Chicago Tribune (CT) - Wednesday December 30, 1987
Katherine Seigenthaler and Pat Jamison. William Presecky contributed to this report
State and county officials predicted Tuesday that Illinois couples who apply for marriage licenses, particularly those who do so at the last minute, may encounter weeks of delay in their plans if they fail to comply with a new state law requiring AIDS testing. Beginning Jan. 1, if prospective brides and grooms fail to
NEW YORK - In the two centuries since Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids who had had cowpox didn t get smallpox, medicine has ultimately narrowed the search for the source of each infection to a single microbe. As some diseases were traced to a particular virus and others to a unique strain of bacteria, the one-bu
To best comprehend the role played by other diseases in the attack by HIV, a brief and highly simplified tour of the human immune system is in order. The immune system is the body s defense against diseases, from the common cold to Lassa fever, and it encompases a variety of complex weapons, the most important of which
BLOOMINGTON, IND - The tranquil Indiana University campus seems an unlikely setting for people planning war; indeed, the people themselves are unlikely warriors. Yet war is their purpose. They, the nation s most expert public health authorities, were brought together to plan defenses against a mysterious and lethal ene
WASHINGTON - The spread of AIDS among drug abusers, and subsequently among their sexual partners, could create the potential for a bridge to the general population, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse said Thursday. But Dr. Charles Schuster said that, as with many aspects of AIDS, too little data has b
WASHINGTON - The spread of AIDS among drug abusers, and subsequently among their sexual partners, could create the potential for a bridge to the general population, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse said Thursday. But Dr. Charles Schuster said that, as with many aspects of AIDS, too little data has b
WASHINGTON - While AIDS is not running rampant through the heterosexual, drug-free community in the U.S., too little is known about the disease to say that it never will, scientists told the Presidential Commission on AIDS Friday. It does not appear likely that American heterosexuals will experience an epidemic on the
WASHINGTON - The Presidential Commission on AIDS began to grapple Thursday with the question of how many people carry the AIDS virus, how many will develop AIDS and why these numbers have been so difficult to put together. One scientific expert after another offered varying numbers, and told the commission it was impos
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Presidential Commission on AIDS pledged Wednesday to speed up the work of his group to report on such key issues as why there is so much debate over the estimates of prevalence of the AIDS virus. This is the most significant infectious disease this nation has ever faced, retired Adm. Ja
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Public Health Service acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that it might have originally overstated the prospective size of the AIDS epidemic, and the agency made public new evidence showing that the spread of the AIDS virus in recent years has slowed. In a report delivered to President Reaga
A revised White House estimate of the scope of the AIDS epidemic is likely to conclude that the spread of the infection was initially overstated and now has fallen off, according to Reagan administration officials familiar with its preparation. One official said the report would scale down the widely quoted projection
A revised White House estimate of the scope and progress of the AIDS epidemic is likely to conclude that the spread of the infection was initially overstated and has now fallen off, according to Reagan administration officials familiar with its preparation. One official said the report would scale down the widely quote
It was the spring of 1959. Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president, Ben Hur had just swept the Oscars, the Chicago White Sox were about to embark on a pennant-winning season, and Robert R. was 5 years old. On the other side of the Atlantic, an anonymous resident of Kinshasa, Zaire , was having his AIDS-infected blo
ST. LOUIS - Long before Robert R. finally entered the hospital, his body had begun to fail him in many ways. For nearly two years his lower legs and genitals had been swollen. Since then the black teenager had grown thin and pale, fatigued and short of breath, and now his bloodstream swarmed with the microbe called Chl
Dr. Mervyn Silverman, who usually hopscotches between his offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, made a special stop in Detroit a few weeks ago. At the request of Roger Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Corp., Silverman held a special meeting with the GM chief and about a dozen
John N. Maclean. Tribune science writer Jon Van contributed to this report
WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders have told a presidential commission on AIDS that the federal government, and not the states, must lead the drive to educate the American public about the deadly disease. But the members of Congress addressing the commission hearing Wednesday acknowledged that they have been unable to
Requiring AIDS antibody tests for the 200,000 people who apply for marriage licenses in Illinois each year will uncover fewer than 100 infected people annually, will cost taxpayers more than anticipated and will do little to halt the spread of the disease among the highest risk groups, say the government officials who
A new test may be able to detect infections with the AIDS virus earlier than can be done with the currently available AIDS antibody test, according to a team of researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke s Medical Center. The new test may further help safeguard the nation s blood supply by preventing the use of blood do
Federal health officials are expecting a surge in the number of reported AIDS cases because of a broadened definition of the disease taking effect Tuesday that includes some AIDS patients who were previously not counted. The expected increase in cases will not mean that the deadly disease is spreading more rapidly or t
The AIDS virus resembles a naturally produced human protein necessary to the well-being of some kinds of nerve cells, scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Los Angeles have discovered. The finding, reported in Friday s edition of the journal Science, could explain how infection wit
According to the study, because none of the soldiers with AIDS had acknowledged being homosexual or using intravenous drugs, and because all had admitted having had sex with female prostitutes, they must have acquired AIDS from the prostitutes. The Los Angeles Times called the study the first evidence of heterosexual f
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY August 5, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 2 Word Count: 902
Jean Latz Griffin
The possibility of mandatory reporting of those who test positive for the AIDS virus is playing havoc with testing programs in Chicago as some people rush to get tested and beat the deadline while others fail to keep their appointments because they are afraid their names will be revealed. Increasing numbers of people a
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY June 21, 1987 By: Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 899
Ronald Kotulak, Science Writer
The board of trustees of the American Medical Association released a report Saturday containing 17 recommendations on how to deal with AIDS that stressed protection of patients rights but that also strongly urged measures to prevent the further spread of the deadly disease. Since there is no cure for AIDS and no protec
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY June 8, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 13 Word Count: 807
Joan Beck
It was the largest scientific conference on a single disease ever. But after hundreds of scientific papers, research reports and round-tables, the Third International Conference on AIDS in Washington ended with molehills of good news and mountains of uncertainties, unfulfilled hopes and political conflicts. AIDS is far
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY June 2, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 1,027
Ronald Kotulak and Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - A third AIDS-like virus has been discovered in the western African nation of Nigeria , suggesting that there may be many more viruses capable of causing a similar, serious and potentially deadly disease in humans, Dr. Robert Gallo, a codiscoverer of the AIDS virus, announced Monday. The new information
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY June 1, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 2,974
John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune
SERIES: The AIDS crisis. Six years after the first reported AIDS case, scientists are trying to determine how widespread the disease is and how it will affect our future. The second of two articles. TEXT: LOS ANGELES - Earlier this year, when more than 50 prominent American scientists were asked by a giant pharmaceutic
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY May 31, 1987 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 3,859
John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune
SERIES: The AIDS crisis. Six years after the first reported AIDS case, scientists are trying to determine how widespread the disease is and how it will affect our future. The first of two articles. AIDS MONDAY: A look at AIDS incidence. TEXT: LOS ANGELES - The item appeared in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY May 29, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 3 Word Count: 362
Pamela Sherrod
Abbott Laboratories has applied to the Food and Drug Administration to market the first diagnostic test for the detection of antigens of the AIDS virus, the company said Thursday. Abbott said the test is an enzyme immunoassay that detects at least one key antigen or protein produced by the AIDS virus--HIV. The test h
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY May 15, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 410
Ronald Kotulak, Science Writer
Doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters and police officers may risk being infected with the AIDS virus when they provide emergency health care to bleeding patients without taking proper precautions, according to a team of doctors from Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. Their warning was pr
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY May 10, 1987 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: TEMPO Page: 7 Word Count: 1,637
Ronald Kotulak, Science writer
The AIDS virus, the most complex disease-causing organism science has ever had to deal with, may have still another cruel surprise in store. Scientists generally believe that a vaccine against the AIDS virus is the only way to stop the epidemic, but many are convinced that such a vaccine is a long way off--and may neve
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY April 1, 1987 Edition: CHICAGOLAND Section: NEWS Page: 7 Word Count: 700
George de Lama, Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - President Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac announced new steps Tuesday to coordinate their nations search for a vaccine to combat AIDS and agreed on a U.S. approach to nuclear arms reductions in Europe. In his first state visit to the White House, France s conservative prime minister also so
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY March 15, 1987 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: HOME Page: 14 Word Count: 438
Mary Daniels
A new virus affecting domestic cats that causes a chronic immunosuppressive syndrome, labeled FTLV for feline T-lymphotropic lentivirus, has been isolated in a California cattery by a group of researchers at the University of California at Davis. The isolation of FTLV has implications for both veterinary and human medi
SHOULD couples be required to have a blood test for the AIDS virus before they can get a marriage license? (Heterosexual spread of AIDS is increasing. Fifty times more people are now estimated to be infected with the virus and to be infectious to others than actually have the disease itself.) Should routine prenatal ca
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY March 2, 1987 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 13 Word Count: 760
Joan Beck
Should couples be required to have a blood test for the AIDS virus before they can get a marriage license? (Heterosexual spread of AIDS is increasing. Fifty times more people are now estimated to be infected with the virus and to be infectious to others than actually have the disease itself.) Should routine prenatal ca
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