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1994 Legislature among most productive in history
By Lew Ferguson The Associated Press
ANALYSIS
TOPEKA — Labeled "do-nothing" by Gov. Joan Finney just a month ago, the 1994 Legislature is concluding a session that, when measured from a historical perspective, must be labeled one of the more productive in state history.
Lawmakers overcame 22 years of gridlock to enact a capital punishment law, took additional steps to get tough on crime and ended a five-year impasse over refunding illegally assessed income taxes on military retirees.
tool to combat violent crime; death by lethal injection for those convicted of seven specific types of premeditated murders.
Here is a capsule of accomplishments of the 1994 session:
Combating Crime
Education
Abill Finney allowed to become law without her signature will give prosecutors and juries that advocates of capital punishment say is another
Two bills passed that education reformists say can improve public education. One allows creation of charter schools by school districts to provide alternative types of educational programs. The other permits creation of extraordinary school programs before and after regular school hours to provide special or remedial instruction.
Health Reform
A compromise bill sent to the governor creates a bipartisan, 12-member joint legislative oversight committee to set policy and monitor state reform
efforts and designates the Department of Health and Environment as the state agency to respond to federal mandates.
Liquor Changes
Welfare Reform
Kansans now will be able to purchase liquor and beer for off-premises consumption on election days and three holidays—Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day —but still not on Sundays.
A comprehensive package of welfare reform eliminates the penalty for being married, requires unwed minors who have children to live with their parents, requires mothers to identify fathers of their children before receiving benefits, limits benefits to three children and reduces benefits for the third child, and provides incentives and penalties to keep welfare children in school.
New medicine may rival aspirin
Pain reliever latest to gain FDA approval
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Sales of aspirin, acetaminophen and ibuprofen may be hurting when a new product called Aleve hits the shelves.
No definite date has been set to begin marketing the over-the-counter pain killer, but stores should start receiving shipments later this month or in June, Kris Burbank, spokesperson for Procter & Gamble said.
A. J. Schultz, over the-counter manager at Wal-Mart-Discount Cities, 3300 Iowa, said store employees had not heard much about Aleve.
"All we know is they made it, and it's coming," she said. "But we haven't heard when we're going to get it."
Aleve, also known as naproxen sodium, is classified as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication. It is available in prescription form as Naprosyn and Anaprox.
"You might think of Naprosyn and Anaprox as being super-potent ibuprofen," he said. "They are widely prescribed for sports injuries."
John Baughman, chief pharmacist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, estimated that Naprosyn and Anaprox were among the top 25 to 40 medications purchased by students at Watkins' pharmacy.
Baughman said Naprosyn and Anaprox were especially potent for sports injuries and arthritis because they worked on inhibiting prostaglandin, a chemical involved in inflammation.
"They are probably more widely used than the other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications," Baughman said. "Aspirin and ibuprofen both affect prostaglandin formation, but this has a more potent effect on the inhibition."
Aleve is the only new pain reliever to receive Food and Drug Administration approval in the last decade.
Advisory panels to the FDA originally suggested Aleve not be approved. The product's response time, which
is slower than that of most other pain relieving products, led to concerns that users might overdose, said Mike Shaffer, a spokesperson for the FDA in Washington D.C.
"There was some fear that people would rush to take more when they did not notice a response by the time they would expect a response," he said.
Warning labels were improved, and the recommended dosage was lowered before Aleve was approved in early January, Shaffer said.
But the new label will not warn against the potential for kidney damage, a side effect that has been associated with overuse of the drug.
Shaffer said there also were similar concerns about acetaminophen's affects on the liver and aspirin's link to stomach problems and bleeding ulcers.
Aleve is manufactured by Syntex Corp., a company based out of Palo Alto, Calif.
The Washington Post contributed information to this story.
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