European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse To your health medical magic straight from Star trek associated press r researchers Assoria Lodwich Georgia tech arc developing a hand hold device that a doctor could simply Point Al patients to learn their and respiration talks a comparison to Ihu chum a medical scanners Osco on Iho television show Sis trek is inevitable said Doug Robinson Chick of coating officer of health techniques of Georgia inc i be heard Ilia Mote limes than you can imagine he said a Sie atly very a exc to Hiil " out Thevilla signs Monitor. Which Tho company Hopes to Market in about 16 non los. Is exp clod to Loo More like a pocket calculator than Ito sleek cylinders Hal Whin at a aliens on Star trek. And it was inspired not by science Liolion but by a military need id help medics on the bal Blofield Georgia tech in searchers have delivered to the military a prototype Defont Ketley left William Shatner and Catherine Holcka in scene Horn Star tvs in the voyage Home somewhat bigger than a briefcase and the University licensed health techniques to sell the technology to civilian health care providers we hmm in has particular application Lor patients who Are severely burned where no Contact with he skin is possible or looked Lor. And also Wilh patients who May have a contagious disease or patients who have compromised immune a Sloms and have to be isolated rom Contact with other people Robinson said the device would weigh 1 Vilo ? pounds and would Nave a lop Range Olsi feel to 10 eel Robinson said Stephen Bonasera. A research Engineer on the tech team that is developing the Omlor. Said the device depends on microwave transmissions and ins motions of a patient s body. Microwaves Are shot through patients clothing Inlo the body the resuming Waves then arc Analysed phase changes in the woos show the heart s movements the Battery powered device envisioned by health techniques would need to Bounce is microwaves Oil a pal enl Lor 15 to 20 seconds but Robinson said the Power level Falls Well within the most stringent safety Standard tech s work began in i9w Wilh Navy funding Tho air Force idler added Lunding and Bonasota said Tho Aimy also is interested puzzling illness causes fatigue by Daniel q. Haney associated press doctors should Rule out a Long Lisl of Ilia such As aids and alcoholism before the decide patients Are afflicted with a baffling newly recognized Ai Mcm called chronic Aligue syndrome researchers say in Tho past. The illness has been referred Loas of Yuppie disease because some of its victims Are Young professionals or Moro formally. E Psi Finbarr virus syndrome or chronic Monona Cleora in a report published in the March Issue of the annals of internal Medicine 16 lop Rescic ties in this Field agreed to Call Ilch on fatigue syndrome and settled an a definition for the affliction the Del Nilion largely involves a Ulm out other illnesses Hal can cause similar symptoms including the hallmark of the syndic cutrome fatigue it s a diagnosis of exclusion arid it has to be considered As such even alter you be ruled everything else out said or. Gary a Holmes of the u s Conte is to disease control and Chiel author of the report you have to continue to be concerned that there is something else going on he added you have to keep an open mind and Biol amply close the books " another co Anthony l Komaroff of Brigham and women s Hospital in Boston said the new Del Nilion should help researchers As Well As do Clurs who arc laced with path nos who have heard of Tho illness and Ihrk they have it Many of them have other physical illnesses or they Are depressed or he said. Of colors need an Anchor to help distinguish patents with chronic fatigue syndrome from patients wha have other kinds of fatigue according to the definition people Witt the syndrome Musl have suffered debilitating fatigue Lor at least in months it must be bad enough to reduce daily activity by Al least Hall doctors also must Rule Oul a Long list of diseases thai can mimic Tow symptoms of the syndrome these include cancer tuberculosis ads depression diabetes alcoholism poisoning and kidney disease among Many other disorders in addition patients must show signs of at least Highl of 11 other possible Eon Diboni these Are mild lever sore Chroal painful Lymph nodes generalized muscle weakness muscle discomfort headaches painful pints sleep problems sudden Onset of the symptoms. Such neurological problems As trouble concentrating confusion of Torger fullness and general fatigue lasting Al least z4 hours alter exercise that the patient easily could have withstood when healthy. When the disease 1sl received widespread attention three years ago doctors believed in was somehow linked with he Epstein ban virus because some victims signs of activation of Hal common virus however Many experts no say irial Epstei Rosarr virus is nol associated with the illness since victims Are us As Likely to show exposure to Trie viruses thai Causa measles genital herpes and cold soils. Among other things although the cd has received thousands of questions about the illness rom a aliens and doctors no one knows How Many people have it 11$ cause also is a mystery some believe in can be buggered by persistent Isle Lions Ith a variety of a Milos among the suspects Are a group of Fri Cobes called Tho enteroviruses a ecu As a newly discovered virus known a human herpes virus 6 researchers suggest its a reaction to these lingering infections Ratner than the mischief of the viruses themselves that makes people eel poorly my theory is that certain viruses Are Able to escape even being fully eradicated by the body said Komaroff they come Back to Light again you have a constant Lian Iraq War where the Battles Are Continua Tho process of Bong Bailie and Motel Irma the body s immune system causes Somo of Tho symptoms of teeing it " Holmes noted that the symptoms of Chions fatigue syndrome arc similar to those experienced by people treated with the natural hormone Isle oleron interferon is the body s Normal response to a Holmes said it a be that ,l, overproduction of Miler Ecron Loi a prolonged period May be causing Iho illness tuesday. 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