The tiny infant, less than a week into life, was a large problem for the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in West Palm Beach. Shortly after her birth at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, she was given up by a mother unable to care for her. There were no foster homes immediately willing t
WHEN Dr. Phillip Frost called off his public offering last week, it wasn t for the usual reasons. Investors didn t balk at the prospect of snapping up 1.25 million shares of IVAX Corp., he said -- they never had a chance to buy them. That s partly because E.F. Hutton, one of the company s underwriters, had fired its in
A Hialeah doctor s claim that Cuba is downplaying its AIDS problem gained credibility this week on the letters-to-the-editor page of The Journal of the American Medical Association . There are a variety of circumstances that support the contention that the AIDS situation in Cuba is more serious than has been admitted,
The dentist and his assistant had gone through the door, their faces protected by goggles and surgical masks, their clothing covered by disposable gowns. There were plastic covers on the furniture, on the equipment, on everything but the patient himself. He was reclining in the chair, his back to the door, waiting for
QUITO, Ecuador - Cuba has embarked on one of the most aggressive programs of any country to control the spread of AIDS, according to the Cuban delegate to an international conference on the disease. Starting Oct. 1, every adult admitted to a hospital in Cuba will be tested for acquired immune deficiency sy
AIDS: End stage of infection with human immunodeficiency virus. Characterized either by Kaposi s sarcoma or pneumocystis carinii pneumonia . Secondary signals include infections such as thrush , encephalitis, meningitis, esophagitis and enterocolitis, or cancers such as Hodgkin s disease and non-Hodgkin s lymphomas.
BRADENTON - Manatee County school officials have kept a 7-year-old boy out of school for nearly two months because he has tested positive for antibodies to the virus causing AIDS. Christopher Case does not have AIDS or any symptom of the disease, said Dr. Jerry Barbosa of All Children s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
BRADENTON - Testing of Manatee High School students for exposure to AIDS and hepatitis viruses may be expanded because a health teacher who used a single stylet to test the blood sugar levels of 23 students last week performed the same test on another group last fall. Principal Wesley Choate said he will question all s
ATLANTA - Pregnant women in cities with a high rate of AIDS -- including Miami -- should be tested for exposure to the disease, several researchers said Friday. If infected, they should consider terminating their pregnancies. Otherwise, more and more children will be born with AIDS, further squeezing urban hospitals an
CHICAGO - People who suspect they may have been exposed to the AIDS virus should keep an eye on their tongues for one of the disease s early symptoms: a small, white, painless patch, according to John Greenspan, a University of California professor. The sore, never seen before the AIDS epidemic, appears to be a sign of
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