San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 17 Nov 1995
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
Scientists are reporting encouraging results today for two potentially powerful new kinds of AIDS drugs -- one that blocks infection of monkeys by a virus closely related to HIV, and another that inactivates the human AIDS virus in laboratory cell cultures. Despite their very preliminary nature, the test results were g
The San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, November 8, 1995 Page B1
Carl T. Hall /San Francisco Chronicle
A panel of scientists advised the government yesterday to approve a new class of AIDS drugs -- even as researchers warned that a true solution to the AIDS puzzle is still years away. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted to recommend approval of a Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. drug -- sequanivir, known
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, August 16, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: C4 Word Count: 435
Tyra Mead, Chronicle North Bay Bureau
The Marin County Specialty Clinic yesterday became one of a handful of sites around the country that will participate in clinical trials to see whether the drug thalidomide is effective in treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. About 20 patients will be involved in the study, which is open to residents from all ov
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - TUESDAY, August 15, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A18 Word Count: 404
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Two hundred people are contracting AIDS every day, and the epidemic is not waning, the nation s top AIDS adviser said yesterday in San Francisco. Half the new cases involve people 23 or younger. One fourth are teenagers. Speaking to a dozen young AIDS activists in San Francisco yesterday, Patsy Fleming, the director of
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY, July 31, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 948
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington - At a time when the Republican-dominated Congress is cutting everything from the arts endowment to legal aid for the poor, AIDS financing is not only emerging unscathed but also with more money than ever. The likely rise in spending on AIDS comes despite opposition from Senator Jesse Helms, the powerful Nor
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY, July 31, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A14 Word Count: 542
Suzanne Espinosa Solis, Chronicle Staff Writer
The first time Jim and Kristine Silva really paid attention to AIDS was in 1986 when San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn called for the Catholic diocese to help people with the condition and their families. At the time, Kristine Silva was the community affairs chairwoman of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, July 28, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: Peninsula Friday Page: P1 Word Count: 959
Manny Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writer
Last year his dreams had limits. He lived in a tiny shack behind his family s house in East Palo Alto, put there by relatives who did not want him near the children because he has AIDS. So Longosai Tongamoa grabbed his belongings and his pride and moved inside the doghouse, he said. The move was no surprise to Tongamoa
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, July 28, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A12 Word Count: 569
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
Dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, said yesterday that he hopes to start gene therapy tests in people infected by the virus within a year, but agreed with other top AIDS researchers meeting in San Francisco that no breakthroughs are in sight. Gallo took part in a high-wattage panel at Moscone Center yes
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, July 28, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A12 Word Count: 459
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
A baby who made medical history by eliminating the AIDS virus from his body turns out to have been infected by a weak or crippled strain of the usually deadly organism, one of the authors of the original work reported yesterday. Despite the discovery that the unusual case stemmed from very special circumstances, microb
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, July 21, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: Business Page: B1 Word Count: 984
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Scientists at Chiron Corp. discovered the Hepatitis C virus way back in November 1987. Now they are trying to figure out how to make it go away. Hepatitis C, a mystery microbe every bit as elusive as the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the more important causes of liver disease -- a so-called silent killer that affli
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY, July 17, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: Editorial Page: A19 Word Count: 617
Debra J. Saunders, Chronicle Staff Writer
LAST WEEK, a small political organization was attacked. Some 15 vandals smeared paint on their walls and carpet, their computers were damaged, their artwork defaced and their civil rights encroached. So where is the city Human Rights Commission? Where are those county supervisors who usually are the first to cry foul a
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SATURDAY, July 15, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 865
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Physicians at San Francisco General Hospital won a critical vote of confidence yesterday for a bold experiment to thwart the AIDS virus by transplanting into an infected human the bone marrow cells of a baboon. This unlikely medical scenario, rooted in the discovery that baboons have an immune system capable of fightin
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, July 7, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 594
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Federal health officials issued national guidelines yesterday urging physicians and medical clinics for the first time to offer routine AIDS counseling and voluntary testing to all 4 million women who become pregnant in America each year. Women who test positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, should be treated pr
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY, July 2, 1995 Edition: SUNDAY Section: Sunday Chronicle Page: 2/Z1 Word Count: 968
Maitland Zane, Chronicle Staff Writer
Aging hippies and graybearded rock musicians greet him fondly on street corners as Doctor Dave. Twenty-eight years ago this month, he opened the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic and became the family doctor to a reckless generation. Dr. David E. Smith sees storm clouds ahead. He thinks American health care has become
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SATURDAY, July 1, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A18 Word Count: 404
Reynolds Holding, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday in San Francisco that the FBI discriminated against a doctor with AIDS when it told agents to stop going to him for examinations. It was the court s third ruling in the case, but the first in favor of the doctor. Contradicting opinions issued in August and January, the court sa
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY, May 29, 1995 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A7 Word Count: 506
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
In an attempt to foil the ability of the AIDS virus to resist combinations of drugs arrayed against it, researchers have devised a new strategy that appears to make the virus turn against itself and thwart its own attempts to reproduce. Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco reported last week that
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