BOSTON - Doctors partially rebuilt the wrecked immune system of an AIDS victim in the first experimental treatment to significantly restore disease-fighting blood cells, but the new cells apparently became infected with the AIDS virus and the patient died. Such efforts are probably doomed to failure unless doctors can
WASHINGTON - The virus thought to cause AIDS has been detected in the blood and semen of a healthy male homosexual, suggesting that healthy carriers of the disease may spread it through sexual intercourse, a report says. The report in the journal Science marks the first time scientists say they isolated the suspect vir
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A drug used to combat African sleeping sickness has prevented a suspected AIDS virus from infecting and killing healthy cells in test-tube experiments, government scientists reported Friday. Researchers cautioned that it was too early to tell whether the medication, called suramin, can be used to eff
Here are answers to some of the most-asked questions concerning the nationwide research program to determine if a new blood test for a virus can detect AIDS. Is there a new blood test for AIDS? No. There is a test being developed for a virus that has been detected in 90 percent of people with AIDS. Researchers do not k
During the next four months, more than 30,000 South Florida blood donors will become part of a $2 million, nationwide research program to determine whether a new blood test for a virus can detect AIDS. The project also will find out whether the virus can be transmitted through blood transfusions. If the test works, it
More than one-third of the AIDS victims in Dade County are Haitian, and although they are refused to admit it, several of those victims are homosexuals, University of Miami researchers have found. People who stated they were not gay are gay, Dr. Gordon Dickinson, a UM expert on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS
WASHINGTON - The nation s leading health officials, prodded by intense speculation in the press, announced Monday that they believe a virus discovered in the United States is the elusive cause of fatal Acquired Immune Defiency Syndrome, or AIDS. Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler termed the find a
AIDS first - To learn who discovered the cause of French or American scientists -- an expert from the National Cancer Institute will travel to Paris next week to collaborate with AIDS researchers there, Dr. Robert Gallo, the leading U.S. investigator, said Monday. A furor over who will get credit for discovering the ca
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