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Drug may prevent premature births United Press International MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences is among several medical centers testing a new drug to help prevent premature births. “Prematurity — delivery of a baby under 37 weeks — accounts for three-fourths of deaths in babies,” says Dr. Jeffrey Lipshitz, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the center. “That’s the big gest problem we have in obstetrics in the world today.” Lipshitz heads a team of researchers testing Hexoprenaline. In some cases the drug helps prevent premature delivery. Food and Drug Administration approval for testing was granted several months ago. Hospitals and prenatal centers in San Antonio, Texas; Chicago; Sacramento, Calif., and Jackson, Miss, are also among the testers. Lipshitz, who had used the drug in his practice in South Africa, said it causes fewer side effects on a mother and child than other drugs used to retard premature labor and birth. “One of my main concerns is, with the introduction of this type of drug, a woman will come into a hospital saying she has contractions before her time, and a great many will receive the drug unhecessarir ly,” he said. His research is aimed at identifying the few women who need the drug, which would add a safety factor to its use. If a child has mature lungs, or its growth is retarded, or if the mother is too far advanced in labor, delivery is recommended. Performing an amniocentesis procedure — removal of fluid sample from the sac surrounding the unborn child — determines maturity of the lungs, the doctor said. “We’ve been able to start contractions any time we wanted, but we haven’t quite kept up with the ability to stop them. 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June 4 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tap Exercise Aerobics 107 Dowling 693-0352 VALERIE MARTIN’S GALLERY OF DANCE ARTS ✓ Ballet Jazz Models may he hazardous to young women s health s s s □ DATE June 11 ^ June 13 N June 25 ^ June 27 S ^ July 9 MSC Outdoor Recreation Committee We Rent SUMMER PROGRAMS Equipment SEMINARS & TRIPS Kayaking Seminar Canoeing/Kayaking Trip to Hidalgo Rockclimbing Seminar Rockclimbing Trip to Enchanted Rock Backpacking Seminar LOCATION 8 pm Outdoor Pool *no deposit RENTAL IS OPEN TO ALL TAMU FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS. United Press International NEW YORK — Every time Dr. Steven Levenkron opens a maga zine and finds a display ad for womens’ fashion, his blood press ure soars. “If I had my way,” he said, “every one of them would have to carry a line saying, ‘Caution: This model may be hazardous to your health.’” By Levenkron’s reckoning, high fashion models are indeed hazardous to the health of 3,()()() young American girls — and as many as 5,000 in Europe — every year. They are youngsters posses sed by an obsessively ritualistic horror called anorexia nervosa — an affliction of self-starvation that reduces its victims to skeletal di mensions evocative of Dachau or Buchenwald. “In fact,” said Levenkron, who has devoted 6,000 hours to the treatment of afflicted girls, “holo caust victims, on the average, died 15 pounds heavier than some anorectics I’ve seen. It s reaching epidemic proportions. Levenkron s personal battle against the disorder which, though psychological in nature, soon becomes a full-fledged phy sical disease as malnutrition rav ages organs and triggers even more obsessive behavior in a starving brain, goes beyond the therapy he offers. He recently published a book titled “The Best Little Cirl in the World, and ABC aired the film version Monday evening, The movie, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a timid, attention- starved teen-ager who systematic ally starves herself to the verge of the grave, is as devastating as the disease itself. It is likely to send the parents of compulsively diet ing daughters running for help — which is just what Levenkron wants. He said 80 to 85 per cent of anorectics under therapy survive and conquer the obsession. But the rest die —— compulsively vomiting and purging themselves with laxatives to the end. Only girls become terminalh obsessive about their weight. Cadaverous high-fashion mod els readily become the role mod els for what Levenkron calls “a dazzling obsession, hut fashion alone is not to blame. Levenkron said parents who try to force a child into early independence share the burden. child, and implore the chil remain that way. “But the child sees such para as depleted, exhausted si) slie comes the best little girl in world to keep her parents sit WF sunbui If the parents are safe, the I is not. because siblings whoi not “no-problem children l get the attention, leavinglluj ding anorectic on her own—" t e rnat u ral 1 y i ndependeht -1 feeling abandoned, ignored; unloved. But if the seeds of the aillitl are sown by parents, itisthcM of high fashion that nurturesili |. makes it grow. “M edia-is medicine and it side cfleets, said Levenkron, troubled girl learns through media that virtue is slim, so starts dieting. Fashion hasla«] girls to hate their develop bodies. Models today are 12-y< olds! 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