AIDS Weekly articles from September 1993, page 2

AIDS Weekly archives from September 1993

AIDS-related cancers emerging as a second epidemic. (University of Southern California)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: University of Southern California More than a decade after physicians unexpectedly encountered a rare cancer in young, gay men, AIDS-related malignancies have begun to show up in epidemic numbers, according to a review...

New compound inhibits HIV. (cosalane) (American Chemical Society)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: American Chemical Society A new treatment for AIDS under development at Purdue University may someday be used to intercept HIV before it attaches to a host cell, thus blocking the spread of the disease in HIV-positive...

Statement of AIDS organization, functions and delegations of authority. (Office of AIDS Coordination reorganized to become the Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: U.S. FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the following statement in the Federal Register: "Part H, Chapter HF (FDA) of the Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority for the...

IND granted for immune reconstitution therapy. (Investigational New Drug application by Health Professionals Inc.'s Center for Special Immunology) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: U.S. FDA Health Professionals Inc. (HPI), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Investigational New Drug application (IND) for the Center for Special Immunology...

First state-sponsored study of AIDS vaccine. (MicroGeneSys Inc.'s gp160-based vaccine) (Massachusetts)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Massachusetts Health officials disclosed that Massachusetts will conduct the nation's first state-sponsored tests of an AIDS vaccine. The brief announcement in Boston, Massachusetts, said therapeutic trials of the...

Drug trial goes wrong; fears spread to AIDS drugs. (5 deaths attributed to Fialuridine, being tested for hepatitis B) (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: U.S. NIH A fifth volunteer died August 31, 1993, from an experimental drug intended to cure hepatitis B. Agonizingly, the first clue was in plain sight a year ago, but researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of...

Lesbian sex may transmit HIV. (Texas)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Texas A doctor who's handled dozens of AIDS cases says he's treating two HIV-positive lesbians who may have become infected through sex with women. If so, Dr. David Wright's patients would be among the nation's first...

Polydex amends dextran/AZT drug patent. (Polydex Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) (Florida)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Florida Polydex Pharmaceuticals Limited, Boynton Beach, Florida, announced that it has amended its recent U.S. patent filing regarding the conjugation of AZT with dextran to cover improvements in the conjugating process. ...

VIMRx and Chemex to collaborate on hypericin development. (VIMRx Pharmaceuticals Inc., Chemex Pharmaceuticals Inc.) (Connecticut)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Connecticut VIMRx Pharmaceuticals Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, and Chemex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Fort Lee, New Jersey, announced that they have signed a collaborative agreement to explore the development of hypericin, VIMRx's...

Doctors search for histoplasmosis cure. (Missouri)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Missouri Unseen in the gentle winds that blow across river valleys of the Midwest are tiny spores - the germs of fungi that can spread illness among healthy people and even death to those with AIDS. Lodging first in the...

AIDS Litigation Digest released. (Product Announcement)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: U.S. Strafford Publications, Atlanta, Georgia, announced the publication of AIDS Litigation Digest - 1992, an authoritative guide to the continuing evolution of AIDS litigation. AIDS Litigation Digest - 1992 is a compact...

Federal judge to overturn law banning marriage of AIDS patients. (Aldon Anderson) (Utah)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Utah A federal judge said he will strike down a Utah law prohibiting AIDS patients from marrying. "This statute is clearly in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act," U.S. District Judge Aldon Anderson said....

Placental trophoblasts do not express CD4. (Ohio State University)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Ohio State University Researchers have long wondered why only one of every three babies born to HIV-infected mothers is also infected by the virus. Most experts would have expected much higher infection rates among those...

One in eight young men in northern Thailand infected with HIV-1.
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Thailand The AIDS epidemic in northern Thailand spread so fast during its first few years that 12 percent of young men in the general population are infected with HIV*1. Unfortunately, according to a study headed by...

More than 15,000 residents infected with HIV. (Indonesia)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Indonesia Health Minister Suyudi says the number of people carrying the HIV may reach more than 15,000, compared with the smaller, official figures the Indonesian government has released. In a written statement at the...

Poverty prevents many women from guarding against AIDS. (Haiti)
September 6, 1993... DATELINE: Haiti An unusual new study of poverty-stricken and AIDS -ravished Haiti underscores the plight of Haitian women, many of whom have found it economically infeasible to protect themselves against acquiring HIV. Researchers...

SPECT/MR brain image fusion in AIDS dementia complex. (single photon emission computed tomography, magnetic resonance) (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: K.A. Johnson 1,2, J.A. Becker 1, R.E. Zimmerman 1, B. Garada 1, B. Navia 2, J.L. Worth 2 and B.L. Holman 1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Massachusetts...

Risks for seroconversion to HIV among young Thai males. (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: D. Celentano, K. Nelson, S. Suprasert, S. Eiumtrakul, N. Wright, C. Theetranont, et al. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Royal Thai Army and Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; and R.W. Johnson Medical...

Treatment of poor prognosis epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) with doxorubicin, bleomycin, vindesine and recombinant human granulocyte-monocyte colony stimulating factor (rGM-CSF). (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: P.J.M. Bakker 1, S.A. Danner 2, C.H.H. ten Napel 2, R. van Leusen 2, P.L. Meenhorst 2, J.A. Muusers 3 and C.H.N. Veenhof 1. 1Division of Medical Oncology, 2Participants in the National AIDS Therapy Evaluation Center, Academic...

Long-term survival of an AIDS patient with Mycobacterium kansasii. (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: K.E. Rogstad 1, I.H. Ahmed-Jushuf 1 and A. Colville 2. 1Department of Genitourinary Medicine and 2Department of Microbiology, City Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom. According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the...

Vbeta subsets are not preferentially deleted in AIDS. (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: D.N. Posnett, S. Kabak , A.S. Hodtsev , E.A. Goldberg and A. Asch. Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York. According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the American Federation...

Interleukin-1 induces HIV-1 replication in a chronically infected promonocytic cell line (U1) via the IL-1 receptor type I, but not the IL-1 receptor type II. (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: E.V. Granowitz, M.Z. Wang, C.A. Dinarello and P.R. Skolnik. Department of Medicine, New England Medical Center Hospitals and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. According to an abstract submitted by...

The effect of a peptide-based formula on specific markers of immune function in the HIV+/AIDS patient. (Research Report)
September 6, 1993... AUTHORS: E.W. Richards, M.K. Hellerstein, R. Hoh, A. Pelfini, R. Clinton, R.A. Neese, B. Abbruzzese and F.O. Cope. Department of Medicine, University of California -Berkeley, Berkeley, California, and Ross Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio. ...

AIDS-related malignancies: the emerging epidemic. (Periodical Report)
September 6, 1993... SOURCE: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, September 1, 1993;85(17):1382-1397. In this review of the literature, Alexandra M. Levine of the University of Southern California summarizes the present-day understanding of malignant...

Epstein-Barr virus in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with AIDS-related primary lymphoma of the central nervous system. (Periodical Report)
September 6, 1993... SOURCE: Lancet, August 14, 1993;342(8868):398-401. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) may be useful as a diagnostic marker for AIDS-associated primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma, an international team of researchers reports. ...

Progressive CD4 cell depletion and death in zidovudine-treated patients. (Periodical Report)
September 6, 1993... SOURCE: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 1993;6(8):927-929. A CD4 cell count of less than 50 cells/mm(3) targets a patient for more intensive monitoring, since opportunistic infections are more likely to supervene at...

Study of infection with HIV and related risk factors in young offenders' institution. (Polmont Young Offenders' Institution, Falkirk, Scotland) (Periodical Report)
September 6, 1993... SOURCE: British Medical Journal, July 24, 1993;307(6898):228-231. Anonymous HIV surveys can achieve a great degree of compliance in the British prison system, suggesting that it may be an ideal site for HIV education and intervention,...