1992

EDITORIAL: AIDS prevention: 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
AIDS vaccine successful in monkeys; Federal expert calls the research a 'significant advance': 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
Hemophiliacs, AIDS and preventive safety; Canadians sue over tainted blood: 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
Open Hand reaches out to community: 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
2 AIDS vaccines to be tested on healthy people: Volunteers will participate in major nationwide trials: 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 2nd claim over AIDS misdiagnosis: 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
Getting the word out about AIDS Oakland woman who's HIV-positive becomes role model: 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
Insurers peddle AIDS policies to health workers: 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
AIDS hangs over a single mother: 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
Trends in the workplace: Rise in Gay sex-harassment cases: 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
Report assails care of Vacaville inmates who are HIV-positive: 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
Carpet cleaner stops 'AIDS disinfectant' ads: 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
East bay 2-year-old boy sticks self with needle: 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
Oceans a frontier in drug development depths may yield new disease fighters: 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
Early AIDS testing flawed, study shows some infected blood got through screening: 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
Magic's decision a setback for HIV patients, experts say: 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
Clinton gambles with speech on AIDS epidemic: 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
Man angered to learn AIDS diagnosis was false: 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
Panel debunks theory liniing AIDS, Polio: 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
One man's choice assisted suicide didn't turn out as AIDS patient planned: 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
Latino AIDS agency in S.F. under fire: 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
Liz Taylor appearing in pro-condom TV ad: 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
A minister deserted by his faith: 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
Baffling cases of AIDS virus are reported: 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
Giveaway program for new AIDS drug: Firm to distribute D4T free to certain patients during trials: 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 other drugs --
Wilson needle veto draws anger in S.F.: City officials to fight for AIDS program: San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, October 2, 1992; Greg Lucas, Chronicle Staff Writer; 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
State prison to hire more AIDS doctors: Inmates protest over their medical care: 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
Shocking AIDS study in Sacramento: 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
AIDS panel accustomed to neglect: National commission's recommendations are rarely carried out: 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
FDA panel urges AIDS drug approval: 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
L.A. schools review Magic's AIDS video: 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
Anthony Perkins' two years of secrecy: Actor feared he would lose roles: 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
Closure of West S.F. clinic will fall heavily on poor: 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.
Cuban policy on AIDS defended: 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
New '800' phone service gives safe-sex advice: Anonymous line helps gays quit risky habits: 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
Baboon liver patient had AIDS virus: Ethicists criticize choice of candidate for experimental transplant: 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
Agency may redefine AIDS to include women's illnesses: 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
HIV-infected Haitian refugees set fires at refugee camp: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, August 31, 1992; 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
Reputed mafia boss settles HIV lawsuit: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, August 31, 1992; 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
U.S. AIDS panel cuts its staff: It wasn't allowed to spend 1991 surplus: 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
ddI can be better than AZT, test shows new drug looks most useful for those merely infected or with early AIDS symptoms: 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 Californ
State senate approves S.F. needle exchange: 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
Anti-AIDS compound found in Samoa: A U.S. researcher identifies the substance and saves the rain forest where it is formed: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, August 24, 1992; 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
Hushed delegates hear from woman with HIV: 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
AIDS survey finds abuse, discrimination: Patients say they're subject to name-calling, beatings: 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
S.F. AIDS study finds greater risk of Hodgkin's: Possible role of HIV in other cancers noted: 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
Blood donor screening denied for baffling AIDS-like disease: 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
Virus called unlikely cause of baffling AIDS-like disease: 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
Scientists discover TB secret; drug-resistant strains of the disease have lost a gene: 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
Experts urge AIDS testing on mass scale; Aim of program at hospitals would be early detection: 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
Researcher raises doubts about a new AIDS virus: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, August 10, 1992; 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.
9 new cases reveal AIDS-like symptoms: San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, August 7, 1992; 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,
Skepticism on AIDS-like virus 2; Influential scientists express doubts about recent report: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, August 3, 1992; 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
Texas AIDS counselor may have falsified files; Agency finds no proof students had disease: 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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