United Press International - Friday, March 10, 1989
West Haven, Conn. - A compound originally developed in hopes of preventing AIDS by acting as a vaccine will now undergo testing to determine whether it can help boost the immune system in people already infected with the deadly virus, a drug company has announced. MicroGeneSys Inc. said this week that the government-ap
United Press International - Thursday November 23, 1989
Geneva - The League of Red Cross Societies withdrew this week from the next international conference on AIDS in San Francisco because the United States bars entry to people with AIDS or the AIDS virus. It said U.S. visa policies conflict with Red Cross principles of humanitarian support for and prevention of discrimina
United Press International - Friday, October 13, 1989
Washington - A new draft statement for Roman Catholic bishops on the AIDS crisis released yesterday sharply condemns the use of condoms and needle exchanges as means of preventing spread of the deadly virus. The statement, Called to Compassion -- A Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis, is a wholesale revision of a much-crit
United Press International - Friday, 13 October 1989
WASHINGTON - A new draft statement for Roman Catholic bishops on the AIDS crisis sharply condemns the use of condoms and needle exchanges as means to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. The 68-page statement released Thursday, Called to Compassion -- A Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis, is a wholesale revision of a m
United Press International - Thursday, 5 October 1989
TAMPA - Health authorities plan to begin tracing sexual contacts of people who donate AIDS-infected blood to the Southwest Florida Blood Bank. The blood bank is one of the country s most aggressive in guarding against AIDS-infected donors and intends to go further in ensuring blood donations are free of the AIDS virus.
United Press International - Friday, June 16, 1989
Chicago - An Illinois law requiring an AIDS test for people wanting a marriage license cost the applicants $2.5 million in its first six months and found only eight who tested positive, a study published yesterday said. The analysis was done by Dr. Bernard Turnock and Chester Kelly of the Illinois Department of Public
Atlanta - Eight years after the AIDS virus was first reported in the United States , the number of cases of the fatal disease is nearing the 100,000 mark, with more than 55,000 deaths. U.S. health officials still are uncertain how many Americans may be harboring the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AI
United Press International - Wednesday, May 10, 1989
Washington - Federal health officials initiated a nationwide effort yesterday to make tests of experimental AIDS drugs more accessible to those with the disease. The national Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health announced establishment of a toll-free telephone service to provide information abo
Boston - The risk of infection by the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion has been reduced dramatically but is still not zero, researchers reported yesterday. Based on a study involving more than 4,000 heart surgery patients, the researchers estimated about three out of every 100,000 people who receive one unit of dona
United Press International - Wednesday, April 5, 1989
Trenton, N.J. - A woman s severed head discovered on a golf course last month was infected with the AIDS virus, raising the possibility that the killer was exposed to the virus before the woman s death or during the slaying, authorities said. The results of a second toxicological test received Monday confirmed an earli
United Press International - Monday, 20 February 1989
LOS ANGELES - New scientific data indicates that oral dextran, one of the most popular underground AIDS remedies, is unlikely to be effective, it was reported on Sunday. Government AIDS scientists and some researchers have been aware of the data for more than a month but have made no public announcement, Dr. Frank E. Y
United Press International - Thursday February 16, 1989
New York - Governor Mario Cuomo yesterday unveiled a five-year program to combat AIDS in New York state. Cuomo proposes to spend $195.5 million in state funds the first year, which Cuomo described as the most aggressive response to a public health epidemic ever developed by this or any other state. But gay rights suppo
United Press International - Friday, 13 January 1989.
CHICAGO - Six Italian physicians said Thursday that passionate kissing is not safe sex and may be one way of transmitting the deadly AIDS virus. In a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association , the research team described its study of 45 volunteer couples. Their saliva was analyzed for blood before and
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