European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page. 8 the stars and stripes Friday november 29, 1985 health & science news experts urge six months paid leave Job Security for parents of newborns new Haven. Conn. Up a brain Trust of child and family experts proposed immediate National action to provide a minimum of Sis months paid leave from work with Job Protection and continued benefits for parents of newborns. The Yale Bush Center advisory commit tee on infant care leave recommended tues Day that the Federal government help initiate policies allowing for a leave of absence for a period of Lime sufficient for mothers to recover from pregnancy and childbirth and for parents Tocarc for their new babies. Such a leave should provide income re placement 75 percent of salary Benefit continuation and Job Protection said the committee headed by or. Edward Zigler professor of psychology and head of the Bush Center. The committee recommended that the fed eral government require a combination of employee employer contributions toward an insurance fund covering both Short term disability and infant care leave As the mos efficient and effective financing mechanism. Zigler said More than two thirds of the countries in the world have some provision for parents to take paid Job protected leaves of absence to care for their Newborn. The committee noted that in the unite states nearly 50 percent of All mothers of Infanti under one year of age work outside the Home because of economic necessity. Committee member Yuri bronc Cobren Ner Cornell professor of human development family studies and psychology said american society pays for not having system of parental leave. In a nutshell we see the major origin of school dropouts drug dependency Delin Quency alcoholism. Children who gel into trouble come from families that do no function he said. Parental leave won t fix it All but it is powerful starting Point. We forget that a child cannot pull himself up by the  Zigler said the committee s recommendations reached after two years of study would in the nest several Days be forwarded to the . Senate children s caucus the House select committee on children youth and families and the congressional caucus on women s issues. Company policy 16-week maternity leave with full salary n Perront of Industry participation manufacturing 153 companies surveyed a Scago to tar Ort trafic by Kevin Boyd sound sex qty a  corp Tom Mumn. Benwa had met Gwng ims Many tolerant of unorthodox clinics poll finds new York a half of All americans believe cancer clinics should be Al Lowed to operate in the United states eve if the treatments they offer arc opposed by established Medicine according to a Media general associated press poll. The nationwide Telephone poll of 1,412respondents also indicated that slightly More than half would seek treatments rejected by the medical Community if they were stricken by serious diseases. Four in 10 of the respondents said the feared one deadly disease More than any other for the vast majority that disease was cancer. The second most commonly feared Dis ease was aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Each year hundreds of americans receive unproven cancer treatments from drug therapy to massive doses of  the unproven treatments involve drugs the patients generally have to leave the United states to receive them. Many of the patients of these clinics con tend the treatments saved their lives. But other patients die and some doctors fear thai patients who abandon traditional treat ments May be shortening their lives. Fifty percent of the respondents in the Media general a poll said clinics that treat cancer and other diseases in ways opposed by mainstream researchers and physicians should be allowed to operate in the United states while 36 percent said the clinics should not be allowed to  rest were unsure. Younger people were More Likely than older people and Blacks were More Likely than Whites to support the clinics. If stricken by a serious disease 52 per cent of the respondents said they would seek a medical treatment that promised Acure even when the treatment was rejected by the established medical Community. Thirty six percent said they would no seek such unorthodox treatments and 12 percent were unsure. Once again younger people were More Likely than older people and Blacks were More Likely than Whites to seek unorthodox treatments. Men were slightly More Likely than women to seek such treatments. Or. Robert Eyerly chairman of the american cancer society s committee on unproven methods of cancer manage ment said the poll indicated the strength of americans fears about cancer and the traditional methods of treating it. Because they fear cancer and radiation and chemotherapy they would seek unproven methods that Are less toxic than these because they fear the treatments As much As the disease he said. Respondents were also asked if they believed Faith Healing diet therapies vitamins and laetrile were effective in treating can cer and other diseases. With diet therapies patients Are told treat specific foods prepared to exacting specifications. Meg Vitamin therapy is based on the belief that High doses of specific Vita mins strengthen the body s ability to de longest ving transplant patient Marks i7 years with steady heart stroy cancer. Faith Healing involves the use of prayer laying on of hands and other practices that seek divine intervention to cure  is a drug believed by some to be effective against cancer but which was never shown to be effective in scientific tests. Thirty two percent of the respondent said Faith Healing worked while 54 percent disagreed. Twenty three percent Laid die therapies alone were effective in treating cancer while 58 percent disagreed. Only 15 percent believed Large doses of vitamins were effective in treating cancer. When it comes to laetrile 14 percent said twas effective 40 percent said it was not effective and 46 percent were unsure. The biggest Surprise is the results on diet therapies and Mega vitamins Laid Eyerly. I thought the food fad stores that have been peddling these things had been making More of an impression than the Yare. I m pleased to hear they Aren  Marseille France a Emmanuel Vitria 64,the world s longest surviving heart transplant patient says he would be willing to try a French built artificial heart but Only when his 17-year-old transplant shows signs of  Vitria was talking to journalists before his Celebration wednesday in privacy with his family of the 17th anniversary of his transplant operation. He indicated he does not expect to have to try prof. Jean Raoul Monties artificial heart soon As his transplant continues to amaze him with is steadiness and solidity. It works like a precision watch said Vitria. He received the heart of a 20-year-old French Marine Pierre Ponson who had been killed in a Road Accident. The Luj Geon prof. Edmond Henry died later of a heart attack. Dec Beu which would Lin to a 5 offer a id a Venon alcoholic drinks Huguenin said