ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, September 10, 1996 TAG: 9609100051
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
Cross-dressing ex-principal fined
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former elementary school principal who was arrested in women's clothes after propositioning two undercover policemen pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution Monday and was fined $550.
George Meadows, 55, had offered to undercut a female competitor's price for performing oral sex on the two officers Sept. 1, authorities said.
- Associated Press
Drug approved for low blood pressure
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug designated to treat a rare condition that causes people's blood pressure to plummet when they stand up.
ProAmatine, known chemically as midodrine, raised patients' standing blood pressure significantly, the FDA said.
The FDA warned, however, that only patients ``whose lives are considerably impaired'' should use ProAmatine because it can raise blood pressure too high when they are lying or sitting down.
- Associated Press
Testing to begin on oral diabetes pill
WASHINGTON - Doctors are about to begin testing hundreds of people to see if swallowing a capsule of insulin crystals every day can prevent or delay juvenile diabetes in people at risk of getting the disease.
The National Institutes of Health announced the clinical trial Monday.
The NIH said it will search for 490 people at moderate risk of developing diabetes to take part in the study.
Volunteers for the oral insulin trial must have a close relative with insulin-dependent diabetes, be age 3 to 45, and have a 25 percent to 50 percent chance of getting the disease - a risk determined through tests NIH researchers will administer.
For information, call (800) HALT-DM-1.
- Associated Press
Rapper Shakur's right lung removed
LAS VEGAS - Doctors removed rapper Tupac Shakur's right lung after he was shot four times in the chest during a weekend attack.
Shakur, 25, remained in critical condition at University Medical Center, spokesman Dale Pugh said. ``His injuries are very severe, very traumatic.''
Death Row Records Chairman Marion ``Suge'' Knight, whose Los Angeles-based company specializes in ``gangsta'' rap, was treated for a minor head wound after being grazed by a bullet fragment or shrapnel from the car.
- Associated Press
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