have be
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY July 7, 1986 Edition: Valley Edition Section: Metro Page: 6 Pt. 2 Col. 4 Word Count: 1,676
Andrew C. Revkin; Times Staff Writer
A company operating out of a Van Nuys medical office is advertising and performing a test for exposure to the AIDS virus and offering clients a photo ID verifying negative test results. But AIDS researchers say this test can be unreliable, sometimes generating false positives or false negatives and possibly encouraging
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY June 26, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,222
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
PARIS - There will be 300,000 new cases of AIDS diagnosed in the world in 1991 if present trends continue, and between 5 million and 15 million people are already infected with the virus that causes the deadly disease, a leading U.S. AIDS official told the International Conference on AIDS here Wednesday. Dr. James W. C
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY June 20, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 699
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
About 100 Los Angeles County residents have been diagnosed with AIDS in each of the last three months, part of a slow and steady increase in cases of the deadly disease that county health officials expect to continue for at least several years. The county Department of Health Services confirmed 103 new AIDS cases in Ma
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY May 7, 1986 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 668
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
French physicians acknowledged failure Tuesday in treating AIDS patients with the drug cyclosporine but said they will continue to test it on patients with antibodies to the AIDS virus who have not yet developed the deadly disease. In AIDS patients, it clearly does not work, said Dr. Jean-Marie Andrieu of the Laennec H
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