Description: TREATMENT IN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF INFANT WITH AIDS (John Gaffney). SPREAD OF DISEASE IN CHILDREN.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/04/1986
Description: Ray Vadnais who has AIDS must stay in a hospital to be eligible for Medicaid. Nursing homes will not accept him and he is not ready for a hospice. Blood pressure being taken.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1990
Description: Inmates with AIDS segregated for medical reasons are denied certain rights due general prison population. Exterior Shattuck Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1989
Description: 39 children have died of AIDS in state; 38 more have the disease now; more carry the virus not yet with symptoms. Pediatrician says survival is about six years. Babies in incubator at BCH. Infant heart monitor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/28/1990
Description: Man with AIDS undergoes experimental treatment (CD4) at Mass. General Hospital. Thus far, he suffers no poor side effects. Nurse puts blood pressure cuff on patient. Clinical trial.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/29/1988
Description: Emerson Hospital in Concord initiates AIDS support system: mostly education, referral, counseling, rather than treatment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1987
Description: Nurse Connie Hagerty runs adult AIDS program at Boston City Hospital. Weighs and talks with patient; looks at paperwork.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989
Description: Press conference at Mass. General Hospital with Dr. Gallo on AIDS and HTLV3. Talks about nature of the virus, homosexual transmission, and likely origin in central western Africa, probably Zaire, then through Haiti. People in MGH lab working with specimens in vials under protective hoods. Reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1984
Description: AIDS projections for Boston exceed capacity of health facilities. Experimental drug for pneumonia AP (aerosolized pentamidine) withheld at Mass General. Protesters lie on sidewalk. Fenway Community Health Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1988
Description: Driving along with Boston ambulance on Albany Street to rear emergency entrance of New England Medical Center. View from behind ambulance and then head on. Flashing lights and sirens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1977