1993

Pauling Institute accused of coverup in AIDS incident: Lab admits unopened tube of HIV was found in parking lot in 1990: San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, December 28, 1993; Bill Workman, Chronicle Peninsula Bureau; Palo Alto police are investigating an anonymous flyer that claims the Linus Pauling Institute tried to cover up a 4-year-old incident in which a laboratory vial containing the AIDS virus was found in the center s parking lot. The flyers, which criticize the institute s involvement in AIDS research and its allegedly min
Jury clears blood bank in HIV lawsuit screening: Measures found adequate by '84 standards: San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, December 21, 1993; Yumi L. Wilson, Chronicle East Bay Bureau; After a monthlong trial, jurors took just 90 minutes yesterday to decide that an Oakland blood bank was not negligent for failing to detect HIV in tainted blood that infected three people in May 1984. Attorneys for the families of the HIV-infected patients had contended in a lawsuit that the Alameda-Contra Costa Medica
TB not what it used to be -- New drugs the difference: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, December 20, 1993; Sylvia Rubin, Chronicle Staff Writer; Most people still think tuberculosis is contagious, conjuring up visions of the afflicted being sent away to sanitariums, isolated from healthy people, to spend their last days wrapped in blankets and coughing. TB still has a bit of a stigma, concedes Dr. Gisela Schecter, director for the TB control division of the San
Children make gift for HIV-infected baby: San Francisco Chronicle - THURSDAY, December 16, 1993; Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Staff Writer; A quilt of bright colors and quaint drawings of birds, balloons and children s parties was how one elementary class expressed its love and compassion this holiday season. The quilt was the students holiday gift to a baby with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The 13 fourth- and fifth-graders from North Shoreview School
Antibodies that fight AIDS can also incite it, report says: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 15, 1993; Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer; San Francisco medical researchers reported yesterday that antibodies the body uses to fight infection may stop some strains of the AIDS virus, but can completely backfire against other strains and make the virus even more deadly. Moreover, it may take only a tiny mutation in a given strain of virus to transform it from
East bay Contra Costa considering needle swap: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 15, 1993; Martinez -- The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors asked its attorneys yesterday to look into whether they could legally establish a needle exchange program for intravenous drug users. Citing the high rate of HIV infection among drug users, county health officials have asked supervisors to declare a public health
Promising results on HIV immunity: San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, December 11, 1993; Alex Barnum, Chronicle Staff Writer; Raising intriguing questions about how the body fights the deadly AIDS virus, a Berkeley researcher has found seven healthy patients who tested positive for AIDS antibodies in their urine but not in their blood. In a report today in The Lancet, a British medical journal, the researchers said the patients showed no evid
Berkeley gives tacit Ok to needle swap: Council hopes to sidestep state law through unanimous vote for 'State of Emergency': San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 8, 1993; Elaine Herscher, Chronicle East Bay Bureau; Berkeley joined a few other California communities last night and declared a state of emergency over the AIDS epidemic, a largely symbolic move that gives local approval to needle exchange programs. Like San Francisco, Berkeley for years has supported the clandestine street practice of exchanging used intravenous syrin
Mind-body link in AIDS studied: Contradictory findings on effect of depression on immune system: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 1, 1993; David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor; The mind-body connection has always been one of the great mysteries in medicine, and that mystery is now being deepened by two new reports on whether emotional distress, such as chronic depression, can intensify damage to the immune system in patients infected with the AIDS virus. In many diseases, scientists have lear
New doubts about link between HIV, Kaposi's: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 1, 1993; David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor; Reports first published four years ago, which suggested that the lesions of a cancerlike skin disease called Kaposi s sarcoma may not be linked to AIDS, have been strengthened by new studies showing that some gay men with the lesions are not infected by the HIV virus. At least six non-HIV cases of the lesions have been
`Frontline's' grim history of bad blood: San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 30, 1993; John Carman; Last May, Frontline producer Carole Langer interviewed Dr. David Kessler, head of the Food and Drug Administration, asking him about the Red Cross blood bank in Portland, Ore. The Portland blood center had a spotty history, at best, of protecting its blood supply from HIV contamination. It surrendered its license to te
Attorney for fired waiter wants boycott: San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 30, 1993; Ken Hoover, Chronicle Staff Writer; A lawyer who won a $30,000 jury award last week on behalf of a waiter who said he was fired for having AIDS says he will call for a boycott of San Francisco s Stars Restaurant, which lost the lawsuit. Steven Schectman said he wants to send a message to other employers who might fire a worker for having AIDS that the co
Marin Oks needle exchanges: Supervisors act to control spread of AIDS among drug users: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, November 24, 1993; Kate Taylor, Chronicle Correspondent; Marin County supervisors declared a local public health emergency yesterday and authorized operation of a free needle-exchange program to help prevent the spread of AIDS among drug users. Marin s program will be patterned after one set up in San Francisco earlier this year and will put Marin at odds with state law regu
Lesbians demand health care meant specifically for them: San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 23, 1993; David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer; Kate O Hanlan was distressed when she learned that the National Institutes of Health was preparing a landmark women s health study -- but had no intention of investigating how the health needs of lesbians differed from those of heterosexual women. So last spring, O Hanlan, an associate director of Stanford University s
Second-class care motivates revolution in women's health - Part ONE: San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, November 22, 1993; David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer; As a student at the University of Michigan, Karen Johnson suffered such severe menstrual pain that she once collapsed in agony while strolling across campus. But the doctor at the school s health clinic, Johnson recalled recently, refused to take her complaint seriously and gave her Valium to calm her down. I was a hea
Blood bank's test policy assailed in suit; 3 acquired HIV in 1984 transfusions, 2 died -- Oakland facility's screening procedures at issue: San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, November 18, 1993; Yumi L. Wilson, Chronicle East Bay Bureau; The families of three people who contracted HIV through transfusions said yesterday that an Oakland blood bank was negligent for failing to properly test its blood supply. In opening arguments in a civil suit, attorneys representing the families contended that the director of the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Associatio
Navy can't be sued in AIDS case, court rules: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, November 17, 1993; Jim Doyle, Chronicle Staff Writer; The Navy cannot be sued by a civilian employee who claims that she contracted the AIDS virus in 1989 because the Navy did not issue a safe sex order to a sailor with whom she had sexual intercourse, the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled yesterday. Diane Washington, a naval reservist, says the Navy failed to
Nutrition for AIDS patients: San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, November 10, 1993; Jean Weininger; Many HIV-infected people take large doses of vitamins and minerals in hopes of staying healthier longer, even though it hasn t yet been demonstrated that megadoses of any nutrient will impede the course of the disease. Understandably, people with AIDS may be willing to take risks, but they should be cautious about taki

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