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  • THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1976 Contraceptive devices dangerous (tTS) I here's gold in them there pills and while the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) continues to issue warnings against dangerous sex hormones and women's contraceptive devices, there is no let-Up in prescription fever which rages centered in the offices of many gynecologists around the country. One of the most dubious drugs still being prescribed without FDA approval is diethylstilbes- trol (DES), a synthetic estrogen pill recommended to women who are prone lo miscarriage. The DES pill is also being commercially marketed to postmenopausal women as a "youth drug." Sometimes mistaken for vitamins, the pills have been blindly swallowed on schedule by at least 50.000 and possibly as many as 2 million women since 1940. In 1970, DES was linked to a form of vaginal cancer that was turning up in women whose mothers were administered DES during pregnancy. Eight cases of this type of cnacer were reported in New England and verified by Massachusetts General Hospital which maintains a registry of the clear cell adenocarcinoma. Of 280 known cases, 40 have died of the cancer and two-thirds were connected to DES usage. No cases have been reported in 2,708 women registered since 1975. Physicians debate, the government researches, lawyers file, and women organize, but the risks remain as high as ever while more than a half million prescriptions are written yearly for progesterone-like hormones during pregnancy. These drugs include Provcra, Depo Provera, Delalutin, Duphaston, Norlutin, and Norlutate. In 1975. the FDA withdrew approval of any use of the progestins during pregnancy. A report written by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Director of Public Health Research Group, shows that the progestins are being issued at the same rate at which they were dispensed before FDA warnings. There were still 533,000 progesterone prescriptions written for women in 1975 despite recent studies that prove that the progestins are barely effective in preventing miscarriages. One of the more disturbing aspects of the estrogen drug pitch is the advertising that accompanies the product. A doctor can switch on a special FM office radio given free by the Physicians Radio Network and hear round-the-clock broadcasts paid for by pharmaceutical companies. S 1 Massengill. commonly recognized for its supermarket-shelved douches, distributed a pain phlet in 1969 for its Menest tablets. Ihe booklet called The Menopause: A New Life of Confidence and Contentment was distributed to physicians by the tens of thousands. Each of its 34 pages contained a comic strip which printed questions asked and answered by an Ogden. Utah obstetrician. One cartoon showed a woman with a bottle of estrogen pills asking whether or not the pills cause cancer. "Only in mice." was the response. Doctors have jumped on the brand-wagon when it conies to advertising the estrogen pills and one Brooklyn, N.Y. gynecologist wrote a book called Feminine Forever which acclaimed the drugs, and sold 1 ()().()()() copies within eight months. Intrauterine Debacle And then there is the controversial Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine contraceptive device which grossed millions in sales and profits, carrying injury, disease and even death in its corporate wake. As of January at least 17 had died as a result of problems incurred with the IUD. The device was invented by Irwin Lerner, a former electrical engineer, and Dr. Hugh J. Davis of Johns Hopkins University in 1968. Davis claimed in 1970 that there was a 1.1 per cent pregnancy rate among women fitted with the Shield. What Davis omitted was that his statistics were based on an average live ami a half month's testing per woman and that spermicidal cream was prescribed to accompany the Shield. After testifying before the Senate Subcommittee hearings which looked into the safety of his Dalkon Shield. Davis went on to gross a whopping $250,000 plus $100,000 in consulting fees and royalty payments when he sold the patent to his product to the A.H. Robins Company. After further federal hearings, the Dalkon Shield was withdrawn from the market but not before it caused such tragic events as septic abortions, pelvic inflammation, massive bleeding and incessant cramps. In an article called "A case of Corporate Malpractice" in the November issue of Mother Jones, writers Mark Dowie and Tracy Johnston trace the unfortunate career of Davis and his wonder device. The women's health field is one filled with uncertainty. Doctors are easily the most expedient source of information but women do not see the corporate side of their health care. Davis still teaches at Johns Hopkins and still heads the school's Family Planning Clinic. He does not return phone calls from the press. For some, bucks are better than brains, and therein lies the danger. STA sponsors N. Y. tour The Department of Speech and Theater Arts in conjunction with Campus/New York, an educational organization offering unique study programs and tours to college students, will sponsor an educational and cultural tour of New York City November 20-27. While in New York, students will be staying at the Century Paramount Hotel. Five students and one faculty member from the Department of Speech and Theater Arts will attend current Broadway productions of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, A Chorus Line, Three Penny Opera, Streamers, For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide, Robber Bridegroom, and Equus. In addition, the group will tour the Library of Performing Arts in the Lincoln Center and the Players Club Library. Several other tours are also planned for the week. Another Campus/New York tour to New York City is planned for April 9-16, which is the scheduled Easter Vacation for WCU students. Any students who are interested in the Spring tour should contact Dr. Donald L. Loeffler in the Dept. of Speech and Theater Arts, Stillwell #123. Phone 293-7491. Schefflera 2 to 3 feet $5.00 Well, needless to say, I'm still trying to figure out what kind of school this is. Quite frankly, I don't employ the dimmest hopes of reform, its just that I enjoy criticizing. I used to go to the graveyard on Sundays and deliver lectures to the tombstones. Now, I've got You. Pleased? I'm still smoking a lot of cigarettes. To elaborate on my introduction, I think you're a lot of pompous nothings. That's how I feel. (Some girl just peeked around the New Now Open! FOREST HILLS MOTOR LODGE At Forrest Hills Country Club Cullowhee.N.C. spacious rooms - kitchenettes POOL-GOLF-TENNIS Phone- 293-5442 corner; I think she stuck out her tongue). I'm bored with this school. It reeks of conformity. The pseudo-hippies, forever bent on humming Pink Floyd; the multicolored Athenians, too bright to study; the cigar smoking that goes on in Madison...What does it represent? Is it symbolic of something too deep for me to understand? No. It reminds me of a disease. It makes me want to vomit. Honestly, the only way that you students could impress me would be to stage a large-scale riot and protest your own ridiculous behavior. Nothing would please me more. Bricks and fire!! Yes...that would impress me. What am I talking about? I'm talking about apathy. I'm condemning the masses that congregate in the dormitory lobbies to watch George C. Scott portray the great American hero for the third time. I'm opposed to those brightly colored chairs that you fill in with your flabby and boney behinds. I hate the warm vinyl...1 hate it. i.e. Polly Ester likes David Bowie. Polly Ester thinks that David Bowie is God. Polly Ester said that if David Bowie were to run for President, that she would assassinate all of the other candidates. Polly Ester is strange. I like Polly Ester. Essentially, this is what I mean. Anything to break the mold; it has to be broken. Urge. Action. Change. Cold vinyl. When I get nervous, I walk. It's a remarkable release, walking. So many people have cars.
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