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Ob.Gyn. News She needs PREMARIN` to stand up to osteoporosis Estrogen deficiency clearly linked to bone loss Estrogen deficiency is the mason why so: many menopausal women will develop osteoporosis.1 Without estrogen, calcium may not be absorbed and utilized correctly. So calcium supplements alone may not prevent further bone Doss? • She needs early treatment with PREMARIN` PREMARIN• proven effective at low 0.625 mg dose In a long-term study, PREhAARIN' (conjugated estrogens tablets, USP) was shown to signlficantly reduce postmeno- pausal bone loss at a dosage of 0.625 mg' And PREMARIN' has been shown to improve calcium d_eposition. Backed by years of clinical research and patient use, PREIMARIN' is the estrogen of choice for the treatment of osteoporosis. PREMARIN' (Conjugated Estrogens Tablets) The sooner, the better 0 w.wr.ewwrir. xMM/AMMMM.. ~21 M .,/w Nw aw Mr.Mrw. nw~r.r..y.wp.: ~.~.•r+wwww .e0 W MM~MMrM w [ B6 Child's Birth Weight, Father's Smoking Tied WASHINGT'ON - Prenatal exposure to paternal tobacco smoke appears w have an independent effect on the birth weight of healthy infants, Dr. David H. Rubin said at the annual meeting of the American Pediatric Society and the So- `ciety for Pediatric Research. Data on smoking habits of all house- hold' members were collected in post- partum interviews with 500 Danish women who gave birth to term babies after uncomplicated pregnancies, said Dr. Rubin, of the division of pediatric ambulatory care, Albert Einstein Col- lege of Medicine, New York. For each cigarette smoked per day by the father, average birth weight was 6 g below that of children of nonsmoking parents, after the investigators con- trolled for mother's age, smoking, al- cohol consumption, social class, and parity and for newborn's gender and medical illness, he said in a poster presentation. In an interview with this newspaper during the meeting, Dr. Rubin said that paternal and maternal smoking ap- peared to have independent, additive effects on birth weight. The father's smoking had 66% of the effect of the mother's. These data were among the first to show a low birth weight as a result of indirect exposure to smoking. The ef- fect might be even more dramatic in low-birth-weight infants, Dr. Rubin said. Dr. Rubin's associates in this study were Drs. Peter A. Krasilnikoff, Bir- gitte Vkik, and Arne Berget, of the University of Copenhagen School of Medicine, and Dr. John M. Levcnthal, of Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven. acw Y+. Mywi" MeMwN pnM.w..rUUqw b eWfl Mwt. MNuM. wqaMr. MYMS. w/MMrNA1MM.OMY.+O~Mt w Mtw~M..U/~t./NKN OhMI/M~It 1M~ww. i~PwO• M. N M1"/s NNW O81ps a yN AURE w[MpYE:, rM rau wr. w.oMwW MrMy wM~our w Ywws~ei~tlreYrwOnMl~Ma s.wsK+r/pwwn..n.rwr lip ww.eMrw.rqwr.n.n M/rNMrfl~~. M~M~c w~~.0 uiMOw.M~M www~.AA.01~M~MU /O.~M / 25 p w Ill~r. /M.1 OUmarieS Dr. Emorine Edwards Dr. Edwards, 76, of Yuba City, Ca- lif., died June 11. She earned her med- ical degree at the University of Colo- -_.J- al