NATION : New AIDS Treatment Tried Again
A second AIDS patient today underwent a controversial blood-heating treatment amid skepticism about the procedure’s validity.
The patient, identified only as a 38-year-old man named Tony from Chicago, underwent the two-hour procedure at Atlanta Hospital, officials said.
“The choice seemed rather simple to me. I had no other options available,” the patient said during an interview broadcast Wednesday on the Cable News Network. “This provides a lot of hope for me.”
The controversial AIDS procedure is called hyperthermia therapy and has been studied as an experimental treatment for cancer.
Drs. Kenneth Alonso and William Logan performed the procedure the first time Feb. 20 on Carl Crawford, 33. Crawford tested negative for the AIDS virus a week after the hyperthermia therapy, and his blood remains AIDS-free three months later, the doctors said.
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