Word: alonso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bishop favors innovation rather than textual adherence. Her crosscasting of Ariel and Sebastian, the brother of Alonso, King of Naples certainly holds some potential for subversive entertainment. But in this production of The Tempest, that potential is never realized. The fault lies not with the interpretations themselves, but with sheer carelessness and bad acting. What the text clearly demands, the actor fail to supply...
When word spread last June that Atlanta surgeon William Logan Jr. and pathologist Kenneth Alonso had found a promising new treatment for AIDS patients, hopes soared, lights flashed, and a media circus rolled into town. % TV cameras descended on the operating room to record the miraculous recovery of a patient with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, whom the doctors had treated by heating his blood to kill the AIDS virus...
Last week the hope came crashing to the ground. After studying the cases, federal investigators declared the treatment useless and recommended against further human experimentation. They attributed one patient's remarkable recovery to misdiagnosis: he did not have Kaposi's sarcoma to begin with. Dr. Alonso called the report "absurd," and plans to continue his study, possibly in Latin America or Europe...
...work done by Logan, a retired heart surgeon, and Alonso, a professor of pathology at Atlanta's Morehouse Medical School, started as an effort to treat Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer common in AIDS patients that produces severe skin lesions. The doctors thought that heating a patient's blood might combat the cancer and possibly even kill the AIDS virus. During the procedure, called hyperthermia, blood is drawn from a vein in the groin, heated in a water bath and continuously recirculated into the body. In little more than an hour, the body's temperature reaches 108 degrees...
...last month Alonso thought the treatment was worth mentioning to WXIA-TV, Atlanta's NBC and CNN affiliate, which carried the story on May 25. Five days later, CNN broke the news nationally. Since then, it has been reported, sometimes skeptically, on local TV news shows around the U.S. and in such newspapers as the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times...