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From: eepee@polaris.utu.fi (Esa-Pekka P{lvim{ki)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Does the Human Brain have Pain Receptors ?
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:54:17 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

In article <17347@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In migraines, it is probably the scalp that is the source of
>most of the pain, even though it feels deeper.  Combing one's
>hair with a migraine can be excruciating.

I've found pulling my hair painfully eases the pain a bit when I myself
have a headache - well I'm not sure whether it actually helps, but whenever
I have a headache I find myself doing this. Or drawing marks on the skin
with my fingernails. Some seem to believe the gate control -theory could
account for this, but, well, I don't know...

/ep
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From: mryan@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Robodoc
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:29:33 GMT

In article <69211@cup.portal.com>, amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
> An article from the Associated Press today described a robot called 
> "Robodoc" that was used during a hip-replacement operation.  It was
> billed as the first time a robot had been used in surgery.  

It may be the first time a robot surgeon was used *on humans*, but it's 
been used in hip-replacement surgery for more than a year on dogs (in 
Philadelphia if I recall correctly).  Hip dysplasia is very common in dogs, 
and surgery has been available for a long time to those who can afford it.

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From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Homeopathy
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:45:35 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <BSIMON.92Oct30072636@elvis.stsci.edu> bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:

>them. There are other conditions that allopathic medicine treats less well
>(migraines, for example) and still others where allopathic medicine
>can only offer palliation (such as rheumatoid arthritis). If I had one

I'm about 90% successful with migraine treatment.  Rheumatoid arthritis
treatments can be more than palliative.  So both of these statements
are false.


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From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Subject: Re: disposable contacts
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:05:13 GMT

garyn@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Gary Nichols) writes:

| Say.... anybody know a mail-order source for disposable contact lenses?
| 
| I use 'em. They work great! They're expensive!

Here in San Diego, I get four six-packs of Johnson & Johnson Accuvue
lenses for $99.  The annual exam is $185, and includes four six-packs.
(If your prescription doesn't change, it's only $99, same as a refill.)

I've looked at mail-order lenses and they are always a lot more expensive.

Best Wishes

== Bob Yazz ==
-- 

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sickness itself.
From: eepee@polaris.utu.fi (Esa-Pekka P{lvim{ki)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Offensive BO
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:55:55 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

In article <QeyDBdK00iV080ZVhj@andrew.cmu.edu> ws1d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Wendy Sherman) writes:
>...As an aside, I need to mention other medical problems that I have to
>understand any background info that might help in solving this. (HA, I've
>really given up at this point and feel desperate) I should mention that
>whether 
>coicidentally or otherwise, I had suddenly developed an acute
>inflamation (beefy red) of my vulva area...

>2) Could such an odor be caused by a bacteria? this seems implausible to
>me, as it doesn't make sense.

It could, and that's why you should go to a gynecologist as soon as possible
and discuss the possibility of anaerobic infection. It's treatable, operative
treatment may be needed, as well as sound antibiotic treatment, preferrably
covering both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, e.g. a combination of 
metronadizole and an aminoglycocide. Once again, go to a doctor.

/ep
From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: These wierd headaches...
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:06:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov4.022942.4885@megatek.com>, redman@megatek.com (Tim Redfield) writes...
>From article <Bx73Ix.HL1@acsu.buffalo.edu>, by oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown):
>> In article <2690@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>, sg@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Susanne Gilliam) writes...
>>>>mrl@nerus.pfc.mit.edu wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I have a similar story.  January of '90 I started getting 
>> incredible headaches, which later I found were migraines, always 
>> when I had a bad case of congestion and sometimes sinus 
>> infection.  As it turned out I had a deviated septum, and 
>> underdeveloped sinus cavity behind the left cheekbone.  This 
>> cavity was entirely sealed off.  The cavity behind my right 
>> cheekbone and the ones in my forehead were sealed shut due to 
>> polyps.  All were filled with fluid.  After 2 sinus surgeries I 
>> only get a migraine every 6 weeks or so, always when I'm 
>> congested, and its not nearly as bad as it was before.  It turns 
>> out I have allergies too, which are at least partly responsible 
>> for the recurrent congestion and hard to control.  But for me, no 
>> congestion, no headaches.
>> 
>> - Peggy -
> 
>	What method was employed to determine all of the various
>	problems you suffered from?  Thanx in advance for the info.
>-- 
>Tim Redfield          UUCP: {uunet, ucsd, sun}!megatek!redman

First x-rays then catscans.

- Peggy -
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From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
Subject: Re: Evidence for homeopathy?
Organization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:12:36 GMT

In <17412@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:

>In article <1992Nov3.215102.29536@netcom.com> kaminski@netcom.com
>(Peter Kaminski) writes:
>>
>>My feeling: homeopathy has stumbled onto an actual effect, and is still
>>feeling out the edges and ramifications empirically.  Someday a physicist

>Why do you think that?

Personal experience, observing a professional homeopath at work, lots of
reading.  It still seems to me there is too much positive evidence to
ignore.

Of course, my feelings don't validate homeopathy any more than yours
invalidate it.  Ultimately, it must be weighed by whether or not it
materially helps patients.

>Do you think those who claimed to tell the future from the entrails of
>animals "stumbled onto an actual effect"?

Now that I've answered your question, why do *you* think homeopathy
is just superstition, akin to reading the future from animal entrails?
Has it been definitively disproven?

>There used to be many, many schools of homeopathic medicine in the
>US.  Now there is only one (Hahnemann) which wishes it could just
>be shed of homeopathy anyhow.

I count four institutions offering homeopathic training: two naturopathic
colleges, the International Foundation for Homeopathy in Seattle, and the
Hahnemann College of Homeopathy in Berkeley (which is quite
pro-homeopathy -- I called them today and asked).

>Why do you suppose this is?  Conspiracy? Could it be that homeopathy is
>just another timeworn superstition that has outlived its era?

Well, yes, I suppose homeopathy could be "another timeworn superstition
that has outlived its era".  But why then is the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia
(HPCUS) still recognized by the FDA?  Why is homeopathy available in the
UK under the National Health Service, and why do they have homeopathic
hospitals?  Why does homeopathy still get written up in the British
medical journals?

It's funny you should mention conspiracy.  The AMA involvement with the
Carnegie Foundation's 1910 Flexner report does have a conspiratorial
air about it.

But I think it's more likely due to the vagaries of history, and the rise
of capitalism, industrialism, and technology around the turn of the
century.  Scientism and technology seemed glitzy, glamorous, and
invincible in those days, and medicine just went along with the times.

Don't forget they were trying desperately to reduce the number of medical
schools in general in those days, too -- they were producing too many
doctors, and there weren't enough patients to go around.

It looks like homeopathy is coming back, though.  The number of
practitioners was down to 100 by 1950, but now it's back up to
2,000 to 3,000 MDs, NDs, and other licensed health care providers,
and still growing.

-- 
Peter Kaminski
kaminski@netcom.com
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From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Psychiatry Residency in CA
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:20:19 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Nov2.174304.16062@abo.fi> FHERTZBERG@finabo.abo.fi (Fredrik Hertzberg Lit) writes:
>
>  Could anyone comment on the possibility for a foreign medical student
>(practitioner) to do her residency in psychiatry somewhere in California?
>(Preferably UCSF or UCSD). I'm asking on behalf of my wife who will become
>a licensed doctorsometime during winter 1993 here in Finland. She's going
>to take the required tests during next year and hopes to join me, who will
>be studying for a Ph D at a U.C. university (either Berkeley, San Diego or
>Santa Cruz), after that. Is it unrealistic to hope for a chance, would it
>be better to try something else (such as working as a doctor somewhere: or
>is this even more unrealistic?) What would be the wisest thing to do?

If she has a good record and has passed all of the exams needed to
get her visa (ECFMG and FLEX, I think) then the odds of getting
a psychiatric residency in California are probably pretty good.
Psychiatry isn't an enormously competitive field.  However, the
2 places you named *are* pretty much at the top and competition
for them would be tough.  She would have to be one of the top
people in your country I suspect to get in there.  However, there
are probably a lot of residency programs in the state that she
could get into as long as she had satisfactory credentials.


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From: lundby@pabst.comm.mot.com (Walter Lundby)
Subject: Candidiasis 
Reply-To: lundby@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola LMPS Research, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:50:58 GMT
Keywords: Candidiasis ftp site informaition


Is there a place where one can download information
about Candidiasis or an FAQ discussing it?

Please reply to:
  lundby@comm.mot.com

Thanks...

--

  Walter Lundby
 
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From: emanuel@dxcern.cern.ch (Emanuel Machado)
Subject: Prostatite: what is it?
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:44:56 GMT


	After a nice summer with some holidays in the US Virgin Islands,
I noticed that I was having more and more difficulties urinating. At
extreme situations, the "channel" would block completely, and the process
of urinating would be VERY difficult, bordering on painful.

	After seeing a doctor, he told me I was having a case of acute
prostatite (sorry if the terms are not the exact ones, as he told me this
in french, and I'm not that familiar with the english correspondence). He
advised me not to take a few  things (alcoholic drinks, specially white
wine and spirits), and a few other things. Things improved dramatically
after a few antibiotics, but about two weeks after the end of the treatment
the same symptoms appeared again. So now I'm continuing the treatment.

	My question is basically this: What could have caused this? Stress?
A virus? A bacteria? Something I drank? And why is it common (according to
literature) in guys of roughly my age (around 30)?

	Some info on this would be appreciated.

	Emanuel
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From: bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon)
Subject: Re: War on cancer a failure???
Organization: None. This saves me from writing a disclaimer.
	<BSIMON.92Nov10073801@elvis.stsci.edu>
	<1992Nov11.193723.2269@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:43:39 GMT

The types of cancer that you mention make up a small percentage of the
total number of cancer. Hence my statement, *most* types of cancer.
More intensive screening of the population for cancer has helped by
detecting more cancers during their early, treatable stage. One could
argue that this is not a new method of treatment but merely the more
effective application of older methods. Immunotherapy is the latest
direction in cancer research, while one can hope that it is more
fruitful than previous directions, the results are not in yet. For a
discussion of the relative lack of progress in the the treatment of
cancer, see "The Treatment of Diseases and the War against Cancer" by
John Cairns in the November 1985 issue of Scientific American.
--
Bernie Simon	(bsimon@stsci.edu)		O tempora! O mores!
From: jrt@omega.kcr.uky.edu (J. Randall Thompson)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Weight Loss with Dexfenfluramine
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:19:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: ms.1992Nov12.171907.25109
    <1992Nov11.172345.6216@spdcc.com> <1992Nov12.134825.28770@omen.UUCP>
Organization: Kentucky Cancer Registry, Univ. of Ky

In article <1992Nov12.134825.28770@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:

[... stuff deleted...]
>
>At this point I must trust that Weintraub, Sundarsean, Madan, Schuster,
>Balder, Lasagna, and Cox are competent researchers who are aware of the
>issues they cover in their paper.  The paper does mention that the lipid
>profiles showed the subjects were not starting to cheat on the diet.
>
>Fact?  More like somebody's "mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts."
>
Facts? You should talk. Show me some facts on how you can accurately
predict caloric intake, or changes in caloric intake, for an individual
using a lipid profile. This is real news to me.


-- 
[]  J. Randall Thompson                                      jrt@kcr.uky.edu []
[]  University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky                              []
From: parsons@doc.bmd.trw.com (Mark Parsons)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Gram negitive ???
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:46:42 GMT
Reply-To: mark_parsons@oz.bmd.trw.com
Organization: TRW Ballistic Missiles Division

I have a friend with a new baby that may have Gram negitive (sp?)
They have flown in a specialist into Salt Lake City to help.

Does anyone know what this is and what would be expected to happen to
a baby with this??

Thanks in Advance
-- 
Mark Parsons			|	TRW Ballistic Missile Division
mark_parsons@oz.bmd.trw.com	|	1104 Country Hills Drive
(801) 625-8092			|	Ogden, Utah 84403 USA

     I speek only for myself, and I don't always agree with that.
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From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder - Light Treatments
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 08:49:51 EST

In article <27739@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>3) For the treatment of SAD is it necessary for the eyes to be exposed
>to UV which is screened by ordinary glass? Is is necessary for the
>skin to be so exposed?

There is real controversy about whether full spectrum light is needed
to treat SAD, and it is not established that UV is necessary or 
helpful.  Most authorities are recommending full spectrum light (e.g.,
vita lites) at at least 10,000 lux in morning exposure, but it is 
not clear whether the timing is as important as the total daily
dose of light.  Bright light exposure works appears to exert its effect in 
SAD through the retina (in terms of suppression of pineal melatonin
production).   

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From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: How Often Are Placebo's Prescribed?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 08:18:47 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:

>The sugar pill is an attempt to trick the patient, and is clearly
>unethical. 


Why in the world would you call that unethical?  If the malady is obviously
psychological, why would you consider it unethical to give a harmless
placebo as opposed to an ineffectual drug?

I can look back on my own childhood to see the very beneficial use of
the common sugar pill.  I had a very weak stomach and would toss chunks
at the slightest provocation.  My mom had a bottle of sugar pills
given her by our doctor and every time I'd start to toss, she'd
give me an "anti-vomit" pill.   Worked almost every time.  Where
is the lack of ethics?  I suggest this was exactly the correct thing
for my mom and our doctor to do.

Now I know that medical ethics are vastly too complex and cerebral for
mere laymen to understand ('specially when it comes to terminal 
illnesses and heroic measures) so it may be reasonable that I can't see
the clear lack of unethical behavior on the part of a doctor fooling
a patient into mentally healing himself.

John
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From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Resetting Circadian Rhythm
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:12:03 GMT
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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I always kind of wondered if those Globe-Trotting Diplomats used any kind of
medication (or light treatments of some sort, or whatever...) to enable them to
think & function & conduct International Diplomacy &c. on those grueling
multi-national, multi-week, multi-timezone megatrips.  If so, what sort of meds
and/or physical treatments would they use?  If not, how do they do it?

I mean, I always follow all the usual advice about avoiding dehydration &
avoiding caffeine & alcohol <& avoiding airline food, after acquiring food
poisoning from Northwest Airline in 1988; yuk!>.  Even so, I'm still sort of
dopey for a day or 2 after crossing even just 2 or 3 timezones.  5 or 8
timezones have made me a zombie for days.  I can't believe those 60+, 70+, or
more(!) year-old heads-of-state who seem to do SOOO much better than that!

Is Halcion (c.f. Geo. Bush & the Japan "flu" debacle) their "secret weapon"?

------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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Subject: RE: Endometriosis Info Wanted...
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:47:50 GMT


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From: TXK025@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Eddie Chandler)
Subject: Urine ingestion (Taking the piss!)
Organization: Motorola
Date: 11 Nov 1992 07:00:58 CST

Can someone please tell me how this thread got started?
I have been reading it for several days and from what I
have seen, it seems to be about 60/40 in favour of not
doing so which, in all fairness, is perfectly reasonable
after all, considering that it is up to the individual(s)
as to whether or not they partake of this practice.

Personally, I consider this to be akin to watersports
- and suspect that the originator was curious about this
  particular sexual practice - and, know of several people
who indulge themselves by ingesting non-copious amounts,
myself included in the past, and they have not suffered any
ill effects.

I look forward to hearing from people with comments to my
posting - I don't however expect 'flaming' as everyone should
be grown-up enough to respect others peoples idiosyncrasies.