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TORONTO (CP) - Before having his wisdom teeth removed, Scott Hemming, a hemophiliac, had a blood transfusion. It was 1987 and the carefree 20-year-old hadn't even heard of tainted blood. The results of the blood transfusion eventually took away his health, his career and his home, and caused him and his family unspeakable anxiety. At one time, Canada's blood scandal made for daily headlines. But even after it disappeared from news pages, victims such as Hemming continued living with the consequences every day. But days like Wednesday give Hemming, who contracted hepatitis C through the blood transfusion, hope. Criminal charges...

TORONTO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Police laid criminal charges against four doctors, the Canadian Red Cross Society and a U.S. pharmaceutical company on Wednesday after a five-year investigation into the country's tainted blood tragedy of the 1980s. During that decade, thousands of blood transfusion recipients in Canada contracted the AIDS and hepatitis C viruses from contaminated blood and blood products. Many of them have died. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the accused failed to inform the public about the risk of HIV and hepatitis infections from unscreened blood and also failed to test donated blood for the hepatitis C...

This is a copy of a "Letter-to-the-Editor" I just sent to the Hot Springs Sentinel Record. A rag that will NEVER question a democrat politician about anything! This in a town where the entire city government has been named in a RICCO law suit! and MORE! Democrat does not equal democracy in Arkansas! Helena, AR - A former city official has pleaded guilty to fraudulent voting in an agreement that dismisses further charges of intimidating a witness by brandishing a gun. Larry Gray, former sanitation director for the city of Helena, was charged with submitting more than 25 absentee ballots...

It’s official. The Washington-area sniper story is now a full-fledged circus. All the ingredients are in place: 1—A phony witness leads police and media on a wild goose chase, telling a tall tale of a cream colored van with a non-functioning taillight, driven by an olive-skinned man and carrying a shooter with an AK-74 – none of which existed. 2—Fox News sends its top hack, Mr. Showbiz himself, Geraldo Rivera, to do a standup at the Fredricksburg, Virginia, shooting. Afterwards, Geraldo retires to do what he does best, autograph butts at the local Hooters, then jets off to Bali...

This month is the 15th anniversary marking the brutal murders of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, who were unwitting witnesses to a police-protected drug drop in a small community south of Little Rock, Arkansas. This drug drop was part of a smuggling operation based out of Mena, Arkansas. Don Henry and Kevin Ives were just 17 years old and approaching their senior year of high school when they were murdered. What should have been a memorable year for these two boys resulted in tragedy. Unfortunately, no one has been convicted for the murders of Don Henry and Kevin Ives. The...

(New York-AP) -- Senator Charles Schumer of New York is asking the Federal Drug Administration to remove its ban on blood imported from Europe. The FDA enacted a partial ban on the imported blood in May over fears of mad cow disease. That ban will go into full effect in October.But the Senator says that there has never been a case of someone getting mad cow disease from blood anywhere in the world, so the ban is unnecessaryExtending his own forearm today to help replenish local blood supplies, the democrat said that lagging donations have created a severe decline in...

Israeli doctors have discovered a gruesome new way to catch hepatitis and possibly other blood-borne diseases - from the flying bone fragments of suicide bombers. Itzhak Braverman and emergency staff at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera treated 32 victims of one blast. They used CT scans to check for metal fragments in the survivors. In one 31-year-old woman, the scan revealed dense fragments in her neck, breast and groin. But they were not metal. They were bits of bone from the suicide bomber. On a hunch, Braverman sent a fragment to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jul 19, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Two people have contracted HIV from blood transfusions provided by a regional blood bank that failed to detect an infected donor, officials said. The incident marks the second time since the nation's blood banks implemented new screening technology in 1999 that HIV has been transmitted through a transfusion, according to Florida Blood Services. The first case infected a man in San Antonio, Texas, in September. The victims, one young adult and one in the mid-60s, were told Wednesday they contracted HIV from blood and plasma transfusions in Hillsborough...

HIV soars among young women   Grassroots groups aim to educate, empower vulnerable populations Soaring HIV infection rates among both youths and women are intersecting at a deadly crossroads, experts say, propelling the explosive spread of AIDS around the planet. But already, young people are striking back — in force. A grassroots effort known as the Barcelona Youth Force is bringing together young women and men from Africa to the United States with the goal of lowering infection rates among these vulnerable populations.        STAGGERING, shocking, frightening. Those were the words used repeatedly by experts gathered here...

Scientists have built the virus that causes polio from scratch in the lab, using nothing more than genetic sequence information from public databases and readily available technology. The feat proves that even if all the polio virus in the world were destroyed, it would be easily possible to resurrect the crippling disease, says Aniko Paul at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, one of the researchers conducting the study. The result has major implications for vaccination programs that have nearly rid the world of polio. "I think it means you're probably not going to be able to...

Members of the French AIDS action group Act-Up protest against multinational company Coca Cola's neglect of their workers with AIDS in developing countries, at the International AIDS conference in Barcelona July 10, 2002. Former President Bill Clinton urged governments on July 11 to do more to fight AIDS and assured young people that wealthy nations would provide extra funds to battle the epidemic if they knew how it would be spent. Photo by Gustau Nacarino/Reuters BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Bill Clinton urged governments on Thursday to do more to fight AIDS and assured young people that wealthy nations would...

Mini 'Roos Now Available As Pets Breeder Calls Wallabies 'Chick Magnets' Posted: 9:04 a.m. EDT July 8, 2002 ARLINGTON, Wash. -- Forget the ferrets and even the potbellied pigs. The latest exotic pet is the mini 'roo. Ray and Joey Strom breed wallabies -- miniature kangaroos -- on their farm in Arlington. The marsupials sell for more than $1,000.. Joey Strom says they're ideal, almost magical creatures. They do have a down side, though. Kangaroos can't be paper-trained or housebroken, so their owners are constantly cleaning up after them. But single guys take note. Ray Storm says the mini...

Monday, 8 July, 2002, 13:37 GMT 14:37 UK New hope for Aids vaccine Most of the world cannot afford Aids treatments A US biotechnology company has been giving details of a vaccine against Aids, which it hopes could be available by 2005, to delegates attending the International Aids Conference in Barcelona. Q&A: Potential HIV vaccine - click here.The head of VaxGen, Donald Francis, told the meeting the vaccine worked on chimpanzees and said he was optimistic it would also work on humans. Mr Francis said the results of trials on humans would be available next year. I think we...

Agonising wait for treatment By Louella HouldcroftThe Journal A haemophiliac who went on a treatment strike more than two years ago after being turned down for the safest blood products by a North-East hospital has been told it will be at least another six months before he is given the new course. Peter Longstaff, from Jesmond, Newcastle, became infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated human blood products on the NHS.He is one of more than 4,500 haemophiliacs across the UK who became infected with one or both of the viruses during the 1970s and 80s...

LOS ANGELES -- Ten years after playing the saxophone on MTV in a defining moment of his 1992 campaign for president, Bill Clinton is returning to the cable music channel to discuss the global AIDS epidemic. Clinton will be one of several panelists taking questions from an audience of young adults from more than 25 countries during an hour-long program to be taped July 11 in Barcelona, Spain, the network, a unit of Viacom Inc., said on Wednesday. The MTV special, titled Staying Alive: A Global Forum on HIV/AIDS, will be telecast starting July 12 on more than 30 MTV...

Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - The AIDS crisis in Africa can best be compared to the worst wildfire the human race has ever witnessed - worse than the Black Plague of 13th-century Europe. Already more people have succumbed to it than were killed in World War II. The approximately 20 million Africans who have died from AIDS are but a fraction of those likely to perish in the coming decades, if we who are able to do something - specifically, the United States - continue to do little or nothing. Domestically, the United States has pioneered research into the treatment...

OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadian Blood Services are combing their records to trace blood donations from a gay man who lied about his sexual history, then taunted the service in a series of anonymous e-mails. The donor, who hasn't been publicly identified, was traced after the agency successfully went to court for an order to have the man's Internet provider identify him. The next step is to trace the products made from his blood, Ian Mumford, the agency's executive vice-president, said Wednesday. "That's going to take some time," he said. "We're talking about a number of years over which this has...

<p>NEW YORK — The maverick diplomat who risked everything to restore peace in Bosnia has taken on an even more daunting challenge, slowing the global march of AIDS.</p> <p>Former ambassador Richard Holbrooke, now an investment banker and president of the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS (GBC), has spent the past two years recruiting corporate titans to the fight.</p>

Inquiry plea to minister May 15 2002By Louella Houldcroft, The Journal Haemophiliacs from the North-East are today due to lobby the Government for a public inquiry into how infected blood products were allowed to be used in the NHS. Haemophilia Action UK, based in Jesmond, together with the Manor House Group from Birmingham, will today meet with Public Health Minister Yvette Cooper. They hope to persuade her to reopen investigations into how 4,500 haemo-philiacs became infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Led by Newcastle's Carol Grayson, whose partner Peter Longstaff is infect- ed with both viruses, the group wants all...

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 15—AUGUST 20, 1971 American Correctional Association 4321 HARTWICK ROAD COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND 20740 (301) 864-1070 PROCEEDINGS OF THEOne Hundred and First Annual Congress of Correction OF THEAmerican Correctional Association KANSAS PROGRAMS R. J. Gaffney First -- We would not claim in anyway that what is good for Kansas is good for the country or for any other institutions for that matter, Second -- I most would like to state that some of the successful programs that we have implemented are the original thoughts of men sitting right in this room: Warden Paige of Oklahoma, Col....