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The findings by researchers working independently at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and the Free University of Brussels provide a genetic explanation for a phenomenon that has long perplexed epidemiologists: Some people do not get infected despite having sex with partners who die from AIDS. The mutant gene controls production of a protein that is needed to allow the entry into cells of HIV-1, the most common form of the AIDS virus. The gene is called CKR-5, and the protein it makes is on the surface of certain immune cells. People who inherit two copies of the mutant CKR-5 gene, one from each parent, cannot make the protein. So if a sex partner transmits HIV to them, the virus cannot dock with a molecule on the surface of the CD-4 immune cells. Thus, HIV-1 remains harmless in those people

Since Trans World Airlines Flight 800 exploded on Jul 17, 1996, a team of leading medical examiners has worked long hours not only to identify the bodies of victims pulled from the ocean but also to help determine the cause of the crash. In doing so, the medical examiners have conducted a wide array of tests seeking traces of explosive among the 195 bodies that were recovered. After three weeks, and with many tests still to be completed, the team has found no evidence of an explosive device

Federal health officials Tuesday approved the first urine test to detect HIV, the AIDS virus, but said it was not as accurate as the standard blood test. Those who test positive for HIV with the urine test are advised to get a second urine test, and if that is also positive, they then need a blood test for confirmation. The FDA has advised doctors who use the test to counsel those who use the urine test and explain that a negative test is not a guarantee of being free of infection

FDA official on Aug 6, 1996 approved the first urine test to detect HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but said it was not as accurate as the standard blood test. The urine test was approved as a supplemental diagnostic test, not as a substitute for the standard blood test

Bob Dole, who turns 73 on Jul 22, 1996, said on Jul 21 that if he was elected president, he would submit to an independent medical review of his health in the event that questions arose about his mental or physical ability to serve

WASHINGTON - Bob Dole, the likely Republican presidential nominee who celebrates his 73rd birthday on Monday, is in excellent health, Dole and two of his doctors said Saturday. He attributes his good health to the care he takes in keeping at a trim 178 pounds - he is 6 feet tall - and to running at least 30 minutes on a treadmill three or four times a week for a total of 14 miles. He said he ''loves ice cream, but I don't eat a lot of it.'' Dole also suggested that his energy and stamina ''must be due to good genes somewhere along the line.'' He also credited quitting smoking more than 30 years ago for helping preserve his health. Dole quit shortly after Surgeon General Luther Terry issued his pioneering report warning about the dangers of smoking in 1964. ''That's when I got the message,'' said Dole, adding that quitting ''was not easy.''

Bob Dole, the likely Repubilcan presidential nominee, is in excellent health, Dole and two of his doctors said the week of Jul 14, 1996 in extensive interviews about his health. Dole's health takes on particular significance because if he was elected president, he would be the oldest man to assume that office. Details concerning Dole's health status are discussed

Bob Dole, the likely Republican presidential nominee who turns 73 Monday, is in excellent health, Dole and two of his doctors said last week. He also credited quitting smoking more than 30 years ago for helping preserve his health. Dole quit shortly after Surgeon General Luther Terry issued his pioneering report warning about the dangers of smoking in 1964. 'That's when I got the message,' Dole said, adding that quitting 'was not easy.' Dole's health takes on particular significance because if he were elected president, he would be the oldest man to assume that office, only a bit younger than Ronald Reagan was at the start of his second term. And though Reagan and others developed cancer while president, Dole would also be the first cancer survivor to be elected to that office. He had a cancerous prostate gland removed in 1991 and has shown no trace of the cancer since then

Participants at an international meeting on AIDS in Vancouver the week of Jul 8, 1996 were jolted when some scientists said that continued use for a few years of new drug combinations, which already drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in the blood, might eradicate the virus from patients' bodies. Drug treatment could then be stopped forever for such people. For now, there is only the hope of such a result

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - New findings reported at an international AIDS conference last week promise to transform AIDS from a usually fatal disease into a chronic one that is treatable, many experts say. With news rapidly spreading about the landmark studies, which showed that new drug combinations can drive the AIDS virus to undetectable levels in blood, many people infected with the AIDS virus are questioning their treatment and asking practical questions for which their doctors are likely to have few immediate answers. An immediate question is whether patients should start on the combination drug therapy as soon as they are infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, or wait until the onset of AIDS, which may not occur for many years