San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, December 24, 1996 - Page A1
Louis Freedberg, Edward W. Lempinen, Chronicle Staff Writers
A Clinton administration proposal to prosecute doctors who recommend or prescribe marijuana to seriously ill patients drew harsh criticism from medical experts yesterday, some calling it an ethical outrage and others predicting that doctors would work around it. Under the proposal sent to President Clinton on Friday by
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, December 22, 1996 - Page 3
Reviewed by, David Perlman
IMPURE SCIENCE AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge By Steven Epstein University of California Press; 466 pages; $29.95 ------------------------------------------------------------ The unfinished history of the fight against AIDS is as much a tale of militant advocacy as of scientific progress. The story is now
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, December 18, 1996 - Page A2
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Biotechnology researchers have won government approval to begin the first human gene therapy trials against AIDS based on a discovery that Stanford scientists made nearly a decade ago. The tests seek to supply AIDS patients with newly formed and fully functioning cells of their own immune systems that are genetically c
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, December 18, 1996 - Page A24
THE CLINTON administration s announcement yesterday of a national strategy to fight AIDS was an important and welcome step forward in the campaign against the deadly disease, but the test of the plan will be in how it is implemented. The 40-page prescription approved by President Clinton and unveiled at the White House
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, December 17, 1996 - Page A1
Louis Freedberg, Chonicle Washington Bureau
President Clinton is expected to announce today a comprehensive national strategy to combat AIDS that administration officials say will accelerate progress toward a cure for the disease and a vaccine to prevent it. An administration official said that the strategy, which was approved yesterday by the President s Adviso
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, December 13, 1996 - Page A15
Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
One year ago today, AIDS activist Jeff Getty entered an operating room at San Francisco General Hospital not knowing whether he would come out alive. In a history-making procedure that focused attention on experimental AIDS therapies and the issue of animal testing, doctors were preparing to kill Getty s HIV-infected b
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, December 9, 1996 - Page A13
Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
The passage of Proposition 215 has had little effect on the marijuana trade in San Francisco s Haight district, long the heartland of the Bay Area s counterculture. You can still buy it -- but it s still expensive, and you ll still get busted if the cops catch you dealing or purchasing it. If anything, the resinous psy
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, December 9, 1996 - Page C1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Step carefully when you venture out into the burgeoning but sometimes wacky new world of alternative medicine. You have to go with all your feelers out, warned Jnani Chapman, a registered nurse at Mount Diablo Medical Center in the East Bay who also practices massage therapy to alleviate stress. Even in her own gentle
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, December 3, 1996 - Page D1
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Drug abuse experts from up and down the West Coast converged on San Francisco yesterday to puzzle over the growing menace of methamphetamines, or speed, which can kill its users outright or take them on a fast track to AIDS. Studies have shown that the illegal use of methamphetamines is growing in the U
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, December 2, 1996 - Page A1
Teresa Moore, Chronicle Staff Writer
From the Rakai district of southern Uganda to Ames, Iowa, in the heartland of the world s richest nation, people gathered yesterday to remember their dead on the ninth annual World AIDS Day. There was a glint of optimism in Western nations, where the development of new medications has marked a turning point in a pandem
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, December 1, 1996 - Page 10
TODAY IS the ninth annual World AIDS Day, conceived by the United Nations as a time to reflect on the unhappy fact that HIV/AIDS continues to pose a deadly and incurable threat to people of all ages and sexual orientations and in every corner of the globe. A new report from the U.N. and the World Health Organizati
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, November 28, 1996 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
The global AIDS epidemic is striking harder than ever at the world s women and children, and infection rates are climbing swiftly in many nations barely touched by the disease until now, a new U.N. report warns. In a year-end estimate of the epidemic s worldwide toll, leaders of the U.N. AIDS program estimate that 22.6
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, November 24, 1996 - Page 1/Z1
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
Peter Di Giulio stands at the kitchen counter and opens a cabinet door. Bottles and bottles of AIDS-related drugs jostle for space on the shelves -- 11 types of medication in all, almost three dozen pills a day. He counts out his daily ration. Four green ones three times a day. Two big round white ones once a day. An o
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, November 16, 1996 - Page A17
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
A Superior Court judge ordered a San Francisco sex club yesterday to restrict its operations until a hearing next month determines whether the establishment is a fire hazard. Judge William Cahill ordered Mike Powers to temporarily limit total occupancy of the Power Exchange at 74 Otis St. to 49 individuals and restrict
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, November 14, 1996 - Page A15
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown wants the health department to aggressively monitor sex clubs but now firmly opposes legislation to license and regulate them, a health official told sex club operators and safe sex educators this week. Brown s belief that an ordinance is not needed to ensure that sex clubs follow safe
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, November 14, 1996 - Page A23
Thaai Walker, Chronicle East Bay Bureau
The rapid escalation of HIV and AIDS cases among African Americans has prompted the first- ever western regional conference to focus on how the deadly disease is affecting the black community. Oakland will host the two-day conference, AIDS is No Laughing Matter: The African American Community Faces the Challenge of HIV
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, November 5, 1996 - Page A17
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
An East Bay man with AIDS has sued the state Department of Motor Vehicles for $5 million, claiming that the agency discriminated against him for denying his request to have a personalized license plate reading HIV POS. Kevin Dimmick, a 40-year-old Kensington man who learned that he was HIV positive in 1991, claims that
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, October 31, 1996 - Page A4
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
A genetically engineered protein designed to strengthen the human immune system has doubled the numbers of infection-fighting cells in a small group of AIDS patients, researchers are reporting today, and the finding may ultimately add another weapon to the arsenal of new drugs that have proved effective in killing the
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, October 1, 1996 - Page A4
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
The federal government s last- minute decision to add $100 million to Ryan White AIDS programs has spawned an angry dispute among AIDS activists over the best way to spend the money. Some activists had hoped that the money would all go to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, a federal program that helps states provide dru
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, September 29, 1996 - Page 1/Z1
Teresa Moore, Chronicle Staff Writer
What Doris Butler knew of love and loss and misery was more than enough for a blues song: with more time, she could have woven a blues opera from her 43 years on Earth. Twice orphaned. Twice abandoned. And twice stricken by AIDS -- first in her child, and then in her own body. She sang in her church choir of everlastin
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, September 27, 1996 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
In a major nationwide AIDS study, researchers have confirmed earlier evidence that people who inherit a curiously defective gene from both their parents may have a natural resistance to infection by HIV, the virus that causes the disease. And after undertaking genetic tests of nearly 2,000 people at high risk for the d
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, September 17, 1996 - Page A22
Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco Sheriff s Department defended its treatment of a county jail inmate who claims that he went untreated for AIDS and a brain tumor while in custody. But the department admitted that Samuel Ali, 22, was held in his cell and was not placed in the jail s medical unit September 4, nearly seven weeks after h
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, August 19, 1996 - Page A13
Catherine Bowman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Two weeks after state narcotics agents raided the Cannabis Buyers Club, a San Francisco pastor stood in his sanctuary yesterday afternoon -- not to preach to the sick but to give them tiny bags of marijuana. About 20 people showed up to take advantage of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco s giveaway, wh
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, August 16, 1996 - Page A8
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
President Clinton s general in the war on drugs stood on the streets of the Haight yesterday, declaring more money is needed for drug treatment but denouncing medical use of marijuana. Retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey, who in March became Clinton s drug czar, was also critical of needle exchange programs
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, August 14, 1996 - Page A16
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
Peer-led programs are effective in persuading young gay men to practice safe sex, according to a new study to be published this month in the American Journal of Public Health. The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California at San Francisco conducted the study between 1993 and 1995. It involved 2
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, August 9, 1996 - Page A1
Glen Martin, Charles Burress, Maria Alicia Gaura, Chronicle Staff Writers
Complaining of a lack of medical marijuana, clients of the San Francisco pot emporium that was raided Sunday have besieged similar clubs in Oakland and Santa Cruz, hoping to find an alternative source of the weed. We ve been flooded since the San Francisco bust, said a harried Jeff Jones, co-director of the Oakland Can
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, August 7, 1996 - Page B1
Laura Castaneda, Chronicle Staff Writer
Calypte Biomedical Corp. of Berkeley received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday to sell the first urine test that detects antibodies to HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. The announcement sent Calypte s stock surging 26 percent. Shares of the company, which went public July 26 at 6, closed y
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, August 6, 1996 - Page A13
Maitland Zane, Chronicle Staff Writer
Dennis Peron has been defiantly dealing grass in San Francisco for more than 20 years. Long before he founded the Cannabis Buyers Club, which was raided by state narcotics officers Sunday, Peron was an advocate for the legalization of marijuana. In the mid-1970s, he ran the Big Top pot supermarket on Castro Street, whi
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, August 4, 1996 - Page 1
REVIEWED BY, DAVID PERLMAN
LEVEL 4 Virus Hunters of the CDC By Dr. Joseph B. McCormick and Dr. Susan Fisher-Hoch, with Leslie Alan Horvitz Turner; 379 pages; $22.95 In 1974, The Hot Zone became the ultimate gory best- seller, warning of dangerous new viruses on the loose. Later that year, Laurie Garrett s encyclopedic book, The Coming Plague, p
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, August 3, 1996 - Page A3
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
POZ, which calls itself the magazine by and about people whose lives are affected by AIDS, has been hit by a subscriber revolt involving the magazine s sale of its mailing list to commercial marketers. The dispute highlights growing tension between profit-making businesses that focus on the AIDS community and long-stan
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, August 1, 1996 - Page C11
Glenn Dickey
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her -- John 8:7 PERHAPS MARK Dewey, the Giants pitcher who refused to take part in the Giants ``Until There s a Cure ceremony on Sunday because of his belief that homosexuality is a sin, should spend more time reading his Bible. Jesus Christ spent much of
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, August 1, 1996 - Page E1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Startling successes in the fight against AIDS are helping to generate windfall profits for the world s biggest drug company. London-based Glaxo Wellcome Plc has emerged as the clear corporate winner among the major pharmaceutical makers battling for a slice of the booming market for AIDS anti-virals. The drug giant yes
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, July 12, 1996 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Vancouver, British Columbia: A final round of reports yesterday on the power of new drugs called protease inhibitors to essentially wipe out measurable AIDS virus from infected people helped the 11th International Conference on AIDS end five eventful days on an excited and hopeful note. The researchers cautioned repeat
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, July 12, 1996 - Page B1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Moving to mend fences with critics in the AIDS community, Kaiser Permanente yesterday said it will revamp its AIDS treatment effort in San Francisco, becoming one of the first major HMOs in the country to provide full access to expensive new drugs and lab tests. The Oakland-based HMO said it will set up a new outpatien
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, July 11, 1996 - Page A6
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Vancouver, British Columbia: Two different drugs in the new family of compounds called protease inhibitors have shown a powerful ability -- when used together in preliminary tests -- to at least temporarily lower dangerous levels of the AIDS virus in the blood of a small group of patients. Researchers reported yest
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, July 11, 1996 - Page A6
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Vancouver, British Columbia: Few of the 15,000 delegates to the 11th International AIDS Conference here are aware of what goes on in the dark and ugly corners of this lovely Pacific Rim city. But to the handful of delegates advocating needle exchange programs, Vancouver s project is a model that demonstrates an effecti
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, July 10, 1996 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Vancouver, British Columbia (July 10, 1996): Leading experts on AIDS demanded yesterday that women -- often overlooked by policymakers as the disease spreads relentlessly around the world -- be given more tools to protect themselves from the deadly virus that causes it. They also called for much greater protection of b
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, July 9, 1996 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Vancouver, British Columbia (July 9, 1996): The many subtypes of the AIDS virus spreading around the world appear to be exchanging their genes, forming hybrid mosaic viruses that may create new problems in the urgent hunt for drugs and vaccines to fight the lethal disease, researchers reported yesterday. The report is
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, July 8, 1996 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Vancouver, British Columbia (July 8, 1996): In a day of contrasts -- hopeful reports from scientists that AIDS seems finally to be yielding to new drugs and treatments, and deep worry that most of the world cannot afford them -- the 11th International Conference on AIDS opened yesterday. The news started immediately. W
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor, Vancouver, British Columbia
With hopes buoyed by major advances in AIDS therapy -- but sobered by the epidemic s relentless spread through the world s poorest nations -- thousands of doctors, researchers and frontline prevention workers are gathering in Vancouver for the 11th interna tional AIDS conference. More than 15,000 people are expected fo
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, May 24, 1996 - Page A23
Greg Lucas, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
With the help of San Francisco legislator Quentin Kopp, the state Senate defeated a bill yesterday that would have legalized needle exchange programs in San Francisco and other cities wishing to hand out clean syringes as a way to stem the spread of AIDS. Kopp, an independent, has voted against such programs in the pas
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119
Ray Delgado
The San Francisco school board has voted unanimously to oppose a bill co-sponsored by state Sen. Quentin Kopp that would require parental consent for students to receive AIDS education. After listening to impassioned pleas from AIDS activists at its meeting Tuesday night, the board passed a resolution pledging to conti
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119
Editorial
One of the most unwarranted bills currently before the California Legislature is a measure by Republican Assemblyman Steve Baldwin of El Cajon that would require parental permission before any student in the public school system could participate in AIDS education. The bill also includes a gratuitous and disturbing pro
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119
Tara Shioya, Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco School Board voted unanimously last night to oppose pending state legislation that would rewrite the rules on AIDS education in public schools. And in an unexpected move after much emotional testimony from the public, the board also agreed to reconsider the decision announced by Superintendent Bill Ro
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
After being barraged by angry callers, embarrassed state lawmakers decided yesterday against trying to yank a legal requirement that AIDS be taught with compassion in the public schools. Killing the phrase had been part of a controversial bill now making its way through the state Legislature. The legislation would requ
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, May 10, 1996, Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
In a discovery that opens up new battle lines for the fight against AIDS, researchers are reporting today that they have identified a long-sought specialized protein that is crucial for the AIDS virus to infect the most important white blood cells in the human immune system. Their finding comes after a 10- year search
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 27 March 1996, p.A13
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Two out of three Americans favor the distribution of clean needles to drug addicts to slow the spread of AIDS, according to a nationwide poll released yesterday in Washington, D.C. Results of the survey, sponsored by the Menlo Park-based Kaiser Family Foundation, suggest that Americans in great numbers are embracing on
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119, 22 March 1996, p.A1
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
A top American AIDS researcher warned yesterday that virulent strains of HIV responsible for explosive overseas outbreaks among heterosexuals may be headed for the United States and called for stepped-up surveillance to forestall a new phase of the epidemic. Dr. Max Essex, chairman of the Harvard AIDS Institute, told a
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 21 March 1996, p.A13
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Prominent Republican AIDS activist Mary Fisher warned a San Francisco gathering yesterday that new economic challenges are confronting those with the disease even as medical research makes gains against it. Addressing the opening session of the eighth annual National Update Conference on AIDS, Fisher condemned the emer
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - March 20, 1996, p.A3
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
The Senate voted yesterday to repeal a controversial new law banning people infected with HIV from serving in the military. The move took place after a group of senators added an amendment calling for the law s repeal to a major appropriations bill. The amendment passed on a voice vote, after which the Senate approved
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 20 March 1996, p.A1
Sabin Russell, Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writers
In the wake of the federal government s surprisingly quick approval of three promising AIDS drugs, one daunting problem stands out: How are patients to pay for them? As activists gather in San Francisco this week for the city s eighth annual conference on the epidemic, the question overshadows genuine enthusiasm about
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - March 19, 1996, p.A14
Chronicle Staff Report
As people with AIDS face increased obstacles from managed-care plans and rising costs for powerful new drugs, experts and activists from around the nation are gathering in San Francisco this week to address these and other pressing issues. Two thousand people are expected for the National AIDS Update Conference at Civi
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 17 March 1996, p.3
Reviewed by, David Perlman
INVENTING THE AIDS VIRUS By Peter H. Duesberg Regnery; 722 pages; $24.95. What is one to make of Peter Duesberg, the distinguished University of California at Berkeley virologist and pioneer cancer researcher who has cast himself as the most stubborn medical naysayer in the contentious history of the AIDS epidemic?
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 15 March 1996, p.B1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Merck & Co. s Crixivan , an important new AIDS drug, has won federal marketing approval in record time -- even before some doctors are quite sure how to use it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took only 42 days to act on Merck s application to market Crixivan, one of the most potent anti-virals in a new class
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 13 March 1996, p.A11
Peter Fimrite, Chronicle East Bay Bureau
A group of East Bay AIDS advocates said yesterday that a plan to merge the Alameda County Office of AIDS with the communicable diseases division could spell disaster for care providers. The proposed reorganization is part of an effort by the county Department of Public Health to combine resources and reduce the number
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 6 March 1996, p.B1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
As a top virus hunter for the federal government during the early 80s, Don Francis was among the first to glimpse the full horrors of the AIDS epidemic. He gained still wider fame as a central figure in And the Band Played On, the 1987 best- seller by the late Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts. And when the book was made
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 4 Mar 1996, p.A15
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
As the AIDS epidemic continues unchecked, adults and children alike who feel its impact can voice their grief or hope in a new video project linking art and emotion. Called Remembrance, the project is part of an interactive exhibition at the Exploratorium that opens tomorrow. It addresses every aspect of the epidemic,
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 1 Mar 1996, p.B1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Genentech Inc., which pioneered the use of bioengineered hormones to help children grow taller, may have given up too soon on the possibility of using the same drug in the battle against AIDS. Another drug company, Serono Laboratories Inc. of Norwell, Mass., claims to have assembled evidence that growth hormones can
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 16 Feb 1996, p.A-1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
As deaths from the AIDS epidemic in America rise unabated, the lethal virus is taking a growing toll on black men and women, a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disclosed yesterday. The agency said AIDS deaths rose by at least 9 percent from 1993 to 1994 -- the most recent years for whi
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; 12 Feb 1996, p. A3
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
BALTIMORE (12 Feb 1996) - Scientists who track the mounting worldwide toll of AIDS have presented the most somber view yet of the epidemic s spread through continent after continent. Despite a few tiny and tentative signs of progress against the disease in Africa and Asia and increasingly successful AIDS prevention eff
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 8 Feb 1996
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Baboon bone-marrow transplant recipient Jeff Getty is feeling better than he has in months, but the AIDS activist and his physicians now believe the controversial operation failed. Researchers revealed yesterday that sophisticated tests were unable to detect any clear signs of the baboon bone marrow infused into his sy
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 31 Jan 1996, Page A5
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
A new round of announcements that powerful drug combinations seem capable of wiping out the AIDS virus in infected patients by no means proves that researchers have found a knockout treatment for the disease itself, scientists cautioned yesterday. The combinations, based on a relatively new class of compounds that prev
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, January 31, 1996 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A5 Word Count: 760
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
A new round of announcements that powerful drug combinations seem capable of wiping out the AIDS virus in infected patients by no means proves that researchers have found a knockout treatment for the disease itself, scientists cautioned yesterday. The combinations, based on a relatively new class of compounds that prev
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY, January 21, 1996 Edition: SUNDAY Section: Sunday Chronicle Page: 1/Z1 Word Count: 3,011
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
MEMO: SUNDAY INTERVIEW RELATED STORY ATTACHED On December 14 Jeff Getty of Oakland made medical history when a purified mixture of baboon bone marrow cells was infused into his bloodstream in an effort to slow or reverse his advanced AIDS. He hopes the cells from the baboon -- an animal naturally resistant to HIV -- wi
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - EDITION: FINAL; SECTION: MN; PAGE: A15, 9 Jan 1996.
George Snyder, Chronicle Staff Writer
Facing a sharp increase in AIDS cases, Native American health workers fear that HIV may do to today s Indian population what smallpox did to the old tribes centuries ago. Nationwide, the cumulative number of diagnosed Native American AIDS cases rose from two in 1984 to 56 by 1987, 233 by 1990, and jumped to 944 by June
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