At a time when the demand for HIV testing is soaring, the state has decided to reduce its payments to the South Bay s major source of free, anonymous testing for the virus that causes AIDS. Effective in January, the South Bay Free Clinic and other clinics offering anonymous testing have been told they will receive $35-
WASHINGTON - A new condom-like device that could give women better protection against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases should be approved for use in the United States , but only if it carries a warning that its effectiveness in preventing pregnancy is uncertain, a federal advisory panel said Thursday. T
Teen-agers in the Capistrano Unified School District will soon be thinking more about the hard facts of AIDS, under a new state-mandated prevention program tentatively adopted this week. Among the statistics educators want students to think about: One in every 250 Americans carries the AIDS virus and one person contrac
By Hollywood standards, it was a small-scale event. But appearances belied the show of support given Monday evening for Hollywood Supports, the year-old organization formed to combat discrimination against persons with AIDS, as well as gays and lesbians in the entertainment business. Former Fox Inc. chairman Barry Dill
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Thursday opened the way for AIDS tests for potentially thousands of sex offenders, ruling such testing can be required under a law that took effect after their crimes occurred. The justices held unanimously that mandatory testing for HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS, is n
Bombay, India - Falkland Road, home to many of Bombay s 100,000 or so prostitutes and the most infamous of India s red-light districts, surely ranks as one of the lower rungs in hell. Behind barred windows known as cages, thousands of women are captives, having been kidnaped or sold into bondage. Others are rape or inc
Los Angeles Times (LT) - WEDNESDAY November 11, 1992
Jack Cheevers, Times Staff Writer
The Medical Center of North Hollywood knew a doctor was treating patients in its AIDS ward with useless Vitamin C injections but did nothing to stop him, according to new papers filed in a lawsuit by nine AIDS sufferers. The patients sued the hospital, the doctor and several others last year, saying they participated i
Los Angeles Times (LT) - WEDNESDAY October 21, 1992
KRISTINA SAUERWEIN; TIMES STAFF WRITER
Thirteen-year-old Mary was overwhelmed. Would she cry, throw up or laugh? I feel so sick, so scared. I just gotta let it out before I do it, she said, darting a helpless glance at her two friends. What am I supposed to say, I ll have a Snickers and a condom? So Mary giggled. And then said nothing. Fear seemed to paraly
Garden Grove Fire Chief Lon Cahill canceled a seminar on AIDS scheduled at City Hall last week out of fear that firefighters and police officers might put a political spin on the program. The free seminar--planned for several months--was sponsored by the city and its police and firefighters associations. It was aimed a
To mark National AIDS Awareness Month, more than 2,000 AIDS education packets will be distributed today to parishioners of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church. It is important that the church is participating in this, said Blaine Teamer, an educator working for the AIDS Prevention Team, a nonprofit AIDS educat
Los Angeles Times (LT) - SATURDAY October 17, 1992
DEBRA CANO
Amelia I. Juarez knows the seriousness of AIDS. Her brother died of the disease. The death (from AIDS) is the most terrible thing I ve seen, said Juarez, a parent and teacher s aide in the Buena Park School District. A lot of people are so naive they don t realize how serious this is. We have to get to our young ones a
Los Angeles Times (LT) - WEDNESDAY October 14, 1992
BILL BILLITER
An AIDS expert attending a national convention in Anaheim said Tuesday that a newly found, AIDS-like syndrome is not being spread by an infection, is very low in incidence and is no cause for public alarm. Dr. Scott Holmberg, chief of the AIDS special study section of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said fe
By the time a friend finally found him, Mark Snider had lain helpless in his bathtub for three days. Naked and in shock, he was in the fetal position, his body racked by blood poisoning, pneumonia and severe staph infection. Snider, a Beverly Hills floral designer with AIDS, recently had begun taking an underground AID
WASHINGTON - There is no medical or scientific justification for restricting the practice of AIDS-infected health care professionals, nor should they be forced to tell their patients that they carry the virus, the National Commission on AIDS said Thursday. The commission also opposed mandatory AIDS-testing of health wo
There is a story that Dr. William Schaffner likes to tell his students about the problem of hospital-acquired infections. In the annals of medical detective work, it might be called The Case of the Streptococci and the Anesthesiologist s Backside. There had been a mysterious outbreak of postoperative wound infections a
MEXICO CITY - The slayings of a prominent AIDS activist and at least four other homosexuals have drawn protests from the gay community against a wave of hate crimes and charges that police have failed to investigate the incidents seriously. Dr. Francisco Estrada Valle, co-founder of Ave de Mexico , an AIDS
AMSTERDAM - The answer to the puzzle of why some AIDS-infected individuals live 10 years or longer without becoming sick may lie in a key immune system cell that appears to block the virus from reproducing, a U.S. researcher told participants at the eighth International Conference on AIDS on Wednesday. Individuals who
Kristina Lindgren; Marlene Cimons; Times Staff Writers
IRVINE - A team of UC Irvine scientists has isolated a previously unknown virus in nine people who had an AIDS-like disease but tested negative for the two viruses known to cause AIDS. The new virus was first discovered in a 66-year-old Southern California woman who had a type of pneumonia common to AIDS patients but o
A San Bernardino woman filed a $5-million lawsuit against a medical laboratory Tuesday, charging that she was fired shortly after an office sponsored blood test revealed she is HIV positive. Mary Jane Holcomb, 31, took the free blood test in January at Watson Medical Laboratories, where she had been working as a data p
AMSTERDAM - AIDS and public health experts Tuesday debated the possible emergence of a new and undetectable AIDS-like virus but stressed that the more than two dozen mystery cases that have suddenly become the focus of attention here do not necessarily signal a new public health threat. Researchers at a hastily put-tog
PARIS - Are four prominent French doctors criminally responsible for the deaths of 250 hemophiliacs and the infection of 1,000 more by knowingly giving them AIDS-infected blood products? For three weeks, the four officials with the French National Blood Transfusion Center and Ministry of Health have been defendants in
AMSTERDAM - In a surprising finding, U.S. researchers reported Monday that there appear to be no differences between men and women in how quickly they become sick or die from AIDS, nor are there gaps in the rates at which each receives AIDS-related therapies. In recent years, some activists and researchers have insiste
AMSTERDAM - The chairman of the eighth International Conference on AIDS on Sunday issued a dramatic call for a new world political movement organized around the issue of health, saying it is time to champion the principle that health is a human right, not a privilege. Dr. Jonathan Mann of the Harvard AIDS Institute sai
Global AIDS experts begin gathering in Amsterdam today for the opening of the eighth International Conference on AIDS in a mood buoyed by the pace of scientific advances, but tempered by the sobering reality that the pandemic is still raging out of control in many regions of the world. In hundreds of papers and other p
An eagerly awaited trial of an experimental treatment to prevent the spread of the AIDS virus from pregnant women to their babies has been delayed indefinitely by a drug company s demand that the federal government accept total liability if something goes wrong. The company, Abbott Laboratories , balked late last mo
NEW YORK - The devastating stories of two Southern Californians struggling with AIDS took center stage at the Democratic convention Tuesday night, moving to tears an audience riveted by a mother s description of her young daughter s death and a gay man s plea for life. The normally boisterous floor at Madison Square Ga
Discussions of AIDS in traditional political arenas don t usually elicit hoots of approval and shouts of Go for it! from AIDS and gay activists. But Tuesday evening was different. Two people with AIDS--one gay, one not--were addressing the Democratic National Convention on prime-time television. History was in the maki
In a study that may have implications in AIDS treatment, Washington researchers have found that transplanted immune cells can provide protection against an often-deadly viral infection in patients whose immune systems cannot protect them. Preliminary results with the technique show that it can protect bone-marrow trans
A task force on AIDS-related insurance issues Wednesday presented Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi with a sweeping list of recommendations that range from providing universal access to health care to reorganizing the Department of Insurance s consumer service staff. The 33-member task force, including AIDS activis
Anique Kasper, 11, who developed AIDS after a tainted blood transfusion at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1980 and became the focus of a debate earlier this year over the obligations that hospitals and blood banks have to inadvertently infected patients, died early Wednesday in Dallas of the complications of AIDS. She
Hi folks. I know this phone message has changed, but that s because things have changed. I know you love me, but all these sad messages are beginning to sound like a bad Hallmark card. So keep it light, OK? --Recent message on Bob Hattoy s phone machine It won t be the kind of summer he had planned. By now, Bob Hattoy
NEW YORK - In a symbolic rapprochement between AIDS activists and the pharmaceutical industry, Burroughs Wellcome Co. kicked off a fund-raising drive for AIDS research Tuesday by donating $1 million to a campaign originated by the activist organization ACT UP. The donation, the largest cash gift by a pharmaceutical com
A county group attempting to establish housing for low-income residents who have tested positive for the AIDS virus submitted an application Tuesday for federal funds for the project. The grant request seeks about $3 million that would be used to provide one-bedroom apartments to be rented, probably for less than $300
AIDS activists offered up 1,100 used hypodermic needles on the steps of the Department of Health Services building Tuesday to call for support of a needle exchange program and to protest what they say is the county s slow response to the AIDS crisis. Almost as a measure of their dedication, ACT UP activists bragged bef
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it has approved the antiviral AIDS drug DDC but only to be used in combination with AZT , the most widely prescribed AIDS antiviral therapy. Also known as dideoxycytidine and zalcitabine, DDC is the third AIDS antiviral drug to be licensed since 1987,
SANTA ANA - The Gerry House looks like any of the others on the block. The garage door is open on most days and several people can be seen lifting weights, repairing bikes or lazily enjoying a cigarette. But under its roof sleep 12 people infected with the worst of society s ills. Before moving into the nondescript San
Los Angeles Times - Thursday June 18, 1992; Edition: Home Edition Section: View Page: 16 Pt. E Col. 2
Shari Roan
Public health officials are concerned by a recent study that shows a significant number of teen-agers are unsure they can make behavior changes to protect themselves from HIV infection, either by abstaining from sex or engaging in safe sex. Most young people are already educated about AIDS . . . and they know that shor
When the AIDS epidemic began, Douglas, like most gay men, vowed to practice safe sex. I knew it was going to be hard, says the Seattle man. But it was even harder than I thought. Douglas says he adopted ineffective strategies: It was a binge-purge situation. I would say the only way to get myself safe was be celibate.
A former North Hollywood doctor--the first in California to have his medical license revoked for AIDS quackery--has filed for bankruptcy, a move that halts a series of lawsuits against him by ex-patients. State medical authorities canceled Valentine G. Birds license last year for helping AIDS patients inject themselves
Sometime before the end of 1993, an American or Thai volunteer is likely to roll up his or her sleeve and receive the first injection in a large-scale test of a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus. The long-awaited moment will mark a milestone in the global battle against AIDS. The rapid pace of AIDS vacci
In an advance that could hold great importance for developing AIDS vaccines and drugs, researchers for the first time have infected monkeys with the AIDS virus. Scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle announced Thursday that they had infected 20 pigtailed macaques, a monkey species, with the human immun
Nearly 200 students at University High School listened Tuesday as the mother of a former student who has contracted AIDS told them the disease will one day touch all of their lives through a relative or friend. Fran Carman, the mother of a 1978 University High School graduate, spoke during a noon rally at the school he
In William E. Dannemeyer s voice, there was a note of excitement tinged with nostalgia. The veteran of almost three decades of politics was wistfully recalling the glory years of 1981 and 1982. It was, he said, a brief moment in modern history when the Reagan revolution delivered tax cuts and conservative Republicans f
WASHINGTON - Up to 110 million of the world s adults likely will be infected with the AIDS virus by the turn of the century, a prediction nearly three times that of a recent projection by the World Health Organization , according to a new study released Wednesday. The report, compiled by the Harvard University-based Gl
Brea students got a half-day off from classes Friday so their teachers could learn a lesson about AIDS. About 450 teachers and other employees of the Brea-Olinda Unified School District gathered in the performing arts center of Brea-Olinda High School to attend a seminar on AIDS awareness led by Beverly Bradley, superv
The day after the airing of 48 Hours: the Killer Next Door, a CBS program documenting the AIDS epidemic in Orange County, people involved in the production were basking in the generally positive and sympathetic reaction it received. At Rossmoor Elementary School, where a teacher s aide was shown calling his parents to
When Alysanne Taylor became a volunteer in the AIDS Services Foundation s buddy program, she was expecting to comfort and support someone frail and sickly. She was not prepared for what happened when she first met Robert Goehring, a 30-year-old Newport Beach resident whose AIDS was diagnosed in February of 1990. Go
NEW YORK - Rob Hershman s colleagues at 48 Hours began to suspect something was amiss with the veteran CBS News producer last September. A couple of people mentioned it to me: Hershman s not pulling his weight, says Andrew Heyward, executive producer of 48 Hours. I made a mental note to check with him. But before hi
WASHINGTON - It was a word he returned to over and over again, as if he were trying somehow to infuse it into his audience. Sensitivity. That is a commodity Arthur Ashe clearly feels is lacking in the working press. Are you going to be cold, hard, crass purveyors of the facts just for the sake of peoples right to know,
Ten years ago it seemed to touch only gays. Now it threatens everyone. From infants and women to heterosexual men, more Orange County residents are being afflicted by acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Recent county statistics bear some good news: The rate of infection among gay men has declined, drugs are helping pa
America will pull up its chair next week, turn on the TV and glimpse how it s coping with AIDS--by viewing Orange County as an example. A CBS News team, anchored by Dan Rather, spent two weeks talking to local residents with acquired immune deficiency syndrome and to educators for its prime-time TV show, 48 Hours: The
Almost anything Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton said to the audience of gay and lesbian activists who turned out at a fund-raiser for his campaign in Hollywood on Monday night seemed less important than the simple fact that he was there. As it turned out, Clinton had quite a bit to say: He promised a Manhattan Project to s
WASHINGTON - Current estimates of the hospital costs of caring for people suffering from AIDS-related conditions severely understate the burden on medical facilities because the figures are based upon an AIDS definition drafted years ago by federal health officials, according to a national study released Tuesday. The s
It happened, finally, the other night at Newport Harbor High. This was a big deal. There had been misgivings about the whole undertaking, worries over approach. Hoag Hospital, which had agreed to participate in the program, pulled out. As she introduced the program moderator, the PTA president told the overflow crowd t
ANAHEIM - Reflecting the growing number of teen-age pregnancies in Orange County, about 400 teens turned out Wednesday for a pregnancy and parenting conference, more than double the number at a similar event last year. Some were under age 14. Sponsors of the conference said they were alarmed at reports that more teens
About 200 parents and teen-agers, along with a few elementary schoolchildren, packed an AIDS discussion session at Newport Harbor High School on Wednesday night, with the overwhelming majority saying that schools should provide more information about the prevention of the disease. Virtually every hand in the audience s
Three months after the Los Angeles Board of Education adopted a plan to strengthen AIDS prevention and education efforts, four high schools today will become the first in the district to give students access to condoms on campus. Students at Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Venice and Washington Preparatory high schools who have
The lab tests were in and the results were troubling. Inside a small office at the T.H.E. Clinic for Women in Southwest Los Angeles, the physician used a diagram of the female reproductive organ to explain Tanya Shaw s latest problem. In most women who have what you have, it takes five to 10 years to develop into cance
Students filing into an AIDS education assembly at Van Nuys High School on Tuesday eagerly accepted brightly colored pamphlets containing condom information, folding them into fans to use in the hot auditorium. But the 200-member audience still got the message. Its attention was riveted when five classmates lined up wi
A bill to set up pilot programs for needle and syringe exchanges in a further effort to halt the spread of AIDS is working its way through the California Legislature. Spawned by what the National Commission on AIDS calls the twin epidemics of substance abuse and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the program is not ea
Marlene Cimons; Melissa Healy; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - Because of problems in identifying and handling blood samples, AIDS testing of Haitian immigrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay has had an error rate more than 80 times that of other large U.S. screening programs, according to Public Health Service documents. Inconsistencies in . . . results in t
Marlene Cimons; Melissa Healy; Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - Federal health officials have warned privately that an estimated 300 Haitians infected with the AIDS virus quarantined in a tent city at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay pose a potential public health disaster and have urged immigration and military officials to take action to avert a serious outbreak
WASHINGTON - Setting the stage for possible federal approval of a third antiviral AIDS drug, early findings in an ongoing study have shown that the experimental AIDS drug DDC, used in combination with AZT , produces more than twice the crucial immune system cells than AZT alone. The findings were presented Monday t
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED Date: Saturday April 18, 1992 Edition: Home Edition Section: Calendar Page: 3 Pt. B Col. 1 Story Type: Correction For the Record Health fair--A photo caption accompanying Friday s story on a Skid Row health fair conducted by USC student nurses contained incorrect identifications.
NEW YORK - It was the type of stonewalling by a health insurer that Joseph R. Baker III, the director of legal services of Gay Men s Health Crisis, has encountered so often that it seems noteworthy only in retrospect. Aetna Life & Casualty Inc. was refusing to pay for a costly drug that had been prescribed for one
WASHINGTON - DDI appears to be more effective than AZT in slowing the progression of AIDS symptoms, according to the preliminary analysis of a study comparing both antiviral drugs in individuals previously treated with AZT. The results, which were presented Monday to AIDS researchers at a meeting here, will now be furt
When the T-shirt by Madonna fetched a bid of $4,200 and the Hanes-ala-Liz went for $4,000, the crowd was impressed. Northern Lights Alternatives, a small AIDS service agency, seemed to have struck gold last December with its novel auction of 175 extra-large Hanes T-shirts decorated by the Hollywood glitterati. But four
WASHINGTON - Time Warner Chairman Steven J. Ross, responding to a gossip item in the New York Post, confirms that he has prostate cancer. Madonna, battling false rumors that she is infected with HIV, issues a denial after her press agent s telephone rings off the hook and camera crews stake out her apartment building.
Our tale begins on the planet Gython, inside the palace of the beautiful and civic-minded Princess Calyp. On the planet Earth there is a deadly disease called AIDS! the dashing Captain Zynar reports. We must prevent that disease so it won t happen here! the princess replies. The captain s eyes drink in the princess s p
Despite the publicity that has surrounded many AIDS blood transfusion cases, such as the infection that tennis star Arthur Ashe disclosed Wednesday, a contaminated transfusion is a relatively unusual means of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus. Most of the infections, like Ashe s, occurred before routine HIV
NEW YORK - Tennis great Arthur Ashe, who used his center court success to fight for equality both in the United States and South Africa , announced Wednesday that he has known since 1988 that he has AIDS. Ashe, the first black man to win at Wimbledon, said he was certain that he got the virus during one of his two hear
When Roscoe Tanner walked onto the carpeted tennis court of the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1973 to play doubles, his first match as a professional, he took a quick look around. He saw Ken Rosewall, Fred Stolle and Arthur Ashe. Tanner was nervous, but he breathed a sigh of relief. At least I knew the Big Guy was on
One of the compelling mysteries in the quest to understand AIDS is the origin of the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the deadly disease. There has been no shortage of provocative theories, ranging from the intentional spread of the virus by a variety of intelligence agencies to one about sexual practices inv
Health clinics in Los Angeles County that provide free, anonymous testing for the AIDS virus will have their state funding cut this summer even though clinic directors say demand for the tests remains high. The cutbacks, health workers say, will reduce allocations for testing to levels that existed before Earvin (Magic
An AIDS patient who recently secured a compassionate release from prison joined activists on the outside Wednesday, calling for major reforms in the way the California penal system handles the AIDS crisis. Judy Cagle, a convicted armed robber who has become a symbol of redemption and a celebrated cause among AIDS activ
An appellate court has upheld a lower court s dismissal of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Channon Phipps, the 17-year-old hemophiliac who contracted the AIDS virus from tainted blood products. The 4th District Court of Appeal agreed with a lower court judge who ruled last year that a lack of evidence against Cutter Labor
For every story of the human condition, there must be a moral. I m sure there s one somewhere in Jeffrey Knipe s recent experience in Orange County Jail, but which one? About 10 days ago, Knipe and roommate Alan Potter were walking their dog in Garden Grove Park about 4:30 in the morning. Knipe, 32, has AIDS and is giv
CAIRO - In a radio spot played all over Cairo the last few weeks, a young Egyptian man traveling abroad spots an attractive European woman in a bar. A walking rocket! he exclaims to himself as he sits down and buys her a drink. Little did he know how right he was. Within moments, the stern voice of his father is heard
HemaCare Corp., a Sherman Oaks company that makes blood-related products, said Monday that results so far from clinical trials of its plasma therapy for AIDS are promising, and that it plans to use the results to press the state for approval of more widespread testing. The company said results after six months of its o
Los Angeles Times - Tuesday March 17, 1992 Edition: Home Edition Section: Metro Page: 1 Pt. B Col. 5 Word Count: 632
James Rainey; Times Staff Writer
The only home on the West Coast for children infected with the AIDS virus announced plans Monday to more than double its size to cope with the growing ranks of children in need of care. Caring for Babies with AIDS will add eight beds to the home for HIV-infected children that it operates near Culver City. City and stat
At first, James LaMaster thought that the worst part of living with the HIV virus was watching his body deteriorate. In the four years since he was found to have the virus, LaMaster, 48, has watched his skin erupt in painful shingles, listened as his voice hardened into that of an old man, and has spat out all his teet
Los Angeles Times - Sunday March 15, 1992 Edition: Home Edition Section: Westside Page: 5 Pt. J Col. 1 Word Count: 777
Patricia Ward Biederman; Times Staff Writer
All but 16 people got a Valentine s Day present after last month s mass screening for AIDS. The overwhelming majority of the 2,447 participants found they were not carrying the HIV virus that causes the deadly disease. Promoted by a coalition that included AIDS Project Los Angeles, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laborator
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials approved a policy this week that will provide high school students with easy access to condoms beginning April 20. The policy s greatest restriction is that a small fee will be charged for the condoms. School officials originally envisioned a program in which studen
LAGUNA HILLS - Cruising by the high school in his beat-up tan Isuzu, drumming the steering wheel with his index fingers, Channon Phipps turns up Queensryche until the speakers hiss. Out the corner of his eye he checks for wincing in the passenger seat, a pleased grin revealing retainers. At 17, he is standard-issue tee
A chain of California dental clinics that allegedly refused to treat four men infected with the AIDS virus was sued Thursday in what is being portrayed as a new effort to crack down on AIDS discrimination by health care providers. Attorneys in the lawsuit against Western Dental Services Inc.--which widely advertises as
An AIDS board game--in which players could advance to night sweats, weight loss and cancer--was pictured on posters at Pierce College last fall as an attention-grabber, aimed at students who ignored traditional AIDS instruction. But the plan to shock the junior college students with images of death has proved excessive
Lily Dizon; Kristina Lindgren; Times Staff Writers
CORONA DEL MAR - Perhaps, said Jean Johnson-Vogel and Joan Shaw, if they had been educated about AIDS years ago, their sons might still be alive. As it was, 30-year-old Craig Johnson died in 1988, when his immune system could not overcome Kaposi s sarcoma. Steven Shaw died a year later at age 37, when he had no white b
Anique Kasper arrived in the fall of 1980, a four-pound preemie with a case of jaundice. In the neonatal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she received what should have been a routine blood transfusion. Now, Anique s life revolves around her bedroom in her mother s Hancock Park home. Her bird-like bod
Ten AIDS activists pleaded no contest Monday and were placed on probation for taking part in a protest at a fund-raiser for state Sen. Ed Davis (R-Santa Clarita) last year that led to their arrests. The activists and others used the court appearance to again protest Davis sponsorship of a bill that would make it a crim
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration is debating whether to admit to the United States 230 Haitian refugees who qualify for political asylum but are infected with the AIDS virus. The refugees, along with others who have escaped their strife-torn island nation, are being housed at a U.S.-run camp at Guantanamo Naval Bas
IRVINE - Beleaguered Disease Detection International announced Thursday that Saliva Research of Dublin, Ireland , has come to its rescue by agreeing to purchase more than $5 million in stock of the Irvine-based biomedical company and fund its efforts to win approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for severa
A little-noticed international study offers the first evidence that the drug AZT may help people with HIV infection in the earliest stages of the disease. The results, although appearing to conflict with a recent American study, are potentially significant for the majority of individuals infected with the human immunod
WASHINGTON - In a strongly worded letter to President Bush, Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) lashed out Friday against the President s personal physician and blamed the Administration for not supporting AIDS policies that might have prevented Lakers star Earvin (Magic) Johnson from becoming infected with the hu
Starting treatment with the drug AZT early in the course of infection delays the development of AIDS in many HIV-infected patients but does not increase life span any more than starting the drug after symptoms worsen, according to a national research study. The findings, being published today in the New England Jou
MEMO: SEE PUBLISHED CORRECTION APPENDED Date: Sunday February 16, 1992 Edition: Home Edition Section: Westside Page: 3 Pt. J Col. 1 Story Type: Correction For the Record AIDS instruction--A story in Thursday s Westside edition mistakenly said that the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Board would vote on an AIDS and H
WASHINGTON - The global AIDS epidemic is worsening faster than experts earlier believed, according to new figures released Tuesday by the World Health Organization . The organization predicted in 1988 that there would be a cumulative total of 15 million to 20 million adult AIDS infections by the year 2000. But in the l
BETHESDA, Md. - Alarmed over widely scattered outbreaks of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, nearly 100 federal health officials and private researchers urged Monday that new medications and detection methods be developed to head off the resurgent disease. In a day-long meeting, the scientists drew up a proposal de
IRVINE - A few weeks ago, the Rev. Fred Plummer got a desperate phone call from a man whose longtime companion had just died of AIDS. A local pastor had refused to perform the funeral sermon after learning that the dead man had been a practicing homosexual. Would Plummer step in? Plummer, one of 30 clergy members in Or
Despite a chilly wind and damp weather, 450 people turned out Sunday morning at San Buenaventura State Beach to participate in Ventura County s first AIDS Walk, raising nearly $35,000 in pledges for the fight against the disease. The event brought in the most money of any fund-raiser held for the AIDS Care agency and t
There was a time when Barry Lubo felt perfectly welcome at the private medical group that used to treat him for AIDS. I must say I felt very watched over when I had health insurance, he said. Every little thing was tested. But when Lubo lost his health insurance and went on Medi-Cal, things changed. Lubo recalled the s
There seems to have been a decided shift in the past 2 1/2 years in the public attitude toward AIDS sufferers and those diagnosed as being infected with HIV. Many people are more enlightened about the dread disease, its sufferers, and the public health issues involved. The important question now is whether the Orange C
SAN DIMAS - At first, the doctor dismissed Kimberly Richartz s request for an AIDS test. She was 23, married, with a 15-month-old child. It was true that both she and baby Meghan suffered chronic health problems, but Richartz was a nice girl, a clean-cut girl who had gone to a private, all-girls school in Claremont.
Tuberculosis, a lung disease that usually takes years to develop, can appear quickly and spread rapidly in people infected with the AIDS virus, according to research presented last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Charles L. Daley of San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and his colleagues concl
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration will propose spending $873 million on AIDS research for fiscal 1993, an amount that does not keep pace with inflation and is far less than what government scientists have said is needed to pursue critical new scientific leads, according to congressional sources. The 1993 proposal is
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday narrowly approved the distribution of condoms on high school campuses, but gave parents the option of denying their children permission to obtain them. The action brings to an end more than two years of study and often-rancorous debate over the proposal. Drawing cheers and
The day before today s scheduled vote by the Los Angeles school board on whether condoms should be distributed on high school campuses, a man who said he likely was infected with the AIDS virus as a teen-ager joined other activists in a plea for approval of the controversial plan. At a news conference Monday on the ste
WASHINGTON - Despite an increasing body of scientific evidence about how AIDS is transmitted, judges across the nation have continued to perpetuate stereotypes and myths about the disease in both their decisions and in their courtroom behavior, according to a major report released today. Because judges appear undereduc
Using HIV-infected patients, UC San Diego doctors will launch a small study next month of a vaccine-like drug that they hope will treat the virus, physicians announced Thursday. In the six-month study, the antibody-based drug, called 3C9, will be tested on 24 HIV-positive patients to see if it is safe. Such trials on i
SANTA ANA - Re-entering a political minefield, a coalition of community activists on Tuesday asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a measure barring discrimination against AIDS sufferers in employment, education and housing. But the proposal faces a doubtful future. None of the county supervisors who have opposed t
When used alone, the experimental AIDS drug DDC is inferior to AZT , the standard medication used to treat the disease, according to a national study of more than 600 patients with AIDS and related conditions. Researchers found that the death rate for patients receiving DDC, or dideoxycytidine, was so much higher than
WASHINGTON - The message from Earvin (Magic) Johnson, the newest member of the National Commission on AIDS, was simple but eloquent: The battle against AIDS belongs to everyone. We re all in this. It s not just Magic Johnson. It s everybody. Until everybody recognizes that, we re not going to win this battle. I m not t
MEMO: Series: HEARTBEAT L.A. People making a difference. One in a series. Everybody who has HIV has it tough, Richard is saying, but maybe straights have it harder than gays. You feel more alone, he says, and people suspect you re lying when you say, no, I ve never had sex with a man and, no, I don t shoot drugs. Ji
An Orange County radiologist who developed an AIDS drug in his kitchen sink in partnership with a North Hollywood doctor was sentenced Wednesday to three years informal probation and fined $12,000 for his part in advertising and selling the drug. Stephen Herman, 55, of Villa Park pleaded guilty in Central Municipal Cou
BANGKOK, Thailand - The last thing Fai Charoenkul ever expected was that she would become a symbol of the scourge of Asia. A mere 15 years old, the shy, slender Fai is already married. She now appears regularly on Thai television to explain how her life was transformed when she found out in September that she had teste
Standing in her pink-and-turquoise-colored shop, braces still affixed to her teeth, 18-year-old Tonja Robertson seems an unlikely crusader for safe sex. But her cheery Pacific Beach store full of condoms is for teen-agers and others looking for a place where they can feel comfortable about buying prophylactics, she sai
Their faces are featureless, seen only in silhouette. They could be white or black, straight or gay, rich or poor. They have no specific identity; they embrace every identity. We wanted to really represent all the different people who have been affected by AIDS and HIV, said artist Mary-Linn Hughes, explaining the imag
People infected with the human immunodeficiency virus and those who have AIDS are invited to testify about community services available to them at a series of hearings next week, county officials said Thursday. The hearings will allow local officials to better plan the types of services to make available to those in ne
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