San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, December 21, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A2 Word Count: 663
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Public health departments throughout the country have provided free and confidential HIV screening for years, but only a fraction of the people who risk infection from the AIDS virus ever seek the test. As a result, health officials are debating controversial proposals to offer the test routinely to all new hospital pa
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY, December 18, 1994 Edition: SUNDAY Section: Sunday Chronicle Page: S1/Z1 Word Count: 1,561
Elaine Herscher, Chronicle Staff Writer
Within a year, it is likely that anyone concerned about having the AIDS virus will be able to buy a home test kit at the local drugstore, mail a blood sample to a lab and get a result by phone. The first over-the-counter HIV test kit is making its way through the federal Food and Drug Administration review process and
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, December 16, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 727
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Scientists hunting for the cause of Kaposi s sarcoma, the cancerous lesions most common in AIDS patients, have detected the first strong evidence that an unknown herpes-like virus is linked to the deadly skin disease. In a cautious report being published today in the journal Science, researchers say they have isolated
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, December 14, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A18 Word Count: 432
Tara Shioya, Chronicle Staff Writer
MEMO: SERIES: THE CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING Some nights, Jasmine lifts her baby daughter out of her bed and hugs her close. And then she cries herself to sleep, because she cannot believe what is happening to them. Jasmine, not her real name, was told in 1991 that she has AIDS. She found out she was HIV-positive when
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, December 7, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: Editorial Page: A22 Word Count: 312
EDITORIALS YET AGAIN WE HAVE to wonder what, if anything, the Clinton administration really stands for when it stubbornly refuses to release a year-old government report that concludes that needle exchange programs help to limit the spread of the AIDS virus. There are plenty of bootleg copies of the confidential report
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - TUESDAY, December 6, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 1,066
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington - Brushing aside criticism from leading AIDS researchers and advocates, the Clinton administration has refused to publicly release a year-old government report concluding that needle exchange programs are an effective way to prevent the spread of the AIDS virus. The confidential internal review was completed
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, December 2, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A22 Word Count: 489
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
A San Francisco task force of AIDS experts and advocates called yesterday for an overhaul of the city s highly acclaimed system of patient care, warning that finances are thin and that the disease is spreading into new groups. Appointed by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Frank Jordan
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - THURSDAY, December 1, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A17 Word Count: 866
Catherine Bowman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Throughout the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park, there are simple reminders of those who have died: a photograph tacked to a tree, a shrine of pinecones and a pair of cowboy boots filled with flowers. The mementos come and go. They are left by friends, parents, lovers and other visitors whose lives have been irr
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - THURSDAY, December 1, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A2 Word Count: 836
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
In a medical gamble that could provide an end-run around AIDS, San Francisco and Pittsburgh doctors are planning to inject bone marrow cells from baboons into people with advanced cases of the disease. The AIDS virus directly attacks the human immune system. The scientists reason that if the immune system of a person w
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY, November 28, 1994; Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 2,321
Torri Minton, Chronicle Staff Writer
MEMO: SPECIAL REPORT Chronicle correspondents Debra Levi Holtz and Lorna Fernandes contributed to this story. TEXT: One minute, the Sausalito pre-kindergartners are smashing their rice and vegetables, Cat-in-the-Hat grins on their faces. The next, they are discussing AIDS over the sticky lunch table. They are 5, and th
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY, November 27, 1994 Edition: SUNDAY Section: News Page: S4 Word Count: 1,716
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington - With fundamentalist Christians on the march toward Washington, the Republican takeover of Congress on November 8 is threatening a new war on gay and lesbian rights. The time has come to sound the trumpet of righteousness, said the Rev. Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, a leading fu
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