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...lapses in the FBI crime lab have triggered a staff shake-up. On Jan. 20 the Justice Department gave FBI officials a preliminary report that found errors, sloppiness and poor management in the agency's crime lab. The investigation had its origins in charges made since the mid-1980s by Frederic Whitehurst, a senior chemist. The report is still secret, but Justice and FBI officials say that while it found nothing illegal, it did identify some serious lapses. FBI Director Louis Freeh has already launched reforms. Meanwhile, the agency announced that three bomb investigators have been removed from their positions...
...working alone or in concert with others, fundamentally changed the way scientists looked at the AIDS virus. His breakthrough work in virology, beginning in the mid-1980s, revealed how HIV mounts its attack. His tenacious pursuit of the virus in the first weeks of infection helped show what the body does right in controlling HIV. His pioneering experiments with protease inhibitors helped clarify how the virus ultimately overwhelms the immune system. His work and his insights set the stage for an enormously productive shift in the treatment of AIDS away from the later stages of illness to the critical early...
...yearly stipend. To support his family, Ho started moonlighting in Mass General's walk-in clinics. It turned out to be the right time to be in that place too. "The clinics are where you see the flus, the colds, the common illnesses," Ho says. In the mid-1980s, however, he started seeing gay men with what appeared to be an unusually severe flu. They always got over their illness without any of the hallmarks of AIDS. Still, he wondered, could there be a connection? Could these flu-like ailments be the signs of the men's very first exposure...
...more effective alternative is prevention, through public education and safe-sex programs. Such efforts have made some progress in recent years. In Uganda, which in the mid-1980s was the first African country to launch a genuine anti-AIDS campaign, billboards and government warnings appear to be paying off: HIV infections among young women dropped 35% between the periods 1990-1993 and 1994-1995. Elsewhere in Africa, however, and in some parts of Asia, similar programs have stalled, due to a combination of poverty, official indifference and, at times, paranoia. As a result, public understanding of even the most basic...
...testing was first licensed in the United States, AIDS was largely considered a homosexual disease. Although the advent of testing services represented a significant step for those at risk, it also immediately raised issues of confidentiality, according to Mann, who worked at the World Health Organization in the mid-1980s...