San Francisco Chronicle; Wednesday, December 17, 1997 - Page A3
Scott Ostler
Doctor Pot, Dennis Peron, must be running the hippest club in town at 1444 Market, because people are dying to get in. Terminal cancer, AIDS, chronic and debilitating pain and depression. It s all lined up on the sidewalk, waiting for the 5 p.m. opening of the Cannabis Buyers Club. These folks will show their club phot
San Francisco Chronicle; Saturday, December 13, 1997 - Page A1
Stephen Schwartz, Chronicle Staff Writer
The state Court of Appeal yesterday barred pot clubs from legally selling the herb despite California s passage of the medical marijuana initiative last year. The ruling, which goes into effect in 30 days unless stayed by further appeals, would close San Francisco s Cannabis Buyers Club and could jeopardize similar out
San Francisco Chronicle; Friday, December 12, 1997 - Page C1
Sam Whiting, Chronicle Staff Writer
Miss America won t wear her crown. She carries it in a wooden case and will show it but that s all, even when prodded on TV talk shows. When you re speaking about AIDS and you have a crown on your head, people just don t take you seriously, said Kate Shindle, 20, who is in town today to honor the 10th anniversary of th
San Francisco Chronicle; Tuesday, December 2, 1997 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
A specialized class of cells in the human immune system appears to endow many people with a kind of inborn vaccine that protects them from active infection by the AIDS virus, a leading researcher reported yesterday. The cells destroy the virus before it can take over the genetic machinery of other cells in the immune s
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, December 1, 1997 - Page A17
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
SAN FRANCISCO--AIDS researchers are reporting new progress against the disease today as the University of California at San Francisco inaugurates a new AIDS Research Institute. The institute will link clinical researchers, basic scientists and community prevention workers in a continuing collaboration involving some $4
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 25, 1997 - Page A18
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Nonprofit organizations receiving city funding may be forced to open their books, meetings, and decisions to more public scrutiny under a proposal by Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who said he wants them to be more accountable under the city s open meetings laws. The proposal could potentially affect hundreds
San Francisco Chronicle; Sunday, November 16, 1997 - Page 8
WHAT TOOK the National Institutes of Health so long? No matter what conclusion a panel of experts had reached on the efficacy of acupuncture, the issue should have been taken up long ago -- long before the 2,500-year-old Chinese needle treatment was embraced by thousands of American doctors and millions of American pat
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, November 14, 1997 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Reservoirs of the deadly AIDS virus can lurk silently inside the immune system cells of infected patients, even when successful long-term drug treatment has apparently eliminated the virus from the blood, three major AIDS research groups have discovered. The finding provides both a warning and a promise for many AIDS p
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, November 9, 1997 - Page 3/Z3
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Three years after President Clinton fired her for impolitic remarks about masturbation, former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders remains one of the most provocative and interesting figures in public health. After a stormy tenure of only 16 months, Dr. Elders returned to her old job in January 1995 as a pediatric end
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, October 17, 1997 - Page A19
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
In the ragged life of runaways living on San Francisco streets, it doesn t get much lower than this: to be young, homeless and dying of AIDS. Twenty-three-year-old Jerry K. hit bottom just seven months ago. He had just withdrawn from methamphetamines when AIDS-related pneumonia struck. So weak he could barely get out o
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, October 14, 1997 - Page A2
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
The nation s first experimental project to provide anti-viral treatment immediately for people who may have been exposed to the AIDS virus through risky sex or injection drug use will begin in San Francisco today. The first phase of the long- planned project involves treatment with the most powerful AIDS drugs availabl
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, October 9, 1997 - Page A1
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO--San Francisco researchers have won approval for the first federally sponsored study of the medical effects of marijuana on AIDS patients. With $1 million from the National Institutes of Health, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital will spend two years studying how the drug interacts with the latest
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, October 9, 1997 - Page A28
Greg Lucas, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO--Reversing himself, Governor Pete Wilson signed legislation yesterday allowing the release of terminally ill inmates who pose no threat to society and have six or fewer months to live. The measure does not affect prisoners serving sentences of life without parole or those facing the death penalty. This bill
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, October 3, 1997 - Page 1
Jeanne Cooper, Chronicle Staff Writer
WOODSIDE: In a redwood grove, first you notice the trees that are there. Then, the ones that are not. Whether felled by man or nature, a missing redwood often leaves behind a circle of younger trees that sprang from it. Though gone, its place is forever marked by those still standing. On Sunday, a small corner of the 1
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, September 30, 1997 - Page A1
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
After two years of hope and enthusiasm over the apparent success of the most powerful new class of AIDS drugs, a new study reported yesterday that the medicines are failing in more than half of the sickest patients. The drugs, known as protease inhibitors , have been shown to wipe out the AIDS virus in some patients so
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, September 26, 1997 - Page A2
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
In a new and ominous signal linking sexually transmitted diseases to AIDS, a national survey of major American cities shows rising rates of gonorrhea and HIV infection among gay and bisexual men. The news came as a sobering counterpoint to recent optimism that powerful new drugs have begun eliminating disease symptoms
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, September 12, 1997 - Page A2
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to prohibit the use of federal funds for needle exchanges programs to prevent the spread of HIV, a move immediately denounced by advocacy groups. Numerous federally funded studies and organizations all agree that needle exchange saves lives, said Regina Aragon, director of p
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, September 12, 1997 - Page A1
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO--AIDS has been displaced as the leading cause of death among Americans in the prime of life, a tribute to the power of new drug therapies and years of prevention efforts. Federal researchers yesterday reported that the AIDS death rate among adults ages 25 to 44 had fallen 26 percent in 1996, an astonishin
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, September 12, 1997 - Page A2
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Congress is preparing to pour millions of new dollars into drug treatment money for people with HIV, even though the White House did not request an increase in funding. The House is expected to pass a $132 million increase -- 79 percent -- in funding early next week for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which pays for
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, September 11, 1997 - Page A1
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
In a sign of shifting attitudes toward AIDS, an editorial in today s issue of the influential New England Journal of Medicine calls for a federal system to collect names of people infected by HIV so they can be reported confidentially to local health authorities. Such a move -- which some members of Congress already su
Fourteen thousand people paid their final respects last night to Princess Diana with a solemn candlelight march that began in San Francisco s Castro district and ended downtown at the British Consulate. The march was called to honor Diana, Princess of Wales, but many participants also paid tribute to Mother Teresa, who
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, September 7, 1997 - Page 8
Reviewed by, David Perlman VIRAL SEX: The Nature of AIDS By Jaap Goudsmit Oxford University Press; 260 pages; $27.50. ------------------------------------------------------- Jaap Goudsmit, a physician and virologist at the University of Amsterdam, has been an international leader in battling the AIDS epidemic since its
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, September 1, 1997 - Page A10
Teresa Moore, Monique Fields, Pat Steger, Chronicle Staff Writers
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco residents remembered Princess Diana yesterday for her poise and her vulnerability, her great love for her children and, perhaps not surprisingly in a city that has been at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic, for her compassionate embrace of people with AIDS. The princess appeal spanned San
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, September 1, 1997 - Page A17
Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - With her candid gaze, fresh, dewy face and Salvation Army clothes, she looked like any free-spirited 17-year-old girl -- except for the needle abscesses on the inside of her arms. You got any points? she asked Susan Poff, a nurse practitioner with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic. Poff was providing stree
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, August 26, 1997 - Page A2
Chronicle Staff Report
Infection by the AIDS virus through heterosexual transmission is extremely rare in the United States , but there are clear dangers, according to the most detailed study of its kind ever done. Anal sex, failure to use condoms, injection drug use and the presence of a sexually transmitted disease are the strongest predic
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, August 19, 1997 - Page A18
DESPITE HOPEFUL advances in AIDS treatment and research, the disease continues to advance relentlessly among African Americans, according to researchers who predict that in less than three years half of all HIV cases in the United States will be among blacks. Although blacks make up only 12 percent of the population, t
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, August 17, 1997 - Page 34
Edward Guthmann, Chronicle Staff Writer
It s a sign of hope, after 16 years of loss and despair, to say that Alive & Kicking, a British film about AIDS, had turned into a period piece before it was ever released. The story of a young, HIV-positive ballet dancer who becomes involved with a middle-aged, HIV- negative psychotherapist, Alive & Kicking ca
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, August 16, 1997 - Page A1
Aurelio Rojas, Chronicle Staff Writer
It took him seven years to seek treatment for the AIDS virus. As an African American man, he felt silenced by the strictures of his community and by his own denial. Where I m from, you don t tell a lot of people you re HIV positive, the Georgia native who lives in the East Bay said, recounting how he could not turn to
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, August 16, 1997 - Page A13
Monique Fields, Chronicle Staff Writer
It is 8 a.m. in the medical office of Dr. Robert C. Scott, and his first scheduled AIDS patient for the day is late. Scott, dressed casually in a pair of Army-green pants and a blue shirt, picks up the phone, dials a number and leaves a message. This is Dr. Scott. I m trying to reach Johnny. Johnny, you re supposed to
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, August 15, 1997 - Page A2
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
A newly discovered genetic peculiarity may help explain one of the great mysteries of the AIDS epidemic -- why some people manage to stay healthy many years longer than usual after becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The discovery, reported today in the journal Science, is the second genetic variant
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, August 14, 1997 - Page A14
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
Powerful new drugs against the AIDS virus are giving some San Francisco gay men an excuse to engage in risky sex, a new survey indicates. Although only 54 men participated in the survey, health professionals said the results justify predictions that recent progress on the AIDS treatment front will make prevention effor
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, August 6, 1997 - Page A18
Maria Alicia Gaura, Chronicle South Bay Bureau
Two directors of San Jose s medical marijuana dispensary say they ve reached a deal with police that will allow the club to continue to operate legally. Police have agreed to soften their position and are recommending a change in the city s laws requiring the dispensary to grow pot on site, according to the directors,
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, August 5, 1997 - Page A18
THE SIGNIFICANT advances in AIDS- drug therapies have created a new predicament for patients whose health has improved to the point they want to return to work. Some of them cannot afford it. Here s the problem: The cost of drug treatment can approach $1,800 a month. Medi-Cal covers the cost of prescriptions for an AID
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, July 26, 1997 - Page A3
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Staff Writer
ATLANTA: Many AIDS experts argued yesterday that there is insufficient evidence that morning after treatment programs will be effective and urged federal officials to hold off issuing guidelines covering programs like one being started in San Francisco this fall. For the past two days, the Centers for Disease Control a
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, July 23, 1997 - Page A1
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON: Government health officials are raising numerous concerns about a morning after treatment program that San Francisco will begin this fall for people who think they have been exposed to the AIDS virus. In response, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will bring together researc
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, July 1, 1997 - Page A18
AIDS activists and San Francisco officials announced a boycott yesterday of Glaxo Wellcome s lucrative Zantac antacid, saying the company has delayed patients access to a promising HIV drug. The dispute centers on a drug known as 1592, which both activists and Glaxo said appears far more powerful and less toxic than
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, June 26, 1997 - Page E1
Laura Evenson, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sumerlin Larsen sought help in mounting an AIDS awareness day in her small-town high school and nearly gave up before she finally found it -- on the World Wide Web site of the San Francisco-based Names Project Foundation. Our school district is very, very conservative, and a group of us had been fighting the district a
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, June 13, 1997 - Page A21
Torri Minton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Despite passionate audience arguments to the contrary, San Francisco Human Rights commissioners voted 5 to 1 last night to uphold rules regulating city sex clubs. The vote came after angry critics called the sex club rules draconian violations of basic human rights and a philosophy of condescension. The city Department
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, May 20, 1997 - Page A2
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
In 1961, when President John Kennedy ordered that a man be put on the moon in 10 years, it was a simpler challenge to the nation s scientists than the one given by President Clinton on Sunday: to develop an AIDS vaccine just that quickly. AIDS specialists enthusiastically embrace the attention and Clinton s use of dram
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, May 20, 1997 -Page A22
PRESIDENT CLINTON S call for the development of an AIDS vaccine within the next 10 years was a dramatic gesture from the bully pulpit, and a positive step forward in the campaign against the deadly disease. In a commencement address at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Sunday, Clinton likened the quest for an AID
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, May 18, 1997 - Page 9
Debra J. Saunders
SAN FRANCISCO didn t have any reported cases of pediatric AIDS in 1995 or 1996. Pat Christen, Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation credits two factors: the city s aggressive drug treatment of pregnant women with HIV and the local needle exchange program. The one-for-one dirty-for-clean exchange progr
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, May 10, 1997 - Page C1
Robert B. Gunnison, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO - Governor Pete Wilson will add $12.9 million to his proposed state budget to pay full costs of a program that provides medication to low-income people with AIDS, it was learned yesterday. In his proposed budget in January, Wilson said the state would contribute $27.3 million to the AIDS Drug Assistance Prog
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, May 8, 1997 - Page A8
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Powerful new drug combinations can penetrate cells where the AIDS virus has long defeated efforts to destroy it, scientists report. However, the success is tempered by the fact that patients will need many years of rigorous treatment to fight the infection -- and even then genes for the virus may lurk indefinitely with
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, May 6, 1997 - Page A18
Harriet Chiang, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
The California Supreme Court yesterday reinstated a $275,000 emotional distress verdict awarded to a fired Delta Air Lines reservations agent, ruling that the judgment should be paid even though the agent died while the verdict was on appeal. In a unanimous decision, the high court found that Alene Sullivan is entitled
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, May 5, 1997 - Page A14
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
More than 1,000 men and women held aloft shimmering candles and marched along Market Street yesterday evening to commemorate those who have died of AIDS and show support for those currently fighting for their lives. Some 350 communities in 45 countries held similar events last night as part of the 14th International AI
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, April 29, 1997 - Page A15
Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
A study released yesterday by two public policy groups blasted abstinence-only sex education programs, claiming the curricula are dangerous and are being illegally promulgated in California. The report, issued by the Public Media Center of San Francisco and the Applied Research Center of Oakland, states that one-third
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, April 18, 1997 - Page A4
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Researchers have discovered a tiny region in proteins on the outer coat of the AIDS virus that gives HIV the power to penetrate cells -- a finding that could offer drug designers a new way to prevent infection by the virus. For the first time, the scientists said, they have managed to take apart a complex protein on th
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, April 16, 1997 - Page A1
Laura Castaneda, Chronicle Staff Writer
Life insurance policies are being offered for the first time to people infected with HIV, but only on a trial basis to Illinois residents at steep prices. The announcement yesterday by Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Co. of Glenview, Ill., is significant because it recognizes the success of prote
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, April 8, 1997 - Page A1
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Promising an open door to the Oval Office, President Clinton appointed Atlanta activist Sandy Thurman yesterday as his director of national AIDS policy. Clinton had been under pressure from AIDS groups to hire a high-profile politician, like former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, who could command attention on Cap
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, March 25, 1997 - Page C3
Peter Sinton, Chronicle Senior Writer
Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome will announce plans today to use software from a Bay Area startup to design clinical drug trials and predict their outcome. Pharsight, of Palo Alto, said its Trial Designer software could cut the time it takes to bring new drugs to market, save manufacturers millions of dollars and r
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, March 22, 1997 - Page A1
Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
Think of what the public feared most 10 years ago, and AIDS figures near the top of the list. In 1987, there were no protease inhibitors , only a smattering of federal funding allocated to fighting the disease and little desire to talk openly about an epidemic among gay men, prostitutes and intravenous drug users.
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, 20 March 1997, Page A15.
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
With hopes buoyed by continued evidence that the new AIDS drugs called protease inhibitors are slowing the spread of the AIDS epidemic -- at least among gay white males -- hundreds of patients and frontline disease fighters gathered in San Francisco yesterday to share the optimistic message. A major theme of the ni
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, March 18, 1997 - Page A16
Yumi Wilson, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge J. Michael Welch signed an order yesterday granting the early release of a 29-year- old inmate dying of AIDS. Michelle Jaress Flores will be freed within 48 hours from the Central California Medical Facility in Chowchilla, said Judy Greenspan of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday, March 18, 1997 - Page A15
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
Although many gay men want to know if their sexual partners are infected with HIV or not , they often feel extremely uncomfortable discussing the matter openly and instead rely on imprecise clues to guess the answer, according to a new study by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The study of 92 men suggests that those
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, March 14, 1997 - Page A21
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Writer
Need the latest information on everything about AIDS, from new drugs and help-giving resources to the state of the epidemic? Computer users with Internet access can log on to http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu and reach a new World Wide Web site started yesterday by AIDS experts at the University of California at San Francisco.
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, March 14, 1997 - Page A24
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
A San Francisco supervisors committee urged the city yesterday to vastly expand the distribution of free condoms in bars and nightclubs, especially those frequented by young gay and bisexual men. Supervisors Leslie Katz and Tom Ammiano said they would try to find about $150,000 to exponentially increase efforts to batt
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, March 14, 1997 - Page A2
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
In a major step toward understanding the dementia that disables the minds of many AIDS patients, San Francisco researchers have found that a class of immune system cells infected by the AIDS virus can cause the disorder by inducing the brain s vital nerve cells to destroy themselves. The new evidence could yield the fi
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, March 13, 1997 - Page A19
Yumi Wilson, Chronicle Staff Writer
Persistent pleas from prisoner advocates and a concerned mother have prompted the state Department of Corrections to recommend a compassionate release to a young inmate dying of AIDS. Interim director Thomas Maddock said on Monday that Michelle Jaress Flores should go home before her spring 1998 release date from the C
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, 12 March 1997.
Yumi Wilson, Chronicle Staff Writer
Persistent pleas from prisoner advocates and a concerned mother have prompted the state Department of Corrections to recommend a compassionate release to a young inmate dying of AIDS. Interim director Thomas Maddock has said that Michelle Jaress Flores should go home before her spring 1998 release date from the Central
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, March 10, 1997 - Page E2
Laura Castaneda, Chronicle Staff Writer
Settlements in which the terminally ill sell their life insurance policies for a fraction of their value have helped turn dreams into reality for thousands of people. Take Mark Trautwein. He sold his life insurance policy two years ago so he could move from Washington, D.C., to the Bay Area to be near his family, play
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, March 10, 1997 - Page E1
Ilana DeBare, Chronicle Staff Writer
When John Westaway quit his job last April because of AIDS, he feared he had just cashed the last paycheck of his life. I told myself and my boss, `I ll be back, recalled the 45-year-old marketing manager. But in the very back of my mind I was thinking: This could be the beginning of the end. Today Westaway is in fact
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, March 10, 1997 -Page E1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
They don t help everybody. They cost a lot. They offer little hope of a genuine cure for most people. But even with their shortcomings, the newfangled pills known as protease inhibitors are about as close as you can get to a wonder drug for AIDS. People don t have to die anymore, said Dr. Mary Romeyn, a prominent San
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - 4 March 1997
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
If a morning-after pill can prevent a pregnancy, could something similar stop AIDS? Sometime this spring, researchers at San Francisco General Hospital hope to begin a study that may shed some light on that question, and could -- to the concern of AIDS prevention experts -- change the perception of just how risky unsaf
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, February 24, 1997 - Page A2
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Abundant levels of a natural molecule found in virtually every cell of the human body can dramatically improve survival for patients whose immune systems are badly damaged by the AIDS virus, according to new findings by Stanford University researchers. The life-prolonging molecule is a common amino acid called glutathi
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, February 20, 1997 -Page A18
Chronicle Staff and Wire Report
Los Angeles -- Patients with a rare form of hemophilia were warned to stop using a blood clotting factor drawn from plasma that may have been contaminated with the AIDS virus. A single lot of Profilnine SD, which is widely distributed in the United States , came from a plasma pool that showed possible signs of HIV anti
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, February 14, 1997 - Page A11
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Seattle: A mysterious protein linked to a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women appears to shrink the lesions of an AIDS-related disease and may even kill HIV, Dr. Robert Gallo, one of the discoverers of the virus, said yesterday. In a wide-ranging discussion of the current state of AIDS therapy and the possibil
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Saturday, February 8, 1997 - Page E1
Jerry Carroll, Chronicle Staff Writer
The worst-case scenario for a parent is a child dying. For death to claim a second when grief is still fresh is intolerable tragedy. A third death goes beyond calamity into some absurdist wing of the unfathomable. It happened to Alexander and Jane Nakatani, who are packing up their San Jose home for a move to Hawaii ne
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, February 6, 1997 - Page A1
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Half of the Bay Area s leading AIDS doctors who responded to a new survey admit that they have prescribed a lethal dose of narcotics to help a dying patient commit suicide. The results of the San Francisco study were published in today s New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers polled members of Community Consortiu
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Monday, January 27, 1997 - Page E2
Peter Sinton, Chronicle Senior Writer
A new research project between Affymetrix of Santa Clara and Glaxo Wellcome of London aims to tailor AIDS treatment to combat mutating strains of the virus in individual patients. The collaboration, to be announced today, will use Affymetrix GeneChip, a tiny slice of silica embedded with DNA probes, to determine which
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, January 23, 1997 - Page A13
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco researchers tracking the swath of the AIDS epidemic have found that infection rates among the city s young gay men have declined significantly since 1993 but still are alarmingly high. Among gay city residents aged 17 to 22, the number infected by the AIDS virus fell to 8.1 percent in 1995, compared to 11
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Friday, January 17, 1997 - Page B1
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Protease inhibitors aren t just for AIDS. The drugs became front-page news last year when the FDA began approving them to help stop the spread of HIV. But now pharmaceutical companies, including tiny South San Francisco- based Arris Pharmaceutical Corp., are crafting new
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday, January 16, 1997 - Page A17
Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
It was party time yesterday at the San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club, which staged a gala reopening to celebrate a decision by a San Francisco court allowing the medical marijuana outlet to legally purvey pot to the ill and infirm. Amid throngs of admirers -- and patients clamoring for pot -- club founder Dennis
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Sunday, January 12, 1997 - Page 1/Z1
Sabin Russell, Chronicle staff writer
On a blustery autumn weekend in Lake George, New York, the surrounding Adirondack Mountains were ablaze with the reds, oranges and yellows of leaves undergoing their annual ritual of death. At the stately Sagamore Hotel overlooking the lake, 400 scientists from around the globe were gathered to discuss an oddly appropr
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