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Wednesday, October 5, 1994
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Habitual caffeine drinkers have same dependency as alcoholics
Medical research now confirms what coffee drinkers long have suspected: Some people get so hooked on caffeine that they have many of the same dependency traits of alcoholics or drug addicts.
CHICAGO—They're not called java junkies for nothing.
The Associated Press
"In general, caffeine use has not been associated with serious health risks," said lead researcher Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
But caffeine-aholics can rest easy — if their littery, langley nerves will let them.
"Our findings in and of themselves should not be used as a reason to quit caffeine use."
Psychiatrists identify addiction by a cluster of traits. The study found that some people who drank as little as one or two cups of coffee a day had enough of the traits to qualify as chemically dependent.
Those traits include developing a tolerance for a substance, or getting less of a kick from the same amount of caffeine; trying unsuccessfully to quit or cut down; and inability to give up the habit even when ordered to by a doctor.
Previously only one addictive trait, physical dependency, was well-documented in caffeine users, researchers said in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. Coffee drinkers can suffer withdrawal symptoms such as headaches and sluggishness when they give up caffeine.
The study involved 27 people recruited because they believed themselves to be psychologically or physically dependent on caffeine. Sixteen met the formal definition of addiction. They consumed anywhere from one to 25 cups of coffee a day or two to 34 caffeinated soft drinks.
Dr. Peter Dews, an emeritus professor of psychiatry and psychobiology at Harvard Medical School, saw nothing new in Griffiths' report.
Simpson case judge censures newspaper for running story
Developments yesterday in the O.J. Simpson case:
The Associated Press
KICKED OUT: Superior Court Judge Lance Ito revoked the seat pass for the Daily News of Los Angeles during the trial as punishment for a story about a jury questionnaire that had not yet been made public. The newspaper challenged the move, saying it was unconstitutional and would hamper the press's ability to ensure the "openness and integrity of the judicial process."
COURTROOM CAMERAS: The judge received more 1,000 letters in response to Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko's call for citizens to object to TV coverage of the murder trial. One letter said: "Would you be so kind as to force the media to put a sock in it."
BRONCO BATTLE: Defense lawyers asked the judge to exclude from evidence any items seized from Simpson's Bronco after June 15, the day it was burglarized in a police tow ward.
GLOWING EVIDENCE: Simpson's lawyers also attacked the validity of glow-in-the-dark tests for blood in the Bronco. The lawyers contend that using the chemical Luminol, which is said to make traces of blood glow, is unreliable and unaccepted by the scientific community.
WHAT'S NEXT: A hearing is scheduled for today on whether to suppress some evidence seized from the Bronco.
Defense department targets tumors
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The same technology that can find a camouflaged truck in enemy territory during wartime may soon help detect the smallest, earliest signs of cancer in a woman's breast, defense experts told Congress.
Fighting the war against breast cancer is just one way that expensive, highly-advanced military technology can find a new life in the post-Cold War environment, officials from the departments of defense and health and human services told a House Armed Services subcommittee yesterday.
It may also be the most cost-efficient way to boost the efforts to detect breast cancer early and to improve 40-year-old mammography technology, said Dr. Susan Blumenthal, a deputy assistant secretary for health and assistant surgeon general
at HHS.
i believe that if we can image missiles 15,000 miles away in distant skies and with the Hubble telescope see craters on Mars, we should be able to develop better tools to image small tumors in women's breasts that are right in front of us," Blumenthal said.
In fact, the defense contractor Martin Marietta Corp. and Rose Health Care System of Denver already are busy at work on converting an optical processing system first used to find military targets to use in analyzing mammograms.
ray image to pinpoint where the patterns occur on the X-ray. Its precision can help eliminate false positives, and its ability to spot very small cancerous lesions will mean that cancer can be detected earlier, Henry said.
"This system has been shown to see things that your eye cannot see," said E. Michael Henry of Martin Marietta, who said the company envisions radiologists supplementing their own mammography findings with the sophisticated analyses.
Researchers also hope to use it one day to analyze other medical tests, such as oan smears, he said.
The system can match known features of cancerous lesions with an X-
Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo, chairwoman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on research and technology, said she believed taxpayer money spent on defense should yield "a double dividend" for Americans.
"We have spent literally billions of dollars developing these cutting-edge detection technologies, and we have a wonderful opportunity to capture the benefits of this investment to advance our fight against breast cancer," said Schroeder. She has pressed for more resources for breast cancer research.
Bottled hair color doesn't lead to cancer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — it's OK to touch up the gray. A study of 99,000 women has found no evidence that long-term use of hair dye can cause certain types of cancer.
"The totality of evidence today is far more reassuring than alarming about any hazards of hair dye use," Dr. Charles H. Hennekens, head of the preventative medicine department at Harvard Medical School and coauthor of the study, said Tuesday.
Hennekens said that a study of nurses, aged 10 to 55, found that over a 14-year period there was no increase in what are called hematopoietic cancers among those who used permanent hair dye. Hematopoietic cancers include leukemia, multiple myeloma. Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A report on the study is to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The new study is the largest yet on the issue of cancer and hair dye and it is statistically more powerful than most earlier work because the women were interviewed about their life style before getting any disease and then were followed for years.
Hennekens said most earlier research that had found some association between hair dye and cancer were retrospective studies in which women who had cancer were asked
to recall things about their diets, smoking and cosmetic use. He said those studies are weaker because the conclusions depended upon the memory of people who are seeking reasons for their illness.
Recent studies sponsored by the American Cancer Society also have found no association between hair dye and cancer.
Henkens did acknowledge that some laboratory studies showed that some mice painted with hair dye did develop tumors, though the numbers of mice with the cancers were only slightly above normal.
"It is not clear the precise relevance of these animal studies to humans," he said.
Executions by lethal gas ruled inhumane in California
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel still allows California to execute prisoners by injection, a method that was added as an option last year.
SAN FRANCISCO — California's gas chamber was ordered shut down yesterday by a federal judge who said execution by lethal gas "is inhumane and has no place in civilized society."
The Associated Press
State Attorney General Dian Lungren said the ruling marked a tragic day for victims of crime and their families and would be appealed.
However, yesterday's ruling marked the first time a federal judge said any method of execution violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Gov. Pete Wilson said he would do all he could to see that Californians remained protected by the death
penalty.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed on behalf of several death row inmates by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Although it leaves California free to continue executions, it is still a significant victory, said ACLU lawyer Michael Laurence.
"There is something intrinsically important in stopping California from slowly suffocating people to death," he said.
Wildfires cost us $900 million
WASHINGTON — The Forest Service would have to spend $3.5 billion, roughly its annual budget, to deal with health and wildlife concerns on just 10 percent of the national forest lands in the West, a congressional report says.
Salvage logging, prescribed burning and other operations would probably cost an average of about $250 per acre over about 1.4 million of the 14 million acres of national forests in the region, the Congressional Research Service said yesterday.
The service, the research arm of the Library of Congress, also concluded that salvage logging — harvesting dead, dying and burned trees — never produces enough money to offset the costs to the federal treasury.
The Associated Press
However, top officials for the Agriculture and Interior departments said the benefits of reduced fire threat and improved wildlife habitat often outweigh the costs.
Wilderness one step closer to life
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A proposal to create 6.6 million acres of wilderness and federal parkland in the California hurdle overcome a key hurdle in Congress yesterday with a tentative compromise aimed at getting final approval.
But final passage was not yet assured as Congress neared adjournment and small groups of lawmakers in both the House and Senate appeared intent on slowing down, if not blocking, the legislation.
Din. Diamon Feinstein, D-Calif,
who had made the California
desire issue a top legislative
priority, said "there is a package
together" ready for final action
by House and Senate negotiators.
Audience Debate Forum Presents
1994 CANDIDATE FORUM
Wednesday, October 5, 1994
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
3139 Wescoe
Come Ask Questions and Hear Answers From the Candidates
Candidates from the 45th & 46th House Districts
Ena Wheeler Tom Sloan
Troy Findley Forrest Swall
Everyone is welcome to attend
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