San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 30, 1992
FEDERAL CUTBACKS to the states for AIDS prevention programs are myopic action at a time when the deadly epidemic is spreading and services designed to reach the people most at risk are already overwhelmed. Since Congress has limited the amount of money available, many states are experiencing a serious reduction in reso
San Francisco Chronicle - FRIDAY, December 18, 1992
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
In a powerful sign that an AIDS vaccine can eventually be produced, scientists said yesterday that they have apparently made monkeys immune to a very similar viral disease. The monkeys became resistant to an AIDS-like disease after researchers injected them with genetically hobbled, but living, versions of a virus that
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 16, 1992
Peter Benesh, Chronicle Foreign Service
Toronto - Canada s Red Cross and provincial governments have been slapped with dozens of lawsuits filed by hemophiliacs and surgery patients who contracted the AIDS virus from contaminated blood. The number of suits is expected to grow into the hundreds as knowledge of the problem spreads in the next few months. Eigh
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 9, 1992
Tom Sietsema, Chronicle Staff Writer
Project Open Hand never stints when it comes to feeding its 2,300 clients. Peppers get roasted by hand. New York strip goes into the stir-fries. And the minimal freezer space attests to the philosophy of what s fresh is what s best. This is not a soup kitchen, says Chuck Johnson, the kitchen director for Open Hand, the
San Francisco Chronicle - THURSDAY, December 3, 1992
Alex Barnum, Chronicle Staff Writer
Two AIDS vaccines have been chosen for a new stage of testing that for the first time will include healthy individuals who are at high risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus. The National Institutes of Health said Tuesday it will begin testing, at five medical centers, the two most promising vaccine candidates o
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, December 1, 1992
A 25-year intravenous drug user is the second person to accuse Kaiser Permanente of misdiagnosing and treating him for AIDS. Dante Paladorri, 53, accused the hospital of initiating AZT treatment when his symptoms persisted despite two negative tests for the HIV virus. The symptoms, it was later learned, were linked to
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, December 1, 1992
Yumi L. Wilson, Chronicle East Bay Bureau
For two decades, Monia Perry of Oakland struggled to become a star, performing in exotic dance clubs at 16, then dabbling in some acting. But she never quite reached the top, settling behind the scenes in Hollywood. Today, Perry is in the limelight more than she ever dreamed possible, showered with offers for televisio
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, November 30, 1992
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Convinced that the risk of health care workers contracting AIDS on the job is low, a growing number of major insurance companies are selling policies that would pay cash to hospital employees who become infected. U.S. insurance giant AIG recently became the latest to test the waters, announcing a policy that would pay
San Francisco Chronicle - Sunday, November 29, 1992
Dan Levy
To battle AIDS, Margaret turned to Hinduism for relief. Karma explains her condition, she believes, so nobody and nothing is to blame for the disease. You have to learn what you can while you re here -- otherwise you ll come back and do the same thing over again, she says, explaining the attitude that allows her to mai
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, November 27, 1992
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
One year after the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings raised the nation s consciousness about sexual harassment, employers and gay rights advocates say they are seeing a growing number of such cases involving gay men and lesbians. Among the recent cases, including three filed last week in San Francisco, are those in w
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, November 19, 1992
Greg Lucas, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Sacramento - Care for the 355 HIV-positive inmates at the California Medical facility at Vacaville is not adequate and may have contributed to the premature deaths of four inmates, according to an investigation by an Assembly committee to be released today. Among the report s findings -- which were based on interviews
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, November 13, 1992
Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Sacramento - The owner of a Modesto carpet cleaning firm agreed to stop marketing an unnecessary HIV disinfectant treatment, a state official said yesterday. The company owner, Ray Serrano, had placed newspaper advertisements claiming that the disinfectant would kill the HIV virus, which he said was prevalent in low-in
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, November 13, 1992
Richmond -- A 2-year-old boy poked himself with a hypodermic needle that he found in the seat of a BART train, raising fears that he might have contracted the virus that causes AIDS, police said yesterday. The child, identified as Rodney Griffith, was with his mother on a Fremont-bound train between Hayward and Union C
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 10, 1992
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
La Jolla - As deadly human diseases develop resistance to powerful antibiotics, scientists in scuba gear and submarines are plumbing the world s ocean depths in search of microscopic organisms that can be made into new drugs to combat runaway infections. Ever since the discovery of penicillin nearly 60 years ago led to
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 10, 1992
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
A University of Southern California study of stored blood samples has found that an early AIDS test used to screen for the virus missed half the infections that later showed up using an up-to-date test. The study by USC researchers Dr. James Mosley and Marek Nowicki was presented at the American Association of Blood Ba
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 3, 1992
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Magic Johnson s decision to quit basketball for good marked a bitter setback in the long and frustrating effort by AIDS experts to convince the public that the chance of transmitting the virus by casual contact -- even in sports -- is only the remotest of possibilities. Ever since they discovered the human immunodefici
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, October 30, 1992
Susan Yoachum, Chronicle Political Writer
Jersey City, N.J. - Taking a political risk to keep a campaign promise, Bill Clinton yesterday pledged to move aggressively if he is elected president to tackle the AIDS crisis, which he said is a disease -- not vengeance or punishment or just deserts. Clinton s policy address, which was unusual so close to election da
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, October 23, 1992
Reynolds Holding, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
Most people would be ecstatic to learn that they do not have AIDS. John Kuivenhoven says he was angry. After almost six years of taking painful drugs, clinging to hospital care and waiting to die, he said he found out this summer that it was all a mistake. Doctors who had told him in 1986 to prepare for death from AIDS
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, October 23, 1992
New York - A theory that the AIDS virus arose from the testing of a polio vaccine in Africa 35 years ago is almost certainly wrong, a panel of scientists reported yesterday. The most telling evidence against the link is the case of a British sailor who apparently was infected with the AIDS virus before the vaccine test
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, October 19, 1992
Lori Olszewski, Chronicle Staff Writer
California, the state that pioneered laws on the right to die, could become the first place in the world to make it legal for doctors to help terminally ill patients die if they request such assistance under a controversial initiative on the ballot this November. Today, beginning a two-part series on the euthanasia mov
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, October 15, 1992
For months, Manuel Perez was confined to a filthy mattress inside a shadowy, roach-infested room at a Tenderloin hotel. There, accompanied by a transvestite partner, he smoked crack to diminish the morbid thoughts that haunted him. Few people noticed when he died at San Francisco General Hospital on August 18. A 26-yea
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, October 14, 1992
New York - Elizabeth Taylor appears in a new AIDS awareness campaign saying what the government has had difficulty articulating -- the C word. In public service television commercials that debuted yesterday, Taylor pleads emphatically with viewers to use condoms every time you have sex -- every time! The ads, sponsored
San Francisco Chronicle - Sunday, October 11, 1992
Washington - The Rev. Scott Allen was, in every particular, the ideal Baptist. He was a minister with a lovely family, and he had dedicated his life to the church. His father and grandfather were ministers; his father, the Rev. Jimmie Allen, was president of the 17-million-member Southern Baptist Con- vention until 197
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, October 10, 1992
Scientists have found puzzling cases where five people were infected with the virus that causes AIDS and then did not develop any evidence of illness 7 to 10 years later, suggesting that the virus was a nonvirulent strain. The people all received blood transfusions from the same man who was later also discovered to be
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, October 6, 1992
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said yesterday that it will distribute the experimental AIDS drug d4T free to patients who are unable to take two other medications previously approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Developed originally as a potential cancer treatment, d4T is a chemical cousin of three oth
San Francisco politicians and community leaders yesterday denounced Governor Wilson s veto of a bill that would have legalized what is now an underground program to combat AIDS by swapping clean needles for dirty ones. At a City Hall news conference, Supervisors Angela Alioto and Roberta Achtenberg joined a chorus of c
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, October 1, 1992
Following a protest at Vacaville prison last week by 150 HIV-infected prisoners, state prison authorities are trying to recruit more physicians with experience in treating AIDS patients. The inmates, dissatisfied with the number of doctors available, refused to take certain medications in an effort to call attention to
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, September 30, 1992
Davis - Drug abusers in Sacramento are on the verge of an AIDS epidemic, according to the results of a university research study released here yesterday. The University of California at Davis carried out the study to determine the level of human immunodeficiency virus infection among Sacramento s drug-injecting populat
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, September 26, 1992
When Magic Johnson told President Bush that the White House had dropped the ball on AIDS, he was only repeating what the National Commission on AIDS had been telling the president all summer. Formed by Congress in August 1989, the bipartisan commission has been gently stepping up its criticism of national AIDS policy a
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, September 25, 1992
Washington - A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel yesterday recommended approval of the first drug to prevent a life-threatening infection in AIDS patients called Mycobacterium avium complex. The MAC bacteria is widespread in the environment and commonly causes infection in people whose immune systems are weak
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 17, 1992
Los Angeles - A school district committee plans to evaluate a Magic Johnson AIDS video that another review committee found inappropriate for classroom use, officials said yesterday. A temporary committee had recommended that the Los Angeles Unified School District reject the video, Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS a
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 17, 1992
For two years Anthony Perkins and his wife, Berry Berenson, kept silent that the actor was dying of AIDS. He simply never wanted anyone to know, Berenson said at their Hollywood home Tuesday. He figured if anyone knew they d never give him work again. Three days after the death of her husband, who was the star of Alfre
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 17, 1992
At Health Center No. 5 on a quiet Sunset District street, it is beginning to sink in that they really are going to shut it down this time. Ordered by Mayor Frank Jordan to find $25 million in immediate budget savings, health department staff members last week put the 25-year-old medical clinic on the hit list.
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, September 15, 1992
The head of a sanatorium in Havana, where the Cuban government houses people with AIDS and those who are HIV-infected, provided a glimpse yesterday in Berkeley of how the Marxist regime there is handling the deadly disease. Dr. Jorge Perez, a tropical disease specialist who directs the Santiago de Las Vegas sanatorium
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, September 14, 1992
Seattle - After a weekend of wild sex and partying, Jack reached for the phone. Enough was enough, he had decided. The stakes were too high, the risks too great. He needed help. Jack is a married father, with his second child on the way. At the weekend party, Jack had unsafe sex with other men. The setting went further
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 10, 1992
Pittsburgh - The man who died 10 weeks after receiving a baboon liver in an experimental transplant operation was infected with the AIDS virus, a medical review official said yesterday. Some medical ethicists criticized the decision to use a person infected with the virus, saying such patients might be more willing to
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 3, 1992
Atlanta - The federal Centers for Disease Control said yesterday that it will consider broadening the definition of AIDS to include illnesses peculiar to women. A new definition of the disease will be prepared this fall. An expanded definition could mean that many more people would qualify for health and social benefit
Washington - Some Haitian refugees being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , set fire to their plywood living quarters Saturday to protest camp security measures and to demand that they be returned to Haiti, a Navy spokesman said yesterday. The protesters numbered 63 of the roughly 290 Haitians who re
New York - Gregory Scarpa, the reputed capo of the Columbo crime family, has reached a settlement in his civil suit against a Brooklyn hospital and doctor whom he charged with allowing him to become infected with the AIDS virus. The settlement came after three weeks of testimony in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, in w
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, August 29, 1992
Washington - The National Commission on AIDS is having a quieter summer than it would like, thanks to a budget crisis that has forced it to lay off half its staff members and put the rest on short workweeks. Lack of money has also forced the 15-member panel to cancel hearings set for September, and defer until at least
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 27, 1992
Patients infected with the AIDS virus or in the early stages of illness suffer fewer AIDS-related complications and improve their immune systems by switching from the anti-viral drug AZT to a newer drug known as ddI, according to a nationwide study. The trial was directed by Dr. James Kahn of the University of Cali
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, August 25, 1992
Sacramento - The state Senate reversed itself last night and approved legislation authorizing a needle exchange pilot project in San Francisco to try to reduce the spread of AIDS. The measure by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, D-San Francisco, passed the upper house by a 21 to 15 vote, the bare majority needed for appro
Salt Lake City - In the rain forest of a tiny Western Samoan island, a university professor found and saved trees containing a compound that in a test tube protects cells against the AIDS virus. The compound, prostratin, has been tested only in the test tube against the AIDS virus. It will be years before it can be tes
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 20, 1992
Houston - A rare hush fell over the Republican National Convention last night as delegates heard a different kind of speech -- the words of a woman carrying the AIDS virus. In the context of an election year, I ask you -- here in this great hall, or listening in the quiet of your home -- to recognize that the AIDS viru
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, August 18, 1992
Washington - A third of Americans infected with the AIDS virus have been physically or verbally abused because of their disease, with the violence often coming at the hands of family members, a survey said yesterday. Soaring medical bills have left about half of the patients destitute, unable to pay the rent or buy gro
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, August 15, 1992
Researchers at the San Francisco Health Department have detected a significant increase in the risk of developing Hodgkin s disease among homosexual men infected with the AIDS virus. In a long-term statistical study using the records of thousands of Bay Area gay men, epidemiologist Nancy Hessol and her colleagues at th
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, August 15, 1992
Atlanta - Federal health officials yesterday rejected an appeal by some AIDS experts to screen blood donors for a mysterious AIDS-like illness that has afflicted people who do not have the HIV virus. We must remember the lessons of AIDS, said Dr. Donald Armstrong of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who in 1983 i
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, August 15, 1992
Atlanta - Despite scattered but increasing reports of an AIDS-like illness among people not infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, leading scientists expressed profound skepticism yesterday that another virus is the probable culprit. At an urgent meeting called by the federal Centers for Disease Control to gat
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 13, 1992
New York - Scientists say they have identified the genetic trick that allows some strains of tuberculosis to become resistant to drugs, a finding that paves the way for new medicines to conquer the often-fatal disease. In the near future, it should also lead to new tests to quickly identify cases of drug-resistant tube
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 13, 1992
Specialists who track the relentless spread of the AIDS epidemic in the United States are now urging a strategy of offering voluntary testing for the AIDS virus -- plus prompt counseling -- to hospital patients in every community where the disease has made significant inroads. If the confidential system were already op
Washington - The AIDS researcher who has been studying the largest number of mystery cases of patients suffering from severe immune deficiency -- but who show no signs of infection with either of the two known AIDS viruses -- said Saturday he has found little evidence so far that a new AIDS-like virus is responsible.
Atlanta - Nine new cases have been found of patients who have symptoms of AIDS but do not appear to be infected with the AIDS virus, the federal Centers for Disease Control reported yesterday. Since medical experts first described the mysterious syndrome last month during an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam,
Paris - Two prominent scientists have cast doubt on the significance of a report of a possible new virus causing an AIDS-like disease. The report, which is being published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was submitted by Dr. Sudhir Gupta of the University of California at Irvine, h
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, August 1, 1992
Austin, Texas - The Texas Department of Health said yesterday that it found no evidence to support a former AIDS counselor s assertions that 13 students in northeast Texas are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. The Health Department was asked to investigate after local officials questioned the authenticity
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