LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY January 14, 1988
John J. Goldman; Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK - Health officials predicted Wednesday that the number of infants exposed to the AIDS virus will increase by 40% within the next two years in New York state, taxing pediatric facilities in New York City and straining the social fabric of some of its minority neighborhoods. Epidemiologists said that while they
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY December 30, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 2 Pt. 5 Col. 4 Story Type: Profile Word Count: 284
Jeannine Stein; Times Staff Writer
It s been seven months since Brian tested negative for exposure to the human immuno-deficiency virus, which causes AIDS. With a sublime sense of relief, he realized how lucky he was to be alive--and started making some changes in his life. Still wishing to retain his anonymity, Brian has decided not to take the test ag
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY December 28, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Story Type: Correction Word Count: 1,845
Michael A. Hiltzik; Times Staff Writer
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED FOR THE RECORD TEXT: KINSHASA, Zaire - One day about a year ago, Dr. Zirimwabagabo Lurhuma, one of Zaire s most respected immunologists, left his one-story medical institute here, went before the national television network s cameras and announced that he had discovered a cure fo
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY December 25, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 2,068
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK - It is a sad and oft-told tale: AIDS patients, frustrated by a dearth of federally approved drugs, popping unproven pills and potions in a desperate fight to stay alive. But a more hopeful story about people with AIDS taking matters into their own hands is starting to emerge from the offices and clinic of an
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY December 23, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 4 Word Count: 958
Thomas H. Maugh II; Times Science Writer
Stanford scientists have made a major advance in AIDS research by transmitting the disease to mice that have a human immune system. The infected mice, experts said, promise to be valuable tools for studying the development of AIDS as well as for testing new drugs and vaccines. The production of mice with human immune s
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY December 20, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 3 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 426
Kenneth J. Garcia; Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles County s largest AIDS testing clinic quietly resumed operation Monday while officials at the Hollywood facility scrambled to find a new insurance carrier before its 30-day policy extension ends next month. The clinic at the Edelman Health Center, part of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Ce
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY December 12, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 5 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Story Type: Opinion Word Count: 1,044
Neil Schram
The AIDS epidemic is changing significantly in the United States . As a result, the need for effective political and medical leadership, which too often has been lacking, will be even more critical. There is increasing evidence that for many people the threat of AIDS-virus infection from sexual intercourse is low and/o
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY December 11, 1988 By: LINDA ROACH MONROE; Times Staff Writer Edition: Bulldog Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 4 Word Count: 1,545
Linda Roach Monroe; Times Staff Writer
Armed with engineered molecules that turn them into DNA detectives, scientists working in San Diego say they are on the verge of a day when physicians will be able to use these sophisticated techniques to diagnose and guide the treatment of human disease. These DNA probes lock onto unique fragments of genetic material
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - Tuesday, December 6, 1988
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
The growth of the AIDS epidemic appears to have slowed dramatically in Los Angeles County, San Francisco and New York City, the American metropolitan areas struck earliest and hardest by the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Since early 1987, there has been an apparent leveling off in the number of new cases being r
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY December 4, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 2,172
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
SAN ANTONIO - Night has fallen here, and the monkey doctors are having a party. The scene is a dinner-dance at a Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS where 250 veterinarians and researchers are letting off steam after two days of intense scientific discussions. With cowboy hats clamped to their heads, some dow
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Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SATURDAY December 3, 1988
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury s finding that a local blood bank was negligent in 1983 when it provided tainted blood to an infant who later developed AIDS could affect the outcome of scores of similar lawsuits throughout the country. In the first such jury verdict against a blood bank in the nation, jurors voted 9 to 3 on Thu
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SATURDAY December 3, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Calendar Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 2 Word Count: 1,789
Nina J. Easton; Times Staff Writer
Kelly West is about to find out that she has just slept with a man who is infected with the AIDS virus. He bragged about cruising the leather bars in the Castro, West says, but . . . but I thought he was only kidding. West is a TV character dreamed up by the producers of NBC s Midnight Caller. But, in this case, critic
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY December 2, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 20 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 678
Marlene Cimons; Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Despite extensive knowledge of the primary routes of AIDS transmission, teen-agers are continuing to engage in activities that put them at risk for contracting the deadly disease, according to reports released Thursday. The federal Centers for Disease Control and the public-interest Children s Defense Fund
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY November 27, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 1 Pt. 6 Col. 4 Story Type: Profile Word Count: 4,108
Elizabeth Mehren and Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writers
NEW YORK - The door swings open to a vestibule the size of some small apartments. Joseph, the butler, leads guests into a foyer whose inlaid marble floor might serve for ballroom dancing at minor diplomatic functions. A swirling staircase twists up to the second floor, where a Renoir pastel hangs over the fireplace. Do
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY November 16, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 4 Word Count: 922
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
Robert C. Gallo, a co-discoverer of the virus that causes AIDS, defended the pace of federal research into the deadly disease, although in an interview Tuesday he criticized the government s attitude, saying, There is not a wartime mentality. Gallo, who is in Los Angeles to deliver the Mautner Memorial Lectures at UCLA
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY November 14, 1988 Edition: San Diego County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 2 Word Count: 1,578
Linda Roach Monroe; Times Staff Writer
Armed with engineered molecules that turn them into DNA detectives, scientists working in San Diego say they are on the verge of a day when physicians will be able to use these sophisticated techniques to both diagnose and guide the treatment of human disease. These DNA probes lock onto unique fragments of genetic mate
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY November 14, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 6 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 1,859
Michael A. Hiltzik; Times Staff Writer
KINSHASA, Zaire - In the vibrant cite section of town, Mpasi, a 27-year-old army lieutenant, cast his eye over the well-dressed women occupying the velour couches of the Cosmos 2000 nightclub. Most of the women here are free, he observed approvingly. You can just go ahead and dance with any of them. But of Kinshas
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY November 10, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 2 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Word Count: 878
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The resounding 66%-34% defeat of California s Proposition 102 was a vote of confidence in the anti-AIDS strategies of public health officers around the country and should allow Congress and President-elect George Bush to resist extremist pressures in combatting the epidemic, AIDS experts said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY November 8, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,295
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK - Two heroin addicts denied immediate entrance into an overcrowded drug- abuse treatment program became the first recipients of sterile needles provided by the New York City Health Department on Monday as the city launched the nation s first government-sponsored needle exchange program for drug addicts. The ex
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY November 6, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 1,448
Mark A. Stein; Times Staff Writer
Tackling the longest state ballot since the Jazz Age, California voters on Tuesday will decide a dizzying variety of measures, from a proposal to force health officials to revise their basic strategy for dealing with AIDS, to a plan to let judges moonlight as teachers. In addition, voters will be asked if they want to
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SATURDAY November 5, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 31 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 578
Kevin Roderick; Times Staff Writer
When voters muddle through their long ballots on Tuesday, the first AIDS measure they come to will not be the controversial Proposition 102, which would impose new rules on how doctors can fight the epidemic in California. First to appear will be Proposition 96, an initiative by Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY November 4, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,075
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK - A member of the first U.S. delegation to visit Cuba s quarantine center for people infected with the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus Thursday described the detention facility as pleasant but frightening in its implications. The first detailed picture of what the Cuban government calls its sanitariu
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY November 3, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 4 Word Count: 980
Kevin Roderick; Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop strongly criticized key parts of Proposition 102 Wednesday, joining national AIDS researchers and prominent California health officials in assailing the measure s approach to the epidemic as flawed. Although he would not take a formal position on the initiative, Koop sp
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY November 2, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 4 Word Count: 1,152
Kevin Roderick; Times Staff Writer
Two years ago, Gov. George Deukmejian joined with the American Red Cross and California Medical Assn., his own AIDS experts, the biggest names in both political parties and many of the state s top religious leaders in denouncing Proposition 64, the LaRouche AIDS initiative. For a major public controversy, the unity was
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - TUESDAY November 1, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 874
Kevin Roderick; Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Two prominent physicians who spoke with Gov. George Deukmejian by telephone about his endorsement of Proposition 102, the controversial AIDS initiative on the Nov. 8 ballot, said Monday that the governor seemed to have a poor grasp of basic facts about the disease and health measures used to control it.
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY October 31, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 343
Janny Scott; Times Medical Writer
Hepatitis B infection may accelerate the development of AIDS in people with the human immunodeficiency virus, according to a new study that states that a hepatitis B virus protein can trigger proliferation of the deadly AIDS virus. The study, by researchers at UC San Francisco, may help explain the observed link betwee
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY October 19, 1988 Edition: Orange County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,362
Dana Parsons; Times Staff Writer
Five-term Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) says he doesn t have a serious race this year in the 39th Congressional District because his opponent follows an extremist philosophy that the public won t accept. If he intends any irony in that characterization of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. follower Don Marquis, Dannemey
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY October 17, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 4 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 590
Proposition 96, the Communicable Disease Tests initiative, is intended to inform victims of assaults, including law-enforcement officers and prison staffs, whether they have been exposed to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS. It is opposed by many public-health officials, by the California AIDS Leadershi
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY October 16, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,228
Stephen Braun; Times Staff Writer
Thursday is a dreaded day at 5P21. The corner ward in the hectic Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center has no sign on its entrance, in order to ensure privacy. But more than a third of Los Angeles spiraling population of AIDS patients know 5P21 as the only place they can go for regular outpatient treatment of their dis
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY October 16, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Book Review Page: 4 Story Type: Column; Book Review Word Count: 421
Alex Raksin
Randy Shilts visits a hospital ward for AIDS babies in this book s introduction, finding not the purgatory of writhing, screaming babies that one might expect, but a series of eerily silent rooms: With no one to respond to their cries, the babies had simply stopped making sounds. It was a scene similar to this that mot
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY October 14, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 804
Linda Roach Monroe; Times Staff Writer
The federal government launched a $64-million effort Thursday to expand clinical trials of anti-AIDS drugs in children, marking the first systematic attempt to address the needs of the 1,188 children in the United States known to have the fatal disease. The 5-year program will be based at 13 pediatric AIDS drug-testing
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY October 14, 1988 Edition: San Diego County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 3 Word Count: 965
Linda Roach Monroe; Times Staff Writer
UC San Diego Medical Center became part of a $64-million federal effort Thursday to expand clinical trials of anti-AIDS drugs in children, marking the first systematic attempt to address the special needs of the 1,188 children in the United States known to have the fatal disease. The five-year program will be based at
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY October 13, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 578
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Foundation for AIDS Research is donating $50,000 to defeat Proposition 102, underscoring the fears of scientists that the measure would seriously hurt their ability to control, and ultimately cure, the fatal syndrome. The research foundation s foray into California politics highlights the g
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY October 10, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 3 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Word Count: 1,082
Janny Scott; Times Medical Writer
Psychology, the science of human behavior, faces an unusual challenge in the AIDS epidemic: In the absence of a cure or vaccine, society has turned to psychologists to figure out ways of controlling the disease by changing how people behave. Psychologists are studying why people do what they do: Why do they share needl
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY October 9, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Opinion Page: 4 Pt. 5 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 619
Gov. George Deukmejian s veto of AIDS anti-discrimination legislation is a blow to public-health efforts. His veto message indicated that his decision was based on technical grounds that ignore the consensus among public-health workers engaged in the effort to control the pandemic. The bill would have protected all per
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY October 7, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 4 Word Count: 1,047
Ronald J. Ostrow; Marlene Cimons; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - In a major reversal of Administration policy, the Justice Department ruled Thursday that persons with AIDS and those infected but not yet ill are protected by the federal law barring discrimination against the handicapped in government jobs and federally funded programs. The opinion, requested by the White
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY October 6, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 6 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Story Type: Editorial Word Count: 418
Congressional adoption of important AIDS legislation is in jeopardy because of behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the Senate. A conference committee, to sort out differences between House and Senate versions of the legislation, has not been able to meet because of the failure of the Senate to appoint its conferees. Senat
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY October 3, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 3 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Word Count: 328
Janny Scott; Times Medical Writer
In some circles, they call it The Number--with the emphasis on the upper case. Because the number of Americans infected with the human immunodeficiency virus has become a moving target of considerable public and political interest. The number is an indicator of how many people will develop AIDS. As such, it influences
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY October 2, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 4 Word Count: 1,358
Leo C. Wolinsky; Jerry Gillam; Times Staff Writers
SACRAMENTO - Contending that those who have been exposed to the AIDS virus already have sufficient protections, Gov. George Deukmejian has vetoed legislation barring discrimination against Californians who test positive for the virus. At the same time, reflecting public fears about the spread of the disease, the govern
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY September 22, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 2 Word Count: 780
Rich Connell; Times Staff Writer
Two UC Berkeley economists warned Wednesday that Proposition 102, a November ballot measure that would mandate far-reaching new controls in the fight against AIDS, would place massive new costs on taxpayers. The initiative s one-time cost of tracking and reporting on the hundreds of thousands of Californians thought to
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY September 11, 1988 Edition: Orange County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 853
Jerry Hicks; Times Staff Writer
Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton), who has suggested that AIDS is God s curse on homosexuals, will represent Vice President George Bush at a San Diego health conference this week, but won t necessarily reflect his own views, both Bush representatives and the congressman said Saturday. Mark Gooden, a spokesman at
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY August 29, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 3 Pt. 2 Col. 1 Word Count: 645
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Doctors and public health officials, who have long urged early detection and treatment for cancer, are increasingly offering the same advice for another life-threatening condition: infection with the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Their call for early diagnosis and treatment offers som
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY August 25, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 3 Pt. 5 Col. 1 Word Count: 1,352
Michael Milstein; Times Staff Writer
A week before Christmas, 16-year-old James learned his father had contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. Since then, the tall San Gabriel Valley honor student has watched his once-close family disintegrate and his father s body and mind decay. We used to have father-son talks every day after school, he said. Now we
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY August 24, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 511
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Some of the nation s leading AIDS researchers gathered here Tuesday to condemn Proposition 102, the latest California AIDS ballot measure, as a dangerous and politically motivated intrusion into their efforts to quell the epidemic. This single piece of legislation will have more to do with prolonging th
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY August 24, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 5 Word Count: 605
Richard C. Paddock; Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Legislation that would prohibit discrimination against Californians who test positive for exposure to the AIDS virus was passed Tuesday by the state Senate and sent to Gov. George Deukmejian. The bill by Assemblyman John Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara), approved by a vote of 24 to 3, is aimed at encouraging p
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY August 22, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Story Type: Non Dup Word Count: 3,185
Victor F. Zonana; Dan Morain; Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - In keeping with his position as executive director of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, John H. Jacobs is by nature an optimist. But ask him about the future of the AIDS epidemic and the professional booster turns somber. About 4% of the city s residents--including a staggering 50% of the estimated
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SATURDAY August 20, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 2 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Story Type: Poll or Survey Word Count: 821
Mark Lawrence; Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Twice as many Americans may be infected with the AIDS virus as the government estimates, and the virus may be much more prevalent among heterosexuals than is widely believed, researchers reported Friday. A best guess at the number of AIDS-infected Americans at the end of last year was between 1.9 million a
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY August 19, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 37 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 414
Noel K. Wilson; Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would enhance the power of local health officials to shut down bathhouses when they find evidence of high-risk sexual practices that could lead to the spread of AIDS. The legislation, approved on a 22-0 vote without debate and returned to the Assembly for concurr
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY August 17, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 6 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 2,385
Henry Weinstein; Times Staff Writer
NEW ORLEANS - The 1988 Democratic and Republican platforms are dramatically different in vision, in tone, in length and, perhaps most important, in objective. The Democratic platform is a mere 4,500 words, a statement of principles, less specific than any platform in recent memory. Republicans say it could fit on the b
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY August 11, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 32 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 353
Noel K. Wilson; Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Pressed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the state attorney general s office agreed Wednesday to rewrite the ballot language for Proposition 102, an initiative requiring that people exposed to the AIDS virus be reported to health officials. As originally worded, the ballot stated that the initiative
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY August 10, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 1 Pt. 1 Col. 3 Word Count: 1,178
Allan Parachini; Times Staff Writer
The federal government has cut off funding to a UCLA study of the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the spread of AIDS because of concern that the AIDS infection rate among Los Angeles homosexuals is so high that condoms may be incapable of providing reliable protection to study participants. The action, disclosed
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY August 5, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 3 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 380
Amy Stevens; Times Staff Writer
The nation s oldest association of black physicians, adding its voice to a growing debate among AIDS experts, doctors and police, said Thursday that it opposes the unconditional distribution of clean needles to drug addicts. The association s statement puts it at odds with many AIDS service groups, such as the Minority
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SATURDAY July 30, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 15 Pt. 1 Col. 1 Word Count: 340
Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of 75 community organizations gathered here Friday to denounce Proposition 102, the AIDS initiative sponsored by Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton), as costly, counterproductive and more dangerous than the twice-defeated LaRouche AIDS initiative. The Nov. 8 ballot measure threatens to dest
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY July 27, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 1 Pt. 5 Col. 2 Story Type: Poll or Survey Word Count: 2,263
Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writer
Dr. Sherman Williamson, a family physician in Orange, has been treating people infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome since early on in the AIDS epidemic. Thirty of his patients have died, and he is now treating at least 50 who have tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - FRIDAY July 15, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: ONE Page: 3 Pt. 1 Col. 3 Word Count: 951
Amy Stevens; Times Staff Writer
Responding to Gov. George Deukmejian s veto of a $28-million increase in the state AIDS budget last week, legislators and health workers Thursday called the cuts blind and cruel and predicted that many essential services to people with AIDS will be canceled. At a press conference on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall,
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - MONDAY July 11, 1988 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 4 Word Count: 1,160
Robert Steinbrook; Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writers
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is asking all its heart surgery patients to have pre-operative AIDS antibodies blood tests, The Times has learned. The new policy, in effect since May, is likely to trigger renewed debate over the uses and abuses of blood tests for infection to the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. So
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - SUNDAY July 3, 1988 Edition: San Diego County Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. 2 Col. 5 Word Count: 1,028
Leslie Wolf; Times Staff Writer
AIDS first gained notoriety as a disease largely confined to homosexual men and intravenous drug users. But another, less visible segment of the population has been hit especially hard: hemophiliacs. Medical researchers estimate that 92% of people classified as severe hemophiliacs have already been exposed to the AIDS
An ongoing federally funded UCLA study has uncovered dramatic differences among 31 condom brands in their ability to protect against leakage of the AIDS virus, The Times has learned. Preliminary rankings from the study--and related test results that evaluated some products for their ability to impede the spread of the
STOCKHOLM - With better drugs and a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus still lacking, new diagnostic tests and progress in basic research held center stage at the fourth international conference on AIDS here last week. The five-day meeting drew more than 7,000 participants from about 140 countries. In a q
STOCKHOLM - Women who use birth control pills and men who are not circumcised may be at increased risk of contracting the AIDS virus through heterosexual intercourse, a leading American authority on sexually transmitted diseases reported Thursday. The physician, Dr. King K. Holmes of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl
A committee studying revisions in condom manufacturing standards, which are due to expire at the end of this year, has tentatively decided to propose no major changes for the moment but will evaluate a new testing procedure that could lead to more stringent standards, the Times learned Wednesday. The chairman of the wo
STOCKHOLM - A French scientist who has injected himself with a test AIDS vaccine said Wednesday that he hopes to launch a large-scale clinical trial of a similar vaccine in Africa and Europe by the end of the year. In a presentation at the fourth international conference on AIDS, Dr. Daniel Zagury, of Pierre and Marie
STOCKHOLM - Preliminary trials of an AIDS immunization treatment developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, the polio vaccine pioneer, show the technique appears to be safe, and as a result, expanded trials have begun at USC Medical School to determine whether the approach can help prevent the deadly disease, the researchers are rep
Condom-failure rates more than double those uncovered last year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were to be reported today by UCLA researchers, a finding that an FDA official said could lead to mandatory expiration dates for condoms. At the same time, the UCLA research discovered that mineral oil--a common lubr
STOCKHOLM - Intravenous drug users already in treatment for heroin addiction are becoming infected with the AIDS virus at an alarming rate because they continue to inject cocaine, a San Francisco General Hospital researcher reported Monday. In the past, public health officials have emphasized intensified efforts to rea
Paul Monette sat on the terrace of his hillside home, pondering the Big Questions: Life and Death. Love and Hate. Life has taught Monette a lot about love and death lately. But the subject of hatred, which he seems to be encountering more of, still leaves him at a loss for words. That morning he d read a newspaper colu
STOCKHOLM - The Fourth International Conference on AIDS opened here Sunday with a prediction from Dr. Lars Olof Kallings, a conference chairman, that new information to be presented about the virus will be more frightening than we have expected. Kallings said his pessimistic assessment was based on his review of the 3,
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED FOR THE RECORD The Times incorrectly reported Monday that a new variation of the AIDS virus had been found to hide in one type of body cell and to be undetectable by conventional means. In fact, it is the same virus, known in medical circles as HIV, that has caused all known AIDS
At last the nation has a plan of action commensurate to the threat posed by AIDS. It is the extraordinarily helpful and instructive recommendations for the final report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic. Adm. James D. Watkins has presented the draft as his recommendations as co
A widely publicized theory that human AIDS viruses originated in recent years from related viruses harbored by African green monkeys has been refuted by new data showing distinct differences in the molecular structure of the human and monkey viruses, University of Tokyo researchers reported today. The new findings lend
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED FOR THE RECORD In an article May 29 on teen-agers and AIDS, The Times erroneously said that the High Risk Youth program, which screens and counsels runaways, is run by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The program is actually a cooperative effort of Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles a
Lenise Andrade used to think she could catch AIDS from kissing someone. Guvienco Segura thought he might get it from a toilet seat. Now they know better. Still, Andrade, 16, and Segura, 15, say even after learning how to protect themselves from the deadly virus, they and many of their classmates at Eagle Rock High Scho
On the streets outside a girlie club in San Diego, the lights are just as bright and the parking lot dotted with just as many young sailors as in the good ol days. You know, the days after The Pill paved a path toward easy sex and the Flower Children led the rest of the country down it. Boisterous Groups Standing in bo
Has it kept me awake at night? You bet it has, Brian says as he nervously runs his fingers through his hair. And there are times when I have nightmares. The worst thing is, you get a sore throat and you just gasp. He laughs wryly. I mean, we have a life to live and there are other things that keep me occupied. But you
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. - AIDS researchers are carefully studying a small number of cases in which people appear to have been infected with the AIDS virus several years before such infection could be detected with standard blood tests. The situation is called latency. It was a key topic of discussion last week at an AIDS m
Seven of the first U.S. volunteers inoculated with an experimental AIDS vaccine appear to have developed an immune response to the injections, federal researchers reported Saturday in Washington. Scientists for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said they were encouraged by the new data, which wa
MEMO: Series: Gays at Crossroads: Second of two parts. Some new faces are being added to the AIDS family tree. Women. Heterosexuals. Little children. Though these branches are only just sprouting in San Diego County, they represent to health officials one of the most worrisome new aspects of the development of the dise
MEMO: Series: Gays at Crossroads: On Monday, The Times will take a look at the drastic jump in AIDS cases and what it portends. TEXT: AIDS has become so widespread that it is changing the nature of San Diego s gay community, afflicting many of the old-line leaders while opening the door to angry militants to take their
The boom of private AIDS testing has gone bust in San Diego. Gone are last spring s widespread--some say hysterical--fears among heterosexuals that the AIDS virus was lurking inside their cells. Gone are concerns that county-run test sites might not be able to keep up with demand. And gone is business for the private t
Last September, celebrity yoga instructor Billy Porter of West Hollywood felt so sick that he checked into Century City Hospital. Sixteen days later, diagnosed with AIDS, Porter went home, his $39,000 hospital bill on its way to his insurer. His health insurance company, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, didn t pa
A Palm Springs man suffering from AIDS filed suit Thursday against the University of California, claiming that he was infected with the disease by contaminated blood he received while a patient at UCI Medical Center in 1985. In the lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Brian Watkins, 32, asserts t
As a result of new evidence from behavior studies of teen-agers in San Francisco and gay men in Massachusetts, AIDS experts now fear that educational programs to prevent the spread of the deadly disease may be falling far short of their goal. In fact, one Harvard Medical School expert warns bluntly, in a special AIDS i
OLONGAPO, Philippines - The 18-year-old bar girl said she wanted to kill herself, so Richard Gordon, the mayor of this city outside the U.S. naval base, produced his 9- millimeter automatic, placed it in front of her and said, OK, go ahead. The girl, one of 26 AIDS victims in Olongapo, studied the gun for a moment and
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED FOR THE RECORD A summary in Tuesday s View section of the results of a study of HIV infection rate among heterosexuals by Dr. William Masters, Virginia Johnson and Dr. Robert Kolodny was incomplete. The description should have read that the research team found a 5% rate of infect
Joseph Edward Markowski, the homeless male prostitute who sold AIDS- contaminated blood to make $9, was acquitted Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court of attempting to poison a pharmaceutical product. Markowski, 29, who originally faced charges of attempted murder, smiled wanly as the clerk read the jury s verdict t
It is a weekly celebration for people with AIDS, their friends, lovers, relatives and anyone else interested in attending. And though it may be hard to imagine a place packed with AIDS patients being even remotely cheerful, participants insist it is the most joyful place in town on any Wednesday night. They call it a
NEW YORK - Thirty major employers and unions have endorsed a new 10-point AIDS bill of rights that bars discrimination against afflicted workers and commits its signers to combat employee fears about contracting the disease at work. The code of principles also rejects mandatory testing of job applicants or employees fo
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY February 18, 1988
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED FOR THE RECORD In a Feb. 18 article about AIDS research, the first name of Dr. Carel Mulder was misspelled. He is a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. TEXT: Resolving a prominent scientific controversy, Harvard School of Public Health researchers ha
Southern California clinical trials of a blood collection kit are sparking an impassioned debate over the issue of home testing for antibodies to the AIDS virus. The kit is being marketed by USAT Laboratories Inc. of Newbury Park, Calif., which last week began taking out newspaper advertisements seeking participants in
The first known AIDS case in the United States caused by a second AIDS virus poses no threat to public health or to the nation s blood supply, federal officials said Thursday. The patient was a West African woman who contracted the disease before coming to the United States last year to visit friends and family, epidem
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY January 28, 1988
Thomas H. Maugh II; Times Science Writer
Doctors in New Jersey have discovered the first U.S. case of AIDS caused by a second AIDS virus first detected in West Africa more than two years ago, it was disclosed Wednesday. Officials at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey confirmed that an AIDS victim diagnosed there was infected with the virus
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY January 28, 1988
Lynn Simross; Times Staff Writer
The 12 firefighters from B shift at Los Angeles County Fire Station 8 in West Hollywood sat around the long rectangular table in the station s kitchen drinking coffee and sodas and talking. The subject was AIDS. The conversation turned to the recent well-publicized story out of Sonoma County in Northern California--whe
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - WEDNESDAY January 27, 1988
Allan Parachini; Times Staff Writer
Officials of a joint UCLA-USC condom-safety research project discovered a batch of what they characterize as rogue condoms so prone to failure that researchers intentionally broke the study s internal secrecy codes to notify the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But while the defective condoms were discovered in late
SAN DIEGO - Early in March of 1987, Dorothy and William Polikoff went to a health fair at the Veterans Administration regional medical center here. At a Play Safe booth, she remembers, They were giving out condoms. They gave Bill a condom and he laughed and said, I ve been married for 40 years. They did take home broch
LOS ANGELES TIMES (LT) - THURSDAY January 14, 1988
Elizabeth Mehren; Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK - Busybodies were the topic at a recent meeting of parents of children at a Bronx day-care center. Busybodies are the relatives who wonder why Janie is sick so often, the people at church who remark that Billy hasn t been there much lately. They re the women at the bus stop who ask how they can get their child
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