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...reason to feel excited. Reporting live from Atlanta Hospital, a CNN correspondent described an operation in progress aimed at ridding a 37-year-old man, identified only as "Tony," of AIDS by heating his blood to 108 degrees F. Heightening the drama was the presence on camera of Carl Crawford, 33, an AIDS patient who had received the same treatment four months ago and whose symptoms had apparently disappeared...
...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...
...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 F, and it is kept there for an additional two hours. Crawford came through the operation with no ill effects, as did Tony -- so far. Logan and Alonso were careful not to call their treatment a cure for AIDS. Said Logan at a press conference: "It may not be the total answer. We're not expecting that really...
...just don't think I belong in public life," said a dejected Crawford. Said Cartwright: "I have been royally used." But the Governor had the last word: "I think the whole thing can be categorized as tragic...
...foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...