Thursday, January 19, 1984/The Battalion/Page Medical centers beginning study on drug for strokes United Press International ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. — Five major medical centers have begun a study of a substance resear chers hope will be the first effective way to prevent para lysis and brain damage caused by stroke, a Texas neurologist said. Treatment with prostacy clin, a substansce first de scribed in 1976 by three re searchers who later won the Nobel Prize, reversed para lysis when administerd to a 33- year-old man a few hours af ter he suffered a stroke, Dr. Frank M. Yatsu said. The substance is not avail able to the public, he said, but could eventually offer hope to stroke patients who otherwise would recover much more slowly or not at all. “There is no good, reliable, predictable treatment for stroke,” Yatsu said in remarks released Tuesday. “The use of prostacyclin has at least opened the door.” Ideally, he said, prostacy clin would have to be adminis tered within minutes of a stroke — before impaired blood flow permanently dam ages brain cells. Current treatments for stroke include blood tinners and surgery but these are not always effective, he said. The American Heart Asso ciation has estimated 500,000 Americans suffer stroke each year. In 1981, the latest year for which statistics are avail able, more than 164,000 died. Others suffered effects rang ing from weakness to para lysis. In a study of 12 stroke vici- tims at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Yatsu said, six benefited from doses of prostacyclin and six did not. The “most dramatic” case was that of the 33-year-old man who recovered his speech and use of his right side after a dose of the substance, the neurologist said. He said it is possible pros tacyclin hastens recovery rather than preventing debili tating effects. Yatsu, professor and chari- man of the center’s neurology department, said investiga tors in Poland studied 10 pa tients treated with prostacy clin and found all recovered — even when treatment was adminstered as long as three to five days after a stroke had left them severrely weakened. Because of the two studies, the drug’s manufacturer, Up john Co., has asked five insti tutions to begin a large-scale study of the substance, Yatsu told an American Heart Asso- ciation Science Writers Seminar. The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, is included among the centers participating in the study. Commissioner criticized United Press International AUSTIN — The Mexican American Legislative Caucus said Wednesday it is seeking “further clarification” from education Commissioner Raymon Bynum about his re marks linking Hispanic students to low college entrance test scores in Texas. The group of Hispwmakers decided to write Bynum a letter, asking him to further explain his comments that an “influx of His- panics” caused Texas average test scores to drop over the past decade. “We cannot let the albatross of lower entrance examination scores be hung around the nec! of Hispanics across the state ii stead of where it belongs -| around the neck of the educ: tional system,” said Rep. Gonz: lo Barrientos, D-Austin, chai man of the caucus. Some Hispanics have calle for Bynum’s resignation b< cause of his comments. Corrigan travels to Arab seminar By ROBIN BLACK Staff writer Dean Corrigan, dean of the College of Education at Texas A&M, said he is impressed with the “commonality of problems” in education confronting both the United States and Arab na tions on the Persian Gulf. Corrigan, who is a member of the governor’s “blue-ribbon” panel on education, attended the seminar on teacher educa tion in the Arab gulf states in Qatar Jan. 7-9. Qatar was one of the nine gulf states repvesented at the seminar by their respective edu cational leaders. “It was amazing (to me) to find that we’re all facing the same problems in education, even though we speak different languages, have different lifes tyles and are separated by being on the other side of the world,” he said. ledge base” in teacher prepara tion programs; • the need for an effective “quality control” system to en sure continuing teacher com petence; • the need to achieve a profes sional status for the field of teaching. The three-day conference, which was sponsored by the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, the University of Qatar and the International Council for Teaching, was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, Qatar. The hotel was constructed especially for the Arab Gulf Slates Summit Conference. Since the bulk of the confer ence was conducted in Arabic, four translators were flown in from Cairo, Egypt especially fot Corrigan and the ish- Englisl le other three speaking educators. The state of Iran was invited to the conference but did not attend. Corrigan was invited to speak at the conference by the presi dent of the University of Qatar, Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Kazem. Kazem is a member of the In ternational Council for Teaching, which helps to coor dinate regional seminars such as the one held in Qatar earlier this month. 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