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(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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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receive federal and state approval
before changing the number of days
that Medicaid will pay for
hospitalization.
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saraquat," said Don Adams of the oflant
and pesticide regulator services. "I
was paraquat."
I really don't have any way of backing
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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.
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success with a drug that could provide a clue in the search
for a treatment for AIDS.
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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.
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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.
But he said it's not been established that the virus causes
an decline in the production of interleukin II.
More than 1,400 cases of AIDS have been reported
nationwide.
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