We have been visiting doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators in the wards and clinics that serve people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, asking them to assess the situation. The word they used most often was scary.
Not long ago, AIDS Project Los Angeles took an unusual step in its campaign to prevent people in the county from becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
One of the nation's leading researchers on acquired immune deficiency syndrome has been chosen as the first recipient of the Florence Seeley Riford Chair for AIDS Research at UC San Diego, a university spokesman announced Wednesday.
They show up in a doctor's office or a clinic or a hospital ward with infections that hang on and on. Doctors try one thing, then another, but the babies stay sick.
WASHINGTON - President Bush, striving to keep a normal schedule amid the Panama crisis, met with AIDS patients at a National Institutes of Health clinic Friday and characterized as "heroes" the biomedical researchers who are easing their suffering.
Reports written by the staffs of laboratories that test for the AIDS virus are often so muddled they confuse even physicians, according to a new study that suggests the garbled lab results may be alarming the uninfected and delaying treatment of the infected.
WASHINGTON - The American Medical Assn.'s recent endorsement of a new reporting policy for those infected with the AIDS virus represents a "180-degree turn" and a strong boost for similar legislative proposals, Rep. William E. Dannemeyer said Thursday.
In an emergency letter to the White House, the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has opened a campaign to persuade American leaders "to match rhetoric with action" in containing the dreadful epidemic.
In a major advance toward an AIDS vaccine, researchers at Tulane University in Louisiana have successfully immunized eight of nine monkeys against infection with one strain of an AIDS-like virus.
WASHINGTON - The National Commission on AIDS, describing the nation's health care system as "singularly unresponsive" to the needs of persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, called on the Bush Administration Wednesday to take a series of steps to "begin solving the problems of health care delivery" to these individuals.
Regional executives of 11 religious denominations, several of which back the U.S. surgeon general's recommendations supporting the use of condoms as the next best alternative to abstinence, issued a joint statement Tuesday decrying the vandalism at four Catholic churches directed at Archbishop Roger M. Mahony.
AZT, the only drug approved for widespread use against the AIDS virus, can cause cancer in animals at very high doses, according to the results of a study mailed out to physicians Tuesday by the drug's manufacturer.
The vandalism of four Roman Catholic Churches, ostensibly the work of those angry with the official position of the church on prevention of AIDS, is deplorable. So was the assault earlier on Los Angeles County property by so-called AIDS activists who judged the county's response to the epidemic inadequate.
The day after four Roman Catholic churches were spattered with red paint by gay activists angry over the church's condemnation of the use of condoms for safe sex, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony said he would not be "intimidated by threats or attacks."
NEWPORT BEACH - Newport Pharmaceuticals announced Monday that it is resuming efforts to obtain approval for the sale of Isoprinosine to people infected with the AIDS virus, reversing a decision made a year ago to stop all research and testing on the drug.
Rep. William Dannemeyer said Friday that he was just trying to have a little fun with the ACLU when he suggested that it investigate whether public health officials were violating privacy laws protecting AIDS victims.
Local ACLU leaders said Wednesday they were astonished but "delighted" when they received a letter last week from conservative Rep. William E. Dannemeyer asking for their help in protecting the privacy of some AIDS victims.
The drug AZT has offered one of the few rays of hope for people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS-related complex, and those infected with the HIV virus believed to cause AIDS.
The sprawling five-bedroom house near the border of Los Angeles and Culver City is ideal for children, with its large, fence-enclosed yard providing plenty of room for romping and playing.
BALTIMORE - In two major policy statements on widely disparate issues, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops Thursday firmly rejected the use of condoms as a means of fighting the spread of AIDS and called for an independent Palestinian homeland that would recognize Israel's right to exist and safeguard its borders.
The National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) endorsement of experimental bleach-distribution programs comes at a critical moment as Congress again weighs the issue. The commission's recommendation is a wise one coming from some of the nation's most experienced public health figures.
In his UC Irvine laboratory, biochemist Eloy Rodriguez is analyzing plants, searching for new medications that might be effective against bacteria, viruses and perhaps even the AIDS virus.
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush Administration on Friday weighed into the growing dispute over the high cost of AIDS drugs as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services James O. Mason urged the pharmaceutical industry to show greater restraint in pricing life-extending medications.
Russell Chandler; John Dart; Times Religion Writer
Countering a controversial earlier position, a committee of Roman Catholic bishops Thursday issued a draft of a new policy paper on the AIDS crisis that strongly rejects any use of condoms to prevent the spread of the fatal disease.
WASHINGTON - A national conference that drew together a broad cross section of the nursing profession called this week for major changes in the way nurses approach AIDS, including development of a model AIDS curriculum for every nursing school in the nation.
Hundreds of AIDS activists swarmed outside the Federal Building in Westwood Friday morning, blocking entrances and shouting slogans during a massive protest against federal AIDS policies that ended in 80 arrests.
The risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus through a blood transfusion may be "fourfold fewer than reported previously," according to a new study by American Red Cross researchers published in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
Los Angeles physicians have confirmed the first West Coast case of infection with a variant AIDS virus called HIV-2, which is extremely rare in the United States but common in western Africa.
In Oceanside, a plain-looking beige stucco house sits on a hillside in a quiet upper-middle-class neighborhood. It blends into the surroundings with such ease that one would never know its residents have drawn the attention of a homeowners' association that has deemed them unsuitable neighbors.
Acknowledging that doctors cannot be counted on to raise the subject of AIDS with their patients, the state's largest physician group will launch an unprecedented campaign next month urging patients to initiate the discussion themselves.
Health workers were the first to see it coming. They sensed it on the street corners where prostitutes loitered. Behavior was changing. Prostitutes were no longer bothering with motels. They were out on the curb hailing tricks, working hastily out of cars.
Blacks, Latinos and intravenous drug users, the groups increasingly afflicted with AIDS virus infections, are significantly under-represented in federally sponsored AIDS clinical trials, according to a Times analysis of government statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The new National AIDS Commission has made a propitious start on its work, demonstrating both the wisdom of Congress in creating the commission and the strength of its members, appointed by Congress and President Bush.
Grand opening ceremonies at the Medical Biology Institute's "biocontainment laboratory" in La Jolla were scheduled to begin in just hours, so workers were hurrying Thursday afternoon to complete work on the first facility in the nation specifically designed for extensive research on animals infected with the deadly virus that causes AIDS.
The Legislature has provided Gov. George Deukmejian with a rare opportunity to keep California in the vanguard of AIDS programs. It has sent him legislation that addresses some shortcomings in the system and establishes innovative ways of reducing future expenses as the pandemic's impact inevitably increases.
The most widely used spermicide may not offer the best protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Instead, new research data concludes, the active ingredient in only one contraceptive jelly marketed in the United States and another chemical not in any American product were the most effective in tests against diseases such as herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea and AIDS.
Marlene Cimons; Victor F. Zonana; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - Under increasing pressure from AIDS activists, the medical community and the federal government, Burroughs Wellcome Co. announced Monday that it will reduce the price of its expensive antiviral drug AZT by 20% effective immediately.
Wide disparities in the protection provided by different condoms against infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS have been revealed in laboratory testing at UCLA. The findings underscore the need for better controls, and better understanding by consumers.
David Schulman; a Los Angeles lawyer specializing in AIDS issues, is a member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations' National Committee on AIDS.
The baleful conditions of American health care now get abundant media coverage. As medical costs continue to rise, proposals proliferate on ways to control spending--which, as a percentage of our gross national product, has risen nearly 3% since 1981.
A Van Nuys health care company from which blood samples carrying the AIDS virus were stolen has been cited by health authorities for endangering public safety by leaving the samples unsecured outside its front door.
Congress is moving quickly to approve an additional $20 million to fund AZT for those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. The action is appropriate to a need that can only increase, and increase dramatically.
Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs called for an investigation Wednesday into regulations on the handling of hazardous and contagious materials following the disappearance of blood contaminated with the virus that causes AIDS.
AIDS virus blood samples stolen from a Van Nuys testing firm over the weekend had been left outside the laboratory for a courier and were unsecured because a locking device was not working, Los Angeles police said Tuesday.
Four of the nation's most popular condom brands permitted the AIDS virus to escape in laboratory tests conducted for UCLA, prompting researchers to warn users they should not assume that all condoms work equally well in preventing spread of the disease.
WASHINGTON - In a sweeping expansion of civil rights protections, the Senate late Thursday voted to bar discrimination against 43 million disabled Americans in employment, public transportation services, public accommodations and telecommunication services.
NEIL SCHRAM; Neil Schram, an internist in Harbor City, is chairman of the AIDS Task Force for the American Assn. of Physicians for Human Rights.
Because of recent major advances in AIDS prevention, physicians' involvement in the epidemic is more critical than ever, yet it is not occurring. A major barrier is prejudice. Reducing prejudice, or at least changing physician behavior, is a challenge that the profession's leadership must take.
One day in 1987, Stephen J. Gabin sat in his Century City medical office and settled an internal battle he had been fighting for seven years. By testing himself for the AIDS virus, the physician, 42, put an end to the fear he had carried from the time he treated his first HIV-infected patient in 1980.
SAN FRANCISCO - Charging that the stratospheric cost of the drug AZT "must be measured not only in dollars but in lives," a broad coalition of AIDS organizations Wednesday called on manufacturer Burroughs Wellcome Co. to substantially lower the drug's price.
LOUIS SULLIVAN; Louis Sullivan, MD, is the secretary of health and human services.
This month we marked a sad milestone in our nation's history--the official reporting of the 100,000th case of AIDS. The Centers for Disease Control has also reported that as of Aug. 1, more than 59,000 Americans have died of AIDS-related disease.
They were a couple to be envied. Elizabeth Glaser was the exhibit director of the Los Angeles Children's Museum. Paul Michael Glaser was an international star from TV's "Starsky and Hutch" who had found a second career as a movie director. In 1981, they were expecting their first child.
BOSTON - Clutching her father's hand, a little girl in Mary Jane shoes entered a federal courtroom here this week as the co-plaintiff in a $55-million lawsuit against the U.S. government.
One day in 1987, Stephen J. Gabin sat in his Century City medical office and settled an internal battle he had been fighting for seven years. By testing himself for the AIDS virus, the physician, 42, put an end to the fear he had carried from the time he treated his first HIV-infected patient in 1980.
Seven months after his longtime companion died of AIDS--seven months of worrying whether he had the disease too--Laguna Beach Mayor Robert F. Gentry learned Tuesday that he had tested negative for the virus that causes the deadly disease.
AIDS Project Los Angeles, following by a month a similar recommendation made by its counterpart agency in San Diego, said Friday that it will recommend voluntary anonymous testing for the AIDS virus based on scientific evidence that the drug AZT delays the disease's progress in people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus who have not developed symptoms.
WASHINGTON - Announcing a significant advance in the battle against AIDS, federal health officials said Thursday that the antiviral drug AZT has been shown to delay onset of the disease in certain groups of infected patients who have not yet developed symptoms.
NEW ORLEANS - A USC study suggests the responsibility of "safe sex" rests with the individual and that one cannot count on a sexual partner for protection against infection with the AIDS virus.
WASHINGTON - AIDS researchers at the National Institutes of Health last week trumpeted some of the best news yet in their eight-year struggle against the killer syndrome: evidence that the drug AZT can delay the development of full-blown AIDS in people with early symptoms of the disease.
WASHINGTON - In a move condemned by homosexual activists, Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) introduced legislation Thursday that would bar federal funds to states that do not require clinics and doctors to confidentially report to public health officials the names of patients who test positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
Scientific and political controversies have coincided in Sacramento to postpone, and perhaps kill, legislation to extend the use of paid donors of blood platelets, which are small cells used in several types of surgery. The subject is too serious to dismiss in this way.
SAN FRANCISCO - Officials trying to stop the spread of AIDS at San Francisco county jails became the first in the state Monday to hand out condoms to inmates, a practice that raises questions of whether the AIDS educators, themselves, might be violating the law.
In what legal experts see as the first big AIDS discrimination case to hit the entertainment industry, a New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled that evidence can be presented in choreographer Michael Shawn's $2.75-million suit against Broadway producers Marvin Krauss and James M. Nederlander.
With two excellent if belated appointments by President Bush, the new national AIDS Commission is complete and ready to get to work. There is optimism that it will be an effective new force in facing the growing problem just at the moment when the total of AIDS cases in the United States has reached 100,000.
WASHINGTON - Bowing to those who fear that supplying clean needles to addicts would appear to sanction drug abuse, Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan said Wednesday that the Administration is "strongly opposed" to needle-exchange programs to stem transmission of the AIDS virus.
Postal inspectors and the U. S. attorney's office are uncertain whether any laws were broken in the case of a San Diego businessman who in May received a bogus letter falsely notifying him that he had contracted AIDS.
Even as the number of AIDS cases approaches 100,000 nationwide, concern about the disease among the general public has peaked and is now declining, The Times Poll has found.
The impact of Gov. George Deukmejian's health-program vetoes will be felt statewide, but no area will be as hard hit as Los Angeles County, with its disproportionate share of indigent and immigrant populations and the state's highest AIDS caseload.
WASHINGTON - Scientists will begin testing the AIDS drug AZT in infected pregnant women to determine whether the drug can prevent transmission of the virus to the fetus, federal health officials announced Monday.
NEW YORK - The head table at a banquet here Friday evening featured some of the federal government's top health officials: Dr. Anthony Fauci, AIDS research chief of the National Institutes of Health; Dr. Samuel Broder, director of the National Cancer Institute, and White House physician Dr. Burton Lee.
SAN FRANCISCO - In contrast to millions of Americans who moved to California in search of new lives, Martin Delaney came here from Chicago in 1980 contemplating death.
SAN FRANCISCO - Frustrated by the lengthy federal drug approval process, nine doctors in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles are conducting underground clinical trials of a highly touted AIDS drug from China in hopes of speedily determining its safety and effectiveness.
Victor F. Zonana; Marlene Cimons; Times Staff Writers
SAN FRANCISCO - Bowing to what he termed "constructive pressure" from AIDS advocacy groups, federal AIDS chief Anthony S. Fauci proposed Friday that a "parallel track" of AIDS research be established to allow AIDS patients who are otherwise ineligible for controlled clinical trials to gain access to experimental AIDS drugs.
Dozens of gay-rights activists, AIDS patients and health workers staged a "die-in" Tuesday night in Santa Ana, where a week earlier the Orange County Board of Supervisors rejected an ordinance that would have made it illegal to discriminate against people with AIDS.
AIDS virus infections in childbearing women and newborns in California are twice as common in the San Francisco Bay Area as in Los Angeles County and more than four times as common in blacks as in whites and Latinos, the state Department of Health Services said Tuesday.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors continues to lag behind other urban counties in its financial commitment to public health. Last Tuesday the board also showed a hardhearted and hardheaded shortage of sensitivity and common sense when it rejected a proposed ban on discrimination against people with AIDS, a ban that other urban counties have wisely seen fit to enact.
AIDS activists were outraged Wednesday over the rejection of an anti- discrimination ordinance by the Orange County Board of Supervisors and expressed concern that landlords and employers may now think they can discriminate against people carrying the disease.
Until the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition swung into high gear Friday, public opinion had appeared to favor a proposed Orange County AIDS anti-discrimination ordinance. But from then until Monday, telephone calls in opposition--the most for any issue this year--swamped the Board of Supervisors' offices.
In a 3-2 vote before a tense and emotional crowd, the Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected a proposed ordinance that would ban discrimination against AIDS victims, making Orange County the only urban area in California without such a measure.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is making a significant contribution to the care of persons with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by establishing a major AIDS treatment center.
Janny Scott; Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writers
MONTREAL - The fifth international AIDS conference, which ended here Friday, attempted something never tried before: to include in a scientific meeting on AIDS the social, political and ethical dimensions of the epidemic, as well as the viewpoints of people with the disease.
Los Angeles Times - Friday June 9, 1989 39 Pt. 1 Col. 1 922
Janny Scott; Times Medical Writer
MONTREAL - The inflation of Malcolm Potts' six-story condom on a vacant lot next to the Montreal convention center this week may go down in the history of the AIDS epidemic as a small but telling symbol of the strange marriage of science and guerrilla theater.
Los Angeles Times - Friday June 9, 1989 38 Pt. 1 Col. 1 540
Janny Scott; Times Medical Writer
MONTREAL - The United States is experiencing an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases increasingly concentrated among the urban poor--an ominous development in light of evidence that such diseases may encourage the spread of AIDS, an expert said Thursday.
Los Angeles Times - Friday June 9, 1989 3 Pt. 1 Col. 2 996
Robert Steinbrook; Times Medical Writer
MONTREAL - An AIDS immunization treatment developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, the polio vaccine pioneer, has apparently eliminated the AIDS virus from two infected chimpanzees, researchers reported Thursday.
Los Angeles Times - Thursday June 8, 1989 25 Pt. 1 Col. 1 727
Janny Scott; Times Medical Writer
MONTREAL - U.S. and worldwide restrictions on immigrants and international travelers infected with the AIDS virus were sharply attacked Wednesday at the international conference on AIDS.
BOSTON - It is only an isolated case, but to those who remember the first few puzzling illnesses in the early 1980s that presaged the AIDS epidemic, it raises some familiar, troubling issues.
MONTREAL - The U.S. Public Health Service plans to recommend greatly expanded voluntary AIDS antibody testing to identify infected individuals, with the aim of preventing life-threatening Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
MONTREAL - Women who smoke cigarettes appear to be more likely than others to become infected with the AIDS virus, according to a study of Haitian women that found that smokers were nearly twice as likely as nonsmokers to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
President Bush's failure to name the last two members of the National Commission on AIDS is delaying activation of the commission, and that, in turn, is handicapping national efforts to spur programs to control the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
MONTREAL - A surprising number of American teen-agers are becoming infected with the AIDS virus during early adolescence, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported Monday.
MONTREAL - More than nine times as many adults are expected to come down with AIDS in the 1990s as have already become ill in the history of the epidemic, according to startling figures presented Sunday by the World Health Organization on the opening day of the largest-ever international conference on AIDS.
A unique new center for the study of how AIDS affects the brain and central nervous system has been established at UC San Diego and may offer the most comprehensive look yet at the neurological, psychological and behavioral effects of the disease, medical authorities say.
New research suggests that the standard blood tests for AIDS fail to detect the deadly human immunodeficiency virus in nearly one of every four "high-risk" gay men who practice unsafe sex.
On March 16, The Times listed 10 nonprofit organizations servicing those with AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses: AIDS Project Los Angeles; Minority AIDS Project; Light of Life; All Saints AIDS Service Center; Aid for AIDS; Los Angeles Shanti Foundation; Serra Ancillary Care Corp.; AIDS Services Foundation; Foothill AIDS Project, and Being Alive.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A dramatic increase in heterosexually transmitted AIDS in Haiti and other Caribbean islands has alarmed specialists and researchers, who say they fear that a lethal wave of infection--like the epidemic that has swept a number of African countries--will soon engulf this region.
Standing ovations and shouted "bravos" again ended a performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Ahmanson Theatre on Tuesday night as previews of the show go on and charity organizations continue to reap the benefits of phenomenal ticket sales.
The election of Municipal Judge Rand Schrader as chairman of the County AIDS Commission holds the promise of continuing the vigorous and constructive leadership that Rabbi Allen I. Freehling has brought the commission in its first two years.
RIO DE JANEIRO - The AIDS virus is spreading among the legions of ragged street children in Brazil, and experts fear that these offspring of urban poverty may suffer a disastrous epidemic of the disease.
In 1986, when Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) announced his support for a controversial state ballot initiative that would have quarantined thousands of AIDS patients, he also vowed to impose tough federal sanctions on those who knowingly pass on the virus that causes the deadly disease.
SAN FRANCISCO - Only 15% of Californians have changed their behavior to avoid contracting the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, even though 23% of the state's residents believe that they are at risk, according to a Gallup Poll commissioned by hospital executives.
The largest comprehensive AIDS service center in the nation will be dedicated Thursday by AIDS Project Los Angeles. It marks an impressive step in meeting current needs in the pandemic of the human immune deficiency virus (HIV), but it also serves as a stark reminder of how much more must be done to meet future needs.
TOKYO - Two hemophiliacs infected with the AIDS virus filed a ground-breaking lawsuit Monday in Osaka District Court, suing the government and two Japanese drug companies for failing to protect them from imported supplies of contaminated blood products.
SAN FRANCISCO - Three years ago, after he had watched his five best friends die of AIDS, interior designer David Ramey fled his native San Francisco to begin a new life across the bay in Walnut Creek.
An experimental AIDS drug that is chemically related to AZT may be effective against the AIDS virus "with little toxicity," National Cancer Institute researchers said Sunday at the American Federation for Clinical Research meeting in Washington.
SAN FRANCISCO - A bill to create a statewide program promoting early medical intervention against the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus has been introduced by Assemblywoman Jackie Speier (D-South San Francisco).
By: NEIL SCHRAM; Neil Schram, an internist, is chairman of the AIDS Task Force for the American Assn. of Physicians for Human Rights.
AIDS protesters, along with other AIDS activists, have done a remarkable job of moving compassionate physicians at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a positive direction.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Nobody else wanted the baby, born to a prostitute and sick with AIDS. How can that be? the two women asked. This baby is an angel. This baby is a blessing. So they brought Sabrina into their home.
Chill winds blowing across the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Art didn't deter some 400 people from celebrating the 11th anniversary of National Gay Rights Advocates Saturday night.
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS should not be the basis for denying residency to immigrants, the California Department of Health Services has advised the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It is good advice.
A plant toxin that is widely used in China to induce abortions holds promise as a new medicinal approach to AIDS therapy, according to a report in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The California AIDS Leadership Committee, consisting of many of the state's experts on the human immunodeficiency virus epidemic, has unanimously called for a change in the federal regulations that led to the imprisonment of an AIDS-prevention official from the Netherlands en route to an AIDS control meeting in San Francisco. The committee correctly concluded that the regulation does not serve the public interest.
HIV-2, a variant AIDS virus that is common in West Africa, may be spreading in Brazil, according to a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
SAN FRANCISCO - AIDS activists and public health officials Saturday welcomed a 31-year-old Dutch AIDS patient who gained worldwide attention after being jailed last week while attempting to enter the United States to attend a health conference here.
WASHINGTON - A Dutch citizen with AIDS spent his fifth day in a Minnesota lockup Thursday as U.S. immigration authorities remained undecided on whether to waive a law and let him attend an AIDS health conference in San Francisco that ends Saturday.
NEW YORK - Peter Staley, a $200,000-a-year bond trader, was on his way to work on Wall Street one morning when he ran across a group of boisterous demonstrators.
WASHINGTON - Tom Stoddard is a New York lawyer active in gay rights issues who, four years ago, was among the many who were politically opposed to being tested for AIDS infection. Today, he has a very different public position--and he is now engaged in a painful personal struggle over whether to take the test himself.
Jeanne Marcus remembers lying in a hospital bed in August, 1987, when she was stricken with kidney failure. Her life was changing and it wasn't going to be easy.
Just a few years ago, many physicians felt that diagnosing a new case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome was similar to pronouncing a death sentence.
One in every 77 women of childbearing age in New York City is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, according to a new study that officials say offers one of the first accurate pictures of how the disease is spreading in the population at large.
A mysterious "virus-like agent" detected in AIDS patients has been described in detail by a team of federal researchers, who suggest that their findings may challenge prevailing wisdom on what causes AIDS.
Scientists have detected resistance to the commonly used anti-AIDS drug AZT in blood samples drawn from a small number of AIDS patients who have received the medication for more than six months, it was announced Tuesday.
The new immigration law was a careful compromise, and as such it has many complicated provisions. Those who are now going through the second phase of the amnesty program may understandably be somewhat confused.
The second phase of the legalization program began Nov . 7, 1988. In this phase, the hundreds of thousands of people who qualified to become temporary residents must apply for permanent residence. They have many options on how to proceed and important deadlines to meet.
The recent decision by the National Institutes of Health to offer the drug AZT to employees with "significant" occupational exposures to the AIDS virus has raised questions about how and when the drug should be used.
The biggest branch of Tibetan Buddhism in America has been stunned with reports that its spiritual leader, whose homosexual activity was known to the movement's insiders, has been infected with the AIDS virus since 1985 but did not acknowledge the problem until last December when a companion was also found to be infected.
NEIL SCHRAM; Neil Schram, MD, is a member of the California Medical Assn. AIDS Task Force.
A resolution will be presented to the California Medical Assn. Saturday urging the association to seek legislation that would allow involuntary testing of a patient for the AIDS virus following an exposure of a health-care worker to the patient's blood or other similarly infectious fluid.
The federal Centers for Disease Control, seeking to accelerate AIDS- prevention programs, especially in minority populations, came to town with an innovative new program the other day, but the response raised danger signs for Los Angeles.
New scientific data indicates that oral dextran, one of the most popular underground AIDS remedies, is unlikely to be effective, The Times has learned.
The alarming rate of AIDS virus infection among intravenous drug users in San Francisco, New York and several other cities appears to be stabilizing, according to surprising new findings that suggest that there may be hope of controlling the epidemic in that pivotal group.
Shouting gay activists repeatedly disrupted a Yorba Linda community meeting convened Tuesday by Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton), whose views on AIDS treatment have been criticized as anti-homosexual.
Two new studies indicate that AIDS virus infection rates in childbearing women and newborns in California are much lower than those found in other areas, including New York and Massachusetts.
WASHINGTON - The federal government should anonymously test for AIDS antibodies every baby born in the United States as part of a greatly expanded effort to track the transmission of the disease, a committee of prominent scientists and medical authorities recommended Wednesday.
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave formal approval Monday to expanded distribution of a drug intended to prevent the most common life- threatening infection afflicting AIDS patients, several major insurers, including Medi-Cal, said they will cover the expensive monthly treatments.
Rabbi Allen Freehling slumped onto the couch in his modest study in Brentwood and slowly recounted a painful moment in his tenure as chairman of the Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS.
The criticism arrayed against an AIDS anti-discrimination ordinance pending before theLos Angeles County Board of Supervisors demonstrated, if there were any lingering doubts, the importance of the new protections. Clearly, misinformation and prejudice are still rife.
Newport Pharmaceuticals International, which 2 months ago halted its research on a potential AIDS medication called Isoprinosine, said Friday that its decision could be reconsidered in light of a new study by an affiliate in Denmark.
In what is believed to be the first reported case of transmission of the AIDS virus from a woman to a man through oral sex, two physicians reported this week that a 60-year-old man appears to have developed AIDS as a result of oral sex with a prostitute.
The Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS, citing the need for more medical care for the growing numbers of AIDS sufferers, approved guidelines Friday urging county hospitals to make more room for patients and asking private hospitals to designate AIDS wards.
The preliminary passage of a Los Angeles County anti-discrimination ordinance, protecting those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, is a constructive step. It would put into effect the implementation of a key recommendation of the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic.
Centinela Hospital announced Tuesday that it will no longer require AIDS testing for admission to its drug and alcohol treatment program, concluding a 2-year-old lawsuit that has significantly expanded legal protections for those exposed to the deadly human immunodeficiency virus.
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