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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...
...there were some warning signals to alert the wary. First, results from the experimental procedure, performed by Drs. William Logan and Kenneth Alonso, had not yet been reviewed by other professionals or published in any medical journal. Crawford and Tony were the only patients who had ever undergone the blood-heating treatment. That is not a large enough group to draw any conclusions, and it is too soon to tell whether Tony will get better or worse. Finally, as CNN duly reported, Atlanta Hospital is on the verge of being shut down by the state of Georgia unless the facility...
...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...
...transgenic mouse. We should make this our totem. It is relatively clean, easy to carry, and indisputably ours. I can already hear, reverberating in the stadium, a roar that strengthens the mettle of our troops and strikes fear in the heart of our opponents: Go, mice! Professor William Alonso...