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AIDS Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 24th, 1997

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in AIDS Weekly | Other Publications

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - "Reason for Hope Amid Hype"

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Flu Vaccine Doesn't Increase HIV In Children

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Glaxo Heavy Hitters Tested in PI/NARTI Combo

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Low Anti-HIV Antibodies Linked to Heterosexual Transmission

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - New Therapeutic HIV Vaccine Safe So Far

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Study Probes Women's Anti-HIV Mucosal Immune Responses

AIDS Therapies (Anticort) - IND Filed with FDA for AIDS Treatment

AIDS Therapies (Clinical Trials) - GEM 91 Moves Into Confirmatory Trial in Advanced HIV Patients

AIDS Therapies (Clinical Trials) - Phase II Trial Uses Combination of Antiviral Drugs and Remune

AIDS Therapies (Protease Inhibitors) - AIDS Clinical Trial Group Begins Study of 141W94/VX-478

AIDS Therapies (Remune) - Vanderbilt Joins National AIDS Drug Trials

Alternative Medicine - Herbal Medicine: Pharmaceutical Versions Developed

At-Risk Populations - Valentine's Day Study Assesses HIV Risk Among Gay Couples

Cryptosporidiosis - Expanded Orphan Drug Designation for NTZ Announced

Drug Development - Isis Pharmaceuticals Touts New Drug Therapies

Education and Prevention - ABC's of AIDS Are Slow To Be Taught in the American Workplace

Education and Prevention - Maryland Legislators Advance Continuation of Program

Education and Prevention - Needle Exchanges and Sex Education Effective Against AIDS

Euthanasia - AIDS Physicians Assist Terminally Ill to End Their Lives

HIV Testing - Home Access Test as Accurate as Physician Testing

HIV Testing - New York Hospitals Test Newborns

HIV Testing - Tests Verify Accu-Sorb Saliva Recovery Collection System

Immunology - Enzyme Linked to Immune Response in HIV and Other Diseases

Immunology (HIV) - Loss of Hematopoietic Cells in HIV Patients Is Not Due to Infection

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Gene Therapy-Based HIV Immunotherapeutic Trials Expanded

Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Gastrointestinal Disorders Drug Patent Announced

Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Patent Application Covers HIV T-cell Inhibiting Compounds Use

International (Africa) - Kenyan Government Bans Sale of Pearl Omega AIDS Drug

Internet - Chemtrak Internet Service Launched

Legal Issues - Feds Reject Compromise on Doctors Recommending Medical Pot

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - FDA Approves Cancer Study, Preliminary HIV Trial Results Announced

Prisons - Officials Test Inmates for AIDS

Sexually Transmitted Disease - New Venereal Diseases Strengthen Case For Safer Sex

Therapy (TB) - IL-12 May Benefit Immunosuppressed MDR-TB Patients

Antiviral Therapy (Diagnostics) - "What Should We Be Monitoring Immunologically in Antiviral Trials Other than CD4+ T Cell Counts."

Antiviral Therapy (HBV) - "Long-Term Evaluation of Lamivudine Efficacy Against Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Replication in HIV Infected Patients."

Disease Associations - "The Prevalence of Malignancy in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Positive Patients Admitted to a Community Hospital."

Disease Associations (Prognosis) - "HIV Associated Non Hodgkin's Lymphomas With Good Prognosis Factors."

Drug Resistance (HIV) - "HIV Drug Resistance - An Overview."

Drug Resistance (HIV) - "Zidovudine-Resistant Variants of HIV-1 in Lung."

HIV Vaccine (Clinical Trial) - "Multicenter Study of Safety and Immunogenicity of HIV-1 rgp160 Candidate Vaccine in Seropositive HIV-1 Volunteers."

HIV Vaccines (Clinical Trial) - "Therapeutic Vaccination: A Randomized Controlled Study of the Effect of rgp160 on Progression of Immune Deficiency and Viral Burden."

Immunology (HIV) - "Short-Term Changes In Plasma HIV RNA Following Chemotherapy for Lymphoma."

Kaposi's sarcoma (Therapy) - "DOX-SL (Stealth Liposomal Doxorubicin HCL) Maintenance Therapy After Response in AIDS Related Kaposi's Sarcoma."

Kaposi's sarcoma (Therapy) - "Role of G-CSF in AIDS Patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma Treated with Bleomycin and Vincristine."

Pathogenesis (Malaria) - "Role of Malarial Antigen-Induced Immune Stimulation on HIV-1 Replication."

Vertical Transmission (Antiviral Therapy) - "Intrapartum Zidovudine (ZDV) Infusion Alone Failed to Reduce Maternal HIV-1 Viremia and Vertical Transmission in HIV-1 Infected Pregnant Women with No Prior Antenatal Care."

Viral Shedding (HIV) - "Antiretroviral Treatment and Shedding of HIV in Semen."

Candida albicans - "Infection Due to Fluconazole-Resistant Candida in Patients with AIDS: Prevalence and Microbiology."

Cytomegalovirus - "Cytomegalovirus as a Primary Pulmonary Pathogen in AIDS."

Cytomegalovirus - "Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 gp120 Stimulates Cytomegalovirus Replication in Monocytes: Possible Role of Endogenous Interleukin-8."

Drug Resistance (TB) - "Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Review of the Worldwide Situation and the WHO/IUATLD Global Surveillance Project."

Emergency Medicine - "Symptomatology of HIV-Related Illness and Community-Acquired Illness in an HIV-Infected Emergency Department Population."

Fungal Disease - "Fluconazole as Prophylaxis Against Fungal Infection in Patients with Advanced HIV Infection."

HIV Vaccines - "A Novel Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity Epitope in gp120 Is Identified by Two Monoclonal Antibodies Isolated from a Long-Term Survivor of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection."

HIV Vaccines - "Early Cytokine and Chemokine Gene Expression in Lymph Nodes of Macaques Infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Is Predictive of Disease Outcome and Vaccine Efficacy."

HIV Vaccines - "Expression of Gamma Interferon by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Increases Attenuation and Reduces Postchallenge Virus Load in Vaccinated Rhesus Macaques."

Hemophilia - "Emotional Adjustment of Children and Adolescents with Haemophilia in Relation to the HIV Threat."

Hemophilia - "Liver Failure and Mortality in HIV-Positive Haemophiliacs: Fourteen-Year Experience and Literature Review."

Immunology (HIV) - "HIV Antigens and T-Cell Receptor Variable beta Chain Families."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Characterization of Ribonucleoprotein Complexes Containing an Abundant Polyadenylated Nuclear RNA Encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (Human Herpesvirus 8)."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Human Herpesvirus KSHV Encodes a Constitutively Active G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Linked to Cell Proliferation."

Sexual Behavior - "Human Immunodeficiency Virus Risk Behavior among White and Asian/Pacific Islander High School Students in the United States: Does Culture Make a Difference?."

Sexual Behavior - "Sexual Behavior among Adolescents Reporting Chronic Conditions: A French National Survey."

Transmission (Vertical) - "Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Involving Five Envelope Sequence Subtypes."

Virology - "Identification of a Replication-Competent Pathogenic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 with a Duplication in the TCF-1 alpha Region but Lacking NF-kappa B Binding Sites."

Virology - "Macrophage Tropism of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 and Utilization of the CC-CKR5 Coreceptor."

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