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Show A4 The Salt Lake Tribune HEALTH Thursday, June 3, 1999 Struggling With Breast Cancer Siudy says patients who aren’t coping well often choose alternative treatments SOCIATED PRESS \vomen having an especially h time coping with breast 1re morelikely to tryaltreatments, i} and that a tip-off to doctors as to nts need counseling or ial help, researchers ssearchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston found that while these womenstill chose surgery andother standardtreat- ments in addition to alternative therapy. they complained of more sical and emotional problems «nother women studied. This is anefficient opportuni- for busy doctorsto focus on won who might be in trouble,” id Harold Burstein, a fellow at both institutions and co-author of study, published in today's vee England Journal of Medi- cine tients diagnosed with early breast cancer from 1993 to 1995. They found that women who to show AIDS-like damage to After a year, the newusers, the their immune systems, an occurrence that has disappointing implications for the development of non-users and the continuous us- ers all showed improved mental started using alternative thera. pies after breast surgery fared considerably worse. ai least ini and physical health, but some new alternative medicine or women who wereusing it before surgery men surveyed. more than 28 percent reportedstarting alternative medicine after their surgery lar mental and physical health the month before their diagnosis. However. the newusers of alternative therapy, Burstein said William J. Gradishar, director of breast medical oncology at Northwestern University in Chi- tially. than those whonever used The three groups reported simi- were morelikely to be depressed They reported less sexual satis faction, greater fear their cancer would recur and a greater num: users still had more problems than the others. Of the 480 Massachusetts wo- cago, said that while the study highlights the need for patients and doctors to communicate better. he doesn’t agree that use of berof, and more severe, physical alternative medicine is the best sign of depression motherapy and radiation. The alternatives the women can identify the patient who's really having trouble,” Gradishar symptoms. mostly from the chetried included herbal medicine. THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS Severalpeoplein Australia who ‘A few well-placed questions age. which boosts HIVreproduction. Kathleen Collins of the Univer- sity of Michigan and Gary Nabel Some researchers had hoped that a vaccine modeled onthis weak virus could be aneffective of 13 blood donated by an HIV-infected man, andeightof them caught the virus. When none becamesick. re- National Institutes of vides “another cautionary not about the use of alive but wea ened HIV strain as a vaccine “If large populations of unin. fected persons weregiventhis v ing immunedefenses. Of the donor and five of the surviving transfusion recipients (three died people in Australia received the Health said the experience pru- AIDS vaccine. However. some of the Australians now appear to show weaken- a vaccine. Between 1980 and 1984, three havefalling levels of h T cells, a hallmark of AIDS dar searchers analyzed the virus and found that it was missing a working copy of a gene called nef, aught a weakened form of HIV n the early 1980s are beginning mega-vitamins, self-help groups andrelaxation techniques. The researchers survey: Researchers Hit New Barrier in AIDS Vaccine Quest tus, there would almost cert be unacceptablerisks,” th from causes other than AIDS), NEWS FLASH!!! ONE DAY ONLY sai Transplants Giving Blind People New Hope In the first long-term study of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Giving new hope to people the procedure, Japanese re- +d by fire, chemical burns or certain illnesses, doctors are re- sto ing. vietims’ sight by trans- searchersrestoredsightto half of the eyes on which theyperformed surgery, though some needed as pl: uting special tissue-making s into the eye studywasreportedin today’s Up until recently, blindness cased by damage to the eye's surface was considered largely untreatable. This procedure, pio«red a decade ago but refined since then, would not help people who were born blind orlost their sigl because of nerve or retina dainage It is only for patients wtivare legally blind but can still ight many as four operations. The Vew England Journal of Medicine The 39 patients had become le- gally blind in one or both eyes. meaningtheycould, atbest, count fingers held up in front of them. “The best patient recovered from a finger count to almost 20/20" and was able to drive again. said Kazuo Tsubota. chair man of ophthalmology at ‘Tokyo Dental College The patients blindness was caused by heat or chemical burns, blistering froma severe reaction to medication, or an eye-attacking immunedisorderthat afflicts the elderly. “There’s so many people out there that don’t know they can be helped,” said Edward Holland, director of the Cornea Service in the Department of Ophthalmolo- gy at the University of Minnesota After a Harvard researcher 10 years ago successfullytransplanted the special cells from a patient’s healthy eye to a damaged one, various scientists tried the samething using eye tissue from cadavers, refining the procedure as they gained experiencewith it. lad Cow’ Worry MayRestrict Some Blood Donors \SSOCTATED PRESS CALPHERSBURG, Md. — At I ‘ans whovisited (iden to donate blood back ho \ federal panel recom- | Wednesday vs to the Food and stration (FDA) ex- pressed concernabout a theoretiGreat spre: hat a similar human might be able to i through blood. Panel members stressed that their vote did not meanthat frequent travelers to Britain are at risk of getting a fatal illness linked to mad cow disease — orof spreading it throughtheir blood The problemis that scientists just don’t knowif theillness can bespreadthat way. There s never been a human case where that happened. But at is a new fatal disease that doctors dont yet understand — andsome scien tists have successfully transmit GUITARS - AMPS - SYNTHESIZERS - DRUMS - PRO AUDIO RECORDING- DIGITAL PIANOS - SOFTWARE- ACCESSORIES | SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1999 10AM-7PM FREE DRAWING! Present this flyer and register to win| Hundreds of dollars in Prizes!!! through blood. “The day you find out there is {human] transmission, you're years too late” to protect the blood supply, warned Linda Detwiler of the U.S. Agriculture Department. An American Red Cross study found almost 23 percent of recent blood donors had traveled to Britain at least once between 1980 and 1996. 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