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The drug AZT appears to reduce substantially the risk of infection with the AIDS virus for health workers who are accidentally stuck with needles or other sharp instruments, federal health officials said yesterday. AZT reduced the risk of infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by 79 percent, the study found. The study is believed to be the first to assess the potential risk factors from needle-stick injuries, which are a common and frightening problem for health care workers. An estimated 250,000 to 1 million health care workers are stuck with needles or other sharp medical instruments in the United States each year, experts said. It is not known how many were treated with AZT or similar anti-HIV drugs

The drug AZT appears to reduce substantially the risk of infection with the AIDS virus for health workers who are accidentally stuck with needles or other sharp instruments, federal health officials said on Thursday. AZT reduced the risk of infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by 79 percent, the study found. The study is thought to be the first to assess potential risk factors from needle-stick injuries, which are a common problem for health-care workers. An estimated 250,000 to 1 million health-care workers are stuck with needles or other sharp medical instruments in the United States each year, experts said. It is not known how many were treated with AZT or similar anti-HIV drugs

The drug AZT appears to reduce substantially the risk of infection with the AIDS virus for health workers who are accidentally stuck with needles or other sharp instruments, federal health officials said Thursday. AZT reduced the risk of infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by 79 percent, the study found. The study is believed to be the first to assess the potential risk factors from needle-stick injuries, which are a common and frightening problem for health-care workers

The drug AZT appears to reduce substantially the risk of infection with the AIDS virus for health workers who are accidentally stuck with needles or other sharp instruments, federal health officials said Thursday. AZT reduced the risk of infection from the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, by 79 percent, the study found. The study is believed to be the first to assess the potential risk factors from needle-stick injuries, which are a common and frightening problem for health care workers. An estimated 250,000 to 1 million health care workers are stuck with needles or other sharp medical instruments in the United States each year, experts said. It is not known how many were treated with AZT or similar anti-HIV drugs

Doctors said that Jeff Getty, the 38-year-old man who received a baboon bone marrow transplant on Dec 14, 1995 in a risky experiment to battle AIDS, was 'doing very well' on Dec 17. It will take months before doctors learn whether the transplanted baboon cells can function to help restore his immune system and fight off the many so-called opportunistic infections that can be fatal to people with AIDS. The experiment is being conducted at San Francisco General Hospital, a unit of the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of Pittsburgh

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Jeff Getty, the man who received a bone marrow transplant from a baboon on Dec 14, 1995 in an extremely risky experiment to fight AIDS, is in good condition at a San Francisco hospital, his doctors said on Dec 15. The hope is that the baboon's HIV-resistant bone marrow cells will migrate to Getty's own bone marrow and produce immune cells ti fight the virus

In a radical cross-species experiment fraught with risk but with implications for treating many diseases, scientists on Thursday night injected bone marrow removed from a baboon into a 38-year-old man with AIDS. The patient, Jeff Getty, underwent a procedure much like a blood transfusion. About a pint of straw-colored fluid containing the baboon cells dripped into a vein in Getty's arm from a plastic bag that hung by his hospital bed. The goal of the highly controversial experiment is to augment Getty's marrow, not replace it. Because Getty's own cells will remain infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, a successful procedure would not cure AIDS. But it would produce a double, or chimeric, immune system that could resist further infection from HIV, and fight so-called opportunistic infections, otherwise minor illnesses that can be fatal for someone with AIDS

In a radical cross-species experiment fraught with risk but with implications for treating many diseases, scientists on Dec 14, 1995 injected bone marrow removed from a baboon into a man with AIDS. The hope is that the transplanted marrow cells, which are believed to be resistant to the AIDS virus, will proliferate to reduce the severely damaged immune system of the patient, 38-year-old Jeff Getty