Word: pneumonia
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Until recently Japan's two dozen known AIDS victims were either male homosexuals or hemophiliacs. Then came word that the first female patient had died on Jan. 20 of AIDS-related pneumonia in Kobe, a western coastal city on the island of Honshu. The victim, a prostitute, was unquestionably heterosexual. Fear rattled the country like an earthquake. Stock in condom manufacturers soared by as much as 500 points on the Tokyo exchange. A TV news special seeking to pinpoint the source of the problem, suggested darkly that foreign sailors frequenting Kobe's red-light district were to blame, and asked...
...vote that the FDA approve AZT as the first commercially available treatment for AIDS. The news generated heavy demand from America's 13,000 AIDS victims. For among potential AIDS drugs being tested, only AZT seems to prolong life, specifically for people with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). The prospect of public release intensified ethical concerns surrounding not only drugs for AIDS treatment but also vaccines to prevent...
...vicinity of people with lighted cigarettes in enclosed areas -- can cause lung cancer and other illnesses in healthy nonsmokers. Children of parents who smoke, the report stated, have more respiratory infections than children of nonsmokers. Infants of parents who smoke are hospitalized more often for bronchitis and pneumonia than babies in nonsmoking households. Furthermore, the Surgeon General warned that the risk of involuntary smoking may not be eliminated by separating nonsmokers from smokers within the same air space, a revelation that will certainly come as no surprise to nonsmoking frequent flyers or restaurant patrons who are seated near smoking sections...
...management policy director for the county. Many AIDS victims who feel wronged hesitate to embark on legal battles that they may not live to see completed. Not Shuttleworth. He brought a $15 million lawsuit against the county, and has continued to press it while struggling through AIDS-related pneumonia and meningitis...
...Research Triangle Park, N.C., were arriving at twelve medical centers around the nation. The centers are awaiting the imminent FDA approval of the drug for use on those whom it seems to help most, the 6,000 AIDS patients who have also suffered a recent attack of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Interim results of clinical trials with AZT were so promising that the tests were halted in September for ethical reasons, so that the drug would no longer be withheld from a control group of AIDS patients who had been receiving only inert placebos. AZT is also the first...