Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, December 24, 1995; Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 951
Sabrina L. Miller, Tribune Staff Writer.
With a rising number of AIDS cases in the predominantly Latino communities of Humboldt Park, Logan Square and West Town, Omar Lopez thought getting support to build apartments for residents with the disease would be easy. But bad timing, the wrong location and politics proved him wrong. There is a great need for AIDS h
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, December 22, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,588
Tracy Dell'Angela, Tribune Staff Writer.
Illinois inmate Derek Green can t walk, talk or feed himself. His brain is starting to shrink, and the Taylorville Correctional Center medical staff is ill-equipped to handle his constant care. Green--aspiring veterinarian turned career criminal--is dying of AIDS. His South Side family wants him released for the holida
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, December 7, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 10 Word Count: 783
Two groups of scientists are reporting that they have identified long-sought chemicals produced by the immune system that have stopped the AIDS virus in its tracks in laboratory experiments. AIDS researchers said the discoveries, reported in papers released Wednesday by two major scientific journals, could have profoun
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, December 1, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 927
Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune Staff Writer.
Like any ambitious teenager, Gina Salgado has a long list of goals. The 17-year-old Chicago resident would like to become a better driver, maybe learn to parasail and certainly meet her soul mate and start a family one day. Getting along better with her older sister wouldn t be bad, either. But unlike most teens, who f
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, November 21, 1995 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO DU PAGE Page: 1 Word Count: 853
Lynn Van Matre, Tribune Staff Writer
When Franciscan Sisters founder Clara Pfander dispatched the first humble handful of her followers to America in the 1870s, the newly arrived nuns mission was the same as it had been in their native Germany : to serve the poor. The order was founded to meet the needs of the times, said Sister Mary Virginia Barta, a lo
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, November 12, 1995 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 2,080
John Crewdson, Tribune Staff Writer.
BETHESDA, Md. - The prospects for an AIDS vaccine by the end of this century, already dim, are likely to be dashed by new data showing that what had been regarded as the most promising experimental vaccine has failed to protect at least 17 volunteers from infection with the AIDS virus. In the mid-1980s, many researcher
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, November 2, 1995 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 4 Word Count: 698
Bob Condor, Tribune Staff Writer
Alternative health strategies moved a bit more into the mainstream of medicine last week. The National Institutes of Health designated eight specialty research centers to study the effectiveness and safety of such treatments as acupuncture, herbs, massage/bodywork, chiropractic and vitamin therapy. Many of us are start
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, October 20, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 13 Word Count: 768
Kerry Luft, based in Rio de Janeiro, is the Tribune's South America correspondent.
MEMO: In a national campaign using euphemisms to teach citizens about condoms, lians amused, and aghast. Kerry Luft finds Brazi COLUMN: Letter from Rio de Janeiro. RIO DE JANEIRO - The biggest controversy in Brazil these days involves the misadventures of Braulio, a legendary figure who has never-thank goodness-been se
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, October 19, 1995 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 4 Word Count: 795 MEMO: COLUMN: Health & Science. Feeling good.
Bob Condor, Tribune Staff Writer
He has been getting flu shots for five years, and he can t remember getting sick. That s why David Morin is first in line every fall to inoculate himself with what are actually deactivated flu viruses. Some people are concerned about flu shots when they hear what s in the shot, said Morin, 35, a registered nurse who ha
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, October 10, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 4 Word Count: 344
Nancy Ryan, Tribune Staff Writer
The 60,000 walkers and their sponsors in AIDS Walk Chicago, the Midwest s largest fundraiser for the treatment of AIDS patients, should surpass last year s record of $1.6 million, event organizers said Monday. So far, $1.4 million in pledges and corporate support have been collected since the Sept. 17 event. By the end
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, October 7, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 995
Lynn Van Matre and Linda Young, Tribune Staff Writers. Tribune reporter Andrew Fegelman contributed to this article
The discovery of tuberculosis in the Kane County Jail has spread fear through the county s judicial center, leading one judge and several workers wary of the airborne bacteria to wear surgical masks in court. Two judges have issued orders that no inmate appear in court without a clean bill of health as far as tuberculo
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, October 5, 1995 Edition: SOUTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO SOUTHWEST Page: 5 Word Count: 475
Ray Quintanilla, Tribune Staff Writer
The Cook County Department of Public Health is directing some $200,000 in grants toward helping to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS in the suburban communities where this infectious disease is spreading most rapidly. And for the most part, county officials said, the virus is particularly troublesome in the older suburbs
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, October 3, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 468
Jan Crawford Greenburg, Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal appeals court decision that blocked thousands of hemophiliacs with the AIDS virus from jointly suing drug companies that sold HIV-contaminated blood-clotting products. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago ruled in March that the hemophilia
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, September 21, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 24 Word Count: 805
Vincent J. Schodolski, Tribune Staff Writer.
LOS ANGELES - Several nights each week, Filipe Hernandez climbs into a small van and cruises the seedy streets of Hollywood looking for members of an endangered generation. Armed with sandwiches, leaflets and condoms, Hernandez tries to make contact with teenagers-the group of Americans now contracting the AIDS virus a
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, September 12, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,475
Laurie Goering, Tribune Staff Writer
ASINDOOPO, Suriname - For generations, families in this remote rain forest village on the Suriname River have used the woods as their pharmacy. A spiny solanacea plant, with its huge purple-veined leaves, is used to make a cooling bath used to treat fever. A smaller piparacare is good for stomachache, villagers say. An
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, September 7, 1995 Edition: NORTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO NORTHWEST Page: 1 Word Count: 589
Patricia Tennison, Tribune Staff Writer
Dr. Ronald Hirsch recalled the case of the Elgin woman, a Motorola Inc. worker, who received a call that her ex-husband had just died of AIDS in Florida. The couple had been divorced for eight years, but she got a blood test anyway. She tested positive for HIV and died a year later. To this day, said Hirsch, a Lake in
Chiago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, September 5, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,130
Uli Schmetzer, Tribune Staff Writer
BEIJING - Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here Tuesday morning amid indignant charges that her Chinese hosts had been muzzling delegates to the 4th UN Conference on Women with heavy-handed policing and surveillance. The allegation that China has violated its UN mandate as host nation has added a new controversy to the U
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, August 30, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 1 Word Count: 2,148
Jean Latz Griffin, Tribune Staff Writer
Sean Martin lived under the cloud of a laboratory error for a year, thinking he was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. During that time, he recalls, he developed a strong kinship with a group of HIV-positive gay men. When a second test determined he was not infected, his relief was almost overshadowed by a
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, August 25, 1995 Edition: MCHENRY COUNTY Section: METRO MCHENRY Page: 2 Word Count: 628
Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune Staff Writer
Are Bruce Williams and his family victims of AIDS discrimination, as he contends, or are they-as the village of Morton Grove maintains-merely quintessential pack rats ? Officials with the Illinois Department of Human Rights say they haven t faced a question like this before, but they say they will soon issue an opinion
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, August 9, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 917
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
Chicago health officials and activists are convinced there are more than 100 teenagers in the city who have contracted HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS. But two community-based support groups that have set out to help youngsters with HIV are having a hard time finding them. Health statistics show a growing number
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, July 21, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,132
Gary Dretzka, Tribune Staff Writer.
LOS ANGELES - In a city that worships movies-where multiscreen cinemas serve as shrines to both a booming industry and an art form-the opening of yet another theater shouldn t have raised a ripple of excitement, let alone attracted limousines full of celebrities and corporate kingpins and a gantlet of paparazzi. But th
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, July 4, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 3 Word Count: 598
Sharman Stein, Tribune Staff Writer.
It s a letter that can be chilling to its recipient, especially when it seemingly comes out of the blue. But when Mt. Sinai Hospital sent out letters to some 300 patients last week, informing them that they had had contact with a health care worker who has tested positive for the HIV virus, it was just following state
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, June 29, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 14 Word Count: 533
Anita Srikameswaran, Tribune Staff Writer
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new technology that directly measures the level of AIDS infection in people and could improve therapy. Using advanced techniques for analyzing the condition of human cells, researchers believe they now can tell how many cells in a patient are infected with the human
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, June 27, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 3 Word Count: 646
Cheryl L. Tan, Tribune Staff Writer
When Niles West High School seniors Kristin Langwell and Rachel Gressel decided on their debate topic last year, they didn t know their progressive argument would spark a progressive accomplishment. At the nation s largest debate tournament last week, the Lincolnwood duo discussed why the United States should st
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, June 24, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 189
LONDON - A negative AIDS test may not mean the all-clear, even up to six months after a person has been exposed to the virus, French doctors warned. Most people who think they may be at risk of AIDS have two tests, one six months after the first, because the HIV virus that causes AIDS can sometimes hide quietly in the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, June 23, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 1 Word Count: 2,601
Gary Marx, Tribune Staff Writer
In a comfortable downtown Chicago restaurant, Stephen Donaldson is suddenly silent, his face turning a deep red, his eyes staring at nothing. Donaldson is trying to describe something so horrible, so sickening, so painful that it almost destroyed him. It is very difficult for me to talk about it, Donaldson says, taking
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, June 20, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 9 Word Count: 249
Kenan Heise, Tribune Staff Writer
Ida Greathouse, 42, a mother and an activist, attracted national attention to the needs of herself and others living with AIDS through efforts that included temporarily taking over the governor s office and getting the regional director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to meet with demonstrators. She
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, June 17, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 817
Jan Crawford Greenburg, Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON - In the second-largest settlement ever for health-care fraud, Caremark International Inc. has agreed to pay $161 million in criminal and civil fines for paying kickbacks to doctors and submitting false billings to the government. The Justice Department announced Friday that the Northbrook, Ill., company wil
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, June 2, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 3 Word Count: 513
Marianne Taylor, Tribune Staff Writer.
A Rolling Meadows startup company has filed to market what could become one of the nation s first home-test kits for the HIV virus. In doing so, Home Access Health Corp. could be elbowing for shelf space in the nation s pharmacies with medical-product powerhouses, including Johnson & Johnson , whose unit, Direct
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, May 27, 1995 Edition: SOUTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 354
Trisha Gura, Tribune Staff Writer
Imagine if scientists could unlock the secrets of the AIDS virus with a super-powered X-ray beam. Drugs then could be designed to thwart HIV action. Immunity-boosting vaccines would emerge. Such breakthroughs might extend to other viruses, such as those that cause hepatitis, herpes and even the common cold-until all ce
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, May 16, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 3 Word Count: 236
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer
Judith Johns, who has headed the Chicago Department of Public Health s HIV/AIDS program for three years, will step down from the post next month, a health department spokesman said Monday. Johns position as assistant commissioner of health for HIV/AIDS programs and policies will be filled June 12 by Robert Rybicki, who
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, May 12, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: CHICAGOLAND Page: 1 Word Count: 953
Maurice Possley, Tribune Staff Writer
In a continuing crackdown on physicians, the Illinois Department of Public Aid has ousted three doctors from the state s Medicaid program, including one who allegedly misdiagnosed a patient who died of complications due to AIDS. The agency also has moved to expel two other doctors from the program, according to its lat
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, March 24, 1995 Edition: EVENING UPDATE Section: NEWS Page: 2 Word Count: 301
Tribune Wires
MEMO: COLUMN: EVENING. People. Evidence proving the world s first AIDS case-a Briton who died in the 1950s-may have been false, the Independent newspaper said Friday in a case that could cast doubt on current wisdom over the deadly disease. Pinpointing the first victim is important for scientists eager to know the epid
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, January 6, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: EDITORIAL Page: 22 Word Count: 621
For several years it has been abundantly clear that Dr. Robert C. Gallo s claim to have used a virus of his own discovery in establishing the cause of AIDS was flatly untrue. The virus that Gallo isolated and used to gain a lucrative patent for an AIDS blood test actually came from a sample previously isolated by Frenc
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, January 1, 1995 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: WOMANEWS Page: 8 Word Count: 635
Eileen Durkin; executive director of the Howard Brown Health Center, the Midwest's largest private provider of HIV and AIDS services.
MEMO: COLUMN: Her say. Chances are that you or someone very close to you has been touched by the enormous tragedy of AIDS. A family member, a friend, a colleague at work may have revealed to you a heartbreaking story that has both frightened and humbled you. Four hundred thousand victims of AIDS have shared the news of
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, January 1, 1995 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 3,911
John Crewdson, Tribune Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - In March 1987, President Ronald Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac appeared in the East Room of the White House to announce that their governments had settled the question of whether scientists at the Pasteur Institute of Paris or the National Institutes of Health had invented the blood test f
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