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Money soug (AP) ? The Department of Social Services plans to ask the state General Assembly to triple Medicaid coverage for critically ill babies whose parents can't afford to pay the bills, a DDS spokesman said. The DSS board of trustees Wednesday approved an $840.9 million budget for 1984-85 that would boost the state's Medicaid program by $30.6 million, much of it federal money. The board responded to recent hospital threats to quit treating nonpaying out-of-county newborns by including a request for $5.9 million to expand subsidized hospital care for neonatal intensive care babies. DSS is recommending that the coverage be increased from 12 davs to 40 davs after July 1. PHYSICIANS AND others coi cerned with the infant death rate i ? Paraquat not ( (AP) ? State and federal nffirialc arr? ! claims that paraquat, a herbicide the goveri to destroy marijuana fields, wiped out a fa in Horry County in 1976. Environmental Protection Agency o analysis of Autiewell and Retha Floyd's ga bicide that killed their plants was 2-4-D. The State reported last week that paraqu; sible for the loss of the Floyd's garden am trees. But Tuesday, the newspaper quoted Flo; EPA analyzed it audit was 2-4-D." Clemson's Office of Public Service Prog for monitoring herbicide and pesticide use said last week the 1976 incident was the sta paraquat problem. Tuesday, Clemson University officials I M BURGER KING v I A? 11211 C< ( mSStt j NOT TO BE u ht for critic. South Carolina warned the state u/p|fpr<> JinarH that rat<> PrtiilH cnar W? VI1M1 V V/V/Ul VI IIIUI I UIV VV/UIV4 OWU1 unless someone is willing to foot the bill for neonatal care for newborns. The DSS commissioners heard Wednesday that the state's infant mortality rate ? 20 percent higher than anywhere eise in the nation ? would continue to grow unless something is done. Regional hospitals with neonatal critical care units are threatening to cut back or cut out the service because hospitals end up absorbing much of the cost of about $565 per day per child for each day the infant stays i 1 n TU? ucyuuu iz, uap. i ni 1^15111 ui hospitalization for these infants is six weeks. The DSS board set a 12-day limit on the number of days Medicaid funds will pay for hospitalization for the poor, blind and disabled. :ause of garder backing off earlier prove the earlier claim nment wants to use "I was sure it was j mily owned garden fice's department of p would almost swear it fficials, after an But, he admitted, " irden, said the her- this up. It was one of t act. We probably did it had been respon- have." d damage to pecan Clemson reports or and paraquat is not sj y as saying, e y^e act ^dams ref( . passed by the Genera rams is responsib e \ ? . . , , Clemson to monitor h and officials there te's only recorded Paraquat, a highly critics say they fear said they couldn't damage or death if it i to A ^lAKF IE DOLL BURGER Kll DLLEGE ST. AT USC HORS >HUbHOt 3ISCUITS anh COFFEE NO COUPON NECESSARN SED WITH OTHER COUPOI OFFER EXPIRES 9/3/83 al infants III IT DHADn mon.Korc cairl w A iiivuAuvio aaiu tuv^y cannot increase the payment days now because of state and federal laws. The board has agreed that an emergency exists and they voted to have interim commissioner Jack Crosscope go to the state Budget and Control Board for help. Crosscope said he plans to ask for help before Monday. "The issue is helping us keep the unit open so we can care for these little, tiny babies," Dr. Tom Austin told the board. THE PROBLEM, according to John Middlebrook, chief financial of* i :? ti. r?cc in-ci iui 111c is m?u lvoo iiium receive federal and state approval before changing the number of days that Medicaid will pay for hospitalization. i destruction saraquat," said Don Adams of the oflant and pesticide regulator services. "I was paraquat." I really don't have any way of backing he first accidents investigated under the n't document it as well as we should lly show some herbicide was involved, ?ecifically cited, Adams said. ;rred to was the Pesticide Control Act il Assembly in 1975. The act requires erbicide and pesticide use. toxic herbicide, burns vegetation, but the chemical could cause severe lung s ingested. 4G* I ESHOE I ?# I BURGER NS OR OFFERS KJNG Miner iiiuuu icocaibiici may have AIDS clue CHARLESTON, (AP) ? A researcher at the Medical t t?: c r> i: v. ? 1? J ~^ ~ snivel Miy ui ouuui i^aiuuua was n<tu svjinc pi Liniiiiiai y success with a drug that could provide a clue in the search for a treatment for AIDS. r\r I^u/nnrt \7 Tcnnrt in o nonor nr/icont^H at tViP T ntprni. iv a . iv tv U115 f . 1 111 a ^a^vi jyi voviuvu ml iiiv iiuviuu- , tional Conference of Immunology in Kyoto, Japan, wrote the drug isopranisine restored some immune response in blood taken from patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. "It's a very simple and a very preliminary observation," said DR. Ezio Merler, the vice chairman of the school's Department of Basic and Clinical Immunology and Microbiology. ?ir1ar r> r* 1 I'r nn? fnctnrl t Kn /-Jriirr rvn K1 /\ r\ tnl/on fr/\m mvu^i oaiu i oaug ivaiwu 11iv. uiu^ un uiuuu larvwn nuni three confirmed and two suspected AIDS victims. He said the drug stimulated the ability of the cells to form interleukin II, which he described as a mediator in the body's immunological activity. "It's a normal product of cell activation. But whether the Hiceasp artivitv in AIDS is hrrmisp fhpv rlnn't havp in terleukin II we don't know," he said. Merler cautioned that the results are "very remote from being a significant treatment" because the exact role interleukin II plays in the immunological system is unclear. In effect, he said, increasing the interleukin II in AIDS victims may or may not have any effect in treating the disease. "It's believed it helps in the formation of antibodies. It's an indicator of immunological activity of cells, and in AIDS victims, it's depressed," he said. He said Tsang conducted his research over the past year with a grant from Newport Pharmaceuticals of Newport, Calif. "They are either contemplating or have underway clinical trials with patients. I believe they have and FDA approval for that," he said. Merler said AIDS is believed to be caused by the human T-cell leukemia virus, and interleukin II is made by cells infected by the virus. 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