CHICAGO, Dec. 25 - A prostitute who is believed to be spreading AIDS and has been sought for several weeks has been arrested, the Chicago police say. The prostitute, identified as Nadine Moore, and a man in his 50 s were arrested Monday in a parked car. Miss Moore was charged with prostitution and public indecency and
TRENTON, Dec. 17 - Health insurers in New Jersey will soon be allowed to ask policy applicants whether they have ever suffered from or received treatment for AIDS or related diseases, state officials said today. The state Department of Insurance has approved putting the question on policy applications beginning early n
HAZELWOOD, Mo., Dec. 6 - A school district here is dropping training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation because of fear that high school students might be exposed to AIDS. Officials in the Hazelwood school district outside St. Louis said Wednesday that the decision to end the training was effective immediately. Parents a
Seventeen discrimination complaints involving AIDS were filed in the first 10 months of 1985 with the State Human Rights Division, compared with only six in the previous 15 months, officials said yesterday. In addition, 19 instances of discrimination involving AIDS or fear of AIDS were reported this year, although no c
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 26 - A state hearing officer ruled Monday that a teen-age AIDS victim could go back to the classroom, and the boy today called the decision a great birthday present. It s a courageous opinion in that it didn t listen to the fears, said an attorney for the boy, Ryan White, who will be 14 years old nex
The owner of Plato s Retreat, a Manhattan sex club shut down on prostitution charges as part of the city s crackdown intended to slow the spread of AIDS, said he would fight the move in court. The city closed the well-known swinger s club on Friday. It was the first heterosexual establishment closed as part of the camp
NAIROBI, Kenya , Nov. 22 - At least eight people in Kenya have died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and 13 people suspected of having the disease are being treated, Health Minister Peter Nyakiamo was quoted as saying today.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15 - A man who donated sperm used to inseminate 19 women was later found to have antibodies associated with the incurable disease AIDS in his blood, according to Pennsylvania Hospital. It was not known if the man who donated the sperm was infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome at the time
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15 - A man who donated sperm used to inseminate 19 women was later found to have antibodies associated with the incurable disease AIDS in his blood, according to Pennsylvania Hospital. It was not known if the man who donated the sperm was infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome at the time
BOSTON, Nov. 14--Researchers at the National Cancer Institute say they are optimistic that a new drug called AL721 will fight the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus without many of the serious side effects of other drugs. AL721 is a promising new candidate for clinical investigation in the treatment of AI
PLAINFIELD, N.J., Nov. 13 - The Plainfield Board of Education voted today to continue to bar a 5-year-old girl with AIDS from kindergarten despite orders by the state and a judge that she be admitted. The school board decided to continue the ban and go to court to appeal the State Board of Education s decision that the
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 - An AIDS-free blood substitute originally developed by United States Army researchers for battlefield transfusions may soon be available for hospital and emergency use, according to the company that developed it. This substance is not artificial blood, Dr. Henry Tomizawa, a biochemist, said at a ne
The city s Health Commissioner said yesterday that AIDS was more likely to be spread by the more than 400,000 adults who carry the virus in the city than by a 7-year-old girl afflicted with the disease. The Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, testified in State Supreme Court that one out of every 15 city dwellers had th
TRENTON, Oct. 9 - The New Jersey Education Department said today that two local school boards would face state sanctions if they did not allow children exposed to AIDS into their classrooms. A department spokesman, Seymour Weiss, said Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman would turn the matter over to the Attorney Gene
United Press International - Friday, August 23, 1985
CHICAGO - Seeking to allay some fears about AIDS, specialists said Thursday it is virtually impossible to catch the disease from mosquito bites or ordinary day-to-day activities such as shaking hands. Dr. Bruce Dan, senior editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association , said much of the concern about the
United Press International - Saturday, July 20, 1985
NASSAU - The Bahamian government announced Friday it closed a controversial cancer clinic charged with infecting some of its patients with the virus that causes the incurable disease AIDS. On Friday, The Miami Herald reported that tests had shown at least two cancer patients treated at the Immunology Researching Centre
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