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l Help for infertile couples is on the way and an extensive educational network for engineering professor has received a
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center designated just for that prob1em_ available to patients, the public, and system of operating fuel pumps on
The newly-established Center for health care professionals. military jet aircraft.
E Reproductive Medicine in the Chandler Fifteen percent of all couples are jimmy Cathey's cycloconverter link
A Medical Center has api-imary goal to help infertile and this new Center will afford DC (direct current) motor system would
married couples have their own, natural them the state-of-the-art expertise of the replace conventional mechanical fuel
children. Center staff. Already there are 50-75 pump systems on new aircraft.
. Announced at a news conference requests on file at UK for the in vitro Present aircraft rely on gear-driven
» ()ct_ l2, the Center will be located in procedure. The cost for this procedure, fuel pumps connected mechanically to
renovated space on the third floor of Wilson explains, nationally is about the jets engine turbines, with the speed
University Hospital, which previously $3,000-$5,000 at those Centers where it is the pump operates determined entirely
was occupied by the OB/Gyn Clinie performed. UK is looking at ways to by engine speed.
Funds for the renovation will come from lower the costs by collecting the eggs The DC motor system would be
clinical budgets, not state coffers, using non-surgical procedures. independent of the engines, and control-
t The staff will include Dr, john W, One of the unique features of this able by the pilots. Cathey says this would
Greene, jr., Professor and Chairman, Center is the adoption referral segment. enable control of fuel flow by varying the
Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, This program will not only provide fuel pump speed, eliminating the need
UK College of Medicine; Dr. Emery A, information but will also include for a separate bypass valve.
Wilson, Professor and Director, Division counseling. Additionally, the Center Will Developments of an electrically
of Reproductive Endocrinology, Depart- offer fn€diCal Cafe and/or counseling in H powered fuel pump is one example of
ment of Obstetrics /Gynecology, UK nl1ff1b€1‘ of other disorders of reproduc— how aircraft are entering an all-electric
College of Medicine; and Dr. Kenneth N. flV€ health. $11Ch S€1‘ViC€S in€ll1d€Z birth era and abandoning traditional
Muse, Assistant Professor, Division of defects involving the f€pf0d¤€tiV€ UHCI, mechanical or hydraulic controls and
Reproductive Endocrinology, abnormal puberty, menopausal linages,Cathey said.
Department of Obstetrics /Gynecology, syndrome and estrogen replacement
“ UK College of Medicine. therapy, premenstrual syndrome, etc.
According to Dr. Wilson, many of Dr. Robin Powell, dean of the UK
Z the components already are in place and College of Medicine, notes that several Cglcium Crisis
functional and the remaining should be factors led up to the implementation of  
operational in the next six to nine this C€¤f€f- He SKYS, "Th€‘1‘€ have l>€€¤ Americans aren`t getting enough cal-
months. $lg¤lli€¤¤f f€S€¤f€l7 i¤€f€¤S€$ in flTi$ ¤f€3; cium, and it's causing some serious health
Specific features of the Center will fl1€ need for fl1€ P1‘0gfam, and the problems, especially among women.
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studies to determine the cause of a strong nucleus of qllaliiiéd physician- — is present in one out of four caucasian
i couple's infertility; a complete range of €d¤€¤f0f-f€S€Hf€h€fS Y0 Spéafhtfad fl1iS· women over the age of 65. Health experts
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diagnosis." periods of disorientation and his or her disease takes on the caretaker or family Y
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profession is not such a problem wday During this phase the patient also may and see what we can do to make life l`
Markesbery said. But there is still little experience extreme outbursts of anger easier for them." E
hard data available about the disease and hostility. But Markesbery is optimistic about C
itself. The final stage of the disease reduces the future for Alzheimer’s patients. · I
"lt is suspected that Azheimer’s is the patient to a vegetative level. The "There is a great deal more research I
caused by a variety of facters," patient does not recognize family, activity being directed toward finding E
Markesbery said. "Research here is becomes totally withdrawn, and does the cause for Alzheimer’s than there
being directed toward many areas, such not respond to his or her environment. was ten years ago," he said. "People l
as the phe¤<>m¢¤<>¤ of haw iaiured They become incontineat and many are just becoming aware of what an <
nerve cells affect the function of other become immobile or bedridden. international health problem it is, and l
closely situated nerve cells and the Because many of the patients in the as that happens more funds will be l
l possibility of an accumulation of a trace final stage are elderly, they develop allocated to research. And in this case, ' E
element, such as aluminum, being other medical complications which may there are a lot of different aspects to ‘
responsible for the onset of the hasten or cause their death. examine. It will take time, but it is the ‘
disease." There is no way to predict how long only way we can learn." ‘
The first indicator of Alzheimer’s is an individual will stay in a particular Markesbery and his colleagues at the V l
a consistent loss of recent memory ——— stage, said Dr. Markesbery. Some Center are involved in a variety of , l
forgetting family names, for example. people plateau in the first stage, others research projects which will help in l l
Other symptoms include the repetition in the second. However, he said, it deciphering the mysteries of O l
of words, phrases or sentences; not appears that people who develop Alzheimers ‘
being able to remember the Alzheimer’s in their fifties or early Researehers gr rhe (jemer are i
appropriate words to express oneself; sixties have a more rapid decline, while optimistic about a grant they recently
i and an uncharacteristic lack of personal those who develop the disease in their received which will support about i l
neatness. This period may also be late sixties or early seventies may have six different research projects related A
A marked by emotional or behavorial a slower course of decline. All to Alzheimer's. The core of the
 
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proposed project involves biochemical to support that finding, said Rhoads, will rry ro determine the _
and morphological studies and includes Markesbery. "But," he said, "we did mechanism of decline in [he brains of
following an already established group find that it accumulates with age. We Alzheimer`5 parienrs and ro see if ir is
of aging Alzheimer patients and have found large concentrations of a factor in the chain of causality of {h