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TRCO BEiili Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, June 14, 1984 Testtube triplets delivered United Press International HOUSTON — A boy and two girls born to an Austin couple Mon day night became only the third set of testtube triplets born, officials at the University of Texas Health Sci ence Center said Wednesday. “Both babies and mother are doing well,” said spokeswoman Kenna Giffin. “They’re the third set of triplets in the world, but the first set from our program.” The parents of the babies are Guy Herman, 35, a Travis County attor ney and justice of the peace, and Sara Simpson, 33, a staff attorney in the legal services division at the state controllers office. The babies were delivered by Cea- sarian section Monday night at Seton Medical Center in Austin. The boy, Russell Guy weighed 5 pounds-9'/2 ounces; the first girl, Margaret Eleanor, also weighed 5 pounds-9'/a ounces; and a second girl, Julia Ruth, weighed 3 pounds- 9*/ 2 ounces. “The two bigger babies will proba bly go home in a week,” Giffin said. “The smaller baby may have to stay in the hospital a little longer.” The births brought to 18 the number of babies delivered through the UTHSC-Houston in vitro fertili zation program, Giffin said. The only other multiple birth for the Houston program was a set of twins. Underground walkway is nearing completion Dri Anyone who has driven through the narrow lanes created to make room for construction in front of the Veterinary Medicine Complex should be relieved to learn that in August, when the pe destrian passageway connecting the Small Animal Clinic and the Medical Sciences Library is com pleted, the gaping hole in the road will be filled. Unfortunately, construction on the portion of the tunnel beneath the west side lanes on University Drive must first be completed. The hole in front of the Medical Sciences Library construction site will be filled and another hole will be dug on the opposite side of the road by the Small Animal Clinic. “It’s a safety feature,” said Gen. Wesley Peel, vice-chancellor of fa cilities and planning for Texas A&M University. The passageway is being constructed for the sake of students and employees who would otherwise' have to brave a stretch of University Drive with a heavy flow of traffic and no sig nals when crossing between the Medical Sciences Library and the Veterinary Medicine Complex. “We had to choose between building an overhead or under ground passageway,” Peel said. An underground passageway is less expensive and requires less maintenance than an overhead walkway, he said. Unitec houst< Guard Wee hearing into drilling shi| report that < hers presun ina Vietnar Also Wee Houstpn-ba: which owns lesiified he the captain staffing a bo; typhoon sea ered it unim Austin at the father o Pierce, said from a Vii claims to ha Unitec CHARLC wanted in s crimes and Wednesday money in N< ecu tors say < acts will be it Photo by Peter Koctu Construction for an underground passageway has closed off two lanes of University Drive. The walkway will connect the Medical Sciences Library and the Veterinary Medicine Com plex. mg- In court ' ter James M lion, the go\ deleben is offender an hanced sent statue. The c at Debardel New Herpes pill may prove effective treatment for rash United Press International BOSTON — A new pill appears to be an effective treatment for herpes, suppressing the recurrent rashes that characterize the venereal disease suffered by millions of Americans, researchers reported Wednesday. Two studies reported in the New England Journal of Medicine showed pills containing the drug acyclovir, given two to five times a day for a number of months, dra matically reduced recurrences of the painful rash. “We found that with this treat ment we could suppress most of the expected outbreaks and the drug was tolerated extremely well,” said Dr. Stephen E. Straus, head of the Medical Virology Section at the Na tional Institute of Health. The pill or capsule form of the drug has been approved for experi mental use, but is not yet available to the general public. In ointment form, it relieves some symptoms of herpes and slightly shortens the du ration of the rash. Genital herpes is an incurable vi ral infection afflicting 50 million to 150 million Americans or more. Among many victims, herpes rashes appear five to eight times a year, lasting about a week. The disease is generally only transmitted by sexual contact during outbreaks of the rash. The drug was tested on patients with more severe cases of the disease which resulted in as many as 15 out breaks a year. the New England Journal of Medi cine, 35 patients were tested at the NIH. Sixteen were given the drug and an equal number were given a fake pill. Of the 16 given acyclovir, only four had outbreaks during the 125 days of the experiment. All 16 of those on the fake drug came down with a rash during that period. At the University of Washington in Seattle, 92 patients were tested. That study found it usually took 120 days for the rash to reoccur while patients were on the drug and 18 days for patients on the fake drug. daily doses of a drug, thesideelfffl of which are not fully known. “Although this drug has been markably safe, it could potential)! used by large numbers of healtliyi dividuals and if there are goingl» serious side effects it may be a lem if people happen to concta while on the drug or have otif medical conditions,” said Straus, Pi We Pi Coui C; In one of the studies, reported in But the doctors still urge caution. Because herpes generally has few se vere symptoms, researchers were re luctant to recommend that large In a third study, reported in Journal of the American Medical, sociation, University of Vermont searchers found acyclovir in capsi I form taken five times a day fori days shortened the duration rash. The study showed, however,! drug does not eliminated the vi from the patient’s system. May retail sales increase only 0.2 percent United Press International WASHINGTON — Retail sales increased only 0.2 percen't in May, a crawl compared to April’s 3.1 per cent pace, suggesting the entire economy is slowing down, the Com merce Department said Wednesday, numbers of sufferers begin taking Retail sales, seasonally adjusted, totaled $107.3 billion in May— 10.3 percent above the same period last year, the report said. Automobile sales, reaching a re cord $22.2 billion, accounted for what little increase in sales occurred in April, the department said. With out a 0.8 percent increase in auto sales dollars, everything else would have been virtually unchanged. Yet the May increase in auto sales was hardly comparable to the 20.9 percent increase dealers reported the month before. The figures were closely watched by analysts because investors and business planners are anxious for clues to the economy’s future as in terest rates climb. 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