HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: young@serum.kodak.com
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Hyperacidity-Urgent help needed
Date: 15 Aug 92 13:39:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Aug15.133907.19092
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Originator: young@sasquatch

In article <3716@randvax.rand.org> talmy@randvax.rand.org (Shel Talmy) writes:
>
>I'm posting this for my cousin who has no net access.  He asked
>me to put the following situation to the net experts.
>
>He is 48, and has been healthy all his life.  About 3 weeks ago,
>halfway through his exercize routine, he started feeling
>nauseated, accompanied by muscle ache, which he describes as the
>same feeling you get when exercizing too hard.  He ignored it,
>but it became progressively worse, and he went to see his doctor,
>thinking he was having a heart attack..
>
>The diagnosis was hyperacidity, and he was given pills to take
>called "Pepcid".  He was told to cut out caffein and smoking
>which cause acid, but that he could drink alcohol.
>
>Two weeks have elapsed since he started taking the pills and he
>says the acid attacks have gotten worse.  He is at the point
>where virtually any effort, such as walking 50 yards, will bring
>on an attack.  Eating also brings on attacks, and the worst time
>for attacks is late at night, and early in the morning.
>He describes them as very painful muscle ache across his chest
>and down both arms to the elbow.  As these can come on without
>warning, they are beginning to impact his job.
>
>He is not aware of any series of stressful events that could have
>brought this on, and says that he doesn't feel particularly
>stressed out now. The doctor told him to take Mylanta, which gave
>him diahrrea and he switched to Gaviscon.  Finally, the results
>of all the rest of the tests conducted at the check-up were
>normal.

   I'm no doctor, and this is just personal opinion, but it sure sounds like
   angina to me.

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Eastman Kodak Company                  | FAX: (716) 253-7254
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Don't get angry, get accurate information.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: Herman.Woltring@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Herman Woltring)
Subject: New ListServ lists on CFS/ME (was: Journal article on CFS needed)
Keywords: CFS-L, CFS-NEWS
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:12:49 GMT

On August 10, two new ListServ lists were started by Roger Burns in Washington
DC <bfu@nihcu.bitnet / bfu@cu.nih.gov> in the CFS/ME area:

(1) CFS-L@nihlist.bitnet / CFS-L@list.nih.gov, an unmoderated discussion forum
(2) CFS-NEWS@nihlist.bitnet / CFS-NEWS@list.nih.gov, a moderated, monthly news
    bulletin

Subscription can be done via the standard ListServ commands: send

   subscribe CFS-L <first_name last_name>
   subscribe CFS-NEWS <first_name last_name>
   info genintro

in the main body of an email note (Subject: line irrelevant) to either
ListServ@nihlist.bitnet (if you are on BITNET) or to ListServ@list.nih.gov
(if you are elsewhere).  Please note the difference between administrative
requests, to be sent to the ListServ address, and postings, to be sent to
the CFS-L or CFS-NEWS addresses.
 
Furthermore, a CFS archive is maintained via server@nihcu.bitnet / 
server@cu.nih.gov.  Send empty email notes to either address with the
words HELP or INDEX FTP DIRECTORY=CFS in the Subject: line.

Herman J. Woltring <woltring@nici.kun.nl, woltring@hnykun53.bitnet>
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Moderator, Biomch-L@nic.surfnet.nl / Biomch-L@hearn.bitnet
 (Biomch-L is a ListServ list in the field of Biomechanics and Movement
  Science under the Patronage of the International Society of Biomechanics.)

(N.B.: Please do *not* send private notes to my ebb address)
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Permission to use medication
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:36:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department

In article <1992Aug20.020904.22932@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.005948.4969@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:

			.....................

>>You wouldn't have done any of these things, since you (according to what
>>you say) place a high value on playing it safe.  I can't say you're wrong,
>>but I think I should be allowed to make up my own mind on my own values.

>And this is MY complaint with many of the anti-medicine whiners: they think
>they're back in their adolescence talking back to Daddy.  I mean, c'mon,
>we're all supposed to be grown-ups here.  No one is "disallowing" you
>from making up your own mind on your own values.

The part I have deleted is not the statement of an anti-medicine whiner,
but someone who wishes to use procedures not accepted by authorities.
No one is disallowing thinking, but there is considerable disallowance
of action.  It does not due Lee Lady, or anyone else, much good to be
allowed to think that a procedure should be followed if the procedure
is prohibited.  There has been adequate posting on this newsgroup and
elsewhere that this is often the case.


-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
{purdue,pur-ee}!pop.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Images
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:43:59 GMT
Followup-To: sci.med
Keywords: images, MRI, PET, CAT....

In article <36815@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> bkronenb@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Bart Man) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I am looking for an anonymous FTP site that may have color or b&W scanned
>images of MRI, PET or CAT, (or anything remotely similar).  Does anyone

I am curious as to the various applications of these and of their relative
image quality.  Also, the name CAT seems to be a superset of PET, although,
obviously, the technology is different.  AND, what was the timeline of
their development?

Just curious.  E-mail is okay if this has been discussed before.

GMS
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: On pre-scientific traditions of medicine (was: Use of term
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:02:56 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Aug22.212704.2936@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:
>Still, with therapies that have been around for so long and are as
>prevalent as homeopathy and chiropracty, I think that the public has a
>right to expect more from the scientific community than mere skepticism.

Snort.  Actually, that's the best gift the "scientific community" could
endow on the "public".  There's too little skepticism as it is.

>The amount of money and time spent on these dubious cures justifies some
>research that would enable scientific critics to offer more than just
>"I'm very skeptical."  

How about "I'm very skeptical, even more so after reading these proponents'
attempts at 'research'."  There's not much of it, but all of it is
either flawed or not reproduced in other studies.

I mean, I really can't figure you out.  What do you think this
"scientific community" is, anyway?  People have limited time, money,
and lives.  People are motivated (and funded) to do work which is
going to pay off in some way.  Experimental studies which tell us
what we already very strongly suspect aren't worth very much (i.e.,
that chiropractic or homeopathy doesn't work in disease states outside
their area: for chiropractic, the back, homeopathy in placebo-responsive
complaints).  Similarly, you don't get studies showing that penicillin
is effective in pneumococcal pneumonia.  We know that already.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: B12 Deficiency In Older Adults
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:39:50 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland

In article <16143@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>
>B12 deficiency on a nutritional basis is extremely rare. The body keeps
>B12 around, and in the average adult maintains appoximately at three
>year storage of the vitamin, such that if the person absolutely quit
>getting any intake of the vitamin, it would be three years before
>deficiency would develop. Thus, the concept of an "RDA" for this vitamin
>is a little silly, since you don't need it daily at all.
>

Yeh, but Gabe Mirkin said on his talk-radio show that new research
reveals significant B12 deficiencies in people over 50.

As you age, you lose the ability to produce stomach acid. This allows
bacteria to grow in the stomach lining, and interferes with your
ability to absorb B12.

20% of people in their sixties and 40% of people in seventies suffer
from B12 deficiency. These are very significant numbers. This puts them
at an increased risk for nerve damage, emotional problems, change
in personality, memory loss, itching, loss of feeling in fingers or
toes, loss of vision, hearing, smelling. It also causes homocysteine
to increase in tissues, increasing their risk of a heart attack.

In other words, much of what we accept as normal body deterioration
from aging is actually due to B12 deficiency.

Since these symptoms may be irreversable, all people over age 50
should have a blood test for B12 and homocysteine. The
homocysteine test is required, too, because an elevated homocysteine
indicates B12 deficiency, even if B12 levels appear normal.

Reference
     Mirkin Report
     June 1992
From: bruceg@nmitd6.sr.hp.com (Bruce Galbraith)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:07:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Thyroid Trouble
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: sci.med

In sci.med, lindae@netcom.com () writes:



    Several years ago I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.  I've been
    on medication ever since and my thyroid now stays consistently stable.
    At least on the blood tests.  But, what about pain?  I have frequent,
    often daily, pain all around the thyroid gland that seems to be worse in the morning and gets QUITE painful when I raise my voice, talk for a long time, or
    when crying.  My doctor doesn't seems to have an answer to this.  Nor does
    he have an answer to why does the gland swell periodically and then go 
    down again.  He has occassionally said that I may just have acute
    thyroiditis, in addition to the Hashimoto's.  

    Any suggestions or advice?

    Thanks,
    lindae@netcom.com

-------------------------------------------------

Ya,
  Go see another Dr.  Thyroiditis is only a term for swelling of the thyroid.
  I think you alread know this.  

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Subject: Happy Ragweed Day !
Organization: York University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:18:11 GMT

Some semi-medical ragweed ramblings for fellow sufferers :

* Ragweed allergy symptoms begin Aug. 15 here in the "NorthEast".
  Every year about Aug. 18-20 I have the same typical conversation
  with many young store assistants I see with runny noses and
  irritated eyes:
       "How long have you had those symptoms ?"
       "It started a few days ago. I think might be an allergy."
       "Do you know what you are allergic to ?"
       "No."
  About 1/3 of N. Americans have some sensitivity to ragweed pollen.
  Many of them misattribute it to a "cold" or else to a conspicuous
  coincidental plant, e.g. goldenrod.

* It will be interesting to see what affect the unusual wet and cool
  weather this "summer" in the NE will have on the pollen counts.  
  I've noticed the plants in their usual profusion in their usual
  ecological niches (scarred land).

* Here in Canada, Seldane(terfanedine) has been moved from the open
  shelves to behind the counter due to concerns re interaction with
  erythromycin  (and "Nizoral(ketoconazole)" it sez on the package),
  but is still OTC.  Nobody asked me any questions when I bought a
  load of it.

* Cromoglycate nasal spray (inhibits degranulation of mast cells ?)
  is effective, but expensive.

* I have found managing exposure to be an excellent adjunct therapy
  to anithistamines + chromoglycate + adrenergic decongestants.
  Electrostatic filter/"sealed house" at home.  Work/shop in closed
  air-conditioned buildings.  Pray for rain on excursions.

Maybe we will get an early frost here in the NE.
Commiserations to all sufferers.

[Socio-political side-note:  Consider the three plants: tobacco,
 cannabis and ragweed.  Now consider the suffering these three plants
 cause.  The extremely addictive one is grown legally and taxed.  The
 other one that people desire is hunted down, destroyed, and its
 growers severely punished.  The third one, the one nobody wants, grows
 unchecked along the side of roads and on contruction sites.]

--
tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Subject: Re: Sympathectomy..questions.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Organization: Somewhere in Bloomington, Indiana
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:53:42 GMT

In article <16161@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes...
>In article <Bt99z3.7B2@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
> 
>>
>>1.) What exactly is done during the operation?
> 
>The sympathetic chain is severed in the abdomen.
> 
>>2.) What are the lifelong "side-effects" if any?
> 
>Loss of control to the leg's vascular bed, with possible difficulty
>in maintaining blood pressure due to pooling of blood in the leg
>when upright posture is assumed.
> 
>>3.) Is it considered major or minor surgery?
> 
>Fairly major.
> 
>>4.) Other comments?
> 
>You should not rely on the net for this information.  You
>should be addressing these questions to the surgeon.  His
>approach may differ from the standard procedure.

Thanks for your concern, but I'm not relying on anyone, including
the net for this information.  I'm in a "lull" period where I have
to wait for about a month before I recieve another "test" lumbar
sympathetic block, to see if the results are the same.

In the interim, I am not in communication with any doctors, and it
seems like a good question to ask sci.med, doesn't it?

So, what "types" of epidural pumps are there? How do they work and
how are they "installed"?

Note: I'm speaking of an epidural pump for the lumbar sympathetic chain
(I believe that's the correct terminology) to control the pain in my
right leg/foot.

Jim

>-- 
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>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Whole milk verses 2%
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:50:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.mx6mn-#.sss
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug13.220420.6919@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.152307.9006@kodak.kodak.com> salvaggi@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Nanette Salvaggio) writes:
>>I am looking for info on the reasons that my doctor recommends giving
>>my son whole milk as opposed to 2% or skim.  My son is 9.5 months old,
>>and very healthy.  He consumes around 28 oz. of milk daily.  Is
>>there some medical reason for one type over the other.
>
>Infants and children need some fat in their diet.  There have been
>several cases of failure-to-thrive and impeded development in
>children who were placed on low fat diets by parents concerned
>with heart disease.  This is also known as "yuppie malnutrition".
>
>Breast milk would be ideal, of course, but skim milk is a definite
>no-no.

It is my understanding that, until age two, 50% of calories should come
from fat.  Not polyunsaturated, monounsaturated vegetable matter, but
good, old animal fat, with plenty of good, old cholesterol to help
protect lungs, kidneys, and immunity.

The problem with cow's milk (well, one of the problems) is the ratio
of calcium to phosphorus.

Save 2% Milk until 2 yrs. and switch to 1% milk at 4 yrs.

-- 
Small Systems Solutions                   1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123
sss@netcom.com                                  Berkeley, CA 94707-2116

The above-expressed opinions aren't necessarily
From: jensen@unlinfo.unl.edu (michael jensen)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Function of D&C?
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:57:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: unlinfo.1992Aug19.205729.2738
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

My mother (post-menopausal, 62) recently received a recommendation 
from her MD that she have a D&C done; she had some spotting a few 
months ago, and has been told that she has "thickening of the uterine 
wall." Several years ago she had a fibrous tumor, but has had no 
recurrence of any problem. She's a natural skeptic, quite willing to 
challenge, and very quick, but still is in the dark regarding the 
purpose of this D&C. 

In my (admittedly limited) reading of my own medical reference texts 
(garden variety home-medical books, Our Bodies Our Selves and the 
like) I find very little information beyond descriptions of the 
procedure. 

Is this procedure functional, exploratory, or preventative, in 
general? If it's a merely exploratory (and I know that "merely" could 
get me in trouble), then it seems that the dangers of a being put 
completely under outweigh the dangers of a thickened uterine wall. 
Aren't there other, non-invasive methods of investigation?

Thanks for any feedback--

Michael Jensen
Electronic Media Manager
University of Nebraska Press
jensen@unlinfo.unl.edu
standard disclaimers in effect
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.kids
From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: Hepatitis vaccine
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 17:42:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <22830@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> smergen@luna.dpl.scg.hac.com (Sandra Mergen) writes:
>
>mbb@soac.bellcore.com writes:
>>Does anyone know anything about a vaccine for hepatitis C?
>
>Parents Magazine wrote an article about the new hepatitis
>vaccine that is available.  I called my pediatrician and she
>said that the vaccine is available now.  Her practice is now
>giving it to newborns on their 2 week checkup. 

OH! I should have figured this out before. You are talking
about the hepatitis *B* vaccine, not the hepatitis C vaccine
that the original poster asked about. 

Yes, HBV vaccine is recommended universally now for newborns.
However, no HCV vaccine is presently available.

Brian
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Prozac/sleeping/alternatives
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:08:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug17.220847.1208
Distribution: usa
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Aug17.112149.2850@newstand.syr.edu> mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline) writes:
>For some people, one 20 mg capsule of Prozac daily is too high a dose,
>and some such people often do much better on 10 mg daily or 20 mg every 
>other day or three times a week.  Sedation from Prozac is a very interesting
>phenomena, not experienced by all people taking the medication; some people
>report increased drowsiness after eating, or an increase in midafternoon
>drowsiness, as if the biological siesta time was somehow exagerrated. 

I was taking fluoxetine last year in a regimen to assist in weight loss.
This takes a rather large dose of the drug: 60-80mg/day.  Shortly after
I started, and for about 2 weeks, I was _absolutely exhausted_ every day
at mid- to late afternoon.  "Sleepy" doesn't really capture how I felt;
it was more like a kind of fatigue, as if all the energy had been drained
from me.  After about 3 weeks, this began to resolve.  I ultimately stopped
the drug because of its sexual side effects (i.e, anorgasmia), which tended
to make me a little grouchier than usual on the net. :-/

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Subject: Eye training?
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:37:28 GMT


I've noticed that my left eye is specialized in long distances, whereas
my right eye sees very sharply at short distances (less than 2 meters).

What to do? Wear a black eye pad for a week on each eye?

Getting glasses sounds like a cheap solution to me, and they're all but
cheap to buy around here anyway.

I'd also like to know what else kind of specials I can expect to find in
my body, and how to correct them. (I've already started training my left
hand - I'm right-handed.)

-- 
jjj@mits.mdata.fi     Thanks, Life; thanks, Death    And the other me:
jjj@niksula.hut.fi    for freeing me from self       Jenny L{rv{joki
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: young@serum.kodak.com [Rich Young (x37176)]
Subject: Re: Diabetic coma
Originator: young@sasquatch
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:23:58 GMT

In article <16027@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:

>Ken is one of the few people on this group who has any
>real knowledge of medicine, unlike you and others of your
>ilk that can do no better than sit and bitch about the
>free information you are getting.  Put it where the sun
>don't shine.

	Hear, hear!!!  I agree completely.

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Rich Young                             | Phone: (716) 253-7176
Eastman Kodak Company                  | FAX: (716) 253-7254
Clinical Products Division             | Internet: young@serum.kodak.com
100 Carlson Road                       |
Rochester, New York, USA   14653-9122  |
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