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Reliance on pregnancy test risky
By NANCY DRESSLER
Staff Writer
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The rabbit isn't always right
And the latest pregnancy or 'rabbit' test, which can be purchased from several local pharmacies, might prove to be even more important as its more established predecessors.
The test, an in-home early pregnancy test recently released on the market, promises a "quick, accurate and easy detection of pregnancy."
But some local doctors and nurses are not convinced of the test's accuracy.
The e.p.t. test, as it is called, does not consider the possibility of a false result, Tanny Tetr, nurse practitioner in the family clinic, and counts the county health department, said Monday.
Tet said the kit, which can be bought over the counter from at least six local pharmacies, did not effectively screen for false positive and false negative results.
"THERE ARE AN enormous number of false positive and false negative results." Tetr said. "The kit does not allow for this."
A false positive test would lead a woman to think she was pregnant when actually she was not. Some women who had planned an abortion if a pregnancy test was positive might go ahead and one done, Tetr said, only to find they never were pregnant.
"These women are subjected to unnecessary surgery," she said.
Other women who get a false positive reading from the test might later experience some depression when they are not really pregnant. Tet explained.
ON THE OTHER hand, a woman who gets a false negative from the test may actually be pregnant. These women, who might have planned to abort a pregnancy, might not do anything about the pregnancy until it is no longer safe to have an abortion, Tetr said.
The e.p.t. test checks a urine specimen for a pregnancy hormone called HCG, acetate or LH.
The kit recommends that a woman wait until the ninth day after missing a menstrual period before using the test. At this point, the level of the hormone in the urine should be high enough to register in the test results.
The kit includes a test tube of reagents, a container of purified water, an eye dropper and a plastic box that holds the test tube during the test.
Of the six local pharmacies that carry the
price list, prices range from $2.86 to
$10.90 per kit.
IF THE TEST shows negative the first time, its instructions recommend a second test be done to ensure an accurate finding. A kit may be used only once.
However, four local physicians contacted yesterday offer the same type of pregnancy test for prices that range from $5 to $8.50.
Tetr said a woman could come to the county health department and have the same type of test done for a fee of only $2.
The health department test results are read in two minutes, Tet said, and warned them to not ignore the signs.
"The e.p. t.test takes two hours to run and is very sensitive to touch," "Tet said."
This sensitivity can cause more inaccuracy in the test, she said.
In addition to the urine test, a woman is required to fill out a questionnaire, which helps to account for variables that might alter test results.
TEETR SAID medicines, illness and other factors could cause the urine test to be inaccurate. If a woman is taking medication the test could give a false diagnosis. So the said.
The questionnaire is a form of screening to ensure more accurate results. The e.p.t. test instructions say results of the test should be read at the reading of the first test taken is positive.
However, if a negative reading occurs, the accuracy rate drops to 80 percent. A repeat test one week later improves the accuracy to 91 percent.
department's test was 97 percent accurate when the factors that affect later results were not present.
“IF THERE are any questions about the results, we recommend the woman wait until two weeks and then repeat the test.” Jenkins said.
The health department test also is based on the presence of the pregnancy hormone
"The laboratory end may be a trivial part of answering a patient's question," Schuhl said.
Raymond Schwegler, a doctor at Watkins Hospital, said the e.t.test, although safe, probably was not a conclusive answer to a patient who wanted to know whether she
More information, such as a patient's history, is necessary to ensure an accurate assessment.
schweiger said that as many as 11 pregnancy tests were done each day at Watkins Hospital. Walkins' pharmacy does not sell the e.p. t test.
A SALES CLERK for Raney Hillcrest医院, 925 Iowa St., said the e-pat试 kits had been in stock for about a month and a half to display, or nine kits, had been sold, she said.
Bill McNary, Raney pharmacist, said the test kts had sold fairly well.
"I think it's just as accurate as the doctor's lab test," he said.
Sexist album art angers women
Rv KATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Writer
Nude women straddling bongo drums, women burned by fires and marked by tattoos and women bound and gagged with chin strap swords on album covers anywhere records are sold.
According to record stores in Lawrence and Kansas, Ran, a trend toward such merchandise, is being promoted.
Record racks in Lawrence contain many sexually suggestive album covers, even in the 1970s.
- "Got to Give It Up" by most Requested Rhythm Band, which features a closeup of male hand pull underwear off a woman's huttocks.
"I Love My Music" by Wild Cherry,
who knits with skimmy skimming
and a tatton.
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* "Main Course" by the Bee Gees, which shows a nude woman seated in a large spoon.
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Various albums by the Ohio Players,
including those in chains, pouring
and stabbing men.
MAGGIE STOLZ, a 197 KU graduate who works with the Women's Worker, said the best thing that offended by the album do was write to the distilling companies.
"For every one letter they get, they know ten more people are angry," she said.
One record store employee said that several types of covers could be offensive
"Two basic categories of album cover exploitation of women exist," she said. "One is basic skin. She's there. The other is where the woman isn't necessarily exposing as much skin but
she is on the cover simply to draw attention to whom the real artist is, who, of course, is a man. It's a little more covert but it's exploitation none the less. Every company is using it.
THE EMPLOYEE, who asked not to be identified, said, "More and more artists are insisting on album cover art and advertising approval, which means they can refuse to put themselves in a situation where they be marketed in itself. That won't appear if the artist or that would be offensive to anyone. That's probably the way it's going to have to be changed.
Why are so many album covers using sexually suggestive themes? Robert Wilson, manager of Better Days record store, 724 Massachusetts St., said there was a definite increase in such covers, particularly on disco and soul music covers.
"Considering the low quality of the record inside, you have to do something to sell it." Wilson said. "Also, everything is more permissive. Stores used to not stock offensive albums. Now they stock everything."
**SHIRLEY PHILIPS**, who works at Love Records and Tapes, 15 W. Ninth St., said, "If the cover is blatantly violent or sexist, it's usually a lame album. It's usually disco, which is pretty thin stuff anyway. The cover sells the record. It's a fad and eventually people will get tired of the shock value and it will die out."
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Employees at Peaches, a Kansas City retailer, Love and Better Days all said they had never heard any complaints from people offended by record covers
Phillips said, "If the record will sell, you buy it. If someone is offended by it, they don't tave to buy it. There are some rooms that have stoves, and some else wants to, that's their business."
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Tickets are $3.00 for Friday night and $5.00 for Saturday. Both shows are at 8 p.m. at Bach Auditorium.
Tickets for Friday's performance are available at Douglas County State Bank, Lawrence National Bank, Kief's and the SUA office in the Kansas Union Market tickets still available for the Saturday night now will be available at the SUA office only.
Tickets are still available for both the Friday and Saturday night performances of Rock Chalk Revue, Beaurford Woods, Rock Chalk producer, said yesterday.
Rock Chalk Revue tickets available for both nights
The theme of this year's revue, which is sponsored by KUY-Y, is "Broadway Bound." The show features four main acts and several between-act numbers.
THE PARTICIPANTS and their scripts are: Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Sigma Chi fraternity. "Everything you've Always
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The four groups were selected in November by a KU-Y committee. Judging was based on scripts, which were submitted anonymously.
*Lymphoid* for best script was given, at the time of selection, to Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Gamma Delta for "Two for the Show."
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covers and advertisements encourage sexism and violence towards women by depicting them in trivial ways. WAVAH has organized a consumer boycott of all Warner/Electra/Altatic records and their label groups.
Although area record stores were not certain how covers affected sales, Jennifer Robles, Emporia junior, said her choice was simply not to buy albums with offensive
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Evansville job goes to Walters
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP)—Dick Walters of the College of DuPage, in suburban Chicago, was named basketball coach at the University of Evansville, who replaced Eric Vailen, who was killed with the accident. Evansville队是在 plane crash in December.
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Proceedings at the Joint Student Senate meeting tonight will be mostly ceremonial. Senators will hear speeches from old and new officers.
No legislation is scheduled for consideration.
Steve Leben, outgoing student body
president; Mike Harper, student body president; and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, will speak to the gathering of the old and new senators at 6:30 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
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