European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday decanters. 1986 Trie stars and stores  a Mim Mem Mai drug slows fatal progression of form of cirrhosis study says Boston a a Medicine used since ancient Greece for treating gout is the first Safe and effective Way Topilow the fatal progression of a form of cirrhosis researchers reported Thun Day. Until thit year this was a disease that was progressive and tended to kill most people who got it said or. Marshall m. Kaplan a researcher at new England medical Center. Nothing worked so it was very Dis couraging.". The drug colchicine appeared to Cut the death rate in half during the four Yean it was used on 30 patients afflicted with primary biliary cirrhosis. It s the first time that a Safe Medicine has Bee found to affect the progression of this disease favor ably said Kaplan. Ii clearly does t care the disease but it certainly  primary biliary cirrhosis is a liver disease unrelated to alcohol consumption. Us cause is unknown. It strikes about 14 of every 100,000 people in the unite states and is the leading cause of adult liver trans  says he does not know How colchicine works to Stow the progression of cirrhosis. It does not repair liver damage caused by the illness. But blood tests used to measure liver function showed that people Takin the Medicine had fewer indications of disease than did a comparison group. Kaplan said he u giving the drug to All patients who show outward sign of the disease. The primary symptoms Are fatigue and  i study published in the new England journal of Medicine Kaplan and colleagues gave Cut Elicine to30 patients with the disease. Third others in a Compa Rison group received placebos. After four years 21percent in the colchicine group died compared with 47 percent in the other  another study in the december Issue of Lejour Nal gastroenterology a team led by or. Jay Hofta Leof the National Institute of health found that a drug called chloral Bucilo also seemed to slow the , this drug can cause an untreatable Fonn of  Contrail colchicine has been demonstrated Safe Over centuries of use. Kaplan said it was probably firs used As a gout Medicine by the ancient greeks. The researchers Are still not sure what Long Ter effects the Medicine will have on victims of the Dis ease. Taking High doses of b vitamins May help prevent lung cancer Washington a treatment with High dose vitamins appears to reduce the incidence of Precan Cerous cells in the lungs of pack a Day cigarette smok ers researchers reported wednesday. Charles e. Bulter world of the University of Ala Bama said the Vitamin therapy once developed fur ther May enable doctors to prevent  from developing into lung cancer. What s significant is that it May be at a ,1 he said. By the time a tumor shows up on an a Ray it s usually too late to reverse  at the same time Butterworth cautioned the a Peri mental findings will need 10 be replicated by other researchers and the Vitamin treatment was considered a poor substitute for slopping  i Hope that these studies Don t encourage smokers to think that they Don t need to quit they can just take a Vitamin. My feeling is that they ought to Slop Bat we know that there Are some who won or can i he said. Butter won chairman of the University s depart ment of nutrition sciences summarized the results of a clinical study headed by Carlos Brundieck. The four month study involved testing sputum samples from 88 men who had a history of smoking 20 to 30 cigarettes a Day for the past 20 years. Half of the smokers were Given a daily dose of 10milligrams of folic acid a b Vitamin along with half a Milligram of Vitamin b-12, while the other half were Given a Placebo. That amount of folic acid is 25 times higher than the Standard recommended daily allow Ance four tenths of a Milligram. The sputum samples were examined under a Micro scope for the presence of abnormal cells known to be precursors of cancer. By the end of the four Mont period Butler Worth said the lest group Given the Vita min combination showed a significant improvement in sputum  Butterworth said the researchers believe the treat ment May serve to counteract a Vitamin deficiency in the lung tissues of smokers. The key concept is that cigarette smoke inactivate certain vitamins causing a localized Vitamin deficiency when it hits the surface of the lung he said. 300 times per hour for two hours doctors Stop allergic sneezing Boston a when a drunk shoved chocolate topped ice Cream into a Young woman s face she sneezed again and again and  300 times an hour for two hours until Dayton figured out a Way to Stop the rec i. Their shod tint sub act of a Brief medical report in England journal of  t. Sturm of the St. Paul Fig to draw. Urm. Is Tei ical Center in Minnesota the 23-year-old we dinner with a group of people. Dunnigs Stert drank pushed ice Crest with chocolate sauce Wal chocolate. She wiped the mess Awa butt wat too late. She started sneezing and could t  the Hospital Sturm reasoned that the sneezing was caused by irritation of the nasal lining and the transmission of nervous signals Over the trigeminal nerve to the brain his solution was a squirt of cocaine Hydro blonde a topical  sneezing began to Abate three minutes after the nasal epithelium was anaesthetized and came to a com plete Stop five minutes later he wrote. The patient was observed for 20 minutes and no further  she went Home cured of status Stem ens As doctors Call continual sneezing. Veterans urged to apply for education benefits Washington thousands of poll Viet Nam veterans have not yet applied for their de Ca Lional Benefit Dojiri under the veterans e6v rational assistance program an air Force spokesman said. More than 269,000 veterans who paid up to$2,700 each while on Active duty hive fluted to us their benefits now Worth is 100. They inv cup to 10 Yean after discharge to us he Money and May apply Tor a refund after the 10-year deadline. Air Force announces services squadrons awards Washington three Penciu were Hon ored for their work in Ter Vicea squadrons in Europe . Air Force spokesman raid wednes Day at 20th services so Raf upper Heyford England maj Dennis a. Bossen received the senior military manager award and Michael  took the civilian technician award. Edward c. Caruso. 43ilh services Rhein main a Germany won the award in the senior civilian manager category. Pet shipment program expansion announced Scott fab Iii. Air Force personnel bound for assignments in Hawaii Guam and the Philippines May now travel with their Pelt. The location were added to the military Airlift come pet shipment program monday an air Force spokesman said. Owners Are allowed to ship no More than two pets and they must meet Host country require ments for documentation immunization and order clearance. Pels must be aged and ship Ped in air transport association approved containers. Korea and Japan will be added to the pet shipment program in april. Other locations included in the program Amerhein main a Germany Howard fab Panama Athens Greece Aviano a and  a Igonda Sicily Roia Spain Lajes Field azores and St. Johns Newfoundland. Heidelberg Book exhibit in route Back to Vatican Heidelberg books from the Bible Ole a Falatine left the holy ghost Church for their shelf at the Vatican on thursday. The books which represented Only 5 percent of the total Library were loaned to the univer sity of Heidelberg from july through novembers pan of the school s 600th anniversary Cele bration. The return of the books to Heidelberg occurred 360 years after they were seized during the thirty years War and presented to Pope Gregory Xiv. Some 272,000 people including 2,300 tour groups visited the exhibit. University officials said it was not uncommon for tourists to wait inline for two hours to get a glimpse of the Book. Soldiers from the 2fith support group in Hei Delberg took part in the safeguarding and Irani porting of the books. Away no smoke or no work Hospital tells employees wentzvu1e, to. A applicants for jobs ate a Weme Community Hospital jul have to . A tense no Gnu Ikimis fret Euing people they can l smoke and wort  Chi Ogreen.  of the 100 patients who have permission from their doctors also will be permitted to smoke Green said tues  of one wailing room u set aside for smoker. A smoker who Hopes to be hired will have to sign a affidavit pledging to give up smoking on and off the Job he said adding that the Hospital is not going to Send Gestapo agents to anyone s Home to see if be is  Joyce Armstrong director of the Eastern Kutou chapter of the american civil liberties Union Slid the private Hospital is Wilbin its rights to ban saut Ingon the Job but is exceeding it authority with a total prohibition. Bud Quimby director of communications Tot. The tobacco company Philip Morris Usa said it we by Constitution in for an employer to mate met Mlp Kianoff the Job a condition of employment