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MINNEAPOLIS — The Univer
sity of Minnesota said it has success
fully used a promising new drug in
the fight against organ rejection in
transplant patients.
Dr. John Najarian, chief of surgery
at the University of Minnesota Hos
pitals, said Friday a six-month ex
perimental study showed “excellent
results” in 12 kidney transplants and
he is “extremely optimistic” about
the early results.
The rejection of transplant organs
is the body’s reaction against invad
ing organisms. In transplants, it is
triggered by the introduction of an
alien organ.
Najarian said massive doses of
drugs are used to fight graft rejec
tion, but the drugs also lower the
body’s resistance to infection.
In the university study, 12 adults
received doses of the new drug, cal
led cyclosporin A, following kidney
transplants. All 12 patients were
given cadaver kidneys, and such pa
tients are more likely to reject organs
than those who get organs from rela
tives.
Najarian said cyclosporin A is the
first new immunosuppressant drug
in 20 years. He said it is an extract
from a fungus and was first isolated
by the Swiss pharmaceutical com
pany, Sandoz, from soil.
Three arrested
during protest
University of Minnesota Hospitals
is one of only a few institutions in the
United States authorized to use the
drug on an experimental basis, Naja
rian said.
“There were no lost grafts (trans
planted kidneys),’’ Najarian said.
“There were no serious complica
tions. There was no suppression of
the white blood cell count.”
“We are extremely optimistic with
the early results,” he said. “We will
now start a random study and should
have some clear-cut answers in two
or three years.”
FDA ban
on venom
questioned
United Press International
DES MOINES, Iowa —The U S.
Food and Drug Administration’s ban
on the sale of a poisonous snake
venom concoction used to treat mul
tiple sclerosis victims may be the
target of a lawsuit.
Yale Tucker, 33, vice president of
an auto salvage firm, said he has been
taking daily injections of one drop of
the venom solution, called PROven,
since January and has experienced a
remarkable improvement in his con
dition.
“I was living in fear, waiting for the
other shoe to drop,” said Tucker,
whose disease was diagnosed in
1971. “Since January, I’ve felt a lot
different about myself — I’m confi
dent and not afraid.”
Tucker said he had been receiving
the venom from snakehandler Bill
Haast of Miami, Fla., until the FDA
recently banned the sales.
He said he is consulting an attor
ney about a possible suit against the
FDA in an attempt to lift the ban.
Several other victims of MS in
Iowa use the snake-venom mixture,
he said. Tucker does not regard it as a
“miracle cure.”
“I don’t know if the snake shots are
doing any good, I don’t know if
they’re doing any harm,” he said. “I
just know my disease is not as bad.”
The venom, which came from cob
ras, kraits and water moccasins, had
been administered by Dr. Ben Shep
pard, a controversial Miami physi
cian who died in June.
The FDA said Sheppard violated
federal laws and had covered up the
death of at least one patient.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease with
no known cause or cure.
United Press International
JACKSON, Miss. —Three black men armed with handgunswertB
arrested Saturday as about 175 blacks marched through downtwjB Ur
Jackson to protest the shooting of a black woman by a white pot | WASH
officer. compute
The black march preceded a similar march to city hall by the ku k brains wi
Klan members for a “white solidarity rally American
Two of the arrests came while the blacks marched tow ard city to replace
from a black masonic temple located about a mile and a hall In workers,
downtown area. The other man was arrested in fioiit <>t the p< port said
department building adjacent to citv hall. re l
Sgt. Perry Martin, a police spokesman, said ollicrrs saw v has shrun
appeared to be the outline of guns in the men’s pockets postage st
“They frisked the suspects and found the guns \ll three ing so rap
charged with carrying concealed weapons and an- being hcldonS jor impac
bond,” Martin said. He would not identify the men. k h' s £
He said the first two men were arrested on the sidewalk .mcblid rious upn
appear involved in the march. Fred Banks, a black state r'erm j°hs are a
and president of the Jackson NAA( P said the men w ere inarebtfMhin an
but admitted he was not there when the arrests wore made. '
The blacks vvere accompanied on the inarch l>\ loot patmlmcn:
police cars. Police officers also were out in force at the city ball and
Hinds County courthouse across the street where lines of peopiew
waiting to register to vote.
Mayor Dale Danks placed all 375 city police officers on duty fur
morning march by the blacks and the 2:30 p in. demonstration by
Klan.
The demonstrations stemmed f rom the Aug. 29 shooting of Doro
Brown who was shot four times by police officer Cary King when
refused to drop a pistol she had been firing.
King, free on bond on murder charges filed by the woman’s sis
was reinstated to the police force about two weeks after they shoot
and is awaiting a grand jury investigation in November.
“I personally would prefer not to see either demonstration t
place,” Danks said.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale
University will ship a rare 500-year-
old Jewish manuscript recently de
termined to have been stolen by the
Nazis during World War II to a new
home in Jerusalem this fall.
The 15th-century illustrated Hag-
gadah or Passover prayer book, kept
in a Yale University basement for
more than 30 years, was taken by the
Nazis from a wealthy French baron
James A. deRothschild, said Walter
Cahn, chairman of Yale’s art history
department.
Cahn estimated the manuscript’s
value at $150,000. The book, he said,
offers a rare illustrated history of the
Jews.
Cahn found the book “lying on a
black box” when he came to Yale in
1965. A few years later, he wrote a
paper speculating it may have been a
product of Johel oen Simeon, a pro-
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speculated a soldier maylBd mil<
brought it home as war booty.B'enyea
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incut for another I i years until We rr
graduate student hai hara Hmy'gen a:
began to study it last i r, she said,
nar on medieval manuscriptstiBnithe:
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a catalogue of p. >sscssions beloJpnperat
to the dcHothsc bild family
were confiscated during the !^>he s;
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