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Show 4 The f Lake Tribune. Sunday, March 4. ?9J2 Malt Mysterious Malady Still Lacks Cure Editor' nam of It Not hs ' Law Cant Halt rf, 4. v A fjp ' r Teen Crimes I. high-profil- ' By Kit u Beamish Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES Tony Hughes. at 22 an aetive. recently married career woman. gut out ot lieil one day and collapsed e "Tile law is not cutting down on violent untie said Paul Strasburg. New Yol k City's commission,'! ot juvenile justice He and some other criminal justice ollieials say all it has done is increase prison overcrowding Other ollieials argue the law is cllcctive in that H does put the most violent olleiiders behind liars and at least is better than the old sy stein "Tile law has allowed us to prosecute juveniles in accordance with the crimes they commit " said Robert Silvering, chicl ol the juvenile crime unit in tile Manhattan district attorney's oltiec ' Bclorc the law was passed, a juvenile who committed a violent cl ime rccciv cd no more than a slap on the w risl Silvering says it is too early to tell how ellcdive n 1,E takes its name trom the I,atin words for "wolf" and "redness because doctors thought the skin rash it caused resembled a wolf bite About 7 liereent of lupus victims have family members with the disease, studies have shown Strikes Suddenly An external version ol lupus causes skin lesions but no internal symptoms. The other tye. systemic LE. can show up internally a number of ways. The disease may go unnoticed for years, then strike suddenly. A traditional "textbook" case would be a girl who had sun rash and was dead in a month." says Dr. Edmund Dubois, a professor at the University ol Southern California medical school and founder and head of the lupus clinic there Most trequently , lupus strikes women ot age who notice a soreness of the joints and lack of energy as early symptoms First, she was told she had rheumatoid arthritis. But after two months of worsening health, during which friends told her she looked fine, she was diagnosed as a victim of lupus erythematosus. Toni Hughes is one ot an estimated 30.000 Americans stricken each year with the debilitating and sometimes fatal tissue disease. An estimated 00 percent of the victims are women. Sucide Attempts Like many of them. Ms. Hughes found her life completely altered. She had to cjuit her job at a major stock brokerage. For the next eight years she jjp ook daily doses of a cortisone steroid. ihe developed a "moon" face from the S rug, and became depressed to the iuint of suicide attempts as she tried to i ithdraw front it. She was hospitalised 25 times in the irst five years, some times for up to a nonth at a time, us symptoms would econie so severe she had to take high oses of cortisone. She doesnt know how or why, but she ient into remission three years ago. oday she lives with the knowledge she ould have a "flare" or relapse at any I me. Although doctors have made prog-- ; ;ess in treating lupus patients and ? rolonging their lives through early Jfliagnosls. the specific cause of the isease and a cure for it remain a child-bearin- g 'There's this overwhelming fatigue." says Ms Hughes, who is now president of an merican Lupus Society division in West lais Angelos. Ample Rest Patients learn that keeping the disease under control requires ample rest, and avoidance of stress and sunlight which can induce flares. Still, there is no guarantee that even a cautious patient will not suffer a relapse. While no cure appears immeiit tor lupus, some researchers feel that development of new treatments and refinement ol traditional ones offer hopeful signs. Treatment ranges trom aspirin (12 to which along with 20 tablets a day) to rest can improve milder cases untlmalarial drugs and to powerful agents that can cause harmful side effects, doctors say. Researchers teel that something in the blood causes the autoimmune reaction, says Dr. Wallace, who is also an assistant professor at the UUl.A medical school. lystery. In ld7h. New u Itself. My let!) wouldn't support me." blie said. She had known something was wrung because slie hud been having a "traveling pain" in her joints and she was tired all the time. She was bewildered at the sudden deterioration of her health. - York Slat, hailed b law. olleiiders juvenile passed advocates as the nation's toughest. Now. there over whether it has accomplished NEW YORK tUPI' cystic tibrosis. and other diseases, according to the American Lupus Society. A disease of the connective tissue, lupus can affect uny part of the body. It is an autoimmune illness, meaning the body forms antibodies that attack its own tissues, as it the body is allergic to tho tochnkal erythematosu. It I a tistuo diteata which tlrike ten of thousand ot American each year primarily women. Treatment are helping, but no cure hat yet been found. hi put ' is. The agers. Associated Press Photo treatment, process that filters blood, at Dr. Robert Winchester talks with patient Mary Travers during her plasmapheresis with what Wallace called "absolutely lantastie" response Eight ol the 10 patients went into remission, and although they continued using strong drugs, were able to reduce the dosages, he says. Wallace looks forward to luturc development ot the process, but adds a note ol caution "The current technology weve used is extremely primitive and it probably should not lie exploited It's not a process that should he used on patients with mild symptoms." Other traditional treatments are unsatisfactory lieeause of dramatic side effects, lie says. Although he is an associate ol Wallace. Dulxiis says that after 31 years of lupus reset rch. he is skeptical about plasmapheresis, or any other new lupus treatment. "There is no such thing as a cure, hut Cedars-Sma- i Hospital for Joint Disease in Manhattan. you can get excellent results" by using various drugs with rest and avoidance ot sunlight and stress, lie says. with new While experimentation treatments continues, a study ol 000 systemic lupus patients Irom Dubois' Beverly Hills practice showed that today lupus siitlerers can expect to live longer than they would 311 years ago. Initially lupus was reported to have a !H) r percent mortality rate. The study showed 70 percent of all the patients and N7 percent ol those without kidney involvement lived at least 10 years alter diagnosis, according to a paper published last March by Dubois. Wallace and lour associates. two-yea- "Improved surv ival may reflect . closer letter nutritional status, and treatment at earlier stages ol disease." the report said. I follow-up- Health Aid on Skis stiltened jail sentences lor teen prosecution of 12. 11 and 15 year olds in adult criminal courts lor violent crimes such as murder, rape and armed robbery One criticism is that it tailed to provide lor improvement ol juvenile jail laeihties Thomas Viola. Gov. Hugh Carey's aide, said more laeihties were planned hut there simply was not enough money available law has It perhuts 5 KoiiihI Slain in Bn riling Home ALLENDALE. Midi - or suspects connection bodies couple and their three shootings and lire. The (UFH ol with m daughters, each shot in the head witli a rifle, were tound Saturday by firelighters battling a tilae at their rural home, authorities said. Firelighters tound the bodies in the home and called Ottawa shentt's deputies to the scene. Officials initially said the v ictims had burned to death but later said they were not touched by the flames which destroyed most ol the home. Police said the victims were all shot with a rillc Meanwhile, authorities issued a statewide alert lor a compact station-vagon believed to be carrying a suspect c v The victims were uiioltiOially ulen tilied as Robert IauNon. 12. his wile Mary .lane. HI. and three daughters Uindi. IS. (.aria. 13. and Casey . s were shot in the head, shentt's deputies said Three ol the bodies were louiul in the kitchen the other two were tound elsewhere in the home All uthonties said the lire was it, 'liber ately set Stale police crime tali investigators trom thcGrund Haven post were called to the scene The blae reduced the root ol the house to a skeleton of charred wood ra&fflllMiE) 0P1K3OM Dr. Matthew Houghton. EMPIRE. Mich. (APi and if that isn't a little Jr. still makes house ealls out oi the ordinary these days, then consider that he makes some ol those appointments on skis. "Nothing's better lor assessing a patient than seeing him or her at home," said tlu osteopath F TOG VJGGK Lupus Research Lupus, or LE. is frequently misdiug-ose- d because it imitates the symptoms Houghton plies his trade in the tourist haven ol f many other maladies. Thus, the Empire, where the steady population is 17(. He says .(XX) he chose the town "beeause I have the chance to give cases known to U.S. doctors New Treatment ersonalied medical care. We're all one big family robably represent only half the actual Wallace is working with a new here." umber of lupus victims, according to r. Daniel Wallace, who conducts lupus treatment culled plasmapheresis, in When the town and surrounding area are search at Cedars-Sina- i Hospital in which the patient's blood is removed s Angeles. from the body, troublesome compo- blanketed under several feet of snow, Houghton makes his ealls on skis, a task that for him isn't as Because its symptoms often went nents are separated out and the blood is ditticult as it sounds. to the patient. returned a to it be was nreeognized. thought n Sare disease. But lupus, is more In the past three years. II) severe than rheumatic fever, leukemia. cases have undergone the process at V0 Days same us tush tuy away now fur lu te'ums Financing and Bank caids Matching furniture now on sate' 1? Drawer Pedestal is in luded in tins sale pi ten com-kjjio- Withdraws From Reuter News Agency N.Y. 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