Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, December 28, 1994 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 829
Cindy Schreuder, Tribune Staff Writer.
Women infected with HIV are significantly more likely than men to die at every stage of the illness, a ground-breaking study has found. Researchers for the study, to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association , did not determine why women were more likely to die. But they speculate that m
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, December 26, 1994 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 819
Flynn McRoberts, Tribune Staff Writer.
Bill McMillan doesn t fit the stereotype of a public housing tenant. He s a 35-year-old graduate student, not a single mother. His apartment complex is not a gang-infested high-rise, and it isn t part of some immense public housing development.But McMillan and his neighbors share at least one potential problem with oth
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, December 11, 1994 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 3 Word Count: 720
Barbara Mahany, Tribune Staff Writer.
COLUMN: Friends in deed. There it is, tucked along North Sheridan Road, where the street takes an elbow turn and confuses every cab driver in the city with the street directionals telling you you re at the corner of Sheridan and Sheridan. Braced by a corner saloon on one side and a no-name coin laundry on the other, th
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, December 2, 1994 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 790
Larry Hartstein and Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writers.
The dimming of the Christmas tree in the Daley Center Plaza to a candlelight vigil in Humboldt Park to special events in the city s art community marked World AIDS Day in Chicago Thursday. The observances, which mirrored those around the world, were part of an effort to fight a deadly disease that has afflicted about 9
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, December 1, 1994 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 1,094
Trisha Gura, Tribune Staff Writer.
MTV s Pedro Zamora, Chicagoan Michael James Crafton and assistant movie director Jim Wiggins all died of AIDS in November. All were gay. All were ages 30 or younger.Though these were not the only people to die of AIDS recently, the young age at which they contracted the disease is troubling medical experts: Why, at a t
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, November 20, 1994; Edition: CHICAGOLAND NORTH Section: NEWS Page: 6 Word Count: 905
Rogers Worthington, Tribune Staff Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A U.S. Army medic cleaning a nasty stab wound in a youth s forearm paused to announce he had treated his last Haitian for the night. That s it. I m out of rubber gloves, said Pfc. Brian St. Louis, a medic with the 10th Mountain Division.Army medics have willingly treated Haitians who seek help.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, November 15, 1994; Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: EDITORIAL Page: 24 Word Count: 432
AIDS has mobilized American society as few modern diseases ever have, with the federal government pouring money into research on a cure, drug regulators speeding new medicines to market, condoms gaining favor as a preventive and safe sex becoming a household term. Fear and compassion have been powerful spurs to action.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, November 10, 1994 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 34 Word Count: 758
Lisa Anderson, Tribune Staff Writer
NEW YORK - Their message: Condoms don t save lives. The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which is waging an ad campaign around the East Coast against prophylactics, wants warning labels on condom packaging.But given the medical evidence supporting the efficacy of condoms as barriers agains
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, November 8, 1994 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 923
William Mullen, Tribune Staff Writer
Ten miles off the southwest coat of Java in Indonesia there is an island called Tinjil, a remote and unlikely outpost in the great human struggle to find a cure for AIDS. Just 5 square miles of jungle, Tinjil is home to pythons, brown rats, monitor lizards and a large group of transplanted macaque monkeys. Scientists p
WASHINGTON-At least five volunteers in the government s principal AIDS-vaccine study have become infected with the AIDS virus despite receiving the vaccine. That has raised concerns not only about how well the vaccine works but whether it may have increased the likelihood of their infection and--in one case--even accel
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