United Press International - Monday, December 21, 1998
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed a bill this year that would have required the reporting of HIV cases, but the legislation has been reintroduced with support from new federal guidelines. Assemblywoman Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, announced its reintroduction today-- two weeks before Wilson is suc
United Press International - Saturday, December 19, 1998
MIAMI, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The American Red Cross s HIV-AIDS program in south Florida is suffering from a lack of funds. Officials say the program may have to close. Last year, the Red Cross trained 48 volunteer instructors who reached out to 2,500 people in the area s black and Haitian communities. The training ws made p
United Press International - Tuesday, December 15, 1998
EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- An Oregon judge has ordered an HIV- positive mother to stop breast-feeding her newborn child and to begin treating the baby with AZT , a drug that fights the AIDS-causing virus. The child s parents, Kathleen and David Tyson, say they are opposed to the treatment because of concerns about
United Press International - Monday, December 7, 1998
SEATTLE, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A former Alaska Airlines employee who says he is in good health despite having AIDS is suing the airline to get his senior-level job back. John Mace, 42, says new drugs have enabled his health to improve to the point that the virus that causes AIDS can no longer be detected in his blood. Mace
United Press International - Thursday, December 3, 1998
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Government scientists have found a genetic trait that makes people get sick sooner once they are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The finding, the first to describe a gene that speeds up the progression of AIDS, may help drug designers in their search for new treatments for the dead
United Press International - Tuesday, December 1, 1998
Edward J. Negron
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Black religious leaders from across the country are calling on their church colleagues to mobilize their communities in the fight against AIDS. The clergy gathered at Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in Harlem on World AIDS Day said that although blacks make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they
United Press International - Tuesday, December 1, 1998
ST. CHARLES, Mo., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Twelve jurors and three alternates have been selected for the trial in a St. Louis suburb of an Illinois man accused of infecting his son with the AIDS virus. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in St. Charles, Mo. Brian Stewart, 32, of Columbia, Ill., is charge
United Press International - Tuesday, December 1, 1998
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Actress Sharon Stone, chairwoman of the American Foundation for AIDS research ( AmFAR ) is urging parents to use tough love and keep a box filled with hundred of condoms for their youngsters. Stone was followed at a U.N. AIDS Day symposium today by a young Brooklyn man who has lived with
United Press International - Tuesday, December 1, 1998
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Celebrating advances against the deadly HIV virus, President Clinton said there is hope that we can actually defeat AIDS. But at a World AIDS Day ceremony at the White House, Clinton said that despite a decline of deaths in the United States , Our work is far from finished. He said, We
United Press International - Monday, November 30, 1998
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The American Foundation for AIDS Research, AmFAR , says on the eve of World AIDS Day that a Harris poll to be released next month shows a cavalier attitude toward AIDS among young Americans. In a symposium at the United Nations, AmFAR said today of the poll, most Americans think they a
United Press International - Thursday, November 26, 1998
LONDON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A new study indicates death rates from HIV infection in Europe have fallen more than 80 percent over the past two years due to the widespread use of new combinations of drugs. The study, involving more than 7,000 people monitored since 1994, will be published Saturday in The Lancet, a British m
United Press International - Tuesday, November 24, 1998
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization estimates by the end of this year more than 33.4 million adults and children will be living with HIV/AIDS, up 10 percent from last year. UNAIDS estimates today that has claimed nearly 14 million lives worldwide, 11.5 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone.
United Press International - Friday, November 20, 1998
MIAMI, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Community AIDS Resource has been approved as a test tite for Phase III clinical trials of the AIDSVAX vaccine against HIV. The group, known as Care Resource, is the only test site in Miami Dade and Broward Counties and one of two sites in south Florida approved by the Food and Drug Administratio
United Press International - Thursday, November 19, 1998
AUGUSTA, Maine, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Maine Supreme Court has affirmed that the mother of a 4-year-old boy afflicted with HIV need not treat him with drugs. Maine s Department of Human Services had sought custody of Nikolas Emerson in September because Valerie Emerson had refused to give her son drugs she said would kil
United Press International - Wednesday, November 18, 1998
Ed Susman
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Progress in ridding the AIDS virus from the blood has led top U.S. researchers to propose the first study that would halt drug treatment in HIV-infected patients with undetectable virus levels. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said
United Press International - Friday, November 13, 1998
Mara Bovsun in New York City
DENVER, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Doctors report they have found a silent form of the AIDS virus hiding in semen that remains infectious in people whose aggressive drug treatment has reduced levels of the AIDS virus to undetectable levels. Investigators at Philadelphia s Thomas Jefferson University say they found the hidden HIV
United Press International - Wednesday, November 11, 1998
BOSTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A little AZT can go a long way in preventing AIDS transmission from mother to infant, a new study shows. For at least four years, scientists have known that giving the antiviral drug to mothers before and during labor and to the newborn infant can reduce transmission of the AIDS-causing human i
United Press International - Thursday, November 05, 1998
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Alameda County officials became the first municipality in the nation to declare a state of emergency over the disproportionate number of AIDS cases in its black community, which is the state s largest. In a unanimous vote today, the county Board of Supervisors approved the declaration,
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Scientists say they have found a new way to fight AIDS by interfering with the fatal handshake between the disease-causing virus and its target, the cells of the human immune system. In preliminary research published in the November issue of the journal Nature Medicine, a team at the Universit
United Press International - Monday, November 02, 1998
Michael Kirkland
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court says it will review a decision by the military s highest court that prevents the Air Force from dropping a former officer from its rolls, a move that would cost the HIV-positive man his veteran s benefits. In 1994, a court-martial at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, convicte
United Press International - Tuesday, October 27, 1998
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- University of California, San Francisco, researchers are singing the praises of anonymous HIV testing. They say the safety of secrecy encourages people to get tested earlier, thereby having the chance to start treatment earlier should the results come out positive. The investigators had
United Press International - Wednesday, October 14, 1998
Lori Valigra
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The HIV viruses present in male reproductive organs are not necessarily the same as those found in the rest of the body, U.S. and Swiss scientists say. Further, the researchers say, the different viruses seem to react differently to antiviral AIDS therapies, This means it may no longer be s
United Press International - Tuesday, October 13, 1998
LAFAYETTE, La., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Jury selection is set to begin in Lafayette, La., in the trial of a doctor who allegedly used the AIDS virus in an attempt to kill his mistress. Prosecutors say Dr. Richard Schmidt injected 34-year-old Janice Trahan Allen with the AIDS virus in August 1994 when she tried to break off th
United Press International - Thursday, October 08, 1998
MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Three children have contracted the AIDS virus through a transfusion of tainted blood at a Moscow hospital in September, and one of the victims has already died, Russian newspapers report. Sanitation Inspection Center officials say the blood tested positive for HIV in May, but for some reason it
United Press International - Wednesday, October 07, 1998
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Federal health officials are reporting an unprecedented decline in AIDS deaths even while the number of new people infected with the AIDS virus each year has not declined in the United States . Age-adjusted death rates from HIV infection in the U.S. declined 47 percent from 1996 to 1997, and
United Press International - Saturday, October 03, 1998
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Ohio attorney general s office will mediate a dispute between Kroger Co. and a Columbus woman whose HIV-positive foster son has been banned from the grocery store chain s play areas. The Ohio Civil Rights Commission has ruled the grocery chain likely violated the rights of 7-year-old
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has reported that the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the city increased last year from 1996 levels. The rise in STDs marks the first increase in years in the area. The report indicates that the rate of chlamydia rose 24 percent and the rate of early syphilis incre
United Press International - Thursday, October 1, 1998
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The Illinois Supreme Court is supporting court rulings against people who sued doctors and dentists out of fear they were exposed to AIDS and HIV. The state s high court today upheld appellate court rulings that dismissed complaints filed by a Homewood doctor s office aide and six pat
United Press International - Wednesday, September 30, 1998
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Gov. Pete Wilson has signed legislation that s intended to protect California nurses and other healthcare workers from needle-borne diseases. Wilson said in today s bill-signing messsage that about 100,000 California health care workers are injured by accidental needle sticks every year, w
United Press International - Wednesday, September 30, 1998
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Legislation that makes it a felony to use the HIV/AIDS virus as a weapon to intentionally infect others has been signed into law by Gov. Pete Wilson. The bill by Sen. Richard Rainey, R-Walnut Creek, authorizes a prison sentence of three to eight years for the crime, beginning next Jan. 1,
United Press International - Sunday, September 27, 1998
Ed Susman, UPI Science Writer
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- AIDS patients put on a kitchen-sink treatment approach that includes as many as nine drugs were frequently able to reduce the amount of virus in the blood to undetectable levels. Canadian researchers say today that even though clinical and laboratory science would predict such an approach w
United Press International - Friday, September 25, 1998
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Illinois Department of Public Health will try a patient code number system for health care providers to use when reporting cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The system, which will be used for two years on an experimental basis, is meant to be a compromise to suggestions tha
United Press International - Wednesday, September 23, 1998
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A rat study shows a synthetic drug that mimics marijuana might provide a viable alternative for treating pain. The University of California, San Francisco, study indicates the drug that mimics the principal active ingredient in pot has a morphine-like effect on the brain region that mod
United Press International; Wednesday, September 09, 1998
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A team of researchers from around the country has discovered at least part of the secret of how the AIDS virus uses a lethal weapon against uninfected cells. The scientists say in the British journal Nature this is a key discovery because it is this dastardly deed by the human immunodefi
United Press International; Tuesday, September 08, 1998
AMMAN, Jordan , Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Jordan has expelled this summer 26 foreigners infected with the HIV virus, but Health Ministry officials would not identify their nationalities. Foreigners are required to undergo medical examinations, including HIV tests, to receive legal work permits and residencies.
United Press International; Monday July 20 9:15 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) - Nearly a dozen AIDS activists angered by President Clinton s refusal to support needle exchange programs staged a brief sit-in protest in the office of Clinton s AIDS policy director Sandra Thurman. The protesters shouted, Clean needles save lives _ Lift the ban now, as police cut heavy chai
United Press International; Thursday July 16 11:15 PM EDT
OTTAWA, July 16 (UPI) - The Canadian AIDS Society is calling on the federal government and the public to wake up to the fact that Canada has the highest incidence of injection drug use in the developed world. Dr. Diane Riley, of the International Harm Reduction Association, says the use of shared needles among young dr
United Press International; Friday July 3 1:19 PM EDT
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 3 (UPI) - Researchers said a new, powerful anti-AIDS drug greatly reduces virus levels in patient s blood, yet has easier dosing requirements and milder side effects than other protease inhibitors . After 24 weeks of treatment, 90 percent of HIV patients taking the investigational compound
United Press International; Thursday July 2 2:02 PM EDT
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 2 (UPI) - Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, says tiny molecules in the human body may be the ``first-line defense against infection. The molecules _ called beta-chemokines _ are found at high levels in people who are resistant to HIV, Gallo told a plenary session of the 12th
United Press International; Thursday July 2 2:27 PM EDT
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 2 (UPI) - For the second time in two days, chanting, whistle-blowing demonstrators on Thursday trashed a pharmaceutical company exhibit at the 12th World AIDS Conference. Members of two activist groups occupied a booth set up by the Schering-Plough company and spray-
United Press International; Thursday July 2 7:08 PM EDT
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 2 (UPI) - A prominent Los Angeles AIDS doctor says (Thursday) he s still willing to take a live vaccine against the disease, as soon as it can be made available. Charles Farthing, medical director of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, dismissed animal studies that showed live vaccines resulted i
United Press International; Wednesday July 1 5:06 PM EDT
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 1 (UPI) - Researchers have issued new guidelines for the treatment of the AIDS virus, suggesting that patients now can be offered a wider choice of first-line drugs. At the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva, doctors said protease inhibitors side effects and the emergence of several new tre
United Press International; Wednesday July 1 10:53 PM EDT
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 1 (UPI) - In the years to come, doctors will have a greater diversity of options when they treat patients with the AIDS virus, a leading researcher told the 12th World AIDS Conference. Daniel Kuritzkes of the University of Colorado said there are a tremendous number of new anti-AIDS drugs in
United Press International; Wednesday July 1 11:06 PM EDT
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , July 1 (UPI) - AIDS drug regimes have to be made simpler and more effective, because it s unlikely science will soon find a way to eradicate the virus that causes the disease, a leading researcher told the 12th World AIDS Conference. The good news for patients is that combination drug therapies wo
United Press International; Saturday, June 27, 1998 10:53:00 PM
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , June 27 (UPI) -- The American Medical Association says doctors should start patients infected with the AIDS virus on a triple combination of drugs, rather than starting with one drug and adding others. At a briefing prior to the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva, AMA officials unveiled a study
United Press International; Friday June 26 8:52 AM EDT
AMMAN, Jordan , June 26 (UPI) - Jordan s Health Ministry said 14 new cases of AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, have been recorded this year, raising the number of infected persons to 178 in the kingdom. However, the U.N. World Health Organization in the Jordanian capital Amman said in a rep
United Press International; Friday June 26 4:56 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, June 26 (UPI) - California health officials report a 60 percent decline in AIDS deaths in the first six months of 1997 compared with the first half of the previous year. The Department of Health Services said today whites still account for the largest percentage of AIDS cases, although rates for blacks and
United Press International; Friday June 26 7:25 PM EDT
Lori Valigra in Cambridge, Mass
BETHESDA, Md., June 27 (UPI) - Pregnant women infected with HIV can halve the risk of transmitting the virus to their infants by having an elective caesarean section, a government study says. The study _ the largest and most comprehensive of its kind _ analyzed 8,533 mother and child pairs from five European and 10 Nor
United Press International; Thursday June 25 6:20 PM EDT
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
GENEVA, Switzerland , June 25 (UPI) - More than 10,000 doctors, scientists and activists converge on Geneva to spend a week sorting through thousands of reports on progress and failure in combating the worldwide epidemic in AIDS. Key presentations will discuss growing incidences of side effects of
United Press International; Thursday June 25 9:12 PM EDT
Mara Bovsun in New York City
ATLANTA, June 25 (UPI) - Federal health authorities say that rates of syphilis have dropped to an all time low in the United States , raising hopes that a concentrated effort could wipe it out in the next few years. The researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta say that rates of the disea
United Press International; Thursday June 25 11:31 AM EDT
Michael Kirkland
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) - The Supreme Court says someone with HIV, even without symptoms, is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The act forbids discrimination against the disabled. The case involves a dental patient with HIV in Maine. With only three partial dissents, a Supreme Court majority ruled tod
United Press International; Wednesday June 24 6:13 PM EDT
PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (UPI) - Some Philadelphia volunteers are among the first in the world to participate in the first large-scale human field trial of an AIDS vaccine. The vaccine, made by VaxGen Inc., a small biotechnology company in south San Francisco, Calif., will be tested for effectiveness in preventing HIV inf
United Press International; Wednesday June 24 2:19 PM EDT
NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) - The nation s first oral HIV test approved by Federal Drug Administration will be available this week at all three Planned Parenthood of New York City health-care centers. PPNYC said there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of people who took the noninvasive test in a pilot program.
United Press International; Tuesday June 23 5:34 PM EDT
Ed Susman
GENEVA, Switzerland , June 23 (UPI) - The first nation-by-nation accounting of AIDS cases finds infection rates continue to soar in much of the developing world. In a press briefing (Tuesday), UNAIDS officials point to alarming statistics in the African nations of Zimbabwe and
United Press International; Thursday June 18 9:56 PM EDT
Mara Bovsun in New York City
WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) - AIDS researchers say their next great challenge will be to find ways to ferret out HIV, the virus that causes the deadly disease, that has found places to hide from even the most powerful medicines. A mouse antibody that has been used for several years to prevent rejection in kidney transpla
United Press International; Wednesday June 17 5:46 PM EDT
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 (UPI) - In another this could be it advance against AIDS, cautious but excited scientists report finally uncovering a key Achilles heel of the Houdini of viruses. The unmasking of how the elusive human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS, unlocks an
United Press International; Tuesday June 16 8:17 PM EDT
Ed Ungar in Toronto
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the oral drug, Famvir for the treatment of the potentially disfiguring herpes virus in AIDs patients. Clinical trials conducted at the University of Alberta have found that Famvir, generically known as famciclovir, was as effective as
United Press International; Friday June 26 12:25 AM EDT
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) - The dental patient who sued to make her HIV-positive condition protected under federal law says she is gratified that the Supreme Court agrees with her. The justices ruled today that HIV-positive people are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which bars discrimination against t
United Press International; Saturday, June 6, 1998
ST. LOUIS, June 6 (UPI) -- A Missouri woman who lost her hemophiliac son to AIDS has won $1.4 million in a judgment against a maker of blood- clotting products. The jury returned its award after nearly three weeks of trial in St. Louis Circuit Court. The plaintiff is a woman from Farmington, Mo., identified only as Mar
United Press International; Thursday May 28 5:57 PM EDT
OTTAWA, May 28 (UPI) - Canada s health minister has announced an annual fund to assist AIDS patients as part of a new strategy to fight the spread of the disease. Allan Rock told reporters today the $42.2 million package will include funds for prevention, research, care and treatment of patients and to assist non-gover
United Press International; Thursday May 28 9:15 AM EDT
ST. CHARLES, Mo., May 28 (UPI) - A Missouri judge has ruled a man accused of injecting his infant son with a syringe of HIV-contaminated blood to get out of paying child support must stand trial. Brian Stewart, 31, of Columbia, Ill., is charged with first-degree assault and could get life in prison if convicted. If the
United Press International; Wednesday May 27 6:27 AM EDT
ST. CHARLES, Mo., May 27 (UPI) - A preliminary hearing continues (Wednesday) in the case of a man accused of injecting his infant son with HIV-contaminated blood to avoid paying child support. Defense attorney Joseph Murphy argued Tuesday that the son of Brian Stewart, 31, of Columbia, Ill., could have contracted the d
United Press International; Tuesday May 26 7:27 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, May 26 (UPI) - State legislators are looking for a way to have marijuana distributed for medical use without running afoul of federal law or fostering the illicit drug trade. The Senate Public Safety Committee held a Medicinal Marijuana Distribution Summit today to address the issue. Chairman John Vasconcel
United Press International; Tuesday May 19 10:59 AM EDT
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, May 19 (UPI) -- More accurate reporting of AIDS and HIV infection in Africa -- where 21 million people have the disease -- swells the number of cases worldwide to nearly 32 million. But, researchers say Tuesday, the epidemic among the poverty-stricken masses of Asia will drive that continent to the lead in num
United Press International; Thursday May 14 5:33 PM EDT
Lori Valigra
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) - A government-sponsored study found there is no proof that some infants who contract HIV infections from their mothers may later become free of the virus that causes AIDS. A study of 42 babies and a mother thought to have cleared the AIDS virus suggests they may not have had the virus in the f
United Press International; Thursday May 14 9:21 PM EDT
Meta L. Levin, UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) - Daily doses of a multivitamin may offer a low-cost way to reduce risks to babies as well as improve the health of HIV positive mothers. In a new study, researchers found the multivitamin not only reduced fetal deaths, low birth-weight and severe preterm births, but improved the mother s healt
United Press International; Wednesday May 6 2:17 AM EDT
BEIJING, May 6 (UPI) _ A top Chinese health official warns the nation is on the verge of an AIDS crisis. Vice Minister of Health Sun Longchun ( Son Lung-chun ) says China has entered a phase of fast growth in the number of HIV cases. Speaking at a ceremony honoring writers for strengthening AIDS awareness, Sun said tho
United Press International; Wednesday May 6 1:00 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 6 (UPI) _ The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a no contest plea prohibits a defendant from challenging the factual merits of an indictment. Today s ruling came in the case of Jimmy Bird, an HIV-infected Columbus man who was indicted in 1993 on a felonious assault with a deadly weapon charge after
United Press International; Tuesday May 5 1:41 PM EDT
ST. CHARLES, Mo., May 5 (UPI) _ A Missouri judge set May 26 as the date for a preliminary hearing for an Illinois man accused of injecting his son with HIV-infected blood six years ago. Judge John Cunningham said the hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to bring Brian Stewart to trial on a charge of
United Press International; Thursday April 30 6:48 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) _ President Clinton defended his refusal to lift a 10-year ban on the use of federal funds for needle exchange programs, despite acknowledging that medical research proves such programs help prevent the spread of the AIDS-causing virus HIV. At a White House news conference, Clinton said needl
United Press International; Thursday April 23 2:35 PM EDT
ST. CHARLES, Mo., April 23 (UPI) _ An Illinois medical worker denies he injected his 11-month-old son with HIV-tainted blood to avoid paying child support. His son, now 7, is being treated for full-blown AIDS. Brian Stewart of Columbia, Ill., pleaded not guilty today in a suburban St. Louis court. He is being held on $
United Press International; Thursday April 23 10:38 AM EDT
ST. LOUIS, April 23 (UPI) _ A medical worker is charged with allegedly injecting his 11-month-old son with a syringe full of HIV- tainted blood. Police say the man, who questioned whether he was really the child s father, didn t want to pay child support. Tests later proved he was the father. The child, now 7, is being
United Press International; Friday April 3 7:01 AM EST
NEW YORK, April 3 (UPI) _ While most of New York City s attention is focused on the clothes and beautiful people that make up Fashion Week, one service group is recognizing a modeling agency that employs only HIV-positive models. Proof Positive Models, a division of The Morgan Modeling Agency, pays 225 men and women in
United Press International; Wednesday April 1 4:51 PM EST
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (UPI) _ If you are a man who prefers same-sex liaisons, your risk of contracting a debilitating cancer may rest on how active you ve been in the bedroom and for how long, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine. The study of 800 men by University of California, San Francisco,
United Press International; Friday March 27 4:14 PM EST
Michael Kirkland
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) _ Advocates for those with HIV or AIDS are mobilizing as the Supreme Court gets ready to hear argument on whether someone who is HIV-positive is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The act forbids discrimination against the disabled, defined as anyone with a physical or mental i
United Press International; Friday March 27 4:48 PM EST
Michael Kirkland
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) _ Jerry Heib remembers the terror and the confusion he felt. He started making out his will. He desperately needed a heart-valve operation. Without it he would die. But he says a group of surgeons were refusing to perform the operation _ which the chief surgeon called very bloody, very intens
United Press International; Wednesday March 25 3:25 PM EST
BOSTON, Mass., March 25 (UPI) _ A new nationwide study demonstrates that deaths due to HIV infection and deaths fell dramatically as aggressive drug therapy increased sharply. The number of HIV-related deaths decreased from almost 30 per 100 person-years in 1994 to about 9 per 100 by mid-1997. During the same time, pre
United Press International; Tuesday March 17 9:27 AM EST
Lori Valigra, UPI Science News
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 17 (UPI) _ The majority of African Americans 52 percent, according to a survey released today _ feel the AIDS crisis is the leading health problem facing the nation. And most African Americans in the survey say the problem has worsened in recent years. The study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Fou
United Press International; Thursday March 12 4:15 PM EST
TORONTO, March 12 (UPI) _ A Toronto doctor has lost his license after pleading guilty to charges of professional misconduct in helping two patients attempt suicide. Dr. Maurice Genereux appeared today before a five-member disciplinary panel of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He pleaded guilty to four
United Press International; Thursday March 5 12:04 AM EST
Heidi Dawley, UPI Science News
LONDON, March 6 (UPI) _ A woman in Germany has become infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, after undergoing artificial insemination with fresh sperm. The 35-year-old woman became ill three weeks after having the insemination. Three weeks after becoming ill she was diagnosed
United Press International; Thursday, March 05, 1998
Glenn Garelik, UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5 (UPI) -- An AIDS drug that had earlier received federal marketing approval as a medication that can reduce viral load has now received full government approval as effective in reducing actual illness and death. Indinavir , sold as
United Press International; Tuesday March 3 9:52 AM EST
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
BALTIMORE, Md., March 3 (UPI) _ A five-year education program to increase condom use in Thailand appears to have dramatically cut down on new cases of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infection. I haven t seen anything like this anywhere else in the world, said researcher David Celentano, a professor of heal
United Press International; Saturday February 14 6:33 PM EST
Mara Bovsun, UPI Science News
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14 (UPI) _ The first person to receive a bone marrow transplant from a baboon says his health has been declining for about a year, following a brief break in AIDS right after the procedure. Jeff Getty says after getting the bone marrow, his viral load dropped to undetectable levels and the cells of t
United Press International; Sunday February 8 1:17 PM EST
CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (UPI) _ Four out of 10 people infected with the AIDS virus may be putting their lovers at risk of AIDS because they keep their disease a secret, new research shows. In a study of 203 HIV-infected men and women, 40 percent of 129 who were sexually active did not tell their partners about their illness. O
United Press International; Thursday February 5 11:09 AM EST
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 5 (UPI) _ Illinois saw the fewest new cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome during 1997 in seven years. The Illinois Department of Public Health today said the 1,863 people who developed AIDS last year were a 15 percent drop from the 2,185 who contracted the deadly virus during 1996.
United Press International; Thursday February 5 2:02 AM EST
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (UPI) _ International researchers say an inexpensive drug used to treat cancer patients can also act as a potent weapon against AIDS. Doctors at the 5th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Chicago say today hydroxyurea not only helps knock down the virus to remission-like levels,
United Press International; Tuesday February 3 1:43 PM EST
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (UPI) _ Scientists say the AIDS epidemic most likely started in the former Belgian Congo around 1959. Researchers from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City analyzed the genetic code of a blood sample preserved for nearly 40 years and determined that the strain of HIV in that sample is
United Press International; Tuesday February 3 1:07 AM EST
BEIJING, Feb. 3 (UPI) _ China will step up supervision of blood donation clinics under a new campaign to curb HIV contamination in the nation s blood supply. Ministry of Health official Shen Jie ( Shen Jay ) says the government has vowed to end the transmission of HIV through blood plasma by the year 2000, while also l
United Press International; Monday February 2 5:44 PM EST
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UPI) _ Scientists say that AZT , the first drug approved for treatment of AIDS, may actually hinder the ability of newer AIDS drugs to effectively combat the disease. Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, suggests at the 5th Conference on Re
United Press International; Monday February 2 6:30 PM EST
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UPI) _ Government researchers say deaths from AIDS plummeted more than 40 percent during the first half of 1997, when compared to the same period in 1996. Scientists say the decline can be traced to new drugs rather than preventative messages. Terry Hammond, an HIV prevention specialist at the Centers
United Press International; Saturday January 31 4:06 PM EST
CHICAGO, Jan. 31 (UPI) _ A group of 200 volunteers who ve offered to risk their health to test a controversial AIDS vaccine is taking steps to secure care in the event they contract the disease. Members of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, the organization behind the campaign, are planning a str
United Press International; Saturday January 31 6:19 PM EST
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 (UPI) _ The Los Angeles County Health Department has placed its chief researcher on leave while trying to stem rumors that poor blacks would be unwittingly used in research on a vaccine for the AIDS virus. The Los Angeles Times reports today that Dr. Peter Kerndt s proposed study would help lay the
United Press International; Thursday January 29 6:53 PM EST
Mara Bovsun in New York
ATLANTA, Jan. 29 (UPI) _ New federal guidelines for treating sexually transmitted diseases say there are simple, effective treatments for common sexually transmitted diseases, but researchers warn that they won t help if doctors don t test their patients for these infections. The 1998 Guidelines for Treatment of Sexual
United Press International; Wednesday January 28 6:26 PM EST
Mara Bovsun in New York
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, (UPI) _ Researchers have used gene therapy to fight an AIDS-like disease in monkeys, showing for the first time that the approach works in primates. The investigators say this finding raises hopes for gene therapies that will successfully fight AIDS in humans, some of which are now being studied in t
United Press International; Wednesday January 28 12:38 PM EST
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Jan. 28 (UPI) _ Dozens of men, women and teenagers may never know whether they contracted the AIDS virus through a web of sex partners that began with a 33-year-old man fresh out of prison. So far 60 people have tested negative for the AIDS virus. But health officials say testing will continue for
United Press International; Monday January 26 5:57 PM EST
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 (UPI) _ Officials report a 60 percent increase in the employment of HIV-positive workers in San Francisco. The announcement, by ABC Positive Resource Center, a unique employment and financial benefits counseling agency for people with HIV, will be officially made Tuesday at the first AIDS Summit
United Press International; Saturday January 24 12:05 PM EST
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Jan. 24 (UPI) _ A federal jury has rejected the claims of a former Illinois inmate who said two prison staff members ignored his complaint of rape by other prisoners. The defeat Friday was the second blow for 28-year-old Michael Blucker, who claimed in his $3 million civil suit that he had contrac
United Press International; Thursday January 22 1:24 PM EST
Mara Bovsun in New York
ATLANTA, Jan. 22 (UPI) _ Federal health officials say AIDS in people over 50 is often overlooked because doctors and their patients view it as a disease of the young. Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta found that 13 percent of AIDS patients over age 50 die within a month of
United Press International; Wednesday January 21 10:08 PM EST
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 (UPI) _ Scientists say they ve found a gene may hold the key to understanding the development of AIDS _ and to treating the deadly disease. They say in the British journal Nature Wednesday the so-called nef gene apparently plays a key role in letting cells infected with the virus that causes acqu
United Press International; Wednesday January 21 1:24 PM EST
CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (UPI) _ A federal court suit accuses Mutual of Omaha of violating state and federal law and endangering the lives of subscribers by severely limiting coverage for HIV-related conditions. The suit was filed today by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the AIDS Council of Chicago on behalf of
United Press International; Tuesday January 20 8:19 PM EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) _ New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani reportedly sat on a study that recommended funding for needle exchange programs as a way to help stop the spread of AIDS. The New York Observer reports that the Mayor s Office of AIDS Policy Coordination completed the study, titled ``Needle Exchange Program
United Press International; Tuesday January 20 4:24 PM EST
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20 (UPI) _ Published reports say the Berkeley City Council may break the law to finance a needle exchange to stem the spread of HIV. The Contra Costa Times reports that Berkeley already provides $40,000 annually to a program called the Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution so the group can buy w
United Press International; Friday, January 09, 1998 13:42:00
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The first half of 1997 saw a whopping 60 percent plunge in AIDS deaths in California. The stunning statistics were released in a study by the California Department of Health Services. Doctors attribute the dramatic decline primarily to new anti-viral drugs and, to a lesser extent, increas
United Press International; Friday January 2 10:46 AM EST
METAIRIE, La., Jan. 2 (UPI) _ Louisiana prosecutors are pursuing charges against a 23-year-old woman they say knew she had the HIV virus when she had unprotected sex with a man without informing him of her condition. Jefferson Parish deputies say today that Jo Ann Lavigne has been released from jail on bond, but could
United Press International; Tuesday April 28 12:53 PM EDT
Michael Kirkland
WASHINGTON, April 28 (UPI) _ The lawyer for a Pennsylvania inmate with high blood pressure has told the Supreme Court that the Americans with Disabilities Act clearly protects state prisoners. The ADA bans discrimination against the disabled, and requires reasonable steps to accommodate the disabled. Attorney Donald Sp
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