RCH@uunet.UU.NET (05/25/90)
A friend called me tonight and claims to have seen this on Atlanta's "11 Alive News": Scientists treated a man with AIDS by taking blood from his body in a set-up like dialysis, heating the blood to 110 degrees F. for a time, then cooling it back to body temperature and feeding it back into the body. (Unknown whether it was done in a series of procedures or just one time...) The man's lymph nodes returned to a normal size, his cancers disappeared, and for three months now he has tested HIV negative. Does anyone have any more information about this? Are there many medical procedures that heat blood like this? Is there any research on the effects of heating blood and returning it to the body for other diseases/viruses/infections? Could this be another situation like the bone-marrow transplant news? __ Ric Helton, RCH@cup.portal.com sun!portal!cup.portal.com!RCH \/ PO Box 2133, Athens, GA 30612-0133 Graffiti BBS 404/546-8256
kingsley@hpwrce.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) (05/26/90)
By the way, what ever happened with the bone-marrow transplant?