A coalition of groups opposed to discrimination against homosexuals said yesterday that it would sue the state to strike down new rules that seek to slow the spread of AIDS by closing establishments that permit high risk sexual activity. The suit, by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, challenges the constitution
The New York State Health Commissioner has told a Congressional committee that there has been precious little success in curbing the spread of AIDS through addicts who inject drugs. He said this may now harbor the greatest AIDS potential in the state. The statements by the Commissioner, Dr. David Axelrod, at a hearing
President Reagan, who has been accused of public indifference to the AIDS crisis by groups representing victims of the deadly disease, said last night that his Administration was already making a vital contribution to research on the disease within the limits imposed by budgetary restraints. Mr. Reagan was asked at his
DENVER, Sept. 12 -- Researchers have confirmed suspicions that isobutyl nitrite, a recreational drug widely used as an aphrodisiac by homosexuals, increases the risk of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Scientists at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine said Wednesd
A state judge began hearing testimony yesterday in a suit by a Queens school board seeking to bar a second-grade pupil with AIDS from attending regular classes until the child s identity was disclosed. The judge, Justice Harold Hyman of State Supreme Court in Jamaica , Queens, ordered attorneys and medical experts for
ATLANTA, Sept. 12--Federal officials have concluded that a tongue sore first identified in San Francisco at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic four years ago is an early indicator of the lethal infection. The Centers for Disease Control here said today that the lesion, raised white areas of thickening on the tongue wit
Fear and misinformation about AIDS are pervasive in the nation and, in recent days, have been particularly evident in New York City, where there has been intense debate over whether children with the disease should be allowed into the classroom. AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, destroys the body s ability
About half the American people believe AIDS can be transmitted through casual contact despite what Federal scientists say is overwhelming evidence to the contrary, according to The New York Times/CBS News Poll. The survey also showed that the fatal disorder, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, has risen high in the pu
Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones announced procedures yesterday for dealing with New York City public school students and staff members suffering from AIDS. He said at least eight Board of Education employees had contracted the disease. Mr. Quinones said he was making the information public because the board had an o
A decision by school and health authorities in New York City to permit a child with AIDS to attend regular classes has created a furor among some parents worried that the health of their children could be endangered. And it has raised questions about the stricken child s ability to function normally. Doctors say it is
Fewer children stayed home from classes yesterday in two Queens school districts where parents have organized boycotts to protest a city decision to allow a second-grade pupil with AIDS to attend regular classes. More than 9,000 elementary and junior high school students were reported by school officials to have stayed
New York City school officials are caught in a cruel dilemma that is arising increasingly around the country: Should children with AIDS be allowed to attend school? By far the easiest course would be to bow to public anxiety and segregate AIDS children, as school authorities in Florida and Indiana have done and as some
Classes for New York City s 946,000 public school students began yesterday amid scattered protests against the city s decision to allow a second-grade pupil with AIDS to attend regular classes. In Queens, parents in two community school districts organized a boycott that school officials said kept more than 11,000 elem
New York City s Schools Chancellor, Mayor Koch and other public officials yesterday sought to allay fears over the admission of a child with AIDS to regular classes today, warning against panic and insisting that there were no dangers to other children. The reaction of parents and community school officials to the deci
The New York City public school system opens for another year of classes today with higher enrollment, a record budget and a variety of new programs intended to cut the dropout rate and raise academic performance. With an expense budget of $4.3 billion - an increase of $400 million over last year - the Board of Educati
New York City has been helping a private group shelter 21 AIDS victims in Manhattan apartments for several months and is now negotiating to give the group two city-owned buildings so that it can shelter 40 to 60 more victims, officials said yesterday. A special assistant to Mayor Koch, Victor E. Botnick, said the city
Victims of AIDS have run into increasing hostility from people who do not want to be around them. After protests from residents of Rockaway Beach, Queens, the city canceled last week plans to provide shelter in a nursing home for 10 homeless AIDS patients. And two Queens school boards called for a moratorium on efforts
New York City health and education officials, acting on the recommendation of a special panel, announced yesterday that one of four children known to have AIDS would be allowed to attend regular classes in public schools when they reopen tomorrow. The child was diagnosed as having AIDS three years ago, but the symptoms
ORANGE, Calif.-Researchers say they have discovered a previously unknown defect in the blood serum of AIDS patients that may make them more susceptible to fatal infections. The new defect found in patients with AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, inhibits the disease-fighting ability of certain white blood ce
ATLANTA - In revised guidelines intended to eliminate from the blood supply the virus that causes AIDS, Federal health officials recommended today that any man who has had sexual relations with another man even once in the last eight years refrain from donating blood. The national Centers for Disease Control has consid
Mayor Koch said yesterday that the city would soon ask for proposals from groups willing to provide home care for people with AIDS. The Mayor provided no details on the plan, which he discussed at a news conference called after a coalition of homosexual-rights groups criticized him for proposing to let the Roman Cathol
The condition of a 13-year-old boy barred from school because he has AIDS improved today, two days after he was admitted to a hospital, according to officials, who did not disclose his symptoms. The boy, Ryan White of Kokomo, a seventh-grader, was admitted Monday to Riley Hospital for Children, Rena I. Brown of the hos
Officials of two community school boards in Queens called yesterday for a moratorium on efforts to have children with AIDS attend regular schools. The Queens boards recently voted to bar any student with the disease from regular classes. The officials called for the moritorium at a news conference at a school in Ozone
STAMFORD, Conn. - A murder suspect diagnosed as having AIDS was escorted into Superior Court today by sheriff s deputies wearing rubber gloves. Fourteen prospective jurors promptly asked to be dismissed from the case. Judge Harold Dean told the pool of 80 prospective jurors that they faced no health risks, but he said
As public concern has shifted to the serious consequences of AIDS, doctors, public-health officials, psychologists and others say the exaggerated fear of herpes - once described as the leprosy of the 80 s - has eased. I think a lot of the paranoia has died down, said John Graves, a director of the American Social Healt
Mayor Koch yesterday reversed his policy and announced that he was dropping a sharply disputed plan to move some homeless AIDS patients into a Queens nursing home. The plan to have 10 patients housed at the city s Neponsit Home for the Aged in Rockaway Beach had stirred angry protests among residents of that community.
PEKING - In an attempt to prevent the deadly disease AIDS from spreading to China , the Ministry of Public Health and customs officials have banned the import of blood products, the official New China News Agency reported today. The ban covers frozen, liquid and dried human blood plasma, normal human immune globular pr
Should schools admit children with AIDS? Need the Pentagon test recruits for exposure to AIDS virus? These are just the latest of the social problems raised by the deadly new disease. The AIDS virus will kill man, woman or child if a sufficient dose gets into the bloodstream. No vaccine or treatment is yet available. R
LOS ANGELES - Each day a platoon of city buses rolls out into Los Angeles carrying an advertisment featuring what appears to be a doting mother cautioning a homosexual son: Play safely. L.A. cares. The public-service advertising campaign reflects galvanized concern here about acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AID
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Doctors have diagnosed the first five cases of AIDS in Indonesia, Health Minister Suwardjono Suryaningrat said today. Mr. Suwardjono declined to give details but said the patients included at least one non-Indonesian.
EAST HAMPTON, L.I., Robert Jacobson, the editor of Opera News, stood at the lectern in the East Hampton High School Auditorium on Saturday night and announced that history was being made: everybody listed on your program is here and waiting to sing. The roster was indeed a starry one - A Gala Night for Singing, it was
The pastor of a West Side Roman Catholic church told his parishioners yesterday that he was saddened by their opposition to the establishment of a shelter for AIDS patients because the weakest of our community need help, and we were unable to offer that help. In homilies delivered in English and in Spanish at Sunday mo
Mayor Koch said yesterday that in his opinion, no child suffering from AIDS should attend New York City public schools, and he predicted that a panel charged with assessing each case would agree with him. I don t believe you re going to have any kids with AIDS ending up in the classroom, said the Mayor, who raised the
The president of a Queens community school board that voted to bar any student with AIDS from attending regular classes said yesterday that a new citywide policy on school-age children with AIDS did not resolve the issue. The official, Samuel B. Granirer, president of School Board 27, said members of the board would s
TRENTON, Aug. 31, Most schoolchildren who have AIDS should be allowed to attend regular classes, according to New Jersey health and education officials, but they said the initial decision should be left up to the local school district. Under most circumstances, the guidelines recommend children with AIDS attend school
A special committee will decide on a case-by-case basis whether New York City school children with AIDS should attend regular classes, city and school officials said yesterday. The committee - to be made up of medical experts, an educator and a parent representative - will evaluate the seven school-age children in the
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has withdrawn a plan to shelter AIDS patients in a former convent on the Upper West Side because irate parents threatened to keep their children from attending a parochial school next door, archdiocesan officials said yesterday. The Rev. Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for John C
Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones said yesterday that, in determining how the public-school system dealt with children who had AIDS, fear is not going to be the factor by which we will separate children. The school system s guidelines will be based on medical advice, the Chancellor said during a news conference at Cit
There are no signs that AIDS is spreading beyond the two main risk groups, homosexuals and intravenous drug users, New York City health officials said yesterday. Dr. David J. Sencer, the city s Health Commissioner, said the fatal disorder was continuing to spread among sexually active homosexual men and drug addicts us
Nearly every day now, her patients, many of them single professional women, barrage Nargess Ahgharian, a Manhattan gynecologist, with fearful questions about AIDS. The only concern now is AIDS, Dr. Ahgharian said the other day. They want to know: How can I get it? How do I protect myself against it? It s the new scare.
ATLANTA - Most children with AIDS should be allowed in the classroom, and school officials should do their best to protect the pupils privacy, Federal health authorities said today. The statement came amid dispute over letting victims of the ailment, acquired immune deficiency syndome, go into public schools. For most
PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Whether a 5-year-old girl who has AIDS will attend public kindergarten here next Thursday depends on the findings of a child study team, officials here said today. The lawyer for the Plainfield Board of Education, Victor King, said today that he did not know whether the girl would be allowed to start
The New York City Health Commissioner has asked medical experts for advice on how the public-school system should deal with children who have AIDS. Yesterday the Mayor s press secretary, William Rauch, issued a statement saying that Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones had asked the Health Commissioner for his recommenda
KOKOMO, Indiana - Ryan White, who has been barred from school since December because he has acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, today attended the first day of classes by a special telephone line linking his home to his seventh-grade classroom. The 13-year-old boy has been kept from the school by order of J.
A COUPLE of annual Long Island benefits, customarily held for different causes, have converged into a common one: to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a growing problem on Long Island. On Saturday at East Hampton High School, an array of opera singers will gather for A Gala Night for Singing. The eve
KOKOMO, Indiana - A 13-year-old boy barred from school because he has acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, will start classes Monday through a telephone hookup to his home, a school spokesman says. The boy, Ryan White, a hemophiliac who contracted the disease through a blood transfusion, has been out of Wester
DENVER - Over objections from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Colorado Board of Health has tentatively agreed to begin keeping a list of people who have been exposed to the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Doctors and laboratories would be required to report to the state health de
SCARSDALE, N.Y. - Public awareness of the AIDS epidemic is now greater than ever before. The numbers explain why. More than 12,000 cases have been diagnosed to date and more than 6,000 Americans have died of the disease. The great majority of AIDS victims are young men in the prime of life, not elderly citizens. In t
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said yesterday that it was organizing a comprehensive plan for the study and care of AIDS patients and that as part of the plan it would open a shelter for patients in a vacant convent in Manhattan. The shelter, to be operted in cooperation with the city, is to be run by Mothe
SAN FRANCISCO - Research has begun in Boston and San Francisco to determine whether artificial insemination could cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome in a woman if the sperm donor was carrying the virus. Concern about the possibility that AIDS could be transmitted by artificial insemination has been heightened by
The Archdiocese of New York is very seriously considering opening a center to shelter and care for victims of AIDS, according to John Cardinal O Connor. City officials, meanwhile, said a plan to open a city office to help AIDS patients had run into strong opposition from city employees who already work in the building
LOS ANGELES - While preparing to direct An Early Frost, a TV-film that is the first of any movies to focus on AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), John Erman went to meet a man who was dying of the disease in a New York hospital. He brought along Aidan Quinn, who is starring in the NBC-TV movie (which is schedul
WASHINGTON - The virus believed to cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has been found in the teardrops of a woman suffering from the disease, scientists said today, but they were uncertain whether someone could contract the disorder by repeated contact with tears. Scientists at the National Cancer Insti
WASHINGTON - The virus suspected of causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has so many variations in its genetic structure that developing a preventive vaccine may prove very difficult, if it can be done at all, researchers said today. Scientists at the National Cancer Institute said they had examined th
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon reached a tentative agreement today with civilian blood agencies that will require them to notify military physicians if tests indicate that blood donated by military personnel contains an antibody associated with AIDS. Under the agreement, civilian groups that collect blood on military bases
LOS ANGELES - The City Council today unanimously approved an ordinance protecting victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, from discrimination in jobs, housing and health care. We have an opportunity to set an example for the whole nation, to protect those people who suffer from AIDS against insidious d
Inmates with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are being watched with growing concern by prison medical directors around the country who are uncertain how to care for them. The Federal Centers for Disease Control took note of the explosive potential of AIDS in a prison setting two years ago, but the agency
A million Americans have been exposed to AIDS virus, and the number falling victim to the deadly disease climbs remorselessly: 1,000 new cases in 1982, 2,500 in 1983, 5,000 in 1984 and 10,000 expected this year. An effective treatment remains elusive, as does a vaccine to protect those at risk. Where will it stop? Why
ATLANTA - The Federal Centers for Disease Control say that patients who received blood-derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the Bahamas were exposed to a virus associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The patients at the clinic, the Immunology Researching Center Ltd. in Freeport, Grand Bah
LOS ANGELES - A 3-year-old boy suffering from acquired immune deficiencey syndrome, or AIDS, has been barred from a class for handicapped children and will receive private instruction at his home if he is accepted into the county special education program, officials said today. We ve come to an agreement with parents,
Dr. Arye Rubinstein is about to open a day care center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx for children who suffer from AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. And he hopes that in time he can offer extra care for those secondary victims of the disease, the people who treat the children. Dr. Rubinste
Although scientists have yet to find a treatment for AIDS, much less a cure, they have apparently eliminated one of the ways in which the deadly disease is spread. According to studies reported last week at the National Institutes of Health, a new test has succeeded in screening AIDS-tainted blood, leaving only the rem
EIGHT inmates at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility who are suffering from AIDS last week filed a class-action suit against the Westchester County Medical Center to force it to treat any inmate with AIDS who needs hospital care. The suit, which also names the New York State Department of Health and the state s Departm
WASHINGTON - Scientists say they have found genetic material from hepatitis B viruses inside the blood cells of patients infected with the virus suspected of causing acqured immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The finding strengthens a suspicion that other viruses may play a role in causing AIDS in some cases. Coopera
General apprehension about AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is understandable and probably useful in arousing support for research on the fatal disease. But the fear has turned destructive in Queens, where New Yorkers are mobilizing to block a plan to house homeless AIDS patients in a nursing home. That f
A Queens judge ordered the city last night not to put AIDS patients in a nursing home in the Rockaways pending an Aug. 8 hearing on lawsuits challenging the planned placements. The lawsuits were brought by residents of the 231-bed home and by others in the area. The city has said it might send as many as 10 victims of
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is seeking civilian advice on how to use new tests that screen blood for exposure to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, officials said today. The request is raising concern among some homosexual rights organizations that say the armed services might use the test to try to identify h
BETHESDA, Md. - A new test has apparently succeeded in screening AIDS-tainted blood from the nation s supply of blood for transfusions, according to studies reported today at a meeting at the National Institutes of Health. The test, which was licensed last spring, seems to be extremely valuable in screening out blood c
WASHINGTON - Rock Hudson s pilgrimmage to Paris for treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome underscores the difficulties and frustrations confronting patients and doctors in their efforts to combat the disease. It was widely reported last week that Mr. Hudson had been treated with an experimental French drug c
PEKING - The Public Health Ministry said today that an Argentine tourist had died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, and it announced an emergency quarantine to stop the disease from spreading. The ministry said AIDS had never before been reported in China . The ministry report said the Argentine, Oscar M
Local hot lines that provide information on AIDS reported a sharp increase in inquiries since the news that Rock Hudson has the disease became known this week. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroys the body s immune system and is usually fatal. Homosexual men are the highest risk group. The two most active hot l
BOSTON - A key gene from a virus linked to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has been inserted into bacteria to produce a protein that may serve as an accurate diagnostic test and perhaps eventually as a vaccine for the deadly disease, researchers say. The gene contains the instructions for the protein that
PARIS - Hospital officials said today that Rock Hudson is being treated with an experimental drug developed in France to fight Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. Mr. Hudson, who was admitted Sunday to the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly after collapsing in the Ritz Hotel, was reported to be
PARIS - Rock Hudson has AIDS, a usually fatal ailment, his spokesman confirmed Thursday. After two days of confusion about the actor s medical condition, spokesman Yanou Collart said late Thursday afternoon: Mr. Hudson has AIDS. She said the disease, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, was diagnosed a year ago. Mi
LOS ANGELES - Rock Hudson is seriously ill with inoperable liver cancer in a Paris hospital, his publicist said today. The publicist, Dale Olson, said Mr. Hudson, 59 years old, is being treated at the American Hospital in Paris and has been seen by specialists of the Institute Pasteur, which has been active in research
Four years since the public first became aware of AIDS, the lethal viral disease has brought profound changes to the lives of homosexual men in New York. It has had a pervasive effect on homosexual life styles, relationships, sexual patterns and self-images. Many believe the changes to be permanent, and some feel that
AIDS continues to spread rampantly among those in the risk groups, but not outside them, said Dr. David J. Sencer, the New York City Health Commissioner. Of those contracting AIDS, only 1 percent are not in any of the risk groups, just as it was one year ago and two years ago, he said. The rate remains stable. Those at
Government scientists reported today that they had identified a critical defect in the immune system of patients who suffer acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. They said the AIDS virus selectively destroys a key set of blood cells, the T4 helper cells, that are supposed to detect invading viruses and set the
NEW YORK State health officials plan to test a small number of blood samples to determine what role, if any, African swine fever virus plays in causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Although previous tests by Belgian, Dutch and Haitian researchers have not supported a link between African swine fever vi
Dr. James Oleske pulled a plush rabbit from the pocket of his lab coat, but was unable to quiet his 4-year-old patient. Instead, Dr. Oleske turned the restive boy from his back to his stomach and prescribed Valium as a sedative. See you, old buddy, Dr. Oleske said, leaving the hospital room with a salute and a strained
A method of detecting antibodies in blood samples that indicate the presence of the virus believed to cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, and other diseases was patented this week for the Department of Health and Human Services. Patent No. 4,520,113 was granted to Drs. Robert C. Gallo, Mikulas Popavic a
For Lorne Michaels, the creator and original producer of the Saturday Night Live television show, last night was Sunday Night Live. The occasion was the Comic Relief benefit for the AIDS Medical Foundation at the Shubert Theater, followed by a dinner-dance at the Harvard Club. As producer of the show, which raised more
The virus of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, may persist without causing symptoms in the infected person for more than four years and still be transmissible through blood transfusion, scientists reported yesterday. These observations underline the importance of identifying high-risk donors in cases of tra
BALTIMORE - A couple who opened their home to an AIDS victim with as little as six months to live say they have no fear of catching the disease, but they have received telephoned threats from neighbors. The couple, Arline and Robert Mix, said they did not hesitate when one of their sons asked them to provide a home for
ATLANTA - More than 10,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, have been diagnosed around the country, health officials said today, and the number of victims is expected to double in the next year. The Centers for Disease Control here said 4,942 of the nation s 10,000 AIDS victims had died. The death
They went to hospitals to visit people with AIDS. Sometimes they were there as actors, observing the way the disease ravages the people who have it and the emotions of those who work with it. But many times they went as friends, sitting beside a companion or a colleague, feeling the disease weave its way into their per
Victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are crossing the border or turning to the black market to buy an unproved drug made in Mexico , health officials say. No cure is known for the deadly disease that destroys the immune system. It s very upsetting to see all my patients running to Mexico and being t
WASHINGTON - A study of hundreds of doctors, nurses and others exposed at a hospital to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, shows that even such close contact is unlikely to spread the disease. Dr. David Henderson, an epidemiologist for the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, said the study
BOSTON - A new blood test for AIDS will falsely suggest that thousands of healthy blood donors have the fatal disease, and this could frighten off donors unless blood banks double-check results before releasing them, public health officials warn. The test is intended to screen out donated blood contaminated with the AI
For many New Yorkers, the subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS. The social fabric of gay society is being ripped apart, Dr. John L. Martin said, and bein
ATLANTA - THE figures on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are stark: - There have been 9,760 cases in the United States , including at least 4,760 deaths, reported to the Centers for Disease Control here as of April 22. - The estimated costs of treatment, disability and lost work from the first 9,000 cases
THE blood that s coursing through The Normal Heart, the new play by Larry Kramer at the Public Theater, is boiling hot. In this fiercely polemical drama about the private and public fallout of the AIDS epidemic, the playwright starts off angry, soon gets furious and then skyrockets into sheer rage. Although Mr. Kramer
ATLANTA - Intravenous drug users, who make up the second-largest group of victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are beginning to try to take precautions to avoid the deadly disease, a New York health official said here today. At an international meeting on AIDS, the health official, Don C. DesJarlais
ATLANTA - Preventing the spread of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS, could eventually require that everyone in the United States be vaccinated against the disease, when and if a vaccine is developed, the director of the Government s AIDS surveillance program speculated today. Researchers are still far from
LONDON - A 20- month-old boy has died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome that was contracted from blood transfusions he had received in an American hospital, doctors here said today. An inquest ruled that the death this week of the boy, Anthony John Thorpe, the first child to die from AIDS in Britain, was due to m
ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control have dropped recent Haitian immigrants from their list of groups considered to have the highest risk of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, because scientists can no longer justify including them on statistical grounds, an official said today. Recent Haiti
Jim Otton gives in memory of his sister. Joan Murtagh gives because she knows there is a shortage. Cathy Mahan gives to help a critically ill 15- year-old boy she has never met. The three are among the 400,000 people in the New York City area who roll up their sleeves each year and donate a pint of the elixir of life:
Mayor Koch yesterday announced plans to expand services for New York City residents suffering from AIDS, and denounced those who have said his administration had not done enough for victims of the illness. He said the city had spent more than $31 million in the last year through three agencies to provide health care an
When William Hoffman began writing a play about the mysterious disease called AIDS nearly three years ago, he thought he was alone in the calling. He was writing out of a personal pain - the death of a friend who only months before had been robust enough to run a marathon - and he was facing a subject that seemed far t
LONDON - New Government regulations give British magistrates broad authority aimed at protecting the public from AIDS, including in some circumstances the power to order a person to be taken to a hospital and kept there if the local authorities consider him a risk to others. The local authorities may also prevent relat
I think any educational effort that gets to the American people on television is worthwhile, C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States , said the other day, and he went on to describe as extraordinary a pair of programs concerned with two of today s most controversial health issues - cigarette smoking and
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Health officials in the Allentown- Bethlehem area, where at least four cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, have been reported, will soon begin screening blood donors for a virus that has been linked to the disorder, officials said today. Gary Gurian, director of the Allentown Health
BOSTON - The antiviral protein interferon has been found effective against acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, in the test tube, and researchers said today that they thought it might be effective in humans if used soon after infection. Laboratory tests of alpha-interferon, one form of interferon, found that i
NEWARK - A medical installation here will soon offer blood tests to people with a high risk of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The aim is to keep such people from going to blood banks to find out if they have the deadly disease. Allen N. Koplin, deputy commissioner in the State Department of H
There are some subjects audiences would just as soon not hear about in the theater, and surely one of them is AIDS, the lethal illness dramatized by William M. Hoffman in his play, As Is. But it would be a mistake for any theatergoer to reject this work out of squeamishness. Strange as it may sound, Mr. Hoffman has tur
The New York Blood Center plans to begin screening donations next month in an effort to protect the metropolitan region s blood supply from AIDS. Greg MacGregor - a spokesman for the nonprofit center, the major blood research and collection organization in the city - said it would use a newly developed test to begin sc
Washington - The Government has approved a second screening test for blood contaminated by acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, after laboratory results indicating it was the most sensitive indicator of possible exposure to the disorder. Electro-Nucleonics Inc. of Fairfield, N.J., was awarded the second licens
Doctors said the baby had no more than three years to live. Her Haitian mother had died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, and the infant also had the illness. Abandoned by her father, she was kept in a crib in Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami while social workers tried to find a foster home for her.
Washington - Federal health officials say that a blood test to screen for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, licensed today for commercial production, will be widely available in the United States in two to six weeks. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced approval of the test
Federal approval for a test to screen donated blood for a suspected antibody of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is expected to be announced today in Washington, Federal health officials said last night. Officials hope the test will help prevent contamination of the nation s blood supply. Thus far, at leas
Albany - The sign on the desk says simply, THEY - as in THEY won t let me. Behind the sign sits the man who often will not do the letting - Kenneth Shapiro, counsel to the Speaker of the Assembly and considered by many people in government here the second most powerful man in the Assembly. It s a question of what you p
WASHINGTON - The Reagan Administration s spending for research into AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, has not matched the deadly disease s designation as the country s top health priority, according to a new Congressional report. Spending requested by the Department of Health and Human Services in the last thr
A group of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders, in a joint statement of concern, have called on the public not to stand in judgment of AIDS victims, but to grow in compassion for them. The group met last week in a Manhattan church to focus on the needs of those afflicted with AIDS and to rebut assertions that
David Summers built his nightclub act around an illness he knows may kill him soon. Mathew J. Shebar left his Wall Street law practice to give legal counsel to friends and colleagues he saw dying of AIDS. Sister Patrice Murphy expanded her hospice program to minister to patients with AIDS and their families. AIDS has a
DESPITE the announcement by Federal officials last week that the long-awaited AIDS blood test would be delayed at least until the end of next month, there still is a palpable sense of relief among many doctors and the public that a reliable test will soon be available. Implicit in the optimism about the prospects of th
WASHINGTON - Federal health officials have postponed the licensing of a blood test for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, for at least several weeks. They had said the test would be licensed Friday. New York and other states had already been making plans to use the test in expectation that it would be availa
New York City s major blood collection center said yesterday that it was worried that the mandatory testing of all donated blood for a suspected AIDS antibody could cut its donations by nearly a quarter. Officials of the facility, the New York Blood Center, said a recent poll of blood donors had showed that 23 percent
All blood donated in New York State will soon be tested for an antibody to a virus suspected of causing AIDS, the State Department of Health said yesterday. At the same time, a spokesman for the Federal Food and Drug Administration in Washington said the test would soon be required for all blood donated to the more tha
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Scientists have identified an antibody that in laboratory experiments has been found to inactivate the virus suspected of causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a leading AIDS researcher said today. The discovery does not prove you re going to be successful in finding a vaccine, said the r
WASHINGTON - The Federal Government pledged today to help make tests for AIDS available to those unable to pay for it. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said the effort was designed to prevent contamination of blood supplies. The tests screen for antibodies to HTLV-3, a virus believed to caus
AS the world epidemic of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, continues unabated, a new apprehension has begun to take hold among some medical experts. They say their suspicion is growing stronger that the disease may now pose a threat to the heterosexual community, though they hasten to add that this suspicio
HOUSTON - Houston voters today overwhelmingly rejected extending protections against job discrimination to homosexuals. With 96 percent of the city s precincts counted, voters were rejecting by a 4-to-1 ratio two measures adopted by the City Council last June that banned discrimination in city hiring and in affirmative
HOUSTON - A heavy turnout is expected Saturday for a referendum on civil rights for homosexuals that has created high emotion and deep divisions in this east Texas city. Opponents of measures banning discrimination against homosexuals in city hiring, which were passed by the City Council last June but drew enough publi
Two scientific groups have independently reported complete analyses of the genetic material of the virus that is believed to cause the deadly disease acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Their success is considered important not only as a powerful aid to understanding the virus and how it causes illness, but a
MANY young adults think they will live forever, or at least until a very old age, said Steven L. Gittleson, a New York lawyer who has written a number of wills for younger people. They may think that doing a will or estate planning just doesn t apply to them. As a matter of the actuarial tables, they may be right. Man
Two schoolteachers, four drug addicts, a retired opera singer, a college student, a butcher, a former police officer, three housekeepers, a homeless alcoholic, a wealthy executive, three dressmakers, a retired longshoreman, a convicted thief and 123 other patients died in one month at St. Luke s-Roosevelt Hospital Cent
WASHINGTON - Cautious optimism advanced on two fronts today that a reliable blood test might soon be available that would detect the virus believed to cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler said, she expected the test to be widely available in blood collection
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Despite a critical blood shortage in southern California, a Red Cross official says he has canceled a lesbian blood drive because he does not want to lose the good will of other donors over the fear of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The decision by the official, Dr. Benjam
WASHINGTON - Scientists reported today that they had found the virus suspected of causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the brains of AIDS victims who suffered memory loss, impaired concentration and other signs of dementia . The discovery came as a surprise because the HTLV-3 virus, believed to cause AIDS, wa
SAN FRANCISCO - Private hospitals may soon have to make room for patients with AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, because of the rapidly increasing number of victims of the fatal disease, an expert says. The expert, Dr. Paul Volberding, is director of the AIDS clinic at the city- operated San Francisco Gener
BORN out of the complexity of modern technology, the era of the vast, big-budget research team came into its own with its scientific achievements of 1984. The trend diminishes the impact of the lone, creative genius, who for centuries was considered the driving force behind the important revolutions of science. Last ye
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