1990

"HIV Infection: Why the Long Latent Period?": Nature (11/29/90) Vol. 348, No. 6300, P. 388; Bangham, Charles R. M., and McMichael, Andrew J.; New research suggests that progression to AIDS in HIV disease may be the result of an increase in the number of immunological variants above a critical threshold, write Charles Bangham and Andrew McMichael of Oxford University. In the journal AIDS, they report, Nowak and colleagues use a simple model to explain the l
"Government Acts Against AIDS-Based Job Discrimination": United Press International (12/28/90); Bass, Janet; Washington--An HIV-infected pharmacist has won a landmark case on the New York state level protecting his right as a disabled person to be protected from employment-related discrimination. The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services said a hospital violated the pharmacist s rights when
"AIDS and the Danger of Complacency": Baltimore Sun (12/28/90), P. 15A; Power, Jonathan; There s a dangerous loss of momentum in the AIDS battle caused by complacency, writes Jonathan Power in the Baltimore Sun. AIDS is getting less press coverage and less money, as critics have charged that the disease gets a disproportionate share of funds. This dangerous lull in the battle is troubling, he writes, be
"Doctors with AIDS": Washington Post (12/28/90), P. A19; Hentoff, Nicholas; The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) should recommend mandatory HIV testing for health care workers who perform invasive procedures as an employment standard to protect the right of a helpless patient not to be subjected to any unnecessary health risks, writes Nicholas Hentoff, a Phoenix lawyer, in the Washington Pos
"AIDS in Women Rising, But Many Ignore the Threat": New York Times (12/28/90), P. B1; Navarro, Mireya; In New York City, reported AIDS cases among women are growing faster than those among men, and cases attributed to heterosexual transmission are rising faster than those attirbuted to IV drug use, according to federal officials. However, AIDS prevention workers say many women still do not perceive themselves as at ri
"Seroprevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection at Sentinel" Hospitals: New England Journal of Medicine (12/27/90) Vol. 323, No. 26, P. 1843; Shih, Deborah P., et al.; Cord blood samples from parturient women in Durham, North Carolina, showed an HIV-positive rate higher than the national average as estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and significantly higher than similar studies from New York, Massachusetts, and California, report Deborah Shih and colleagues of the Duke Uni
"AIDS Group Claims Discrimination; But Morticians Defend Extra Charges": United Press International (12/27/90); San Antonio--Some mortuaries in San Antonio may be charging more to embalm people who die of AIDS, according to a complaint filed with the Texas Division of Consumer Affairs. The San Antonio AIDS Foundation telephoned 30 area mortuaries and learned four charge extra for AIDS, which is nothing but discrimination, the
"Plaintiff in Texas AIDS Suit vs. Insurer Dies": United Press International (12/27/90); Houston--Cathy Goodwin, who filed suit in federal court to order her insurance company to reinstate her coverage, died Wednesday at age 38. Goodwin alleged the insurer, Life Insurance Co. of the Southwest, terminated her coverage when it learned she had AIDS. Her death renders her potentially groundbreaking lawsuit
"Prevention of Nosocomial HIV Infection in the Soviet Union--An" International Responsibility: New England Journal of Medicine (12/27/90) Vol 323, No. 26, P. 1844; Gellert, George; The international community must not wait for political and economic reform in the Soviet Union to decrease the risk of nosocomial HIV transmission, writes George Gellert of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Official denial of health-care problems carrying a negative stigma, the fact that homosexua
"Activists Call for Expanded Definition of AIDS in Women": Los Angeles Times (12/27/90), P. A5; Cimons, Marlene; AIDS activists are now demanding that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) widen its definition of AIDS to include severe gynecological symptoms in women. At a recent two-day conference in Washington and in a class-action suit filed against Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan on behalf of women with H
"Artist Wants Mural to Comfort AIDS Patients": Washington Post (12/27/90), P. DC1; Portner, Jessica; After Washington, D.C.,-area resident Victoria Russell, a 36-year-old graphic designer, joined a candlelight vigil for AIDS patients outside the White House in October 1989, she decided she wanted to recapture the energy of the thousands who gathered to show support and push for a nationwide effort against AIDS. She
"U.S. Rejects Higher Payments to AIDS Nursing Home": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/27/90), P. 3B; Tofani, Loretta; The Department of Health and Human Services has refused to reimburse the proposed Betak nursing home for AIDS patients at a higher rate than other homes, despite the fact that the Mount Airy, Pa., site would offer extra services. Betak cannot open to AIDS patients without additional funds, its board says, and may hav
"Side Effects are Danger in Doctors with AIDS": New York Times (12/27/90), P. A18; Klein, Mark I.; The greatest risk to a patient posed by a physician with HIV is not virus transmission but cognitive impairment and emotional problems caused by the disease, writes Dr. Mark Klein of Berkeley, Calif., in a letter to the New York Times. In response to Doctor s AIDS Death Renews Debate on Who Should Know, (12/8, P. A
"Genetic Engineering May Cut Risk of Blood Infection in Hemophilia": New York Times (12/27/90), P. A16; Recent large-scale tests of recombinant factor VIII, a genetically engineered blood-clotting agent, suggests it works as well as natural factor VIII derived from blood plasma. The finding suggests that hemophilia patients and others could be spared the risk of blood-borne diseases such as HIV. In the current New Eng
"AIDS Testing of Doctors Is Crux of Thorny Debate": New York Times (12/27/90), P. A1; Altman, Lawrence K.; Vigorous debate among health care workers, AIDS activists, and policy-makers now centers on mandatory testing of health-care workers for HIV, particularly those who perform invasive procedures, such as surgeons and dentists. Although the risk of practitioner-to-patient HIV transmission is extremely remote, the recent
"AIDS This Week: Doing the PWA-Rag": OutWeek (12/26/90) No. 78, P. 24; Coleman, Paul Rykoff; James Magner gets shuttled around between prisons quite a bit of the time--in shackles--because he has AIDS and will not be quiet about it. He calls being transported around in a bus diesel therapy --it s the federal prison system s answer to AIDS activists and other troublemakers. He says he has also endured solit
"Cofactor Question Divides Codiscoverers of HIV": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/26/90) Vol. 264, No. 24, P. 3111; Cotton, Paul; HIV codiscoverers Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier cannot agree on the role of cofactors in development of AIDS, even at a recent meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, at which the two received a joint award for improving the safety of the blood supply. Gallo says certain viruses, such as HTLV-I and HHV-
"A Surgeon with AIDS": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/26/90) Vol. 264, No. 24, P. 3147; Fulghum, James S.; Although the July 25th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association deals with several issues surrounding the AIDS crisis, including the question of a physician s responsibilty to disclose HIV infection, nowhere is the risk of neurologically impaired physicians discus
"Legal Expert on AIDS Fights Fear, Workplace Bias": Los Angeles Times (12/26/90), P. B1; Steinbrook, Robert; David I. Schulman, perhaps the nation s first full-time AIDS anti-discrimation lawyer in government, is a self-described AIDS expert who addresses the issue of fear on a daily basis. As the supervising attorney for the AIDS/HIV discrimination unit of the Los Angeles city attorney s office, he investigates discriminat
"Metropolitan Area News in Brief: Rutgers Gets $3.5 Million from U.S. for" AIDS Program: Philadelphia Inquirer (12/26/90), P. 2B; The U.S. government has granted Rutgers University $3.5 million for a five-year project to help New Jersey colleges set up AIDS prevention education classes and policies, as well as studies to assess attitudes and behaviors, and to increase AIDS awareness in elementary and secondary schools. In the war against AIDS,
"Responding to the Crisis": New York Times (12/26/90), P. A30; Elahi, E.H.; Contrary to John Hale s statements in Imagine, 7,137,360 Condoms (Times Op-Ed, 12/18) Planned Parenthood of New York City does not sell contraceptives to organizations and would not make a tidy profit supplying condoms to high schools for distribution to teenagers, writes E.H. Elahi, medical director of Planned Par
"Orphan Drug Veto Heats up Lobbying": Washington Post (12/26/90), P. E15; Anderson, Jack, and Van Atta, Dale; Intense Congressional lobbying to water down the bill to amend the Orphan Drug Act backfired when President Bush vetoed the toothless resultant legislation, write Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta for the Washington Post. The 1983 Orphan Drug Act encouraged the development of drugs that otherwise would not exist for ra
"AIDS Protest Disrupts Christmas Mass": Washington Post (12/26/90), P. B6; Sanchez, Carlos; About seven members of ACT UP/D.C. yesterday staged a protest during Christmas Mass at St. Mary s Catholic Church in Washington because the church recently decided to end workshops for AIDS patients. One protester said he was beaten by parishoners, but the Rev. Aldo Petrini, who conducted the Mass, denied the allegat
"What Do We Really Know About Norplant?": Washington Post (12/26/90), P. A24; El-Bayoumi, J.; Norplant may offer freedom from the responsibility of pregnancy, but it won t protect against AIDS, writes J. El-Bayoumi, assistant professor of internal medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., in a letter to the Washington Post. As a physician who works in the District area, El
"Talking Points: Sullivan, Roskens to Tour Africa to Assess AIDS, Child" Welfare: Washington Post (12/26/90), P. A23; Lardner, George Jr., and Rich, Spencer; Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan and Agency for International Development administrator Ronald Roskens will fulfill President Bush s promise to the United Nations when they visit Africa on a 17-day fact-finding mission to study child health and the impact of AIDS in Africa. Sullivan, Roskens, and a
"Merits and Milestones": Telephony (12/24/90) Vol. 219, No. 27, P. 25; Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., which has been studying applications of its electronics technology to medicine, has used a laser magnetic immune-assay to successfully detect HIV antigen in AIDS patients blood. This laser magnetic immunity measurement is highly sensitive and can simply and accurately detect sma
"Studies Cite Patterns Patterns in Teen Sex": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/24/90), P. 6C; Kochakian, Mary Jo; Teenagers who are lonely or under stress are most likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, as are those who smoked or drank at an early age, according to two studies of teens reported at a recent meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Parents need to inform themsevles about AIDS and sex
"Around the Region: College Study Links Alcohol, Unsafe Sex": Washington Post (12/24/90), P. B5; Thirty-eight percent of students in a study at eight Virginia colleges said alcohol was linked to an unprotected sexual encounter, Randolph Canterbury and collageus of the University of Virginia substance abuse studies institute reported. The survey of 3,751 students found a direct link between alcohol consumption an
"Zambia Maintains Sense of Perspective over AIDS": Financial Times (12/24/90), P. 3; Hall, Mike; AIDS is a big topic in Zambia , as government and voluntary groups work to eradicate HIV in an atmosphere of changing attitudes and greater openness. On World AIDS Day, the Ministry of Health publicized safe sex messages in posters, on radio and television, and in condom giveaways,
"Top Regulator of AIDS Drugs Quits Her Post": Wall Street Journal (12/24/90); Chase, Marilyn; Dr. Ellen Cooper, director of the Food and Drug Administration s antiviral drug division for the past three years, has resigned her post and asked for transfer because of battle fatigue and burnout. Cooper has been the nation s top AIDS drug regulator and a major target of AIDS activists, some of whom, including Proj
"Health Problems of Inner City Poor Reach Crisis Point": New York Times (12/24/90), P. 1; Rosenthal, Elisabeth; In the late 1980s and 1990, worsening urban poverty, poor sanitation, overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and poor nutrition produced epidemics of illness among residents of U.S. inner cites after decades of gradual urban health improvement. Epidemics of sexually transmitted disease,
"AIDS Vaccine: Hope and Despair": Lancet (12/22-29/90) Vol. 336, No. 8730, P. 1545; Recent trial results from the U.K. National Institute for Biological Standards and Control and the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research indicate that a vaccine to prevent and possibly cure AIDS will be developed, write the editors of the Lancet. The researchers set up a system to detect SIV infection and moni
"HIV-1, Hepatitis (A, B, and C), and Measles in Romanian Children": Lancet (12/22-29/90) Vol. 336, No. 8730, P. 1592; Rudin, Ch., et al.; Blood samples from 169 children of different ages from orphanages and hospitals in Pascani, Romania , reflected general trends among children in such places across the country: high HIV and hepatitis infection rates, report Ch. Rudin and colleagues of the University of Basel,
"HIV in the Theatre": Lancet (12/22-29/90) Vol. 336, No. 8730, P. 1574; Surgeons share concern over possibility of exposure to HIV, write the editors of the Lancet. What is known about the risks is inadequate, as are available precautions. At a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, Nov. 28, surgeons disagreed on how many cases of HIV infection exist among health-care workers
"1990 Sees Advance Against AIDS": Reuter (12/21/90); Scientists failed to find a cure for AIDS in 1990, but they did see a drop in AIDS cases among homosexual men, found effective AIDS vaccines for monkeys and chimps, and saw the development of a number of new drugs. There is still an upbeat tone, said chief of federal AIDS vaccine research Dr. Wayne Koff. Scientist
"U.S. Officials to Visit Africa to Assess AIDS, Child Programs": Reuter (12/21/90); Louis Sullivan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services along with Ronald Roskens of the U.S. Agency for International Development will be travelling to eight African countries to evaluate their AIDS and children s health programs. The researchers will meet with African leaders and health care w
"Immune Response, Rhone Invest in AIDS Venture": Investor's Daily (12/21/90), P. 17; Immune Response Corp. and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc. will invest an addition $4 million in the companies joint venture to develop and test AIDS drugs, Immune Response announced yesterday. The joint venture currently sponsors tests of an immune-booster drug in 100 HIV patients nat
"IAF, Glaxo Sign Pact to Develop AIDS Drug": Investor's Daily (12/21/90), P. 33; IAF BioChem International yesterday joined with Glaxo Holdings PLC to develop and globally market BCH-189, an experimental drug for AIDS. Glaxo and BioChem will jointly market the drug in Canada , and Glaxo will be the exclusive distributor in the Unite
"Merck Develops Drug to Combat Virus Causing AIDS; Human Tests Begun": Wall Street Journal (12/21/90), P. A3; Waldholz, Michael; Merck + Co. said it has developed a new type of drug that deactivates HIV reverse transcriptase in a way different from AZT and has already begun testing the drug in humans. The drug is also different from the reverse transcriptase blocker
"World Wire: Growing Threat to World Health": Wall Street Journal (12/21/90), P. A8; Mathewson, William; The World Health Organization (WHO) said sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, are epidemic in developed and developing countries around the world. Andre Meheus, chief medical officer of the WHO Program of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, said 250 million or more infections with
"Hospital Accused of Keeping 2 AIDS Patients in Hallway": New York Times (12/21/90), P. B1; Morgan, Thomas; New York University Medical Center faces charges of discrimination brought by two AIDS patients who were kept on beds in emergency room hallways because the hospital s policy did not allow them to share private rooms with patients with other illnesses. New York City s Human Rights Commission accused the hospital yest
"Petition Seeks to Speed Approval of AIDS Drugs": New York Times (12/21/90), P. A31; Kolata, Gina; AIDS activists have tried a new tactic to speed approval of experimental drugs: about 200 doctors and advocates have signed a citizen s petition urging the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to ask the drug makers of ddI and
"HIV Infection: Haemophiliacs Win Compensation": Nature (12/20-27/90) Vol. 348, No. 6303, P. 667; Aldhous, Peter; U.K. Prime Minister John Major recently announced that HIV-infected hemophiliacs would receive a further $42 million pounds as settlement of their negligence suit against the National Health Service. The Haemophilia Society welcomed the settlement as a tacit admission of legal responsibility, because the government h
"Drug Abuse Down? Not in Inner City, Experts Say": Associated Press (12/20/90); McShane, Larry; President Bush s statistics on decreasing drugs use ignore the inner city, where the homeless and poor continue to use drugs, according to drug-treatment experts. Directors of drug treatment centers, politicians, and prosecutors disputed the president s report yesterday, saying inner city drug treatment centers conti
"An AIDS Rally Seeks Faster Testing of Drugs": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/20/90), P. 3B; Copeland, Larry; Activists groups around the country joined yesterday in a protest to demand faster approval Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) approval of ddI and ddC , two experimental AIDS drugs shown to be effective in
"Mayors Report Surge in Emergency Food, Shelter Requests": Washington Post (12/20/90), P. A17; Rich, Spencer; Requests from homeless people for food and emergency shelter have risen by an average of 24 percent in 30 major cities in the last year, the U.S. Conference of Mayors reported yesterday. Requests for emergency food aid rose 22 percent as the economy slumped, the report said. The mayors survey found that 80 percent
"Lab Notes: New Contraceptives Use Sperm-Killing Antibodies": Wall Street Journal (12/20/90), P. B1; Waldholz, Michael; Johns Hopkins University researchers have used antibodies in a contraceptive to prevent pregnancy and perhaps fight sexually transmitted diseases. Based on the finding that some couples are infertile because women produce antibodies that deactivate their partners sperm, researchers Richard Cone and Kevin Whaley prod
"New York School Board Members Clash on Plan to Distribute Condoms": New York Times (12/20/90), P. B4; Berger, Joseph; The New York City Board of Education yesterday debated the plan to distribute condoms in city high schools and a controversial AIDS education booklet that board vice president Irene Impellizzeri said would encourage students to have anal intercourse. The brochure, produced by the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Gay and
"AIDS This Week: U.S. Begins Vaccine Trial": OutWeek (12/19/90) No. 77, P. 26; Coleman, Paul Rykoff; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) recently sanctioned human trials of Immuno-Aq, an experimental AIDS vaccine made from recombinant gp160, an HIV surface molecule. The National Institutes of Health developed the vaccine and will conduct trials for safety and immune efficacy at f
"Resident Forum: Resident Disability Insurance": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/19/90) Vol. 264, No. 23, P. 3070; Kulick, Belle; The American Medical Association (AMA) discussed disability insurance policies for residents and medical students at risk for HIV and ratified several reports that recommended HIV education, prevention, and affordable disability coverage at its 1990 annual meeting. The body adop
"FTC OKs Consent Agreement Allowing Roche to Acquire Genentech": Associated Press (12/19/90); Nelson, W. Dale; Washington--The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it would allow Roche Holding Ltd. to acquire a controlling interest in Genentech Inc. if it issued U.S. licenses for its AIDS treatment patents. The acquisition of Genentech, a leading biotechnology firm, by Roche, a Swiss pharmace
"Rutgers Gets $3.5 Million Grant for AIDS Education": United Press International (12/19/90); Trenton, N.J.--The Centers for Disease Control has selected Rutgers University as one of five schools across the country to receive a grant for AIDS education. Rutgers officials said the $3.5 million federal grant would be used for a five-year effort to educate high school and college students about HIV transmission
"UNICEF Asks Leaders to 'Keep the Promise' to the World's Children": Reuter (12/19/90); Leopold, Evelyn; United Nations--UNICEF today released its State of the World s Children report, in which the U.N. organization said millions of children depend on the promises of world leaders to invest in feeding and caring for them. The report said that although hard-won gains in nutrition and child health have been made, AIDS thr
"AIDS-Related Claims Rose 37.7 Percent in 1989, Study Shows": Journal of Commerce (12/19/90), P. 9A; Goldberg, Jerry; AIDS-related insurance claims in the individual and group markets rose to $1.1 billion in 1989, a 37.7 percent increase over 1988, according to a survey of 548 insurers conducted by A.M. Best Co. One half (53.4 percent) of all life and health insurance claims were made by HIV-positive individuals in California, New Y
"Hospital, Family Doctor, and Benefactor": New York Times (12/19/90), P. B1; Stanley, Alessandra; At the Bronx- Lebanon Hospital in the South Bronx, New York, the area s residents--most of whom live in poverty--can obtain medical care regardless of ability to pay. The facility also offers a variety of other community services, including, drug
"Court Rejects HIV-Test Ban for Insurance": New York Times (12/19/90), P. B1; Sack, Kevin; New York State s Court of Appeals yesterday unanimously struck down an Insurance Department rule that prohibited use of HIV tests by individual and small group health insurers. The ruling by the state s highest court upheld a lower court decision that the State Superintendent of Insurance did not have the power to is
"Money, Staff Woes Hit Big Los Angeles Minority AIDS Group": Advocate (12/18/90) No. 566, P. 36; Ocamb, Karen; The Los Angeles Minority AIDS Project (MAP), a prominent AIDS agency, faces debts of $150,000 to vendors and $70,000 to the Internal Revenue Service in payroll back taxes. The MAP serves a caseload of 186 poor, minority people with HIV on a budget of more than $1 million, 75 percent of which is provided by federal, s
"Blacks' Mistrust of Doctors Slows AIDS Treatment": United Press International (12/18/90); Baltimore--At a meeting of the National Commission on AIDS Monday, black doctors and AIDS activists said blacks distrust of doctors prevents them from seeking HIV tests and getting early treatment. The two-day meeting was designed to gather testimony on the effects of AIDS on the black community. Blacks are alienat
"Trojan Wars: Will the City's AIDS Education be as Good As Its Sex Ed?" You'd Better Hope Not: Village Voice (12/18/90) Vol. 35, No. 51, P. 11; Houppert, Karen; Even proponents of New York City s plan to distribute condoms in high schools want to see some kind of counseling given with the contraceptives. However, if comprehensive AIDS education in the schools is deemed enough to educate these kids, everything will not work out okay in the end, writes Karen Houppert in the Vi
"AIDS Story Is Fiction But It's Full of Facts": New York Times (12/18/90), P. C22; O'Connor, John J.; Prime-time television may finally be coming out of the closet with tonight s installment of Life Stories, NBC s compelling drama, writes John O Connor in the New York Times. Network television has been unforgivably silent about the AIDS epidemic unless the subject is children or hemophiliacs, neglecting IV drug use
"Vital Statistics: How People Find Out About Sex": Washington Post (Health) (12/18/90), P. 5; Adults are most likely to ask their physicians about sex and children will usually choose a friend first, according to a study the Roper Organization conducted last year. In 1,974 personal interviews, this survey on sexual literacy found that 40 percent of adults over 18 said they would ask a doctor or nurse for info
"Phila. AIDS Office to Replace Condoms That Were Recalled": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/18/90), P. 2B; The Philadelphia Health Department s AIDS Coordinating Office (AAC)) will replace 390,000 recalled Crown condoms with an equal number of Safetex condoms, which the office will distribute to clinics beginning at the end of the month. The AACO has also procured a large shipment of LifeStyle condoms that should be avail
"Imagine, 7,137,360 Condoms": New York Times (12/18/90), P. A25; Hale, John P.; There are certain educational, environmental, and financial problems with Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez s plan to distribute condoms in New York City high schools, writes John P. Hale, a lawyer who frequently does legal work for the New York Archdiocese, in an open letter to Fernandez partially reprinted in the
"AIDS Prevention Group Plans Needle-Exchange Phone Line": New York Times (12/18/90), P. A18; An AIDS-prevention program in Pierce County, Wash., would establish a telephone hotline next month that IV drug users could call when they need sterile syringes. Under the proposed plan, a van would arrive in minutes with clean needles once a user calls. David Purchase, the plan s author, says he hopes drug users wo
"Around the Nation: Restaurant Complies with New Condom Law": Washington Post (12/18/90), P. A6; Cambridge, Mass., has a new anti-HIV ordinance, set to take effect in a year, that requires all hotels, motels, restaurants, and bars to install condom vending machines. The new law may be the only one of its kind in the nation, city officials and AIDS activists say. John Clifford s Green Street Grill in Central Squ
"ACT UP Is Leery of FDA's Plan for Fraud Unit": Advocate (12/18/90) No. 566, P. 26; Harding, Rick; ACT UP opposes the Food and Drug Administration s ( FDA ) AIDS fraud project because the group thinks FDA officials will try to limit the availability of nontraditional medicine under the guise of eliminating quack remedies. ACT UP members say FDA officials should not be the ones to de
"Residents Pose As Prostitutes to Distribute AIDS Information": Associated Press (12/17/90); Chicago--In Uptown Chicago, residents wearing heavy makeup and posing as hookers have been handing out information about AIDS prevention. The neighborhood has 500 AIDS cases, the second-highest population in the city, according to the Health Department. About 25 area volunteers have joined the effort, which AIDS adv
"World Health Organization Boycotts AIDS Conference": Associated Press (12/17/90); Bangkok, Thailand--The World Health Organization (WHO) is boycotting a five-day meeting on AIDS in developing countries that opened in Bangkok yesterday because Thailand has banned HIV-infected people from entering the country to attend. Princess Chulabhorn, director of the Chulabhorn
"American Scene--New York City: A Beacon on Lonely Street": Time (12/17/90) Vol. 136, No. 26, P. 14; Levy, Daniel S.; Teen prostitutes in the South Bronx, one of the country s poorest areas, are nearly all drug addicts. Most have severe medical problems and many are regularly beaten by their customers. They stake out street corners, empty parks, and abandoned buildings and call them home. These homeless runaways-- throwaway youth
"In Brief: Donated Blood and AIDS Risk": Los Angeles Times (12/17/90), P. B3; A study of heart surgery patients designed to gauge the risk of HIV infection from donated blood has found a one-in-40,315 chance of infection from a blood transfusion. James Donahut and colleagues of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health found last year that one in every 36,282 pints of blood was con
"No Such Study": New York Times (12/17/90), P. A16; Rosoff, Jeannie I.; The Alan Guttmacher Institute has conducted no study indicating that youngsters increased sexual activity when given access to condoms, writes Jeannie Rosoff, President of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, in a letter to the New York Times. In the Times report of Joseph Fernandez s plan to distribute condoms in New York
"Surgeon Questions Link Between Operation, AIDS": Baltimore Sun (12/17/90), P. 1A; Baer, Susan; Dr. William Knapper, senior surgeon at the operation during which Dr. Rudolph Almaraz is believed to have contracted HIV, said that at no point in his surgical career was there any accident-related risk of AIDS to him or his colleagues. Knapper, in a statement to the Sun, said he did not remember the specifics of the
"Legal Beat: Cap on Health Benefits to AIDS Patients is Barred, Indiana" Official Rules: Wall Street Journal (12/17/90), P. B6; Geyelin, Milo, and Niebuhr, R. Gustav; Paul DePrez, a hearing officer of Indiana s Civil Rights Commission, ruled that a cap on insurance benefits paid out to AIDS patients under Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc. s health plan discriminates against the disabled. DePrez rejected the company s claim that the benefits cap, which restricts AIDS patients life
"Gay Life, Gay Death: The Siege of a Subculture": New Republic (12/17/90) Vol. 203, No. 25, P. 19; Sullivan, Andrew; Contrary to forging a community among gay men, AIDS has unmistakably widened the rifts, writes Andrew Sullivan of the New Republic. The already extant social, radical, and politicial divisions have been cruelly exposed as AIDS has made death less an event than an environment, dividing the sick and healthy, the HIV-
"Dying for Dollars": New Republic (12/17/90) Vol. 203, No. 25, P. 7; AIDS may get a disproportionate share of U.S. biomedical research dollars in purely numerical terms, but in real terms AIDS is one of the only areas of research that is even adequately funded, write the editors of the New Republic. Rather than criticize AIDS activists for securing sufficient monies through effective
"Extrapulmonary Pneumocystosis in Patients Taking Aerosolised Pentamidine": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1454; Northfelt, Donald W.; Because pentamidine received via aerosol does not result in systemic distribution, it cannot be expected to suppress extrapulmonary Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) infection, writes Donald W. Northfelt of San Francisco General Hospital. A review of patients who received prop
"AMA Body Urges Increased HIV Testing": Gay Community News (12/16-22/90) Vol. 18, No. 22, P. 1; Briggs, Laura; The American Medical Association s (AMA) House of Delegates voted Dec. 5 to reclassify AIDS as a sexually-transmitted disease, which would make HIV infection eligible for contact tracing by state health departments and mandate reporting of names in many states. The resolutions, which urge contact tracing and would al
"Doctors Divided over AIDS Threat to Pakistan": United Press International (12/16/90); Barraclough, Colin; Karachi, Pakistan--Pakistan faces an epidemic of HIV infection from expatriate workers from the Persian Gulf region, but some physicians hamper the fight against AIDS by staunchly adhering to the belief that sex, drug use, and homosexuality do not threaten this Moslem country. Until the invasion of
"Extrapulmonary Pneumocystosis in Patients Taking Aerosolised Pentamidine": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1454; Northfelt, Donald W.; Because pentamidine received via aerosol does not result in systemic distribution, it cannot be expected to suppress extrapulmonary Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) infection, writes Donald W. Northfelt of San Francisco General Hospital. A review of patients who received prop
"A Condom Too Far": Economist (12/15-21/90) Vol. 317, No. 7685, P. 27; ACT UP may go too far in its campaign for unrestricted distribution of condoms in New York City high schools, write the editors of the Economist. Their disruptive pressure tactics have proven very effective at encouraging the U.S. government to speed approval of new drugs for terminal patients, but their extremism ma
"No Evidence for HIV-2 Infection in Uganda": Lancet (12/15/90) Vol. 336, No. 8729, P. 1514; Downing, Robert G., and Biryahwaho, Benon; Serum samples from 40 sites across Uganda , as well as from the Rakai District, show no evidence of HIV-2 infection despite the high risk of acquiring HIV-1, write Robert Downing and Benon Biryahwaho of the Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe. Slim disease, the manifestation
"Heterosexual Transmission of HIV-1 in Women in Austria": Lancet (12/15/90) Vol. 336, No. 8729, P. 1514; Piribauer, Franz, and Zangerle, Robert; Heterosexual transmission of HIV is increasing slowly but steadily in Austria , particularly among women, report Franz Piribauer and Robert Zangerle of Osterreichische AIDs-Hilfe (OeAH), and University of Innsbruck, Austria. Nearly 5 percent of new clients seeking HIV tests at OeA
"AIDS: Long Research Road Still Looms Ahead": Science News (12/15/90) Vol. 138, No. 24, P. 375; Weiss, R.; Three recent basic research reports in the journal Science indicate that management of HIV remains elusive, though positive strides have been made. Researchers from Repligen Corp. identified a chain of six amino acids which, when used to vaccinate guinea pigs, induced antibodies that neutralized widely divergent str
"Noticeboard: Us and Them--Reality and Fantasy with HIV": Lancet (12/15/90) Vol. 336, No. No. 8729, P. 1501; Personal testimonials and a commercial urging condom use will mark the third phase of the United Kingdom s Health Education Authority s (HEA) anti-HIV media advertising campaign, the editors of the Lancet write. Previous ads featured experts giving factual information about AIDS to show that HIV is a real public-heal
"Anthropology: Glimpses of AIDS and Male Prostitution": Science News (12/15/90) Vol. 138, No. 24, P. 380; Bower, Bruce; In-depth interviews with 14 male prostitutes and 11 of their clients over a 13-month period indicate that hustlers risk HIV infection mainly through IV drug use and unpaid same-sex encounters, D. Scott Wilson of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque reported at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological
"Parallel Track: Where Should It Intersect Science?": Science (12/14/90) Vol. 250, No. 4987, P. 1505; Skerrett, P.J.; At the Expedited Access to Unproven Pharmaceuticals: Risk, Regulation, and Personal Autonomy conference last month, activists and researchers sharply debated the parallel track and how much or how little data should be collected under a system designed to make promising therapies available to terminally ill people
"Secretion of Neurotoxins by Mononuclear Phagocytes Infected with HIV-1": Science (12/14/90) Vol. 250, No. 4987, P. 1593; Giulian, Dana, et al.; Activated mononuclear phagocytes (microglial cells, macrophages, and others), the principle targets for HIV-1 in the central nervous system (CNS), may release toxic substances that destroy neurons and cause the neurologic complications associated with AIDS, write Dana Giulian and colleagues of the Baylor College of Me
"Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Elicited by the Hypervariable" Neutralizing Determinant of HIV-1: Science (12/14/90) Vol. 250, No. 4987, P. 1590; Javaherian, Kashi, et al.; A vaccine made up of synthetic amino acid residues from the principal neutralizing determinant (PND) within the V3 loop of HIV-1 neutralized a wide array of HIV isolates, report Kashi Javaherian and colleagues of Repligen Corp. The sequence used produced cross-neutralizing antibodies for randomly selected and diverge
"Half a Decision on Health Care for the Poor": New York Times (12/14/90), P. B1; Kerr, Peter; As concern rose that legislative inaction might force New Jersey s hospital system into financial crisis, the State Senate yesterday passed a bill to extend the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund, scheduled to expire at the month s end, for 90 days. The debt-ridden fund reimburses hospitals that care for some of the 1 mill
"AIDS and a Hospital's Responsibilities": Baltimore Sun (12/14/90), P. 21A; Heyssel, Robert M., and Moses, Hamilton II; AIDS is the enemy in the story of the Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon who succumbed recently to the disease, write Robert M. Heyssel and Hamilton Moses III, the hospital s president for medical affairs and vice president, respectively. Throughout the AIDS epidemic, Heyssel and Moses write, Hopkins has worked hard to c
"On Stage, and Off: Break a Leg, Not a Pipe": New York Times (12/14/90), P. C2; Witchel, Alex; The cast of Lake No Bottom, a play at New York City s Second Stage starring Marsha Mason, had decided last Sunday s performance would benefit God s Love We Deliver, a food service for AIDS patients. However, a broken water pipe flooded the electrical system and cancelled the show. Robyn Goodman, the artistic direc
"Pharmacist Wins Case in Hospital AIDS Bias": New York Times (12/14/90), P. B4; Feron, James; The New York Division of Human Rights yesterday rejected a hospital s claim that it refused to hire an HIV-infected pharmacist because of the theoretical risk of infection. Human Rights Commissioner Margarita Rosa ruled that the Westchester County Medical Center discriminated against the pharmacist, known as John Do
"Progress Is Seen Toward Vaccine for AIDS Strains": Wall Street Journal (12/14/90), P. B9; Chase, Marilyn; Researchers have used a chain of amino acids in the V3 loop that is conserved among many strains of HIV to develop a vaccine against the virus. This part of the V3 loop, which sits on the outer coat and provokes a strong immune response, remained constant in 60 percent of 245 virus samples, researchers said. Researc
"AIDS Researchers Find Clues to How Virus Attacks Brain": New York Times (12/14/90), P. A34; Kolata, Gina; Researchers have found that HIV, which does not itself affect brain cells, may cause brain damage and dementia by infecting microglial cells and macrophages. Those immune system cells in the brain then release excitotoxins--small molecules that kill nerve cells in lab experiments.
"Origin and Spread of AIDS": Nature (12/13/90) Vol. 348, No. 6302, P. 578; Karpas, A.; Human AIDS very likely began as a lentivirus that naturally infected African monkeys until cross-species transfer occurred through sexual practices involving human inoculation with monkey blood for a supposed aphrodisiac effect, writes A. Kaspar of the University of Cambridge, United Kingd
"Transmission of HIV by Transfusion of Screened Blood": New England Journal of Medicine (12/13/90) Vol. 323, No. 24, P. 1709; Donahue, James G., et al.; Based on a single HIV infection out of 4163 cardiac patients in Baltimore and Houston who received 36,282 pints of donated blood, James Donahue and colleagues of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health write, they previously reported the risk of HIV infection from tranfusion was 1 in 36,282. However, with t
"Study Casts a Shadow on New Virus-Fighting Drugs": United Press International (12/13/90); Washington--Genetically-engineered receptor proteins of the CD4 receptor, which HIV uses to dock onto immune system cells, may not be a promising avenue for AIDS therapy, researchers from Columbia University said yesterday. Studies with polio indicate virus mutants can evade decoy receptors--boding ill for scientists
"Ralph Gomez, 40; Led Young Dancers": New York Times (12/13/90), P. D21; Ralph Gomez, 40, who established the Inner-City Ensemble and Dance Company to train urban teens, died Friday of AIDS, his companion, James Brega, said yesterday. Gomez founded the widely-acclaimed Paterson, N.J., dance company to train urban youths in dance, improve their self-confidence, and develop self-expression
"Hopkins Hospital Replies to AIDS Suit": Baltimore Sun (12/13/90), P. 1D; Kobren, Gerri; In its first response to a lawsuit filed Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court and in the Maryland Health Claims Arbitration Office, Johns Hopkins Hospital said it had no legal obligation to inform patients of Rudolph Almaraz that the surgeon had AIDS. The hospital s attorney, Paul Rosenberg, said the law did not mandate
"Leaders Boost AIDS Education in Yunnan": Christian Science Monitor (12/13/90), P. 5; Tyson, James L.; A nationwide crackdown on heroin smuggling in the Yunnan province of China has driven up the drug s street price and encouraged former heroin smokers to inject the drug to obtain a cheaper high. Chinese officials say many are sharing needles despite the risk of HIV, inadvertently s
"British Hemophiliacs Win Compensation for AIDS": New York Times (12/13/90), P. B22; About 1,200 hemophiliacs who contracted HIV from contaminated blood products imported from the United States will obtain compensation from the British government, Prime Minister John Major announced Tuesday in the House of Commons. The government agreed in principle to proposals for c
"Tuberculosis Cases Increase 10 Percent This Year": Baltimore Sun (12/13/90), P. 3A; Tuberculosis (TB) is making a strong resurgence in this country, the American Lung Association said yesterday. Health experts expect TB infections to increase by 10 percent this year, the highest annual increase since 1953. Of particular concern are increases among children under age 5, blacks, Hispanics, and adults
"Cut Down as They Grow Up: AIDS Stalks Gay Teen-Agers": New York Times (12/13/90), P. A1; Eckholm, Erik; Studies suggest younger gay men are practicing unprotected anal intercourse and other risky behaviors, and many are becoming infected with HIV. Educators hoped widespread AIDS education and safer-sex practices among older gay men would protect teenagers from the devastation the gay communities in New York and San Fra
"Tuberculosis Cases Increase 10 Percent This Year": Baltimore Sun (12/13/90), P. 3A; Tuberculosis (TB) is making a strong resurgence in this country, the American Lung Association said yesterday. Health experts expect TB infections to increase by 10 percent this year, the highest annual increase since 1953. Of particular concern are increases among children under age 5, blacks, Hispanics, and adults
"From the Food and Drug Administration: Infection Control Information" Provided to Dentists: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/12/90) Vol. 264, No. 22, P. 2863; Nightingale, Stuart L.; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the Centers for Disease Control have provided a dental-care Infection Control File containing information on hepatitis B and HIV, a review workbook for infection-control
"FDA Tightens Rubber Glove Standards": United Press International (12/12/90); Washington--The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) Wednesday moved to further protect health-care workers from HIV exposure by tightening standards for testing and quality of rubber gloves. Previously, manufacturers of medical gloves performed their own testing. The FDA announced it
"AIDS This Week: AIDS Comes to Rural U.S.": OutWeek (12/12/90) No. 76, P. 24; Heath, Jena, and Labalme, Jenny; Bob Axelton, a 28-year-old gay man, has decided to open an AIDS clinic, Ask Inc., in Oxford Alabama. Gay life in Alabama is surrounded by intense homophobia, and Oxford, a rural town of 9,000, is no different. The police are openly hostile because Axelton has refused to give them a list of the clinic s clients. The
"Britain Reverses AIDS Policy": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/12/90), P. 11A; British Prime Minister John Major has reversed a Thatcherite policy and decided to compensate hemophiliacs infected with HIV through blood received from the National Health Service. Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had decided that the government was not negligent and had no legal responsibility for the infect
"Health Agency Didn't Delay in Publishing AIDS Therapy Gains": New York Times (12/12/90), P. A22; Fauci, Anthony S., and Relman, Arnold S.; The New York Times front-page story (Nov. 14) alleging that a National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel delayed five months in publicizing news that corticosteroids are effective adjuvant therapy for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS patients because of fears that publicity w
"Around the Region: Condoms Recalled in Md.": Washington Post (12/12/90), P. B4; The Maryland Health Department wants individuals not to use free Safetex condoms recieved through its Three for Free, Maryland Care, and other programs. The condoms are part of a nationwide voluntary recall of 2 million Safetex condoms, which failed to meet Food and Drug Administration standards for leakage. Marylan
"Will the FDA Revert to Type?": Wall Street Journal (12/12/90), P. A16; Henninger, Daniel; The fact that AIDS activists, by civil disobedience, have caused the bureacratic Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to change the regulatory process with remarkable speed, does not mean that the agency will not quietly revert to type several years down the road, writes Daniel Henninge
"Britain Reverses AIDS Policy": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/12/90), P. 11A; British Prime Minister John Major has reversed a Thatcherite policy and decided to compensate hemophiliacs infected with HIV through blood received from the National Health Service. Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had decided that the government was not negligent and had no legal responsibility for the infect
"Health Agency Didn't Delay in Publishing AIDS Therapy Gains": New York Times (12/12/90), P. A22; Fauci, Anthony S., and Relman, Arnold S.; The New York Times front-page story (Nov. 14) alleging that a National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel delayed five months in publicizing news that corticosteroids are effective adjuvant therapy for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS patients because of fears that publicity w
"Around the Region: Condoms Recalled in Md.": Washington Post (12/12/90), P. B4; The Maryland Health Department wants individuals not to use free Safetex condoms recieved through its Three for Free, Maryland Care, and other programs. The condoms are part of a nationwide voluntary recall of 2 million Safetex condoms, which failed to meet Food and Drug Administration standards for leakage. Marylan
"Will the FDA Revert to Type?": Wall Street Journal (12/12/90), P. A16; Henninger, Daniel; The fact that AIDS activists, by civil disobedience, have caused the bureacratic Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to change the regulatory process with remarkable speed, does not mean that the agency will not quietly revert to type several years down the road, writes Daniel Henninge
"The Age of AIDS: CDC Moves to Restrict Infected Health Workers": Village Voice (12/11/90) Vol. 35, No. 50, P. 16; Goffe, Andrew, and Massa, Robert; The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will soon issue revised guidelines for health-care workers with HIV. CDC guidelines, though not legally binding, influence state laws. Sources say the CDC has two proposals: that infected workers be barred from invasive procedures, or that local health departments institute scre
"Philip Morris Draws Protest Over Bill of Rights Exhibit": Washington Post (12/11/90), P. B7; Valentine, Paul W.; ACT UP was among the groups protesting yesterday at an exhibit of a 200-year-old copy of the Bill of Rights at Baltimore s Convention Center. The AIDS activist group, joined by anti-smoking activists, opposes manufacturer Philip Morris Cos. Inc. s sponsorship of the exhibit. A spokesperson for Group Against Smoking
"A Haven for AIDS Babies": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/11/90), P. D1; Marder, Dianna; Emery Troy, 51, and Calvin Wallsten, 41, built a home for babies with AIDS in Camden, N.J. Dooley House provides foster care for HIV-infected babies who have been abandoned by their mothers deaths, imprisonment, or disregard. Babies live in sun-filled, designer-decorated rooms and receive loving care from volunteer
"AIDS Facts and Fears": Baltimore Sun (12/11/90), P. 11A; Aoun, Hacib, and Aoun, Patricia; Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Baltimore Sun have contributed to the fear and misinformation surrounding AIDS by loudly publicizing the case of a well-known surgeon who died of AIDS, write Hacib and Patricia Aoun, Baltimore physicians. Several studies of hundreds of patients of HIV-infected surgeons have shown that t
"Former Patient Sues Hopkins, Estate over AIDS": Baltimore Sun (12/11/90), P. B1; Kobren, Gerri; A former patient of Rudolph Almaraz--the Baltimore breast-cancer surgeon who died of AIDS last month--has filed suit in Baltimore Circuit Court against Johns Hopkins Hospital and Almaraz s estate, claiming the doctor was obliged to inform patients of his illness. Perry Mahoney Rossi and her husband, Dennis T. Rossi,
"More Testing Set for Anti-Fungal Drug": Wall Street Journal (12/11/90), P. B5; McCoy, Charles; The Food and Drug Administration has approved phase II trials of Liposome Technology s amphotericin B, an anti-fungal agent used against infections in AIDS and organ-transplant patients. Phase I trials showed the drug to be far less toxic than other anti-fungal drugs, which are typi
"Opposition to Condoms Is Shortsighted, Deadly": Washington Post (Health) (12/11/90), P. 6; Markel, Howard; History has shown that preaching abstinence to fight the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) will not work, writes Howard Markel, a Johns Hopkins clinical fellow in adolescent medicine. Condom distribution policies for high schools in New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, and other states face opp
"The Alarming Spread of AIDS Among Women": Washington Post (Health) (12/11/90), P. 7; Thompson, Larry; Federal researchers say HIV is now spreading more rapidly among women than men, with half of cases among women attributed to IV drug use and 20 percent to sex with male drug users. The D.C. Commission on Public Health says figures for Washington reflect national trends: the number of women testing positive for HIV i
"Philip Morris Draws Protest Over Bill of Rights Exhibit": Washington Post (12/11/90), P. B7; Valentine, Paul W.; ACT UP was among the groups protesting yesterday at an exhibit of a 200-year-old copy of the Bill of Rights at Baltimore s Convention Center. The AIDS activist group, joined by anti-smoking activists, opposes manufacturer Philip Morris Cos. Inc. s sponsorship of the exhibit. A spokesperson for Group Against Smoking
"A Haven for AIDS Babies": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/11/90), P. D1; Marder, Dianna; Emery Troy, 51, and Calvin Wallsten, 41, built a home for babies with AIDS in Camden, N.J. Dooley House provides foster care for HIV-infected babies who have been abandoned by their mothers deaths, imprisonment, or disregard. Babies live in sun-filled, designer-decorated rooms and receive loving care from volunteer
"AIDS Facts and Fears": Baltimore Sun (12/11/90), P. 11A; Aoun, Hacib, and Aoun, Patricia; Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Baltimore Sun have contributed to the fear and misinformation surrounding AIDS by loudly publicizing the case of a well-known surgeon who died of AIDS, write Hacib and Patricia Aoun, Baltimore physicians. Several studies of hundreds of patients of HIV-infected surgeons have shown that t
"Former Patient Sues Hopkins, Estate over AIDS": Baltimore Sun (12/11/90), P. B1; Kobren, Gerri; A former patient of Rudolph Almaraz--the Baltimore breast-cancer surgeon who died of AIDS last month--has filed suit in Baltimore Circuit Court against Johns Hopkins Hospital and Almaraz s estate, claiming the doctor was obliged to inform patients of his illness. Perry Mahoney Rossi and her husband, Dennis T. Rossi,
"More Testing Set for Anti-Fungal Drug": Wall Street Journal (12/11/90), P. B5; McCoy, Charles; The Food and Drug Administration has approved phase II trials of Liposome Technology s amphotericin B, an anti-fungal agent used against infections in AIDS and organ-transplant patients. Phase I trials showed the drug to be far less toxic than other anti-fungal drugs, which are typi
"Opposition to Condoms Is Shortsighted, Deadly": Washington Post (Health) (12/11/90), P. 6; Markel, Howard; History has shown that preaching abstinence to fight the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) will not work, writes Howard Markel, a Johns Hopkins clinical fellow in adolescent medicine. Condom distribution policies for high schools in New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, and other states face opp
"The Alarming Spread of AIDS Among Women": Washington Post (Health) (12/11/90), P. 7; Thompson, Larry; Federal researchers say HIV is now spreading more rapidly among women than men, with half of cases among women attributed to IV drug use and 20 percent to sex with male drug users. The D.C. Commission on Public Health says figures for Washington reflect national trends: the number of women testing positive for HIV i
"Computerized Access to AIDS Information": United Press International (12/10/90); Fasbinder, Joe; Los Angeles--The Computerized AIDS Information Network, CAIN, is a serious computer bulletin board devoted to the exchange of information about AIDS. The board provides hundreds of digitized documents, as many as 31,000 articles, at prices ranging from $12 per hour on SprintNet to no charge on Tymnet during pre-dawn
"Obituaries: Reinaldo Arenas, 47, Novelist Who Fled Castro-Run Cuba": Washington Post (12/10/90), P. D6; Reinaldo Arenas, 47, was found dead Dec. 7 at his home in Manhattan, and authorities said he apparently took his own life by taking an overdose of drugs and alcohol. Arenas, a Cuban-born novelist and former revolutionary who spent several years in prison under Castro, had been suffering from AIDS for the last three y
"Another Side of Paradise": Los Angeles Times (12/10/90), P. E1; Smith, Lynn; AIDS has hit the picturesque community of Laguna Beach, Calif., harder than any other community in the United States . Last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the city s annual rate of new cases was 1.42 per thousand people. In the Orange County town, known as a gay t
"AIDS, Abortion-Rights Groups Protest Near N.Y. Cathedral": Washington Post (12/10/90), P. A6; On the anniversary of a demonstration in which ACT UP members disrupted services led by Cardinal John J. O Connor, about 350 AIDS and abortion-rights activists joined in a peaceful protest across from St. Patrick s Cathedral yesterday. Activists object to the Roman Catholic Church s stance against the dissemination o
"Obituaries: Reinaldo Arenas, 47, Novelist Who Fled Castro-Run Cuba": Washington Post (12/10/90), P. D6; Reinaldo Arenas, 47, was found dead Dec. 7 at his home in Manhattan, and authorities said he apparently took his own life by taking an overdose of drugs and alcohol. Arenas, a Cuban-born novelist and former revolutionary who spent several years in prison under Castro, had been suffering from AIDS for the last three y
"Another Side of Paradise": Los Angeles Times (12/10/90), P. E1; Smith, Lynn; AIDS has hit the picturesque community of Laguna Beach, Calif., harder than any other community in the United States . Last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the city s annual rate of new cases was 1.42 per thousand people. In the Orange County town, known as a gay t
"AIDS, Abortion-Rights Groups Protest Near N.Y. Cathedral": Washington Post (12/10/90), P. A6; On the anniversary of a demonstration in which ACT UP members disrupted services led by Cardinal John J. O Connor, about 350 AIDS and abortion-rights activists joined in a peaceful protest across from St. Patrick s Cathedral yesterday. Activists object to the Roman Catholic Church s stance against the dissemination o
"Doctors Carrying AIDS Virus Stir Ethical Debate": Los Angeles Times (12/09/90), P. A46; Bor, Jonathan; The debate over HIV testing for doctors and/or patients has intensified since media reports that dentist David Acer may have infected a patient. Ethicists disagree as to whether surgeons have an obligation to inform their patients of a serious illness, no matter how small the risk of tranmsission. Michelle Oberman o
"Expanded Services on AIDS Urged": Washington Post (12/09/90), P. B5; Gaines-Carter, Patrice; At a four-hour hearing before Mayor-Elect Sharon Pratt Dixon s transition task group on AIDS services Saturday, representatives from more than 50 Washington, D.C., area service organizations testified that the District needs to expand AIDS support services to better reach high-risk groups and target a wider cross-sect
"Doctors Carrying AIDS Virus Stir Ethical Debate": Los Angeles Times (12/09/90), P. A46; Bor, Jonathan; The debate over HIV testing for doctors and/or patients has intensified since media reports that dentist David Acer may have infected a patient. Ethicists disagree as to whether surgeons have an obligation to inform their patients of a serious illness, no matter how small the risk of tranmsission. Michelle Oberman o
"Expanded Services on AIDS Urged": Washington Post (12/09/90), P. B5; Gaines-Carter, Patrice; At a four-hour hearing before Mayor-Elect Sharon Pratt Dixon s transition task group on AIDS services Saturday, representatives from more than 50 Washington, D.C., area service organizations testified that the District needs to expand AIDS support services to better reach high-risk groups and target a wider cross-sect
"Occupational Infection Among Anaesthetists": Lancet (12/08/90) Vol. 336, No. 8728, P. 1456; Brattebo, Guttorm, and Wisborg, Torben; Many anestheticists ignore guidelines for universal precautions despite AIDS prevention education campaigns, write Guttorm Brattebo and Torben Wisborg of Hammerfest Hospital, Hammerfest, Norway . Anesthetists tend to ignore risk of HIV infection despite knowledge of modes of transm
"Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication by a Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase" Inhibitor: Science (12/07/90) Vol. 250, No. 4986, P. 1411; Merluzzi, Vincent J., et al.; Bi-RG-587, one of a series of dipyridodiazepinones, inhibits HIV-1 reverse transcriptase without interfering with any mammalian reverse transcriptase, write Vincent J. Merluzzi and colleagues of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. Cytotoxicity studies in vitro showe
"More Virginians Being Tested for AIDS, Poll Shows": United Press International (12/07/90); A telephone survey of 885 adult Virginians selected at random has found that 27 percent of all respondents had been tested for HIV, and 36 percent of those between ages 18 and 24 had been tested. The younger the person, the more likely he or she had been tested for HIV, Virginia Commonwealth University reseachers rep
"Novello Calls for Coordinated Services in AIDS Fight": United Press International (12/07/90); Philadelphia--Speaking Friday at the opening of the Circle of Care, a comprehensive community-care agency for families affected by AIDS, Surgeon General Antonia Novello called for a coordinated effort for comprehensive community-based AIDS care for women, children, and families. AIDS in the U.S. is beginning to look
"More Virginians Being Tested for AIDS, Poll Shows": United Press International (12/07/90); A telephone survey of 885 adult Virginians selected at random has found that 27 percent of all respondents had been tested for HIV, and 36 percent of those between ages 18 and 24 had been tested. The younger the person, the more likely he or she had been tested for HIV, Virginia Commonwealth University reseachers rep
"Novello Calls for Coordinated Services in AIDS Fight": United Press International (12/07/90); Philadelphia--Speaking Friday at the opening of the Circle of Care, a comprehensive community-care agency for families affected by AIDS, Surgeon General Antonia Novello called for a coordinated effort for comprehensive community-based AIDS care for women, children, and families. AIDS in the U.S. is beginning to look
"The District Line: Trojan Horse": Washington City Paper (12/07/90) Vol. 10, No. 49, P. 8; Wood, Gillian Cara; Gina Harris is a one-woman crusade against AIDS in the District of Columbia. In Eastern Market, on Capitol Hill, at the HIV Prevention Project for the Homeless in Northeast D.C., the message is: Use those damn condoms. In an Eastern Market booth, Harris accosts grumpy and friendly alike with brightly-colored Trojan
"The District Line: Trojan Horse": Washington City Paper (12/07/90) Vol. 10, No. 49, P. 8; Wood, Gillian Cara; Gina Harris is a one-woman crusade against AIDS in the District of Columbia. In Eastern Market, on Capitol Hill, at the HIV Prevention Project for the Homeless in Northeast D.C., the message is: Use those damn condoms. In an Eastern Market booth, Harris accosts grumpy and friendly alike with brightly-colored Trojan
"Doctor Knew He Had AIDS, Widow Says": Baltimore Sun (12/07/90), P. 1A; Marbella, Jean; Betty Almaraz, widow of breast cancer surgeon Rudoph Almaraz who died of AIDS last month, told the Baltimore Sun that her husband continued to operate despite knowledge of his illness because he believed the risk of transmitting HIV to patients was infintesimal in comparison to the lives he could save. Betty Almaraz
"Doctors Back Mandatory AIDS Reporting": New York Times (12/07/90), P. A28; For the first time, the American Medical Association (AMA) has voted to support routine reporting of names to public health officials of persons who test positive for HIV. The AMA s governing body voted Wednesday to change its classification of HIV from a communicable disease to
"Drug Concerns Make Big Strides in AIDS Work": Wall Street Journal (12/07/90), P. B1; Waldholz, Michael; The world s largest pharmaceuticals companies, in a behind-the-scenes race to develop AIDS drugs, have made major strides in identifying and blocking pivotal HIV components. Researchers at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. have developed BI-RG-587, a compound
"Safer Blood, Fairer Policy": New York Times (12/07/90), P. A34; The new donor-screening guidelines announced Wednesday by the federal government will mean a safer blood supply, write the editors of the New York Times. The government has lifted an unfair ban on Haitian blood donors, a positive measure and one that will end a policy that has irrationally stigmatized a large group o
"AIDS Children's Foster Care: Love and Hope Conquer Fear": New York Times (12/07/90), P. A1; Navarro, Mireya; Many more foster parents are raising children with AIDS now that greater knowledge of the disease means less ignorance and fear of contagion, experts say. Governments have been far more aggressive in recruiting foster parents and offering better reimbursements and support services, meaning children who once had to wa
"A Newly Recognized Fastidious Gram-Negative Pathogen as a Cause of Fever" and Bacteremia: New England Journal of Medicine (12/06/90) Vol. 323, No. 23, P. 1587; Slater, Leonard N., et al.; An uncommon gram-negative bacillus has been isolated from five immunocompromised patients, two with HIV, report Leonard Slater and colleagues of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The pathogen may have remained unidentified because of its fastidious nature: slow growth, broad susceptibility to antimic
"No T-Cell Tyrosine Protein Kinase Signalling or Calcium Mobilization" After CD4 Association with HIV-1 or HIV-1 gp120: Nature (12/06/90) Vol. 348, No. 6301, P. 557; Horak, Ivan D., et al.; Binding of HIV gp120 to CD4+ cells, previously thought to mimic interactions that trigger T cell activation pathways, fails to elicit the specific tyrosine kinase activation and signalling and changes in intracellular calcium concentration that would be requirements for virus production, write Ivan Horak and colleague
"Clinical and Pathological Features of Bacillary Peliosis Hepatis in" Association with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (12/06/90) Vol. 323, No. 23, P. 1581; Perkocha, Luke A., et al.; Peliosis hepatis in patients with HIV, an unusual opportunistic infection, is probably caused by the agent responsible for cutaneous bacillary angiomatosis , report Luke Perkocha and colleagues of the University of California-San Francisco. Although potentially fatal, the inf
"Clinical and Pathological Features of Bacillary Peliosis Hepatis in" Association with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (12/06/90) Vol. 323, No. 23, P. 1581; Perkocha, Luke A., et al.; Peliosis hepatis in patients with HIV, an unusual opportunistic infection, is probably caused by the agent responsible for cutaneous bacillary angiomatosis , report Luke Perkocha and colleagues of the University of California-San Francisco. Although potentially fatal, the inf
"Firm Recalls Condoms at N.J. Centers": Philadelphia Inquirer (12/06/90), P. 10B; Burney, Melanie; The New Jersey Department of Health has notified 16 AIDS counselling centers that Safetex Corp. has recalled thousands of Saxon condoms. Saxon condoms were among the 32,000 distributed by the state Health Department to the centers in March as part of a safe sex program. The Department has asked the centers to immedi
"An AIDS Policy in Health Care": Philadelphi Inquirer (12/06/90), P. A1; Cimons, Marlene; Sources say Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials are considering amending federal policy and recommending routine testing of surgeons and health care workers for HIV. CDC guidelines would recommend that HIV-infected health care professionals be barred from invasive procedures, which would include most surgical
"Ex-Surgeon General Asserts Successor Lags in AIDS Fight": New York Times (12/06/90), P. B4; Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop charged Tuesday that his successor, Antonia Novello, has not been a strong enough advocate in the fight against AIDS. He fought the Reagan Administration s attempts to soft-pedal the disease for eight years, Koop said, because he strongly believes educating the public is imper
"Business Bulletin: Insurers Eye a Test That May Lead to Wider Screening" for HIV Infection: Wall Street Journal (12/06/90), P. A1; Home Office Reference Laboratory Inc. hopes life insurers will lower their test threshholds if offered Epitope Inc. s saliva-based test for HIV. Home Office, a major provider of testing services to insurers, thinks that insurers will screen more applicants because the saliva-based test is cheaper. AIDS activists wor
"A Home and a Haven for Women with AIDS": Washington Post (12/06/90), P. C5; Wheeler, Linda; Yesterday the Washington, D.C., government and the Whitman-Walker Clinic dedicated the Stewart B. McKinney Family Home, a Logan Circle apartment building for women with HIV and their families. The house is named for a U.S. representative from Connecticut who died of AIDS. The women who will move in have little or no
"U.S. to Lift Haitian Blood Donor Ban": Washington Post (12/06/90), P. A3; The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced changes to the blood screening process including the end of a ban against blood donations by Haitian immigrants and intensified efforts to screen out high-risk heterosexuals. The changes, which will be phased in by the Food and Drug Administation, includ
"Condom Plan for Schools Draws Criticism": New York Times (12/06/90), P. B1; Berger, Joseph; Supporters joined opponents yesterday in criticizing New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez s condom distribution plan for its failure to require couselling. Fernandez presented the plan to the Board of Education yesterday against the background of an AIDS disaster akin to sitting on a ticking time bomb.
"From the National Institutes of Health: New Computer Technique May Lead" to New AIDS Drugs: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/05/90) Vol. 264, No. 21, P. 2731; Raub, William; University of California-San Francisco researchers have developed DOCK, a new computer program that will provide a starting point for the rational design of potential AIDS drugs using the three-dimensional structure of compounds, writes William Raub, acting director of the National Institutes of Health. Irwin Kuntz J
"The HIV-Testing Policies of U.S. Hospitals": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/05/90) Vol. 264, No. 21, P. 2764; Lewis, Charles E., and Montgomery, Kathleen; A random sample of chief administrators at 561 U.S. hospitals showed that over 83 percent have formal policies about HIV testing, two-thirds had admitted a patient with AIDS, and as many as 40 percent of rural hospitals had had at least one AIDS inpatient, report Charles Lewis and Kathleen Montgomery of the University
"The HIV-Testing Policies of U.S. Hospitals": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/05/90) Vol. 264, No. 21, P. 2764; Lewis, Charles E., and Montgomery, Kathleen; A random sample of chief administrators at 561 U.S. hospitals showed that over 83 percent have formal policies about HIV testing, two-thirds had admitted a patient with AIDS, and as many as 40 percent of rural hospitals had had at least one AIDS inpatient, report Charles Lewis and Kathleen Montgomery of the University
"Hard Times Bring Tough Choices": Associated Press (12/05/90); New York--Due to decreases in revenue, state and local governments are reducing their staffs and services. The effect of budget cuts has been detrimental to many local government health care programs. In Los Angeles and Louisville, Ky., for example, local health centers have been closed and in Vermont and Maryland p
"Michigan News Briefs": United Press International (12/05/90); Birmingham, Mich.--A Michigan woman who has the AIDS virus may sue the estate of a Stuart, Fla., dentist who died of AIDS-related cancer if tests reveal that the dentist infected her. The woman, Lisa Shoemaker, will undergo tests at the Centers for Disease Control to determine if the disease can be linked to dentist
"Guidelines on Doctors' Health Sought": Baltimore Sun (12/05/90), P. 1A; Kobren, Gerri; While the Maryland Hospital Association previously had been concerned only with the status of AIDs patients and the question of HIV testing for patients, a Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon s death from AIDs has the Hospital Association rethinking regulations concerning required health assessments for physicians. Maryla
"Strong Medicine for AIDS": New York Times (12/05/90), P. A26; Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez s far-reaching and sensible plan to distribute condoms in New York City high schools without parental consent or counselling deserves the support of the Board of Education, write the editors of the New York Times. Fernandez points out the high rates of AIDS, syphilis, and pregancy a
"Opposition to Condom Plan by Some Principals Is Seen": New York Times (12/05/90), P. B3; Berger, Joseph; Based on personal religious or moral beliefs and concern about hostile protests from parent leaders, some New York City high school principals are expected to oppose Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez s plan to distribute condoms in city high schools without parental consent. Fernandez will present his plan to th
"U.S to Alter Screening of Those Giving Blood": New York Times (12/05/90), P. A24; Hilts, Philip J.; Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Louis W. Sullivan will rescind the government ban on blood donations from Haitians and, in centers that test for HIV-2, sub-Saharan Africans. Sullivan s decision, expected to be announced today, comes eight months after 50,000 people marched in New York City to protest the
"Nearly 25 Percent of U.S. Hospitals Violate AIDS Test Guidelines": Washington Post (12/05/90), P. A2; Gladwell, Malcolm; A survey of 561 U.S. hospitals policies on HIV testing shows 22 percent violate recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control, the American Medical Association , and the American Hospital Association that stipulate obtaining informed written consent of patients before testin
"Stick Men and Giants: Inside the Rikers Island AIDS Ward": Village Voice (12/04/90) Vol. 35, No. 49, P. 28; Dobie, Kathy; Dorm 4, the Rikers Island AIDS Ward, is a model of humane and efficient care of prisoners with HIV. Officer Sylvester Brown, who has worked in the ward from the beginning, says the men in Dorm 4, black, white, and Hispanic get along together...because they know...it s us and them, and then don t care much. Typi
"Stick Men and Giants: Inside the Rikers Island AIDS Ward": Village Voice (12/04/90) Vol. 35, No. 49, P. 28; Dobie, Kathy; Dorm 4, the Rikers Island AIDS Ward, is a model of humane and efficient care of prisoners with HIV. Officer Sylvester Brown, who has worked in the ward from the beginning, says the men in Dorm 4, black, white, and Hispanic get along together...because they know...it s us and them, and then don t care much. Typi
"Fire Department Kept AIDS List": United Press International (12/04/90); Bradenton, Fla.--A list of people believed to be infected with HIV kept by Fire Department employees surfaced recently after a women arrested for prostitution was charged with attempted murder. Police who made the arrest contacted fire and rescue workers and learned that the woman was on the list of people suspected
"Florida News Briefs": United Press International (12/04/90); Orlando, Fla.--At the four-day meeting of the American Medical Association , more than 3,500 physicians, medical students, and medical professionals endorsed mandatory screening of patients before surgery to protect health care workers from HIV. The issue provoked intense debate,
"Doctor's Death from AIDS Creates Shock, Fear: Hospital Confirms Disease" in Letters: Baltimore Sun (12/04/90), P. 1A; Bor, Jonathan; Johns Hopkins Hospital confirmed yesterday that Rudolph Almaraz, a well-known breast surgeon, died of AIDS Nov. 16. Hospital officials began mailing 1,800 letters to former patients offering free HIV testing and counselling and reaffirming the belief that the likelihood Almaraz transmitted HIV to a patient during sur
"New York School Chief to Offer Plan for Distributing Condoms": New York Times (12/04/90), P. A1; Berger, Joseph; New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez, who previously said he favors condom distribution at school health clinics, will offer a proposal to the Board of Education that suggests condoms be given out at all city high schools--even those without health clinics--without parental consent. Sources say the ne
"AIDS Program Cited": Crain's New York Business (12/03/90) Vol. 6, No. 49, P. 16; Multitasking Systems, a program that employs people with AIDS in desktop publishing, word processing, and bulk-mailing positions, recently won an award for excellence from the National Association of Counties. Physicians Linda Laubenstein and Jeffrey Greene of New York University Medical Center founded Multitasking S
"Designers Put their Egos Aside in Sale Benefiting AIDS": Associated Press (12/03/90); Hughes, Janice; New York--Fashion designers, known for their legendary egos, managed to put rivalries aside and work for a common cause over the weekend--a sale of $4 million worth of merchandise to raise money for AIDS. Clothes donated by Calvin Klein and more than 100 other U.S. designers for the three-day sale ending on Sunday br
"AIDS Cases Rise Over 300,000 Mark": United Press International (12/03/90); Geneva--The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that the world s AIDS case total had risen to 307,379 by Dec. 1, nearly a 3 percent increase. WHO said the true global total is around 1.3 million cases, four times the officially reported total, because many developing nations l
"Judge Refuses to Order Release of AIDS Drug, Peptide T": United Press International (12/03/90); MacLean, Pamela A.; San Francisco--U.S. District Judge Charles Legge yesterday rejected a request for a temporary restraining order by AIDS patient Ron Woodruff, who seeks to receive the experimental drug Peptide T from Peninsula Laboratories of Belmont, Calif. Woodruff has been taking Peptide T for the past year to slow AIDS-related
"AIDS Activists Seek Broader Definition of Disease": United Press International (12/03/90); Atlanta--About 200 demonstrators, organized by ACT UP, gathered at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday to protest treatment of women with AIDS and to demand a broader definition of the disease, which ACT UP members say excludes symptoms that affect women, IV drug users, and minorities. About a dozen activ
"Metro Matters: Clinic Empowers Those Who Test HIV-Positive": New York Times (12/03/90), P. B1; Roberts, Sam; In New York, the Spellman Center for HIV-Related Diseases at St. Clare s Hospital and Health Center and the Partnership for the Homeless offer separate programs that each serve to empower people with HIV. The Spellman Center operates a methadone clinic that offers private-type medicine through a public-type program
"Hospital Offers Tests After Surgeon Dies of AIDS": New York Times (12/03/90), P. A20; Johns Hopkins Hospital has sent a letter to approximately 1,800 patients of Rudolph Almaraz, a Baltimore surgeon whom the Baltimore Sunday Sun reported died of AIDS two weeks ago, offering free AIDS testing and counselling. Almarez s lawyer, Marvin Ellin, told the Sun Almaraz died of AIDS. Ellin said Almaraz told hi
"Noticeboard: Women and HIV Disease": Lancet (12/01/90) Vol. 336, No. 8727, P. 1373; World AIDS Day s focus on women and AIDS was meant to help empower women to make effective choices to prevent HIV infection, such as use of condoms or changing ideas that equate sex with penetration, the editors of the Lancet write. Men traditionally are the sexual decision makers, and women s options for HIV preven
"Viewpoint: How AIDS Forces Reappraisal of Hepatitis B Virus Control in" Sub-Saharan Africa: Lancet (12/01/90) Vol. 336, No. 8727, P. 1364; Hudson, C.P.; The advent of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa and in southeast Asia, where hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic, mandates ongoing and planned longitudinal studies of viral epidemiology to assess risk factors for HBV, writes C.P. Huds
"Viewpoint: How AIDS Forces Reappraisal of Hepatitis B Virus Control in" Sub-Saharan Africa: Lancet (12/01/90) Vol. 336, No. 8727, P. 1364; Hudson, C.P.; The advent of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa and in southeast Asia, where hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic, mandates ongoing and planned longitudinal studies of viral epidemiology to assess risk factors for HBV, writes C.P. Huds
"AIDS: Myth or Panacea?": Business in the U.S.S.R. (12/90) No. 7, P. 42; Kanin, Yuri; Lazar Meckler, biologist and former lab chief of the Moscow Oncological Center, and his wife Rosalia Idlis, a mathematician, have formulated a hypothesis about a general stereochemical and genetic code that will serve as the basis for a joint Soviet-Italian research venture to develop peptide vaccines for AIDS, hepati
"A Global View of Women and HIV": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (12/90) Vol. 6, No. 1, P. 3; Schietinger, Helen; Educators and researchers need to focus on the global status of women s psychosocial health and develop appropriate prevention and care strategies, rather than view women as vectors of HIV transmission to men, writes Helen Schietinger, a former technical officer of the World Health Organiz
"The AIDS-Related Experiences and Practices of Primary Care Physicians in" Los Angeles: 1984-89: American Journal of Public Health (12/90) Vol. 80, No. 12, P. 1511; Lewis, Charles E., and Montgomery, Kathleen; Random telephone surveys of Los Angeles physicians from 1984-89 indicate a significant number have responded to the disease crisis by caring for patients with AIDS or ARC, write Charles Lewis and Kathleen Montgomery of the University of California, L.A., School of Medicine. In 1989, the number of doctors who had work
"Death in Prison: Changing Mortality Patterns among Male Prisoners in" Maryland, 1979-87: American Journal of Public Health (12/90) Vol. 80, No. 12, P. 1479; Salive, Marcel E., et al.; AIDS became the leading cause of death in Maryland state prisons in 1987, at a rate of 65 per 100,000 prisoner-years, report Marcel Salive and colleagues of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. HIV prevention must remain a top prison health priority, they write, because of the number of inmates admi
"Many Federal Health Programs Get Significant Funding Hikes: AIDS": Nation's Health (12/90) Vol. 20, No. 12, P. 8; AIDS funding under the Health Services and Resources Administration increased by 140 percent under the appropriations bill passed in October 1990. Within the Centers for Disease Control, AIDS funding increased 12 percent. Total funding for AIDS over all Public Health Service agencies increased by 18 percent, to $1,8
"HIV Seroconversion in Two Homosexual Men after Receptive Oral Intercourse" with Ejaculation: Implications for Counseling Concerning Safe Sexual Practices: American Journal of Public Health (12/90) Vol. 80, No. 12, P. 1509; Lifson, Alan R., et al.; The report of two gay men with HIV infection who claimed to have had only receptive oral sex and no anal sex for over five years means all sexually active persons should be counseled that such behaviors carry potential for HIV transmission, write Alan Lifson and colleagues of the San Francisco Department of Public Hea
"HIV Exposures High Among House Staff, Researchers Report": AIDS Alert (12/90) Vol. 5, No. 12, P. 238; At the 30th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy held in Atlanta, researchers from Cabrini Medical Center in New York reported that medical house staff are exposed to HIV at a high rate, particularly during the first year of training, and that poor light or fatigue often are major factors i
"Man at His Best: The Condom": Esquire (12/90) Vol. 114, No. 6, P. 93; Berendt, John; The 400-year history of the condom has largely been one of complaints of spoiled pleasure and little protection. Invented in the 16th century by Italian anatomist Gabriel Fallopius, the condom was a medicated linen sheath. In the 17th century, Dr. Condom, personal physician to England s Charles II, made a sheath fr
"A Storm Over Steroid Therapy": Science (11/30/90) Vol. 250, No. 4985, P. 1196; Palca, Joseph; For many researchers, the news that steroids are a successful adjuvant therapy for pneumocystis was not new, so the New York Times front-page-story that a federal panel delayed five months in publicizing it was no big deal. Federal health offiicals were infuriated, however, as the story ignited a controversy that spo
"A Storm Over Steroid Therapy": Science (11/30/90) Vol. 250, No. 4985, P. 1196; Palca, Joseph; For many researchers, the news that steroids are a successful adjuvant therapy for pneumocystis was not new, so the New York Times front-page-story that a federal panel delayed five months in publicizing it was no big deal. Federal health offiicals were infuriated, however, as the story ignited a controversy that spo
"AIDS Digest: Johns Hopkins Says Heart May Be First Organ Affected": Washington Blade (11/30/90) Vol. 21, No. 48, P. 23; Sullivan, Mark; Many HIV-positive people may suffer cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the walls of the heart that results in less efficient pumping of blood and can cause congestive heart failure, Johns Hopkins researchers said at the American Heart Association s Scientific Sessions last month. Ahvie Herskowitz, who studied 24 HIV-pos
"Bush Signs Immigration Bill": Washington Blade (11/30/90) Vol. 21, No. 48, P. 15; Keen, Lisa M.; President Bush cleared the way for the end of the ban on U.S. entry of HIV-infected travellers Thursday by signing the Family Unity and Employment Opportunity Immigration Act. The law increases the numbers of immigrants allowed into the country and repeals a number of exclusions, including gays and other groups. Bu
"Recalled Condoms Pass FDA Inspection": PRNewswire (11/30/90); Philadelphia--Philadelphia Public Health Department officials said Friday that 390,000 recalled Crown condoms had passed Food and Drug Administration tests. The city AIDS Activities Cooridnating Office (AAC)) recalled the condoms, which had been distributed to public health center and community agencies, because of a
"Roche Biosafety Expert Returns from First Sino-American Symposium on AIDS" in People's Republic; Chinese Ask to Circulate Part of 'AIDS Quilt': PRNewswire (11/30/90); Raritan, N.J.--AIDS professionals from U.S. biomedical laboratories recently retruned from the first ever Sino-American HIV symposium, which was held in Beijing, China , Nov. 9. At the Sino-American Symposium on Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the 148-member U.S. delegat
"10 Million Children Likely to be Orphaned by AIDS in 1990s": Reuter (11/30/90); United Nations--During a meeting at the United Nations marking World AIDS Day Friday, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said 10 million children under age 10 would likely be orphaned by AIDS in the 1990s as women are increasingly infected by HIV. By the end of the decade, he said, at least as many children wo
"Taiwan Passes Tough New AIDS Laws": Reuter (11/30/90); Taipei, Taiwan--Taiwan s parliament Friday passed stringent AIDS laws that would require a seven-year prison sentence for knowing transmission of HIV and quarantine of HIV-infected persons by health officials. HIV-carriers under quarantine would be forced to receive publicly-funded treatment, a spokerperson for the p
"AIDS Activists March on Insurance Giants": United Press International (11/30/90); Milewski, Dennis C.; Hartford, Conn.--Protesters from the new Hartford chapter of ACT UP Friday marched on three of America s largest insurance companies, Aetna Life + Casualty, ITT Hartford Insurance Group, and the Travelers Corp., demanding medical coverage and better benefits for those with AIDS and those at risk for HIV. During the m
"Snap, Sparkle, Shop": Washington Post (11/30/90), P. F1; Horyn, Cathy; Seventh on Sale, taking place at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City this weekend, is a giant clothes sale and fashion event to raise money for AIDS. David Bowie and the fashion model Iman were among the fashion plates, nabobs, and overachievers who attended the $1,000-a-ticket dinner that kicked off Seventh on
"With Art and Without, a Day for Calling Attention to the AIDS Crisis": New York Times (11/30/90), P. C12; Blau, Eleanor; The second annual Day Without Art will take place tomorrow in conjunction with the World Health Organization s third observance of World AIDS Awareness Day. To commorate Day Without Art, approximately 3,000 arts groups in the United States , Canada ,
"Casey Enacts Law on AIDS Privacy": Philadelphia Inquirer (11/30/90), P. 1B; Tofani, Loretta; Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey yesterday signed into law a new bill, the Confidentiality of HIV-Related Information Act, that would guarantee the confidentiality of HIV testing and mandate that hosptials and physicians obtain written consent before such testing. Experts say the measure, which will take effect Marc
"U.S. Bioscience Gets AIDS Drug License": Investor's Daily (11/30/90), P. 17; The U.S. government has given U.S. Bioscience Inc. exclusive license to market trimetrexate to treat Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) and toxoplasmosis in AIDS patients, the company announced yesterday. About 650 AIDS patients currently receive the drug under a government pro
"AIDS Spreads More Rapidly Among Women": Wall Street Journal (11/30/90), P. B1; Pearl, Daniel; AIDS is spreading faster among women than among other high risk groups, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported yesterday. The number of diagnosed cases of AIDS among women increased 29 percent this year compared to 18 percent in men, with IV drug use causing half the cases. Heterosexual contacts with drug us
"HIV Infection: Why the Long Latent Period?": Nature (11/29/90) Vol. 348, No. 6300, P. 388; Bangham, Charles R. M., and McMichael, Andrew J.; New research suggests that progression to AIDS in HIV disease may be the result of an increase in the number of immunological variants above a critical threshold, write Charles Bangham and Andrew McMichael of Oxford University. In the journal AIDS, they report, Nowak and colleagues use a simple model to explain the l
"AIDS Cases Soar in Europe; Large Increases in Eastern Europe": United Press International (11/29/90); Atlanta--There has been an alarming increase in AIDS cases in Eastern Europe since March 1989, caused by contaminated blood transfusion and inadequate sterilization of needles in hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported yesterday. AIDS cases in Europe increased 61.9 percent, with the largest annual p
"Health Department Warns Women on AIDS and Cancer": United Press International (11/29/90); New York--Citing a recent report that said HIV could increase a woman s risk for cervical cancer, New York City Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers yesterday urged women to come to the city clinic to have a Pap smear and an HIV test. Myers said researchers found that women with HIV were more likely to experience certai
"Prevalence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Among University Students": New England Journal of Medicine (11/29/90) Vol. 323, No. 22, P. 1538; Gayle, Helene D., et al.; A random sample of 16,863 blood specimens taken at health clinics at 19 U.S. colleges and universities indicates HIV infection exists at a 0.2 percent rate on campuses nationwide, report Helene Gayle and colleagues of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). HIV infection presents a growing problem on college campuses,
"Siege at AIDS Home Further Divides Neighborhood": Los Angeles Times (11/29/90), P. A45; Serrano, Richard A.; A siege that took place Tuesday night between police and AIDS patient Alberto Alvizuri at the Mid-City AIDS Shelter in Los Angeles has further divided the neighborhood. For three hours, tenant Alberto Alvizuri shot at police, who then evacuated the block and lobbed tear gas at Alvizuri, who finally ended the seige by
"Philadelphia AIDS Director Is Told He Has Disease": Philadelphia Inquirer (11/29/90), P. 5B; Tofani, Loretta; Jim Hymes, 40, director of the Philadelphia AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, said Wednesday that he learned he has AIDS on Monday. I ve devoted most of my professional life to fighting AIDS. And now I m an AIDS patient, said Hymes, who described receiving the diagnosis as painful. Unlike many people who firs
"Topics of the Times: Touched by AIDS": New York Times (11/29/90), P. A28; On World AIDS Day Saturday, New York will shut off the lights that illuminate part of Manhattan s skyline in the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings from 7:45 to 8 p.m., as part of an effort by arts institutions and AIDS organizations to commemorate lives lost to AIDS. AIDS has deeply affected so many New Yorkers tha
"Miami Firm Hopes to Take Pain Out of Going to Dentist": Wall Street Journal (11/29/90), P. B4; Pearl, Daniel; Miami s Noven Pharmaceuticals has developed an anesthetic pad that may eliminate the need for injections for deep cleanings and limited drillings at the dentist s office. The company hopes to get Food and Drug Administration approval for human trials of the pads in early 1991. The wafer-shaped pad creates a lasting
"Forum Set on Women and AIDS": Washington Post (11/29/90), P. DC7; Portner, Jessica; In commemoration of World AIDS Day, a dozen Washington, D.C., community groups are planning a forum on HIV risks for women and teenage girls Monday night at Ballou High School. The forum will attempt to educate local women with candid and specific information on the risks to themselves and the community. The D.C. De
"Study: 1-in-500 Rate at Colleges for AIDS Virus": Philadelphia Inquirer (11/29/90), P. 10A; Haney, Daniel Q.; A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study of 16,863 blood samples drawn for various purposes and randomly tested at 19 U.S. universities indicates that two-tenths of 1 percent were infected with HIV. The CDC said the findings indicate that one in 500 college students is infected with HIV, or 25,000 to 35,000 student
"Researchers Gain in Mapping How AIDS Virus Enters Cells": New York Times (11/29/90), P. A1; Angier, Natalie; Researchers have used X-ray crystallography to provide a highly-detailed three-dimensional picture of the CD4 receptor, the protein on the surface of the T4 lymphocyte to which HIV attaches when it infects white blood cells. Dozens of laboratories have raced to understand the precise interaction of CD4 and HIV gp120,
"First Conference of AIDS Activists Draws Hundreds": OutWeek (11/28/90) No. 74, P. 26; d'Adesky, Anne-Christine, and Wofford, Carrie; More than 250 AIDS activists met Nov. 10-11 in Washington, D.C., at the AIDS Treatment Activists Conference (ATAC) to exchange strategies for local and national political action, analyze existing drug regulatory mechanisms, and discuss the latest trends in AIDS treatment research. Activists say the conference was par
"Domestic Abstracts: Risks of Blood Exposure to the Cardiac Surgical Team": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/28/90) Vol. 264, No. 20, P. 2632; A study of the risk of HIV transmission from patients to cardiac surgical teams during operations reveals a high risk of glove penetrations, skin punctures, lacerations, and eye slashes, reported James Pate of the University of Tennessee in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. The risk is perceived to be slight but concer
"Doctors Wary of Gays, PWAs, Study Finds": OutWeek (11/28/90) No. 74, P. 26; Clark, Joe; A survey of the attitudes of 260 physicians in Ohio, Chicago, and the province of Ontario showed that doctors may find ways to avoid contact with HIV-infected persons that go above and beyond wearing masks and gloves, reported Dr. Kathryn Taylor of the University of Toronto. More than half of doctors queried about pe
"Governor Recognizes AIDS Awareness Week in Virginia": United Press International (11/28/90); Richmond, Va.--Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, kicks off AIDS Awareness Week in Virginia, with activities planned to educate people about AIDS in public schools and libraries, doctors offices, coin laundries, day-care centers, housing projects, and other locations. The Virginia Department of Health said Gov. L. Douglas Wild
"Death Rates up for AIDS, Flu, Violence": United Press International (11/28/90); Bass, Janet; Washington--Deaths due to AIDS, homicide, and influenza rose in 1988, killing more people than in any other year on record, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported. During the one-year period, AIDS deaths rose 20 percent, according to Final Mortality Statitistics of the CDC National Center for Health Statistic
"Fighting AIDS with VCRs": New York Times (11/28/90), P. D17; After being turned down by Fox and MTV, AIDS Project Los Angeles has decided the only way to publicize candid AIDS prevention messages is through the VCR. The group has produced a 60-second public service message, produced pro bono by Hisk productions, featuring a half-dressed couple who decide not to have sex withou
"Suit Faults Exemption on Services for Catholic AIDS Nursing Homes": New York Times (11/28/90), P. B3; Verhovek, Sam Howe; Three AIDS advocacy groups--the Gay Men s Health Crisis, ACT UP, and Anger into Direct Action--filed suit in New York State Supreme Court Monday to challenge a decision to allow the Catholic Archdiocese of New York to operate nursing homes for AIDS patients without providing condoms, safe-sex counseling, and abortion
"Genentech Tests Vaccine to Fight Onset of AIDS": Wall Street Journal (11/28/90), P. B6; A genetically-engineered AIDS vaccine developed by Genentech Inc. has entered human trials, with 55 HIV-infected symptomless individuals receiving the experimental vaccine, the company said. The vaccine, a gene-spliced piece of HIV coat protein gp120, is designed to boost the immun
"Brazil Sees AIDS Epidemic with 100,000 Cases by 1994": Reuter (11/27/90); Rio De Janiero, Brazil--The Brazilian Health Ministry fears that the country faces an estimated 100,000 citizens with AIDS by 1994, fostered by a poor health-care system, an HIV-infected blood supply, widespread drug use, and a carefree and promiscuous lifestyle. Brazil, which has 13,817 reported cases of AIDS, has l
"New York City Recalls Condoms Given to AIDS Groups, Teens": Reuter (11/27/90); Schoolman, Judith; New York--After the Food and Drug Administration s announcement that several lots of the Saxon Spermicidal condoms failed to pass leakage tests, New York City Health Department has recalled more than 750,000 condoms distributed to community-based AIDS and teen-pregnancy groups. City Health Commissioner Woodrow Myer
"Women are Awakening to the Trauma of AIDS": USA Today (11/27/90), P. 4D; Painter, Kim; Social workers say women at highest risk for HIV infection typically do not realize they need to be tested, and health-care workers do not suspect it and don t recognize it when the see it. The World Health Organization has dedicated World AIDS Day, Sat., Dec. 1, to women and AIDS. I
"Our Towns: Drug Works, But Insurer Won't Pay": New York Times (11/27/90), P. B1; Winerip, Michael; The lack of a national policy on insurance reimbursement for experimental therapies creates inconsistencies among different carriers and even among regional Medicare carriers on who will pay for cancer or AIDS treatments. The National Cancer Institute gives away the cancer drug fludarabine via compassionate release,
"Lab Notes: Newest Tests for AIDS Get Away From Needles": Wall Street Journal (11/27/90), P. B1; Chase, Marilyn; The newest tests for AIDS are noninvasive, eliminating the use of needles and blood samples to extend HIV screening in developing countries, where medical technology is scarce, and to minimize the risk to health-care workers in developed countries of HIV infection from accidents while drawing blood. Calypte Biomedica
"Lab Notes: Time-Release Therapies May Have Foamy Future": Wall Street Journal (11/27/90), P. B1; Chase, Marilyn; Doctors are testing a new drug-delivery system based on a spongy lipid foam as a vehicle for the time-release of cancer chemotherapy drugs. The new delivery system could potentially be used for treatment of Kaposi s sarcoma in AIDS patients, said the system s developer, Dr. Sinil Kim of the University of California a
"World Press Briefing: Women Want to Know Who AIDS Carriers Are": Insight (11/26/90) Vol. 6, No. 48, P. 38; At a meeting of the Swaziland Council of Churches, women asked that the names of people with HIV be made public so that the people would know whom to avoid. Swaziland s health minister has already said the country will not publish the names of people with HIV/AIDS. A health ed
"Safe Sex Shop Blends Humor with Business of Education": Associated Press (11/26/90); Buelow, Michael C.; Madison, Wis.--The Safer Sex Boutique in Madison, Wis., offers condom-shaped candy, earrings and key chains that store condoms, and boxer shorts adorned with glow-in-the-dark smiling condoms in an effort to promote safe sex and educate about AIDS with humor. The boutque opened Nov. 5 and has drawn about 2,000 people
"AIDS Moving Beyond High-Risk Groups": United Press International (11/26/90); New HIV infection figures for Virginia reflect national trends: more women are becoming infected and the disease is moving from high-risk IV drug users and homosexuals to the general population. A published report by the state Health Department has determined that half of the 179 women infected since July 1989 have a
"A 'Trojan Horse' Could Fortify AIDS Patients": Business Week (11/26/90) No. 3189, P. 93; Buderi, Robert; Mycobacterium avium intracellulare (MAI), an otherwise rare infection, may infect 30 percent to 50 percent of people with AIDS, experts say, yet the disease is difficult to treat because it hides within cells. Antibiotics, which cannot penetrate cell membranes, are ineffective. However, the
"'AIDS Quarterly' Probes Depth of Poland's Health Dilemma": Los Angeles Times (11/26/90), P. F12; Koehler, Robert; Last night s edition of The AIDS Quarterly addressed the problem of AIDS in Poland . AIDS hits the poorest countries, whose health care systems are ill-equipped to handle it, hardest. Poland has become a perfect setting for the nightmare of AID
"On Medicine: Information Lapse Slows Word on AIDS Treatments": Los Angeles Times (11/26/90), P. B3; Steinbrook, Robert; None of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases $900 million AIDS budget--$950,000 of which goes to its communications office--gets spent on specifically informing physicians about new AIDS therapies. The institute relies on drug companies to send letters at their own expense to physicians on their
"Passage of AIDS Act Draws Applause in Pa.": Journal of Commerce (11/26/90), P. 6A; The unanimous passage last week of the Confidentiality of HIV-Related Information Act by the Pennsylvania legislature has drawn praise from AIDS service groups because the bill will encourage people to seek testing and early intervention for HIV. A spokesperson from the Philadelphia AIDS Activities Coordinating Offic
"Arts Beat: Bittersweet 'Day Without Art'": Washington Post (11/26/90), P. B7; Yasui, Todd Allan; Cultural institutions across the country will observe the second annual Day Without Art Saturday to commemorate the toll AIDS has taken on the arts community and increase AIDS awareness. Tom Sokolowski, organizer and director of the Gray Art Gallery at New York University, said the increased participation in the ev
"Less Visible but Heavier Burdens as AIDS Attacks People Over 50": New York Times (11/26/90), P. A1; Brozan, Nadine; AIDS now far more frequently affects older people--those over 50--than those under the age of 13, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported recently. The CDC s most recent figures indicate that older people account for 15,696 cases of AIDS, or 10 percent of cases reported. Experts say the disease presents a num
"Bookshelf: AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use": Lancet (11/24/90) Vol. 336, No. 8726, P. 1285; Pinching, Anthony J.; AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use, edited by C. F. Turner et al., is an impressive and useful resource for the desks (not the shelves) of social scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, politicians, and policy makers interested in the research response to AIDS and the state of knowledge about AIDS, s
"UK: HIV--Future of Social Care": Lancet (11/24/90) Vol. 336, No. 8726, P. 1308; The latest U.K. AIDS figures have added impetus to government initiatives to set up local preventive and community care services, comments an Economist correspondent. The U.K. Department of Health said heterosexual infections increased 95 percent in the last year and cases among women increased 72 percent. Chief Me
"Little Chance of Rare AIDS Virus Infecting the Blood Supply, CDC Says": Associated Press (11/23/90); Neergaard, Lauran; Atlanta--Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials said Friday that although HIV-2 could enter the U.S. blood supply, the cost of detection would not be worth efforts to screen for the rare strain of HIV. Tests for HIV-1 will usually detect HIV-2, CDC officials said. A CDC study of more than 25,000 blood samples d
"500,000 Asians Infected with AIDS Virus, U.N. Commission Says": Reuter (11/23/90); Bangkik, Thailand--The U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific said Friday that an estimated 500,000 Aisans carry HIV. The agency warned that the small number of cases reported so far is no cause for optimism. Asian countries had only reported 2,000 cases as of February.
"Sexual Lifestyles Under Scrutiny": Nature (11/22/90) Vol. 348, No. 6299, P. 276; Wellings, K., et al.; Diseases such as HIV that are transmitted via sexual contact make urgent the development of methods to quantify sexual behavior patterns, write K. Wellings and colleagues of St. Mary s Hospital Medical School, London. The study of sexual behavior has received little funding and less serious attention, and is usually
"Scientific Publishing: What the Journals are Saying": Nature (11/22/90) Vol. 348, No. 6299, P. 272; Anderson, Christopher; Journals have different stances on whether or not they will allow early release of results with important public health implications. In general, the more technical the journal, the more tolerant it is of early release. The New England Journal of Medicine will consider early release and permit discussion of results
"Scientific Publishing: Pressure for Quick Release": Nature (11/22/90) Vol. 348, No. 6299, P. 272; Anderson, Christopher; The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a Jan. 15 meeting to establish procedures for the immediate dissemination of critical research findings, in the wake of allegations in the New York Times that NIH delayed five months in releasing data that showed steroids to be effective in treating pneumocystis in AID
"Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy for Severe Pneumocystis Carinii" Pneumonia in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: New England Journal of Medicine (11/22/90) Vol. 323, No. 21, P. 1444; Gagnon, Suzanne, et al.; Early adjunctive therapy with corticosteroids in 12 AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) improved survival and decreased the occurrence of respiratory failure, report Suzanne Gagnon and colleagues of the University of Miami School of Medicine. Twenty-three pati
"Special Report: Consensus Statment on the Use of Corticosteroids as" Adjunctive Therapy for Pneumocystis Pneumonia in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: New England Journal of Medicine (11/22/90) Vol. 323, No. 21, P. 1500; Masur, Henry, et al.; Five randomized trials assessing the efficacy of adjunctive therapy for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) with corticosteroids showed results sufficiently compelling to warrant a consensus statement, report the members of a National Institutes of Health-University of California
"Research Implicates AIDS-Like Virus in Immune System Disorders": Reuter (11/22/90); Arieff, Irwin; Washington--A retrovirus cousin of HIV recently discovered in the salivary glands of patients suffering from Sjogren s disease, a rare autoimmune disorder, is implicated in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and provides new evidence that AIDS may be an autoimmune disease, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Scie
"Determination of HIV-1 Status of Discarded Sharps: Polymerase Chain" Reaction Using Minute Quantities of Blood: Journal of the American Medical Association (11/21/90) Vol. 264, No. 19, P. 2501; Raffanti, Stephen, et al.; Needle-stick injuries from discarded sharps present a special hazard if the patient source is unknown, but the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and immunoblotting can be used to detect HIV in a minute quantity of blood from even a month-old source, write Stephen Raffanti and colleagues of Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mi
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