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ZEP ZEP Quality Ladieswear 703 Mass. 843-5607 TONIGHT from St. Louis Uncle Tupelo with special guest Ricky Dean Saturday, Feb. 16 Party to Lawrence Favorites Baghdad Jones Camberwell Green Health 601 Kasold • 832-2323 Watkins undergoing many changes Two departments combine as others relocate to improve student services By Amy Francis Kansan staff writer Some changes can be seen at a glance, but others are hidden from view. Changes of both kinds are occurring at Watkins Memorial Health Center. A glance can reveal the new, sliding, clear door installed near the pharmacy department last week and the new paint on the walls in Watkins. But a glance cannot reveal the changes planned this summer. The University Counseling Center now located in Bailey Hall will be combined with the health education department in Watkins, said Jeff Weinberg, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs. "We wanted to provide a strong and clear identity among students so they would know where to go," he said. "Right now, frankly, the counseling center is hidden in an academic building." Weinberg said he was looking forward to the move. "The space that's available there is very attractive," he said. The departments will combine under the name Counseling and Psychological Services. Weinberg said. The department has their budgets and have a new director. "The reason is to provide better services to the students," he said." In another plan designed to improve student services, some of the departments in Watkins will be moved to different locations in the building, said Jim Strobl, director of Watkins. The health education department will be moved from the second to the first floor, and the administration department will be moved to the health education department's present location, he said. "The heaviest-used patient areas are on the first floor," Strobl said. "Health education is becoming one of our more heavily used areas. Students are becoming more health conscious." Janine Demo, coordinator of the health department, said, "I can't wait. We should have been down there years ago." The department presently uses a hallway as a location for its racks of literature, but it does not have a lobby or connected offices. "It's not going to be more space, but it will be more a look of organization," she said. "A hallway really doesn't look like a department." Strobl said that before the counseling center and health education department could unite, the area on top floor had to be remodeled. The empty room would be a food preparation area when Watkins was a hospital about four years ago. "We have not yet got any of the prints or anything at this time," Porter said. Bob Porter, associate director or the maintenance plant, said he did not know when the construction would begin. AZT treatment may be risky in certain cases, study shows The Associated Press WASHINGTON — New research suggests that African-Americans and Hispanics infected with the AIDS virus may be harmed by early treatment with the anti-AIDS drug AZT. But scientists agreed yesterday that the unexpected finding, while disturbing, needed to be confirmed by more study before treatment recommendations were changed. Campus projects for the summer will be planned and prioritized at a meeting next week. Porter said. Members of the Food and Drugs Administration's advisory committee on anti-viral drugs stressed that more research into the study were inconclusive. Members noted that the Veterans Affairs Department study was small and that the results were incompatible with other, larger studies, which showed that all races could benefit from early treatment with AZT The VA study also was not designed to measure racial differences, and therefore might be inaccurate. Furthermore, the study did not examine factors such as socioeconomic status, lifestyle and access to routine medical care. panel, said that while he agreed the evidence was not strong enough to warrant a third AZT as danger to world disease and the study with his minority patients. However, several panel members said they thought that the findings were important enough to warrant telling their minority patients before letting them choose a course of treatment. Richard O'Brien, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said that he was concerned the findings were accurate and that physicians should be informed of them. "I will tell them the data contradicts earlier studies, that early EAZ therapy may not be useful and may even be harmful to minority patients," he said, adding that the study will need to be replicated. Wayne Greaves, head of the infectious disease division at Howard University and a consultant to the The study supported the findings of earlier studies showing that AZT slowed the progression of AIDS among whites who were treated in the early stages of the disease. But minority patients treated with the drug reacted differently. Many felt no better after the treatment, and some of some patients even deteriorated. Rubella resurges in young adults The Associated Press Disease outbreaks linked to colleges The Associated Press ATLANTA — Rubella, the usually mild childhood rash that can cause devastating birth defects, is making a comeback, largely among young who never were vaccinated, federal health researchers said yesterday. Rubella, sometimes known as German measles, was on the decline three years ago, when a record low 225 cases were reported nationwide. But 396 cases were reported in 1988, and 1,093 were reported last year, the national Centers for Disease Control said. In California, where nearly half of last year's cases occurred, a spot check found four of five cases in people over age 14. The state also nine separate outbreaks in prisons, where adults live in close quarters. "This indicates we need to make more progress," said Laura Fews, an assistant professor of mathematics at UMass Amherst. Atlanta-based CDC. "We need to try to address why some adults are still unvaccinated." Still, the rubella case count remains well below the millions of cases reported before the advent of the rubella vaccine in the late 1960s. The most serious consequence of rubella is the rare congenital rubella syndrome, the presence of rubella at the birth of a child whose mother is infected. The syndrome can cause miscarriages, severe birth defects and death. Eleven children were born with congenital rubella syndrome nationwide last year, up from one in 1989 and two in 1988. A sizeable cluster of last year's rubella cases occurred in religious communities, where people may shun vaccination for religious reasons, the CDC said. Three outbreaks were reported in Amish communities, one involving 128 people. Another outbreak occurred among 69 people at a religious community in Oregon. "As long as people in religious communities decline vaccinations, we'll always have the potential for this to occur, unless we eliminate rubella altogether from this country." Fehr said. There also were four outbreaks on college campuses in California, Idaho, Montana and New York, the state that Maryland did not identify the institutions. In addition to the California prison rubella outbreaks, there was an outbreak in a Michigan prison, the CDC said. Researchers estimated that 15 out of all the rubella cases last year were connected to prison outbreaks. "There does need to be some public health attention given to how we're going to prevent and control prison outbreaks." Fehrs said. Federal health officials recom- mend whole immunity for vaccine - either vaccination or laboratory test confirmation of having had the disease. For most children, vaccination is recommended at 15 months through the same shot for measles and mumps. The Associated Press Study shows ibuprofen an ulcer catalyst PHILADELPHIA — The widely used pain reliever iprofen doubles the Vanderbilt ulcers, according to the Vanderbilt University researchers, and some experts say people taking it may want to consider lower doses or alternatives. But for those suffering chronic pain and inflammation, ibuprofen still may be the best choice, because it has the lowest ulcer risk in its class of analgesics, researchers said. The Vanderbilt study confirmed the increased risk of ulcers for people who used prescription pain relievers, including ibuprofen, that belong to a group called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs. Ibuprofen, available without a prescription since 1985, is sold under such brand names in itself, Medipen, Motrin and Nurpin. The study, published in today's Annals of Internal Medicine, involved a 1,415 Tennessee Medicare enrollees hospitalized for ulcers from 1984 to 1986 and 7,063 control patients At recommended dosages for treating rheumatoid arthritis, NSAIDs quadrupled the risk for ulcers. But of the dozen drugs studied, ibuprofen showed the lowest risk. Aspirin is at least as risky as ibuprofen, said the study's lead author, Marie Griffin. She said higher risk for short-term use of NSAIDs could occur because people who developed ulcers did so quickly and stopped taking the drug. Another possible reason is that manch begins to provide protection against drug's side effects, she said. People who have pain without inflammation may want to choose an analgesic other than ibuprofen, Griffin said. READ PREMIERE.