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GENERAL NEWS Cedar Rapids Gazette: Feb. 20. 1977 Mixed Opinion on New Acne Treatment blemishes in a few weeks or months, the treatment is considerably cheaper than traditional therapy, according to Kramer. A patient undergoing standard treatment may see the dermatologist twice a week for well over a year, snAnlina do miirh AS CI ROO By Richard Saltus AP teltna Wrl'tr "LOS ANGELES (AP) When acne attacks an otherwise attractive teenager, it can scar the psyche as well as the Fof about 80 percent of adolescents, and fhany older people as well, a cure for acne would save tears and dollars. There isn't one yet, but a new combination of drugs already in use is generating enthusiasm among some dermatologists.

One Los Angeles skin specialist has dropped his other treatments and opened four acne clinics based entirely on the two-drug regimen. The drugs are not new, but the tandum treatment seems to be more potent than the use of each separately. The two, Vitamin A acid and benzoyl hydroxide, can, according to Dr. Sidney Hurwitz of rubbed on the skin religiously one in the morning and the other at night This, he says, helps to account for the success rate, which he estimates at 90 percent. Although the drugs are potent and may cause an allergic reaction, this has happened in less than one percent of the cases, he said.

Use of the drugs has resulted in a new approach for Kramer. "Eat Anything" "I tell patients they can eat chocolate or almost anything they want, because we have found that dietary restrictions are not very important in treating acne," he said. "I tell them not to use abrasive cleansers which dont do much good anyway because they don't go deep enough." Because most patients see almost Immediate improvement and are largely free of some cases, but he empha-, sized they had not proved themselves as a cure or even as clearly superior to other-acne therapy. Mixed Results He said he has found the drug combination "very useful in treatment, especially of the milder forms" of acne. "It has not been effective, in my experience, in the more severe, deep-seated cases" with badly inflamed pustules and cysts, he said.

"Nobody has a cure," said Reisner, although every so often a new method is used with great enthusiasm. "The history of the last 50 years of acne treatment is littered with 'cures' or 'controls'," he said. Kramer said he spends considerable time with each patient, telling him how the drugs work and emphasizing that the drugs must be the possibility of psychological factors such as the placebo effect an improvement caused by the patients' knowledge that they were getting a new form of treatment. Psychological issues are important in acne. Relsner said 30 percent improvement has been obtained in some patients who received a placebo with no active chemicals.

Dr. Jack Kramer, who uses, the new treatment at his four Acne Care clinics, believes it will be used by nearly all dermatologists in the near future. Kramer, a certified dermatologist who has practiced in Southern California for 20 years, claims the drug combination is "more than twice as effective" as treatments he used in the past. UCLA's Reisner said the drugs are definitely helpful in Plans Begun for Lindy Fete Evidence of Black Lung Found in Ancient Corpse Combining two drugs to treat acne is the new approach practiced by Dr. Jack Kramer of Los Angeles, shown here with of medication.

The two have been used separately for years, but use of the two together reportedly increases the effectiveness of each. Yale medical school, "produce dramatic results in a relatively short period of time." He said the one-two punch of the drugs penetrates deep into the skin, flushes out pores locked with clumped skin cells and cuts down on bacteria that cause reddened, inflamed blemishes. Hurwitz reported that in a series of 404 cases, the drugs cleared 90 to 98 percent of the acne problem in 67.3 percent of the patients, and there was 80 to 90 percent clearing in 20.8 percent of the patients. "Not Startling" However, the professor-in-chief of the UCLA division of dermatology in the medical school says the treatment is "nothing startling." The Hurwitz study, Dr. Ron Relsner pointed out, may lack validity because it did not exclude Concorde three hours, 50 minutes (from Washington).

But Lindbergh, airmail pilot and stunt flyer, had a dream and the courage to make it come true. Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke is among those involved in the 50th anniversary celebration and efforts to raise $5 million for a Lindbergh Memorial scholarship fund. Mrs. Duke, whose diplomat-husband knew Lindbergh, called the aviator "an American hero part of American folklore.

He had the courage to be first and he stayed with his dream. Teaches Language guage in which words are built from many small meaningful parts, Mrs. Holmes said. "If yqu really understand, you can make a verb say just exactly what you mean," she said. "It's very difficult to lie in Cherokee." As an example, she said the Cherokee for "he was speaking," meaning "I heard him myself," is ka-ne-gu-gl.

But the Cherokee for "he was speaking," meaning "someone told me so," is ka-ne-ge-i. "A Cherokee noun is often a short description of the thing designated and could pass for a sentence since the description usually contains a verb," Mrs. Holmes said in the book's introduction. For example, the word for cemetery is tsa-na-da-ni-so-di, or "they are laid there by others, not finally." And the word for California is a-de-l'tsu-hdl-unh, or "where they find money." "The reasoning behind the Cherokee grammar is different from the reasoning behind dure. There's a certain psychological reality, a turn of thought that is tic," Mrs.

Holmes said. he said. During that time, the doctor will use ultraviolet light or carbon dioxide slush to peel the skin, and pre scribe oral antibiotics. Kramer said the two-drug treatment requires a much smaller dose of antibiotics. Some extraction of black-beads with a metal instrument is necessary, as is done In the, older therapy.

Similar clinics have been opened in the Miami area, Reisner said, adding that most dermatologists are aware of the treatment whether or not they use it extensively. exposed, in October, 1972. They reburied it in the per mafrost, then torn uraaiey oi their find. Detailed Exam The body was exhumed, shipped to the University of Alaska near here and placed in a deep freezer. Scientists from around the nation were recruited for a detailed examination.

Bradley said the naked body was found in an area long Inhabited by people who lived in earthen houses. The knees were drawn up to her chest, one side of her face was crushed and moss-like material was found in the lungs. Some chickweed was clutched in one hand. Zimmerman said the woman lived to be about 50. She apparently had been buried alive, trapped in a house by a landslide or an earthquake.

The moss in her lungs, Bradley said, indicated that she had fought desperately for air. The age of the body was determined by radiocarbon dating of muscle tissues at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the versity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Bradley said there were no major objections by natives to scientific study of the body, although he. said natives generally "are dis- LUi UU. OIIU 1 UV DU, UU archeologists and scientists disturbing the bodies of their ancestors." He said the body will be re-buried this summer near where it was found.

ON THIS DATE in 1437, King James I of Scotland was murdered in the Scottish city of Perth. FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) The frozen remains of an Eskimo woman vwho lived 1,600 years ago show that air pollution was a problem even then. "She definitely had severe black lung," said George S. Smith, a National Park Service anthropologist. Black lung, caused by inhalation of coal dust, is common among miners.

Smith said the woman, who apparently died in a landslide or earthquake, probably acquired the lung condition by inhaling fumes that accumulated in constricted living quarters from lamps that burned seal oil or whale blubber. He said the remains found on St. Lawrence island in the Bering sea the oldest human body ever found in Alaska also indicated the woman suffered from coronary atherosclerosis and No Tuberculosis But there was no evidence of tuberculosis, a disease that has been prevalent Among Eskimos since their association with the white man. "We were hoping, there would be some indication of diseases that still afflict Eskimos," said Zoxro A. Bradley, a research anthropologist with the park service.

"But there was not." Dr. Michael Zimmerman of University of Pennsylvania hospital, who did an autopsy, said he found the internal organs "remarkably well preserved," indicating the body was frozen immediately after the woman died. Three Eskimo brothers from Savooriga Ray, Gabriel and Bradley Gologergen found the body, partially "It's awfully easy to quit to get diverted. He stayed the course a persistent cuss, wasnt he? Hero Appeal "But he saw the space age coming and wanted to help pioneer it. He has tremendous hero appeal to kids today." Mrs.

Duke, who knows the aviator's widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, heads an executive committee for a nationwide series of "Spirit of St Louis" (name of the plane in which he soloed the Atlantic) dinners to mark the anniversary and help raise funds for the memorial. Rosalynn Carter has accepted chairmanship of the honorary First Ladies Committee of the fund drive. Others are Mesdames Truman, Eisenhower, Onassis, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. It is believed the first time all First Ladies, as a group, have given their support to a national drive, according to Gen. James Dodlittle, World war II flying hero, and Prof.

Neil Armstrong, the first man on, the moon. Doolittle -and Armstrong are co-chairmen of the fund drive. Heads Committee Mrs. Duke heads the women's committee coordinating the "Spirit of St Louis" dinners in seven cities Atlanta, May Chicago, May 12; Philadelphia, May 13; Washington, D.C., May 19; New York and Los Angeles, May 20, and Houston, May 21. Why a women's committee? Robin Chandler Duke thought that "aviation and aerospace can make a strong case for women as pioneers too." She mentioned Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran, Ruth Nichols and "all those women ferry pilots during World war II." Miss Earhart in .1928 was one of three pilots to fly the Atlantic, marking the first aerial crossing by a woman.

In By Gay Pauley UPI Snlor EOltor NEW, YORK (UPI) To some, he was known as, Lucky Lindy. To others, he was the Lone Eagle. To all, he was a superhero when 50 years ago, come May 20-21, he soloed the Atlantic in a monoplane that today would look like a gnat beside our superjets. It took Charles Augustus Lindbergh 33 hours and 39 minutes, and miles, from Roosevelt field on Long Island to Le Bo urge in Paris. Today's jets make it in seven hours and the supersonic New Textbook The Cherokee OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) A Cherokee Indian and a linguist have combined their abilities to write the first textbook for the Cherokee language, the native tongue of about 20,000 Americans.

Although Sequoyah invented the Cherokee alphabet in the early 1800s and there are Cherokee books and a dictionary, a textbook never had been written to use in teaching Cherokee to English-speaking people, the writers say. The authors are Ruth Bradley Holmes, who has a degree in Slavic languages from the University of California at Berkeley and teaches Russian in adult education courses in Bartlesville, and Betty Sharp Smith of who grew up speaking Cherokee in Stilwell, Okla. "Beginning a 332-page book published by the University of Oklahoma press, can help those who already know Cherokee teach it to others, Mrs. Holmes saidA The two women worked on the book about six years, starting when Mrs. Smith asked Mrs.

Holmes to help her with lesson plans for an adult Cherokee language class she teaches. "We were spending so much time on it we thought, "Why not publish Mrs. Holmes said. Cherokee is a concise lan Ay Gypsy moths have -defoliated wide areas of some ern states since they were imported and escaped to the wild in 1869 from the laboratory of a Massachusetts naturalist. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Camp Good Health In memory 150.00 To Camp Good Health from the Gazette, Co.

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Mrs. Duke said the memo-. rial fund annually will award fellowships and grants in the area of greatest concern to Lindbergh, who died Aug. 26, 1974. He would have been 75 Feb.

4. The memorial committee said that Lindbergh, "in his quiet toil, gave much to mankind in the ensuing years (after the historic flight). His engineering genius contributed highly to industry and technology, yet he could prophesy the problems in their delicate balance with nature. As an explorer and anthropologist, Charles Lind- flew and charted many of today's international air routes, including polar, and studied first-hand and aided primitive tribes in the Philippines, Burma and elsewhere "He was also a crusader and contributor to the causes of ecology and anti-pollution of land, air and water and for conservation of natural resources which technology would soon, begin to deplete. His efforts in wildlife preservation are well known Mrs.

Duke, 53, mother of three, is an activist in her' own right in population control. She is chairman of the Draper World Population Fund and national co-chairman of the Population Crisis Committee. The latter direct- ly funds the International Planned Parenthood Federation. "All these Lindbergh scholarships relate to my field," said Duke. "Children should have a chance in life.

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