Show Standard-Examin- NATIONAL er GOP Good news for diabetics Flying squirrel plans to cut funds Device may help avoid amputations Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON - A $10 tickling device developed to diagnose victims of leprosy is being touted by government health officials as a tool Seniors would lose jobs program that could help many diabetics avoid foot amputations The Health Resources and Services Administration says primary care doctors will be advised of how the device can help detect loss of sensation in feet before a patient sustains injuries that often lead to amputation The device called a monofilament consists of a nylon bristle mounted on a handle A doctor can use it to quickly determine whether a patient has lost protective sensation in a foot Dr Ciro Sumaya head of the agency said the equipment and testing method were developed at the Gillis W Long Hansen’s Disease Center in Carville La run by the federal health agency Leprosy a WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans plan to stop funding national senior citizens groups - in- eluding some that have criticized GOP policies - as part of changes proposed for a jobs program for older Americans “Our renewal of the Older Americans Act takes the Washington-base- d organizations out of the action” Rep Randy “Duke” Cunchairman of the ningham R-Ca- House Economic and Educational Opportunities panel on youth and families said Thursday Under Cunningham’s plan to streamline the 1965 law money that ngw goes to nine private organizations and the US Forest Service to run the Senior Community Service Employment Program would go instead to states as block grants Scripps Howard News Service The states could then conduct competitive bidding for contracts under the program which annually hglps some 100000 poor Americans over age 55 find minimum-wag- e jobs in libraries nursing homes day care centers and other community service ven“This is good detta politics” said Patrick Bums a spokesman for the council “It’s injecting partisan politics into a debate about who should get federal grants” 2 Cunningham made public a General Accounting Office report that concluded that eight of the 10 organizations exceeded a 15 percent ceiling for federal grant money going to administrative costs by shifting softie of those costs to another category It said $20 million was lost because of this bureaucratic overhead “That’s a very unfortunate con- clusion” said AARP spokeswoman dp Reed adding that her organiza- bacterial infection of the flesh skin and nerves causes loss of sensation in the feet as does diabetes Modem treatments have drastically reduced incidence and severity of leprosy there are only about 6000 cases reported in the United States and only a few hundred patients remain at the Louisiana facility the last treatment location for lepers in the nation Diabetes however has been increasingly diagnosed as the population ages and becomes more overweight The number of cases since 1983 has risen by 50 percent It ranks fourth among diseases as cause of death “Our experience with Hansen’s Disease patients has far exceeded our hopes” Sumaya said “With the monofilament up to 90 percent of Hansen’s patients can avoid amputations We want to apply this tremendous success record to the some 16 million Americans who suffer from diabetes” Each year doctors perform 54000 amputations on diabetics at an average cost of $40000 per oper WASHINGTON - State laws controlling advertising and sale of tobacco vary widely and often carry light penalties according to a new federal government study released A Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife employee carries Walla Walla the squirrel from an Alaska Airline Air CarWash airport Walla Walla climbed go building in the Sea-Ta- c aboard a shipment to Fairbanks Alaska and was flown back to Seattle He will end up in the governor’s back yard in Olympia Thursday The report comes as the Clinton administration seeks to impose national restrictions on tobacco advertising aimed at youths and a ban on cigarette sales in vending machines The tobacco industry is hotly opposing the federal rules contending that stricter enforcement of state laws and voluntary efforts are cient to curb youth smoking Specifically the report by the suffi- Centers for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute cites studies showing that children are able to buy tobacco products from stores 73 percent of the time and from vending machines 96 percent of the time Of the 1230 state laws on tobacco in effect as of June 30 the survey notes that all states prohibit the sale patients their families and their communities” said Dr Marilyn Gaston director of primary care for the agency Federal health officials working with the American Diabetes Association and various physician groups will promote foot screening by distributing kits that include brochures videos for doctors and patients and the monofilament device The hope is that family and emergency physicians will routinely use the screening technique to assess whether a patient is at risk Patients diagnosed with “insensitive foot” conditions can protect themselves from limb-threateni- injury by careful selection of footwear daily of their feet and prompt medical care of minor foot problems such as nails and blisters But the penalties to shop owners or clerks for a first offense range in 11 from a fine of states to a fine of $1000 or more in $10-to-$- four states states require a spe Thirty-thre- e New Mexico town hit hard by whooping cough outbreak CARLSBAD NM (AP) - Some workers have been asked to stay home from Carlsbad Caverns and visiting high school football fans will sit apart from the home crowd because of an unprecedented outbreak of whooping cough d About of the school district’s 7000 students stayed home Thursday as state health officials announced that 278 cases of pertussis -whooping cough’s formal name - have been confirmed or are suspected Last year only about 50 cases were diagnosed statewide “We have substantial evidence that there’s re one-thir- outbreak going an unusual community-wid- e on here” said Dr Edith Umland a state epidemiologist She said 78 cases have been confirmed Of the 200 suspected Umland expects at least 60 will be confirmed exThe disease usually isn’t cept in small children and people with cardiopulmonary problems No deaths have been reported yet but several infants and toddlers have been hospitalized A line of patients extended into the parking lot of the crowded Carlsbad public health clinic ally Thursday Pharmacists dispensed more erythromycin -an antibiotic used to treat whooping cough - 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