The Michigan Daily-Monday, November 16, 1987- Page 3 FDA gives approval to heart medicine WASHINGTON (AP) - After a six-month delay, the Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a drug to save the lives of heart attack victims that was developed and tested by a University physician. FDA Commissioner Frank Young called approval of the geneti- cally engineered drug widely known as TPA "a major advance in the management of coronary heart dis- ease. Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at the University's Medical Center, has been developing TPA - which dis- solves blood clots during heart at- tacks - since 1984. He was the first physician in the world to use TPA in treatment. "THE APPROVAL of TPA is perhaps the most important and landmark event that has occurred in the field of cardiology during the past 10 years," Topol said in a statement released Friday afternoon. "The ap- proval of TPA has profound imp- lications for the therapy of heart at- tacks in the future." Young said it was additional clinical evidence of TPA's ability to limit heart muscle damage that play- ed a large role in prompting the FDA to approve the drug after an advisory committee recommended on May 29 that it not be approved pending fur- ther studies. Dr. Howard Morgan, president of the American Heart Association, said that "TPA can reduce the amount of damage to the heart muscle as well as the number of deaths due to heart at- tacks if it is administered soon - within a few hours - after symp- toms begin." TPA "HAS the ability to abort or markedly interrupt the heart at- tack," Topol said. "This aggressive form of heart therapy, if administered within the first few hours of the symptoms of a heart attack, has been shown to decrease the in-hospital death rate by approximately 25 per- cent." He estimated the drug will save 50,000 to 75,000 lives this year. TPA should be available within two or three weeks in emergency rooms nationwide, said officials of San Francisco's Genetech Inc., which developed it. They declined to say how much it will cost in the United States but indicated that it probably will be in line with the $2,000-per- treatment charge in other countries where it already is on the market. City buys land for $248,000 4 over listed price Daily Photo by ROBIN LOZNAK Pucked up Four young Michigan hockey fans retrieve a puck from the safety net behind the Michigan State goal at Satur- day's game. Michigan beat Michigan 6-4 after losing one to the Spartans Friday night, 6-3.; Studets link upwith Dukakis By JEFF HUGHES The Ann Arbor City Council voted Friday to purchase almost 150 acres of land as a landfill buffer, even though the cost for the property is $248,000 over the price listed with a local real estate agency. The land, located in Pittsfield, was bought for $597,000. The land was listed at $349,000 with American Heritage Century 21. City Councilmember Seth Hirshorn (D-Second Ward) shared the disappointment of many councilmembers, attributing the inflated price to poor planning on the part of the city administrator. "(The deal) was approved by council without benefit of good administrative review," he said. The city also neglected to put an escape clause into the contract, by which the sale could be delayed or cancelled. Including the escape clause, said Hirshon, "is normal for a transaction of this magnitude." Leigh Chizek, a s s i s t a n t administrator for engineering, said the city did not include an escape clause because "the intent was to go ahead and purchase the land. We wanted to make that very clear to the city and the owners." He also defened the price the city paid for the plot. "When I checked with the assessor's office, he thought it was a fair price." A proposal put before the council Friday to subpoena the owners of the land in an effort to release the city from the current contract failed.. Landowners told the city the plot, contained 149.4 acres but it only has 145.6. Councilmember Jeanette Middleton (R-Third Ward), who voted, to reject the proposal, said she did so, because the city desperately needs the land to move into Phase Three of the landfill development. Chizek said there is only one-and-a half years of, landfill left. Phase Three establishes a new landfill, and the newly purchased land will serve as a required buffer zone between the landfill and nearby residences. Councilmember Jerry Schleicher (R-Fourth Ward) said that he still had "some unanswered questions" and, that there was "not enough good faith" shown by the landowners. By VICKI BAUER Students' eyes were glued to the huge television screen in the Modern Languages Building as they watched and listened to Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis answer questions from college students around the nation Friday. Though Dukakis spoke live from Texas A & M University, he drew telephoned questions from 5 0 universities by accepting collect calls. After waiting for about 50 minutes, University graduate student John Quist got to ask the candidate about his stance on health care issues. Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts, said the health care crisis in the United States affects more than 40 million people and promised to address the issue as president. He cited the Massachusetts state-wide health care plan that he College Interview" was organized by Students For Dukakis. The 100- member group works directly with Dukakis' national headquarters in implemented as governor. Boston. In addition to planning a Before the one-hour program fund raiser for Dukakis in December, began, students wrote out their the group plans to go to Iowa in questions on a piece of paper that February for the democratic caucus. was collected by a coordinator of about a class, but he does expect Students for Dukakis. The selected students to read the class material and question on health care was randomly to communicate. drawn from a knapsack. "You should learn to have enough Questions from other universities gumption to speak-up, even though ranged from acid rain and the you may be wrong or even though economy to relations with the Soviet you are only one of two minority Union, Nicaragua, and South Africa. students in the class," he said. "It was a good feeling that it (the program) was just for students," said S T O R Y also offered several LSA junior Keith Brand and member recommendations to students. He of Students for Dukakis. stressed that students should speak The University's participation in and ask questions after reviewing the program entitled "A National notes and thinking. THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS ARE A.GREAT WAY TO GET FAST RESULTS CALL 764-0557 i Cornerstone CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Airplane crashes on takeoff Students Dedicated to Knowing and Communicating Jesus Christ! (Continued from Page 1) Washington-based investigators will fly to Denver to investigate last night's crash, NTSB spokesperson Ted Lopatkiewicz said. At Denver General Hospital , Dr. Peter Pons said there were 19 con- firmed deaths and that 54 people were taken to area hospitals with injuries, and three were in critical condition. He said eight people were believed to be in the wreckage, with one or two of them believed still alive. Rescue workers set up emergency lights on the runway and used electric saws to remove wreckage. The air- port was closed shortly after the accident. "Right now there's emergency operations trying to get injured peo-] ple extracted from the plane," said Denver police officer John Wyckoff, shortly after the crash. "It's just a chaotic scene right now." Boulware said the airplane was "on its back. The tail cone is about' 300 yards away. The aircraft is bro- ken amidships. The fuselage split open." Visibility was down to one- eighth of a mile, he said. As the injured walked into the hospital, one unidentified victim yelled to the waiting news media, "Hey you ghouls, does this make you happy?" Pastor Mike Caulk Diag Evangelist Tuesdays 7 p.m. 2231 Angell Hall 971-9150 Free Press reports Baker visit (continued from Page 1) he firmly denied that they specifically asked Bennett to become president. Miller told the Free Press that only one representative, a regent, met with Bennett. 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