Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY December 23, 1988 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 575
Jon Van, Science writer
A powerful new research weapon to fight AIDS was unveiled Friday by two groups of scientists that have successfully infected mice with the virus that causes the deadly disease. Until now, the virus that produces acquired immune deficiency syndrome has infected or caused symptoms only in humans. Some chimpanzees have be
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY November 8, 1988 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: DU PAGE Page: 7 Word Count: 327
James Strong
MEMO: This story is a composite of versions published in the various editions. TEXT: A study of intravenous drug users shows that 35 percent of them have been exposed to the AIDS virus, according to results released Monday by the Chicago Department of Health as it launched a public awareness program. Dr. Renslow Sherer
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY October 23, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: TEMPO Page: 10 Word Count: 468
Michael L. Millenson
In a finding that could have significant impact on AIDS research, a team of scientists say that many men infected with the AIDS virus show no evidence of it in their semen. And when the virus does occur in semen, it is found not in the sperm cells that take part in reproduction, but only in the seminal fluid that they
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY October 7, 1988 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 947
Jean Latz Griffin, Public health writer
During the first nine months of 1988, only 15 people have been found to be infected with the AIDS virus among the 125,000 required to take an AIDS test to get a marriage license, according to Illinois Department of Public Health figures. The cost of finding those cases was $693,000 apiece, based on the estimated $10 mi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY October 6, 1988 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 15 Word Count: 619
Jean Latz Griffin, Public health writer
The number of people who volunteered to be tested for infection with the virus that causes AIDS dropped 40 percent at Howard Brown Memorial Clinic and 16 percent at the city s two anonymous testing sites in September. Curt D Achille, the head of testing at Howard Brown, said he believes concern about a new AIDS secret
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY October 5, 1988 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 754
Jean Latz Griffin and John Camper
Two out of three single people in Illinois between 16 and 24 years old use condoms to protect themselves from AIDS, and four out of five say they have become more careful in choosing sex partners, according to a study released Tuesday by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The study, a repeat of one done 18 month
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY September 25, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: SUNDAY MAGAZINE Page: 10 Word Count: 2,760
Article by Dennis L. Breo
MEMO: Dennis L. Breo is the special-assignments editor of American Medical News and a SUNDAY contributing editor. This story has been entered on the data base in 4 parts. This is part 1. TEXT: In 1942 Anne Miller lay hours from death from blood poisoning in Connecticut s Yale-New Haven Medical Center. She had suffered
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY September 18, 1988 Edition: CITY EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 12 Word Count: 395
Michael L. Millenson
As many as 2 percent of the women giving birth in some Chicago-area hospitals that serve the poor and minorities are likely to be carrying the AIDS virus, a top federal health official said Friday. James Curran, director of the AIDS program at the federal Centers for Disease Control, added that counseling for women who
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY September 15, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,173
Ronald Kotulak and Peter Gorner
For the first time, scientists have transplanted human immune systems into mice that genetically lack any other way of fighting off disease. The breakthrough paves the way for long-awaited animal models for research on AIDS and many other diseases that strike the human immune system. The successful transplantation into
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY September 14, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 624
Charles Mount
A Cook County Board committee approved a measure Tuesday that would require County Hospital to inform patients that they have the right to refuse treatment by a health-care worker afflicted with the AIDS or related HIV viruses. The board s Health and Hospitals Committee, whose members include all 17 board members, vote
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY September 3, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 719
Daniel Egler, Chicago Tribune
SPRINGFIELD - Saying it did not destroy any guarantees of confidentiality, Gov. James Thompson signed legislation Friday allowing physicians to test patients for the AIDS virus without their knowledge or consent. The measure had been strongly supported by the Illinois State Medical Society but opposed by the state Depa
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY August 21, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 1,327
Jean Latz Griffin, Public health writer
The issue of confidentiality and informed consent in testing blood for the AIDS virus has pitted organized medicine against public health in Illinois, and the outcome of that battle could have a profound effect on efforts to control the virus and on the lives of those affected by it. A bill on Gov. James Thompson s des
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY August 3, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 540
George E. Curry, Chicago Tribune
MEMO: This story is a composite from the various editions. TEXT: WASHINGTON - President Reagan on Tuesday prohibited federal agencies from discriminating against employees with the AIDS virus and urged private employers to follow suit, but he stopped short of seeking a federal antidiscrimination law recommended by his
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY July 10, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 1 Word Count: 1,859
Peter Gorner, a Tribune science writer
As the AIDS epidemic continues to take its deadly toll, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is coming under heavy pressures to toss out proven safeguards and quickly approve new drugs that it doesn t trust. The agency s mandate is to make sure a drug is safe, stable and effective before it is released to the public.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY July 10, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: EDITORIAL Page: 2 Word Count: 435
In its last-minute bill-passing frenzy, the state legislature took two necessary steps toward treating AIDS more like a public health problem and less like a touchy civil rights issue. The changes essentially make it less difficult to test patients for evidence of an AIDS infection and slightly broaden the categories o
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY July 6, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: EDITORIAL Page: 16 Word Count: 319
Physicians and public health officials long have worried over whether their first responsibility is to guard an AIDS patient s privacy or to warn those he could be exposing to the deadly disease when a conflict between these rights cannot be worked out. Now, the American Medical Association is taking a reluctant bu
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY July 4, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 9 Word Count: 502
Jean Davidson
Individuals who sell or donate blood while knowing they carry the AIDS virus could be charged with a felony under a new law designed to further safeguard the blood supply. The bill is one of many measures passed by the General Assembly last year that became law on July 1. Among the others are laws that increase prison
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY June 28, 1988 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 624
Janet Cawley, Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - President Reagan received the report of his commission on AIDS Monday and praised the document, which calls for federal legislation to protect those with the disease from discrimination, as an impressive effort. Reagan appointed Dr. Ian MacDonald, his special assistant for drug policy, to review the nearly
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY June 27, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 11 Word Count: 824
Joan Beck
Without a vaccine or a cure, those who are plotting the fight against AIDS are relying increasingly on tracing the sexual contacts of persons infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) in hopes of keeping the virus from spreading further. In theory, these sexual partners are warned that they could have acquired the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY June 21, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 417
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
OSLO - A case of the AIDS virus infecting a Norwegian father, mother and daughter in the mid-1960s has been reported by researchers at the National Hospital and National Institute of Health in Oslo. The case, reported in the current issue of Lancet, the British medical journal, is believed to be the earliest instance o
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY June 18, 1988 Edition: NATIONAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 916
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
STOCKHOLM - The good news about AIDS is that the bad news isn t worse. No cures, vaccines or breakthroughs were presented at the 4th International Conference on AIDS, which closed here Thursday. But there were no real surprises, either, and that in itself is enough to cheer the scientists locked in combat with this dea
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY June 17, 1988 Edition: NATIONAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 534
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
STOCKHOLM - A preliminary report suggests that oral contraceptives may facilitate infection by the AIDS virus in women, a scientist told the 4th International Conference on AIDS Thursday. Dr. King Holmes, of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, said a study of prostitutes in Nairobi, Kenya , found that those taki
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY June 15, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 891
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
STOCKHOLM - AIDS has a silent infection phase that can persist for several years and cannot be detected by standard tests, researchers reported Tuesday at the 4th International Conference on AIDS. The full implications of this discovery aren t yet clear to scientists, who say the virus that causes AIDS-human immunodefi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY June 14, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 930
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
MEMO: This is a composite of the stories published in the various editions. TEXT: STOCKHOLM - Supplying free needles to drug addicts isn t an effective way to fight AIDS, but giving the addicts free drugs might be, a leading AIDS researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research said Monday. Dr. Robert Redfield,
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY June 13, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 6 Word Count: 518
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
STOCKHOLM - Antidiscrimination guarantees for AIDS patients are essential in fighting the disease, international health officials stressed Sunday in opening a worldwide meeting on AIDS. The antidiscrimination call and a warning that anyone infected with the AIDS virus should be considered in need of care reinforced mes
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY June 12, 1988 Edition: CITY EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 23 Word Count: 629
Tom Masland, Chicago Tribune
MBUYE, UGANDA - First there was only a young girl s prophecy. Then local peasants gathered near the church in December to await a promised appearance by the Virgin Mary. Burning crosses appeared in the sky, rosaries fell to the brick-red ground, clouds sank close to Earth and dozens of onlookers were transfixed, claim
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY June 9, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 25 Word Count: 777
Joan Beck
Whenever a system is brought into play to cope with AIDS-be it social, biomedical research or medical care system-its deficiencies are exposed. - Confronting AIDS, Update 1988, a new report by the National Academy of Sciences Complacency about AIDS may have begun to grow as the spread of the deadly virus outside of hi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY June 5, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 1 Word Count: 1,445
David Evans, The Tribune's military affairs writer
WASHINGTON - The fact that the AIDS virus can be transmitted through contaminated blood presents a unique challenge to the U.S. military, which regards its members as walking blood banks to be tapped in times of emergency. After the 1983 terrorist attack on the Marine headquarters in Beirut, for example, the wounded we
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY June 3, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 710
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - The head of the presidential AIDS commission Thursday called for state and federal antidiscrimination laws to protect AIDS patients in a detailed report that endorses many points suggested by leading medical authorities. The current draft of the report, which will be submitted to the White House by June 24
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY June 2, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 842
Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - The prestigious Institute of Medicine chided federal authorities Wednesday for failing to chart a coherent national AIDS strategy, citing a shortage of drug treatment programs and lack of federal antidiscrimination legislation for people infected with the AIDS virus. The strongest criticism in the institut
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY May 20, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 977
Tim Franklin, Chicago Tribune
SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Thursday against scrapping a controversial 5-month-old law that requires couples seeking marriage licenses to be tested for AIDS. The law has been widely criticized by health-care experts who say it is wrongly directed at a group of people with a low risk of contrac
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY May 6, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 12 Word Count: 360
Jon Van, Science writer
Preliminary evidence explaining why AIDS isn t spread by kissing was presented Thursday by federal researchers in the Journal of the American Dental Association. The researchers found that saliva inhibits the AIDS virus from infecting human cells. They are now looking for the component of saliva that blocks infection w
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY April 21, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 5 Word Count: 575
Bill Stokes
Now, can we finally settle back into our seats after the confusion produced by the publication of Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (Grove Press), the book that said a lot of us run the risk of getting AIDS, perhaps from eating in a restaurant. Maybe this summation will help with our perspective: The
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY April 14, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 3 Word Count: 378
Jean Davidson
State police are trying to find the perpetrator of a hoax in which fictitious letters were sent under a state letterhead to a man and woman in the Peoria area informing them of possible exposure to AIDS. Tom Schafer, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Public Health, said the perpetrator could face prosecution for
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY March 21, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 2 Word Count: 755
Cheryl Devall
Chicago public health officials are urging Illinois legislators to repeal the new law requiring that couples applying for marriage licenses be tested for the AIDS antibody. A mailing from the Chicago Department of Health argues that the testing, which has been in effect since Jan. 1, is diverting scarce resources from
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY March 13, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 4 Word Count: 401
Ronald Kotulak, a Tribune science writer
Two new studies flatly contradict assertions made in the controversial new book, Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS. The studies show that the disease has not had a significant impact on the general population, and that there is no evidence it can be contracted from kissing, toilet seats, mosquitoes, or c
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY February 28, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: TEMPO Page: 1 Word Count: 2,778
Lynn Emmerman
She tells herself she s okay. She has to believe that. Otherwise she couldn t muster the courage to don her uniform every day and face the streets. In the last year, the 38-year-old Chicago police officer has had to deal with a fear shared by growing numbers of officers-contracting AIDS on the job. During a routine sea
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY February 25, 1988 Edition: NATIONAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 3 Word Count: 483
Pamela Sherrod
SmithKline Beckman Corp. said Wednesday its new AIDS antibody test, available immediately, produced no false readings of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in clinical trials of patients who didn t have the disease. The test, which is called HIVAGEN, is intended for use in confirming specimens that are positive in the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY February 21, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 3 Word Count: 361
Chad Carlton, Chicago Tribune
SPRINGFIELD - A Kane County woman who applied for a marriage license last month has become the first AIDS-virus carrier detected by the state s new testing law, state health officials said Friday. The woman, whom Department of Public Health officials refused to identify, tested positive for the human immunodeficiency v
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY February 18, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,424
John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune
LONDON - A 2-year-old claim by scientists at Harvard University to have discovered a second virus capable of causing AIDS in humans has been dismissed as not authentic in a highly unusual paper to be published here Thursday by a rival team of Harvard researchers. Writing in Nature, the prestigious British scientific jo
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY February 3, 1988 Edition: NATIONAL Section: NEWS Page: 7 Word Count: 360
Jon Van, Science writer
The total number of AIDS cases reported in Chicago continued to climb in January with a new monthly record of 73 cases diagnosed, Dr. Lonnie C. Edwards, Chicago health commissioner, said Tuesday. The previous high of 70 cases was reported in December. The January cases include 69 men, 3 women and one child under 13. Th
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY January 31, 1988 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 6 Word Count: 1,424
John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune
LONDON - Cuban officials at an international AIDS conference in London have admitted that the extent of AIDS in their island nation is greater than previously acknowledged. And researchers at the University of Miami have discovered that some refugees from Cuba who took part in the Mariel boatlift nearly eight years ago
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY January 27, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 815
John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune
LONDON - The U.S. Public Health Service will soon be mailing an AIDS prevention brochure to every household in the United States , despite objections from the White House that the plan is ill-advised, unnecessary and a waste of federal money. The decision to proceed with the mass mailing, set for May or June, was discu
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY January 22, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 10 Word Count: 185
Jon Van, Science writer
The prevalence of malaria in central Africa is spurring an indirect spread of AIDS among African children, researchers reported in Friday s Journal of the American Medical Association . Children who become severely anemic because of malaria are treated with blood transfusions, researchers found, and those transfusions
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY January 20, 1988 Edition: CHICAGOLAND Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 761
Jane Tanner and Robert Enstad
Despite hundreds of requests each week from couples wanting to be tested for the AIDS virus so they can get their marriage licenses, Cook County Hospital will not provide that service, hospital officials said Tuesday. Premarital AIDS testing does not fit the definition of providing health care to indigents, said Terren
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY January 19, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 4 Word Count: 386
Jon Van, Science writer
Hospital charges for testing to determine whether a person carries the AIDS virus vary widely across Illinois, a survey by the Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council has found. A screening test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies may cost $12 at some Illinois hospitals and $81 in others. More sophi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY January 14, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 484
Jean Davidson
Guidelines proposed to implement new AIDS legislation approved last year by the Illinois legislature encourage voluntary compliance with the state s efforts to trace sex partners of AIDS victims while preserving the patients privacy, the state s public health director said Wednesday. Dr. Bernard Turnock, director of th
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY January 14, 1988 Edition: NATIONAL Section: NEWS Page: 7 Word Count: 353
Jean Davidson
Proposed guidelines designed to guard the identity of individuals who test positive for the AIDS virus, but who do not have the disease, don t require physicians to report the names of those persons to the state or require the persons to list their sex partners, Illinois public health director said Wednesday. The publi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY January 8, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 10 Word Count: 464
Jon Van, Science writer
Mandatory guidelines covering hospital tests of patients for AIDS virus infection are needed to stop doctors from ordering the tests without a patient s knowledge or consent, a new study concludes. In an analysis of AIDS virus antibody testing at a medical center affiliated with the University of Minnesota, researchers
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY January 1, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 14 Word Count: 646
Jon Van, Science writer
MEMO: This is a composite of stories from the various editions. TEXT: Becoming infected with the AIDS virus through heterosexual intercourse is a highly unpredictable and poorly understood process, concludes a government health study in Friday s Journal of the American Medical Association . The study found cases
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY January 1, 1988 Edition: SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 2 Word Count: 689
Pat Jamison
A long line of starry-eyed couples applied for marriage licenses, not because of the new state law mandating AIDS testing, many said, but rather to ring in the New Year with wedding bells. I really wouldn t mind taking the test, but I don t want to have to pay for it. That s what bothers me about this new law, said Dar
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