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GENERAL The Daily News Leader, Tuesday, May 5, 1998 A7 First lady says prospects bright for breast cancer cure access to specialists, prevent said. "Together we can ban genetic discrimination," she said. On another subject, the first lady noted that President Clinton has proposed legislation pending in Congress to give patients in managed-care systems a specific list of rights. She said Congress should quickly move to pass it. The Democratic version of the bill would guarantee patients emergency room care, require "You have a president who is on your side every step of the way," she said of her husband.

But she said work needs to be done to ban genetic discrimination by insurance companies and employers against women whose heredity may make them at greater risk for breast cancer. "No one should be afraid to walk into a doctor's' office for fear that their genetic makeup will be used to deny them insurance coverage," the first lady cancer once and for all," she said. "By our efforts, we will see victory. The best headline of all is the one that says, 'Breast cancer is Mrs. Clinton credited the cancer-fighting coalition with building public support that she said led to a near doubling of federal financing for breast cancer treatment and research and a provision allowing Medicare to pay for annual mammograms for many women.

The Associated Press WASHINGTON Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday chances are brighter than ever for a breakthrough in the search for a cure for breast cancer. "We are on the brink of major discoveries," the first lady told the National Breast Cancer Coalition. "We need to continue our fight against breast cancer using every weapon at our disposal." "Our goal must be a complete and final eradication of breast "inappropriate interferences by insurance companies in the doctor-patient relationship, and hold health plans legally accountable for decisions that lead to injury or death. Mrs. Clinton said that whether people are enrolled in managed care programs or opt to stay in a traditional relationship with'a personal doctor, effective efforts must be made to "make.sufe they always get quality care.

Court eases standard on some lawsuits against public officials in 1 I ances and complained to journal remedy tor a violation oi ieaerai rights," Stevens said. Bad news for women: Baldness pill doesn't help them The Associated Press WASHINGTON Merck Co. has bad news for balding women: That new baldness pill it's selling only works for the guys. Merck studied Propecia in 136 postmenopausal women suffering hair loss. Despite a year of therapy, the women who took Propecia had ho more hair than women who got a dummy pill, Merck scientists revealed at a dermatology meeting in Belgium this weekend.

Merck announced Monday that women should not take Propecia, and that there's no reason to continue studying it in women. Balding women do have one therapy: the nonprescription ointment Rogaine. The Food and Drug Administration approved Propecia in December, making it the first pill ever to combat mild to moderate male pattern baldness, the most common type. Studies indicate that about half the men who use it grow varying amounts of hair and those who don't grow new hair are helped to keep the strands they have left. Merck warned at the time that women of childbearing age should not use or even touch the pills, because animal studies showed they can cause birth defects.

But doctors said postmenopausal women, whose hair can thin too, would be drawn to the pills. So Merck promised the FDA it would settle the gender question. Scientists don't fully understand hair loss differences between men and women. ists about prison life. A federal judge threw out the lawsuit.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reinstated it but imposed the clear-and-convincing standard virtually assuring its quick death. Monday's decision said the appeals court was wrong. "The unprecedented change made by the appeals court undermines the very purpose of (the civil rights law) to provide a He noted that federal trial judges have ample authority to protect public officials, and that Congress is free to provide more. Stevens was joined by Justices Anthony M.

Kennedy, David, H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg'and Stephen G. Breyer. Chief Justice William H. Rehh-quist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.

court acknowledged that frivolous and harassing lawsuits especially those filed by prisoners are a problem for federal, state and local officials. But Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court's majority that "Congress already has fashioned special rules to cover these cases." Leonard Crawford-El, serving a life sentence for murder in the District of Columbia, contends that Patricia Britton withheld boxes containing his legal papers and personal items when he was moved from a prison in Lorton, to various other facilities. He said Britton kept the boxes from him in retaliation because he had filed earlier lawsuits, helped other inmates file griev- cized living conditions behind bars. In other matters, the court; Agreed to use a case from West Covina, to decide what kind of information police must give people about recovering property seized from them during a search. Said it will decide in a Chicago case what rights equity owners and lenders have in bankruptcy reorganization disputes.

Backed out of deciding in an Illinois case whether police officers who do not have a court warrant can arrest someone over a minor crime for which the punishment is a fine. Rejected a McAllen, Texas, newspaper's appeal aimed at gaining access to court records of the 1987 divorce of a congressman, Rep. Ruben Hinojosa. In the inmate-lawsuit case, the The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Supreme Court made it easier Monday to get a jury trial against some public officials accused of violating someone's rights. Voting 5-4 in the case of a "litigious and outspoken" prison inmate, the justices ruled that lawsuits invoking a much-used civil rights law cannot be dismissed before trial just because they fail to produce "clear and convincing" evidence of an illegal motive.

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