Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, December 25, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 837
Michael Hirsley, Tribune Religion Writer.
In a society torn by violence, poverty, drugs, crime and moral ambiguity, religious leaders are using one of their most persuasive addresses-their Christmas messages-to urge those seeking spirtual direction to find guidance in religion. Come Home for Christmas is the theme of the spiritual message from United Methodist
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, December 16, 1993 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 10 Word Count: 530
Allan Johnson, Tribune Staff Writer.
COLUMN: Places to be. The Kupona Network, a not-for-profit South Side center and shelter that promotes AIDS/HIV education and awareness, and assists the infected, has gained the support of Imani, a group that raises money in the African-American community. Imani is Swahili for faith. Imani s Kupona 1993 campaign, which
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1993 Edition: NORTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: NORTHWEST Page: 2 Word Count: 614
Jack Houston, Tribune Staff Writer.
COLUMN: Northwest watch. Schools. In a small room near the school cafeteria, a group of Rolling Meadows High School students meets each week over lunch to talk about life in the suburbs. Suburban living isn t a hot topic if you ve lived in the suburbs all your life. But when you re black or Hispanic and you ve recently
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, December 14, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: KIDNEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 233
COLUMN: TOUGH NEWS. Health experts are telling people not to panic after two surprising AIDS cases were made public last week. In one case, a teenage boy apparently transmitted the virus to his teen brother. Both boys are hemophiliacs, and a report released by the Centers for Disease Control says that, since they didn
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, December 12, 1993 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: WOMANEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 972
Rich Dvorak. Special to the Tribune.
WASHINGTON - When she was a public health official in Washington state and Oregon, Kristine Gebbie says, few people paid attention to her warning that women would become infected with the AIDS virus at a higher rate than men. Gebbie says this was due to her low-profile posts, but activists say it was due to her tendenc
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, December 12, 1993 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,434
Jerry Thomas, Tribune Staff Writer.
CORRECTION: Additional material published Dec. 14, 1993: Corrections and clarifications. A graphic Sunday incorrectly stated that HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a major killer of young women. The correct statement is that AIDS (acquired immune deficiency sydrome) or complications from HIV infections are a major
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, December 10, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 1,200
Laurie Goering, Tribune Suburban Affairs Writer.
It s hard to think of nosebleeds as potentially deadly. But they re treated that way every day in schools across the country. That s because school officials know a basic truth about AIDS: It is transmitted when blood touches blood, and that can happen even when two people aren t having sex or sharing needles. The coun
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY December 5, 1993 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 946
Uli Schmetzer, Tribune Staff Writer
BEIJING - When Chang died of AIDS this fall, he wasn t just another casualty of the disease but the victim of an official policy that spread the myth only foreigners could be infected with the virus. For years China juggled statistics to show that the world s most populous nation had just 1,159 confirmed cases of HIV i
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY December 5, 1993 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: TEMPO Page: 2 Word Count: 854
Ron Kotulak and Jon Van, Tribune Staff Writers
Russian and University of Michigan researchers may have found a new way to prevent flu epidemics: Immunize schoolchildren. In the U.S. and most other countries, flu vaccines are targeted for the sick and elderly. But a two-year study of a new nasal-spray vaccine showed that by immunizing children first, the spread of i
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY December 1, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 918
Peter Gorner and Michael L. Millenson, Tribune Staff Writers. Tribune intern Rich Dvorak in the Washington bureau contributed to this report
Responding to feelings of hopelessness over the AIDS epidemic, the Clinton administration Tuesday announced a new plan to refocus and re-energize our best minds for a concerted attack on this killer. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala outlined formation of a new federal task force on AIDS drug developmen
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY December 1, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 21 Word Count: 511
Ronald Kotulak, Tribune Staff Writer
A new study showing higher-than-expected rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in young adults is raising fears among public health experts that AIDS also may become more common in the general population. If STDs are out there in big numbers, and HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) is another STD, then we can expe
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY December 1, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 3 Word Count: 438
Julie Irwin, Tribune Staff Writer
A new oral health clinic in Uptown promises to end some of the medical worries of patients like Betty Pejko. Pejko, who is HIV-positive and suffers from second-stage periodontal disease, said that since she was diagnosed with HIV, dental care has been difficult to find. One dentist refused to treat her; another sent he
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY November 25, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 16 Word Count: 399
Suzanne G. Hlotke, Tribune Staff Writer
At the Borden Library in Elgin, a visitor this week got a firsthand look at how devastating AIDS and HIV can be, not only for the people with the illnesses but for their loved ones. An exhibit, featuring the artwork and stories of Chicago Latino children whose relatives suffer from AIDS or HIV, revealed the gut-wrenchi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY November 15, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 6 Word Count: 865
Lou Carlozo, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune reporter Don Babwin contributed to this article
PHILADELPHIA - Steven Cook had been in therapy off and on for more than a dozen years, he said, trying to work through his dependence on drugs and alcohol and an addiction to sex. But it wasn t until 1991, Cook said, months after he learned he had the AIDS virus, that he began to seek the reasons why his life had unrav
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY November 14, 1993 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: TEMPO Page: 2 Word Count: 1,356
Jean Latz Griffin, Tribune Public Health Writer
It s Fire Island, N.Y., in the 1970s. Men in bathing suits have their arms draped around other men in bathing suits. They are laughing, walking in the sand at one of the few places in the U.S. where they are in the majority, where being gay is the rule. Riding an intoxicating new wave of gay liberation, many have embra
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY November 14, 1993 Edition: FINAL EDITION Section: WOMANEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 1,528
Margaret Carroll, Tribune Staff Writer
By spending time with a woman who has the AIDS virus-in a doctor s waiting room, in a public aid office, shopping for dinner, picking up her children after school-photographer Sue Hostetler witnessed the fortitude required to live with the double burden of a disease that carries a social stigma and has no cure. Over a
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY November 11, 1993 Edition: NORTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: NORTHWEST Page: 6 Word Count: 380
William Grady, Tribune Legal Affairs Writer
SPRINGFIELD - An Illinois law that allows prosecutors to bring criminal charges against people suspected of spreading the AIDS virus was denounced as vague and irrational in arguments Wednesday before the state Supreme Court. There is no rational basis for what the legislature did here, said Michael L. Closen, a profes
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY November 9, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 1,135
William Grady, Tribune Legal Affairs Writer
Lawyers challenging a four-year-old Illinois anti-AIDS statute contend it was written so broadly, an HIV-infected mother could be hauled off to prison for breast-feeding her baby. Or, they argue, someone with AIDS could face the threat of criminal prosecution for shaking hands with a sweaty palm, or sharing a communion
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY November 8, 1993 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 3 Word Count: 1,013
Jean Latz Griffin, Tribune Public Health Writer
At the end of each year, Sony Music Co. takes the 50 or so employees in its Rolling Meadows office on a weekend getaway, a time of fellowship and fun to make up for the long hours they put in throughout the year. Wives, husbands or significant others of the employees-all the folks who also have been affected by Sony s
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY November 8, 1993 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: DU PAGE Page: 1 Word Count: 949
Jerry Thomas, Tribune Staff Writer
Melissa Klancir, an 18-year-old Lake Forest College freshman, says she has never engaged in sex, never used drugs, never received a blood transfusion. But there she was last week, one of about 50 students sitting nervously on wooden chairs in the cozy Coffee House on the North Shore campus-waiting to be tested for the
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