
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 14, 1994                   TAG: 9404140356
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

CONTROVERSIAL TREATMENT OF AIDS TRIED

The government is allowing a doctor to heat the blood of six AIDS patients to see if that will cure them, despite scathing condemnation of the method that killed one of the first patients who tried it.

The Food and Drug Administration told Dr. Kenneth Alonso that he could proceed with a small, closely monitored study of whether hyperthermia kills HIV, the AIDS virus, in patients' blood.

Alonso and another doctor developed the method in 1990, but the National Institutes of Health doomed the research in a scathing report that said a person purportedly cured didn't even have AIDS - he had cat scratch fever.

But some of Alonso's patients insist the treatment works, and it continues to be discussed by AIDS advocates.

- Associated Press

by CNB