On the eve of signing a $265 billion military budget bill, President Clinton today directed the Attorney General not to defend in court a provision requiring the Pentagon to discharge troops who have the virus that causes AIDS. The White House said the President viewed the provision as abhorrent and unconstitutional.
Shortly after AIDS was first recognized in 1981, activists demanded: give us new therapies. Now the latest worry of activists and many others concerned about the costs of health care is: who can afford them? A five-day meeting on H.I.V. and related viruses here last week made it clear that the treatment of AIDS is ente
An experimental drug has nearly halved both the death rate from advanced AIDS and the number of serious complications of the disease in a large international study that lasted seven months, the drug s developer reported at a scientific meeting here today. Many of the 2,100 participants enthusiastically greeted the repo
A 26-year-old student from Flatbush has found that a new cream keeps the AIDS-related precancerous cells in her cervix at bay. A former drug user has been trying out a new cocktail of virus fighters. And a 37-year-old woman with a T-cell count so low that it might as well be zero has been hoping that an experimental st
A combination of an experimental anti-AIDS drug and two licensed ones appears to be the most powerful AIDS therapy ever tested on infected patients, a researcher from the experimental drug s developer said at a scientific meeting here today. The three-drug combination reduced the amount of H.I.V., the AIDS virus, by 99
The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case challenging an exclusive patent that has prevented lower-cost, generic versions of the leading AIDS medication from entering the market. Without comment, the Justices turned down appeals filed by two generic-drug manufacturers that had challenged the validity of the patent
When Michael Donaldson joined a health maintenance organization in April, he was H.I.V.-positive and healthy. But as his health declined, he said, the Health Insurance Plan of New York came to seem less his ally than his enemy. When he told his H.M.O. doctor in June that he had pneumonia -- with a high fever, nausea an
For Conrad Noble, living with AIDS means keeping a well-stocked medicine chest and knowing when it is time for each of the 31 pills he takes every day. At first you re very resistant to the medication, he said. But once you re in pain you take the pill and get used to it. Most of his prescriptions, which would cost mor
The transplant last month of bone marrow from a baboon into a 38-year-old man who is dying of AIDS has again raised the old question of whether desperate times call for desperate remedies. At stake is the tension between dying patients calls for anything that might help and scientists caution that the proper laboratory
NOW that Jeff Getty has gone home from the San Francisco hospital where he received an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow, and other cross-species transplants are pending elsewhere, two questions arise: Will animal viruses carried in transplanted tissues be able to infect humans? And if so, will they be able
Psychiatrists have determined that a homeless man charged with sticking a 6-year-old girl with a hypodermic needle on a subway train last month is mentally unfit to stand trial, a Manhattan judge said yesterday. Justice Barbara Newman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan did not reveal why two psychiatrists at Bellevue
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