Careful search for AIDS drugs yielding result; Treatments in the works
Jan. 31, 1990
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The first AIDS drug, AZT - recommended for wider use Tuesday by a government panel - was a drug found by chance. It was among hundreds of compounds first tested against the AIDS virus.
But researchers aren't leaving future discoveries to chance: They're finding weaknesses in the human immunodeficiency virus, and making drugs to exploit them.
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Testing OK'd for Salk AIDS vaccine
March 13, 1990
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An AIDS vaccine developed by polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk will be tested as a treatment for AIDS-infected people in nationwide trials.
The trials, approved Monday by the Food and Drug Administration, will expand on human studies in California.
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AIDS virus 'not rare' in teens
Apr. 18, 1990
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About 1 in 3,000 U.S. teenagers applying for military service between October 1985 and March 1989 tested positive for the AIDS virus, a new study shows.
Although military applicants might not be representative of all teens, the study shows infection "is not rare in this age group," say researchers from Walter Reed Army Medical Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., reporting in today's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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AIDS intensifies in developing nations; Rates of HIV infection
June 13, 1990
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The weight of the AIDS epidemic is tilting further toward developing nations, where infections are increasing at an alarming rate, a report says.
"This is not meant to say there's no longer a problem in industrialized countries," says Michael Merson, AIDS program director at the World Health Organization. "And I would remind people that we're living on one planet."
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Body fights AIDS hard - at first
Apr. 4, 1991
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The AIDS virus enters the body like a killer lion but is tamed quickly - though temporarily - by powerful natural defense mechanisms, two studies show.
Identifying the mechanisms - and understanding how the virus eventually escapes them - could lead to vaccines and drugs that prevent HIV infection or stop it before it causes AIDS, the New England Journal of Medicine says today.
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Surgeons pass tests for AIDS
May 17, 1991
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The first large group of surgeons to line up for voluntary HIV tests got good news Thursday: It's likely none were infected in the line of duty.
Researchers found the AIDS virus in only two of 3,420 orthopedic surgeons. The two men reported other risks - for example, gay sex or transfusions.
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'Whisper' of HIV can infect heterosexuals
June 18, 1991
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FLORENCE, Italy - Researchers have found a route for heterosexual transmission of the AIDS virus that does not depend on direct access to the bloodstream.
Their study has shown that special immune-system cells in mucous membranes such as the vaginal walls are highly susceptible to HIV.
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Infected kids don't get AIDS right away
June 19, 1991
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FLORENCE, Italy - Most children born infected with the AIDS virus take longer to develop serious illness than experts previously thought, a study suggests.
Only half of infected children get full-blown AIDS before age 7 or 8, says Samantha MaWhinney of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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AIDS from a deep kiss: 'Very low risk'
June 21, 1991
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FLORENCE, Italy - New evidence that the AIDS virus can directly infect cells in mucous membranes raises an old question: Can HIV be transmitted in a passionate kiss?
The answer, a top researcher said Thursday, is the same as always: Theoretically, yes. But because it's never been known to happen, the risk is probably extraordinarily low.
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AIDS-related firms' focus could change
Nov. 11, 1991
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Spending on AIDS treatment, testing, education and research amounts to a $10 billion to $12 billion chunk of the economy. AIDS experts say Wall Street is right in assuming Magic Johnson's infection with the AIDS-causing virus will alter the flow of that money but wrong in its guess on what those changes will be.
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How people catch the AIDS virus
Dec. 11, 1991
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In 1985, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta declared that "the kind of non-sexual person-to-person contact that generally occurs among workers in the workplace" does not pose a risk of AIDS transmission.
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More AIDS-like cases found; Non-HIV illness no new threat
July 22, 1992
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AMSTERDAM - The known case-count of people with AIDS-like illnesses but no sign of HIV infection grew to at least two dozen Tuesday.
A special session was called here at the International Conference on AIDS after reports of 11 such cases raised public concerns earlier this week.
