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-- Where did the blood come from? Before screening began, the risk of exposure to AIDS was considerably higher in such cities as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Washington than in regions relatively untouched by the disease. "A physician in North Dakota might say, 'There is no...
A new experimental treatment with perhaps fewer ill effects involves a synthetic substance called nafarelin, similar to gonadotropin-relea sing hormone. Normally GnRH is released in bursts by the hypothalamus gland, eventually triggering the process of ovulation. But "if the GnRH stimulation is given continuously instead of in pulses," explains...
Despite the high level of intimacy, only one of the 101 people in the study was infected with the AIDS virus. The sole victim was the five-year-old daughter of an infected, female drug user; the child had probably contracted the virus before her birth. The absence of the...
Thus far, CDC officials know of no case in which the AIDS virus has spread through casual contact. Last week, however, the CDC did report the first known instance of child-to-parent transmission. The case, Jaffe notes, was highly unusual in that the child, who was infected by a...
Taubes' most significant contribution has been "understand differential equations that have been important in topology," said Professor of Mathematical Physics Arthur M. Jaffe, who taught Taubes and then co-authored a book with him "It turns out that these equations have important con- senuences for geometry.