
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 20, 1990                   TAG: 9003202823
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: METROO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GATHERS WAS MISSING MEDICATION

College basketball star Hank Gathers didn't have enough medication in his system when he died to treat his irregular heartbeat, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said Monday.

Toxicology tests indicate that the Loyola Marymount University center had a "sub-therapeutic" level of the drug Inderal in his bloodstream when he died after collapsing in a game March 4.

Coroner's spokesman Bob Dambacher said the Inderal level in Gathers' body was about one-half to one-eleventh of the amount needed to help his heart condition.

by CNB