Five AIDS victims have sued a North Hollywood hospital for allegedly taking part in an "unethical experiment" conducted on them by a former Orange County radiologist seeking human test data to help him market a phony AIDS cure.
About the time Pam Ewing stumbled out of bed to find her "dead" ex-husband Bobby in the shower, one of her "Dallas" co-stars was slowly waking up to a disturbing realization of his own.
As one of the few openly gay judges in California and chairman of the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission, Rand Schrader has been a ground breaker, an outspoken champion of gay and lesbian causes, a leader in his community.
They are among the luckiest people in Los Angeles. In a city of singles searching for the ideal mate, they have found one. Love--unconditional and irrevocable--illuminates their daily lives, turns even mundane moments into memories.
LOS ANGELES - A veteran officer filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the Los Angeles Police Department, saying there is "a pattern, policy and practice" within the department to retaliate against individual police officers who become disabled.
NEW YORK - Martina Navratilova said she plans to contact Magic Johnson to explain her comments this week that public response would be different if she had contracted HIV instead of Johnson.
The message may be daunting, but the packaging has attracted young visitors to the newest exhibit at the California Museum of Science and Industry: a comprehensive look at AIDS, its treatment and how to avoid the deadly infection.
If the morning table talk at Farmers Market, Hugo's and studio eateries up and down Ventura Boulevard is any measure, it is practically a given that HIV will soon be as prevalent in television's soaps and sitcoms as condoms and teen sex have been this year.
She looks like the girl next door: young, pretty and a little bit shy, the daughter of a middle-class Ventura County couple. But Liz is keeping a deadly secret.
For the past four years, South Bay AIDS groups have struggled for recognition and funding in the shadow of their bigger and better-established cousins in nearby Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Long Beach area clinics are reporting a dramatic surge in the number of requests for HIV antibody testing in the wake of Earvin (Magic) Johnson's recent disclosure that he has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
In a heavily criticized move, City Councilman Nate Holden on Friday proposed a law requiring restaurant waiters, waitresses, busboys and cooks in Los Angeles to be tested for the AIDS virus every six months.
SAN DIEGO - In a highly unusual example of judicial activism, a San Diego judge has issued an order allowing county authorities to compel AIDS testing of newborns deemed to be at risk for the disease.
TUSTIN - An AIDS activist group passed out more than 1,000 candy-colored condoms to Tustin High School students Wednesday in the first of what members said will be monthly protests over AIDS education policies in Orange County schools.
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years ago, when AIDS was considered a "gay disease" and stigma went hand-in-hand with suffering, some concerned Levi Strauss & Co. employees decided to set up a booth at the company to hand out information about the illness.
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration is considering naming former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Earvin (Magic) Johnson to the National Commission on AIDS, The Times has learned.
The women who pulled together Saturday's conference on women and the AIDS virus could not have imagined, when they began planning months ago, that they would be handed so powerful a symbol as the seemingly invincible Earvin (Magic) Johnson.
Stunned by news that Lakers star Earvin (Magic) Johnson has tested positive for the AIDS virus, Orange County elected officials predicted Friday that this would spur efforts to increase AIDS research and education.
SCOTT HARRIS; STEPHANIE CHAVEZ; Times Staff Writers
An American public suddenly alarmed by the epidemic spread of the virus that causes AIDS flooded health clinics nationwide Friday with requests to be tested for HIV and for information about the disease.
Magic Johnson's revelation that he is infected with the AIDS-causing virus has focused attention on the friction between California insurers and lawmakers over AIDS testing and the grounds for refusing coverage.
Someday, long after we are all gone, a bright historian with the benefit of time and hindsight will look back upon these last 10 years or so and correctly label them the era of the bursting bubble.
Less than a mile from the Los Angeles Lakers' home court at the Forum, Inglewood High School teacher Eleanor Owen took time out from her lesson on "Wuthering Heights" Friday morning to discuss a drama that hit closer to home.
JAMES GERSTENZANG; MARLENE CIMONS; Times Staff Writers
ROME - President Bush on Friday described Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Earvin (Magic) Johnson as "a hero to me" and "to everybody (who) loves sports," and called Johnson's dramatic disclosure that he is infected with the AIDS virus "a tragedy."
SCOTT HARRIS; STEPHANIE CHAVEZ; Times Staff Writers
An American public suddenly alarmed by the epidemic spread of the virus that causes AIDS flooded health clinics nationwide Friday with requests to be tested for HIV and for information about the disease.
Callers asking to be tested for AIDS swamped the switchboards at the Ventura County health department on Friday, the day after Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Earvin (Magic) Johnson announced his AIDS-related retirement.
ELLIOTT ALMOND; MARLENE CIMONS; Times Staff Writers
Magic Johnson's announcement Thursday that he is retiring from professional basketball because he tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a complex situation. What follows are some questions and answers to help explain the issues.
A sailor who tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS will go before a court-martial later this month on charges that he had sex with a civilian without first notifying the man that he had the virus, Navy officials said Wednesday.
Nearly a decade ago, when AIDS awareness was in its infancy, the disease was believed to be confined to the four Hs: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, Haitians and hypodermic needle users. It wasn't long before two more Hs--homophobic humor--joined the misinformation show.
In an experiment that has astounded members of the medical community who know about it, a Los Angeles psychiatrist is leading an effort to treat AIDS by inoculating patients with blood that contains the live AIDS virus.
SAN DIEGO - Green Cross Corp., an Osaka, Japan-based pharmaceutical company, has agreed to pump as much as $40 million into Viagene, a San Diego-based start-up that is developing a drug to treat patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
LOS ALAMITOS - Talk to dance teachers, choreographers or company directors today and they will tell you they are worried about the future of dance. Many of them say a whole generation of choreographers has died from AIDS and, with it, new visions for dance. Others add that keeping the art alive includes not only the usual fund-raisers and promotions but also a battle to keep dancers alive.
BOSTON - Several weeks ago, as Marine Warrant Officer Martin Gaffney recalled, he sat down with his 7-year-old daughter Maureene and discussed the workings of the HIV virus that killed her mother, Mutsuko, her baby brother, John Martin--and someday is likely to kill Martin Gaffney himself.
NEW YORK - AZT manufacturer Burroughs Wellcome Co., whose four-year monopoly on antiviral treatments for AIDS is likely to end later this year with the expected approval of rival compounds, faces another challenge.
AIDS Project Los Angeles has won $646,800 in damages against a firm that canceled an agreement to provide health care coverage for the nonprofit group's employees, attorneys for the project said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - Rather than endorse mandatory restrictions, federal officials appear likely to recommend that AIDS-infected health care professionals voluntarily refrain from performing surgery and other invasive procedures or seek expert advice before continuing to do so.
A North Hollywood man who prosecutors say knew he had the AIDS virus when he bit and spit bloody saliva on law enforcement officers and a nurse is scheduled to go on trial today on four charges of assault with intent to do great bodily injury.
As many as 80,000 American women of childbearing age may be infected with the AIDS virus, according to a new study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Epidemiologist Marta Gwinn of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said as many as 2,100 babies could be born infected each year in the United States.
Talk to any dance teacher, choreographer or company director today and they will tell you they are worried about the future of dance. Many of them say a whole generation of choreographers have died from AIDS and with them new visions for dance. Others add that keeping the art alive includes not only the usual fund-raisers and promotions but also a battle to keep dancers alive.
Researchers for a San Diego biotechnological company have discovered the structure of a key protein in the proliferation of the AIDS virus and have filed patents on more than 50 chemicals that may be able to block the enzyme's action.
Four years after it was proposed, Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday approved a program intended to dampen the spread of AIDS by distributing bleach and condoms to intravenous drug users.
WASHINGTON - More than 3 million people in the Western Hemisphere will be infected with the AIDS virus by the mid-1990s, largely because the epidemic is spreading rapidly in Latin America, the World Health Organization said in a report to be released today.
ANAHEIM - Thousands of health-care workers nationally have been infected with AIDS, and some surgeons, faced with the threat of contracting the disease from patients they operate on, are abandoning their practices, a panel of doctors gathered in Anaheim said Friday.
ANNE C. ROARK; ROBERT STEINBROOK; Times Staff Writers
The federal government and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons have begun the nation's first large-scale voluntary testing program to determine the percentage of surgeons who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, the cause of AIDS.
ANAHEIM - The middle-aged man emerged from a large white tent opposite the Anaheim Convention Center. "It was very scary in there. I don't want to talk about it," he said Wednesday as he ducked his head and hurried away.
In the annals of modern agitprop, Gran Fury has quickly come to occupy a special place. A New York-based collective of 10 artist/activist members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), who came together spontaneously in 1988, Gran Fury has produced the most substantive and successful political graphic art of the postwar era in the United States.
The prospect of developing a treatment for AIDS convinced tiny HemaCare Corp. to invest $435,000 in research last year, one reason the company lost more than $1 million in 1990.
Orange County's gay and lesbian community is about to launch an offensive against hate crimes that will include lobbying for gay-rights ordinances and greater police protection and the distribution of whistles to ward off attacks.
A specially equipped van used to transport extremely ill AIDS patients from their homes to medical appointments was stolen last week, a San Diego AIDS Foundation spokesman said Monday.
When it's time for Escondido resident Freda Taylor to have chemotherapy for her liver cancer, she isn't sure what she will do, because she has no money to pay for it.
West Hollywood city officials have approved plans to build a 22-unit, low-income apartment building reserved primarily for AIDS patients, the first facility of its kind on the Westside.
ATLANTA - Representatives of a broad range of groups Thursday emphatically urged the federal Centers for Disease Control to reject mandatory AIDS testing of health care workers, calling the idea unfair, unworkable and too expensive.
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CHARISSE JONES; Times Staff Writer
As the face of AIDS changes in Los Angeles County from white to African-American, Latino and Asian-American, dedicated men and women scour street corners, homes, gay bars and businesses within communities of color, determined to deliver a message many do not want to hear.
WASHINGTON - In an unexpected finding, a Department of Veterans Affairs study released Thursday suggests that minorities infected with the AIDS virus may not benefit to the same extent as whites from early use of the antiviral drug AZT.
A college student who was accidentally pricked by an HIV-contaminated needle in December while serving as an unpaid student intern assistant at Mercy Hospital is suing the hospital and the San Diego Community College District.
A private foundation Monday opened a clinic in Hollywood that is expected to help people in the early stages of AIDS avoid long and often debilitating delays in treatment
Calling it a "great piece of legislation," state Sen. Ed Davis has thrown his support behind a bill proposed by Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury that would make it a crime to knowingly expose another person to the AIDS virus.
WASHINGTON - The American Medical Assn. and the American Dental Assn. Thursday recommended that their AIDS-infected members voluntarily refrain from performing surgery or other invasive procedures on their patients or disclose to their patients that they are infected.
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MARLENE CIMONS; Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - A new treatment can significantly reduce the number of life-threatening bacterial infections in some children with the AIDS virus, resulting in fewer hospitalizations and an improved quality of life, the National Institutes of Health announced Thursday.
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MARLENE CIMONS; Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The AIDS antibody test should be offered to all pregnant women who live in areas where there is a high prevalence of the deadly disease, an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine recommended Tuesday.
Children infected with the AIDS virus while in the womb are living longer and healthier lives than experts believed possible only a few years ago, according to research being compiled by a team of doctors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Half of all HIV-infected babies studied by the group were free of symptoms by age 5.
The news that forever changed his life came in a phone call, Mike recalls. A doctor he had seen for leg surgery was calling to say Mike had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
In a case described by prosecutors as the first of its kind in California, Ventura police arrested a 45-year-old unemployed carpenter Friday for allegedly infecting a woman and the child she gave birth to with the AIDS virus.
VENTURA - In a case described by prosecutors as the first of its kind in California, police arrested a 45-year-old unemployed carpenter Friday for allegedly infecting a woman and the child she gave birth to with the AIDS virus.
Mercy Hospital has received a "notice of violation" that cites six infringements stemming from a case in which a woman received an injection from a syringe used previously on a patient with AIDS, investigators said Friday.
For the first time in Los Angeles, city officials on Thursday granted a tax-free disability pension to a veteran police officer who said he was infected by a man he arrested who later died of AIDS.
WASHINGTON - A federal investigation has found that three patients of a Florida dentist with AIDS were all infected with strains of the virus extremely similar to that of the dentist--but unlike other strains found in the community--indicating that they were infected in his office, The Times has learned.
WASHINGTON - Federal health officials recommended Thursday that the government abandon plans to conduct a nationwide survey to determine the extent of AIDS infection in the United States.
WASHINGTON - In a case likely to have national repercussions, a prominent AIDS researcher in Colorado is defying a state law that requires him to report the names of AIDS-infected study participants and has asked the federal government to help him protect their confidentiality.
WASHINGTON - Premarital sexual activity among adolescent women has accelerated during the last two decades--with a sharp jump since 1985--despite an increase in sex education and AIDS prevention programs, federal health officials reported Friday.
When Didier Trono first saw the elegant white buildings overlooking the Pacific in La Jolla, the Salk Institute looked to him like "the temple on the cliff."
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