European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes february 1981 for heart problems babies checked in womb Ann Landers a Arizona scientists arc bouncing sound Waves off tiny hearts to search for cardiac defects and problems while babies arc still in the the ultrasound imaging techniques being developed at the University of arizonans health science Center May be Able to provide Safe and noninvasive diagnosis of congenital heart disease before said David the process provides a moving picture of an unborn baby Sahn told an american heart association seminar his team has examined about 400 unborn half of them born in High risk and has accurately diagnosed four major abnormalities and at least seven less serious he said the which allows diagnosis As Early As 18 weeks into a pregnant can Case a High risk mothers anxiety if results arc if they can ensure the birth is at a Well equipped Hospital with cardiac ultrasound was developed about 20 years ago and is used routinely by obstetricians to gauge the growth and development of unborn children and to search for Gross birth it is also used to study the hearts of cardiac a the doctors combined the two functions in a Complex procedure to study fetal the Basic technique sweeps High frequency sound Waves far above the Range of human hearing across an the Echo the Waves that Are bounced Back Are converted into a High Resolution Black and White Sahn said the process does not use ionizing As does and appears to be quite a Sample of the technique showed an enlarged View of a fetal heart with its four Cham Bers and related structures clearly the heart contracted and expanded in rhythmic beats As the unborn infant shifted and there quite Sahn if you be examined it looks like a wrestling he said the 20minute examination is made merely by placing a probe on the mothers a the first 300 examinations involved 200 nor Mal Sahn said the study proved the technique and established for the first time a Normal growth curve for healthy fetal another 200 women were examined in Arizona and with colleagues in new these women were at High risk of conceiving children with heart the risk of congenital heart defects is be tween five and eight per thousand births and Many of these Are trivial Sahn but for a couple that previously conceived an infant with congenital heart the risk is about 10 times in most Sahn the child can Toler ate even major defects while in the protected environment of the problems become acute at since the experimental technique and equip ment is so Complex and the incidence of heart defects is so Sahn the technique probably should not be used to screen All preg in specialized medical he we believe specific High risk pregnancies probably warrant he said a major Benefit is simply relieving anxiety of women who have been through a devastating experience of having a child with a a log Mearl Nurs on office of retention it serious form of congenital heart i dont underestimate the importance of being Able to Tell this woman it Doest look like theres anything major and he said that in regions like Arizona we have Many patients who live 300 or 400 Miles from a University medical if we know one of these babies had a severe form of heart the baby would be delivered in a City with adequate emergency killer of Bird in voodoo Rife is fined Long up a Man who killed a Chicken during a voodoo hex rite was fined and forced to agree he will never again keep any Long Beach City police said a woman paid in november to Wilfredo to put a spell on her former Boyfriend and Stop him from bothering it was alleged that Pagan uttered a string of chants a live Chicken and killed it to in Voke the hex on the the american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals filed a complaint against on police with a search War rant went to his they said they found several live bags containing the bodies of dead and Sev eral garbage cans that held dead Pagan was arrested on four counts of Violat ing state each involving cruelty to Pagan pleaded guilty to reduced charges of disorderly conduct and violation of a local Zon ing regulation that prohibits harbouring gang of four aftershocks still being Felt in China peking up three leaders of a group of saboteurs accused of working for the convicted gang of four have been jailed for trying to create chaos in the province of a radio broadcast from Nanjing said the Trio were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in across 1 Stem of an Anchor 6 Iron 11 greek ferryman 12 endured 14 Texas City 15 having a handle 16 crude Metal 17 ostentatious behaviour 19 weep convulsively 20 Gold Rush City 22 transgress 23 clenched hand 24 follow immediately 26 transfers by abdication 518 rodent 30 russian River 31 generally thought 35 River in Germany 39 Sharp tools 40 negative particle 42 strike out 43 rend 44 hindu teachers 46 Simpleton 47 Panacea 49 nullify 51 withdraw 52 left the stage 53 navigates 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is Good to me and the we have a Lovely a pleasant social life and take Nice i have no intention of asking him to make a last week a boy in my sons eight Grade class told him his father was fooling around with the nurse in his my son told his she told my Sis now both of them Are pres Suring me to Tell my husband he must fire the they also want me to talk to my son and his 13yearold sister about i am so confused i dont know what to in makeup City dear trouble hold your Bead up and handle this situation in the Way that is Best for if your Mother and sister pressure Tell them to butt out dear Ann Landers i am 23 years old and live with my Moth the other evening my boy Friend and i had an my Mother was not Home when the fight in the Middle of the mom came i suggested that we resolve the matter and we both my Boyfriend and i believe it is not prudent to argue in the presence of when we my Mother asked me what the argument was i told her it was none of her responded in a Highan mighty tone of As Long As you live under my it is my daily news Reader dear Reader a 23year old woman is under no obligation to Tell her Mother what she and her Boyfriend argue about whether she lives under moms roof or cancel the guilt dear Ann Landers my Hus bands sister has spent the last 10 years going from doctor to if doctor a tells her he cant find anything wrong she Hes no and she goes to doctor if he cant give her the name of a disease she he Doest know and goes to doctor last year she had two operations and now she is complaining about everyone in the family is fed up with what can be done with a person like this id like to help her if i in Wilmington dear weary your sister in Law is a people who believe themselves to be ill Are often in pain or just As incapacitated As those who Are Clini Cally be sympathetic and support dont theres nothing wrong with its All in your a chronic hypochondriac needs a Good physician will suggest it and come up with the names of some compe tent