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20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Monday, March 4. 1985 MANCHESTER U.S./WORLD OPINION WEATHER 8th District directors Security tightens Seat belts in buses? Skies clear tonight; BUSINESS propose budget rise around Blackmun Pupils have opinions sunny Wednesday ‘Controlled-release’ pills capture the drug market ... page 3 page 4 ... Open Forunri, page 7 ... page 2 all day,” reports Dr. Gaylord. If you're a typical consumer, you dislike toting pills the ear. • Alza Corp.’s Ocusert, a tiny plastic pouch placed “ In five years, we may combine drugs with to work, or devising bothersome reminders to make different targeting agents, so that the pdj s medicine sure you take a pill every fourhours. These rituals are in the eye that dispenses medicine to treat glaucoma Your for one week per application. is released only when it reaches a specific site in the vanishing from everyday life, though — and medical body” expt'rts predict once-a-day or once-a-week treat Rapid growth is projected for the entire controlled- Money's release industry. Applications in pill form will have Pills don’t even have to be swallowed to be effective. ments soon will take care of mo.st of your drug needs. Forest Labs, for instance, has developed a miniature The technology driving these changes, called the greatest immediate success, however, says the Worth market research firm of Business Communications tablet that adheres to the gum and releases "controlled release,'' which made up only 5 percent of . nitroglycerin for patients with angina or morphine for lfflanrl|patrr Brralft the $16 billion U,S, drug market as recently as 1983, is Sylvia Porter Co. of Stamford, Conn., mostly because consumers are already comfortable with oral medications. rapid pain relief directly into the bloodstream. Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Tuesday, March 5, 1985 — Single copy: 25<P expected to more than double that share by 1988 and Technologies still on the drawing board promise to possibly to capture 25 percent of the market by the Controlled-release pills are available over the counter now to treat coughs, colds, allergies, upset extend the effectiveness of controlled-release drugs early 1990s, stomachs and other common ailments. In fact, the even more. Researchers are hoping to perfect what The advantage of controlled release is its ability to they call “ self-regulating" drugs — controlled- stretch, delivery of a drug over an extended period ’’tiny time pills" we have heard so much about years ago actually were an early form of controlled-release release systems that monitor body chernistry and rather than dispense thie medicine all at once, as most release varying levels of medicine depending on the G rocery pills and shots do. In some cases, one controlled- pump, which is attached to the arm and regulat^ by a technology. These products offer simplified medica patient’s changing needs. release application can last lor weeks. microprocessor, can be adjusted by the patient to tion schedules that give you. the patient, greater Storm Iris The long-term implications of these technologies is The process works by combining a medicine with vary the insulin flow. convenience in treating minor symptoms. • Patches made by Boehringer-Ingelheim, Searle But this is merely the ’’first generation.’'with many profound. So is their potential to improve the health of mechanisms that release the drug's..contents in millions of Americans who need ongoing drug leaving precise, highly uniform doses. Many products using and other companies that release a steady stream of a more still to come. As Dr. Norman Gaylord, a controlled-release systems are already available. For drug through the skin, either clonidine for high blood consultant on polymers for Forest Laboratories, a therapy. pressure or nitroglycerin to treat angina. leading controlled-release manufacturer, says, "the It is not stretching my imagination one bit (nor instance: yours, I expect) to suggest that the only limit to • Baxter-Travenol's portable insulin pump, a tiny • Ciba-Geigy’s Transderm-Scop, an anti function and effectiveness of pills will evolve cuts power controlled-release drugs is the limit of our Parkade device that delivers continuous supplies of insulin to seasickness patch about the size of a dime that dra.matically” in the next decade. "Right now, we can imaginations. Bv Kathv Garmus diabetics through a needle placed under the skin. The protects users for up to three days when placed behind make a pill that releases precise amounts of medicine Herald Reporter The Waldbaum’s Food Mart around area store at the Manchester Parkade will close in March in preparation Business Just 30 areas An overnight ice storm brought dropped, he said. for a move to a new shopping In Brief down power lines in the area and "We're just cleaning up odd center to be built on Tolland forced the closing of some schools. spobi,’’ Brouder said this morning. Turnpike, the senior vice president 5 to share half In Coventry. 513 residents were Power outages were the norm of the chain said today. without power from 5:47 p.m. throughout the state. Northeast The move to the Talcottville Monday until early this morning, Utilities reported about 4,000 out Plaza shopping center will proba said Marilyn Brossmer of Nor ages in the Enfield and Windsor bly more than double the store’s of new jobs theast Utilities. In Andover, 42 areqs. The light snow and freezing space and allow it to join the ranks customers were without power for rain also contributed to two traffic two hours early this morning, she deaths on the highways. of the ’’super” supermarkets, said Bv Pat Remick said. ' The storm also was accompan Joseph T. Wright, senior vice United Press International At least 95 residents on Thayer ied by 35 mph winds which the president at Waldbaum’s Holyoke, Road, and Gardner and Mather Coast Guard braved to rescue 13 Mass., office. WASHINGTON — Half the jobs created in the streets in Manchester were still sailors from a sinking tugboat in ■»’> ” I think it’s hard for the United States by the end of this century will be in just without power late this morning Long Island Sound. conventional supermarket to pres 30 metropolitan areas, most of them in the South and after it went out around 9:30 a m., Bradley International Airport ent the variety that shoppers West, a planning group said Sunday. said Steve Kelly of Northeast closed for several hours and demand,” he said. "They want a The National Planning Association list ranged from seperate traffic accidents in Mont- Utilities. A total of 40 customers in variety of specialty departments.” large metropolitan areas such as Houston, Denver Bolton lost power for various ville Monday afternoon killed two and Los Angeles to rapidly growing smaller areas lengths of time, but all power had women, state police said. Shoppers want that variety such as Austin, Texas, Tucson. Ariz.. and Raleigh- been re.stored by 10:15 a.m., he The Coast Guard led a rescue under one roof and the Parkade Durham. N.C. said. effort after receiving a distress store did not have enough room or “ Although the majority of these areas and of new Most of the power outages were call about 6:30 p.m. from the the proper design to allow an jobs in the 1980s and 1990s appear to be following the caused when tree limbs broke from tugboat John A. Downs about five expanded -supermarket, Wright trend South and West of the past decade, several the weight of ice and fell on power miles south of the Coast Guard said. northern and mid-Atlantic metropolitan areas also lines, NU officials said. rescue station at New London. Food Mart has been at the are among the top 30 growth centers," said planning The storm forced the closing of Six crew members were taken Parkade since 1974 and currently researcher Nestor Terlkeckyj. schools in Bolton and Coventry, from the tugboat and thre three employs about 100 people, Wright "The areas have a favorable industrial mix and you while Manchester schools opened barges it was pulling. One crew ; l l said. The store’s work force could will see more of the spinoffs from science and two hours late. Schools in Andover member stayed aboard one of the research activities." he said. "There definitely will be barges as it was towed to New increase to 300 or 400 after the UPI photo and Hebron opened on schedule. more white-collar jobs and industrial jobs. While the storm made driving London Hartbor and six others move to Tolland Turnpike, he said. "They are all kinds of service jobs — technical and Need a light? treacherous at times, few acci stayed aboard a second barge that Food Mart would become one of BOB MUNSON GETS AWARD office fields services and health and personal dents were reported by police in was towed a few hours later. the anchor tenants at the 90,000- . from RCI's Rhonda Zahans services," he said. Alfred Peyton inspects wall mounting locations, are installed in chemical the area. The cutter Point Wells, two other square-foot Talcottville Plaza, The nonprofit economic research group said for lighting fixtures manufactured at the plants, grain elevators, coal-processing ‘"The roads are pretty good and coast guard ships, two Navy which received the approval of Houston is expected to see the largest increase in jobs getting better,” Neil Brouder, tugboats, one commercial tugboat — 1.268.700 — for a total projected workforce of 2.9 ITT Weaver faqi^lity in St. Louis, Mo. The facilities and offshore oil rigs. Manchester’s zoning authorities Munson’s gets candy award acting superintendent of highways and a private fishing vessel took earlier this year.