European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the5tar5andstripes Friday september 12, 1980 by Michael. Halberstam . I. Modern Medicine a it invaluable in diagnostic physicians have been using lighted tubes forever 75 years in order to diagnose diseases of the stomach and intestines. In the past these examinations which Are called endoscopy were done comparatively infrequently since they were extremely uncomfortable and provided relatively Little diagnostic information. A dramatic Advance in engineering in the1950s, however has made endoscopy an increasingly helpful tool for the physician andean increasingly familiar diagnostic test for patients. The dramatic Advance was the use Oflinn Light transmitting fibres that were extremely flexible. Unlike the earlier endoscopes which were stiff and poorly lit condos cops using Liber optics can reveal Small areas of disease that the older instrument would have missed. Today fiber optic endoscopy is used in a enormous number of ways. Fiber optic devices can be inserted through the mount Down the oesophagus into the stomach and then into the Small intestine. Indeed they can be snaked into the Liny ducts leading from the liver and gallbladder to the Small intestine. Apparently it was one of these devices that was used at one Lime to to move Ai obstructive Stone on the Shah of Iran. The conventional solid Muttai proct scope which is used to find polyps and tutors in the Large intestine is being supplemented today by fiber optic colonoscopy is. These go farther into the intestine than the 2 feet or so that could be visualized with a rigid proct scope. They can be eased through almost the entire length of the Large intestine and can find Early cancers or polyps completely beyond the Range of old fashioned instruments. In some cases the colonoscopy is can be used to perform biopsies orto remove tutors so far up in the intestine that in the past surgery would have been , fiber optic endoscopy is useful not Only As a method of diagnosis but also for treatment of disease. This is just another stunning example of How technology has quietly revolutionized one air Cal of modern medical care. To modern prof expert no Federal Okol drug Lor glaucoma marijuana scores Low in Eye tests Durham . A a Duke univer Sily researcher who says marijuana has not lived up to expectations in the control of Glau coma believes the drug May never get Federal approval for treatment of the chronic Eye Dis ease. Or. Bruce Shields professor of an Eye surgeon says a recent study he conducted showed that marijuana fell Short of the medical Community s expectations in the treatment of glaucoma which can cause irreversible blindness. Unfortunately the results were not As cult. Kalsu citing As we had hoped Shields said. Noth ing has really panned out and it s been Given in every imaginable form. Smoking chocolate brownies Tea drops and pills i just cannot imagine that the Fra food and drug administration is Sver going to approve marijuana in its present form for the treatment of chronic diseases such As glaucoma he and or. James Tiedeman. A resident at Duke tested 16 Volunteer patients on a Pill made from a marijuana derivative that had been chemically altered. At the same time researchers at Ohio slate University were test ing to volunteers with the same derivative that had a in chemically altered in a slightly differ ent manner. The studies were done on separate campuses As part of a larger study to find out which of the drug forms was is on incurable condition in which pressure within the eyeball increases and can become High enough to destroy nerves and cause loss of vision if left untreated. Although the disease cannot be cured it can be con trolled by surgery or by drugs that reduce the pressure in the Eye. We do know without reservation that Mati iguana will reduce pressure in the Eye Shields said. But the big problem is the duration of its action is not very Long. So to smoke marijuana for glaucoma you have to smoke six to eight cigarettes a Day every Day. And there Are the obvious additional effects of was referring to the High marijuana produces. And he said since glaucoma affects Large number of people one out of 100 peo ple in this country smoking a Large number of marijuana cigarettes just is not practical for most of them. They still need to be Able to function he said. Volunteers Between the Ages of 30 and 70were used Shields said. Women of child Bear ing age of re excluded. 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