Chicago Tribune (CT) - Tuesday, December 24, 1985, Page: 8
Jon Van, Science Writer
A 28-year-old woman arrested Monday on charges of prostitution agreed to provide blood for a test to see if she harbors the antibody to the HTLV-III virus associated with AIDS. A spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Health said the woman agreed to the test after counseling with health advisers. The test indicates
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, December 22, 1985, Page: 11
Ronald Kotulak, Science writer
SOUTH AMERICA, especially Brazil , has become the newest AIDS hot spot, according to World Health Organization officials who are tracking the deadly disease s relentless spread around the world. Four years after the acquired immune deficiency syndrome was first described in the United State
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY December 15, 1985; Page: 10
Robert Blau, Tribune feature writer
Abbott is now working on a new confirmation test that would eliminate the need for the Western blot and thus facilitate on-site confirmation at blood- center or alternate test-site laboratories. Abbott says the new test will be eligible for FDA approval in January. In Illinois until recently--when the state Department
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY December 15, 1985; Page: 10
Robert Blau, Tribune feature writer
I would like to think that those who were exposed to the virus knew it would take particular efforts not to expose anyone else. That s why I think the test should be generally available. It should be inexpensive. It should be used. It should be supported by the gay community and the straight community. But I don t thi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY December 15, 1985; Page: 10
Robert Blau, Tribune feature writer
But in Colorado, which has 125 reported cases of AIDS, a recent state health department regulation requires all blood-collection agencies to file all positive test results so the state health department can monitor the donors medical history. It is in such a regulation, critics of the reporting plan claim, that the gre
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY December 15, 1985; Page: 10
Robert Blau, Tribune feature writer
In March of 1984, as the panic of AIDS took hold of the general population, researchers confirmed what they had suspected for more than a year. A 38-year-old California woman who in connection with a hysterectomy had received a transfusion of blood that had come from a gay man contracted the dreaded disease. Her case w
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Saturday December 14, 1985, Page: 3
PARIS - France s Pasteur Institute, which pioneered research into AIDS, said Friday it has filed suit against the United States to establish its claim that it discovered the deadly virus before American researchers. Very large sums could be at stake in royalties from worldwide testing for AIDS, the institute s director
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY December 12, 1985, Page: 6
Jon Van, Science writer
CORRECTION: Additional material published Dec. 14, 1986: Corrections and clarifications. -- Stories in some editions of the Dec. 6 and Dec. 12 Tribune listed an incorrect telephone number to call for appointments for the City of Chicago s test for the antibody to the HTLV-III virus associated with AIDS. The correct num
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, November 24, 1985, Page: 3
Ronald Kotulak, Chicago Tribune
BRUSSELS - A new class of compounds designed to fool the AIDS virus has produced promising results in preliminary tests with patients, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Many people with AIDS have had complete restoration of their immunological function and a great deal of clinical improvement, said Dr. R
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, November 24, 1985, Page: 12
Ronald Kotulak, Chicago Tribune
BRUSSELS - Anger over the growing scientific evidence implicating central Africa as the source of the AIDS epidemic forced the first international conference on African AIDS to end on a sour note Saturday. Representatives from central Africa said they were being unfairly blamed for the epidemic and accused the Western
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Friday, October 18, 1985, Page: 4
Jon Van, Science writer
The first documented U.S. cases of AIDS virus infection being spread from patients to health care workers who suffered cuts or needle punctures was reported in Friday s Journal of the American Medical Association . Researchers said evidence continues to show that acquired immune deficiency syndrome is not spread by cas
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Friday, August 30, 1985, Page: 5
Jon Van, Science writer
Texas researchers have synthesized a portion of the virus thought to cause AIDS, a step that could lead to a vaccine against the deadly disease. Dr. Gordon Dreesman of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, in San Antonio, said Thursday that his lab had synthesized a sequence of 18 amino acids that match a p
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Saturday, August 17, 1985, Page: 3
WASHINGTON - The virus believed to cause AIDS has been found in the teardrops of at least one patient with the disease, but it is not known whether the disease can be transmitted through contact with tears. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health said they found low levels of the AIDS virus, HTLV-III, in the t
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Wednesday, August 14, 1985, Page: 2
Jon Van, Science writer
As AIDS cases in Chicago continue to rise, other sexually transmitted diseases are declining significantly, city health officials reported Tuesday. We believe that greater awareness about the danger of AIDS and how it is spread has contributed to safer sexual practices, said Dr. Lonnie Edwards, city health commissioner
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, August 4, 1985, Page: 13
Jon Van, Science writer
PUBLICITY SURROUNDING the AIDS diagnosis of movie idol Rock Hudson and his dramatic trip to France in search of experimental treatment underscores the dilemma of those with fatal diseases for which no cure is known. The actor s trip raised questions why a victim of acquired immune deficiency syndrome need travel to a f
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Thursday, August 1, 1985, Page: 21
Ronald Kotulak, Science writer
The first test to diagnose early AIDS infections is being developed by scientists at Abbott Laboratories , the North Chicago company announced Wednesday. Unlike the existing AIDS blood screening test, which detects antibodies to the AIDS virus, the new test will detect the virus itself, said David Jones, a company spok
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, June 30, 1985, Page: 3
Ronald Kotulak, Science writer
As the AIDS epidemic continues to grow, people should practice living defensively to reduce their risks of developing the deadly disease, an AMA official recommends. Individuals have the power to protect themselves more than science currently can, said Dr. George D. Lundberg, editor of the Journal of the
As the AIDS epidemic continues to grow, people should adopt defensive tactics to reduce the risks of developing the deadly disease, an American Medical Association official recommended Thursday. Individuals have the power to protect themselves more than science currently can, said Dr. George D. Lundberg, editor of the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Thursday, June 13, 1985, Page: 1
Ronald Kotulak, Science writer
The number of AIDS cases in Chicago is increasing so rapidly that city health officials fear the deadly disease will claim 1,000 victims here by 1987. The latest figures show that the number of AIDS victims is doubling here every 10 to 12 months, said Chet Kelly, project coordinator for the city Health Department s AID
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, June 9, 1985, Page: 1
Ronald Kotulak, Science writer
The threat caused by AIDS to the safety of the nation s blood bank system has been reduced by a new test that dramatically lowers the risk of developing the disease from blood transfusions, according to an American Red Cross spokesman. The chance of developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome from transfusions has d
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Sunday, January 27, 1985, Page 1
Ronald Kotulak, Science Writer
THE AIDS EPIDEMIC appears to be growing out of control, according to some health experts who estimate that at the present rate of acceleration, there may be more than 200,000 new cases by the end of 1988. We are clearly in the midst of a major medical catastrophe, the potential impact of which is now only beginning to
The Chicago Tribune; Sunday, January 13, 1985, Page: 15
Jon Van, Science writer
TESTING TO make the nation s blood supply safer from contamination by the AIDS-linked virus could backfire and make the blood less safe, some physicians and blood bank officials fear. The test, which government officials say may be approved for use by blood banks within a month or two, detects antibodies to a virus, ca
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Friday, January 11, 1985, Page 3
Jon Van, Science writer
A SCREENING TEST for the virus associated with AIDS has proven successful and should be available to blood banks within a month or two, according to government researchers. A study published in Friday s Journal of the American Medical Association found that a test suitable for mass screening by blood bank laboratories
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