Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this huge discrepancy." His top picks, too, expect to have drugs approved within two years: Biochem Pharma (hepatitis) and Centocor (blood clots). Another fan of companies with late-stage drugs is Evan Sturza, editor of Sturza's Medical Investment Letter, whose top picks are Aviron (flu), Gilead Sciences (HIV, hepatitis) and Sepracor (side effects from Prozac, Claritin and others...
...reported cases of chlamydia. The trend underlying the reported increase in chlamydia cases is disturbing, for it indicates that there are still too many people having unprotected sex. Sex without protection puts people at risk not only for diseases like chlamydia, but also for such life-threatening illnesses as HIV...
...debilitating chronic pelvic pain; and 9 percent will have a life-threatening tubal pregnancy [which] is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women.... In addition, recent research has shown that women infected with chlamydia have a three-to five-fold increased risk of acquiring HIV, if exposed.... "It is particularly troubling for our age group, as the CDC notes: "teenage girls have the highest rates of chlamydial infection. ...15- to 19-year-old girls represent 46 percent of infections and 20- to 24-year-old women represent another 33 percent...
Jones' complaints about HMOs, reportedly concerning bureaucratic red tape having to do with his HIV-positive status, were immediately obscured by complaints about what had just been shown. Local stations were inundated with phone calls; station managers, already aghast at what their cameras had captured, broadcast apologies and toll-free numbers for viewers to call for psychological counseling. Says Larry Perret, news director for KCBS-TV, which pulled away just before the fatal shot was fired: "With all due respect to my competitors, you couldn't have anticipated this. This was a legitimate news story...
...Saturn made meals of all that he sired. In St. Charles, Mo., last week a modern parallel to that myth may have emerged. If charges are true, Brian Stewart, 31, possesses a similarly cold-blooded compulsion. He is accused of first-degree assault for injecting HIV-positive blood into his infant son, allegedly to avoid paying child support. If the boy is finally eaten away by disease, authorities say, they will elevate the charge to murder...