Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential legal difficulties. I'm sure you can understand the reason for this. Therefore, I must ask if you have any relative or friends in this area who could make a privately-owned domicile available for your use." He asked for Gary's medical history and for permission to contact his doctor. "I sympathize with your sad situation and wish that circumstances were such that the above obstacles would never be a factor in helping people like you. Best wishes, Jack Kevorkian...
...recommended list is more extensive screening for TB infection among high-risk groups, including children, hospital patients and the homeless. Because people with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to TB, the doctors also advise that anyone who lives in close + contact with a TB patient should also be screened for AIDS-spawning HIV. For those tubercular patients who refuse treatment, thereby needlessly endangering their fellow citizens, the health experts recommend mandatory quarantine as a last resort...
...foreign policy between now and Jan. 20. The world needs to have no ambiguity about who's President until then." Clinton and his team are regularly informed, but not consulted, by the White House on major decisions: a secure phone allows National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to keep in contact with Clinton aides Sandy Berger and Nancy Soderberg. There are no complaints on either side about the one-way dialogue. "There's no reason why he should be in on day-to-day decisions," says another Clinton adviser. "So long as he can understand what the implications...
More than 25 states have laws on the books making it a misdemeanor or felony for an HIV-positive person to spread the virus through methods ranging from sexual contact to the splattering of blood. In Louisiana the malicious transmission of the AIDS virus carries a maximum punishment of $5,000 and 10 years in prison -- last month, for the first time, a man was prosecuted and convicted under the law. Lawrence Gostin, head of the U.S. AIDS Litigation Project, recommends education and counseling for HIV-infected people to convince them that they have responsibility to tell others about their...
Researchers elsewhere are zeroing in on ways to bridge gaps in nerve tissue. They have succeeded in doing this in rats with grafts of Schwann cells, specialized cells that manufacture nerve growth factors. They serve as a bridge for the remaining nerve cells to cross over and re-establish contact. Other researchers are using fetal tissue for this purpose. Paul Reier of the University of Florida in Gainesville has achieved dramatic results by injecting a soup of fetal nerve cells into the damaged spines of cats. Felines that couldn't walk at all before surgery regained a limited ability...