Wade Lambert, Staff Writer The Wall Street Journal
A case that could change the way health-care workers deal with people with AIDS is scheduled to go to trial today in state court in Los Angeles. In the lawsuit, a surgical technician has accused a patient of fraud for not disclosing that she had AIDS before the technician was nicked by a scalpel used on the patient. Al
Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Federal scientists expanded clinical tests of two AIDS vaccines, which they plan to give to hundreds of volunteers. The vaccines were genetically engineered by Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco, Calif., and by Biocine, an Emeryville, Calif., joint venture of Chiron Corp. and Ciba-Geigy. Both products appeared free
Wade Lambert and Junda Woo, Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal
A New York state judge ruled that the parents of a man who died of AIDS can sue their son s longtime sex partner for allegedly giving him the disease. The lawsuit is one of the first in which an HIV-infected person has been accused under a wrongfuldeath law of passing on the virus that causes AIDS. But attorneys say mo
Helene Cooper, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
ATLANTA -- The Centers for Disease Control, in what some observers called a victory for women infected with the AIDS virus, proposed adding three illnesses -- including invasive cervical cancer -- to its planned expansion of the definition of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. In November 1991, the agency first propo
Grace M. Kang, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
After more than a decade of investigation by thousands of researchers world-wide, persistent mysteries remain in how AIDS devastates the body. Scientists, armed with the latest research from the recent international conference on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, are seeking to uncover the riddles of the human immun
Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
After more than a decade of investigation by thousands of researchers world-wide, persistent mysteries remain in how AIDS devastates the body. Scientists, armed with the latest research from the recent international conference on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, are seeking to uncover the riddles of the human immun
Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
AMSTERDAM -- The international AIDS conference -- a medical marathon stretching over five days and 5,000 medical studies -- will stagger to a close today after being overtaken by two reports that weren t even on its agenda. Conferees came to this city thinking that they knew the enemy: It was the human immunodeficiency
Your May 26 article on HIV vaccines was unduly pessimistic. It is true that the polymorphism of HIV, particularly in its envelope proteins, is likely to preclude the development of a perfect vaccine that would be 100% effective in the prevention or treatment of HIV infections. A large body of scientific evidence, howev
Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO -- Women with AIDS die sooner than men with the disease, perhaps because of poorer access to antiviral therapies, according to a new study. In a survey of nearly 10,000 patients, women had a median survival of 11.1 months, while men lived 14.6 months, after being diagnosed as having acquired immune defici
Michael Waldholz, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Last May, a small group of scientists met quietly at a university in Buffalo, N.Y., to exchange preliminary details of the first drugs discovered by major pharmaceutical companies that might treat AIDS. In laboratory studies, researchers at three large drug makers, unaware of one another s work, had developed remarkabl
Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
After almost a decade, the hope of an AIDS vaccine remains no more than that: a hope. Despite many ingenious vaccine models, successful animal studies and encouraging human safety trials, realizing the dream of a simple world-wide prevention strategy seems as distant as ever. What we d like is a sugar cube that you tak
HUMAN GROWTH hormone, an established treatment for dwarfism and an experimental treatment for aging, now is being tested against AIDS. Both growth hormone and a related protein called insulin-like growth factor are being tested in an attempt to replenish the body s stores of infection-fighting white blood cells. Such c
Milo Geyelin, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
A disabled truck mechanic who is suing for lost future earnings has been ordered to undergo testing for the virus that causes AIDS to help determine how long he is likely to live -- and thus how much compensation he should receive. The ruling was sought by the defendant in the suit, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whos
Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
A massive study of early AZT treatment appears to support the Wellcome PLC drug s role in prolonging the lives of people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. The new study tackles two controversies involving the drug: first, the question of whether AZT extends the lives of people with HIV or
Wade Lambert and Milo Geyelin, Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal
A decision by an influential state court could expose blood banks to liability for not protecting patients from AIDS in the early 1980s. Rejecting the idea that only professionals could evaluate medical standards, the Colorado Supreme Court said it is up to a jury of lay people to decide whether the blood-bank industry
Hilary Stout, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Madonna was there in rhinestone-studded leather. Barry Manilow sang. Luke Perry, heartthrob of TV s Beverly Hills 90210, spoke. Guests paid as much as $500 to attend and spent thousands more on jewelry auctioned by Christie s. The proceeds went to the American Foundation for AIDS Research, which raised $750,000 on this
Wade Lambert, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
In the first HIV-discrimination case brought by the federal government, an administrative-law judge ruled that a hospital can t restrict the work of a pharmacist infected with the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. And, applying the heaviest sanctions under the law, the judge ruled that hospitals th
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