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
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Sept. 24, 1990
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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.
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Sept. 25, 1990
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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.
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Sept. 26, 1990
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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.
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Sept. 27, 1990
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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.
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Volume 3, Number 33 September 30, 1990
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