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- NATION, Page 55American NotesGEORGIAAll Hype, No Hope
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- When word spread last June that Atlanta surgeon William
- Logan Jr. and pathologist Kenneth Alonso had found a promising
- new treatment for AIDS patients, hopes soared, lights flashed,
- and a media circus rolled into town. TV cameras descended on
- the operating room to record the miraculous recovery of a
- patient with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, whom the doctors
- had treated by heating his blood to kill the AIDS virus.
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- Last week the hope came crashing to the ground. After
- studying the cases, federal investigators declared the
- treatment useless and recommended against further human
- experimentation. They attributed one patient's remarkable
- recovery to misdiagnosis: he did not have Kaposi's sarcoma to
- begin with. Dr. Alonso called the report "absurd," and plans to
- continue his study, possibly in Latin America or Europe.
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