Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, December 18, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 8 Word Count: 475
David S. Cloud, Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON - President Clinton on Tuesday formally adopted the goal of finding a vaccine and a cure for AIDS, marking the first time the government has stated national objectives for combating the disease. The National AIDS Strategy, the report from the National AIDS Policy Office, purports to be a blueprint for the fu
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, December 16, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 8 Word Count: 1,163
Uli Schmetzer, Tribune Staff Writer.
MEMO: Usually home-brewed, a tacitly accepted narcotic derived from poppy seeds sets off fears of epidemic after tainted needles from outside sellers spread HIV. TEXT: SVETLAGORSK, Belarus - The locals call the opiate black and brew it on their kitchen stoves. Its base is poppy seeds, fresh in summer, dehydrated in win
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, December 13, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 4,150
Stevenson Swanson and Vincent J. Schodolski, Tribune Staff Writers. Tribune correspondents Lisa Anderson and Joseph A. Kirby in New York, V. Dion Haynes in Los Angeles and Glen Elsasser in Washington contributed to this report.
MEMO: Family feud. Racked by diverse opinions, the Catholic Church in America is like an argumentative family gathered around the table. The question is whether the disputes will become so rancorous that the family will fall apart. SERIES: JOURNEY OF FAITH. Catholicism confronts the doubts and demands of a new age. DAY
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, December 13, 1996 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO DU PAGE Page: 8 Word Count: 340
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
The Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago s largest private HIV/AIDS service provider, and STOP AIDS, an agency stressing education and prevention programs, are merging their efforts, it was learned Thursday. Officials from both organizations said the merger will benefit people who use the services while cutting administ
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, December 4, 1996 Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO DU PAGE Page: 8 Word Count: 519
Casey Banas, Tribune Education Writer.
MEMO: COLUMN: About DuPage. Education. TEXT: Ask DuPage County 7th and 8th graders how to prevent the spread of AIDS, and a frequent answer will be abstain from sex. That is the message from many of the 175 youngsters from 12 schools who competed in the 1996 World AIDS Day essay contest sponsored by the DuPage County H
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, December 2, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 810
Tara Gruzen, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune news services contributed to this report.
MEMO: Millions turn out for World AIDS Day. In Chicago and around the globe Sunday, people marked the ninth annual World Health Organization s day for AIDS awareness in their own way. TEXT: Four years ago, Chicagoan Chris DeChant decided to tell the country he was HIV positive. On Sunday, he joined millions of people a
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, October 12, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 841
Brad Hahn, Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON - As a sprawling AIDS Memorial Quilt was being assembled this week, Chicago s David Pavlik did all he could to focus on the task at hand, not on the sorrow behind it. I m keeping very busy because I won t let my emotions get a hold of me at this point, said Pavlik, whose contribution to the quilt recalls his
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, October 7, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,401
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer.
When Richard Quattrocchi applied for life insurance several years ago, a paramedic came to his home and drew a few vials of blood as part of the physical. A year later, Quattrocchi switched insurance companies. This time someone came to his office and took a few drops of blood. Quattrocchi filed away the difference in
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, September 29, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,373
Mary Jacoby and Mike Dorning, Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans agreed Saturday to strip controversial restrictions on legal immigration out of a landmark bill on illegal immigration, bowing to White House demands and underscoring their weakened position going into the fall election campaign. With Republicans eager to adjourn and return to the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, September 17, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 3 Word Count: 569 MEMO: COLUMN: City watch. Health.
James Hill, Tribune Staff Writer.
Many people walk pass the Uptown Bank Building on Broadway near Lawrence Avenue unaware that there s more than just people s life savings inside. In Suite 1110, people are trying to save lives. The AIDS Alternative Health Project (AAHP), founded in 1986 by a small group of acupuncturists and massage therapists, is a no
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, September 16, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 10 Word Count: 475
Laurie Goering, Tribune Staff Writer.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Chagas disease, a deadly parasitical infection that affects more than 16 million people in Latin America, may soon have a cure. Scientists at the Venezuela Research Institute say they have for the first time successfully killed Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, using an anti-
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, September 5, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 2 Word Count: 320
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
Organizers for AIDS Walk Chicago warned Wednesday that scam artists who say they are collecting funds for their cause on the street are pocketing the money. Paul Hook, executive director of AIDS Walk Chicago, which has raised $6 million to help people with HIV and AIDS, said the organization has received several calls
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, September 3, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 3 Word Count: 521 MEMO: COLUMN: City watch. People.
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
When volunteers for Open Hand Chicago began delivering warm dinners and box lunches to 35 people with HIV and AIDS in December 1988, their efforts were among the final kindnesses their clients enjoyed. Eight years later, volunteers still deliver meals, but 75 percent of Open Hand s service now is rendered by three pant
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, August 27, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,008
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer.
The big news coming from the just-completed 11th International Conference on AIDS, in Vancouver, Canada , was protease inhibitors , a new class of drugs that may enable AIDS patients to live to normal life expectancy. But Laurie Priddy says the busiest exhibit at the conference was that of a small Chicago concern--Fema
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, August 4, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 962
James Hill, Tribune Staff Writer.
The nightmarish anxiety of taking an important test is a feeling rarely matched: sweating palms coupled with butterflies in your stomach, cold sweats and a sense of utter helplessness. When you are taking a test for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, the anguish can be even worse. Man, it s like being on pins and n
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, August 1, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 4 Word Count: 606
Tara Gruzen, Tribune Staff Writer.
A few years ago, the Worth Police Department responded to the suicide of a man who shot himself in the head. Wanting to spare the family more heartache, officers began looking for someone to clean the scene. They had to work through the night before they were successful. What the officers were up against in the search
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, July 23, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 4 Word Count: 422
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
Rev. Bernard Turner, a Catholic priest from Albany, N.Y., predicted that his Monday afternoon workshop probably wouldn t draw a big crowd. His topic, after all, was death, and there was competition from other workshops, a sunny afternoon and people s inclination to duck the subject. He was right. His audience numbered
(CT) - SUNDAY, July 14, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 1,046
Jeremy Manier, Tribune Staff Writer.
By all rights, the Christmas party Robert threw last December should have been his last. A Chicagoan who has lived with HIV infection since 1984, Robert, 39, had entered the most dangerous stage of AIDS. I was sick and getting sicker, he recalled. His T-cell count--a vital indicator of the progression of AIDS--had reac
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, July 11, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 555
Matt O'Connor, Tribune Staff Writer.
For more than a year, Robert Viola is said to have been an active and generous member of the board of directors of AIDS Care, a residence for homeless AIDS victims. But a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former employee of Viola s marketing, communications and graphics design firm portrayed Viola as a heartless emp
The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. N.W., Washington, DC 20071 - July 08, 1996, FINAL Edition Section: A SECTION, p. A04 Story Type: News National; News Foreign Line Count: 54 Word Count: 596
David Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer
VANCOUVER, B.C., July 7 - The 11th International Conference on AIDS opened here today with all the ceremony and international flavor of an antimicrobial Olympic Games. This is the first international AIDS conference in two years, and with 15,000 delegates, journalists and commercial exhibitors, it is the largest so far
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, July 7, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: COMMENTARY Page: 17 Word Count: 978
Joan Beck
For a change, there is much encouraging medical news to cheer about at the current 11th International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver. But the price of what may be life-saving progress is sobering. And it foreshadows some painful decisions about how much taxpayers and insurers may be willing to spend on people with HIV
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, June 30, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: SPORTS Page: 7 Word Count: 811
Bonnie DeSimone, Tribune Staff Writer.
U.S. Olympic boxers and officials last week spoke out about their fears that the Olympic movement s hands-off approach to AIDS could place them in jeopardy. Many states require that professional boxers be tested because of the risk that blood spattering could transmit the disease, although there are no known cases of f
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, June 28, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 413
Jeremy Manier, Tribune Staff Writer.
The governing body of the American Medical Association voted Thursday to advocate mandatory HIV testing for pregnant women and newborns, acting against the recommendations of the U.S. Public Health Service and one of its own committees. The move came in a 185-181 vote in the AMA House of Delegates, on the last day of t
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, June 21, 1996 Edition: NORTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO NORTHWEST Page: 7 Word Count: 544
Evan Osnos, Tribune Staff Writer.
As a respiratory therapist at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey in 1985, Betty Smith, experienced first-hand the ignorance and fear surrounding HIV/AIDS, before the disease became a household word. I had a patient and got to know the patient quite well. And the patient had AIDS, Smith said. And I was in his room, and
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, May 23, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 727
Cindy Schreuder, Tribune Staff Writer
A baby at Wyler Children s Hospital apparently was stuck with an HIV-tainted needle after a hospital technician misplaced a used needle in the nursery, an attorney for the family said. Chicago police are not planning to bring criminal charges in the Feb. 12 incident because there is insufficient evidence to support suc
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, May 8, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,036
Cindy Schreuder, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune reporter Jeffrey Bils contributed to this article
This much is agreed: Three months ago, an infant girl was discovered by a nurse at Wyler Children s Hospital with an HIV-tainted needle stuck in one of her legs. But after two news conferences and a complaint to police Tuesday, the filing of a lawsuit Monday, and an internal investigation by the hospital, a bizarre and
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, May 2, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 14 Word Count: 619
Mary Jacoby, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Federally mandated testing of pregnant women and infants for the AIDS virus will likely never be needed as more doctors routinely screen for the disease, authors of a mandatory testing proposal said Wednesday. Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), an obstetrician, and Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart surgeon, said
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, May 2, 1996 Edition: MCHENRY COUNTY Section: MCHENRY COUNTY Page: 1 Word Count: 872
Patricia Tennison, Tribune Staff Writer
When Jan Schiller of Algonquin was dying of AIDS, her disease was kept a family secret. For two years, they told no one--not the neighbors, not co-workers, not the church. Her husband, Roger, took care of Jan while running their daughter Rachel, now 10, to piano lessons and drama practice. He squeezed in chores like gr
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, May 2, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 686
Lori Lessner, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune reporter Terry Wilson contributed to this article
In Cook County Hospital, doctors who suspect a pregnant woman of drug abuse often ask to test her newborn baby for the HIV virus so they can start preventive treatment immediately. If the mother says no, doctors cannot overstep her rights--even if they think the decision would further endanger both mother and child.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, April 21, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 2,055
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer.
In 1987, Dale Kempf, a medicinal chemist for Abbott Laboratories , saw an opportunity to get in on an intriguing project at the very beginning--and he took it. It may well have been the opportunity of a lifetime--to make significant headway in the battle against AIDS. Kempf had been working on a class of compounds call
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, April 21, 1996 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 2,277
Paul Salopek, Tribune Staff Writer.
LA CRESCENT, Minn. - For Bobbie Bringe, the summer clouds of mosquitoes in her back yard have always been a small price to pay for life in suburban paradise. Bringe s peaceful street, a skate-boarder s dream, winds up a hill overlooking the sky-colored currents of the Mississippi River. The lawns are flawless. The corn
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, April 20, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 593
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer.
Hoping to put still more of the legal troubles stemming from tainted blood behind it, Baxter Healthcare Corp. has agreed to take part in a proposed settlement of $640 million for AIDS-infected hemophiliacs in the United States . Baxter, Bayer Corp., Armour Pharmaceutical Co./ Rhone-Poulenc Ro
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, April 19, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 7 Word Count: 544
Teresa Jimenez, Tribune Staff Writer.
The man who bit a Sam s Club employee in Gurnee and then said he had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, on Thursday was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Lake County judge on charges related to the incident. John D. Merritt, 45, had pleaded guilty to forgery, possession of a fictitious driver s license and obstruction
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, April 12, 1996 Edition: SOUTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO SOUTHWEST Page: 6 Word Count: 351
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
As of Thursday, the word was out. Placards and posters featuring singer Patti LaBelle and a person who has HIV were posted in Chicago Transit Authority buses, trains and train platforms to inform minorities that a form of pneumonia that once was the most common cause of death among people with AIDS is easily preventabl
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, April 11, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 7 Word Count: 325
Matt O'Connor, Tribune Staff Writer.
A 33-year-old Cook County man first learned he had been tested for HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, only when he was billed by the hospital for the unauthorized test, according to a federal lawsuit. The suit, filed this week in federal court in Chicago by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, alleges the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, April 11, 1996 Edition: EVENING UPDATE Section: NEWS Page: 7 Word Count: 878 MEMO: COLUMN: EVENING. Health
Huntly Collins and Shankar Vedantam
PHILADELPHIA - The young biochemist tried to contain her excitement as she peered through the microscope in her cramped laboratory. The AIDS virus she had disabled was no longer spreading from cell to cell. It was no longer infectious. If true, Nancy Kohl and her colleagues at Merck & Co. had found a way to sto
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, April 5, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 402
Barbara Sullivan, Tribune Staff Writer.
Abbott Laboratories has suspended distribution of one of its tests used to detect antibodies for the virus that causes AIDS, following reports of cases in which inaccurate information was provided by the test. The test had not been used in the United States , a spokesman for the pharmaceutical giant said Thursday.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, April 2, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 888
Michael Martinez and Tracy Dell'Angela, Tribune Staff Writers.
Quickly and with little comment last week, the Chicago school board updated its policies on HIV, eliminating seemingly discriminatory rules that had lingered on the books since the early days of AIDS hysteria. The revision was made after a legal group warned school leaders privately that the 1986 policy violated the fe
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, March 2, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 284
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune wires contributed to this story.
A powerful new AIDS drug that Abbott Laboratories began developing just a year and a half ago was approved Friday by the Food and Drug Administration. Approval of ritonavir , which has been shown to prolong, at least slightly, the lives of severely ill patients, came with record speed.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, March 1, 1996 Edition: LAKE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO LAKE Page: 1 Word Count: 628
Teresa Jimenez, Tribune Staff Writer.
Blood test results for the alleged HIV carrier who bit a Sam s Club employee may never be made public--because the case may never go to trial. John D. Merritt, 45, of Chicago, was charged with criminal transmission of the HIV virus, among other crimes, after the alleged biting incident on Jan. 6. On Thursday, Merritt d
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, February 27, 1996 Edition: EVENING UPDATE Section: NEWS Page: 7 Word Count: 828
Tananarive Due, Tribune Staff Writer
On his car, a black convertible, Miami high school teacher Michael J. Basso has a cellophane sticker proclaiming MAVERICK. The typical student s definition of that term, when it comes to teachers: pretty darn cool. Hey, you ve GOT to be cool if you just published a book about sex, right? Basso, a health teacher at Miam
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, February 22, 1996 Edition: SOUTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO SOUTHWEST Page: 2 Word Count: 344
Christi Parsons, Tribune Staff Writer
SPRINGFIELD - AIDS cases reported in Illinois dropped for the first time last year, decreasing 28 percent from 1994. The number of new cases reported in 1995 was 2,186, down from 3,040 the year before, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Dr. John Lumpkin, the department s director, credited education
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, February 19, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: SPORTS Page: 10 Word Count: 812
Sam Smith, Tribune Pro Basketball Writer.
So just what message is Magic Johnson sending in his return to the NBA? Certainly he can play, as the Lakers, with Johnson recording his first triple double since coming back, are making a move in the West. Certainly he s breaking the hateful prejudices associated with AIDS by competing in a contact sport and doing wha
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, February 13, 1996 Edition: LAKE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO LAKE Page: 1 Word Count: 1,014
Teresa Jimenez, Tribune Staff Writer.
John D. Merritt not only has been accused of biting another human being, he also has been charged under a recently affirmed state law that makes it a criminal offense for a person with HIV to bite someone. But whether the charge will stick won t be determined until March 11, when the results of Merritt s test for the h
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, February 13, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: SPORTS Page: 1 Word Count: 842
Michael Hirsley, Tribune Staff Writer.
If heavyweight boxer Tommy Morrison had intended to fight in Illinois instead of Nevada over the weekend, he would have taken many medical tests . . . but not the one that kept him from stepping into the ring in Las Vegas. That s because testing for the virus that causes AIDS is not required in Illinois or most other s
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, February 10, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 927
William Neikirk and Jan Crawford Greenburg, Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON - President Clinton said Friday he will sign into law a defense spending bill that requires the Pentagon to discharge members of the military with the AIDS virus even though he believes the measure is unconstitutional. In an unusual move to undercut the law, he directed Atty. Gen. Janet Reno not to defend th
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, February 9, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 711
Peter Gorner, Tribune Staff Writer.
Researchers who designed a highly publicized baboon-to-human bone marrow transplant said Thursday they were mystified by test results suggesting that the transplant was not working but that the AIDS patient was doing well anyway. They said they will seek permission from the government to repeat the procedure in another
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, February 7, 1996 Edition: SOUTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 7 Word Count: 711
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
Officials of the Illinois Department of Public Health, faced with escalating numbers of AIDS cases, recently came up with what they thought would be a simple plan for keeping tabs on the disease: establish a statewide registry with the names of all of the people who test positive. A similar registry for people who have
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, February 2, 1996 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: SPORTS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,084
Melissa Isaacson, Tribune Staff Writer.
LOS ANGELES - He still leaks optimism like a drainpipe leaks water. That part is innate. But in optimism, there must be a tomorrow and the future is the last place Magic Johnson wants to be. The last thing he wants to think about. The present is good enough. It has to be. And so it is a different Johnson that we see to
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