European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 28,19bb Northeast Midwest rank High in heart attack deaths Atlanta api the Northeast and Midwest have the nation s highest death rates from heart Dis ease while the West has the lowest Federal health officials said thursday. The National centers for disease control said significant geographic differences Are apparent in the death Rale from is humic. Or blocked artery heart Dis ease most commonly heart  re talking about thousands of deaths difference Between the Low slates and the High states said or. Patrick l Remington a cd researcher. For example he  nation s worst Rale ism new York where in 1985. 320 out of every 100,000men died of Isth Emic heart disease. The National aver age was 249 in new Mexico the rate was 151 per 100,000. J ,. A that translates to thousands of excess deaths in new York if von compare them to new Mexico Remington said. Even a 10 percent difference for this the leading cause of death in the United Stales is  1985, 540,800 americans died of ischaemic heart disease according to the cd. The five worst states for men new York new Jersey Rhode Island Michigan and Ohio All Are inthe Northeast or Midwest where other suites with the High Sci rates were clustered the cd reported. The Best Rales were clustered near Chesapeake Bay and in the West. The five lowest heart disease death Rales for men were in the District of Columbia Hawaii new Mexico Maryland and  the most part states with High heart disease death rates for men showed similar Rales Amon women. The highest rates for women were in order m new York new Jersey Michigan Illinois and Rhode Island with the lowest Rales in Washington d.c., Hawaii new Mexico Alaska and  Likely cause of inc state by Sale discrepancies cigarette in Nokari pc vat us 45% Remington said is the prevalence of cigarette smoking these Northeast and Midwest slates Are the states that have High rates of cigarette smoking he  we do know that cigarette smoking Isth most important preventable cause of heart disease. Most death from smoking Are heart attacks not lung  in contrast the lowest rates of smoking Are in the West he said. Other possible factors include cholesterol Levels and differences in medical care for which no firm state by stale Dau an available. Remington Laid. Sci demographic difference and population shifts also might play a part the Guanla based cd said in its weekly  disease death rates for All Ages and geographic areas have decreased in the last two decades the cd said citing previously reported  noted that much of the nation had similarly High heart disease death Rales in the 1950s, the California and the Western states began declining. There s something about in. In certain Stales in started  heart disease is the leading killer in the United states taking More lives each year than All other causes combined according to the american heart association. Fra wants graphic photograph on anti acne drug warning Label Newark . A Federal regulators want photograph of a deformed infant on the warning Label of acc Tane a powerful anti acne Medicine that can damage the Fol uses of pregnant women a pharmaceutical company said thursday. That and other . Food and drug administration requirements which arc not written in Concrete follow an Fra panel s recommendation last Mont that the drug remain on the Market an Fra spokes Man said. Hoffman la Roche inc. Spokeswoman Carolyn   company is Fin agreement with the Fra s order which does not stray much from the advisory panel s recommendations on the prescription drug which was introduced in 1982. The company agrees that female patients should be shown the infant deformities acc Une can cause but the photo May be More appropriate. 10 use on the patient consent materials signed in the doctors of fice she said. Those materials planned for Issue Early this sum Mer would include a form to be signed by female patients staling they understand the risks associated with the drug she said. Glynn said company officials previously discussed using such a photograph but nol with the Fra or in advisory panel. It s not an Issue of using the picture it s where you use the picture she  spokeswoman for the Nutley based company said Hoff  Laroche received the Fra s require ments in a letter dated May 19, on wednesday. She released the order thursday afternoon. The Fra left it to Hoffman la Roche to release the order or keep in confidential she said. The advisory panel and the Fra embraced a proposal by Roche to sell acc Lanc Only in a so called Blister package in which explicit patient warnings including sketch of a pregnant woman with a red x drawn through in would be sealed in at the factory to make sure the patient would see them. Glynn  company which must respond to Thesda s letter within 15 Days Hopes to have the patient consent kit on the Market by late june and have the new Blister packaging in drug stores no later than sep the Fra has received reports of 66 birth defect associated with the drug since 1982. Forty five of the defects were in the first two years of the drugs use when warnings were less severe. There have been 21 reports since 1985, when Labelling cautions were strengthened. Iowa guardsmen won t go to Panama Iowa City Iowa a an Iowa National guard medical unit s training trip to Panama has been cancelled but an officer denied political developments there were the reason. From what i can Tell the Mission just was there said la. Col. Tim Brown. There has to be things for the soldiers to do when they arrive medical support missions those kinds of things. There just was t a Mission Liat had enough things for them to do. I  the training exercise was scrapped after a guar team had looked at the urea he said. Though guard officials were monitoring the panamanian situation. Drown said he doubled in was a Factor he  decision against the trip was made ear Lier this month before the United Stales broke off negotiation Wilh panamanian military Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega about his resignation. The Iowa City unit s physicians nurses pharmacists and other medical personnel had been scheduled to work aug. 4-18, in support of the staff at the army Hospital Al Gorgas an american military facility in Panama. Because of the change in plans most of the unit s 156 members will spend that period Al fort Mccoy,wis., said Mai. Paul Schmid executive officer of the i09lh medical in. Another 34 will be assigned to duties in Guatemala in Guatemala the Iowa physicians dentists paramedics dental technicians and other health personnel will work Wilh medical forces from that country. Brown  assistance had been requested by in guatemalan government. The Iowa National guard will be the first unit to train in Guatemala he said. Stateside 40 billboards will Mark anniversary of Frk death Scranton a. A the 20th Ann Lucr. Wry of Robert of Kennedy s assassination willbe marked with a memorial on 40 billboards across inc country an advertising company announced thursday. Patrick Media croup which has 50,000 Bill boards will Creel Black bordered while Board bearing he words Robert f. Kennedy in memory june 6,1968." Kennedy a . Senator from new York seek ing the democratic presidential nomination was killed Al the ambassador hold in los Angele just after winning the California primary Patrick Media spokesman James Mullody  40 billboards will appear in All 14 slates in the wat South Midwest and Northeast where the company has signs ceremonies Are let for midday june 6 at Many of the Sites he raid 2 Navy fliers safely eject before training Jet crashes Grove Hill Ala a two flight instructors successfully ejected from a Navy twin ing Jel thai crashed and burned thursday in a Forest authorities said. The officers were picked up by a search hell copter and resumed safely to base said u. J. Mary Chamberlin spokeswoman for the Meridi an Nas in Mississippi. They were identified As Marine capt. Thomas Henry Renken and Navy it. . Timothy John Roorda. Who was being examined Tor a possible broken   Jet based Al Meridian. Miss., was on a routine training Mission and crashed at 11 45 . In the scotch wildlife management area in Southwest Alabama 13 Miles wet of Grove Hill. The crash sparked a wildfire near Alabam Highway 154 that was fought by stale forestry fire Crews. There were no other injuries. Paper Mill workers reject offer endorsed by Union Halsey Ore. Up More than 550 strik ing Mill workers at he James River corp. Pulp and paper Plant rejected a Xcvi cd 5-year con tract Oner that was endorsed by Union negotiators seeking to end the 6-week-old walkout. Members of the United paperwork Ert inter National Union voted wednesday and thursday and the ballots were counted thursday  officials did not disclose the Vole or the reasons the offer was rejected. The Union has been on strike since april 15. I really Don t know what the major hangups Are Union spokesman Al Lippincotl said. They Union negotiators know apparently that they roust have fallen Short because the membership spoke. And now we be got to schedule meetings and find out where the problem areas  communist Anthem picked for graduation ceremony new York a Queens College la school students have selected the communist Anthem the internationale for their graduation ceremony Friday. A College Dean insists it was t meant m a political statement. Assistant Dean Bonnie Manama said thurs Day that the school has Many International Stu dents. Besides she said it s upbeat to March out  said a committee of students faculty and administrators picked the song. "1 think out of 31 graduates about 10 people were upset she  internationale has been used by labor unions As Well As by communist and socialist parties around the world. It was composed 100years ago by French revolutionary Eugene Poi Lier who wrote in for the French commune uprising which comprised a spectrum of icel Wing groups