Description: AIDS activists demand information on AZT experimental drug from Burroughs-Wellcome & other manufacturers."Trade Secrets" bill. AIDS drug research lab. Pills counted. Patients in hospital beds.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1990
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: 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: Description of AIDS related dementia through interviews with several men who have it and clinicians treating them. Man performing hand - eye coordination test. AZT pills being counted.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/29/1990
Description: David Twitchell and defense lawyer and Christian Science spokesperson react to guilty verdict. Judge Sandra Hamlin gives jury instructions. Rep. John McDonough hopes to rewrite spiritual healing exemption in law. Laurence Tribe.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1990
Description: Advocates for Alzheimer's patients beg for more funding for home care and support services. David Mulligan, public health commissioner. Elderly man sorting forks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/28/1990
Description: Bellotti, via implication in negative campaign ad, attacks Silber's comment on rationing health care for elderly. Silber calls ad unfair and inaccurate.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1990
Description: Silber, Murphy, Bellotti speak at Middlesex News forum on elder issues. They rehash Silber's remark on rationing health care for the elderly. Audience of senior citizens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/27/1990
Description: Emerson Hospital switches from disposable to reusable cloth diapers. Crying baby is changed. Newborns in nursery. Piles of laundered diapers at Dydee Service.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1990
Description: David Twitchell testifies in Christian Science manslaughter trial for death of his son. He describes his own experience with medical care. Judge Sandra Hamlin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1990