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Show - THE Page F10 HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, October 11 1992 Breakthrough for leukemia; machines keep secrets By RON KOTULAK and JON VAN Chicago Tribune CHICAGO A new treatment for hairy cell leukemia has achieved imnressive success, reports Dr. Martin Tallman, a cancer researcher at Northwestern University Medical School. Eighty percent of patients treated with or have had complete disease remission, and the other 20 percent had partial remTssionT Tallman said. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is one of four centers across the for treating country testing this fairly rare form of cancer that primarily strikes white middle-age- d men. The new treatment is not only more effective than previous therapies, but also has minimum toxicity and is well tolerated by most patients, Tallman and colleagues have found. Company discovering how to reuse auto 'fluff' volving blood donation supports this notion. Reporting in the Journal of the From the Chicago Tribune al Laboratory have set up a system American Medical Association, Dr. Steven Locke and colleagues About 500 pounds of every to recycle up to half the fluff for use as materials in carpet padding, at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, junked car is made of lawn furniture, plastic garplastic compared results from 272 blood materials that people in the busiand other plastic prodcans bage call sometimes ness donors who gave their medical his"auto fluff." ' ! ucts. This mix of plastics, glass, fitories to a person and then to a After various the components computer terminal. Locke found bers and foams once was just are separated, Argonne researchshe said. burned away as processors went that 12 people confided risky bereBLOOD DONORS TELL haviors to the machine that they after the valuable scrap metal in a ers treat them with solvents to constitute for reuse. plastic COMPUTERS DEEP SECRETS neglected to tell the human. These junked car. SeveraTstudTeTsuggest ihat people" oehaviors, associated won risk tor Touay, however, sucn opcn-aiprefer to tell their embarrassing acquired immune deficiency synburning isn't allowed, and car secrets to machines rather than fel- drome, included having had sex scrappers have a fluff problem. low humans, and a new study in with AIDS patients. Researchers at Argonne Nation- Monitoring. Tests with four healthy volunteers showed that their sperm mobility decreased by about 50 percent up to 48 hours after taking 650 milligrams of aspirin, said Offie n of the Columbia HosMedical Center, Women for pital Further studies DC. Washington, are needed to verify these findings, non-met- al Porat-Soldi- ASPIRIN MAY INFLUENCE SOME INFERTILITY Aspirin causes sperm to loose their mobility, possibly leading to some degree of infertility in males, ac cording to a preliminary report in the journal Therapeutic Drug f- Depression clinic at BYU offered free of - OKI 33uH Ggft ani) dsns L 7 EEL i bmp wsinHiu rate miit avm nwsriro foil) (uaiiifKriiiiK375 v 7 PROVO The Department Health Sciences at Brigham Young University, along with the Women's Center at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, will sponsor a lecture on depression and loneliness Oct. 15. Paul George, a licensed clinical social worker and treatment coordinator of the Depression Center at UVRMC, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in 151 Tanner Building. The lecture is free and open to the public. With the stressful and busy lifestyles people now lead, depression has become an epidemic, said Keith Karren, chair of the Health Department. 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