FREEHOLD, N.J. - Earlier this year, Kenneth Meeks and Jack Steinhebel drove an hour from Manhattan to Kenneth s parents condominium here in the suburbs for lunch. Ken Meeks had something to say to his mother The main participants at lunch that day were: THE SON, Kenneth Meeks, 44 years old, former public school teacher
WHILE the need for blood donations on Long Island has increased steadily, officials report that the amount of blood donated has declined recently because of what they say is an unwarranted fear of contracting AIDS. It s an irrational fear of the disease, said Dr. Theodore Robertson, director of Long Island Blood Servic
In a Christmas Eve act of mercy, three state prisoners who are terminally ill with AIDS were released from Sing Sing last week after Mother Teresa asked that they be allowed to enter a new hospice on a church-owned site in Manhattan. The three men, all serving sentences for robbery, were brought to St. Clare s Hospital
State health officials said last week that they planned to create 10 to 15 hospital-based AIDS centers, most of them in New York City, to emphasize hospice care and home services rather than heroic measures and long hospital stays. New regulations, to be proposed to the State Hospital Review and Planning Council next m
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 - Invariably, in the 10 weeks before a President submits a budget to Congress, there are reports about what he intends to propose. Here are some of the proposals that President Reagan has considered for inclusion in his 1987 budget, scheduled for submission to Congress early in February: * Reduce Me
A Christmas Eve request from Mother Teresa brought about the release yesterday of three state prisoners who are suffering from AIDS. They are to be cared for at a hospice the Roman Catholic nun opened last night in the West Village. We are hoping that they will be able to live and die in peace by getting tender love an
IN many laboratories here and abroad, scientists are working urgently to find drugs that will work against the deadly virus that causes AIDS. Rock Hudson s recent death after a futile trip to Europe for treatment with a drug called HPA-23 and the French announcement that cyclosporine looked hopeful against acquired imm
New York State plans to create a system of hospital-based AIDS centers that will emphasize hospice care and home services, rather than long hospital stays. New regulations being proposed by state health officials would authorize the creation of 10 to 15 primary-care AIDS centers in hospitals, most of them in New York C
In a major policy change, New York City has decided to make the blood test for the AIDS virus more widely available by permitting local hospitals to administer it. The decision, which will be put into place in the next few weeks, relaxes what has been regarded as the nation s most restrictive policy on the procedure.
The AIDS epidemic has transformed Bellevue Hospital Center to such an extent that the fatal disorder of the immune system is now the municipal hospital s single most common medical diagnosis. Although the fear of contagion that initially gripped the hospital has abated in recent months, Bellevue still faces the grim re
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 - For a $291 annual premium, the Coastal Insurance Company will insure you against getting AIDS. The policy, which pays for certain medical costs, was approved for sale in California last January and is now selling in Nevada, Arizona and Washington State as well. More than 1,200 people have purchas
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 - Andrew, a Los Angeles businessman in his 40 s, received some bad news last week: His application for health insurance had been turned down by a major California insurance company. According to his independent insurance broker, Brent O. Nance, the company feared that Andrew might contract AIDS.
GENEVA, Dec. 21 - In an important change of attitude, major African countries have started to become more open about AIDS, and officials of the World Health Organization , in an expression of mounting concern, say they plan a new push to control the global epidemic of the usually fatal disease. This week
President Reagan was told today that the Government was waging an unprecedented effort to seek a vaccine for AIDS and that finding methods to counteract the disease was the No. 1 priority of health officials. In his first major meeting to discuss Government efforts to deal with the usually fatal disease, Mr. Reagan hea
The AIDS virus was detected in the saliva of only one of 71 homosexual men known to be infected with the disease, according to a new report. Scientists said the finding should help allay public fears that acquired immune deficiency syndrome could spread through casual social contact. Not only was the AIDS virus rare in
On a hot day last August, Patrick McCalister discovered a purplish spot on his leg. He had been walking in the country the weekend before and thought it might be a bug bite. But when the mark did not go away, he went to see a doctor. It did not occur to him then that it would turn out to be Kaposi s sarcoma, a skin can
Mayor Koch called on Governor Cuomo yesterday to increase drug-treatment programs in New York City sharply to help combat the spread of AIDS among drug addicts. Mr. Koch acted as the City Health Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, called drug abuse the main health problem in the city today and warned that little could b
One-third of American adults say they are less favorably disposed toward homosexuals as a result of the AIDS epidemic, according to the latest Gallup Poll. But six in 10 adults said the outbreak of acquired immunity deficiency syndrome, which primarily affects homosexual men, intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs, ha
A rights debate has been mounting on two parallel fronts: caring for the homeless, and curbing the transmission of AIDS. The issues come more clearly into focus where AIDS (or acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is concerned, if only because of the immediacy and gravity of an epidemic that has killed half its victims
A rights debate has been mounting on two parallel fronts: caring for the homeless, and curbing the transmission of AIDS. The issues come more clearly into focus where AIDS (or acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is concerned, if only because of the immediacy and gravity of an epidemic that has killed half its victims
NEW BRUNSWICK - EDUCATING teen-agers - not barring elementary school AIDS victims from the classroom - is the way to stop the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in schools, a panel of medical experts told a conference of nearly 300 school board members and nurses. We re missing the boat by directing all our
PARIS, Dec. 14 - Researchers have found more corroborating evidence that AIDS is spreading in Africa to pose substantial risks to newborn infants and to affect about as many women as men, primarily by heterosexual intercourse. The evidence comes from studies in Zambia by Zambian, American and Canadian researchers invol
HOUSTON, Dec. 14 - The Texas Health Department today approved stringent new regulations designed to prevent private hospitals from sending seriously ill patients whom they consider poor financial risks to public hospitals. The regulations are intended to stop the shipping of patients without insurance - including women
The Office of Management and Budget is proposing to reduce Medicare physician fees, restrict Federal payment for home health services and cut spending on AIDS as part of President Reagan s budget for the fiscal year 1987. Doctors fees under Medicare, the health insurance program for 30 million elderly and disabled peop
A method of treating blood plasma fractions to reduce the effect of viruses has been interpreted as offering advantages in preventing transmission of AIDS-related viruses to patients such as those suffering from hemophilia. Patent 4,556,558, granted Alan Rubinstein and assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Ang
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 - Even sitting exhausted in a chair in his room at San Francisco General Hospital, John Lere can still talk about how he likes to raid the communal refrigerator at night. Talking between breaths from an oxygen mask, he likes to joke that his primary care nurse, Charles Cloniger, is like having Mo
PARIS, Dec. 13 - Intensifying a bitter dispute over who first established the cause of AIDS, officials of the Pasteur Institute, a leading French research organization, announced today that it had sued the United States Government. The director of the institute, Raymond Dedonder, contended at a news conference that its
New York s public school staff members who supervise mentally retarded children carrying the hepatitis B virus face a small increased risk of infection with the disease agent, according to a new study. Experts said the danger could be eliminated through wider use of a vaccine. But they said many school workers had resi
The virus that causes AIDS can also produce meningitis, an acute infection of the membranes that line the brain and spinal cord, according to reports published yesterday. The new findings indicate that the AIDS virus must be added to the list of viruses and bacteria that have long been known to cause meningitis. Two
LUSAKA, Zambia - IT was 20 years ago and I was an epidemiologist leading an immunization campaign in West Africa. The refrigerators aboard the trucks we drove carrying vaccines to villages at the edge of the Sahara would not work in the 100-degree heat. When an official of the sponsoring Agency for International Develo
LUSAKA, Zambia - A rare cancer, Kaposi s sarcoma, has changed rapidly in Africa and is now playing a disturbing role in the worldwide epidemic of AIDS. The cancer is believed to be striking young Africans at a significantly higher rate than ever before. A relationship between AIDS and this new, more aggressive form of
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 7 - More than 250 school board members, administrators and nurses were told today that concerns about the dangers of spreading the AIDS virus through casual contact in the classroom were not based on scientific evidence. Rather than fighting to keep young AIDS victims out of school, parents an
Martha Raye, Cleo Laine, Don Scardino and John Herrera will be among the celebrities participating in Close Upon the Hour, an evening of music to benefit the American Run for the End of AIDS tomorrow at 7 P.M. in the Triplex Theater at Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street. The money will help finance Brent
New York City obtained a court order yesterday to close the New St. Marks Baths in the East Village, in a continuing crackdown against places that permit high risk sexual activity linked to the spread of AIDS. The city said that between Nov. 2 and Dec. 4, nine city inspectors at the bathhouse, which caters to a homosex
The City Health Commmissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, has resigned to work in the Middle East on a health project in Oman , Mayor Koch announced yesterday. Dr. Sencer said he was leaving strictly at my own volition to work overseas. Mr. Koch said that Dr. Sencer had performed brilliantly and that he was sorry to see hi
Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. Edmund Gordon, a psychologist at Yale University, as chairman of a new commission that is to determine minimum standards for New York City s public schools. In an interview on the WNBC-TV program News Forum, Mr. Quinones also said the Board o
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
A new form of cocaine is for sale on the streets of New York, alarming law-enforcement officials and rehabilitation experts because of its tendency to accelerate abuse of the drug, particularly among adolescents. The substance, known as crack, is already processed into the purified form that enables cocaine users to sm
The New York Civil Liberties Union charged yesterday that police officers and city inspectors lied in saying there was prostitution at Plato s Retreat, because city officials were under political pressure to close the Manhattan club. Richard Emery, a lawyer for the Civil Liberties Union, argued in State Supreme Court i
The time has come for the Government to underwrite a nationwide effort to produce an effective vaccine against HTLV III, the virus that causes AIDS. Though a frightening new disease, AIDS is no longer so novel that such an effort would be premature. Samples of the virus have been isolated and their entire sets of genes
For the students of the Birch Wathen School who meet weekly to discuss local and global problems in a community service seminar, volunteering is nothing new. What is new for the group, whose members average age is 17, is raising money for AIDS research and inviting speakers from the Gay Men s Health Crisis and the Nati
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov 24 - Homosexual politicians held a national meeting this weekend to discuss establishing their own political platform. Many said that homosexuals could no longer rely solely on liberal political groups to support candidates who acknowledge their homosexuality and to address such issues as AI
WITH neither a vaccine nor a cure in sight, public and private health care and social service agencies in Connecticut are fighting the spread of AIDS with the only tool we have available - education, said Dr. James L. Hadler, chief of the State Department of Health Services epidemiology section. We are trying to get th
The editor of the student newspaper at the New York City campus of Pace University resigned last week after a faculty committee decided to shut down the paper and recommend his dismissal as editor for publishing an article that used graphic language in describing healthy sex, or ways for homosexuals to avoid getting th
BRUSSELS, Nov. 23 - As scientists intensify their search for the reasons so many African men and women are suffering from AIDS, new studies reported here point the finger of culpability, at least in part, at risky blood transfusion practices throughout that continent. The average African has a 9 percent chance of becom
The International Herald Tribune reported yesterday that the Government of Kenya had confiscated the Nov. 9 issue of the Paris-based newspaper, apparently because of displeasure with an article on AIDS in Africa. The article, by Lawrence K. Altman, originally appeared in The New York Times on Nov. 8. Walter Wells,
New York City obtained a court order yesterday to shut down a Manhattan club, Plato s Retreat, where it said acts of prostitution had taken place. Although no sexual practices linked to the spread of AIDS were observed there, city officials said, the prostitution was first reported by undercover inspectors from the Dep
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 - As New York seeks to slow the spread of AIDS, elected officials here and in Los Angeles are considering actions to close or strictly regulate bathhouses and other facilities catering to homosexuals that permit sexual activities linked to the disease. New York State has empowered local health of
An auction of contemporary art at Sotheby s to benefit the Gay Men s Health Crisis raised $663,350 last night, one of the highest totals ever for a benefit auction. Over 600 people gathered to bid on 83 works by such artists as De Kooning, Rauschenberg, Twombly and Hockney, all of which were donated by the artists. The
The New York State Health Commissioner said yesterday that the state s drive to curb unsafe sexual activity linked to the spread of AIDS will be extended to any hotel in which such activity is found to be taking place. Appearing on the WNBC-TV program News Forum, the Commissioner, Dr. David Axelrod, said that since new
Television stations in New York and at least two other major cities plan to begin airing public service announcements urging Americans to contribute to the fight against AIDS. Carol Burnett was in New York at the studios of WNBC-TV recently recording the announcements for the newly formed American Foundation for AIDS R
NAIROBI, Kenya , Nov. 18 - Tantalizing but sketchy clues pointing to Africa as the origin of AIDS have unleashed one of the bitterest disputes in the recent annals of medicine. Thus far the search has led American research to two African children who in 1963 lived in Upper Volta, now B
WITH the nation s future supply of research chimpanzees in jeopardy, Federal authorities plan to create a special population of 350 pampered animals that would be exempted from medical duties and enjoy emotionally rich upbringings designed to enhance their reproductive skills. Medical scientists consider chimpanzees, t
A child whose attendance in a New York City public school has been the subject of a bitter court fight does not technically suffer from AIDS, a panel of seven doctors has determined. But the panel did find that the child has been infected with the AIDS virus and suffers from a related immune-system deficiency. Dr. Davi
The New York State Health Commis sioner said yesterday that the state s drive to curb unsafe sexual activity linked to the spread of AIDS will be extended to any hotel in which such activity is found to be taking place. Appearing on the WNBC-TV program News Forum, the Commissioner, Dr. David Axelrod, said that since ne
Television stations in New York and at least two other major cities plan to begin airing public service announcements urging Americans to contribute to the fight against AIDS. Carol Burnett was in New York at the studios of WNBC-TV recently recording the announcements for the newly formed American Foundation for AIDS R
IN THE wake of the death of a Long Island schoolteacher with AIDS, local school districts are trying to come up with procedures for handling teachers or students who might be diagnosed as having the illness. School superintendents said there already are procedures for dealing with most communicable diseases, such as in
A state judge has criticized Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d for not advocating immediate economic penalties against countries that export heroin to the United States . The judge - Francis T. Murphy Jr., the presiding justice of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court s First Department - chastised Mr. Meese for
In the past two months, Rosella Arnold has made five trips to the blood bank at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Each time she rolled up a sleeve and watched as a nurse inserted a needle into her arm and withdrew blood. A total of six pints of blood, Mrs. Arnold said, was required for a hip operation, wh
WOODBRIDGE - IN THE law library at Rahway State Prison here is a three-inch-thick collection of brochures and newspaper and magazine articles about AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) published since last January. They have been collected by, and belong to, a prisoner who works in the library. The inmate - call
The frustration of many homosexuals over what they say is growing discrimination and hysteria generated by the fear of AIDS erupted at City Hall yesterday - at a demonstration outside and a hearing inside. About 100 men and women, chanting Fight AIDS, Not Gays and carrying signs like 1935 - Juden Verboten, 1985 - Homos
The frustration of many homosexuals over what they say is growing discrimination and hysteria generated by the fear of AIDS erupted at City Hall yesterday - at a demonstration outside and a hearing inside. About 100 men and women, chanting Fight AIDS, Not Gays and carrying signs like 1935 - Juden Verboten, 1985 - Homos
To his credit, Arthur J. Bressan Jr. s Buddies is heartfelt and serious, although it s also talky enough to dispel many of the emotions it means to arouse. Buddies is a two-character drama about an AIDS patient named Robert Willow (Geoff Edholm) and a volunteer worker named David Bennett (David Schachter), who pays Rob
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - Nhe United States Public Health Service said today that there was generally no need to place special restrictions on food handlers and health-care workers infected with AIDS because there was no evidence the virus has spread through casual contact. Instead, it urged adherence to sanitary precautio
The city and state governments have allowed public fear of AIDS to stimulate criticism of the homosexual community, City Councilwoman Ruth W. Messinger charged last night. Mrs. Messinger, a Manhattan Democrat, spoke to about 500 people at an organizational meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League at the Me
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - New guidelines on AIDS in the workplace, to be announced by the Department of Health and Human Services Thursday, recommend against screening workers for exposure to the virus that can cause the deadly illness even when their jobs bring them close to the public. Officials in the Public Health Serv
An Early Frost, an NBC-TV drama about AIDS, dealt with painful issues. But there was cheering among nearly 50 men and women who gathered in an Upper West Side apartment to watch the broadcast. The group had surpassed its goal in raising money for the Gay Men s Health Crisis, a support organization for people with AIDS
The virus that causes AIDS can also produce meningitis, an acute infection of the membranes that line the brain and spinal cord, according to reports published yesterday. The new findings indicate that the AIDS virus must be added to the list of viruses and bacteria that have long been known to cause meningitis. Two
TELEVISION S belated discovery of acquired immune deficiency syndrome is poised to enter the maximum-saturation stage. AIDS is hot copy, providing news programs with footage of everything from parents picketing schools to bars being shut down by stern-looking authorities. Unfortunately, the coverage has often been less
BRUSSELS, Nov. 10 - The authorities in Western Europe could prevent the spread of AIDS, researchers say, but lack of funds may prevent them from doing so. The researchers, participants in a recent three-day conference on the disease, say the European authorities could identify people exposed to the AIDS virus and educa
WHEN the man was diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome last year, he and his wife sought help from the Center for Illness in Families in New Haven. His physical needs were cared for by his physician, but the couple s emotional needs were basically neglected, and that is where the center stepped in. When we
After long maintaining silence about AIDS, the Soviet press in recent months has taken to reporting on the disease, though insisting that no cases have occurred in the Soviet Union. The Soviet reports have avoided saying the disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is prevalent among homosexuals, since male homose
Mayor Koch proposed yesterday that state and Federal tax agencies join the city in creating a task force to look into ways of collecting taxes from businesses and individuals that do not report their earnings. There is no doubt, Mr. Koch said, there are tens of thousand of individuals and businesses who are not paying
After two years on a calmer course, state health authorities have started to get tough with New York City bathhouses, bars and other commercial establishments that persist in fostering high-risk sexual activity associated with the spread of the AIDS virus among homosexuals. Joined now by city administrators, they still
In their first attempt to invoke new state rules to combat the spread of AIDS, New York City officials closed a Greenwich Village bar last week. City health inspectors said the bar, called the Mine Shaft, was frequented by homosexuals, some of whom engaged in sex openly. The inspectors also said that, in visits to the
Anyone caught engaging in sex with another person will be asked to leave, warns a new sign over the sex-film booths in a West Side pornography bookstore catering to homosexual men. No sex on the premises, a tattooed manager pointedly tells patrons before accepting their $12 membership fees to a now largely deserted sa
State and city officials began separate investigations yesterday after officials said that the Mine Shaft bar, closed Thursday for permitting high-risk sexual activity, had won status as a not-for-profit corporation. That status, making it exempt from most state corporation taxes, was routinely granted in 1976, state o
In a place that honors healing, a memorial will be dedicated tomorrow to the victims of a sickness that cannot yet be healed. And those who have planned the memorial know that tomorrow is only the beginning, that the list of those who are being remembered will keep growing. But the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Paul Mo
New York City yesterday closed a bar frequented by homosexuals, contending that it permitted high-risk sexual activity linked to the spread of AIDS. It was the first such action taken by the city since New York State enacted new rules designed to curb the growing incidence of the deadly disease by empowering local gove
KIGALI, Rwanda - AIDS appears to be spreading by conventional sexual intercourse among heterosexuals in Africa and is striking women nearly as often as men, according to researchers here. These scientists are involved in two related battles: controlling the incurable disease and fighting suppression of information cruc
In recent days, at a closed meeting on AIDS in central Africa, the World Health Organization began to take steps to ease the serious tensions that have pitted leading medical scientists against top African government officials. The meeting, held in Bangui, Central African Republic , was the first
Mayor Koch announced early yesterday that his administration would go to court later in the day to seek to close an establishment where sexual practices that can transmit AIDS were believed to take place. But by the time the state s courthouses had closed yesterday afternoon, the city had not yet acted. Harried-looking
Mayor Koch announced early yesterday that his administration would go to court later in the day to seek to close an establishment where sexual practices that can transmit AIDS were believed to take place. But by the time the state s courthouses had closed yesterday afternoon, the city had not yet acted. Harried-looking
HOUSTON, Nov. 6 - In the end, all the sound and fury over homosexuality and the disease AIDS signified little. Kathy Whitmire easily won re-election as Mayor of Houston Tuesday, political experts said, by convincing Houstonians that she was a good Mayor, better able than her opponent to lead the city out of its economi
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6 - Until the announcement in July that Rock Hudson was suffering from AIDS, the movie industry had been under no special pressure to address the social consequences of the deadly disease. But his illness and death, because it sharpened Hollywood s awareness of its own vulnerability, has triggered a rea
HOUSTON, Nov. 6 - In the end, all the sound and fury over homosexuality and the disease AIDS signified little. Kathy Whitmire easily won re-election as Mayor of Houston Tuesday, political experts said, by convincing Houstonians that she was a good Mayor, better able than her opponent to lead the city out of its economi
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6 - Until the announcement in July that Rock Hudson was suffering from AIDS, the movie industry had been under no special pressure to address the social consequences of the deadly disease. But his illness and death, because it sharpened Hollywood s awareness of its own vulnerability, has triggered a rea
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is planning to turn the rectory of a West Village church into a shelter for AIDS patients, a priest at the church said yesterday. The priest, the Rev. Aloysius Jenko of St. Veronica s Church on Christopher Street, said reports that the parish rectory had been selected were tru
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 - NBC plans to broadcast a special news report and undertake an educational campaign in conjunction with An Early Frost, a drama about AIDS that is scheduled to be shown Monday evening. The two-hour drama is about a young homosexual lawyer (played by Aidan Quinn) whose family is thrown into a crisis
A SCIENTIFIC debate has emerged over whether prostitutes are likely to spread AIDS among heterosexuals, a group that has largely been spared by the nation s AIDS epidemic up to now. Many scientists, including New York City s health authorities, say the fear that prostitutes will be a major conduit of acquired immune de
Houstonians will choose Tuesday between their new Mayor, Kathy Whitmire, and their old Mayor, Louie Welch. The polls show Mrs. Whitmire well ahead and even some of Mr. Welch s own confidants say privately that she will win easily. The mayoral election in Houston is one of a score in major American cities, including New
The Metropolitan Opera House was awash with emotion last evening, as more than 25 stars from the four corners of show business donated their talents to The Best of the Best: A Show of Concern, a three-and-a-half-hour gala to benefit AIDS research and care. The array of talent ranged from the opera singer Marilyn Horne,
Private contributions to help AIDS victims and to support research into the disease have been few and relatively modest, but New York s philanthropic community is edging toward increasing such financing, according to foundation officials and others. This view emerged at a conference in Manhattan last week on The AIDS C
The growing number of AIDS victims unable to pay their hospital bills threatens the financial stability of the nation s health-care system, hospital administrators told a Congressional subcommittee this week. New York hospitals may face the greatest strain because they are treating a relatively high percentage of AIDS
I am concerned that people know exactly what we are doing, Mayor Koch said last week of New York City s response to new state rules to combat the spread of AIDS. It was nonetheless hard to know precisely what the city was up to. After the state announced its emergency regulations two weeks ago, Mr. Koch, along with so
Governor Cuomo said yesterday that it was an absurdity to suggest that there would be difficulty enforcing new state rules that allowed the closing of bathhouses patronized by homosexuals. They ought to tear up your law license if you say you can t do this without a cop, the Governor said. He spoke a day after Mayor Ko
HOLLYWOOD - The decision this week by the Screen Actors Guild to identify open-mouth kissing as dangerous work out of fear that it may increase the risk of AIDS infection has set the stage for a confrontation between actors and producers. Many people in the film industry are afraid that the new rule will trigger a back
Mayor Koch said yesterday that New York City had begun to carry out the state s new rules to combat the spread of AIDS, just hours after complaining that the rules were so inadequate that they defied immediate enforcement. The Mayor, surrounded by lawyers and advisers at a hastily called news conference shortly after 5
A 35-year-old hospital patient, believed to be an AIDS victim, jumped to his death from a 17th-floor window of University Hospital at 9 P.M. yesterday, the police reported. The patient, whose name was withheld, used a cane to break the window in his room at the hospital, which is a part of the New York University Medic
Because of the fear of AIDS among its members, the Screen Actors Guild is requiring the 7,000 producers and agents with whom it has contracts to notify performers in advance of any scenes that require open-mouth kissing. The guild has sent a letter describing such scenes as a possible hazard to the health of actors in
New York State s new policy on AIDS was as much a political decision as a scientific one, intended in part to create the impression that Governor Cuomo had taken a tough but medically sound approach to one of most delicate and least approachable issues of our time, in the view of many public officials and homosexual ac
PARIS, Oct. 29 - Three French doctors said today that a new treatment might prevent the progression of the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. But their announcement, at a news conference here, was quickly criticized by other AIDS researchers in France and the United States
All 946,000 of New York City s public school students were sent home early yesterday to give teachers, administrators and the other adults who serve them an opportunity to learn about AIDS. At 900 public schools across the city, more than 100,000 educators and clerical and manual workers gathered in auditoriums and lun
As AIDS becomes more widely dispersed in the population, more women who may once have perceived the disease as largely confined to men are worrying about their own risks of infection. Almost half of the nation s women with AIDS live in New York City, and more than four-fifths of these are black or Hispanic women. Accor
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has been operating a temporary shelter for AIDS patients at an undisclosed location for more than a month, church officials say. A spokesman for the archdiocese, the Rev. Peter Finn, said over the weekend that the shelter, for patients released from hospitals, opened approxima
The Defense Department, in guidelines for testing active military personnel for AIDS, has barred the automatic dismissal of individuals who, in the course of the testing, acknowledge that they are homosexuals or drug users. The memorandum, issued Friday, says acknowledgments made in testing for AIDS, acquired immune de
Voluntary cooperation by bathhouses catering to homosexuals will be vital to the enforcement of a new state rule that seeks to control the spread of AIDS by barring such establishments from allowing high-risk sexual activities, a city health official said yesterday. There s no two ways about it, said the official, Jean
WORRY over acquired immune deficiency syndrome has spurred dozens of Long Island residents to call local hot lines for information on the blood test that can indicate whether they are carrying the AIDS antibody. Telephone counselors provide information about the test, known as the HTLV-3 antibody blood test, and make a
New York State last week took its most drastic step yet to slow the spread of AIDS. It promulgated measures designed to restrict places that provide a haven for dangerous sex, the kind that involves an exchange of bodily fluids and along with them the virus that destroys the body s immune system and leaves it vulnerabl
KEY WEST, Fla., Oct. 26 - In 1948, Tony Tarracino elected to go to Florida for his health. The risk to his health was the strong arm of some hoods in Elizabeth, N.J., who had decided that Mr. Tarracino s bets with them on horses were costing them too much money. The bookmakers pursuit carried some resentment after they
A single recording performed by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Gladys Knight to benefit AIDS research was released yesterday. All profits and royalties from That s What Friends Are For - including those of the performers, of Arista Records, of the song s writers and producers, Burt Bacharach and Carole B
In authorizing officials to close establishments permitting high-risk sexual activities, New York State yesterday joined states and cities across the country that are enacting a raft of proposalsprompted by public concern about AIDS. From town halls to the halls of Congress, laws and guidelines have been adopted or pro
New York State, seeking to slow the spread of AIDS, empowered local health officials yesterday to close homosexual bathhouses and other places where high-risk sexual activities take place. The decision gave health authorities the right to padlock such places as public nuisances for the next 60 days. The emergency regul
Mother Teresa said yesterday that she planned to open and operate a shelter in New York City for AIDS victims. I came to offer our services for our brothers and sisters who are suffering with AIDS, Mother Teresa, the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, told reporters yesterday after meeting briefly with Mayor Koch at
Following are excerpts from a debate held yesterday at The New York Times by Mayor Koch and three of his opponents in the Nov. 5 election: Carol Bellamy, the Liberal candidate; Diane McGrath, the Republican-Conservative candidate, and Rabbi Lew Y. Levin, the Right to Life candidate: School Boards Q: I m going to start
ALBANY, Oct. 24 - Bathhouses and other establishments that encourage dangerous sex would be closed under a proposed new state health regulation intended to halt the spread of AIDS, Governor Cuomo said today. The State Health Commissioner, Dr. David Axelrod, said he would recommend the new regulation on Friday to the Pu
The nation s major professional association of pediatricians recommended yesterday that most children with AIDS should be allowed to attend school in a normal manner. The American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 28,000 children s doctors, endorsed the recommendation issued by Federal authorities in August that
Mayor Koch yesterday appealed for more Federal and state money to help New York City cope with the spread of AIDS. He wrote to President Reagan and Governor Cuomo on the eve of an Albany news conference in which Mr. Cuomo was to begin what staff members called a major educational initiative on AIDS, or acquired immune
Officials here say that a year-old legal effort to prohibit unsafe sex at public bathhouses appears to be having encouraging but limited success in curtailing the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Dr. Dean Echenberg, director of the San Francisco Health Department s Bureau of Communicable Disease
Colleges in the New York area, faced with mounting student and parental concern over AIDS, have started programs to teach students and staff members about the disease. Some college officials began the programs after students or teachers contracted the disease, but most say they are acting because they are sure there wi
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - An expert in infectious diseases said today that black people in the United States were being disproportionately afflicted by acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and he called for a major educational effort to warn blacks of the risks and how to avoid AIDS. Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious
WELLINGTON, New Zealand- It was the biggest petition effort in the history of New Zealand, bigger even than the drive a decade ago to save the white birch trees of the South Island. The subject reflected the changing times in this nation where urbanization and modern values are challenging traditional ways of life: hom
Mayor Koch said yesterday that treatment of AIDS patients was breaking the bank of municipal governments and charitable institutions, and he called on the Federal Government to pick up more of the costs. In an interview on the WCBS-TV program Newsmakers, Mr. Koch said he would ask Federal authorities to make people wit
THE deadly disease AIDS hardly seems the stuff of humor. But an actor from Long Island who stars in a cable television comedy series that will feature a character with acquired immune deficiency syndrome says the effort is a way to reach and educate the public. We re dealing with people s basic fears of survival, said
Freddy Lambert cannot escape the consequences of a five-year drug addiction that drove him to inject himself with heroin and cocaine, sometimes with dirty needles, in abandoned buildings and friends apartments and that eventually landed him in prison. Mr. Lambert said he had given up drugs six years ago. But last March
EAST NORTHPORT, L.I., Oct. 18 - A teacher here died of AIDS last summer, officials said Thursday. But far from prompting the panic that has often followed such a disclosure, parents here seemed more interested in discussing how a teacher who was seriously ill - perhaps too ill to teach effectively - had gone unnoticed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - The Defense Department has decided to screen all 2.1 million military personnel for infection by the virus that can cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a Pentagon official said today. Those who are found to have the AIDS disease itself will be treated and counseled and will receive
Army scientists reported today that 15 out of 41 victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or related disorders who were evaluated at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center had become infected through sexual contact with a partner of the opposite sex. The scientists said their findings had important implications in
New York City expects to spend up to $100 million this year to provide medical and social services to victims of AIDS, mainly for intensive care in municipal hospitals and clinics, city officials said yesterday. The new estimate - which includes some Federal and state reimbursement - was provided by the City Health Dep
EVIDENCE is mounting rapidly of a grim new dimension to acquired immune deficiency syndrome: The fatal disease can devastate the victims brains as well as their immune defense systems. According to doctors estimates, 30 percent of AIDS patients also show symptoms of brain disease or damage to the spinal cord. Some of t
Attendance has declined at the 10 homosexual bathhouses in New York since the onset of the AIDS epidemic, according to the city s Department of Health. But some of the owners report that business remains profitable despite mounting public pressure that the baths be closed. I ve gone through my own particular moral cris
The public almost never gets the chance to meet an actor offstage to discuss his thoughts about a particular play. But that is just what happened the other day at the end of As Is, the Broadway play about AIDS. Rather than take one final bow, the actors -joined by the play s author and its producer - came out onto the
The lawyer for two Queens community school boards sought to show in court Friday that New York City officials were failing to follow Federal guidelines for dealing with school-children with AIDS. City officials say their method for determining if these pupils should be allowed to attend school complies with the guideli
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - The National Education Association said today that schools ought to be able to require tests to screen for exposure to AIDS in students or teachers when there was reasonable cause to believe they had been infected. In a statement approved by the organization s board of directors, the teacher s grou
SOFIA, Bulgaria , Oct. 9 - The second day of a Unesco conference here was dominated today by a Soviet-led effort to dismiss all American nationals working for the agency, from which the United States resigned in protest at the end of last year. The Soviet effort, supported by Algeria
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Federal health officials today reported some progress toward developing drugs to combat AIDS but warned that the quest for a cure was an almost impossible task. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that leading researchers met here Monday an
State Senator John J. Marchi and William E. Simon, the former Treasury Secretary, led a group of Republican and independent politicians, lawyers and business leaders in endorsing Mayor Koch yesterday. I will help my party best, my neighbors best and my fellow New Yorkers best by making sure that Ed Koch stays here to c
New York City s Health Commissioner said yesterday that it would have been advantageous if the city had announced a policy by last spring on admitting children with AIDS to public schools, but he said it would have been inappropriate for the city to have done so then. The Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, said that at
Western European nations are experiencing a sharp increase in cases of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, comparable to the rapid rise in cases experienced in the United States , the World Health Organization has reported. The number of AIDS cases in 10 Western European countries is reported to have risen by
School Chancellor Nathan Quinones said in court yesterday that he and other city officials had been regrettably tardy in not devising a plan earlier to deal with pupils with AIDS. He acknowledged he had underestimated the potential explosiveness of the issue. But he insisted that Federal and state health officials also
What has been the aftermath of the recent barrage of news about AIDS? The clear pattern we re seeing is that people are being exposed to this information and seem to be selectively picking out the worrisome news, said Susan J. Rosenthal, director of the New York City Health Department s AIDS Hotline. In recent weeks ne
Governor Cuomo condemned the Black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan yesterday as an advocate of ideas that are ugly and divisive and wrong and hateful. He said he was gratified that black leaders and many people in the black community had rejected Mr. Farrakhan s message. Mr. Cuomo s remarks came during an appearance on
Diane McGrath, the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, has a plan for controlling the spread of AIDS. She would require all doctors, nurses, teachers, food handlers and prostitutes to take the blood test that detects antibody to the AIDS virus, and would bar those testing positive from contact with the public.
While the actor Rock Hudson was mourned last week, public health officials and experts offered an uncertain prognosis for AIDS, the disease that killed him. No cure for the affliction, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is expected anytime soon, the Public Health Service conceded when it unveiled a long-range plan fo
Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch indicated yesterday that they were reconsidering their opposition to the closing of bathhouses catering to homosexuals as a way of reducing the spread of AIDS. The city s Schools Chancellor, meantime, in a move apparently designed to allay fears over AIDS, said that all classrooms would ha
Mayor Koch yesterday rejected a recommendation that the sale of hypodermic needles and syringes be made easier to curb the spread of AIDS among drug users who share dirty needles. The city s Health Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, had proposed that the Mayor seek a change in state law to permit over-the-counter sales
Governor Cuomo plans a major education effort by the state to inform New Yorkers about AIDS and combat possible panic from misinformation about the disease, a spokesman for the Governor said last night. The spokesman, Gary Fryer, said the campaign would include additional literature and interviews by health experts on
Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones said yesterday that three children had been removed from classes by community school district superintendents this term because of suspicions that boyfriends of the students mothers had AIDS. The students themselves, he said, had not been reported as having acquired immune deficiency
BOSTON - The dean of the Harvard School of Public Health warned today that AIDS was spreading through sexual activity into the general population. At the same time, a leading Harvard researcher expressed the opinion that recent assertions about the safety of the nation s blood supply had been grossly exaggerated. But
Rock Hudson, the actor whose handsome looks and flair for comedy made him a romantic idol of the 1950 s and 60 s, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 59 years old and had been suffering for more than a year from AIDS. Mr. Hudson, whose search for medical treatment in recent months focused worldwide attent
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives today approved a $104.9 billion appropriation bill for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services, including a near doubling of money for research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The vote was 322 to 107. On a voice vote, the House also
WASHINGTON - The next Secretary of Health and Human Services faces difficult problems and policy decisions involving unfilled personnel vacancies, the prospect of budget cuts and the task of devising a new method for paying doctors under Medicare. Major decisions have been deferred for the last several months, in part
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - The House of Representatives today approved a $104.9 billion appropriation bill for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services, including a near doubling of money for research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The vote was 322 to 107. On a voice vote, the Ho
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - The next Secretary of Health and Human Services faces difficult problems and policy decisions involving unfilled personnel vacancies, the prospect of budget cuts and the task of devising a new method for paying doctors under Medicare. Major decisions have been deferred for the last several months,
Diane McGrath, the Republican mayoral candidate, proposed yesterday that bathhouses, bars, theaters and pornography shops catering to homosexuals be closed to avoid the spread of AIDS. She also suggested, in her first major news conference since she declared her candidacy last June, that such people as doctors, dentist
A State Supreme Court justice in Queens expressed incredulity yesterday that the City Health Department does not quarantine adults with advanced cases of AIDS. The justice, Harold Hyman, commented during a hearing in which two Queens community school boards are challenging a city policy that permits some children with
WASHINGTON - The United States Public Health Service today unveiled a long-range plan to control the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, that acknowledges that no vaccine or cure is likely for at least five more years and that the disease would therefore continue to spread until the turn of the cent
Justice Harold Hyman leaned forward in State Supreme Court in Queens and pressed the witness for details on examining children for the AIDS virus. As the witness, Dr. Louis Cooper, responded, the proceeding sounded more like a medical school class than a court hearing. Sometimes the doctor s answers satisfied the judge
A test developed to protect the nation s blood supply from acquired immune deficiency syndrome has emerged, in a few short months, as a potential new tool for tracking and perhaps slowing the spread of the disease. But determining how this tool should be wielded is provoking debate over questions of personal liberty an
A STRANGE VIRUS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN. By Jacques Leibowitch. Translated by Richard Howard. (Available Press/Ballantine, $4.95.) Since AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) was discovered in 1981, reported cases of the disease have doubled each year, creating one of the most feared epidemics of modern times. AIDS is w
With Election Day only five weeks off, Mayor Koch is running a low-key campaign by choice while his three major opponents are operating low-visibility campaigns by necessity, an acute shortage of campaign funds. He ll float like a butterfly, David Garth, the Mayor s campaign strategist, said of Mr. Koch s plans to igno
GENEVA, Sept. 28 - Officials at the World Health Organization say they have won the medical and financial support needed to draft a worldwide strategy for combating acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Dr. Fakhry A. Assaad, chief of W.H.O. s division of communicable diseases, said the Geneva-based organization
The Health Department last week appointed seven doctors to a panel that will recommend, case by case, whether children with AIDS should attend New York City public schools. The formation of the panel, which Mayor Koch said includes some of the nation s leading experts on the disease, creates a two-step screening proces
Scientists at Harvard University have succeeded for the first time in infecting monkeys with a disease almost identical with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. They said they expected the animals to provide a vitally needed model for experiments with vaccines and drug treatments against the fatal disorder.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - Defense Department health officials, acting on the advice of civilian medical advisers, have proposed that the military screen all troops assigned overseas for exposure to the AIDS virus, Pentagon officials said today. The officials said the proposed screening for evidence of the virus that cause
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - The debate over the adequacy of Government financing for AIDS research intensified in Congress today as a top public health official said he had recommended an additional $70 million increase next year and a Harvard scientist said even that would not be enough to cope with a mounting disaster.
Fearing large claims by victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, the life insurance industry is considering new ways of finding out if applicants have the disorder. Some life insurance companies caution that they will have to raise premiums for all policyholders if they cannot get information about the
WASHINGTON - The military health authorities are studying how to prevent the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, among the more than 2.1 million men and women in the armed forces, Pentagon sources said today. The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board has made recommendations, one source said, and a dec
Seven doctors were named yesterday to a new panel that will recommend on a case-by-case basis whether children with AIDS may attend New York City public schools. The formation of the panel, which Mayor Koch said includes some of the nation s leading experts on AIDS, means that any child with the disease will undergo tw
I ve gotten a few more facts and a little more confusion, Carol Bouchard of Queens said the other day as she left State Supreme Court in Jamaica . She had just sat through part of a hearing in a suit by two Queens community school boards to overturn the city s policy on school children with AIDS. The policy will p
The chairman of Governor Cuomo s AIDS Research Council said yesterday that the spread of the disease has placed new strains on health-care facilities around the state. The chairman, Dr. Richard Rifkind, said New York State had responded early to the AIDS epidemic and had devoted a great deal of attention to research on
The insurance industry has begun to take notice of AIDS. Some companies would like to have applicants for health or life insurance tested for AIDS antibodies, a sign of having been exposed to the virus. They threaten to exclude AIDS from coverage altogether if denied the data. That approach may save pennies, but at the
GENEVA - The World Health Organization has announced a series of measures to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Officials at the organization s headquarters in Geneva said Friday that the number of cases of the fatal disease reported worldwide had surpassed 15,000 by mid-September, showing an increase
White Plains - THE County Department of Health, which is already caring for a half-dozen AIDS patients in their homes, has received $100,000 to establish a pilot program aimed at helping 10 times that number. The $100,000 grant from the State Health Department was the first given under a recently authorized $700,000 st
A large-scale nuclear war would cause many more deaths from devastating fires, climatic changes and radiation than previously estimated, as well as a variety of long-term medical problems like AIDS, cancer and rampant infection, scientists asserted today. These and other new estimates of the enormous health damage that
A young man circled a table in the East Village one recent afternoon, approaching and then retreating from the stacks of AIDS literature offered by the Gays Men s Health Crisis. If you re sexually active, you re at risk! shouted Anne Milano, an educator for the group, who delivered her message from beside a sign with t
Lawyers in the Queens case in which the city s policy on students with AIDS is being challenged differed yesterday on whether the case would continue if a child who figures prominently in the case was determined not to have AIDS. A lawyer for the Queens community school boards that are seeking to overturn the policy sa
The New York City Health Department said yesterday that it was standing by a physician s diagnosis that a public school pupil has AIDS despite statements from the child s lawyer that she might not have the disorder. The physician s report and the diagnosis made three years ago still stand, Marvin Bogner, a spokesman fo
The top three Federal science administrators responsible for research on AIDS said today that the disease was causing an epidemic of fear and feeling of helplessness that was absolutely unnecessary. At an unusual news seminar called to allay the growing public alarm, the scientists cited an array of statistics and stud
Studies by the New York State Health Department have found no correlation between acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, and another viral disease, African swine fever, state officials say. The tests, whose results were reported earlier this week, were conducted because of public concern in New York about the ad
The child at the center of a controversy over whether students with AIDS should be admitted to classes in New York City public schools may not have the disorder, the city s chief lawyer said yesterday. The lawyer, Corporation Counsel Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., said that the assumption of the city was this child has A
The Government has approved the experimental use in the United States of an anti-AIDS drug that has been available only in France , a spokesman confirmed today. The Food and Drug Administration last month approved the drug, HPA-23, for testing in human patients, but has held off announcing the decision, according to th
To combat a rising number of health claims by victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, Wisconsin s largest insurance companies may begin excluding coverage of the disorder, company executives said today. The officials said the exclusion might be necessary because of a new state law that makes it difficu
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
The atmosphere was charged as 500 people packed the auditorium of Public School 63 in Ozone Park, Queens. It was four days before the city s public schools were to reopen last Monday, and Community School Board 27 had brought the parents together to discuss the emotional issue of whether students with AIDS should be pl
AIDS dominated the first week of classes in the New York City public school system, with administrators defending in schoolhouse and courthouse their decision to admit a second-grade pupil who suffers from the disease. School officials estimated that about 12,000 students in Queens stayed away from the first day of sch
A physician and a scientist who have studied AIDS in children told a Queens court yesterday that they disagreed with a decision to permit a second-grade girl with the disease to attend regular classes in one of the city s 620 elementary schools. The physician, Dr. Arye Rubinstein, a pediatrics immunologist with the Alb
A House Appropriations subcommittee has voted to double the budget for research on AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and to increase funds for other education and public health programs on the fatal disease, Representative Edward R. Roybal, Democrat of California, said today. The subcommittee has also appro
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
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
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
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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