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Health Briefs
By Staff and Wire Reports California Supreme Court expands legal responsibility for HIV infection SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court ruled that people who lead high-risk sexual lives have good reason to know they may be infected with the virus that…
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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…
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New AIDS treatments offer patients hope for the future
By Tammye Nash Staff Writer Today, 22 drugs and four drug combinations are approved by the FDA for use against AIDS; another 33 are currently under investigation Martin Delaney, founding director of Project Inform, an AIDS treatment information and advocac…
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Who discovered HIV: Gallo, Montagnier or both?
By Lisa Rainey In the search for the cause of AIDS, two labs and the titanic egos of the men that ran them took center stage Many people will remember the heated contest over who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, and the patenting of the consequent blo…
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Deaths
Gregory Brent Lashley Gregory Brent Lashley, 57, of Dallas, formerly of Wichita, Kan., passed away on June 7 at his home. He was a 1967 graduate of Southeast High School in Wichita and he graduated from University of Kansas. He was a Vietnam veteran. Lashle…
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A quarter-century of plague an epidemic unending
By Dennis Vercher – Staff Writer Evidence points to AIDS epidemic peaking but no time soon THE ENEMY: HIV has sparked the worst epidemic humankind has ever known. Most Americans are already intellectually and emotionally disconnected from the first 15 years…
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PATIENT ZERO?
By Colin Munoz – Intern Gaetan Dugas During 1981, Gaetan Dugas, a French-Canadian airline steward, was having sex with possibly hundreds of men. Unbeknown to them, Dugas, later known as “Patient Zero,” was inflicting upon them a virus which, years later, wa…
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NOSTRUMS FEED FRUITLESS HOPE
How does one cope when hope has fled? Louise Hay As usual, when there is no real hope, the medicine-man variety usually comes a’knocking. And when AIDS hit with force in the gay community, Louise Hay was there to tell gay men that they could heal their live…
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FIRST REPORTS OF AIDS IN TEXAS GAY PUBLICATION
FIRST REPORTS OF AIDS IN TEXAS GAY PUBLICATION TWT Sept. 4-10, 1984 TWT July 24-30, 1981 The first reports in a Texas gay publication of the mysterious disease that would eventually be known as AIDS were printed in TWT Magazine. The pocket-sized weekly, dis…
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Fighting AIDS in Dallas-Fort Worth took a lot of GUTS
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Deaths
Larry Donald McGee, 60, of Dallas, died June 25 at the Treemont Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility of complications from a head injury. A native of Savannah, Ga., McGee had lived in the Dallas area for the past 21 years. He was graduated from Aiken High Sc…
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Bayer gains FDA approval for new automated HIV test
By Associated Press Company says labs can increase testing with greater accuracy Drug developer Bayer AG said Wednesday its healthcare diagnostics division received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a new automated HIV test that can detect all…
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