United Press International - Friday, November 12, 1999
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- University of Minnesota researchers report the AIDS virus can hide and reproduce in the body s dormant T- cells, out of reach of drugs currently used to treat the disease. The researchers write in the Nov. 12 issue of Science that their findings overturn beliefs that the virus, which cause
United Press International - Friday, October 1, 1999
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A nationwide alert is in effect Friday for an Arkansas attorney who managed to sever an ankle bracelet and flee after he learned he would be charged with a second count of exposing another person to the virus that causes AIDS. Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley said Timo
United Press International - Wednesday, September 29, 1999
Ed Susman
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- New studies suggest that AIDS patients cannot sustain undetectable levels of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) if they stop aggressive drug therapy. Disappointed researchers today admitted that trials designed to see if patients could keep HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, suppresse
United Press International - Tuesday, September 28, 1999
Ed Susman
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Because new AIDS therapies appear to improve a patient s immune system, doctors suggest that AIDS patients can stop taking mediations to prevent certain disease-related infections. Researchers reported Monday that government-sponsored studies found the risk of contracting Mycobacterium
United Press International - Monday, August 9, 1999
BOSTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Authorities are trying to determine who discarded a hypodermic needle between seat cushions on an American Airlines plane in Boston that pricked a 13-year-old Texas teenager. The Boston Herald said today the boy had to be treated at Massachusetts General Hospital with the anti-AIDS drug cocktail
United Press International - Saturday, July 3, 1999
RICHMOND, Va., July 3 (UPI) -- A Virginia man acquitted of indecent exposure charges has filed a $5 million lawsuit, claiming police slandered him by sending a postcard recommending he be tested for AIDS. The Richmond Times-Dispatch today said police in Richmond are accused of sending a postcard to 50-year-old Johnny L
United Press International - Saturday, June 26, 1999
Ed Susman, UPI
SAN DIEGO, June 25 (UPI) -- Researchers say molecular testing of the AIDS virus before changing therapy allows doctors to select the best drug to overcome the ability of the virus to develop resistance to medication. Dr. John Mellors, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, said a new study showed that w
United Press International - Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (UPI) -- Scientists have determined the atomic structure of an important molecule which previous research has shown to be a target of the AIDS virus. The molecule, called clathrin, has the uncanny ability to assemble itself like so many Lego blocks inside the cell membrane so it can transport, uni
United Press International - Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Ed Susman
BOSTON, May 26 (UPI) -- The virus that causes AIDS may never be completely eradicated from infected patients. In a series of articles in Thursday s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers say the virus continues to mutate even when it can t be detected in a patient s blood as long as three years.
United Press International - Thursday, May 6, 1999
WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. announced it will spend $100 million over five years to fight AIDS in Africa -- the single largest corporate contribution ever made in this battle. At a news conference, company officers said the money would be used for research and community outreach in five countri
United Press International - Tuesday, May 04, 1999
MIAMI, Fla., May 4 (UPI) -- Prosecutors have decided not to file criminal charges against a school principal and a priest at a private school who are alleged to have forced a student to tell classmates she has the HIV virus. The Miami-Dade County State Attorney investigation revealed St. Francis Xavier Catholic School
United Press International - Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Ed Susman
BOSTON, April 28 (UPI) -- Medication to prevent pneumonia associated with AIDS can be stopped in many patients taking potent anti-viral drug regimens. Swiss researchers said Wednesday none of 262 patients taken off medication to prevent pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) suffered a bout
United Press International - Tuesday, April 27, 1999
Larry Schuster, UPI Science Editor
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- Researchers are reporting promising results in the development of an AIDS vaccine following successful tests in monkeys of a candidate vaccine that would be safe in humans. Researchers at Yerkes ( Yerk -EEZ ) Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta say today their three-year study in m
United Press International - Monday, April 26, 1999
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- AIDS patients would have to take powerful drug cocktails for at least six decades to be free of the virus that causes the deadly disease, suggests a disturbing new study. In another related report, scientists also found that these AIDS drugs, known as highly active anti-retroviral therapy
United Press International - Monday, April 26, 1999
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- Researchers are reporting promising results in the development of an AIDS vaccine following successful tests in monkeys of a candidate vaccine that would be safe in humans. Researchers at Yerkes ( Yerk -EEZ ) Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta say today their three-year study in m
United Press International - Thursday, April 22, 1999
Ed Susman
CANNES, France , April 22 (UPI) -- More than half the patients who receive routine treatment for infection with the AIDS virus suffer from disfiguring fat redistribution conditions. Researchers said today the largest study of the condition -- once considered just a curiosity of treatment with drugs which keep AIDS infe
United Press International - Tuesday, April 20, 1999
EUGENE, Ore., April 20 (UPI) -- A mother has been barred from breast- feeding her infant son because of the risk of infecting the child with the virus that causes AIDS. Lane County Circuit Court Judge Maurice Merton today supported a state decision that keeps Kathleen Tyson, who is HIV-positive, from breast-feeding her
United Press International - Tuesday, April 13, 1999
Nelson Del Castillo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico , April 13 (UPI) -- The trial in the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico over $2 million diverted from the now- defunct San Juan AIDS Institute has become like a novel that Puerto Ricans are following with alarm. Known as the Kouri Case, it takes its name from Cuban doctor Yamil Kouri, who heads th
United Press International - Monday, April 5, 1999
MAYVILLE, N.Y., April 5 (UPI) -- NuShawn Williams, the man who made national headlines after it was discovered he intentionally infected more than a dozen western New York woman with the HIV virus, has been sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison. The 22-year-old New York City native was sentenced today in Chauta
United Press International - Monday, April 5, 1999
AUSTIN, Texas, April 5 (UPI) -- An AIDS advocacy group says Texas must follow a new mandate by the Health Care Finance Administration to provide Medicaid reimbursement for a drug that treats AIDS wasting. The National Association of People with AIDS says Texas may no longer use a loophole in the Social Security Act tha
United Press International - Friday, April 02, 1999
BANGKOK, Thailand , April 2 (UPI) -- The AIDS epidemic is gaining momentum in Asia with 1.2 million new infections in 1998. Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ), told a press conference in Bangkok that over half of the new infections are people under 25 years of
United Press International - Monday, March 29, 1999
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 29 (UPI) -- For the third year in a row, the number of HIV-related deaths in Florida has dropped but blacks continue to lead in the number of deaths. HIV-related deaths dropped 19 percent last year and that togeather with a 39 percent decline in 1997 and a 29 percent drop in 1996 adds up to a 6
United Press International - Tuesday, March 23, 1999
GAINESVILLE, Fla. March 23 (UPI) -- Gainesville Police think an HIV- positive man who allegedly admitted having sex with 13 men without telling them about it probably had sex with more partners who are also unaware they were exposed. Four men who say they had sex with 26-year-old Dwayne Cole have tested negative for HI
United Press International - Monday, March 22, 1999
Michael Kirkland
WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court has heard argument on whether a military appeals court can keep the president and the military from kicking a commissioned officer out of the armed services. The case involves an HIV-positive, heterosexual Air Force major at a Texas base who disobeyed a commanding officer
United Press International - Thursday, February 18, 1999
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A 21-year-old New York City small-time drug dealer has pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment for having unprotected sex with a high school girl even though he knew he was infected with HIV. He faces a prison term of up to 6 years when he is sentenced on April 8. State health officials say N
United Press International - Thursday, February 18, 1999
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Fort Lauderdale man who has AIDS has filed a discrimination suit against his former employer. John Casselberry is asking for more than $1 million from North Broward Rehabilitation and Nursing Center for firing him after he submitted a request for a medical leave. The Center is
United Press International - Wednesday, February 17, 1999
FRESNO, Calif., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A California man who was convicted of marketing phony home kits to test for HIV disease has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Paul Seave says 51-year-old Larry Greene of Los Banos was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Fresno, where he was co
United Press International - Wednesday, February 17, 1999
LAFAYETTE, La., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A Louisiana doctor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for injecting his former lover with blood taken from an AIDS patient. Prosecutors alleged that Dr. Richard Schmidt injected Janice Trahan Allen with the tainted blood because she broke up with him. Allen later tested HIV positi
United Press International - Friday, February 12, 1999
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Three officers of the Jacksonville Housing Authority s Tenant Advisory Council are facing evictions. Authorities say an investigation concluded the trio paid themselves for work done in two government programs but failed to declare the income as part of the basis on which their rent
United Press International - Friday, February 12, 1999
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Since the beginnings of gene therapy, a major stumbling block to the successful treatment of genetic diseases has been delivering the genes to the body s defective cells without arousing the wrath of the immune system. Investigators at Duke University Medical Center now report they have e
United Press International - Friday, February 12, 1999
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The Duval County Health Department has been chosen as one of about 40 test sites nationwide for an experimental HIV vaccine. About 150 people at high risk of contracting the infection will be included in the study locally when it begins in a few weeks. They include female partners o
United Press International - Thursday, February 11, 1999
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- An Orange County high school television production teacher has been suspended with pay after a video featuring an animated condom talking about AIDS was broadcast schoolwide. The unauthorized video, which was made by students, starred a character named Mr. Condom who confronts a dying AI
United Press International - Wednesday, February 10, 1999
PARIS, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Victims in the French AIDS-tainted blood scandal trial say the defense of ignorance will not exonerate the three former senior government officials accused of manslaughter and criminal negligence. Former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and both his former health and former social affairs ministers
United Press International - Wednesday, February 10, 1999
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The Illinois Department of Public Health announced the number of new AIDS cases dropped by one-third across the state in 1998, continuing a downward trend that began four years ago. There were 1,256 new AIDS cases reported to authorities in 1998, down from 1,863 in 1997. It was the l
United Press International - Tuesday, February 09, 1999
PARIS, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, and former health and former social affairs ministers all began their trials in an AIDS blood scandal, which started 15 years ago, and resulted in the contamination of more than 4,000 people with the AIDS virus. Fabius is accused along with former Heal
United Press International - Tuesday, February 09, 1999
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The revelation that 37 percent of New York City s pediatric AIDS babies are Latino, has prompted Hale House to announce its Hispanic desk, along with its Prayer Parent Program, Thursday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. at 152 West 122 Street, Harlem. Roberto Clemente, Jr., one of America s prominent Hispan
United Press International - Thursday, February 04, 1999
Ed Susman
CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- As many as 28 percent of the people becoming infected with AIDS have virus strains that are already resistant to mainstays of treatment. These strains can be found in cities across the country, said Dr. Susan Little of the University of California, San Diego, at the 6th Conference on Retrovirus
United Press International - Thursday, February 04, 1999
Ed Susman
CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Doctors are trying to re-create the mysterious circumstances of the so-called Berlin patient, an AIDS virus-infected patient stopped taking his medication and has shown no change in virus growth in two years. At the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, researchers said t
United Press International - Wednesday, February 03, 1999
Ed Susman
CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- National Institutes of Health researchers say they have begun a study in which AIDS virus-infected patients discontinue drug treatment. Only patients whose bodies are able to suppress the virus in blood to undetectable levels for more than a year are being enrolled in the study, Dr. Anthony Fau
United Press International - Monday, January 25, 1999
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- More New Yorkers infected with HIV are growing old before they are diagnosed with AIDS. While the total number of AIDS cases diagnosed and reported to the city has dropped in recent years, the percentage of adults in their 40s, 50s and 60s developing the disease is on the rise. Medical expert
ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Infectious disease experts say that giving more AIDS patients powerful therapies might paradoxically result in more infections down the road. Sally Blower, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, said that as more peo
United Press International - Wednesday, January 20, 1999
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The number people dying of AIDS or HIV in Illinois has fallen to its lowest level in a decade. Illinois Department of Public Health officials today said there were 569 deaths related to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or HIV in Illinois during 1997, down from 1,186 deaths in 1996
United Press International - Thursday, January 14, 1999
Lori Valigra
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- By taking a new approach to using a key HIV virus protein, University of Montana scientists have developed an experimental HIV vaccine that generates an immune response to a broader range of HIV virus subtypes than earlier vaccines. The work is still in a very early stage, with experiments
United Press International - Wednesday, January 13, 1999
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A new report says women who have been mugged, raped or physically assaulted are at increased risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus. Researchers report today that among inner city black women, those infected with HIV were two to five times more likely to have been victims of viole
United Press International - Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Ed Susman
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- In laboratory experiments, scientists are using a new form of therapy to make AIDS-infected cells commit molecular suicide. If animal studies continue to show promise, protein therapy in humans could begin within two years, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, sa
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