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Wednesday, June 22, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7 de hibition; Families of liver patients ask for insurance payment UT astronomer believes Pioneer won’t find life tig very ki 1C, saidQ United Press International ncore. MINNEAPOLIS — The families of children who have said thej had liver transplants or need reach If; the surgery are seeking better istonianss ways to match potential d, saidcon donors with recipients and for ly schedii thealth insurance companies uber Kith to pay for the operation. I a yearlaitl? The appeal came Monday at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in conjunction with a medical conference in Bethesda, Md., that is consid ering whether liver trans- plants should be declared u ! t . theraputic, non-experimental n exaMl operations instead of ex perimental surgery. iston at thjl'Tl> e medical experts at the wealthy! N at ic»ial Institutes of Health ut j ve conference say a distinction is vett , | critical because many health , p an( insurance companies will not Wer experimental proce- ,1 | ie u dures. Liver transplants cost mono about $250,000 at the^Univer- [jjj t sity of Minnesota facility, n He re» J 0 ^ 1 ! Bohrer, a Wichita, Kan , hospital administrator 520,000, ■ whose two daughters suffer from the same terminal liver disease, said Monday an effec tive national system is desper ately needed to match liver donors and recipients. Bohrer and his daughter, Julie, 7 months, need to find a donor within the next two weeks or she will die. Julie’s older sister, Amee, 2, needs a transplant within the year. The girls suffer from Alpha 1 Antitrypsim Defi ciency, which prevents bile from reaching the intestines where it normally aids in di gestion. Boher was joined by Greg and Annette Gossett of Au stin, and their daugther Ashley, 10 months, who needs a liver transplant within the month. Also on hand was Jeremy During, 7, of Spring Lake Park, Minn., who re ceived a new liver Feb. 5 at the university hospital and his mother Judy; and Robin Har din of Cahokia, Ill., mother of Amy Lynn Hardin, 1, who re ceived a new liver May 11. Most of the people who found donor organs say they were successful because na tional media attention made doctors and organ donors aware of their need, Buaeer said. However, he said most people who need liver trans plants do not find donors in time. Bohrer said few families whose members die suddenly are not usually prepared to make the decision to allow doctors to take the organs at the time of death. He said the decision would be easier if people accept the idea of organ donation. The families said a nation wide system comparable to the one used to match kidney donors and recipients would go a long way toward impro ving the availablity of donor livers. The families agreed with growing sentiment within the medical profession to desig nate liver transplants as ex perimental operations. “They’ve got to change it from experimental to ther aputic because Amy is doing great,” Hardin said. Amy suf fers from a potentially dan gerous viral infection affect ing some transplant patients, but the disease is under con trol, Hardin said. If the NIH conference agrees with the families, it could pave the way for gov ernment agencies, military health insurance and private insurance companies to cover the expensive operations. The conference was to issue re commendations on Thursday. A liver transplant for a child costs about $250,000 at the University of Minnesota, including living expenses for parents before and after the operation. United Press International AUSTIN — While generally agreeing that humans are not alone in the universe, University of Texas astronomers say that Pioneer 10’s chances of encoun tering other life forms is like a “needle in a haystack problem.” The robot spacecraft that sped out of the solar system last week was not designed for con tact with other life forms, de spite its accompanying plaque depicting nude humans and Earth’s location. “It was entirely correct to put a calling card on it,” said Harlan Smith, director of the UT McDonald Observatory in west Texas. “But Pioneer 10 is very small, emits no special signals and the distances involved are vast.” The flight path was influ enced mainly by the gravitation al field of Jupiter, the planet in spected by Pioneer 10 in 1974 and the exhaustion of the spacecraft’s fuel supply pre vented any change in course. “I absolutely agree that we’re not alone in the universe,” said Bash. “But Pioneer’s recovery is a needle in a haystack problem. The chances are very, very small.” Smith believes Earth has been visited many times by intelligent beings who have learned to con trol their tendencies to mayhem. “You can imagine that any place they encounter where life is established, they’d let it be,” he said. “Like we set aside parks and preserves.” If that is the case, Smith says Pioneer 10’s existence would already be known and the spacecraft would be considered too primitive to be worth re covery. Neal Evans II, who teaches a course at UT called “Extrater restrial Life,” said there are areas of the universe where stars are relatively close together but Pioneer 10 will not reach them for millions of years because our solar system is so far out in the boondocks. “For Pioneer to be recovered you have to imagine a galactic civilization roaming the stars and, to me, the chances of that seem remote,” said Evans. The spacecraft, designed and owned by the National Aero nautics and Space Administra tion, is nuclear powered and able to measure magnetic fields and charged particles in outer space. When it left the solar sys tem it was 2.8 billion miles from the sun and was traveling at a speed of 30,558 mph. “Pioneer’s passage is a miles tone in human history,” said Laurence Trafton, a UT re search astronomer who assisted in interpreting signals received by Pioneer when it sped past Jupiter. “Due to the absence of rust and corrosion in space, Pioneer may well outlive any manmade invention built so far,” he said. “Pioneer will be valuable in sci entific experiments for at least the next 10 years.” NASA officials have said Pioneer’s power supply should last for at least the next 21 years. WHERE NEW IDEAS COME TO LIFE! An authentic reproduction of an aarly Kroger Delivery Truck powered by a 1 I H.P. anglno will bo awarded In each Kroger Storel No purchase necessary. 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' “There remains a need to de monstrate more unequivocally the EDA (emergency declara tion area) is safe immediately and over the long term for hu man habitation,” said the report from the agency, an indepen dent investigative arm of Con gress. “If that cannot be done, it may be necessary to accept the original presumption the area is not habitable.” Since December, the office has examined how the Environ mental Protection Agency moni tored the Love Canal area. The results from a two-year EPA study were the basis for the July determination the area was fit for people. The discovery of buried che mical wastes under the Love Canal neighborhood sparked a national controversy over toxic chemical dumps in the late 1970s. Congress eventually cre ated the Superfund program aimed at cleaning up the na tion’s worst hazardous waste sites. In July, EPA officials con ceded problems remained at Love Canal, but said they believe “there is no more risk living there than in any other city.” But the congressional group said, “With available informa tion, it is not possible to conclude either that unsafe levels of toxic contamination exist or do not exist” in the area. The area in question is an out er ring around the dump site. It does not include the area nearest the site, once occupied by 237 now-demolished homes. 1 I LET 1 * i n -rrm Around town Madrigal Committee needs workers The MSC Madrigal Dinner Committee is beginning pre- production work for the Third Annual Madrigal Dinners Program. The organization is currently accepting applica tions for cast positions. The Madrigal Dinner program is based on a style of music brought to England from Italy in the 16th century. Madrigal singing was at first informal, private entertainment per formed by lords and ladies in castles and country homes of landed gentry. These performances were naturally suited to such occasions as Christmas. Today, the MSC Madrigal Dinners are Renaissance celeb rations of Christmas time complete with tradition menus, courtly entertainment, and the Madrigal concert. It is an evening of warmth, good humor and love. Singers, musicians, jugglers, magicians and mimes are encouraged to become involved in the cast of a rapidly growing program. Anyone interested should contact Patty Fleitas at 845-5974 or drop by Room 003 MSC or contact Jim Hurd at 845-1515. A&M adviser appointed chairman David T. Mucci, Senior Program Adviser here, has been re-appointed Chairman of the Issues and Ideas Committee of the National Association for Campus Activities. Mucci has served as Chairman of the Issues and Ideas Committee since 1982. Prior to assuming his present posi tion here, he was program assistant at the University of Kentucky. He holds a B.A. in English and an M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky. 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