SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) - Doctors late Thursday carried out an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow into an AIDS patient in an attempt to boost his immune system, a hospital spokeswoman said. AIDS patient Jeff Getty is so far doing very well, feels very good, said hospital spokeswoman Alice Trinkl, following th
BOSTON, Dec 28 (Reuter) - The risk of getting AIDS through a transfusion of blood or blood products may be only half as great as originally believed, according to an assessment to be published in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine. A team led by Dr Eve Lackritz of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
BOSTON (Reuter) - The risk of getting AIDS through a transfusion of blood or blood products may be only half as great as originally believed, according to an assessment to be published in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine. A team led by Dr Eve Lackritz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in
BOSTON (Reuter) - An experimental drug that gums up the operation of a key protein used by the AIDS virus seems to keep the virus at bay, at least for a while, according to two studies in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine. The drug is ritonavir, formerly known as ABT-538 and developed by Abbott
BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuter) - AIDS has slipped into China s Ivory Tower with 10 students in two Beijing colleges found carrying the deadly Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, the Yangcheng Evening News said on Monday. It is extremently urgent to spread the programme of prevention of AIDS on China s university campuses,
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) - AIDS patient Jeff Getty, injected with baboon bone marrow just over a week ago in a historic transplant, was feeling some discomfort attributed to radiation, doctors said Friday. Getty, 38, has been experiencing some nausea and stomach discomfort, but the main doctor caring for Getty said the d
ATLANTA (Reuter) - The drug AZT may help health care workers avoid infection with the AIDS virus after accidentally being pricked by needles contaminated with an infected patient s blood, federal health researchers said Thursday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) studied the cases of 710 health
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 (Reuter) - Malaysia s government will decide whether Moslem couples must be tested for AIDS before marrying, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday. Mahathir was responding to reporters questions after Abdul Hamid Othman, Minister in the Prime Minister s Department, said AIDS (Acquired Im
BOSTON (Reuter) - Preliminary tests of a new drug designed to prevent deadly viruses from reproducing in the body have shown the medicine may slow the progression of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B. Two studies to be reported in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine examined laboratory indic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) - An AIDS patient was listed in good condition in a San Francisco hospital Friday after doctors injected him with baboon bone marrow in a bid to boost his immune system, a hospital spokeswoman said. Jeff Getty, 38, slept well following Thursday s transplant at San Francisco General Hospital, hosp
NEW YORK (Reuter) - A benefits fund providing medical insurance to construction workers has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuits alleging it denied coverage to individuals with AIDS and HIV-related illnesses. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which announced the settlement Thursday, said the
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuter) - A Swedish child infected at birth with HIV that causes AIDS no longer shows any sign of it in its body, a physician said Thursday. The child was tested HIV positive twice during its first year, but we have not been able to detect any symptoms since, according to physician Rolf Ljung at Mal
LONDON (Reuter) - Doctors should be more aware that older men can become infected with AIDS, a team of U.S. doctors said Friday. Dr Francis Drobniewski and colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York said they found a significant number of people over 50, especially men, tested positive for the HI
LONDON (Reuter) - A virus linked to Kaposi s sarcoma, one of the illnesses that defines AIDS, has been found in semen, U.S. doctors reported Friday. The doctors at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said their findings explained why Kaposi s sarcoma was common in homosexual men but not other AIDS victims. Te
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) - Doctors prepared an AIDS patient Thursday for an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow, exposing him to low-dose radiation in advance of the risky procedure, a hospital spokeswoman said. Doctors were expected to carry out the transplant later Thursday, hospital spokeswoman Alice Trinkl
KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuter) - A global meeting of scientists and researchers on AIDS ended in Uganda Thursday with a grim assessment of the failure so far to find a cure or vaccine. There was still no dramatic breakthrough for the ultimate cure. Progress on vaccine development remains slow and frustrating, conference cha
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 14 (Reuter) - Doctors are likely to carry out on Thursday an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow into an AIDS patient in an attempt to boost his immune system, a hospital spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The experimental and controversial procedure is being attempted because baboons have been
NEW YORK (Reuter) - The U.S. Army announced Wednesday it had filed assault charges against a soldier for having unprotected sex with a female soldier and not informing her that he was HIV positive. Specialist Kevin Barrows of the 41st Engineer Battalion at Ft. Drum, New York, violated a Defense Department safe sex poli
KAMPALA, Dec 10 (Reuter) - Researcher Luc Montagnier told an African AIDS conference on Sunday that prevention was the best way to combat the virus and he was opening education centres on the continent worst hit by the killer disease. Education on (AIDS) prevention should be intensified and emphasised, the French resea
KAMPALA, Dec 9 (Reuter) - AIDS researchers and campaigners open a global conference this weekend in Uganda where the disease, as in several other African countries, threatens to cut average life expectancy to about 30 by the year 2010. The WHO-sponsored five-day conference will be attended by 3,000 delegates, including
SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec 8 (Reuter) - A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel Friday recommended the agency approve an eye implant system that can help AIDS patients fend off blindess. The Vitrasert implant, developed by Chiron Corp. and Roche Holdings Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
BERLIN (Reuter) - A German AIDS support group on Thursday warned against inflated hopes for an AIDS cure following a research breakthrough by a German institute. It s a long way from the laboratory to the hospital bed, said Hans-Josef Linkens of the Berlin-based AIDS-Hilfe group. The Langen-based Paul-Ehrlich institute
NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (Reuter) - The AIDS virus, carried by an estimated 1.5 million people in India and spreading rapidly, is costing the country about $13.8 billion a year, a medical expert said on Thursday. Dr Lalit Nath, director of the All India Institute of Medical Science in New Delhi, is part of a team trying estima
UNITED NATIONS (Reuter) - AIDS continued to be the leading cause of death in the past year for people under 45 in the United States and Western Europe, claiming more victims than violent crime, the head of the U.N. anti-AIDS program said Friday. In the past year, the World Health Organization estimat
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton vowed Wednesday to redouble his administration s efforts to find a cure for AIDS and warned against any moves in Congress to cut related government spending. At the first-ever White House conference on AIDS and HIV, the virus that causes the fatal disease, Clinton said he had ord
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A U.S. government advisory group reported Wednesday that immediate action is needed to slow the AIDS epidemic spreading as a slow plague through some African countries. The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Science, painted a grim picture of the AIDS epidemic in parts of
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Scientists Wednesday announced they had identified several long-sought substances naturally produced by the human immune system that seem to be able to suppress the virus that causes AIDS. The discovery of these natural suppressors, reported in two prestigious research journals in Britain and the
LONDON (Reuter) - German scientists said Wednesday they had found a substance, naturally produced by the body s immune system, which slows down reproduction of the HIV virus that causes AIDS. AIDS experts cautioned against greeting the finding of this suppressor as a breakthrough. But they said it may be a very importa
NEW YORK (AP) -- A poster that uses Pope John Paul II to grab attention for a new AIDS fund-raising campaign is too controversial and won t be used, organizers said today. We won t be running it because people would focus on it as a personal attack, and deflect attention from AIDS, said Jay Blotcher, spokesman for the
CANBERRA, Dec 5 (Reuter) - Australia said on Tuesday people carrying the deadly HIV or suffering from AIDS and other chronic diseases would be barred from joining the military. The function of our defence force is to protect Australia and its citizens, and our servicemen and women must be fit to serve anywhere and at a
NEW YORK (Reuter) - Film Star Sharon Stone, who will head a three-year fundraising campaign to raise $76 million for the American Foundation for Aids Research, expects to travel widely in the United States and abroad. She will attempt to raise money from corporations and other groups for AIDS research, a spokesman for
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The 25 largest U.S. cities are outperforming the nation as a whole in curbing the spread of AIDS, child poverty, violent crime and households headed by a single female, a major survey of census and other data said Monday. The report by the National Public Health and Hospital Institute documented t
STRASBOURG, France (Reuter) - A hemophiliac, who died 11 days ago of AIDS contracted through a blood transfusion, won posthumous damages from France Monday of more than $200,000. The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Daniel Bellet, a Paris local government officer, infected with the AIDS
LILONGWE, Malawi (Reuter) - Malawi will soon punish rape with the death penalty to prevent the spread of AIDS, President Bakili Muluzi said Sunday. Innocent women and children contract AIDS because of (the) high rise of rape cases, Muluzi told a prayer meeting in Malawi s administrative capital. Muluzi said the gov
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - The number of AIDS orphans in Kenya will double to 600,000 by the turn of the century, Kenyan Health Minister Joshua Angatia was quoted Saturday as saying. Angatia was quoted in the East African Standard newspaper as saying some 300,000 Kenyan children had already been orphaned because their p
BEIJING, Dec 2 (Reuter) - China diagnosed 820 people as infected with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in the first nine months of 1995 compared to 531 for the whole of 1994, the China Daily said on Saturday. Since the first case was reported in 1985, 2,594 people have been diagnosed as HIV carriers, the newspaper qu
VANCOUVER (Reuter) - The Canadian organizers of next year s international AIDS conference warned Friday that a crisis over funding for AIDS research in Canada could turn the 1996 meeting into a national embarrassment. If something doesn t happen soon there will be a lot of focus (at the conference) on why this country
BOSTON (Reuter) - Actor and AIDS activist Richard Gere lashed out at politicians who, he said, had failed to implement and fund research programs that would help to find a cure for the deadly disease. I m kind of angry that we re still doing these things, Gere ssaid before an awards dinner late Thursday, the eve of Wor
BOSTON (Reuter) - AIDS prevention programs aimed at high-risk people are proving effective, despite perceptions to the contrary, a Harvard AIDS Institute panel concluded Friday. Convening on World AIDS Day, the panel cited successful programs for intravenous drug users, high-school students and poor inner-city women.
PANAMA CITY (Reuter) - Panama marked World Aids Day Friday by opening its first center dedicated to AIDS testing and patient counseling -- thanks to a $70,000 grant from the Dutch government, officials said. The clinic is run by the Panama Association Against AIDS (APAC) and will have a laboratory to test individuals f
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - U.S. officials stressed the need for prevention and kicked off an AIDS education campaign Friday as rallies across the country marked World AIDS Day. Health officials began distributing information to pregnant women on testing for the HIV virus that causes AIDS. The campaign also emphasized positi
UNITED NATIONS (Reuter) - Film star Sharon Stone Friday replaced Elizabeth Taylor as chief fundraiser for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, a major private group. Stone, who will be asked to raise $76 million over four years, told reporters, This sounds like an awful lot of money until you realize that one mov
LONDON (Reuter) - Public figures across the globe, from Britain s Princess Diana to China s Health Minister marked World AIDS Day Friday, while European courts reached two landmark rulings on the deadly disease. Diana, patron of an AIDS charity, said in a speech that, with no cure or vaccine yet in sight, the day was a
MOSCOW (Reuter) - Moscow appears to be pressing ahead with strict measures to stop foreigners from bringing AIDS into Russia but officials said not enough was being done to prevent the spread of the disease within the country. Arkady Yesinsky, head of department in Russia s State AIDS Inspectorate, said work to enforce
BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuter) - Remember those Romanian AIDS babies that made the West weep after the 1989 revolution? Many are still here, innocent victims of a unique AIDS crisis where by far the greatest number of cases are children, infected because of poor health care. Six years since the end of communism, AIDS and
LONDON (Reuter) - A British court jailed a Ugandan woman infected with the AIDS virus Friday, World AIDS Day, because she injected her lover with blood as a parting present because he wanted to leave her for someone else. Judge Heather Steel, sentencing 25-year-old Rhena Ndagga to two years in jail, said the crime was
KOBLENZ, Germany (Reuter) - A German court convicted three company executives and a laboratory assistant Friday for distributing shoddily tested blood products, causing the death of at least two people from the AIDS-causing HIV virus. In its ruling, which coincidentally fell on World AIDS Day, the court sentenced UB Pl
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - With AIDS rising among young people, health authorities Thursday unveiled a frank new ad campaign aimed at teaching teens to Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself. Featuring young people talking candidly among themselves about sex, AIDS, condoms -- as well as virginity and abstinence -- the ads are f
JERUSALEM (Reuter) - About 13,000 people a day worldwide are infected by the virus that causes AIDS and southeast Asia is fast becoming a main casualty zone for the killer disease, a leading U.S. expert said Thursday. Jonathan Mann, director of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition, an independent international research gro
NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (Reuter) - AIDS activists in India , fast emerging as the epicentre of an Asian epidemic are using World AIDS Day on Friday to raise the political priority of a disease carried by an estimated 1.5 million people in the country. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates there could be at least fiv
HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuter) - Zimbabwe s main non-governmental group promoting the anti-AIDS campaign has folded through lack of cash, while 300 to 400 people are dying each week from the disease, executive director Elizabeth Matenga said Wednesday. Matenga told reporters the AIDS Counselling Trust (ACT) would cease oper
VIENNA (Reuter) - Austria s far-right Freedom Party called Wednesday for blanket AIDS tests at all national borders for immigrants, long-term guest workers and asylum seekers, saying the import of the disease had to be stopped. Two days ahead of World AIDS Day, Freedom Party health spokesman Alois Pumberger also said a
HANOVER, Germany (Reuter) - The co-owner of a German pharmaceutical laboratory went on trial Wednesday on almost 6,000 counts of murder or attempted murder for selling blood products tainted with the deadly HIV virus. Dr. Guenter Kurt Eckert, 55, is accused of distributing blood plasma which his Aprath laboratory faile
PHNOM PENH, Nov 29 (Reuter) - Between 50,000 and 90,000 people in Cambodia may have the virus that leads to the killer disease AIDS, sharply up from an estimate of 30,000 in August, statistics released on Wednesday said. The report, compiled by the Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation, said that 86 people
BEIJING (Reuter) - With soaring prostitution and drug abuse pushing AIDS cases higher, China s mass media have junked their puritanical caution to launch a candid and dramatic public-education drive. China is entering a period of rapid escalation of AIDS cases, state-run China Central Television said in a frank weekend
HAVANA, (Reuter) - A Havana court has jailed 12 Cubans who pretended to be AIDS sufferers and caused a public disturbance by cutting their arms, threatening to contaminate bystanders with their blood, a Cuban newspaper said Sunday. The weekly Tribuna de la Habana said two of the nine men and three women received jail s
BEIJING (Reuter) - China has diagnosed 2,428 people as infected with the HIV virus, of whom 77 had developed AIDS, by the end of June 1995, the Workers Daily said Saturday. A total of 654 people were diagnosed with the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that causes AIDS in the first six months of 1995, more than in the
ATLANTA (Reuter) - The number of AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States since 1981 has passed the half-million mark, with Americans accounting for one in every nine cases worldwide, federal health officials said Friday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that as of the end of October, a total o
GENEVA (Reuter) - The AIDS epidemic in Asia could dwarf the disease s spread in Africa, while the number of new infections in some northern European countries seems to have peaked, the head of the new U.N. AIDS program said Friday. Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of U.N. AIDS, also said trials for testing vaccines o
HANOI (Reuter) - Vietnam said Thursday that the human-immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was spreading rapidly through the southeast Asian country and the number of death from the AIDS disease had risen sharply in the past three months. A total of 64 more deaths from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), thought to be
BANGKOK, Nov 21 (Reuter) - As more and more children fall victim to the deadly AIDS virus, their rights need to be protected to ensure discrimination does not prohibit them from living a normal life, a regional conference heard on Tuesday. Health care, child rights and international law experts said at the opening cere
HOUSTON (Reuter) - A federal grand jury Monday returned a 75-count indictment against physician Stanislaw Burzynski and his Houston clinic charging them with administering $40 million in unapproved drugs to AIDS and cancer patients. Capping a decade-long probe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (
NEW DELHI, India (Reuter) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa plans to set up a hospice for women and children AIDS patients in New Delhi, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said Friday. The news agency quoted the 85-year-old nun of Albanian descent as saying that those suffering from the disease would get much-neede
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuter) - Latin American housewives have among the region s highest risk of AIDS due to infection from husbands having affairs with men or women or taking drugs, health experts said Friday. The most important risk factor for a Latin American woman is being married, said Fernando Zacarias, coordinator
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuter) - One million Latin Americans are expected to be suffering from AIDS by 2000 and more effective campaigns must be developed to prevent the epidemic spreading, health experts said Thursday. Most people in the region know about AIDS and how to prevent it, but we need to convert this into action,
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - An experimental drug has protected monkeys exposed to an AIDS-like virus, raising hopes of creating an emergency treatment to prevent the AIDS virus from establishing itself in exposed humans, scientists said Thursday. If the leap can be made from monkeys to humans -- and that has not yet been pro
HAVANA (Reuter) - Cuba , which has kept its AIDS rate relatively low through mass testing and isolation of patients, has recorded 1,180 people with HIV, the virus that leads to the disease, an official news agency said Tuesday. Prensa Latina quoted Manuel Hernandez, head of the national anti-AIDS campaign, as saying th
HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuter) - Zimbabwean Health and Child Welfare Minister Timothy Stamps is to auction his hair next weekend to raise money for an anti-AIDS campaign, the state news agency ZIANA reported Monday. It said Stamps had shaved his head in memory of people who have died of AIDS and related diseases. Under Afri
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Doctors may treat critically ill newborns whose mothers have the AIDS virus less aggressively than they treat sick infants of women who are not infected, according to a study released Sunday. The data on physician attitudes raise the possibility that infants labeled as HIV-positive, whether infect
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuter) - Behavior that puts people at risk of contracting the AIDS virus increased among heterosexuals living in major American cities from 1990 to 1992, according to a study released Sunday. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) surveyed 4,790 heterosexuals aged 18 to 49 in
MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuter) - Australian researchers who have discovered a rare strain of HIV that does not appear to cause AIDS, said Friday commercial use of their work was at least five years away, playing down hopes of a cure for AIDS. This is one of the most important discoveries since the beginning of the AIDS
HAVANA (Reuter) - Cuba could start testing a trial vaccine against AIDS on human volunteers in the first half of next year, a Cuban newspaper said Sunday. The communist youth weekly, Juventud Rebelde, quoted Manual Limonta, head of Cuba s Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, as saying the Cuban formula was
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A U.S. government advisory committee Wednesday recommended that the Food and Drug Administration give full approval to a new AIDS drug for patients no longer responding to existing therapy. It was the third recommendation the FDA s Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee made this week for approval of
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Federal medical advisers Tuesday began reviewing a new class of drugs that fight AIDS by suppressing the replication of the virus that causes it. AIDS advocacy groups have urged quick Food and Drug Administration approval of the Roche Holding AG drug saquinavir for people
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuter) - Cambodia s campaign against the spread of AIDS has been set back by the forced closure of brothels and authorities harassment of sex workers, a United Nations human rights representative said in a report. Michael Kirby, special representative of the United Nations for human rights in Cam
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is very upbeat about the potential for a new, potent class of anti-AIDS drugs, FDA Commissioner David Kessler told the Washington Post. Kessler was quoted in Monday editions of the paper as saying the drugs, known as
LONDON (Reuter) - New strains of the virus that causes AIDS have been introduced into the United States and Uruguay by soldiers returning home after being infected in Asia and Africa, researchers said Friday. In a report in the medical journal The Lancet they warned that with international travel now so frequent and ea
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (Reuter) - The French researcher who first identified the HIV virus said Wednesday more AIDS research should be carried out in Africa, the continent worst affected by the disease. The center of gravity for AIDS is in Africa and southeast Asia but the center of gravity for research is in the northern
CHICAGO (Reuter) - A study of more than 100 randomly selected U.S. doctors found a majority incorrectly diagnosed three key symptoms of HIV infection, the virus that causes AIDS, a report published Tuesday said. University of Washington School of Medicine researchers in Seattle selected 134 general internists and famil
BEIJING (Reuter) - Beijing announced a bold new scheme to combat AIDS Saturday and acknowledged that the spread of the disease in China was probably far wider than officials had been willing to admit. The Health Ministry announced a long-term program to halt the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, including
MIAMI (Reuter) - A 91-year-old man was infected with the AIDS virus by a prostitute who bit him during a robbery, the first confirmed report of the disease being transmitted through a human bite, experts said Friday. The incident, although believed to be unique, does not represent any change in the known methods of tra
MANILA, Philippines (Reuter) - Basketball superstar Earvin Magic Johnson said Friday he felt sorry for the fans in countries which have banned his visits because he has the virus that can lead to AIDS. They re the ones who are missing out. We ve been all around the world. You name it, we ve been there, he told a Manil
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuter) - Almost one million people in South Africa s most populous province, KwaZulu-Natal, could be infected by 1996 with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, a university study said Thursday. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is at a more advanced stage in KwaZulu-Natal than in the rest of South Africa, the
PERTH, Australia (Reuter) - A HIV-positive Australian woman who has been having unprotected sex with men has been given a curfew and placed under 24-hour supervision by a state health department concerned about the spread of AIDS. The health department in the state of Western Australia said the Perth woman, who s ident
HARARE, Oct 22 (Reuter) - At least 100,000 Zimbabweans will die of AIDS-related diseases within the next 18 months, Health Minister Timothy Stamps said at the weekend. I am not trying to be alarmist, but this is the reality we are facing. We are burying them (AIDS victims) at a rate of 300 every week, Stamps told the i
PARIS (Reuter) - A Paris hospital said Thursday it planned to test more than 5,000 people for the AIDS virus after learning that one of its surgeons had been infected for 13 years. The Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hospital Center in suburban Paris planned to send letters to at least 5,000 patients who may have come into conta
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Gene therapy that has helped two girls born with a lethal immune system disorder holds promise for treating AIDS and sickle cell anemia, a genetic researcher said Thursday. The success of the experimental therapy on the children with ADA deficiency could pave the way for treatment of other immune
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton will hold the first-ever White House conference on the AIDS disease on December 6, spokesman Mike McCurry said Wednesday. More than 130 individuals from across the country will participate in the White House Conference on HIV and AIDS, McCurry told a news briefing. AIDS refers to
CHICAGO (Reuter) - An international study released Tuesday said giving sterile needles and counseling to intraveneous drug users could help stop the spread of AIDS. Rapid transmission of (the AIDS virus) is not inevitable among injecting drug users, said the report from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuter) - An AIDS virus has been developed that causes the disease in animals, a discovery that could help the search for a vaccine against the pandemic disease, the University of Kansas Medical Center said Wednesday. The previous inability of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to cause disease in no
PARIS (Reuter) - France said Tuesday that AIDS patients given prescriptions for combinations of AZT and a second virus-fighting drug would be able to get the new drug-combining therapy despite the greater cost. The Health Ministry announced the new policy in a statement issued following publication of a stud
NEW YORK (Reuter) - Pope John Paul II preached compassion for AIDS victims at a mass for 125,000 people in the heart of New York Saturday but demonstrators later staged a noisy protest against the Church ban on condoms. In the first serious demonstration of the pope s five-day tour, the protesters unfurled a banner rea
TOKYO (Reuter) - Two Japanese courts proposed a landmark out-of-court settlement Friday to civil suits filed by haemophiliacs who contracted AIDS from tainted imported blood products, judicial officials said. In the suits filed in 1989, the haemophiliacs sought compensation from the state and five pharmaceutical compan
PHNOM PENH, Oct 5 (Reuter) - The virus that causes AIDS is cutting a swath through Cambodia s poorly-educated military and police forces, health experts say. Figures seen on Thursday show that of 380 police blood samples, 7.89 per cent tested positive for the human-immunodeficiency virus (HIV) this year. Figures for th
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A federal district court upheld an injunction against Life Partners Inc., which buys insurance policies of people who are terminally ill with AIDS and then sells them to investors, the SEC said Wednesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Waco, Texas-based company and its presiden
TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuter) - Japanese courts are expected to propose a landmark out-of-court settlement this week to civil suits filed by haemophiliacs who contracted AIDS from tainted imported blood products, newspapers reported on Wednesday. In the suits filed in 1989, haemophiliacs sought compensation from the state and
PARIS (Reuter) - Two former senior French officials convicted for fraud in a decade-old scandal over AIDS-tainted blood products are now to be investigated on poisoning charges, judicial sources said Tuesday. Robert Netter, former head of the national health laboratory, and Jacques Roux, former director of public healt
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuter) - The number of Africans infected with the AIDS virus is rising rapidly and up to two million people on the world s poorest continent could die of the disease within five years, a U.N. official said Monday. Kingsley Amoako, executive secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (E
COPENHAGEN (Reuter) - AIDS researchers ended a conference on the treatment of the deadly disease Friday with new optimism after agreeing that a cocktail of drugs can prolong the lives of sufferers. We now know that a combination of drugs does make a difference and can achieve prolonged survival. This has produced much-
LONDON (Reuter) - Merck and Co Inc said Thursday that tests of an experimental AIDS drug had shown promising results in patients with the deadly disease. The publication Tuesday of a study that found a cocktail of drugs helps improve AIDS survival rates has prompted several companies to release the results of prelimina
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuter) - AIDS researchers opening a conference on treatment for the deadly disease said Wednesday a cocktail of drugs could prolong the lives of sufferers but stressed that a cure remained elusive. This is neither a major breakthrough nor a false dawn. Medicine advances little by little and we are
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuter) - Australia s AIDS infection has passed its peak, due largely to a relentless campaign against the disease, Prime Minister Paul Keating said Wednesday as he announced funding for a new phase of the fight. Keating said his government would fund a third five-year national strategy from July n
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - One in seven residents living in the Kenyan capital Nairobi is infected with the virus that causes the deadly disease AIDS, a leading newspaper said Wednesday. Quoting Raphael Tuju, a communications consultant addressing members of the Insurance Institute of Kenya, the Daily Nation said 14 per
CHICAGO (Reuter) - Fewer AIDS-infected babies are being born in the United States for reasons that are not clear, but drug treatment could cut the number even more, researchers said Tuesday. The drop may be due to a decline in fertility among AIDS-infected women of childbearing age, more abortions in that group or a st
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuter) - Shares in Glaxo Wellcome Plc rose on Tuesday after the release of a clinical study that found the firm s anti-AIDS drug AZT , in combination with other drugs, had reduced the rate of death in AIDS patients. The findings of the European study, backed by Britain s Medical Res
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuter) - Mixing two AIDS drugs can reduce deaths from the deadly syndrome, researchers announced on Tuesday, giving doctors new hope that a cocktail of drugs can save victims. Because of its ability to mutate, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS can keep a step ahead of any drugs t
LONDON (Reuter) - A new AIDS therapy that uses a cocktail of drugs to attack the deadly HIV virus will benefit only rich Westerners and not the countries that suffer most from the epidemic, researchers and charity workers said Tuesday. A team of international researchers announced that using the common anti-HIV drug
LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) believe they have found what causes the HIV virus to stop immune cells from reproducing, according to a study released Monday. The study, published in the October 1 issue of the Journal of Virology, said a little-known gene in the vir
BRASILIA (Reuter) - Brazil s health ministrysaid Thursday it had dumped a name given to a talking penis used in an anti-AIDS campaign after angry protests from people with the same name. Neutral terms such as partner , buddy and ditto would be used for the noisy genitalia instead of the relatively popular name Braulio,
ATLANTA (Reuter) - Eight million sterile syringes were distributed last year in needle-exchange programs aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, federal health officials said Thursday. The number of needle-exchange programs nearly doubled in the last two years while the amount of needles distributed quadrupled, sa
GENEVA (Reuter) - Hundreds of thousands of tuberculosis patients carrying the HIV virus could probably gain more than two years of healthy life by properly taking anti-TB medicine, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. The United Nations health agency estimated that incomplete and often harmful tuberculosis
CHIANG MAI, Thailand , Sept 21 (Reuter) - Delegates to a regional AIDS conference in Thailand were challenged on Thursday to find ways to stem the spread of the deadly disease or at least make the lives of those infected more pleasant. While there has been some improvement in potential commitment to the fight against H
GENEVA, Switzerland , Sept 20 (Reuter) - Ares-Serono Group said its U.S. unit, Serono Laboratories Inc, filed a new drug application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Serostim product for the treatment of AIDS wasting in adults. Serostim is a mammalian cell-derived recombinant human growth hormone, Are
ATHENS, Sept 20 (Reuter) - Kidnappers snatched a boy and threatened to infect him with the AIDS virus unless his family paid a $174,000 ransom, Greek police revealed on Wednesday. Costas Dalakas, 11, was abducted outside his house in the outskirts of Athens last week after he got off a school bus and was held for five
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Needle exchange programs can slow the spread of AIDS among drug users and the federal government should lift a ban on helping to fund them, an influential medical advisory panel said Tuesday. The joint panel of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine also concluded that needle
CHIANG MAI, Sept 19 (Reuter) - A hundred thousand children in Thailand will be orphaned and a million will be affected by AIDS and the virus that causes it by the year 2000, health experts told a regional AIDS conference on Tuesday. By the year 2000, over 22,000 children will be orphaned by AIDS every year. Cumulativel
BANGKOK, Sept 19 (Reuter) - Thai police said on Tuesday they had arrested two young men accused of committing robberies by threatening to stab victims with syringes they said were full of blood containing the virus that can cause AIDS. The two men, aged 20 and 17, were arrested in a central Bangkok shopping district la
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The House Monday voted to extend the government s primary AIDS assistance program for five years and require that pregnant women receive counseling about the deadly disease. The measure extending the Ryan White CARE Act, approved by voice vote, provides grants to help states, cities and health car
PALO ALTO, Calif (Reuter) - Higher doses of a new type of drug pack a stronger punch against the AIDS-causing virus, HIV, with little increase in toxic side effects, according to a study released Monday. The new study supports earlier trials showing promise for protease inhibitors , a new class of anti-HIV drugs. Th
BRASILIA (Reuter) - Brazil s health minister said Monday he would bar anti-AIDS television ads that feature a talking penis named Braulio because people with that name complained they were being ridiculed. Health Minister Adib Jatene said the rest of the $5 million campaign to fight AIDS would continue without the peni
CHIANG MAI, Thailand , Sept 18 (Reuter) - The massive cost of of fighting AIDS is threatening economic development in Asia, the world s most populous region, economists told an AIDS conference on Monday. Let there be no misunderstanding. The AIDS epidemic is the enemy of Asian economic progress... it endangers the deve
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuter) - The AIDS epidemic is growing in Asia and a concerted effort needs to be launched by all sectors in order to control spread of the deadly disease, health officials told a regional conference on Sunday. Since ... the end of 1992, the crisis that is the spread of HIV (human immunodeficiency
BRASILIA (Reuter) - A Brazilian anti-AIDS campaign featuring a talking penis is being criticized by the Catholic Church and by people angry that the chatty organ called Braulio has their name. The advertising campaign began Thursday to persuade men to use condoms and stop the spread of AIDS. Brazil has the greatest inc
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Researchers have found a combination of drugs is better at prolonging the lives of people infected by the deadly AIDS virus than the usual first-line therapy of using the drug AZT alone, a U.S. health agency said Thursday. A study of 2,500 HIV-infected people showed that three treatments -- two in
DUNGARVAN, Ireland (Reuter) - Irish health officials said Thursday they had no medical proof to support a priest s allegations that a vengeful woman suffering from AIDS had infected up to 80 local men. Having checked with Irish and UK laboratories, we can confirm that there has been no documented increase in HIV infect
NEW DELHI, India (Reuter) - Indian scientists have developed a simple blood test that takes only seconds to detect whether a person has the AIDS virus, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said Thursday. The new method, requiring no more than a drop of blood and a special chemical reagent, could prove a low-cost tool for fig
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuter) - Health board officials quizzed an Irish priest Wednesday over his allegations that a vengeful woman with AIDS had infected scores of men with the HIV virus. It was the second meeting between Eastern Health Board officials and Father Michael Kennedy since he warned his congregation that a woma
BANGKOK, Sept 13 (Reuter) - With the spectre of an AIDS epidemic looming over Asia, health care and social workers are scrambling to fight ignorance and religious taboos to educate the world s most populous region about the deadly disease. Thousands of delegates will deal with the problem at the Third International Con
SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuter) - California s state legislature passed a controversial measure Tuesday that would permit people suffering from illnesses such as AIDS and cancer to legally grow and possess marijuana for medicinal use. But the measure faced a certain veto by Gov. Pete Wilson, who takes a strong stance agains
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuter) - Doctors played down reports Tuesday that a vengeful Irish woman infected up to 80 men after she caught the HIV virus that causes AIDS. This would seem to be a very high level of transmission. It requires to be investigated, Dr. James Walsh, former National Irish Aids coordinator, told report
KIEV, Ukraine (Reuter) - A top Ukrainian doctor said Monday a sharp increase in AIDS cases had been detected in the former Soviet republic and suggested increased radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl diaster was partly to blame. Valery Ivasyuk, head of Ukraine s anti-AIDS committee, said the number of cases of AIDS and in
BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuter) - Women face the bleak reality of being infected by the deadly HIV virus more quickly than men, due in part to their economic dependence on men, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The number of infected women with HIV is increasing more rapidly than men in Africa, in southern
BANGKOK, Sept 1 (Reuter) - Laos , the last Southeast Asian country to stay relatively free of the virus which causes the killer disease AIDS, has launched a nationwide campaign to prevent its spread, the United Nations said on Friday. The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) gave the Lao Ministry of Health US$252,000 for
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - In an unusual case, the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday won a preliminary injunction against a Waco, Texas, company selling interests parceled from insurance policies of people with AIDS. Federal Judge Royce Lamberth, in issuing the order, concluded that the SEC had given strong eviden
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Commonly used dental and medical devices can pass on infectious diseases such as the AIDS virus because lubricants used in the equipment can shield a virus from some commonly used germicides, said a study issued Tuesday. Almost any type of infectious disease, from the common cold to the AIDS virus
BANGKOK, Aug 29 (Reuter) - A joint Thai-U.S. military medical team on Tuesday launched a trial of a drug which might prove to be a preventive vaccine for the killer disease AIDS, officials from the team said. Two Thai volunteers were injected on Tuesday with the trial drug, made by the U.S. firm Chiron Biocine, at Bang
MANILA, Philippines (Reuter) - About 4.5 million people in southeast Asia had been infected with the HIV virus by January 1995 and the peak of the epidemic is not yet in sight, a paper released Sunday said. In 1993, for the first time, southeast Asia had more HIV infections than the rest of the industrialized world, ac
TURIN, Italy (Reuter) - Italy s AIDS gang, three terminally ill men who brazenly rob banks knowing they cannot be imprisoned under Italian law, have discovered to their dismay that they have imitators. Police said Saturday that a second trio of men claiming to be in the terminal stages of the illness had been arrested
LONDON (Reuter) - Treating people for sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea substantially reduces their risk of contracting the HIV virus that causes AIDS, doctors working in Tanzania reported Friday. Villagers who were treated for sexually transmitted, or venereal, diseases were 42 percent less likely to get HI
NEW YORK (Reuter) - The stock of biotechnology company Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc. rose Thursday after it received a $24 million milestone payment from Japan Tobacco Inc. for full scale development of an orally administered anti-HIV drug. The company s stock was up $1.75 at $38 on the Nasdaq market in afternoon tradin
PARIS (Reuter) - One in four French holidaymakers carries a condom at all times because of worries about catching AIDS from casual sex, an opinion poll indicated Thursday. Fear has not killed off love on holidays, the weekly Paris Match said of the BVA survey that it published. In a similar poll four years ago, just 12
SHANGHAI, Aug 24 (Reuter) - A Chinese court rejected a damages case filed by a patient against a hospital and doctor for releasing results of an HIV test, the Wen Hui daily reported on Thursday. In the first case of its kind in China , the unnamed patient claimed damages for psychological suffering after the doctor in
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuter) - An Ethiopian maid expelled by Egyptian authorities because she carried the virus causing AIDS was unable to return home as fellow passengers refused to let her on the flight to Addis Ababa, airport officials said. Officials said Mariam Mesaret came to Egypt to work as a maid for a famous Egyptia
NIAMEY, Aug 19 (Reuter) - At least 22 women have died this year at Niger s biggest maternity hospital for lack of a blood transfusion because fear of AIDS has caused the blood bank to run dry, the hospital s chief doctor said. The maternity is still facing difficulties because it gets its supplies from the blood bank a
ATLANTA - A type of AIDS virus most commonly found in western Africa remains extremely rare in the United States , federal health officials said Thursday, rsday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said HIV-2 has been found only twice in an estimated 74 million blood and plasma donations screened during the
HANOI, Aug 18 (Reuter) - Growing prostitution could cause a surge in AIDS in Vietnam , an official said on Friday after news broke of a sharp rise in the number of AIDS deaths. It is not sure that we will be able to control the situation, said the official, from the National AIDS Protection Committee, which runs the go
BOSTON (Reuter) - A long-term study of more than 1,600 volunteers infected with the AIDS virus has found that early treatment with the drug AZT before the development of full-blown AIDS does not help fight off the killer disease. The study, to be published in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine, came amid mounti
BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuter) - Romanian villagers stoned an eight-year-old AIDS victim and her family and tried to drive them from their home, a doctor said Tuesday. The girl had been diagnosed as suffering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome when she was returned to her natural parents from an orphanage in June.
PHNOM PENH, Aug 15 (Reuter) - AIDS, poor housing and the sexual exploitation of children are among Cambodia s critical human-rights problems, a senior U.N. rights official said on Tuesday. Political and civil rights, while important for Cambodia, did not assume the utmost urgency, Special Representative for Human Right
JERUSALEM, Aug 15 (Reuter) - An Israeli man who robbed art galleries by threatening to infect workers with the AIDS virus was arrested in Tel Aviv on Monday, police said on Tuesday. They said the man, described as a 28-year-old drug addict, had held up two galleries in Tel Aviv s old Jaffa section by waving a syringe f
JERUSALEM, July 27 (Reuter) - The number of cases of AIDS in the Middle East remains comparatively small, Israeli and Arab health workers said on Thursday, but enormous effort must be made to keep it that way. We have to take measures now, when the number of cases of AIDS in the Middle East is not very high, because pr
BOSTON, July 26 (Reuter) - The spread of AIDS combined with homelessness and poverty caused tuberculosis to climb to epidemic proportions in parts of New York City, growing faster than in many Third World countries, an article in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine reported. But it said aggressive treatment appe
BOSTON, July 26 (Reuter) - Three doctors have traced the source of a tuberculosis outbreak in Minneapolis to a neighbourhood bar frequented by a homeless man who infected 41 of 97 regular customers. The detective work, outlined in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that similar cases can be a major pu
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuter) - The Senate voted Wednesday to expand voluntary AIDS testing of pregnant women as it began a contentious debate over legislation to renew funding for victims of the deadly disease. By voice vote the Senate approved an amendment by Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., to require 11 states, which have 8
BEIJING, July 24 (Reuter) - China s universities will this year pilot a new anti-AIDS strategy, for the first time teaching students the preventive value of condoms, an education official said on Monday. About 80,000 students from Shanghai and the central province of Henan will be given information on Acquired Immune D
NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuter) - Schering-Plough Corp said a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel recommended it be granted marketing clearance for its Intron A drug as an adjuvant treatment to surgery in patients with malignant melanoma. Schering said the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted unanimously to back the
WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuter) - U.S. scientists and diplomats on Tuesday called for a coordinated global response to new emerging diseases such as the dread Ebola virus and resurgent old foes like tuberculosis. Disease-fighting experts called for U.S. leadership and international efforts to improve detection of new thre
BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuter) - Young people tend to live riskier lives than in the past, putting a brake on the advance towards a life expectancy of 80 years in the European Union, according to the EU s first report on its people s health. People are becoming healthier than ever before , the report said, describing a pop
BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuter) A few worrying black spots darkened a picture of health presented by the European Union on Monday in its first report on the well-being of its 350 million inhabitants. People are becoming healthier than ever before , the report said, describing a population of increasingly tall and fitter cit
ARAD, Romania , July 20 (Reuter) - Romania s first maker of disposable syringes is eyeing a profit for a good cause -- in a country confronted with a serious AIDS problem. Syringe-maker Sanevit SA, based in Arad, a city on the western border with Hungary and Yugoslavia, has launc
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AMSTERDAM, July 19 (Reuter) - The Dutch government will compensate all haemophiliac patients infected with HIV, the virus which can lead to AIDS, Health Minister Els Borst told Dutch television on Wednesday. Borst acknowledged an independent report that the government played a part in some HIV infections of haemophilia
MANILA, July 18 (Reuter) - Many urban Filipinos never use condoms in extra-marital relationships despite government warnings on the growing menace of AIDS, a study made by a Manila-based non-government organisation showed. The Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), in a study released on Tuesday, said 72
TORONTO, July 17 (Reuter) - Canada s Red Cross struggled on Monday to head off a plasma shortage after announcing a massive recall of blood believed to be contaminated with a deadly virus that attacks the brain. Canadian Red Cross Society officials said they were in the midst of their biggest recall ever with the withd
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuter) - A radical experiment to try to save the life of a dying AIDS patient by giving him a baboon bone marrow transplant got backing on Friday from a U.S. team of health advisers. I am going to die anyway. Let s get on with finding some answers about this disease. If this saves me, then I got l
WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuter) - In an era of new and emerging diseases, the United States needs better ways to protect the blood supply and a stronger, coordinated response from health officials, an advisory panel said on Thursday. The goal of the study by the Institute of Medicine, a private organisation that provides
ATLANTA, July 13 (Reuter) - Federal health officials issued comprehensive new guidelines on Thursday to prevent and treat infections that usually kill people with AIDS. The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the treatment guidelines would fight the two most common infections in AIDS patients --
BOSTON, July 12 (Reuter) - People infected with the AIDS virus often lose weight, which contributes to the risk of other illnesses and death. Researchers trying to unravel the reason concluded in a report to be published in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine that the weight loss does not occur because the HIV v
WALTHAM, Mass, July 6 (Reuter) - Scientists at Brandeis University said on Thursday they have devised a new way to make pharmaceutical compounds that could result in faster, cheaper and more effective discoveries of new drugs. The pharmaceutical compounds, called aminimides, mimic the function of peptides -- biological
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuter) - Hoping to reduce the number of babies with AIDS, federal health officials Thursday published guidelines aimed at making AIDS counselling and testing routinely available to all pregnant women. Studies have shown that pregnant women who have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can vastly reduce
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WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuter) - President Bill Clinton volunteered on Thursday for more face-to-face debates like his recent exchange with House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, saying there should be more conversation and less combat among U.S. political leaders. Democrat Clinton, facing an uphill battle for a
PARIS, July 6 (Reuter) - AIDS activists angrily confronted French Health Minister Elisabeth Hubert on Thursday, accusing her of prudery in leaving oral sex out of a government campaign to raise awareness of how the fatal disease can be spread. The seven protestors from the Act Up lobby group interrupted a news conferen
INDIANAPOLIS, July 5 (Reuter) - The mother of Ryan White, a boy who died of AIDS, said on Wednesday that if conservative Sen. Jesse Helms succeeds in reducing federal money spent on treating the disease a lot of people will die. President Clinton, meanwhile, sent letters to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Republ
BERNE, July 5 (Reuter) - AIDS has become the biggest cause of death for Swiss people aged from 25 to 34, with the overall death toll from the disease rising by more than 10 percent in 1994, the federal statistics office said on Wednesday. About one in five of the total 275 deaths in this age group were attributed to AI
NEW YORK, July 4 (Reuters) - Sen. Jesse Helms has called for a reduction in federal funding for AIDS sufferers, telling a newspaper it is their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease. We ve got to have some common sense, Helms said in an interview with The New York Times published
WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuter) - Donald Nixon, a nephew of former U.S. President Richard Nixon who had been prevented from leaving Cuba pending investigations into his links with detained financier Robert Vesco, left the island on Sunday, the State Department said on Monday. Spokesman Nicholas Burns said Nixon s passport
WASHINGTON - The search for an AIDS vaccine suffered another setback Thursday as scientists disclosed that a promising experimental animal vaccine could be deadly. The research, published in the journal Science, raises serious doubts about vaccines that attempt to use a weakened, or attenuated, form of the virus. I
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuter) - For years, scientists have thought the virus that causes AIDS could be latent and inactive for 10 years or more in an infected person. Now, there is increasing evidence the HIV virus is engaged in a subtle struggle with the human immune system from the very onset of infection and is reprod
JAKARTA, Jan 26 (Reuter) - Ira, a busty young Indonesian transvestite with broad shoulders, says AIDS scares him. But, sitting alongside his friends, he confides that if he likes a man he may forego the usual precautions. He knows this leaves him vulnerable to contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that cau
BOSTON, Jan 25 (Reuter) - Researchers are examining HIV-positive patients who show no signs of developing full-blown AIDS even after they have been infected with the deadly virus for a decade or more, in an effort to discover how they ward off the disease for so long. The search is proving frustrating. While the resear
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 25 (Reuter) - Celgene Corp said San Francisco General Hospital will begin enrolling patients in a Phase II study of thalidomide as a treatment for cachexia. The company said that the San Francisco site is the fourth to join the study, which is expected to yield results later this year assuming enroll
BUCHAREST, Jan 24 (Reuter) - The parents of a six-year-old Romanian girl suffering from AIDS vowed on Tuesday to press on with a landmark lawsuit alleging government negligence in an explosion of the condition among children in their country. I am suing the state and a hospital because this is a criminal attempt agains
CHICAGO, Jan 17 (Reuter) - Tuberculosis is out of control in some parts of the world and may kill 30 million people this decade, according to a study published Tuesday. The magnitude of the glocal tuberculosis problem is enormous, the World Health Organisation and the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention sai
BUCHAREST, January 18 (Reuter) - Ioana Iasmina, a six-year-old child dying of AIDS, is at the heart of a legal battle in Romania , where a growing number of parents are challenging authorities over their children s infection with the HIV virus in hospitals. We felt we had to do something for our baby, who doesn t under
LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuter) - Fresh U.S. data on Glaxo Plc s AIDS drug 3TC will be presented to a meeting in Washington later this month, and could reinforce optimism about its use in combination with Wellcome Plc s AZT . Results of two clinical trials on 3TC -- to which Glaxo has r
BOMBAY, Jan 12 (Reuter) - Long ridiculed and disapproved by a conservative and tradition-bound society, India s middle-class gays are slowly coming out of the closet, to the puzzlement and consternation of their relatives. Transsexuals, customarily invited by some Indian families to participate in festivities that mark
LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuter) - New studies by American scientists reported in a leading scientific journal show that the HIV virus that causes AIDS duplicates rapidly in infected patients and most multiplication is by newly infected cells. George M. Shaw and colleagues at the University of Alabama in Birmingham also discove
BUCHAREST, Jan 11 (Reuter) - Romania on Wednesday launched an offensive against tuberculosis, which has swept the country following a drop in living standards. Tuberculosis is a harsh problem in Romania due to its spread across the country and its economic and social implications as a disease of the young, said Petre
MANILA, Jan 4 (Reuter) - Depending on your point of view, Juan Flavier is either one of the Philippines most popular and effective government ministers or he is an agent of Satan. Opinion polls regularly rate Health Secretary Flavier one of the most popular government figures and his ministry one of its most effective.
NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuter) - Frenchmen do it most, Poles do it alone more than most, Americans like it done orally and Hungarians enjoy doing it in public. That s what Playboy s International Sex Survey found in 6,000 replies to questionnaires it sent out to readers in 11 countries, the magazine said on Wednesday. The
HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuter) - Vietnam s capital Hanoi has recorded its first AIDS death, bringing the number of Vietnamese who have died of the disease to 49, an official newspaper reported on Tuesday. The victim was a 46-year-old woman confirmed last April as having been infected by the human-immunodeficiency virus (HIV) an
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