Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, March 12, 1981 Women getting tired of pill assortments - FORONTO (CP) — A Toronto hospital has opened a psychiatric clinic ex- clisively for women partly berause women are tired of méle psychiatrists giving them pills for all their problems. “Al's a growing” phenomenon,’’ said psychiatrist Elaine Borins. “Women are insisling that they be seen by female therapists."" Open since last spring, the clinie at Toronlo Western Hospital in downtown Toronto has & staff of seven — ‘dll women. . Many of their patients need help coping with emétional traumas resulling from stress, childbirth, abdrtion, incest, menopause, thebreakup of a relationship or“‘mental cruelty and physical abuse in marriage. Clients have alsa included working mothers buckling under the pressure of managing a family. and werking at a fulltime job. Borins isn't happy with the way women are often treated by male psychiatrists. She says she's concerned about the use of mood-altering drugs to treat women in psychotherapy. ‘One study found that male peychiatrists treat male and female patients differently, she said. ; “Men are told fo pull up their socks while women are given medication.” But the study also found that female doctors were more likely to give pills to male patients and a pep talk to women, Borins said some of the patients have been taking Valium or similar tranquillizers for years and must be admitted to hospital to break this habit or ad- diction to alcohol. Borins and her colleagues meet weekly over coffee to discuss issues exclusive to female biology and behavior because of a concern that. medical literature has SCIENCE WORLD Health- -conscious drug ‘with women. largely ignored - : female paychology. And the discussion often dwells on the role ex- pectations and stereotypes [ae that male doctors associate “We wil] also become ° increasingly involved in research, most of It focusing on female psychology,’’ Borins said. “Serious biases exist among physicians about the treatment. of female illnesses. We must get people to think differently about women and their illnesses."’ The clinic staff is now re- searching the hospital’s abortion service, which sometimes refers patients to the clinic. © And preliminary results have destroyed .another myth: The women using the abortion service are not single or unwed teenagers - but are mostly married and working, have two or more children and don’t want to increase the size of their families. 1 may also be a hazard Dolomite, taken by many health-conscious people as a source of extra calcium and esium, May also be a of a number of toxic meals. - Honied by the high levels of lead, arsenic, mercury ang aluminum in the hair of a qumber of patients with disbrders affecting the newvous system, Dr. MJ. re erts of West Palm Bech, Flotids; looked into’ their case histories and f thai “imaiiy took a considerable amount of dolbmite. th a report in the New England Journal of Medicine he said he then had dolomite tallels produced by a major rican pharmaceutical: mefals, which are known to ease neurological disor- dens, and found that dolomite tablets had high levéls of a number of these meals, including aluminum and lead. mayen BEWARE Ab overweight person is likely to eat more when in the!company of another ovetweight person, ac- cording to a recent study by Rayleen de Laica and Manly me analysed for toxic Spigelman at the University of Winnipeg. On the other hand, de Luca and Spigelman found an overweight person was paired with one of normal weight, the overweight person was likely to eat very little. Normal weight people weren't affected much by who they were eating with, though they tended to eat a “bit legs when with someone who was overweight. - The results suggest that if you are a bit heavy, it might be easier to lose-if you slay away from the company of fellow fatties: * RADIATION WORKS Only one woman in three who Joses a breast because of cancer is able to adjust to the joss, says Dr. Louis Dionne of Montreal’s Hotel-Dieu Hospital. Dionne also found that the great majority of mastec- tomy patients experience a sharp drop in the frequency — of sex. One third of the 114 married women who Dionne interviewed indicated that thelr sexual relations had been shattered. There is, however, ac- cumulating evidence that SEATTLE (AP) — vse a table knife to Hisledge a pill in his roat succeeded in is the knife in his t cavity where it Jook a surgeon 54% hours recover it. Dr. James M. Hanson d be was called to edish Hoapital March when the emergency foom crew saw the knife ; po a chest X-ray. {The 36-year-old ttle resident, whom e hospital would not ntify, had taken an lrin-like pain-killer. But the pill stuck In the pack of his throat and as burning. The man tried to rinse pill down and to slodge it with his © before trying the ife. j Hanson said the man ralsted in working the nife deeper in his sensation made seem the pill'was atill . When he finally PILL-REMOVING THE HARD WAY who attempted to - that the knife had roat because the - neglected to mention the missing knife. Hanson first tried to reach the knife with an alligator clamp on the end ofa tube down the food pipe. “We then assumed ’ passed on down inte the stomach,” the surgeon said. A small incision was made in the ab - domen and Hanson reached in and felt around, Still no knife. Another X-ray showed the knife, handled down, in the right side, of the cheat cavity. “When, we opened the chest, it was just sitting there free in the cavity,” he sald The knife apparently went down the back of the man's throat bet- ween or alongside the windpipe and esophagus and Into the chest cavity. No organs, nerves, muscles. or bleod vessels were pierced, The patient went home last weekend, Hanson said. ‘ene the decline, but lung : ereasing. Incidence of the surgery may not be be. _ necessary. Dr. Luther Brady of Philadelphia has found that radiation treatment is as good as or better than surgery, provided that the breast lumps are detected fairly soon after they develop. If women realized that radiation therapy is a real alternative, says Brady, they might be more likely to go to the doctor as soon as a fump is detected. 27.41.41 The Canadian , Canget.. Society estimates that in 1980, 8,480 Canadians discovered that they had breast cancer. More than 98 per cent. of the cases in- volved women. TALK TO TWINS Twins score just as high as single children on tests of nonverbal = intelectual ability, but show, on Average, & significant lag in verbal akilis and academic achievement, says a. & University of Calgary study. Dr. Hugh Lytton also found that height, weight, non- verbal 1Q, speech facility and spelling achievement were much more similar in identical twins than in fraternals, indicating that genetic factors were particu- larly important in these ‘areas, (Identical twins are genetically the same while fraternal twins are only as similar as any pair of siblings is likely to be.) Lytion has also found that twins, from a very early age, have less verbal interaction with parents than single chil- dren do. He suggests that parents ‘of twine should monitor their children’s speech closely, keeping in mind that a child’s in- telléctual development bene-- fits greatly by the child hearing af much’ adult speech as possible and being spoken to directly. WILL GET CANCER The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that this year 6,259 men and 1,650 women will be found to have lang cancer. In 95 per cent of these cases, the society says, the cancer will prove un curable. In 1978, the most recent year for which full figures are available, 6,461 men died of lung cancer, accounting for 7.2 percent of al] deaths among men 35 and over. Among women, the total number of deaths from various forms of cancer is cancer deaths are in- disease, the society notes, is ' limited alinwat entirely to smokers. MOUNTVIEW | Bakery & Delicatessen ‘Brownies. 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He had -pald . the: ; ’ on the Status of Women council was free tp reject the The "Pepin dtetement sald: Axworthy and — outside . “We “regard an’ external feminist groups fora review review at this time tobe an meeting here brought the immediate resignation of prompled after” Doris An- © of the council and its work.: unwarranted use of the’ . The: rejection at: the 27- - limited’ resources, time and - - member council's. general money available to women," Calls for the review were Peggy Mason, acouncilstaff derson ‘resigned as. council researcher . working on president _ ‘in sexual-assault laws. announced in a staternent by interim council president . Lacle Pepin just two days efter the proposal for an . Axworthy had said. he. ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (cP) The Newfoundland. govern- ment has been unable to. - persuade Eastern Provincial Airways to continue setvice to both Stephenville - and . Deer Lake airports in. Newfoundland, ‘Trans- — ‘January, I . “charging interference by The council decision was Sarevewecmtee , Pepin said in an interview the council ‘is ready. to conduct an interna! review - ‘and will consult ‘women’s rT Hhisk we are bot cutting: - “eff women's groups at all but | would make a decision on wewant to take a lock at our gover j . whether a review should be ” “mandate. We know we have’ conducted after’ receiving” ‘somne, weaknesses io com to remove sesh line “prustoe Ann Blough weld 60 of the 100 principals who re- -sponded-to the Elementary School Principals ‘Association poll: on school - ‘discipline suggested the: ; “ane — i strap be brought back. . - x portation Minister Charlie. © - _ Brett said Tyesday. ~ . The airline announced ’ earlier it’ would. eliminate service from ‘either ‘Deer Lake or Stephenville airport in western Newfoundland because it was. not: economically feasible’ to operate both, © S HALIFAX (CP) usagi doatd taliy force a refute: ithe small, local ‘sehool ' because busing will become - -too expensive, says the retiring executive director of - - the Nova Scotia School” Eric Cowan, the Association’s first: full-time director, also said Tuesday - that the current school grade structure might have to be - ‘compressed to shorten the. - time students spend | in school. These are two alternatives . - Nova Scotia, might have to : ¢ consider as éducation costs hecome too heavy for tax- . payers ti to bear, * SAINT JOHN, NB. (CP) - FA Cornelius Krieghotf painting cut out of ils frame and stolen from the New | Brunawick museum last, November has been recov- ered. . RCMP in Toronto told mu- _ geim officials that the work . by the Dutch master was . found in Toronto after an unidentified man called police. | The painting is titled ‘in: * dian Womes with Baskets — and is worth $20,000. - BROCKVILLE, Ont. (CP) — “Some mysterious sist of jungle cat” is apparently ~ prowling the Thousand Islands region, a con- servation’ officer for: the | - _ Ontario ministry of natural resources says. The . animal was seen Michael and Betty Nesh of Trenton, Out, and their son. Jeff, 19, of Otiawa spw the black cat-like beast-in a tree near a highway. Jeff sald it | was about two metres long, with a metre-long tall. "The animal is a member of the cat family, possibly a officer Mike Hart. ‘‘Il's definitely net a domesticated cat or lyn, Judging from its 5 i F F nu pie ie ne ‘schools operated: by: separate’ school board as & last. resort to. punish By Bruce Levett . 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Hammacher Schienmer, which began. ‘ ” Bowery hardvare store in New York and now is >. colebtating the onset of its 100th yesr as purveyor of © _ “innovative yet functional” merchandise. And, | esk-you, what could be more innovative , and functional than the automatic food detector? I. ; mean, you wouldn't want a {food to sneak up on you, A ‘And ow aboit that telescople feather duster * ‘The very thing-for thee unwise enough to have fav: | ~ Kegtalled the’ talking barewieter up. (here ut ef. t >. : “The most expeosiveitee inthe book appears tobe the “gtobal satellite communications receptor” 7 ' (that dishshaped receiver" frowned on by the Canadian government) which goes for $12,500. . ; it mikes a nice companion plece for that TV set. (Shucks, mine does that now, and It has anly ove . WS. koe trademark consists of two bearded , elves, is a modest outlet. which describes itself as. . “the paragon of functional excellence, the sing qua precision-balanced. Limited edition — are you have (480 ta and, this “Why, for a mere, vulgar #9.95, you can pamper three weeks without refilling. . Expense aside, the merchandise purveyed by H-8 Oh, sure — the stapleless stapler sounds like 4 : great ‘ideg and the “talking tridge challenger” | might be fun if I waen'talready marriedtgone. And the electric centrifuge to spintry the salad positive steal ot 4.98. But i's that sinister litte black box on Page #8 . “It goes for $300.86 and Hs ‘function ls to turn on your car engine and regilate the sulomatie chale . everything is nice and warm when you step out fet The problem is, tha “remtote control eg Marta . bas a range of at fect 0 fet” a ; : meres a tastetal utile: life as a channels simultaneously. of singular taste." - Pierson ala . & gadget thet dispemes moisture to the roots for to drive tp. work.