United Press International; Tuesday December 30, 1997 - 9:16 AM EST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) _ The White House said President Clinton is planning a major increase next year s funding request for programs for people with the AIDS-causing virus. White House officials said the increase is aims primarily to help AIDS patients afford newly developed drugs that are medically promising but c
United Press International; Tuesday December 30, 1997 - 2:47 AM EST
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Dec. 30 (UPI) _ A 33-year-old drifter with the AIDS virus is scheduled for a court hearing while 10 of his alleged sex partners wonder whether they contracted the deadly disease. James Wallace Jones faces up to life in prison for sexual deliquency and failing to inform women and girls in the Trave
United Press International; Friday December 19, 1997 - 8:22 PM EST
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI) _ Two workers at the New York Blood Center have been sentenced to jail terms for tampering with and falsifying tests designed to keep the blood supply free of disease. Prosecutors say the workers manipulated tests for HIV, hepatitis and other deadly viruses, saying they had been done thoroughly
United Press International; Tuesday December 16, 1997 - 4:03 PM EST
Mara Bovsun in New York
CHICAGO, Dec. 16 _ About half of the people who get HIV infections develop symptoms shortly after catching the virus, according to the largest study to examine people in the first stages of the disease. The new research suggests the number of people who have early symptoms is far lower than the 90 percent usually thoug
United Press International; Monday, December 15, 1997 - 09:30 EST
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan says patients may still be able to buy medical marijuana despite a court ruling that prevents sales at outlets. Hallinan says potential loopholes in Friday s appellate court ruling may allow the order to be circumvented because it makes it
United Press International; Friday December 12, 1997 - 4:04 PM EST
FRESNO, Dec. 12 (UPI) _ A Merced County businessman faces federal fraud charges in the alleged sale of bogus test kits for the AIDS virus. U.S. Attorney Paul Seave said today that 50-year-old Larence Clare Greene of Los Banos and two companies he owns are charged with fraudulently marketing medically useless HIV and
United Press International; Tuesday December 9, 1997 - 9:21 PM EST
JAMESTOWN, N.Y., Dec. 9 (UPI) _ New York health officials say they have linked four new cases of HIV infection to a man who allegedly slept with dozens of young women in western New York, knowing he carried the AIDS virus. More than 1,400 people from Chautauqua County, N.Y., have been tested for AIDS since health offic
United Press International; Sunday December 7, 1997 - 3:42 PM EST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) _ President Clinton s AIDS panel has issued another report critical of the administration s efforts to combat the deadly disease. The report, released today by the Presidential Council on HIV-AIDS, acknowledged that advances had been made in Clinton s first term but stated progress in the feder
United Press International; Thursday December 4, 1997 - 1:16 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (UPI) _ A study by researchers at the San Francisco Department of Public Health predicts the number of new AIDS cases in the city will drop to about 1,200 in 1998 from a high of more than 3,300 in 1992. Researchers say new drug therapies have helped reduce the incidence of AIDS, but the numbers ar
United Press International; Tuesday December 2, 1997 - 3:19 PM EST
Ed Susman
CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (UPI) _ Researchers are showing that the anti-AIDS drug cocktails that often have dramatically reduced levels of the AIDS virus can halt _ or even reverse _ dementia caused by the viral infection. At the Radiological Society of North America, doctors say today brain scans prove
United Press International; Tuesday December 2, 1997 - 7:02 AM EST
Ed Susman from West Palm Beach, Fla.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (UPI) _ Researchers are showing that the anti-AIDS drug cocktails that often have dramatically reduced levels of the AIDS virus can halt _ or even reverse _ dementia caused by the viral infection. At the Radiological Society of North America, doctors say today brain scans prove
United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 2:37 PM EST
OTTAWA, Dec. 1 (UPI) _ Canada s health minister has announced that Ottawa will spend $211 million (U.S $148 million) over the next five years on programs to fight the AIDS epidemic. Allan Rock made the announcement today on the occasion of World AIDS Day. He says Canada has set itself six goals in its stragegy against
United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 7:00 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 (UPI) _ Researchers say the incidence of new AIDS cases peaked in San Francisco with more than 3,000 cases in 1992 and is expected to decline to just over 1,000 next year. The researchers from the San Francisco Department of Public Health s AIDS Office are predicting that 1,196 cases of AIDS will
United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 8:34 PM EST
ALBANY, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) _ New York State Gov. George Pataki chose World AIDS Day to trumpet the results of the first nine months of the state s controversial program to test all newborn babies for HIV. Civil rights activists criticized the the program when it was instituted on Feb. 1, but Pataki says that as a resul
United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 2:16 PM EST
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) _ For the 10th year Americans are devoting a special day to the AIDS epidemic, this time with the theme Give children hope in a world with AIDS. According to the Centers for Disease Control, of 239,000 people in the United States with AIDS, 3,450 of them are children. Children joined adults at Ci
United Press International; Monday, December 1, 1997 1:04 AM EST
BEIJING, Dec. 1 (UPI) _ Chinese scientists are hoping to beat a domestic AIDS crisis using a concoction of traditional herbal medicines which boost the body s immune system. Researchers from the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine say the newly-developed compound works to clear away heat and toxins and will undergo
United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 3:02 AM EST
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 (UPI) _ Noted AIDS researcher Dr. Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco, says people who withstand HIV despite repeated exposure may hold the key to developing a vaccine against the devastating disease. In a study of 87 individuals at high risk of infection yet free of the AIDS v
United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 3:02 AM EST
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 (UPI) _ Earlier has, indeed, proven better for all 37 patients in a special program that attempts to nip HIV infection in the viral bud. No drug treatment failures have been reported in any of the patients in the Options Project at San Francisco General Hospital, founded in June 1996 on the premis
United Press International; Wednesday November 26, 1997 - 10:01 PM EST
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 (UPI) _ A combination of drug therapies, counseling, support, monitoring and expert care are proving the right ingredients for sparing the babies of mothers infected with the AIDS virus. In fact, since April 1995 none of the 56 HIV-positive women in a special University of California, San Francis
United Press International; Wednesday November 26, 1997 - 11:23 AM EST
PARIS, Nov. 26 (UPI) _ A U.N. study shows more than 30 million people worldwide, far more than believed, are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The study reports the HIV epidemic has reached 5.8 million people this year alone, including 590,000 children. There could be more than 40 million HIV/AIDS patients b
United Press International; Wednesday November 26, 1997 - 5:51 AM EST
Peter Kenny
OSAKA, Japan , Nov. 26 (UPI) _ A lethal virus has completely disappeared from a boy who underwent a bone marrow transplant to cure his anemia five years ago at the age of 15. A research team in an Osaka medical center says today similarities between the deadly Human T-Cell Lymphotrophic Virus (HTLV1) that the boy had c
United Press International; Monday November 24, 1997 - 5:25 PM EST
Mara Bovsun in New York
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) _ Scientists say they have developed a new kind of vaccine that may one day allow doctors to immunize people against AIDS and cancer. The researchers are quickly developing a test vaccine for cancer, and hope to start experiments in humans late next year. They are also creating a vaccine again
United Press International; Thursday November 20, 1997 - 6:33 PM EST
ATLANTA, Nov. 20 (UPI) _ Federal disease researchers say AZT , the anti-AIDS drug targeting pregnant women and their unborn babies has caused a dramatic decline in infants who get the killer infection. The number of babies developing AIDS at birth dropped 43 percent from 1992 to 1996. It is the first time the drop has
United Press International; Thursday November 20, 1997 - 1:03 AM EST
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (UPI) _ The number of confirmed HIV cases in China has topped 8,000 and continues to grow, fueled by a rise in drug abuse and paid blood donations. Ministry of Health officials say China had 8,277 HIV carriers by the end of September, up 2,237 since January. Among the new carriers, 168 have already dev
United Press International; Wednesday November 12, 1997 11:53 AM EST
DENVER, Nov. 12 (UPI) _ Three Denver policemen accused of beating a man who later died may have been exposed to AIDS as a result of the incident. The officers reportedly tried to save the suspect s life following the Halloween night confrontation, even after being warned at the scene that 37-year-old Robert Daniel Murp
United Press International; Monday November 3, 1997 - 9:11 AM EST
CHICAGO, Nov. 3 (UPI) _ A published report says medical costs have soared in Illinois prisons in the last year as hundreds of inmates have been treated for AIDS with a combination of drugs to fight the disease, the leading cause of death behind bars. Prison officials told the Chicago Sun-Times today that the cost of AI
United Press International; Monday November 3, 1997 - 2:17 AM EST
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (UPI) _ The HIV-positive New York man accused of knowingly infecting women with the virus that causes AIDS is set to be sentenced Monday on a drug charge in the Bronx. NuShawn Williams _ identified by court officials as Shyteek Johnson was arrested in September and convicted of attempting to sell drugs
United Press International; Thursday, October 30, 1997 - 8:59 PM EST
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (UPI) _ A recent poll finds that most Americans believe state and local authorities should be allowed to decide whether to spend federal HIV prevention funds on needle exchange programs. According to the Louis Harris survey, Americans are fairly evenly split on whether they support needle exchange pro
United Press International; Thursday, October 30, 1997 - 7:33 PM EST
ATLANTA, Oct. 30 (UPI) _ The Center for Disease Control has joined the investigation into the cluster of HIV cases health officials say stem from an infected 20-year-old man who slept with an estimated 100 women. Local authorities say NuShawn Williams, also known as Shyteek Johnson, slept with the women even though he
United Press International; Wednesday, October 29, 1997 - 8:45 PM EST
MAYVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 29 (UPI) _ Federal officials are pleading to those who may have been exposed to HIV from Shyteek Johnson to have themselves tested for the transmittable disease. The 20-year-old Bronx man, also known as NuShawn Williams, is accused of knowingly spreading the virus through unprotected sex. According
United Press International; Wednesday, October 29, 1997 - 4:31 AM EST
MAYVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 29 (UPI) _ The sister of the man accused of recklessly spreading the HIV virus to dozens of teenage girls in upstate New York says she believes he is capable of the crimes since he felt he had nothing to live for. Meeka Williams, the 18-year-old sister of suspect Shyteek Johnson, told television re
United Press International; Tuesday, October 28, 1997 - 5:58 AM EST
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (UPI) _ New York s top lawman may take over the case of a cold-hearted predator suspected of spreading the AIDS virus to up to 100 people in upstate New York. Attorney General Dennis Vacco s office says (Monday) Gov. Pataki is expected to decide in the next day or so whether to appoint Vacco to invest
United Press International; Monday, October 27, 1997 - 3:08 PM EST
MAYVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 27 (UPI) _ Chautauqua County, N.Y., health officials report that a 20-year-old man who knew he had HIV may spread the infection to 100 other people through unprotected sex. According to Health Commissioner Robert Berke, the man lurked places where teens hang out and offered them drugs in exchange f
United Press International; Wednesday, October 22, 1997 - 7:26 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 (UPI) _ A national drug study shows that fear of contracting HIV is declining among California s intravenous heroin users, who do not seem to be heeding public health warnings about sharing needles. The study concludes that the drug s popularity is rising among young and Hispanic users, and former
United Press International; Wednesday, October 22, 1997 - 3:39 PM EDT
NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 22 (UPI) _ A New Jersey judge has (Wednesday) ruled a gay couple can jointly adopt their 2-year-old foster child. The judge ruled Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio can keep the baby, who was born HIV-exposed and cocaine-addicted.
United Press International; Wednesday, October 22, 1997 10:47 AM EDT
NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 22 (UPI) _ A New Jersey judge is expected to rule on whether a gay couple can adopt their 2-year-old foster child, who was born HIV-exposed and cocaine-addicted. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, whose lawyers are representing the couple, Judge Sybil Moses is scheduled to hear the case
United Press International; Thursday, October 16, 1997 - 5:20 AM EDT
Harbaksh Singh Nanda
NEW DELHI, Oct. 16 (UPI) _ Indian health authorities are more than a little enthusiastic about their new safe sex campaign. The map of India in health minister s office is made of colored condoms, government officials will have to keep a bowl of condoms on their table, and restaurants will be asked to give complimentar
United Press International; Wednesday, October 15, 1997 - 1:45 PM EDT
Ed Susman
BOSTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) _ One in five Americans over age 12 harbor the virus which causes genital herpes _ an increase of more than 30 percent since the last national study in the late 1970s. Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta
United Press International; Wednesday, October 15, 1997 - 12:43 PM EDT
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 15 (UPI) _ Illinois had 21 percent fewer deaths during 1996 attributable to AIDS or HIV infection than in the past year, and had its lowest statewide total in six years. The Illinois Department of Public Health today reported 1,186 people died in cases where the diseases were a factor, down from
United Press International; Thursday, October 9, 1997 - 4:36 PM EDT
Mara Bovsun
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) _ British researchers say the virus linked to Kaposi s sarcoma, the most common AIDS-related cancer, makes substances that appear to both spur tumor growth and block HIV infection. The finding may help drug designers come up with more potent therapies for the disease, the researchers say. In
United Press International; Thursday, October 9, 1997 - 11:51 AM EDT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) _ Kate Shindle, Miss America 1998, says it is time to stop the rhetoric and start taking action in the fight against AIDS. Shindle told a news conference the time is long past for us to stop waiting passively for one solution to fight AIDS. Shindler said when she won her crown she would speak o
United Press International; Thursday, October 09, 1997 09:45:00
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Newly crowned Miss America Kate Shindle doesn t shrink from controversy, already endorsing condom distribution programs in high school students to prevent the spread of AIDS and HIV. Today, she went further, switching positions to now endorse needle exchange programs as an element of the pre
United Press International; Wednesday, October 08, 1997 18:17:00
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The National Institutes of Health has allowed a group of doctors and scientists at University of California, San Francisco to study the effects of marijuana on HIV-infected patients. Today s approval comes after several attempts by researchers to secure funding and the government-supplied
United Press International; Wednesday, October 1, 1997 - 1:35 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) _ Foes anad fans are dueling over the medical virtues of marijuana before a congressional subcommittee as more states consider propositions to legalize medical uses of cannibis. Bill McCollum, chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime opened the hearing today saying, I find the medi
United Press International; Tuesday, September 30, 1997 - 7:32 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 30 (UPI) _ California prison officers who risk exposure to AIDS, hepatitis and other deadly diseases from so-called gassing attacks will get protection under legislation signed into law by the governor (Tuesday). The legislation makes prisoners liable for aggravated battery if they intentionally throw
United Press International; Tuesday, September 30, 1997 - 11:19 AM EDT
Mara Bovsun in New York
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) _ An AIDS expert says the premature publication of a scientific study sent laboratories on a wild goose chase after a molecule thought to slow the disease. Dr. Nelson Michael of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, says his investigation of the molecule, called CCR2, turn
United Press International; Monday, September 29, 1997 - 1:07 PM EDT
Michael Smith UPI Science News
TORONTO, Sept. 29 _ A cocktail of drugs _ all started at the same time _ may be able to beat back the AIDS virus and at the same time promote healing of the damaged immune system. Roy Gulick of New York University said he started about 30 patients on a three-drug regime nearly two years ago. After a year, he said, 80 p
United Press International; Monday, September 29, 1997 - 9:53 PM EDT
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
TORONTO, Sept. 29 (UPI) _ Researchers say treatment with two potent drugs can reduce the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in the patient s spinal fluid _ one area where the virus resides. In a late addition to an infectious disease meeting in Toronto sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology, doctors say afte
United Press International; Monday, September 29, 1997 - 1:15 PM EDT
Ed Susman UPI Science News
TORONTO, Sept. 29 (UPI) _ Doctors say (Monday) AZT _ the original AIDS medicine _ may not be necessary for multi-drug cocktails used to keep the deadly virus at bay. At a major infectious disease meeting in Toronto, sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology, a new study which compares three triple-therapy regi
United Press International; Sunday, September 28, 1997 - 4:53 PM EDT
Michael Smith UPI Science News
TORONTO, Sept. 28 (UPI) _ AIDS researchers say a majority of HIV- infected people in the United States have already been tested. It s great news, said Patricia Sweeney of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, because it means that most infected people know their status and can seek treatment. B
United Press International; Friday, September 26, 1997 - 8:06 PM EDT
OTTAWA, Sept. 26 (UPI) _ The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a judicial inquiry may name individuals in its final report on a major scandal in which the Red Cross distributed infected blood to thousands of people. The Red Cross has been opposing the right of Justice Horace Krever to name names in his final repor
United Press International; Friday, September 26, 1997 10:19 PM EDT
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 26 (UPI) _ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that a home-use test kit for AIDS and another for hepatitis might be unreliable. The FDA warned today that it had approved neither the Lei-Home Access HIV Test nor the In-Home Hepatitis A Test Kit. The agency notes the HIV test, for the virus
United Press International; Thursday, September 25, 1997 - 5:10 PM EDT
ATLANTA, Sept. 25 (UPI) _ New federal figures show New York City leads the list of 50 U.S. cities with the highest AIDS rates. New York had 117.2 AIDS cases for every 100,000 people in the city. Next on the list was Jersey City, N.J., just across the Hudson River from Manhattan s Wall Street financial district, followe
United Press International; Thursday, September 25, 1997 20:00 EST
Heidi Dawley
LONDON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- In some parts of Uganda , infection with the AIDS virus may have slashed the population s average life expectancy by nearly 16 years. A study released today in the British Medical Journal highlights the impact that AIDS virus HIV-1 has had on life expectancy and mortality in a rural African po
United Press International; Thursday, September 25, 1997 - 5:55 PM EDT
ATLANTA, Sept. 25 (UPI) _ Worried doctors say that the rate of gonorrhea among men who have sex with men is going up, indicating that unsafe gay sex may be on the rise. The proportion of men who have sex with men who are diagnosed with the disease increased 74 percent in 26 clinics surveyed across the nation from 1993
United Press International; Thursday, September 25, 1997 - 12:59 PM EDT
CLEARWATER, Fla., Sept. 25 (UPI) _ A former state health worker has been sentenced to one year of probation after pleading no contest to charges stemming from the nation s largest breach of AIDS patients confidentiality. William Calvert tracked AIDS patients for the state, and a former lover obtained a list of more tha
United Press International; Wednesday, September 24, 1997 - 7:33 PM EDT
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 24 (UPI) _ The list of drugs that are unsafe to mix with the antihistamine Seldane has gotten longer. Drug maker Hoechst Marion Roussel has already warned people not to take Seldane with certain antibiotics and antifungals because the combination sometimes triggers a potentially fatal heart causes
United Press International; Tuesday, September 23, 1997 - 12:07 PM EDT
BOSTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) _ A gown owned by the late Princess Diana and bought by a Boston businesswoman is to be auctioned off Sept. 29 to raise funds for a Boston AIDS charity. The black velvet gown was worn by the princess to the 1985 opening of the musical Les Miserables. It is believed to be the first of her gowns to
United Press International; Tuesday, September 23, 1997 3:30 PM EDT
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 23 (UPI) _ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a new rule to make sure women don t get bumped out of early drug trials for life-threatening diseases just because of reproductive issues. The FDA announced a request Tuesday for public comments on its proposal to prevent clinical trial
United Press International; Monday, September 22, 1997 7:48 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) _ The nation s top AIDS researcher today called the plans of 50 healthy Chicago volunteers to inject themselves with a live HIV vaccine premature. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says the group of physicians and other volunteers would
United Press International; Sunday, September 21, 1997 11:51 PM EDT
CHICAGO, Sept. 21 (UPI) _ Fifty healthy volunteers affiliated with a Chicago doctors group are ready to risk their lives and test an AIDS vaccine made from a live but weakened strain of HIV. Members of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care are planning to meet next week to discuss the idea with offic
United Press International; Saturday, September 20, 1997 3:34 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 20 (UPI) _ A county health employee with a criminal record for public indecency was fired, two weeks after he was caught cruising Garfield Park with a bag of taxpayer-purchased condoms. The Indianapolis Star-News today reported that William L. Colson, 39, had told a suspicious park ranger it was his
United Press International; Friday, September 19, 1997 10:43 AM EDT
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Sept. 19 (UPI) _ Federal AIDS czar Sandra Thurman has told 2,500 people taking part in the U.S. Conference on AIDS at Miami Beach in clear and unmistakable terms, the war against the disease is not over. Thurman warned that despite the number of reports on the potency of drug cocktails slowing the on
United Press International; Thursday, September 18, 1997 5:52 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) _ The White House has expressed confidence that U.S.-funded experiments on poor pregnant Third World women infected with the HIV virus are ethical and will save lives in the long run. The studies, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, are paid for by the National Institutes of Heal
United Press International; Wednesday, September 17, 1997 6:08 PM EDT
Mara Bovsun in New York
BOSTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) _ The editor of the New England Journal of Medicine says researchers are leaving their ethical codes behind when conducting studies in poor Third World countries. Journal editor Dr. Marcia Angell (as Angel ) says, There appears to be a general retreat from the clear principles enunciated in the N
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