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Show SNOW WHAT? REDFORDLIKES PARKCITY / B-1 eSalt Lake Cribune Utah Centennial 1896-1996 Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 VOLUME 251 NU Copyright 1996 MONDAY January TODAY'S RE. ADERSHIP. 318,600 1996 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 OLD-TIME CURES Blood-Bank Modern Medicine More Willing to Policy Stirs Look at Alternatives ByMarlene Cimons Ire in Israel LOS ANGELES TIMES BALTIMORE — WhenDr. Brian Berman first saw him two years ago the man’s face was paralyzed by pain. The 54-year-old cameraman suffered from trigeminal neuralgia, that produces severe a condition Ethiopian Jews Protest Discarded Donations | pain. He had found some relief through anesthetic nerve blocks and narcotic painkillers — but at a terrible price. He couldn't sleep. couldn't concentrate and often was de. pressed. By itn pom: 1e] Berman decidedto try something un- conventional — indeed, something that many physicians once might haveridiculed: Heprescribed belladonna, derived fromaplant in the poisonous nightshade family. JERUSALEM — Police fi second. Causticum, r from recent revelations that Israel 1 made donated blood The pre from a mineral — the pain receded by Today it is kept undercontrol through by over-the-counter medications Berman, 45, a family-medicine physi- t cian in Baltimore, began to combine “alternative’ therapies with conventional I had great training for acute-care ) about 60,000 in Is jlood scandal was the latest and worst ncidents since massive, covert air 1991 brought thousands of them t leaders, citing discriminationin the army. say they feel like to do the same thing. They havediscov- ered that integrating the unconventional with the mainstreamnot onlycan provide relief but also can do so with fewer side effects and without moreinvasive procedures. such as surgery th 1 Ethie pi anization. Peres’ NO TLC? tical of alternative approaches. She re‘I quit using codeinesinceI started ‘Terrific By Lili Wright HE SALT LAKE says Gaudioso TRIBUNE care Neither event seems like blockbuster news In December, Wendy Gaudioso closed The Avenues Day Nursery, the only private accredited infant day ferred term outside the United States is care centerin the state, While Gaudioso owns two suc: Israeli media fi proaches derive fromancient practices. A 1990 study indicated that 1 in 3 cessful preschools. her 24-child nursery ended the year morethan $12,000 in the red. The closure sent parents scrambling forday care. since most of these ap- Americans sawan alternativehealth-care practitioner — ranging from osteopaths to acupuncturists — that year. More than 80 percent used themin conjunction with conventional medicine. according to the National Institutes of Health Doctors are beginning to listen. And medical schools are beginning to add training in alternative therapies to their curricula. Public Demand: Inaddition. insurance companies and health plans have begun to cover alternative treatments, in part because they often cost less than standard procedures and also because customers want them Themost widely used alternative medicines — including homeopathy. acupunc- ture, Chinese herbs and mind-body ap. proaches such as meditation and yoga — havelong histories. WayneJonas. director of the NIH’s of fice of alternative medicine. points out that a new drug’s average “half-life,” or periodofpeak use ut 20 years. Ho meopathy has bee unchanged for almost 200 years: act cture for morethan 2,000 years; prayer andspir tualismfor at least 20.000 years. And “if one believes reports of monkeys using plant products to regulate their menstru- al cycles,” he said, “herbalism, probably he oldest, has been 2 for greater than 200.000 years Berman predicts it will take another decade for society to undergo a major transformation in the w ay it views alter ing about conve: tary, but effective man said. “That is what will take us away Across townin South Salt Lake, Grandma's Gradu ates child-care center shut downthis monthafter state officials pulled its license for failing to address 42 safe ty and health violations. Children were fed spoiled food, driven without seat belts and not given adequate toys or books. Parents of 50 young children were forcedto searchfor a new day-careprovider These two closures — caused by radic different reasons — affected fewer than 100 children. Yet to: gether they illustrate an enormous. complex problem impacting thousands of Utahchildren: the lack of qual ity day care, especially for infants There is acrisis larger than welfare orhealth care It's the Who is taking future of children and child Accordingto the 1 Health Mi of AIDS carr imes that of the Ethiopia lik 1s 46 percent n housing, utilities nd health typical family spe tah. low wa ages compound the tight etu 190 t S. Censt economic Utah children under 6 have either their si or both parents ballooned for Salt Lake, Tooele, idence Ethiopia ans in Israel is 50 aeli population ionors were told theat their blood by more than 10 percer nt Yet as of July of last year Utah had licensed day care either in homes or facilities. to serve some 7.500 infants, Rich, Piute and Daggett counties have no censed child care at all Chris Bray f the Child Care Connection, a referr groups includ dru users er Ephraim Snet said th es 10 HIV Most of tk soldiers wh iddies to donate mon Ben-David,pene f the state blood bar k. said no in the v rk force 13,570 infants under 2 have full-tir Furthermore, Utah s population has not accepted ing homosexuals and intravenous care of our Th ends meet The day-care ported the discarding of Ethi blood donations from o American famil In most households today. two ps rents must work fo are Ir old the crowd s being that th blood wasn't government poli cried out. “Liar than other Israelis. The bloos The story begins w ith the mak had not known pian Israeli blood la eek, a sovernment off cials rushed to defend practice. They said Ethio pian immigrants have a higher risk of AIDS infection Utah Is Suffering a Lack of Quality Child Care flected the new attitude when she acknowledged: “If I had a patient who traditional,” t mong Ethic Abssorption Minister tha disczmrded and that it Thousands booed servative doctors’ organization long skep- world’s health-careservices canbe classified as alternative — although the pre- s pian Jews in the arm) Paul Fraughton The Salt Lak Lynn Emerick tends tots at The Avenues Day Nursery before the facility closed in December Nancy Dickey is a family-practice phy- According to the World Health Organization, 65 percent to 80 percent of the cl leaders abo: the American Medical Association, a con- I'd say, ituatior nited Ishipan Jewi disproportionate sician who chairs the board oftrustees of doing acupuncture,’ I said Shlomo Molla of A Second Look: Not all ofthedisciplines work for everyone. But as long as patients don't put theirlives in jeopardy said. onfrontation. an estimated 50 — about 3 ) of them pol For Ethioy ans he said Now many other doctors are beginning by rejecting established therapies. many behalf of eased problems. but I didn’t have a lot of the physicians — eventhose most resistant to alternative medicine — now seem willing to take a second look and on vho ma: be paralyzed. police said Eight demonstrators were detain¢ d but later re treatments early in his practice I startedto look for other ways after Prime Minister Shi ate fo) secret blood-bank rule which all pian bl carded due to fears! it ma ain the AIDS viru supplemented answersfor chronic conditions,” d only mon Peres apologized personally two-thirds, Bermansaid such homeopathic drugs. gas and swung Jews who stormed the prime minister's Within six months — using that drug and a ar clubs Sun lay at a surging crowd f 10,000 Ethiopiar differently S'.nda red N gone to hell Molla. of the tion, said the i Sum- @ See CHILD CARE Page A-4 7 Bosnians Siege Ends In Utah Long With Arrest Of Millionaire For Peace By Shawn: poole E neby one, AKE TH the Bosnian Muslims quiet ly wept as they talked about hunger and cold of the Serb dete camps And though their towns in e astert nia are now occupied by the Serbs most of the new arris wish they could r I just w mat doesr Esad Avdagic Is in Utah say they ‘o their war-tor go back to said 40-5 d Zimic, left, Amir Mednolucanin, Esac aguas gic, Mirsad Avda Zimic recently were set free from a Bosnian Serb fromthis we-vs.-them attitude. 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