OCR Text |
Show PMS Center to open m Orem i . e anger, a sense of being out of control, plus a host of other, seemingly unrelated, physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms. symp-toms. The hospital's other plans for expansion include a new out-patient facility, with groundbreaking planned for January. The Utah PMS Center at the Orem Community Hospital is the first of a series of projected satellite clinics operated by Women's Care Corporation. For information about free lectures lec-tures and materials, call 224-1810 in Orem. The Utah PMS Center has announced an-nounced that it will open a clinic for the treatment of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) at the Orem Community Hospital. Hospital administrators and officials of-ficials of Women's Care Corporation, Cor-poration, operators of the original Utah PMS Center located in Salt Lake City, revealed their cooperative plans for the clinic located at the hospital's out-patient facility at 485 W. 400 North in Orem, just north of the hospital. They project opening on July 30. According to Women's Care Corporation President, Patty Cannon, this clinic will be the first permanent satellite of the Utah PMS Center which opened in Salt Lake City in May of 1983. "This move demonstrates the progressive health-care attitude of the Orem Community Hospital administrators and physicians and is a significant step in the recovery of thousands of Utah County women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome," said Mrs. Cannon. Based on estimates of medical researchers, 5,000 or more women within the treatment area of the Orem Community Hospital facility may suffer from the condition that is thought to be a hormone disorder originating in the brain. "If researchers are correct, an estimated 40 percent of all women between the ages of 15 and 50 suffer from PMS, about 10 percent of whom suffer severely enough to require medical help," said Mrs. Cannon. "If that is true, PMS may be the world's most common disease." Symptoms vary, and range in severity from mild to incapacitating, in-capacitating, and typically include depression, lethargy, headache, bloating, unexplained outbursts of |