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Lifetime achiever
By Jim Provenzano – Sports Complex Tennis legend Billie Jean King honored KING AND HER COURT: At the 2006 U.S. Open, the USTA officially renamed the National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., after Billie Jean King. Billie Jean King received another honor no…
Community
Lawmakers wrangle over CARE Act reauthorization
By Ben Evans – Associated Press New bill would shift money away from large urban areas while increasing allocations for Southern and rural areas Sen. Dianne Feinstein WASHINGTON As lawmakers wrangle over renewing landmark AIDS legislation in the waning days…
Community
Anti-HIV drugs more effective
By Staff and Wire Reports Fewer AIDS patients dying of causes related to disease, study shows A report published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine says that as anti-HIV drugs become more efficient, it is becoming less common for people with AIDS…
Community
Health Listings
Friday STD Screening, walk-ins accepted, $50 for gonorrhea and chlamydia, Nelson-Tebedo Health Resource Center, appointments available by calling 214-528-2336; HIV Healing Imagery Group, 6 p.m., Hope Counseling Center, call 214-351-5657; Anorexia Nervosa an…
Community
Deaths
Mansell “Manse” Bridwell, 59, died Sept. 5 at Baylor Hospital after a long illness. Bridwell was born in South Carolina on Nov. 9. 1946, and moved to Dallas in 1982. He was a 16-year veteran of the U.S. Army and was most recently employed at Kroger Food Sto…
Arts + Entertainment
Pecs, porn & pumping up
By Daniel A. Kusner Life+Style Editor Cameron Mitchell parlays gay-erotica fame into workout-video series FLEX APPEAL: Gay-porn aficionados know him as the insatiably versatile Caesar. The bodybuilding world knows him Cameron Mitchell, super heavyweight NPC…
Community
American Cancer Society creates LGBT support group
By Staff Reports 3 gay men who have had cancer will be peer facilitators for monthly support group Jim LeCroy, left, is one of three peer facilitators who will lead the LGBT cancer support group. He is pictured with Jamie Sloan, a community manager with the…
Community
New UNT program to help nonprofit organizations
By Staff Reports “‘Boardography’ will help match people wanting to serve with right organization The University of North Texas Health Science Center and the University of North Texas have joined together to introduce a new program that matches people who wa…
Community
Health care delivery for HIV patients an "'emerging crisis'
By Bob Roehr Saag says Medicare reimbursement for treating patients not enough for health care providers to survive Dr. Michael Saag speaks about HIV treatment during a national forum for HIV care providers meeting in Washington. The average Medicare reimbu…
Community
Health Listings
Friday STD Screening, walk-ins accepted as staffing/volunteers permit, $50 for gonorrhea and chlamydia, Nelson-Tebedo Health Resource Center, appointments available by calling 214-528-2336; HIV Healing Imagery Group, 6 p.m., Hope Counseling Center, call 214…
Community
Deaths
Michele Renee Riffel, 37, of Dallas, died unexpectedly Wednesday while visiting her parents, Darrel and Betty Riffel, in Woodward, Okla. A native of Woodward, she attended high school in Woodward and Guymon before graduating from Edmond Memorial High School…
Community
Study reveals men who believe HIV drugs are effective more likely to have unprotected sex
By Staff Reports Study by York University professor Trevor Hart surveyed gay, bisexual men at 2005 Toronto Gay Pride Festival HIV-positive gay and bisexual men who believe current drug treatments make it more difficult to transmit the virus that causes AIDS…
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