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FDA Approves Etravirine for HIV Treatment
By Bob Roehr – Contributing Writer The FDA has approved a new non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) for use in treating persons with HIV who are resistant to other drugs in that class. Etravirine, sold under the name Intelence, was develope…
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UCSF Apologizes for Statement Linking Gay Men to Staph Strain
By John Wright – Staff Writer Joe Solomonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, compares the concerns being raised by conservatives about the potentially deadly strain of staph infection known as MRSA USA300 as reminiscent of the anti-gay hysteria in…
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Deaths • 01.18.09
Carlos Ruben “Charlie” Rivera, 43, died Tuesday, Jan. 14, at a Plano hospital. He was born Sept. 5, 1964, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Rivera was a boricua, strong willed with a good heart. He was a perfectionist, whether cooking, building or gardening. Rivera…
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Deaths • 01.11.08
Roy Lynn Jones, 60, died on Sunday, Jan. 6 at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, La. Jones had traveled to New Orleans to visit friends for the holidays. Jones was born in Chickasha, Okla., on April 24, 1947, and he grew up in the Dallas area. He graduat…
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Jean White-Ginder still waiting on meeting with Huckabee
By Staff Reports Republican presidential candidate refusing to return calls to set up meeting, despite commitment to talk to mother of AIDS victim Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, now a Republican candidate for president, told the Associated Press in 199…
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D.C. to reinstate needle exchange program to combat HIV, AIDS
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Loran Gregg “Bugz” Haggard, 48, died in his sleep on Dec. 25. Haggard was born in Webb City, Missouri, on Oct. 22, 1959, and grew up in Oklahoma. He was a noted hair stylist and cosmetic consultant, working for many years with Ulta and with JC Penney. He wa…
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Syphilis is back, especially among gay men with HIV
By Maria Cheng AP Medical Writer European doctors, researchers say alarming resurgence of disease once thought eradicated could be tied to “‘safe sex fatigue’ Composer Robert Schumann, pictured, and his fellow 19th Century artists poet Charles Baudelaire an…
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FDA orders lubes, condoms with N-9 to carry warnings
By Bob Roehr Contributing Writer Spermacide once thought to help prevent transmission of HIV may actually promote transmission of AIDS, other STDs Volunteer workers dress up as condoms as part of an AIDS awareness event earlier this year in Korea. The FDA h…
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Richard B. “Dirk” Fritsen died Dec. 7 at his home in Dallas. He was 63. Fritsen, born in Maywood, Calif., on July 1, 1944, will be remembered as a kind friend to many and as the capable manager of Al’s Formal Wear in Oak Lawn where he enjoyed serving his ma…
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Flu-like symptoms could be early sign of HIV infection
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Albert Sherwood “Woody” Oglesby, a retired Methodist minister, died Tuesday, Nov. 20. He was born Nov. 28, 1955, in Morocco, to the late Carl Albert and Edna Earle Haynes Oglesby. He was the pastor of St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Amarillo from 1…
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