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An international team of surgeons performed the world's first double hand-and-forearm transplant Thursday in Lyon, France, on a 33- year-old Frenchman who lost both his hands in a fireworks accident in 1996. Dr. Nadey Hakim, a member of the transplant team from England, said Friday that the double-hand transplant recipient was doing well. 'He's awake and fine,' he said. 'So far, so good.' The same surgeons performed the first successful hand-and-forearm transplant, in September 1998, also in Lyon. There, Clint Hallam, a New Zealand man living in Australia, received a new right hand and forearm. In January 1999, surgeons in Louisville, Ky., gave Matthew David Scott of Absecon, N.J., a new left hand and forearm. Both men have gained varying degrees of nerve regeneration, sensation and function in their new hands, but neither has full function

An international team of surgeons has performed the world's first double hand-and-forearm transplant, in Lyon, France, on a 33-year- old Frenchman who lost both his hands in a fireworks accident

The same team of surgeons performed the first successful hand-and- forearm transplant in September 1998, also in Lyon. There, Clint Hallam, a New Zealand man living in Australia, received a new right hand and forearm. In January 1999, surgeons in Louisville, Ky., gave Matthew David Scott of Absecon, N.J., a new left hand and forearm. Dr. Nadey Hakim, a member of the transplant team from England, said in a telephone interview yesterday that the double-hand transplant recipient was doing well. 'He's awake and fine,' he said. 'So far so good.' On Wednesday, Hakim and others from Australia, Spain and Italy flew to Lyon to join their French colleagues. A 19-year-old man who had fallen off a bridge was brain dead. His family donated his heart, kidneys, liver and arms to different recipients. The arms were removed Wednesday night, and the surgeons attached prosthetic arms to make the donor's body look normal. At 6 a.m. Thursday the team began the hand-transplant surgery

For the first time since AIDS was discovered nearly 20 years ago, the majority of gay men now being diagnosed with AIDS are either black or Hispanic, not Anglo, federal health officials reported Thursday. A total of 18,153 AIDS cases were diagnosed among gay men in 1998, the most recent year available, and blacks and Hispanics represented 9,182, or 51.9 percent, of the cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly report. Since the AIDS epidemic began, most AIDS cases have been among gay men, with white gay men making up the largest subgroup. But through the years, the percentages have steadily risen for black and Hispanic gay men as those for white gay men decreased

For the first time since AIDS was discovered nearly 20 years ago, more black and Hispanic gay men were diagnosed with AIDS than white gay men over a year's period, federal health officials reported Thursday. A total of 18,153 AIDS cases were diagnosed among gay men in 1998, the most recent year available, and blacks and Hispanics represented 9,182, or 51 percent, of the cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly report. This compares with 8,678 cases, or 48 percent, for white gay men. Black gay men made up one- third of all AIDS cases among gays, Hispanics 18 percent and Asian and Pacific Islanders 1 percent of the cases in that year, the centers said. The percentages have steadily risen for black and Hispanic gay men as those for white gay men decreased. For the years from 1989 to 1998, the percentage of AIDS cases diagnosed among black and Hispanic gay men rose to 51 percent from 30 percent, and for white gay men it dropped to 48 percent from 69 percent

A total of 18,153 AIDS cases were diagnosed among gay men in 1998, the most recent year for which figures were available, 9,182 of them, or 51 percent of the cases, among black and Hispanic men, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday in a weekly report. This compares with 8,678 cases, or 48 percent, for white gay men. Black gay men made up one-third of the AIDS cases among gay men in 1998, Hispanic men 18 percent and Asian and Pacific Islanders 1 percent, the centers said. Since the AIDS epidemic began, most of the cases have occurred among gay men, and white gay men have made up the largest subgroup. But through the years the percentages have steadily risen for black and Hispanic gay men as those for white gay men decreased

For the first time since AIDS was discovered nearly 20 years ago, more black and Hispanic gay men were diagnosed with AIDS than white gay men over a year's period, federal health officials reported yesterday. A total of 18,153 AIDS cases were diagnosed among gay men in 1998, the most recent year available, and blacks and Hispanics represented 9,182, or 51 percent, of the cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly report. This compares with 8,678 cases, or 48 percent, for white gay men. Black gay men made up one- third of all AIDS cases among gays, Hispanics 18 percent and Asian and Pacific Islanders 1 percent of the cases in that year, the centers said. Since the AIDS epidemic began, most AIDS cases have been among gay men, and white gay men have made up the largest subgroup. But through the years, the percentages have steadily risen for black and Hispanic gay men as those for white gay men decreased

There were 18,153 AIDS cases diagnosed among gay men in 1998, the most recent year available, and blacks and Hispanics represented 9,182, or 51 percent, of the cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly report. This compares with 8,678 cases, or 48 percent, for white gay men. Black gay men made up one- third of all AIDS cases among gays, Hispanics 18 percent and Asian and Pacific Islanders 1 percent of the cases in that year, the centers said. Since the AIDS epidemic began, most AIDS cases have been among gay men, and white gay men have made up the largest subgroup. But through the years the percentages have steadily risen for black and Hispanic gay men as those for white gay men decreased