dmcanzi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (David Canzi) (10/04/90)
Medical News for Week of September 24 to 30th, 1990 Copyright 1990: USA TODAY/Gannett National Information Network Reproduced with Permission --- Sept. 24, 1990 --- NIH NIXES AIDS TREATMENT: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health said treating AIDS by heating the patient's blood does not appear to work and should be discontinued. In June, a patient who underwent hyperthermia at Atlanta Hospital claimed the treatment eliminated his symptoms. But the NIH panel said there appears to be no clinical, immunological or virological support of hyperthermia. U.S. PHS GIVES AIDS ESTIMATES: The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that by 1992, 365,000 people will have been diagnosed with AIDS and that 263,000 will have died. New cases of AIDS in 1992 are estimated at 80,000, with 65,000 deaths projected. --- Sept. 25, 1990 --- NEW AIDS STUDY TO BEGIN: A study of thousands of AIDS-infected people begins this week at more than 30 clinics in the USA and Canada. Doctors hope to learn more about how HIV infection progresses, which symptoms are most common, and what treatments patients use. The study includes women, intravenous drug users and minorities. It is sponsored by federal health officials and the American Foundation for AIDS research. --- Sept. 26, 1990 --- AIDS IN CHILDREN: HIV, the AIDS virus, already has infected 700,000 children worldwide and will have infected at least 10 million by the year 2000, says the first World Health Organization report on AIDS in children. Most of these children are in sub-Saharan Africa, where the virus has made deep inroads into the heterosexual population, infecting large numbers of women who then infect their babies. --- Sept. 27, 1990 --- AIDS ADDS TO INFANT DEATHS: Several U.S. cities, including Washington, Detroit and Philadelphia, now have third-world infant death rates. Ten percent of deaths, many in the rural South, are due to diarrhea. In cities, the rapidly increasing cause of infant death is AIDS. While the overall infant death rate has improved slightly, twice as many blacks still die as whites. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Volume 3, Number 33 September 30, 1990 +------------------------------------------------+ ! ! ! Health Info-Com Network ! ! Newsletter ! +------------------------------------------------+ Editor: David Dodell, D.M.D. St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center 10250 North 92nd Street, Suite 210, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258-4599 USA Telephone +1 (602) 860-1121 FAX +1 (602) 451-1165 Copyright 1990 - Distribution on Commercial/Pay Systems Prohibited without Prior Authorization The Health Info-Com Network Newsletter is distributed weekly. Articles on a medical nature are welcomed. If you have an article, please contact the editor for information on how to submit it. If you are interested in joining the automated distribution system, please contact the editor. E-Mail Address: Editor: FidoNet = 1:114/15 Bitnet = ATW1H @ ASUACAD Internet = ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org LISTSERV = MEDNEWS @ ASUACAD.BITNET (or internet: asuvm.inre.asu.edu) anonymous ftp = vm1.nodak.edu (Notification List/ftp = hicn-notify-request@stjhmc.fidonet.org) Associate Editors: o Dr. Bruce MacDougall, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Bitnet: BRUCEMA@UMASS) o Dr. J. Martin Wehlou (Bitnet: WEHLOU@BGERUG51) -- David Canzi