Glowacki J. Occult vitamin D deficiency in postmenopausal U.S. women with acute hip fracture. Young adults remain on vegetarian diet longer than on weight loss diets. The figure climbed from 9.8 million in 1990 to 30.3 million in 1997, and it continues upward. The AIDS virus originated in West African chimpanzees, according to Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The chimp version of the AIDS virus, called SIVcpz, is rare in captive chimps but has apparently spread among wild chimps for hundreds of thousands of years.
Scientists believe humans first contracted the virus after capturing chimps for food.
Nader Charges Gore with Obstructing Drugs for Africa Consumer and AIDS advocates have responded angrily to Vice President Al Gore's efforts to block the supply of less expensive AIDS drugs to Africa. As head of the U.S.-South Africa Binational Commission, Gore has pressed South Africa to change a law that currently allows access to AIDS drugs at a discount. South Africa is desperate for AIDS medicine since 3 million of its 43 million citizens are currently infected with HIV and the country is unable to pay inflated drug prices. A Gore spokesperson said that higher drug prices help AIDS patients by making sure drug companies maintain profit levels to develop new AIDS medications. Gao F, Bailes E, Robertson DL, et al.