Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • 20

Urban renewal grants awarded B-10 T1IESTATE Oct. 5. 1978 Finding may help fight antibiotic side-effects Leak shuts nuclear site cilities in the Washington Boulevard corridor of the city's business district. Pontiac was awarded $4 million for various downtown revitalization projects. Saginaw was the beneficiary of a $1.5 million grant to be combined with private investments for the contruc-tion of a 192-room downtown hotel.

outside the nuclear reactor's containment vessel, said Wis-chmeyer. The shutdown caused no loss of power for the utility. "WE'RE NOT in a heavy load period," Wischmeyer explained. "We make up the loss with power from our other generating stations, and with purchased power from Ontario." The Palisades plant is near South Haven in southwestern Michigan. When operational it generates about 700 megawatts of electricity a day.

JACKSON j(AP) Consumers Power Palisades nuclear plant has been out of service since Monday and will be down until the end of the week, a utility spokesman said Wednesday. The plant was closed because cooling water leaked through one of the 48 seals on the plant's control rods, said Robert A. Wis-chmeyer, public relations director for the Jackson-based utility. "WHEN ANY of the seals leak, it is not safe to operate the plant and it has to be taken down," he said. The water contained radioactivity, but there was no danger to the public or Consumers employees because the water did not leak leases toxins into the colon.

U-M SCIENTISTS who have worked with Ms. Harvie said her findings could have great value in the treatment of patients who need strong antibiotics to combat infection. Dr. Robert Fekety, chief of the infectious disease division at U-M, and a co-author of the research paper, said the antibiotic clindamycin used to treat intestinal infections often is accompanied by the appearance of colitis symptoms. He said such symptoms can lead to complications that can make it necessary to remove the patient's colon.

THE DISEASE is rarely fatal in the United States, but a study in England showed a 54 percent death rate in patients with antibiotic-associated colitis. Scientists believe this form of colitis results when antibiotics destroy beneficial bacteria in the patient's intes-. tinal tract, leaving toxic bacteria that resist antibiotics. I ANN ARBOR (AP) The toxin sometimes given off ty an intestinal fcactena when commonly prescribed antibiotics are used has ixen isolated 6y a Unn entity of Michigan researcher. The isolation mild lui to better rtnethixis of that side effect of the antibiotic.

NANCY R. Harxie. an associate professor of microbiology and research biophysieist at the J-M Medical School, announced her findings this eek in Atlanta where she is partici-Mting in an American Society of Microbiology Conference. The university distributed statements about it here. Using a sophisticated laboratory technique called isolectnc focusing.

Hie researcher said she was able to purify the toxin that an intestinal bacteria emits. Researchers say that an apparent side-effect of often-used antibiotics is growth of the intestinal bacteria Clostridium difficile. The bacteria re DETROIT (AP) Detroit, Pontiac and Saginaw will split up more than $10 million in federal urban development action grants to help finance downtown renovation projects in those cities. The office of U.S. Sen.

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