European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 12, 1985 Greener grass this hungry sheep in Arundel Maine finds it Worth while to stretch a bit to ret some Lonch. Apparently it believes the adage that the grass is always Greener on the other Side of the Fence. Bethesda postpones heart surgeries because of new doctor s departure Washington a Bolh Coda naval Hospital has temporarily stopped scheduling heart surgeries be cause of inc departure of an army doctor who just three months ago was assigned to replace a Navy surgeon charged Wilh the involuntary manslaughter of five patients a Pentagon official said thursday. It. Stephen Pietropaoli a Navy spokesman said army col. Michael Barry declined to stay on at Bethesda As its new head of the cardio thoracic unit after an internal re View Board decided it needed More time to assess whether his performance merited giving him full rather than temporary privileges in the Post. Barry s departure leaves Jusi two heart surgeons assigned to inc Hospital one of whom or. Charles Lee is on leave. Under rules requiring thai Al least two surgeons be available during heart operations that Means no surgeries can be scheduled until Lee returns in about two weeks Citron Ali said. Lee will replace Barry As acting head of the heart unit. Pietropaoli said two operations have been postponed but emergencies could be handled by bringing in surgeons from other hospitals in the area including the Walter Reed army medical Center. Barry has moved to Walter Reed after declining a request from Bolh Coda s command ing officer capt. Sleven Amis to remain Al the naval Hospital on a temporary basis. Barry former assistant chief of cardio thoracic surgery at let Turman medical Center in san Francisco was brought to Bethesda in july to replace Navy cmdr. Donal m. Billig. The government has charged that five patients died from Billig s negligence. Billig is fighting the charges which still arc under review by the Navy. Maj. Gap. Lewis Mologne commander at Walter Reed said Barry is a very competent conscientious qualified surgeon but the review Board at Bethesda had withheld according him full privileges because one doctor had raised questions Over How or. Barry handled  Barry declined to discuss the Issue with a reporter but Pietropaoli said there was no implication by anyone at Bethesda that he was not competent. The people at the Hospital Felt they simply had not had a sufficient Opportunity to fully evaluate Barry s performance and wanted More time at least another 90 Days under Navy routine to do so before awarding him full privileges. I suspect it was just a matter of professional Pride As to Why Barry decided to return to an army Hospital . Stateside study says Beta blockers can ease alcohol withdrawal Boston a the up Casam symptoms of alcohol withdrawal including fever tremors and anxiety can be eased by widely available heart drugs called Beta bloc  a study has concluded. Yale researchers tested Otic of these drugs called atone lol. On alcoholics at a Hospital and found that it reduced their slays from five Days to four. The results indicate that itch null has a useful role in the therapy of patients with mild o moderate alcohol withdrawal syndrome the researchers wrote in the new England journal of Medicine. In the comparison study directed by or. Mark l. Kraus doctors treated 61 alcoholics Wilh the drug whiles comparison group of 59 others look placebos. The patients gelling Alono lol required fewer sedatives their temperatures heartbeat and blood pressure returned More quickly to Normal and their abnormal behaviour and tremors also went away faster. . Governor recommends closing of Gay bathhouses new York up gov. Mario Cuomo has asked the state health commissioner to consider closing homosexual bathhouses to Stop the spread of aids. Cuomo interviewed on in by to stressed any Deci Sion to close the bathhouses has nothing to do with morality or promiscuous  however he said it was Clear that deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome is spread through sexual con tact such As occurs in the bathhouses frequented by Many members of inc Gay Community. Look we had polio and we banned people from using inc Public swimming pools he said. It was t because we were against swimming. It was t because we said swimming is a sin or the people arc sinners. We said it s stupid to put ourselves into a situation where you encourage  loaded cattle truck overturns when hit by another truck san Antonio Tenas a a hit and run Driver is being blamed for an Accident that demolished a tractor trailer truck loaded Wilh 165 head of cattle and left nearly half of the animals dead. The Early morning Accident forced officials to close the was bound lanes of interstate 410 for eight hours. We put up some temporary corrals on inc freeway fire la. Frank Willborn said. Police and sheriffs deputies were shooting the ones that were  the Driver of the tractor trailer Joseph Pantalion 22, told police he was travelling West when another truck com ing the wrong Way on inc Highway struck his truck and aupied it to overturn. Police were searching for the second tractor trailer that left the scene. Former . Ambassador Young re elected As mayor of Atlanta Atlanta a Andrew Young former . Ambassador to the United nations has overwhelmingly won election to a second term As mayor of Atlanta. Young had 47,157 votes or 81.5 percent to 6,840 votes or 11.8 percent for tire dealer . Ramey. Private investigator Marvin Yizar had 3,801 votes or 6 5 percent aspirin con curb heart disease deaths tests show Washington up for people Wilh cardiac problems an aspirin a Day could keep the doctor away and reduce Thi Chance of having a heart attack by nearly 50 percent government studies show. Aspirin one of our most familiar and Long used drugs May help us prevent 30,000 to 50,000 heart Dis ease deaths yearly said Margaret heckler Secretary of the health and human services department. Heckler also announced thursday Federal approval of prescription Labelling of aspirin As an effective agent to prevent or reduce the severity of heart attacks by persons Wilh heart trouble. The Labelling Only goes to doctors and will not be included on aspirin sold to Consumers. Heckler said the studies gave no indication whether aspirin is effective in preventing heart attacks in healthy people but she said additional tests Are being conducted. For some of us an aspirin a Day May keep the doctor away she said. A pleased Industry predicted the government action will save lives reduce health costs and promote sales. Heckler also announced thursday that Federal approval had been Given for an implantable Deri Billalon a revolutionary device that can Stop potentially fatal disturbances in the heart s rhythm. The mechanism about the Sie of a pack of cigarettes delivers a Jolt of electricity to the heart when the rhythm becomes irregular. The government estimates it could save from 10,000 to 20,000 lives a year. Heckler said the aspirin studies found what Many Doc tors have suspected for years in recommending that their heart patients Lake the medication daily aspirin appears to prevent heart attacks. The Secretary said the findings involved Federal and Industry review of seven . And foreign studies. Sin involved More than 10,000 people who already had hear attacks. The seventh carried out by the veterans administration involved 1,266 men who were suffering worsened Chest pain a heart condition called unstable angina. None o these men previously had a heart attack. Heckler said the review found in those patients who had suffered a heart attack an aspirin a Day reduced the chances of another heart attack or of dying by about one fifth during the studies Whicha Slid up to four years. In patients with unstable angina an aspirin a Day reduced the risk of progressing to a heart attack or of lying of a heart attack by about one half from \ i percent without aspirin to 6 percent with aspirin in the course of the three month study