The fear of AIDS does strange things to people who should know better. One by one, Federal agencies are trumping up reasons to screen people for the AIDS virus. Both the fear and the remedy are misplaced. AIDS is not spread by casual, workplace contact, and as the Surgeon General has stated, Compulsory blood testing of
THE human brain converses with the entire universe, but it maintains a strange and stringent isolation from its own body. Many substances that circulate in the blood hardly enter the brain at all. Some chemicals in the brain will not diffuse outward into the general circulation. This strange selectivity is vital to the
OLONGAPO, the Philippines - When Jenny leaves for work as a bar hostess in the evenings, her live-in boyfriend, an American sailor, sometimes calls after her jokingly, Don t catch AIDS, now. Jenny, a small and delicate woman of 18 whose mother was a prostitute and whose father was an American serviceman, says she calls
IN what is believed to be a first for New York State s Department of Corrections, a grant has been awarded to prisoners - a group of inmates operating a video-production center at the Taconic Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Bedford Hills. The $10,000 grant is a donation from the Self Development of P
SEVEN years ago, when the Public Health Service drew up a list of 226 goals for improved American well-being by 1990, no one had even heard of AIDS. So while the agency last week reported progress on many of the objectives it did set, it conceded that acquired immune deficiency syndrome is the No. 1 health priority.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The Food and Drug Administration today approved a drug that is intended primarily for the treatment of a form of leprosy but also has been used to treat an infection common in AIDS patients. Ciba-Geigy, the maker of the drug, stressed that it was not a potential AIDS cure. The drug is clofazimine,
It s a pleasant little room that looks out on a tranquil garden in the West Village, a place where people with AIDS can gather for food, conversation, relaxation and the sharing of information. Called the Living Room, it is run by the People With AIDS Coalition, which is operated for and by people with AIDS. And that s
Ever since 1796, when Edward Jenner began using injections of cowpox virus to inoculate patients against smallpox, vaccines have been developed to trick the immune systems of healthy patients into producing antibodies that prevent infection. Last week, researchers were astir with news that French and Zairian scientists
HARTFORD - AS the Christmas tree was going up last week in an atrium at the State Capitol, legislators and advocacy groups were preparing their wish lists for the 1987 session of the General Assembly. As usual, not everyone wanted the same thing. Although the session will not convene until Jan. 7, the clerk s offices o
Preparations patented this week for the Genetic Systems Corporation of Seattle are described as useful in the detection of diseases related to AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Wesley L. Cosand, director of biochemistry for the company, was awarded patent No. 4,629,783. The preparations, called peptides, ar
The lymphoma that was removed yesterday from the left side of the brain of William J. Casey, the Director of the Central Intelligence, was once rarely diagnosed. Such diagnosis is now occurring with increasing frequency, but it still makes up only about 2 percent of all brain tumors. Medical experts say it may take sev
BEIJING, Dec. 18 - Beginning next month, all foreign students who come to China for more than one year must present proof that they are not carriers of the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome or submit to a blood test administered by the Government. Otherwise, officials say, they will not be permitted
Scientists from Zaire and France have begun the first human experiments for what they hope will be a form of immunization for people who are infected with the AIDS virus but do not have the disease, according to medical sources. The experiments are understood to have been carried out so far on a small number of people.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 - Job Corps students, applicants and staff members will be tested for exposure to the AIDS virus under a program expected to begin Feb. 1, Labor Department officials said today. It is believed to be the first time that the Government has screened for AIDS among people who are not its employees or pa
SCIENTISTS fascination with the links between the brain and the immune defense system has led them to a potentially valuable weapon against AIDS. Federal research workers have found a small molecule that seems to be the precise chemical structure on the AIDS virus s surface that is essential to its attachment to the hu
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 14 - Despite warnings by the World Health Organization that Brazil could suffer an epidemic of AIDS, federal health authorities have been slow to respond with adequate prevention and treatment programs, according to state officials, doctors and homosexual groups. Brazil ranks third after the
PREVARICATE IS rooted in the Latin for to walk crookedly and is now a highfalutin synonym for the verb to lie. A more subtle form of misleading can be called postvarication; this word has been freshly minted to denote the technique of setting forth an untruth in such a way that the listener will later find that the pos
CYNTHIA CALLOW and the Human Milk Bank at North Shore University Hospital were both born in 1979. Neither could have survived its first year without the other. Cynthia was a healthy 3-week-old when her parents adopted her from Colombia . But suddenly she began losing a pound each week.
Federal scientists, carrying out test-tube experiments in the laboratory, have found for the first time that the AIDS virus can infect cells from the colon and rectum and may enter the body by a route other than directly into the bloodstream. Thus far only cells of the immune system such as lymphocytes have been found
Scientists in San Francisco have found that a type of human white blood cell inhibits duplication of the AIDS virus in a test tube, suggesting a possible new approach to treatment of the fatal disorder. In a report to be published today, the researchers theorized that the action of these suppressor T-cells, one of seve
All foreign professional boxers who fight in Britain will be screened for AIDS, the British Boxing Board of Control said yesterday. Because boxing is a close-contact sport in which blood frequently is spilled, the board said it wanted to make boxers aware of the dangers of the disease, but also allay fears that the spo
An independent panel said yesterday that an AIDS laboratory at the Federal Centers for Disease Control had suffered serious morale problems, but it disputed allegations that data had been suppressed and that research had been derailed by sabotage. The panel of three medical experts, reporting on behalf of the Institute
An independent panel said yesterday that an AIDS laboratory at the Federal Centers for Disease Control had suffered serious morale problems, but it disputed allegations that data had been suppressed and that research had been derailed by sabotage. The panel of three medical experts, reporting on behalf of the Institute
AIDS, already rampant in Africa, may soar in Latin America and Asia unless swift preventive measures are taken, according to a World Health Organization official. In many developing countries with only a small number of reported cases up to now, the rise in the disease parallels that of the
AIDS, already rampant in Africa, may soar in Latin America and Asia unless swift preventive measures are taken, according to a World Health Organization official. In many developing countries with only a small number of reported cases up to now, the rise in the disease parallels that of the
The State Health Department has approved applications for five New York City hospitals to be designated as AIDS centers. If the hospitals accept the financial terms proposed by the state, they would offer a broader range of health care services than they now provide patients with the disease. They would join St. Clare
In conjunction with a benefit scheduled for this Sunday, Leonard Bernstein and Linda Ronstadt have made an urgent appeal to the public to support AIDS research. At this moment there is critically important medical research that is being delayed purely by lack of funds, Mr. Bernstein said, adding that he decided to part
The publisher of a sex education book on a Board of Education reading list for New York City students said yesterday that a statement that anal intercourse was not medically dangerous had been removed from a new edition of the book. Meanwhile, the director of the curriculum division at the board, Charlotte Frank, said
When Loretta Norrell s doctor recommended back surgery, he told her to donate blood ahead of time so that if she needed a transfusion she would get the safest kind -her own. In her hometown of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Norrell gave two units of blood that were shipped to New York to remain in the operating room during he
A Board of Education spokesman said yesterday that a book that stated there were no special medical dangers in anal intercourse would be referred to the curriculum division for possible removal from a reading list for students. That passage and others in the book were brought to the attention of the board yesterday in
Mildred Johnson pulled a folder from the file drawer, arranged her face in a neutral but kindly configuration and led a young man into her office to deliver some terrifying news. Your test was positive, Ms. Johnson told her client, who was known to her only by a three-digit identification number, but that does not nece
Hildegard Behrens, Leonard Bernstein, Marvin Hamlisch, Marilyn Horne, Bernadette Peters, Linda Ronstadt, Isaac Stern and Michael Tilson Thomas will take part next Sunday in Classical Evening for AIDS, a concert and dinner to benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research, at the Public Theater. The soprano Eileen Fa
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - Foreign Service applicants, officers and their dependents will be tested for the AIDS virus under a screening program expected to begin Jan. 1, State Department officials said today. Under the program, Foreign Service applicants who test positive for having AIDS antibodies would automatically be r
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - Foreign Service applicants, officers and their dependents will be tested for the AIDS virus under a screening program expected to begin Jan. 1, State Department officials said today. Under the program, Foreign Service applicants who test positive for having AIDS antibodies would automatically be r
ASSIGNMENT AFRICA says that American journalists - especially television journalists - do not cover black Africa the way they should. In fact, the Inside Story special says, they hardly cover it at all. There is something to this. South Africa , the Arab states and Israel dominate news coverage
A private agency is taking over the Government s national AIDS hot line, which gets about 30,000 telephone calls a month, expanding the service and moving the switchboard from Atlanta to Manhattan. When the transfer is complete, callers to (800) 342-AIDS will be able to reach operators around the clock and also find a
Only a year ago, Dr. Halfdan Mahler, the head of the World Health Organization , cautioned against exaggerating the danger of AIDS. Last week, he said that he had made a gross underestimate and announced the beginning of a global effort to combat the disease, calling AIDS a health disaster of pandemic proportions.
Attacks on homosexuals appear to have increased sharply around the nation in the last three years as homosexuals have become more vocal in their pursuit of civil rights and more visible because of publicity surrounding the spread of AIDS. Law-enforcement agencies do not record crimes against homosexuals as a specific c
PARIS, Nov. 22 - Reactions to a deluge of erotic films, magazines and advertising suggest that the French may have reached the limit of their long tolerance of soft pornography. The sharpest reaction to the deluge last summer has come from the Government, which is considering new taxes on hard-core pornography. But th
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 20 - The World Health Organization announced today that it had begun the first coordinated global effort to combat AIDS, a disease it described as a health disaster of pandemic proportions. The organization is elevating the fight against acquired immune deficiency syndrome to a status equival
Scientists have discovered a third virus causing AIDS, raising the prospect that researchers will eventually need to refine the current AIDS test that safeguards blood supplies against the disease, three AIDS researchers who were winners of the Albert Lasker research award said yesterday. The newest virus was identifie
TONIGHT at 10 o clock, Channel 13 is offering The AIDS Show, an hour-long documentary by Robert Epstein ( The Times of Harvey Milk ) and Peter Adair ( Word Is Out ). The subject is, of course, the disease that has been generating headlines around the world, but in the title s case, AIDS is also an acronym for Artists I
In a dramatic reversal, some African nations are beginning to acknowledge the impact of AIDS and to allow international experts to visit so they can track the spread of the disease closely and give advice about preventive steps. The new openness suggests that researchers around the world may be given greater opportunit
LAR LUBOVITCH first came into contact with dance as a college student in Chicago, his hometown. The occasion was a performance by the Jose Limon Dance Company. When the curtain went down, Mr. Lubovitch went backstage and buttonholed the first dancer he found. What should I do? he asked. I want to dance. Dance has been
THE simple fact is that we know very little about acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a chorus of doctors tells the questioning victim in As Is, William Hoffman s powerful drama currently being performed by the Arena Players Repertory Company. As recent articles and television specials inform us, we have not learned
THE chances of getting a disease from a blood transfusion are less than the chances of being hit by a bolt of lightning, say blood-bank officials on Long Island. Even so, hospitals, blood banks and physicians are receiving an increasing number of calls from people who want an alternative to anonymous blood donations. I
GOVERNING any large city in the United States may be an exercise in perpetual crisis, as Felix G. Rohatyn, head of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, puts it. But only New York s Mayor Koch, beleaguered by municipal corruption scandals since the year began, has faced all these crises and problems in recent weeks:
INSISTING that insurance against AIDS was actuarially and economically sound, a California insurer appeared to be alone in offering such a special policy last year. The company, Coastal Insurance of Santa Monica, said in December that it had sold more than 1,200 policies at around $300 apiece. The insurance paid some o
NEW BRUNSWICK - AS IS, by William M. Hoffman, opened Off Broadway in March 1985, followed a month later by Larry Kramer s Normal Heart. These remain the theater s two major plays about AIDS thus far. The former is a personal account of a relationship. The latter is more a propaganda piece, sounding the alarm about soci
HUNTINGTON, L.I., Nov. 14 - AIDS, until recently seen mainly as a disease of the cities, has become a serious and growing problem in the communities surrounding New York, according to health officials. The growth in the number of people with AIDS in the suburban communities is straining already thin resources. the offi
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - What began as a modest proposal to raise money for a scholarship fund and AIDS quickly escalated to a major social evening revolving around fashion. More than 1,000 people, including designers from Milan, Rome, Paris and New York, converged tonight on the National Building Museum. The evening, a t
IT began as a one-room public health laboratory on Staten Island in 1887, when American medicine lagged in the fundamental discoveries that Louis Pasteur and other bacteriologists were making in Europe and when taxpayer financing of medical research was a revolutionary social experiment. Today we know this experiment a
Because they shared contaminated needles, more than half of New York City s estimated 200,000 intravenous drug addicts now are believed to carry the AIDS virus, and up to half of these could contract the deadly disease. Could the further spread of AIDS virus among addicts be limited by providing sterilized needles? New
David Summers, an actor and cabaret singer who was active in the homosexual rights movement and in AIDS education, died as a result of acquired immune deficiency syndrome Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 34 years old. With Ken Meeks, who died last month, Mr. Summers was co-founder of the New York chapter of Pe
Family-life specialists say that more parents than ever are talking with their children about sex. But some experts say the conversations may only be superficial. In part, the experts say, this happens because parents often assume that school sex-education classes teach children everything they need to know. Yet the ex
GENEVA - The public health gains being achieved by the World Health Organization in such fields as malaria control, child vaccination and health care facilities in developing countries may be undone by the rapid spread of AIDS, according to Dr. Jonathan M. Mann, who heads the organization s program of AIDS control.
MANHATTAN - The city s Health Commissioner said yesterday that his department had been given approval by state health officials to develop a proposal for distributing clean needles to intravenous drug addicts on a limited basis to reduce the spread of AIDS. The commissioner, Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, said on the WNBC-TV p
TRENTON - RECENT public and private initiatives promise to improve the health and social services available to New Jersey AIDS patients, enabling some who have been hospitalized for months to return to their communities. On the public front, the state s Department of Human Services has requested a three-year Federal wa
HOSPITALS and community blood banks in New Jersey received detailed guidelines from Trenton last week on how to trace blood transfusions that may have involved AIDS-tainted blood. Known as Operation Lookback, the effort will track units of blood and blood components from donors who gave blood before the AIDS screening
The New York State Health Commissioner said yesterday that he would be willing to consider a small demonstration project in New York City to determine whether giving clean needles to intravenous drug addicts would reduce the spread of AIDS. Mayor Koch said he would support such a demonstration. Frances Tarlton, a Healt
The vast majority of AIDS victims continue to be male homosexuals and intravenous drug addicts. But in African countries like Zaire and Uganda , the disease spreads differently, affecting men and women alike. Is AIDS about to become epidemic among the general public in America, too? Some experts fear it is, but so
SCIENTISTS say important new avenues of research will be cut off unless the expanded Federal attack against AIDS called for last week is carried out. In a report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a panel of the country s leading medical researchers said Federal funds for AIDS research sh
How can women protect themselves and others from AIDS? Women s concerns about acquired immune deficiency syndrome were addressed in unusual detail and explicitness in speeches, panel discussions and workshops at recent conferences in New York and Boston. There are many questions about AIDS. But conference participants
Charles Cavaliere, a 68-year-old retired home builder from the Bronx, received a blood transfusion five years ago during heart surgery at Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. On Aug. 5 he died there, of AIDS. Last month, in a letter expressing its deepest sympathy, the hospital told Mr. Cavaliere s wife, Marguerite, tha
The National Academy of Sciences last week cited danger and even predicted catastrophe in the absence of a much-improved Federal effort to fight AIDS. Dr. David Baltimore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-chairman of the committee that wrote the academy s 390-page report, said it was quite honestly frigh
After a six-month delay, the New YormmCity Board of Education plans to distribute a videotape about AIDS, the president of the board, Robert F. Wagner Jr., said yesterday. The 20-minute tape, Sex, Drugs and AIDS, largely financed by the board, had been sitting on a shelf, Mr. Wagner said, pending changes requested by s
ROME, Oct. 30 - In what appeared to be a clear allusion to the AIDS epidemic, the Vatican said today that advocates of homosexual rights seem undeterred by the realization that homosexuality may seriously threaten the lives and well-being of a large number of people. The reference came in a new document that reinforced
In a new effort to contain the AIDS epidemic, health officials in New York City are opening five new blood-testing centers and beginning an aggressive campaign to warn heroin addicts of the danger. The new centers, in a change of policy, will offer the AIDS antibody test to New Yorkers on an anonymous basis. The City H
The National Academy of Sciences charged yesterday that the Federal Government s response to the AIDS epidemic had been dangerously inadequate and called for a $2 billion-a-year educational and research effort to avert a medical catastrophe. The Academy said in a report that the AIDS problem was becoming so urgent that
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 28 - For years many residents of this predominantly Mormon state believed there was no AIDS problem, in line with the church s conservative sexual teaching. Now, at the suggestion of the state s small community of homosexuals, Gov. Norman H. Bangerter has proclaimed this AIDS Awareness Week, and Ma
HEADING off the proliferation of AIDS among heterosexuals has begun to preoccupy many health officials, who recognize that past ignorance and inertia allowed the fatal disease to course through the populations of homosexual men and intravenous drug users with devastating effect. The gathering concern was evident in the
Public service announcements for the AIDS center at St. Clare s Hospital in New York will begin showing this week as 30- and 10-second TV spots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with Helen Hayes as the spokesman. Sieber & McIntyre, a New Jersey-based medical advertising agency, produced the spots with the he
Tom Waddell, who placed sixth in the 1968 Olympic decathlon and helped found the Gay Games in San Francisco four years ago, is fighting two battles these days. He has high hopes of winning one - an appeal to the Supreme Court of decisions siding with the United States Olympic Committee, which has prohibited the Gay Gam
NEWARK - LILLIAN decided to kick her 15-year heroin habit after she had overdosed for the third time and her daughter pleaded, Mommy, don t die on me. Doug did not want to give up his addiction to methadone for the seventh time, but his parole officer insisted. Anna - only first names were used for this article - begge
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - A panel appointed by the National Academy of Sciences began an investigation today into allegations of sabotage and mismanagement in the AIDS laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The investigation was prompted by Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Republican of Connecticut, who he
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute have discovered a previously unknown herpeslike virus in patients who had cancers and other abnormalities in cells of their immune defense systems. Two reports in Science yesterday described it as a novel virus that infects certain cells of the human immune defense system.
Broaching the topic of AIDS to young children and telling them of the sexual practices that contribute to its spread is appropriate if parents are sensitive to how much information a given child can absorb, child psychologists and psychiatrists said in interviews yesterday. The experts emphasized that there is much var
Roy M. Cohn, the combative and influential lawyer, was remembered yesterday by his friends as a complicated man whose dedication to fighting Communism inspired liberals to a lust for revenge that persisted throughout his turbulent career. The tributes were paid to Mr. Cohn at a memorial service at Town Hall. He was als
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 22 - The Rev. Donald Lynch is a 31-year-old assistant pastor who decided to run for Congress this year. With $4,000 and an all-volunteer organization made up mostly of conservative Christians, he won the Republican nomination in Indiana s Second Congressional District. His top issues included AIDS an
Even after 26,566 reported cases and 14,977 deaths, Americans tend to whisper when they talk about AIDS. Welcome, therefore, the loud voice of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. His is a message Americans need to hear, and it rings with added credibility from someone of such rigorous stature in this Administration. No on
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 - Opinion surveys indicate that Californians favor approval of a sweeping measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would impose some of the nation s strictest controls on toxic chemicals, a proposal that is drawing mounting fire from business and agricultural leaders. Polls indicate that voters also sup
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - In an unusually explicit report to the nation, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop today urged parents and schools to shed their inhibitions and start engaging in frank, open discussions with very young children and teen-agers about the dangers of AIDS. The Surgeon General said that, in the absence of
BOSTON, Oct. 22 - An AIDS victim s return to work for the first time in 17 months, part of a settlement of a lawsuit against The New England Telephone Company, led to a walkout today by most technicians at a garage in suburban Needham. The technicians said they were refusing to work as a protest of how the company was
More than 100 city correction officers in an emergency unit gave up those voluntary assignments yesterday to protest actions by the Correction Department after reports that Rikers Island guards beat inmates, their union president said. A spokesman for the Correction Department, James Whitford, said late yesterday after
AFTER winning the release of three New York prisoners with AIDS to a hospice in Greenwich Village last Christmas Eve, Mother Teresa called on Mayor Koch on Jan. 2 with a further request. Would he ask Governor Cuomo to free all state prisoners with the usually fatal immunity disorder, so they could be near their familie
GRANBY, Conn., Oct. 16 - A decision by the Board of Education to allow a child with AIDS to remain in school has prompted great concern, even outrage, and in some cases proud support among people in this close-knit rural community. It marks the first such move by a school district in Connecticut. In New Haven, school o
The Burroughs Wellcome Company has assigned its new anti-AIDS drug to Rolf Werner Rosenthal Inc., already one of its agencies, and it will produce an informational advertising campaign for primary care physicians. The drug is azidothymidine, or AZT , which is an antiviral agent that received considerable news coverage
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct. 9 - In the rarefied world of biotechnology, the Chiron Corporation has always had the respect of its peers. Now, it is also starting to bask in the limelight long enjoyed by such older and larger competitors as Genentech Inc. and the Cetus Corporation. This week, Chiron and Ciba-Geigy Ltd., the
AFTER a three-year search, researchers in Massachusetts have discovered an important human blood growth factor that some scientists thought did not exist. The discovery of the factor, interleukin 3, solves a scientific puzzle that has persisted for several years and offers a potential new strategy for treatment of many
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Ten key associates of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. were indicted today on Federal fraud and conspiracy charges as hundreds of law-enforcement agents raided the political extremist s headquarters in Virginia. The Justice Department said several individuals named in the 117-count indictment were members of
Health officials are negotiating to eliminate nearly 20 percent of the acute-care hospital beds in New York City over the next four years, largely through the closing of at least five private hospitals and the merger of others. Daniel T. McGowan, the head of the New York City Health Systems Agency, which will recommend
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - With a new Chief Justice and a new member, the Supreme Court will begin its 1986-87 term Monday facing issues that include racial disparities in death sentencing and the constitutionality of teaching creationism in public schools. Job discrimination and the use of affirmative action as a remedy are
AIDS researchers, after five years of trying to puzzle out patterns of infection, continue to report pieces of answers. At a conference in New Orleans last week, they described studies suggesting that, at least among heterosexuals, the virus is not easily transmitted. While it is increasingly clear that heterosexual co
SHIRLEY McCRAY of Hemptead says she will never forget all the years she spent going from one doctor to the next to find out why she was losing hair by the fistful, why her toes were often numb, and why her joints often ached. And even in 1980, when she finally did find a physician at North Shore University Hospital in
GENEVA, Oct. 4 - The World Health Organization has reported a sharp increase in the number of cases of AIDS recorded worldwide in the first nine months of this year. The Geneva-based organization, which began coordinating international activities against the disease this year, also declared that the spread of the viral
Glenn Bernbaum pitched a tent next to Mortimer s, his restaurant, and charged his friends and neighbors 20,000 cents to attend a lavish block party to raise money for the new laboratory for AIDS research at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Bobby Short, Felix Rohatyn, Henry Kissinger and Gloria Vanderbilt were
BRUSSELS, Oct. 3 - The second International Whores Convention ended a three-day meeting here with an appeal for universal use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Margo St. James, 48 years old, a prostitutes rights activist who organized the conference, called on the governm
Kenneth Meeks, a member of the board of directors of the Gay Men s Health Crisis, a social-service and educational organization assisting victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, died of an AIDS-related illness last Friday while visiting San Francisco. He was 45 years old and lived in Manhattan. Dr. Me
Diego J. Lopez, a social worker and psychotherapist, and a former clinical director of Gay Men s Health Crisis, an AIDS service and educational organization, died Monday at the New York University Medical Center of complications related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He was 41 years old and lived in Manhattan.
The group eligible to receive azidothymidine, the first drug to show promise against AIDS, has been broadened to include most of the 7,000 AIDS victims who have suffered a specific form of pneumonia, the Burroughs Wellcome Company announced yesterday. The decision means that the antiviral drug, also known as
CHICAGO, Sept. 29 - A few years ago few homosexual fathers dared to fight for visiting rights in divorce cases. But today, even as the specter of AIDS is being raised in more cases, this has begun to change. One such father is a former Chicago resident who has been fighting since last November for overnight visiting ri
The advent of a drug that shows promise against AIDS has paradoxically raised a host of thorny new ethical and practical problems for researchers developing treatments for the deadly disorder. Immediately after the announcement nine days ago of the success of the drug, azidothymidine, or
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 - A private nurse who cared for an AIDS patient who died Wednesday has been arrested on murder and other charges, with the authorities saying that he had posed as a physician and ordered insulin injections for the patient. Although doctors believe that the insulin was not the direct cause of the p
The Burroughs Wellcome Company said yesterday that it was submitting to the Food and Drug Administration its proposed criteria for selecting AIDS patients to receive immediate distribution of a promising drug. Officials of the company and the National Institutes of Health, who together drafted the medical requirements
Federal health officials and representatives of the Burroughs Wellcome Company did not reach a final decision yesterday on which AIDS patients will have immediate access to azidothymidine, or AZT , a promising experimental drug. A spokesman for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md.
An experimental vaccine against the AIDS virus produces two important kinds of immune reaction in animals, according to a new research report. The study, reported in the Sept. 25 issue of Nature by a research team in Seattle, involved the use of vaccinia viruses that were genetically altered to contain key proteins of
LABADEE, Haiti - Some people were drifting in the shallow waters of the quiet, sun-splashed bay on air mattresses. Others were snorkeling. A few were pedaling around on gawky, bright yellow floating tricycles. Children were building sand castles and, behind them, in the shade of palm trees, dozens of older people were
TWO scientific rivals, each playing a central role in finding the virus that causes AIDS and then becoming involved in an international legal dispute over the research, were among those named yesterday as winners of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards, an honor that has often gone to people who later won the Nobe
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta today said that a series of blood tests conducted in July and August indicated that a deadly disease in swine was not related to the spread of AIDS in humans. In making their findings public, the scientists said they hoped to put to rest a
MIAMI, Sept. 21 - College administrators on campuses around the country this autumn are gearing up special programs aimed at educating their students about the risks from AIDS and how to reduce them. But they say the process is painfully slow. Fewer than 700 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have been record
A drug that was used unsuccessfully against cancer in the 1960 s holds great promise for prolonging life for certain patients with AIDS, Federal health officials said last week. Scientists are so optimistic about the drug, called azidothymidine, that they are cutting short their tests on it and rushing to make it avail
The public Health Service has established a toll-free telephone line for physicians and AIDS patients seeking information about AZT . The number is (800) 843-9388 and will be answered seven days a week from 8 A.M. to midnight, Eastern time. The drug will be made available only through licensed physicians, who must firs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 - AZT , the first drug that appears to curb the ravages of AIDS, was born of a bright idea that did not pan out. It was the early 1960 s, the era in the war on cancer when scientists were picking drugs off the shelf almost randomly to see if any might work. This approach was not at all intellectua
Physicians and Federal officials said yesterday that they expected an important announcement, probably on Friday, on the effectiveness of an experimental drug against AIDS. Their comments came amid rumors that azidothymidine, an antiviral agent also known as AZT , had shown the first significant progress against AI
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - A majority of states, rejecting the approach of the Justice Department, have adopted policies prohibiting discrimination against people with AIDS. The states include New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Wash
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - Investigators at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have found evidence that on at least five occasions in recent months research on the causes of AIDS and other viral diseases there may have been deliberately ruined, according to top scientists at the centers. In at least three instances
With a bequest from the late Aaron Diamond, a real-estate executive, a major foundation is being set up to focus almost exclusively on support of education for minority-group members, medical research and culture in the New York area. Mr. Diamond, a self-made multimillionaire who started his career as a rug buyer in a
Heroin use, regarded for decades as the nation s most devastating drug problem, has stopped spreading in New York City and young people are spurning the drug, social scientists and drug-treatment centers say. On the street corners of Harlem, the Lower East Side and other inner-city neighborhoods around the country rava
BERKELEY, Calif. - Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and his political camp followers have taken up a new cause. They are out to make prejudice against AIDS victims respectable. If California voters approve a LaRouche-sponsored initiative that is to appear on the November ballot, doctors and public health authorities fear they wi
All seemed right with the world. At 3 A.M. on a weeknight, downtown, the Pyramid Club on Avenue A was jammed with revelers, hooting with laughter and applauding the performances of Jean Caffeine, Wendy Wild, Lady Bunny, John Sex and many more, then dancing toward dawn to sternum-thumping recordings of Body Slam and Jun
At least six children who are known to have AIDS or AIDS-related complex will be allowed to attend public schools, New York City officials announced last week. No one other than their families and their doctors is to know who they are or where they are enrolled. The City Health Commissioner, Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, esti
THE recent news that Jerry Smith has been suffering from AIDS for eight months was met with what, on the surface, might seem an unusual reaction from his former Redskins football teammates. Smith, who has discussed his illness but not his life style, played tight end for the Redskins for 13 seasons, from 1965 to 1977.
The National Institutes of Health is conducting an internal investigation to determine if one of its employees was the source of a syndicated news column that reported that the lawyer Roy Cohn was suffering from AIDS. The report of the cause of Mr. Cohn s illness appeared in a column by Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta
The president of a Queens community school board said yesterday that he would press the City Board of Education to disclose the names of the six students with AIDS or a less severe disorder, AIDS-related complex, to a teacher, a principal and a nurse in the schools they will attend. The official, George Russo, represen
Six of 13 children known to have AIDS or the less-severe disorder AIDS-related complex will be allowed to attend New York City public schools, city officials said yesterday. The identities of the six children, who include a child infected by the AIDS virus admitted to school last year, and the schools they will attend
Jerry Smith, a former all-Pro receiver with the Washington Redskins, says he is suffering from AIDS. Smith, 43 years old, is a patient at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. In an interview with The Washington Post, Smith, when asked how he contracted the disease, said: It just happened. He added: I want people t
Nurseries of New York City hospitals are being overwhelmed by growing numbers of babies born to users of the drug crack, city officials and doctors say. The infants remain for weeks and occasionally months after delivery, instead of days, because their parents are unable to care for them, the doctors say, and because f
EVEN the glimmer of an AIDS cure can cause excitement, and this seems to be true on Wall Street as well. The stock market seems to have been gripped by hysteria over the stock of ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., a company that produces a drug with some promise of fighting acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Shares of the onc
Blood donations always lag during the summer, but this year city blood banks are facing drought. The reason: misplaced fear of AIDS. Few of the schools, businesses and churches that collect most of the yearly supply schedule blood drives during vacation season. The blood program s typical five-day inventory is now down
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16 - Responding to fear of AIDS, entrepreneurs are setting up commercial blood banks that freeze and store a supply of the customer s own blood for a fee. The same fear is prompting friends and relatives to promise to donate blood to one another if it is needed, sometimes through what they informall
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15 - For the past nine days 3,400 amateur athletes from 37 states and 16 foreign countries, most of them homosexuals, have been competing here in an Olympic-style sports event, Gay Games II. The event, which has drawn more than twice as many participants this year as it did last year, is viewed by s
Way Bandy, one of the fashion world s best-known and highest-paid makeup artists and a best-selling author, died Wednesday at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He was 45 years old and lived in Manhattan, Nantucket, Mass., and Key West, Fla. Mr. Bandy asked that his death be announced as AIDS-related, according
Infants born infected with the AIDS virus who are carriers of the AIDS virus often have similar facial malformations, according researchers who conducted a study last year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Dr. Andrew Wiznia, a member of the research team, said 75 percent of the children had promi
The author of the Justice Department s opinion that people with AIDS are not always protected by a Federal law outlawing employment discrimination against the handicapped said yesterday that the department had no intention of fostering discrimination against people with AIDS. Charles J. Cooper, an Assistant Attorney Ge
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 - The Federal Government has for the first time accused an employer of illegally discriminating against a person with AIDS, Federal officials said today. The charge was made by the Department of Health and Human Services, which said that a North Carolina hospital had violated a man s civil rights by
Mathilde Krim is an associate research biologist at St. Luke s/Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University s College of Physicians and Surgeons. BY now, we all know the gruesome statistics. Americans in the prime of life are dying from acquired immune deficiency syndrome at the rate of 200 a week, and each week a
New York City s drug abuse policies are poorly coordinated, overlapping and in need of central direction by the Mayor s office, according to a report by leaders of nonprofit drug treatment programs in the city. Since the city dismantled the agency that coordinated city drug policies in 1978, duplication and inefficienc
IN As Is, which is being rebroadcast tonight at 12:30 on Showtime, William M. Hoffman encourages us to see his characters as they see themselves -without sentimentality or stoicism but as people suddenly forced to confront realities of death and survival. The play is a compassionate collage of events in the lives of tw
The merest drop of blood drawn up into a needle by an infected drug addict can hold enough AIDS viruses to infect the needle s next user. That s why half of New York s 250,000 intravenous drug addicts, for whom sharing needles is both need and rite, have become carriers of the deadly disease. These addicts can transmit
A Government scientist has reported the discovery of a hitherto unknown virus among AIDS patients. Other scientists say the finding has opened up wide possibilities that need to be explored in further research. The Government scientist, Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, who works at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washingt
Roy M. Cohn, the flamboyant, controversial defense lawyer who was chief counsel to Joseph R. McCarthy s Senate investigations in the 1950 s into Communist influence in American life, died yesterday at the age of 59. He lived in Manhattan and in Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Cohn, whose 38-year career brought him prominence, pol
Blood supplies in the New York metropolitan area have reached the lowest level in three years, creating a shortage that might force hospitals to curtail some surgery, the director of the Greater New York Blood Program said yesterday. Health officials said that the summer was generally a bad time for blood donations, bu
MIAMI, July 31 - Federal health officials today revised a reporting category for AIDS cases, reflecting new knowledge about heterosexual transmission of the fatal disease. The category in which heterosexual AIDS victims are listed will now include foreign-born people with the disease. More than half of those now in the
By 1991 the number of AIDS cases in New York City will total 40,000, with nearly 30,000 deaths, according to a new estimate reported yesterday by Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, the New York City Commissioner of Health. In 1991 alone there will be as many cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in New York City as the cumu
Despite its name and despite stereotypes, the Gay Men s Health Crisis finds itself helping a growing number of AIDS patients who are neither homosexual nor male; who are not white, do not speak English, do not live in the middle of Manhattan. But the ranks of volunteers do not yet reflect the changing nature of the org
MIAMI, July 27 - With clusters of AIDS showing up in Florida that do not match the pattern elsewhere in the nation, the Federal Centers for Disease Control is preparing to put Haitians back into a special risk classification. They will become the first group listed at risk by heterosexual transmission, governmental med
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Supplying drug addicts with clean needles might help combat the spread of AIDS, but is it worth the risk of encouraging addiction? New York State and City officials think not. But last week, New Jersey s deputy health commissioner said he hoped the Legislature would allow that state to try the idea. What the official,
Charles Ward, a leading dancer with American Ballet Theater and a member of the original cast of the Broadway musical Dancin, died July 11 at his home in Downey, Calif. Mr. Ward, who was 33 years old, had been suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Mr. Ward, born in Los Angeles, began his ballet training l
NEWARK, July 23 - A Federal judge today dismissed a motion by lawyers for reputed organized-crime figures to have the Government s key witness against them tested to determine if he had AIDS. In denying the defense motion, the judge, Harold C. Ackerman of Federal District Court, said the request is, very simply, withou
PARSIPPANY, N.J., July 23 - New Jersey health officials want to offer drug addicts clean needles for dirty ones as part of a program to combat the spread of AIDS. The needle exchange program, already in use in Amsterdam and Sydney, Australia , has enabled health officials in those cities to establish contact with a maj
WASHINGTON, July 23 - Commercial production of the first genetically altered vaccine for humans was approved today by the Food and Drug Administration, opening what Federal officials called a new era for vaccine production. The new vaccine is intended to protect against infection by the hepatitis B virus, a major cause
WASHINGTON, July 22 - The Reagan Administration has apologized to a Harvard researcher who says the Justice Department misrepresented his views on the transmission of AIDS. The department had quoted the researcher, Dr. William A. Haseltine, in an effort to show that there was disagreement in the medical community over
The odds against receiving a blood transfusion contaminated with the AIDS virus are not too different from the chance of winning a lottery. But reassurances issued by health officials in New York and New Jersey last week did not completely calm a public alarmed by the news that blood banks were searching for people who
TRENTON - AFTER concerns about confidentiality were raised at a public hearing last week, state health officials are reassessing a proposed regulation that would make AIDS a reportable disease in New Jersey. In dispute are provisions that would require doctors, within 12 hours of diagnosing a case of AIDS, to submit th
WASHINGTON, July 19 - The virus for AIDS continues to infect blacks in the United States at a far higher rate than whites, according to data discussed at a medical conference here. The latest statistics indicate that blacks who volunteer for military service are infected with the virus for acquired immune deficiency sy
Although there is concern that transfused blood may have infected some people with AIDS and public anxiety about transfusions has mounted, the health authorities contend that today s blood supply is perhaps safer than it has ever been, in part because of dramatic changes in the nation s blood banks. Blood transfusions
The blood bank that serves the New York metropolitan area said yesterday that it was working to identify about 700 people who received transfusions since 1977 that may have been contaminated with the AIDS virus. The agency, the Greater New York Blood Program, said it expected to begin notifying these patients this fall
WASHINGTON, July 16 - Federal medical researchers said today that they were preparing to test the blood of AIDS patients for the presence of African swine fever in an effort to prove or disprove a disputed theory that the lethal disease in humans is somehow related to the swine virus. They said they were also preparing
LOS ANGELES, July 16 - Television has already addressed the subject of AIDS, and several television dramas have focused on homosexuality, but perhaps none have done so as explicitly as As Is, the filmed version of William M. Hoffman s acclaimed play about a homosexual couple struggling with the lethal disease. In the f
LONDON - Sir Samuel Luke Fildes s painting The Doctor, which shows a devoted physician on a house call at the bed of a gravely ill child, has come to symbolize the compassion of the physician more than any other work of art. The Doctor, viewed in the context of the epidemic of the deadly disease AIDS, is a powerful rem
WASHINGTON, July 14 - The Justice Department today made public a legal brief urging the Supreme Court to rule that Federal law does not bar discrimination based on concern about contagiousness against victims of AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. The department s argument would leave no recourse under Federal law f
By last January, the AIDS virus had killed 9,000 Americans. In this year alone, another 9,000 will die. If the epidemic continues to rage, the toll by 1991 will be 180,000. Is everything possible being done to curb the spread of so vicious a disease? The strange answer is that very little is being done. The possible so
THE Justice Department s recent opinion on AIDS in the workplace is at odds with all pertinent decisional law, the Labor Department s own long-standing regulations, most legal scholarship and virtually all medical thinking, including that of the Government s own Centers for Disease Control. The Reagan Administration sh
BOSTON - We need to think of educating the public about AIDS in a wholly new way - more like the way a corporation markets a new product. The Polaroid Corporation and Procter & Gamble recently spent tens of millions of dollars on promotion campaigns for two new products. Likewise, the health of the American people
THE Justice Department s conclusion that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 does not prohibit discrimination based on actual or perceived capacity to transmit AIDS to others has been assailed as legally or medically flawed, mean-spirited, and antagonistic toward the gay community. The criticisms are misplace
Thousands of AIDS patients, though they know that the procedures are unproven and possibly dangerous, and that they stand a fifty-fifty chance of receiving only a cornstarch or salt water placebo, are enrolling in highly uncertain experiments with drugs. They consider themselves lucky. Thousands of other AIDS victims a
WASHINGTON, July 11 - The American Medical Association charged today that a Justice Department decision permitting certain types of job discrimination against people with AIDS was legally incorrect and unjustified. In a legal brief filed with the Supreme Court, the association said that the department s analysis of the
A Federal judge has dismissed a suit filed by the Pasteur Institute in Paris against the United States Government in which it sought recognition as the discoverer of the virus that causes AIDS. Credit for the discovery and a share of the royalties on the blood tests used to detect the disease are at stake in the legal
WASHINGTON, July 9 - A panel of experts convened by Federal health agencies said today that it was essential to develop more sensitive and accurate screening tests to protect the nation s blood supply from AIDS. The panel said that the tests now in use had sharply reduced the likelihood that or acquired immune deficien
ALBANY, July 9 - The 209th session of the Legislature ended its main session of 1986 at 6:30 P.M. on July 3, with many of the most important bills of the year not passed until the final 24 hours in a nightlong meeting. One key issue still not resolved in this election year is a plan to subsidize elderly people for the
WASHINGTON, July 7 - Screening tests for AIDS have made the nation s blood supply much safer but more than a year of experience with the tests has shown several critical problems, medical experts told a scientific conference today. The problems include occasional failures to detect contaminated blood, an apparently lar
The Public Health Service has proposed more than doubling the Federal budget for all activities related to AIDS, including investigation and treatment of the deadly disease. The proposal, reflecting the best judgment of dozens of Government scientists, is remarkable because it comes just five months after President Rea
Terry Lachman, his satchel stuffed with the instruments of his profession, makes daily rounds calling on sick children in their apartments around the South Bronx. Mr. Lachman, however, is not that nearly extinct phenomenon, the family doctor who makes house calls. He is a public-school teacher. And while children might
The United States Supreme Court decision yesterday upholding Georgia s sodomy law was greeted with dismay by homosexual groups across the nation and with jubilation by a variety of religious and political groups opposing them. Both sides agreed the ruling would slow the advancement of homosexual rights. It s a maj
A top Federal official responsible for battling the AIDS epidemic has warned that cases linked to intravenous drug use, once concentrated in two states, are rapidly spreading throughout the nation. He said that swift action must be taken to stem a further spread of the disease by this means and that intravenous drug us
In an effort to curb the spread of AIDS among intravenous drug users in New York City, state and city health officials plan to offer free blood tests and counseling at four storefront centers in neighborhoods with large numbers of drug addicts. The clinics, to be opened this summer, will be the first of their kind in t
With his research team ready to announce the discovery of a new virus related to AIDS, Dr. Max Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health apparently did not want to take any chances. When he sent the study to reporters Wednesday, he told them to wait until the next afternoon to release it - unless a French team out w
An all-day symposium on AIDS and AIDS-related diseases will be held Wednesday at the Tarrytown Hilton. Organized by the pathology department of the New York Medical College in Valhalla, the event has been coordinated by Dr. Rosalyn E. Stahl, an assistant professor of pathology at the medical college and assistant phsyc
WASHINGTON, March 29 - To the followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., the surprise victories of their candidates in the Democratic primary in Illinois were a vindication of their rich ideas and the first fruits of their 1986 campaign to run hundreds of candidates in Democratic primaries around the country. At the same tim
Scientists have found a way to make the AIDS virus harmless by inactivating one of its genes in laboratory experiments, according to two new reports. The achievement is a step toward developing drugs or a vaccine against the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome, scientists involved in the research said. In the ex
WASHINGTON, March 26 - Competing scientists from the United States and France contended independently today that each group had discovered new viruses related to the deadly disease AIDS. An American team from the laboratory of Dr. Max Essex, at the Harvard School of Public Health, announced the identification of a new
ALBANY, March 25 - A resolution to honor a homosexual activist who died of the effects of AIDS has provoked a dispute among State Senate leaders. The Senate minority leader, Manfred Ohrenstein, a Manhattan Democrat, introduced the resolution to honor a legacy of compassion and commitment by the activist, Peter Vogel, w
For some years the Bureau of National Affairs, a publisher of specialized information services, has been holding conferences on current issues, with participants coming to Washington from all over the country. Last November, for example, such a session on Alcohol and Drugs: Issues in the Workplace attracted about 150 e
TRENTON, March 25 - A three-judge appeals panel today overturned orders by the New Jersey Education Commissioner intended to force two local school districts to admit pupils with AIDS. The panel said the rules on which the orders were based were not properly issued and it directed the Commissioner, Dr. Saul Cooperman,
WASHINGTON, March 22 - With their upset victories in the Democratic primary in Illinois, the followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche, an eccentric far rightist and anti-Communist who has run for President three times, have penetrated the American political system in a way that few had thought possible. Until now, Mr. LaRouche
The eyes of Ellen Parks scanned C. J. Bretts, a popular singles bar and restaurant in the Hermosa Beach section of Los Angeles: soft rock music, schooners of beer, sports stars framed on the walls. Her gaze drifted over tables filled with clean-cut men, mostly in their 20 s, some in their 30 s, picking at $4.95 platter
The number of new AIDS cases reported in New York City has leveled off in the last six months, the city s Health Department said yesterday. The figures, city health officials said, indicated that infection by the AIDS virus had largely run its course among the two major risk groups - sexually active homosexuals and int
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The time has come to take the moralism and politics out of the informational part of the debate over AIDS. Let the moralists and the politicians continue to argue about the social policy decisions that necessarily have to be made in response to the AIDS epidemic. But let the flow of scientific inform
I have read and listened, and I think now that I can convincingly crystallize the thoughts chasing about in the minds of, first, those whose concern with AIDS victims is based primarily on a concern for them and for the maintenance of the most rigid standards of civil liberties and personal privacy, and, second, those
Because it has become increasingly obvious that AIDS is being spread largely by infected people who have not become ill, Federal health officials said last week, the millions of Americans at high risk of contracting it should undergo periodic blood tests. In the Federal recommendations, the most sweeping national state
I HAVE AIDS and I am dying, and it appears that most people have developed the negative attitude that we are not worthy of anyone s attention. So wrote a 24-year-old man with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the fatal disorder of the immune system, in a letter from the prison ward of St. Francis Medical Center in T
An experimental anti-AIDS drug has bolstered the immune systems in 15 of the first 19 patients to receive it and has produced short-term improvement in some of their symptoms, but it does not cure the disease, according to a medical journal report. Some patients receiving the drug, azidothymidine, or
Federal health officials recommended yesterday that the millions f Americans at high risk of contracting AIDS should undergo periodic blood tests to determine if they have become infected with the virus. In their most sweeping recommendations to date to slow the spread of the fatal ailment, Federal health officials urg
Complaints of violence and discrimination against homosexuals have more than doubled in the last year, in large part because of public fears about AIDS, the city s Human Rights Commission reported yesterday. It called on the City Council to provide legislative protection for homosexuals. The AIDS crisis appears to have
Scientists have identified and produced in pure form the enzyme that is the key to the ability of the AIDS virus to infect human cells. The achievements, by close collaboration of the National Cancer Institute and a biotechnology company in Maryland, are expected to be valuable assets in developing drugs against the de
New evidence of the AIDS virus in women could help explain how the disease can be spread among heterosexuals, scientists say. The evidence was obtained from studies of 21 women, all of whom had multiple sexual partners or sexual relations with either bisexual men or intravenous drug users. Two groups of scientists from
Before AIDS education began at Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan, misconceptions and wild fears about the disease abounded. Kids were scared they could get it from a mosquito, said Colette Richardson, who is 16 years old and vice president of the school s student organization. They thought they could get it from
At the onset of the AIDS epidemic, said Brent Nicholson Earle, I was immobilized by the despair of having so many dear, young people, with so much to offer, plucked from our midst. Mr. Earle, a 34-year-old New York City playwright, did not remain immobile for long. I started running to have an outlet, he said. In
When AIDS was recognized as a major threat to public health, stocks in companies doing research on treatments became objects of intense speculation. In the past week, investors in Newport Pharmaceuticals learned just how risky that kind of speculation can be. Shares in this small over-the-counter drug manufacturer clim
Governor Cuomo proposed last week legislation that would bar insurance companies from requiring applicants to take or asking whether they had taken blood tests for AIDS. Early drafts of the legislation allowed the tests when they were medically justified. But that provision, which drew intense opposition from homosexua
SOMETIMES, WHEN HE IS SPEAKING about AIDS, Myron Essex sounds like a man possessed. The effect is odd and somewhat incongruous with the way he looks and with what he does for a living. Max Essex is a mild-mannered, seemingly placid man of 46 whose thatch of thick hair, covering his forehead and ears, makes him look rat
It was devastating enough when Nina Shearer learned that her 3-year-old daughter - her only child - had AIDS. But Mrs. Shearer s trauma deepened as she and her daughter, Jackie, were gradually cut off from the world they had known. Mrs. Shearer gave up her job as a visiting lecturer in the design department at the Univ
Ryan White, a normal Indiana kid except that he has AIDS, is being kept out of school because some adults aren t learning about the disease fast enough. A judge in Kokomo has temporarily barred Ryan from classes on the plea of some parents that he has a communicable disease. But at a recent hearing, all three doctors t
ALBANY, Feb. 23 - Insurance companies could not require people applying for policies to take a blood test for AIDS under revised legislation proposed today by Governor Cuomo. The test, which detects an AIDS antibody, is medically inconclusive, the Governor said in a statement. Data now available indicates a majority of
IN the year since development of a blood test to determine the presence of the virus antibodies associated with acquired immune deficiency, the number of people seeking help from the Mid-Hudson Valley AIDS Task Force has increased quite rapidly, according to John Egan, the agency s executive director. Fear, in some cas
BLOOD DONORS seeking to designate who receives their donations are challenging the state medical establishment, which is defending its system of pooling donations. A handful of people who have been refused when they tried to donate blood to ill relatives are working on generating support for a bill in the General Assem
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 - The Food and Drug Administration today challenged a pharmaceutical company s report that it had had some success treating AIDS with a drug. Last week the company, Newport Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Newport Beach, Calif., said data showed that its experimental drug, isoprinosine, demonstrated a resto
RUSSIAVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21 - Ryan White hopped out of his stepfather s pickup truck and walked into school today for the first time since doctors discovered 15 months ago that he has AIDS. But 43 percent of his classmates stayed home, and after school was over a judge barred Ryan from going back Monday. School official
A NEW JERSEY man who says he is homosexual, in his late 30 s and been around writes that his No. 1 health concern is AIDS. So far I have not experienced any symptoms, but every single day I worry about what might happen next week, next month, next year, he says, adding that he would like to take the test for AIDS virus
HARVARD researchers have reported finding antibodies to the AIDS virus in the saliva of individuals who also have such antibodies in their blood. This finding, they said, may help unravel some of the puzzles associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome and saliva. Previous efforts to find the AIDS virus, called
Todd Shuttleworth had been a Broward County budget analyst for 15 months when it became known that he had AIDS. He was first placed on sick leave, and then, he recalled in an interview, When I came to pick up my paycheck a couple of weeks later, I was told that I was fired. He fought that move as discriminatory, and wo
New Jersey, which ranks fourth among the states in the number of AIDS cases, is the only state in which AIDS patients who are intravenous drug users outnumber those who are believed to have contracted the disease from homosexual activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. To try to curb the cases
How should officials decide whether a child with AIDS may attend regular classes in a New York City public school? According to State Supreme Court Justice Harold Hyman, case by case. Observing that experts unanimously agree that the virus is not transmitted by casual interpersonal contact or airborne spread, Justice H
An important new study confirms that there is virtually no chance of acquiring AIDS through casual contact. The study discovered no such cases in households of AIDS patients. There is no justification, hence, for society to turn victims of AIDS into pariahs, forcing them out of jobs and apartments, refusing to provide
JERSEY CITY - EMACIATED and too weak to walk alone, 20-year-old Yvonne lies in Jersey City Medical Center, slowly dying of AIDS. This is her third admission since last May; she once stayed three months. Yvonne now receives intravenous medications for a painful fungal infection in her mouth and throat, drugs for herpes
DESPITE dozens of public pronouncements about the nature of AIDS and how it is and is not transmitted, myths and fears about this fast-growing public health menace continue to grow, accompanied at times by panic and hysteria. While some people needlessly treat AIDS patients and carriers of the AIDS virus as pariahs, ot
A State Supreme Court justice ruled yesterday that children with AIDS cannot automatically be excluded from regular classes in New York City public schools. He upheld the city s policy of deciding case by case whether such children should attend normal classes. But the justice, Harold Hyman of Queens, also declared in
PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Many of New York s homosexuals - for years in the forefront of social upheaval - are now adopting more traditional lives outside the city, where they are quietly slipping into the fabric of suburban and small-town life, researchers and other experts say. In increasing numbers, homosexual men and wome
The issue of homosexual-rights legislation has divided New York City s religious leaders and led to an uncommonly sharp exchange between John Cardinal O Connor and Paul Moore Jr., the Episcopal Bishop of New York. The conflict between the two religious leaders reflects a wider dispute within religion generally, over ho
Even after prolonged contact between AIDS patients and household members - contact that included the sharing of dishes, toothbrushes, towels and showers, for example, and close nonsexual interaction such as hugging and kissing - there was no evidence of transmission of the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Gerald H. Friedla
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 8 - Brazilian health authorities, alarmed by the growing number of AIDS cases, have distributed questionnaires asking visitors arriving here for Carnival this week to answer questions about their sexual preferences and possible contacts with the disease. But while Scandinavian, Portuguese and Dutch
IT was called Fashion Affair 84, a benefit fashion show and auction for AIDS research that was held in November of that year. The big designers were almost nowhere to be seen. They lent clothes for the fashion show, recalled Pauline Trigere, a co-chairman of the event, but I had a great deal of trouble getting money fo
The largest and most thorough study of members of the families of AIDS victims completed to date provides conclusive evidence that the fatal disease does not spread through close, day-to-day personal contact, according to the leader of the research team. The study examined in more detail than ever before the extent to
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 - President Reagan announced today that he had asked the Surgeon General of the United States to prepare a major report on AIDS and that the Administration was committed to finding a cure for the disease. One of our highest public health priorities is going to continue to be finding a cure for AIDS,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 - President Reagan sent to Congress today a 1987 budget that would shrink the size of the Government and seemed certain to set off a battle of wills between the White House and Capitol Hill. Even before the President submitted his plan, which would cut domestic spending so that military spending coul
ALARM at the cost of treating AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome -$147,000 per patient, according to a recent Federal study - has prompted many employers to look closely at the option of hospice care. In hospice programs the patient, who in most cases is losing a battle with cancer, and the physician accept t
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - The Department of Health and Human Services plans to propose regulations that would require people seeking to immigrate to the United States to be screened for exposure to the AIDS virus. Charles Kline, a spokesman for the department, said the proposed regulations had been approved by the departmen
OF the two prominent plays about AIDS, The Normal Heart has been conveniently categorized as the political one, whereas As Is has been called the personal one. In Arvin Brown s sensible and sensitive Long Wharf staging, The Normal Heart has taken on a deep, personal dimension. Attribute that not only to Mr. Brown s sta
New York blood banks are accustomed to a seasonal lag in donations around Christmas and New Year s, when few groups schedule blood drives. That normal slowdown is worsened this winter by misplaced fears about AIDS. The result is a critical shortage. The Greater New York Blood Program, a joint project of the American Re
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 - The Public Health Service has drafted new guidelines that urge surgeons, dentists and obstetricians to take even greater precautions to avert any transmission of the AIDS virus. It has also drafted recommendations designed to prevent the spread of AIDS in prisons. The Government has already issued
Doctors at Bellevue Hospital Center are breaking with tradition and making house calls on sick and dying AIDS patients throughout the city. Bellevue officials say the home visits - unusual for any physician and virtually unheard of at any major teaching hospital - are part of a new teaching program designed to make you
Thoroughly defying convention, an appeal for help in AIDS research - a stark black-and-white portrait of eight youngsters and nine young women - will appear in the March issues of major fashion magazines. For the future of our children, the message says, support the American Foundation for AIDS Research. We do. Th
WHITE PLAINS - RICK, who is 24 years old, has seen his mother once in the last six years. When he was 18, he told her he was a homosexual. She was furious and disbelieving. He packed his bags and left. Doreen, 44, is a lesbian. Her mother, she reports, was happy when she found out. She was pleased that I was happy, Do
EVERY Wednesday night in Highland Park, the terror of acquired immune deficiency syndrome is reduced to a human level. That is when a diverse group of people meets to help one another with a personal tragedy that they share. They do so with the help of the Hyacinth Foundation/New Jersey AIDS Project, the state s first
AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. As it spreads, so does another malady called IFAIDS - irrational fear of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The latest group to fall victim is the California Association of Realtors. It has instructed members to inform prospective homebuyers whether or not a house
Mayor Koch introduced a homosexual-rights bill last week, and supporters gave it a fighting chance of passing. Although the City Council has been defeating such proposals annually for 15 years, Koch said this one had been revised to resolve all of the concerns that had been raised in the past. Vote counters noted that
Eighteen percent of people who are single, divorced or separated have changed their sexual behavior for fear of AIDS, according to a nationwide NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll released yesterday, while just 3 percent of married people have changed their practices. Half of those who changed said they relied more heavi
The Cuomo administration will propose legislation that would allow health- and life-insurance companies to require a blood test for AIDS under certain medically justified conditions, state officials said yesterday. James Lytle, an assistant counsel to Governor Cuomo, said the measure was still being formulated and woul
Public fear over the spread of AIDS has led to increased discrimination and violence against homosexuals, even as it has created new obstacles to obtaining legal protections, according both to leaders of homosexual groups and to government officials. The result, leaders of homosexual-rights groups say, has been a shift
ALBANY, Jan. 14 - Predicting a new economic resurgence for New York, Governor Cuomo today proposed a $41.4 billion state budget that would increase spending by 7 percent while also putting into effect the second year of a tax-cut plan. This is a budget that moves us forward in a balanced way, the Governor said. It is
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - American doctors have been treating hundreds of thousands of patients a year with experimental therapies in a wide range of clinical studies of cancer and other grave illnesses, according to estimates by Federal officials and academic experts. In one big group of studies that involve life-or-death
Someday there will be a cure or a vaccine for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Right now, however, all that medicine, family and friends can do for AIDS victims is to make the last months of their lives as comfortable as possible. So far, the best society seems able to do is make care as expensive as possible witho
The New York State Health Commissioner said yesterday that the state would increase by nearly a third the payments that hospitals received for treating AIDS patients if the hospitals joined a new network of AIDS centers. The increases are intended to offset the heavy losses that hospitals say they suffer in treating pa
ALBANY, Jan. 14 - Predicting a new economic resurgence for New York, Governor Cuomo today proposed a $41.4 billion state budget that would increase spending by 7 percent while also putting into effect the second year of a tax-cut plan. This is a budget that moves us forward in a balanced way, the Governor said. It is
ALBANY, Jan. 14 - Following are excerpts from Governor Cuomo s budget message to the State Legislature: Within its pages, this budget will propose many opportunities for combining the energies and goals of the state, local governments, the private sector and all New Yorkers, so that the total of our efforts will be str
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 - The AIDS epidemic is not expected to spread rapidly into the general population, Government and academic experts now believe, but the disease will probably kill far more Americans than is generally recognized. The latest figures show that the explosive growth rate of the epidemic is moderating eve
WASHINGTON - Despite early concerns that AIDS might become rampant in prisons, officials say there is little evidence that the disease has spread behind bars. We have no evidence that any inmate in our system has ever contracted AIDS from another inmate, said Dr. Bealer T. Rogers Jr., chief health officer of the Florid
THE state s new Public Advocate hates public appearances and speechmaking, and isn t much keener about officeholding in general. There s no other job the public could have offered me that I would have taken, said Alfred A. Slocum, explaining that with this job, you can lend a hand to the less fortunate. He maintains th
Sister Patrice Murphy of St. Vincent s Hospital in Greenwich Village has long prayed with and comforted the dying, but working with 90 AIDS patients in recent years has tested her in profoundly new ways. One patient asked her: How could God love me? I m one of his mistakes. Another asked, How come you, a Catholic, woul
TO combat the increasing problem of teen-age pregnancy, a growing number of school districts are revising their sex-education courses. Interviews with officials in 10 public-school districts across United States show that they are adopting what they consider a more realistic and practical approach to sex education, sta
TO combat the increasing problem of teen-age pregnancy, a growing number of school districts are revising their sex-education courses. Interviews with officials in 10 public-school districts across United States show that they are adopting what they consider a more realistic and practical approach to sex education, sta
ALBANY, Jan. 8 - Governor Cuomo laid out a legislative program today that included proposals to clean up the environment, provide jobs for welfare applicants, spur economic development and build housing for the homeless. He said the agenda - a combination of new approaches and old programs he has pressed during his thr
ALBANY, Jan. 8 - Governor Cuomo laid out a legislative program today that included proposals to clean up the environment, provide jobs for welfare applicants, spur economic development and build housing for the homeless. He said the agenda - a combination of new approaches and old programs he has pressed during his thr
CAROL A. BROSMITH, the school nurse at the Edward W. Morley Elementary School in West Hartford, concedes that when she attended grammar school, students were often afraid of their school nurse. You never went to the school nurse; she was always a witch. You d sooner die in your classroom, recalled Mrs. Brosmith, who ha
ANNE, an attractive New York widow in her mid-40 s, decided it was time to begin dating again. Before re-entering the social wars, she visited her gynecologist. Anne had long used a diaphragm to prevent pregnancy but feared this would provide little protection against AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome for w
On one recent afternoon, 11 Manila file folders were lined up neatly on a glass table in Mark Senak s office at the Gay Men s Health Crisis. Each one had a man s name written on the outside. On the inside, each one contained a newly drafted will, drawn up for someone with AIDS. For most people, writing a will is a rite
Specimens of numerous insects from central Africa have been found to contain the AIDS virus, according to French scientists, who stressed that, despite the discovery, transmission of AIDS to humans by insects was extremely unlikely. Other scientists called the finding a puzzling one that, if confirmed, could yield new
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