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Kimberly Bergalis applies a touch of soft pink lipstick in the presence of another camera that will put her face before a world that suspects there are blemishes she’s not showing.
Kimberly Bergalis, the first person known to contract AIDS from a health- care worker, lost her two-year battle against the disease on Sunday. She was 23. Bergalis died early Sunday in her Fort ...
The parents of AIDS victim Kimberly Bergalis vowed yesterday, the eve of their 23-year-old daughter’s funeral, that they will continue working for laws requiring health professionals to be ...
Kimberly Bergalis — who testified before a congressional ... Once the play is done, Blessing will have the authority to spin off versions for movies and books, George Bergalis said.
The haunting music of a single bagpipe wafted through a small hillside cemetery in Tamaqua yesterday as mourners said goodbye to Kimberly Bergalis, who shook the nation’s consciousness about the ...
Kimberly Bergalis, the shy young woman who shed her anonymity to warn the world she had been infected with AIDS by her dentist, died from the disease at her Fort Pierce home early Sunday.
In 1990, dentist David J. Acer was accused by his patient, Kimberly Bergalis, of infecting her with HIV. It was the start of an onslaught of accusations from Acer’s patients and an accompanying ...
Kimberly Bergalis, who stirred a national debate over AIDS testing when she became the first apparent case of a patient contracting the virus from a health care worker, died Sunday at her home in Ft.
But solemn and stone-faced as she was, 23-year-old Kimberly Bergalis was not oblivious. When it was time for her to speak yesterday morning, the young woman — her nearly skeletal body sapped by ...
If Andy Warhol were alive today, he might make the following observation about the public nature of Magic Johnson’s personal tragedy: “Kimberly Bergalis, your 15 minutes are up.” Now ...
Kimberly Bergalis, who is dying from AIDS contracted from her dentist, is coming to Capitol Hill after all, her father said Wednesday. Later this month, Bergalis, 23, will plead before the House ...
The legal battle for Kimberly Bergalis, the 23-year-old woman thought to have contracted AIDS from her dentist, came to an end Thursday. West Palm Beach lawyer Robert Montgomery said Cigna Dental ...