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From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
Subject: Re: Immunotherapy
Keywords: Immunotherapy for liver cancer
Organization: Strawman Incorporated
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:05:14 GMT

In article <3163@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> chae@mpd.tandem.com (Chae Yon) writes:
>Is there anybody who knows about immunotherapy(?) as cancer treatment??  
>My mom had a couple of cancer surgeries this year and too weak to get chemo or
>radial therapy - she is about 70 (lb) now.  The result from CAT scan has 
>revealed a month ago that she now has at least a couple of tumors on her liver.
>I have heard of immunotherapy sometime this year.
>Seem like that is the only hope now.  But I don't know anything about it.
>Is there anybody can help me about it or provide any helpful information?? 
>Please help me, time is running out for her.
>Please email me (chae@devnull), post it, or call me at 
>(512) 244-8139 (lease a message).
>Thank you very much in advance.
>-Jaymin (chae@devnull)

Jaymin,

I have some information about two different methods of immunotherapy. Both
of these are considered highly "alternative". That is, they are not in
any way approved by the FDA, and are considered quackery by most oncologists.
Be that as it may, they have saved many, many lives. They are also relatively
inexpensive and totally safe. I also know of an additional herbal therapy
that you may want to look into.

If you are willing to consider alternative therapies, just e-mail
me, and I will be glad to send you some specifics.


Robert
-- 
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: pjohnso@polaris.unm.edu (Zoe Paddy Johnson CIRT CSOS)
Subject: Liver Cancer
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18:58:49 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I am looking for some information for a friend.  Last month on *Prodigy*
in their health news section there was a news item about a new and promising
treatment for liver cancer involving cryo-surgery and ultra-sound.  I read
it and noted it, never imagining that a friend would have need of the 
information just a short time later.  I am unable to remember relevant
details like who? and where?.  Did anyone else see this item?  or have other
information about this that might be of help in locating this item or, better
yet, the medical center and doctors involved?  I think I remember that it
was some place east of New Mexico, like maybe ?Pitt??
Thanks,
ZoeJ
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: hamish@netcom.com (Hamish Reid)
Subject: Myeloma Info - thanks for the response
Organization: Pandemonia PLC
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:37:47 GMT

A week or two ago I posted an article asking for any information on
Myeloma. I've received several very informative and thoughtful replies
- thanks especially to Mats Winberg (etxmow@garboc34.ericsson.se) and
Russ Brown (russ@pmafire.inel.gov). Russ's posting on this topic is a
good place to start if any one else is curious about the disease - not
a very pleasant prospect for anyone.

Thanks again and sorry if you posted or emailed me and I didn't reply -
something's awful strange with my mailer at the moment.

	Hamish
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:44:01 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Dec30.112625.12466@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>One note for "Atkinites":  Apparently citric acid bollixes ketosis in
>40-50% of dieters on a ketogenic low carbohydrate diet.   And guess what,
>that stuff is in just about every diet soda except Dr. Pepper according
>to the labels I've read.  Film at 11, details in next Adiposity 101.

I would imagine that it depends on the amount of citric acid ingested.
It's metabolized like a carbohydrate (it is the "citric acid cycle", after
all.)  The amount of citric acid someone would get from drinking diet sodas
is very small compared to their carbohydrate intake, even on an Atkins diet.
Note that most people on a 300-600 calorie/day diet will experience ketosis
even with a substantial part of this being carbohydrates.  In any event,
the idea that diet sodas prevent ketosis in a large number of large people
is pretty far-fetched.

>Note I am not endorsing the Atkins diet, just sharing some info.
>As far as I can discern, Atkins isn't worse than other
>weight loss diets given the same smount of weight loss.

The problem is that you "share" these biochemical minutiae which have
no necessary relevance to the problems people who have to lose weight
face.  You have no intelligent filter which allows you to weight these
trivia: every research report in IJO and other places seems to you to
have equal importance.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp)
Subject: Re: Women Doctors
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:06:27 GMT

This is a wee bit off the subject--but...when I had my baby two months ago,
my OB was female.  Although I had a horrific experience with pregnancy 
complications and a csection, etc., I think in some ways I had a 
'traditional' birth in the sense that it was all females taking care
of me, except for brief appearances by the anesthesiologists.  I
felt completely comfortable in the awkward and vulnerable positions
I was in, and with being naked for periods of time.  It was wonderful
to be surrounded by women at that time.  I have nothing but complete
admiration and respect for the group of female OBs, who between them have
12 kids of their own, and manage their busy practices.

My $0.02.
-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp			Mother to Elizabeth AnneMarie,
amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com		born 11/4/92 
(512) 329-7117
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:22:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec30.192244.17533
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Dec30.102922.11762@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>I'm including my raw BMI data below, such as I have. [...]

This kind of record keeping is beyond my imagination and certainly my
capabilities.

I was always considered heavy in grammar school and high school; exactly
how much, I don't really remember--not grossly obese, but heavy.  Even as
a kid I always had to go to the "husky" section of the kids' clothing
department.

I have found that over the years I have a history both of repeated dieting
and of regaining the weight plus some more, but I am not so ready to point
to the dieting _per se_ as the source of this; on top of this is a sedentary
lifestyle (and profession), plus I'm older now, and it's even easier to gain
weight, PLUS as I look back on my attempts at dieting, I find that it was
much too easy to overdo it once I stopped my "diet"--freed from these self-
imposed restraints, it's too easy to plunge face-first into old bad habits and
regain the weight.  Additionally, I find that as I get heavier, I get even
more sedentary.  It's very easy to fall into a vicious cycle, and it's easy for
me to fail to to get a "handle" on my weight regain until it's too late.  Will
power (such as it is), or the determination to do something, is a very funny
phenomenon, at least for me.  I either have it or I don't.  When I don't,
I find myself completely powerless, and when I do, the whole process is easy.
And I can't understand what it's like to be on the other side at any point
in time.  These days (since April), I've having a great, easy time losing
weight slowly.  I keep telling myself it's not a diet, and it's just the way
I have to eat for the rest of my life.  I can accomodate holidays; I just
remember that it's not the holiday eating which contributes to obesity as
much as it's the non-holiday eating the rest of the time.

I never had much trouble losing weight; the maintenance was always the
problem.  But there was also a really keen sense of either being on a
"diet" or not, and I'm hoping that if I don't focus on this, and keep
to a low-fat diet in general, I won't make the same mistakes this time.
We'll see.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:17:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec23.021730.13013
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <kendall.105@sceng.ub.com> kendall@sceng.ub.com (Greg Kendall) writes:
>>Well, if you build a large calorimeter, put the person into it,
>>measure the heat generated, the weight changes, and the food taken
>>into the calorimeter, what other complex input conditions are there?
>>Seems reasonably simple to me.
>
>Your model seems to rest on the assumption that we all get the same
>amount of energy out of our food.  Is there evidence to support this
>assumption?

Well, in a room calorimeter, they actually do er, stuff with the person's
waste products.  But except in cases of malabsorption, I don't think that
there's much controversy that the energy in food goes somewhere--it's either
burned or stored.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:12:29 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <72611@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>> I receive less nicotine from my current levels of smoking than are provided
>> in the lowest dosage nicotine patch.
>Are you not using the patch for this reason?  You can cut the patch dosage
>in half by taking a scissors and cutting the patch in half.  Just use half
>of it at a time (or whatever you feel the correct dosage is).

I don't believe this is the case; the rate of absorption is crucially
dependent on an intact membrane between the skin and the nicotine
reservoir.  Someone could get very ill following your instructions.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: sex, menstruation, endometriosis
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 3 Jan 93 09:26:49 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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In <1993Jan2.224342.4115@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> u081f131@astro.ocis.temple.edu writes:

> I have recently been told that having sex during ones period can
> possibly lead to endometriosis.

I believe that this is another old wives' tale, with roots in all the rest of
the mythology that claims that one oughtn't have intercourse during
menstruation.  These myths come from the days when increasing the human
population was a serious priority, & anything that threatened to decrease the
number of births was considered "dangerous".  The time during menstruation, of
course, is the time when a woman is least likely to become pregnant as a result
of unprotected intercourse.

The new "possibly-causing-endometriosis" myth combines the old taboos against
heterosexual intercourse during menstruation with new speculation (note: *not*
demonstrated fact) that *maybe* endometriosis *might* be caused by so-called
"retrograde menstruation" -- a pretty long shot so far as theories go, IMHO. 
Even if this *were* true (& there is no evidence for this part, so far), the
second speculation here is that so-called "retrograde menstruation" (if it
exists) *might* be caused by heterosexual intercourse during menstruation,
ANOTHER *extremely* long shot, IMHO.  This physiological phantasm postulates
that vaginal intercourse would force sloughing endometrial cells
up from the uterus, through the fallopian tubes, and into the abdominal cavity,
where they would inexplicably implant themselves (instead of being reabsorbed
by the body) & begin functioning like normal endometrial tissue.  This is,
physiologically, *extremely* unlikely, unless, perhaps, one is having
intercourse with a high-pressure fire hose, & even then, the endometrial cells
forced up into the abdominal cavity would most likely be too damaged to
survive.



------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: studier@origin.life.uiuc.edu (Jim Studier)
Subject: psychiatric pseudo-patient
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:14:40 GMT



The article about several pseudopatients who claimed to hear voices

was published in the first week or so of 1973 in Science.  The authors

name was something like Rosenhahn. I don't remember the spelling for sure.


       Jim Studier (studier@ninja.life.uiuc.edu)
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.health.alternative
From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
Subject: Re: Computerizing Homoeopathic Prescribing
Organization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:01:49 GMT

In <memo.830799@cix.compulink.co.uk> dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
(Diane Bailey) writes:

>Does anyone know where one might obtain the Homoeopathic
>Repertory in computer form?

Homeopathic Educational Services lists two: "CARA", for IBM PC compatibles,
developed in association with the Royal London Homeopathic Hospitial,
contains all of Kent's and Boericke's Repertories, as well as Vithoulkas'
additions to Mentals and Generals; and "MacRepertory", for Mac or IBM PC
compatibles, contains Kent's, and Keynotes by Roger Morrison, MD.

Both include special search capabilities appropriate to homeopathic
prescribing.

CARA is about $1000 (demo disk for $10); MacRepertory is about $1800.  Call
HES for more info.

Homeopathic Educational Services
2124 Kittredge St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA

1-800-359-9051 (in the US, for orders only)
+1 510-649-0294 voice
+1 510-649-1955 fax
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dye@edison.llumc.edu (Leonard Dye)
Subject: What to tell child their taking?
Organization: LLUMC Radiation Research Lab
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:21:19 GMT

My daughter is 6 years old and possible A.D.D. and the doctor has
prescribed Ritalin for her. She asked what the medicine was for
and stated "she wasn't sick". What do should you tell her the medicine
is for? Should you tell her that they are vitamins or smart pills
or try and explain the situation?

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated

Leonard Dye
dye@proton.llumc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Subject: Re: antiperspirants/deodorants
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:08:47 GMT

rp@llex.ll.mit.edu ( Richard Pavelle) writes:

| Some queries:
|
| Are there any non-aluminum-based chemicals that are available
| for these purposes?

Cyanoacrylate, tho the side-effects are a little sticky.

(Just kidding.)

== Bob Yazz ==
-- 


Support bumperstickers.  Simple solutions to complex problems.

Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.psychoactives
From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Subject: Re: Xanax, Prozac, etc.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:33:50 GMT

kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:

| The current (January) issue of _Consumer Reports_ has an article about
| Xanax, Prozac and related drugs.  It parallels much of the recent
| discussion on sci.med.

What do they conclude about each?
-- 


Support bumperstickers.  Simple solutions to complex problems.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Diane Bailey)
Subject: Re: Computerizing Homoeopathic Prescribing
Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:08:00 +0000


In <memo.830799@cix.compulink.co.uk> dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
I wrote:

>Does anyone know where one might obtain the Homoeopathic
>Repertory in computer form?

Peter Kaminski <kaminski@netcom.com> helpfully replied:

> Homeopathic Educational Services lists two: "CARA", for IBM PC
> compatibles, developed in association with the Royal London
> Homeopathic Hospital, contains all of Kent's and Boericke's
> Repertories, as well as Vithoulkas' additions to Mentals and
> Generals; and "MacRepertory", for Mac or IBM PC compatibles,
> contains Kent's, and Keynotes by Roger Morrison, MD.
> 
> Both include special search capabilities appropriate to
> homeopathic prescribing.
> 
> CARA is about $1000 (demo disk for $10); MacRepertory is about
> $1800.  Call HES for more info.

That would be fine, but for the prices. I cannot justify that for
personal use and for those friends who pop in to consult my
Repertory and Materia Medica.  Perhaps I should scan in the 1929
Repertory and deposit it in PD on the net...

And why do people go for Kent primarily?  I've always preferred
Boericke.

But what are "Vithoulkas' additions to Mentals and Generals"?  I
don't even think that I've seen these around in print.

Diane
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Occupational injuries of musicians
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 2 Jan 93 09:06:14 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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The best referral source for physicians who specialize in treating occupational
injuries of musicians is other professional musicians.  Try the professor of
<your instrument> at any graduate institution or conservatory.  I'm sure he or
she will know of specialists who treat players of <your instrument> who have
suffered occupational (or even non-job-related) injuries which interfere with
playing the instrument.  Also try contacting the principle <your instrument>
player in any full-time symphony orchestra. (In the USA & Canada, the local
musicians' union can be a source of referrals; virtually all full time symphony
musicians in the USA & Canada are union members.)  These people are pros, &
this is their job:  *most* of them will turn out to have had one or more
occasions to consult a specialist at some point or another (just as most
professional athletes have had occasion to consult specialists in sports
medicine).  Good Luck.

------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
From: tsornas@dec5.ulb.ac.be (Thierry Sornasse)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Lipopolysaccaride during bacterial inf.
Keywords: LPS
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:06:12 GMT
Organization: Free University Brussels  - Belgium -  Department of Molecular Biology

Hi Networkers,

I am working on my PhD thesis in immunology and one of my subject deal with the
effects of LPS in vivo. I am wondering what may be the quantity of LPS in the
body during an accute bacterial infection ?
I asked this question some weeks ago in the Immunology group but I did not
receive any answer. It seems either that immunologist do not read 
Electronic News or that the answer at this question is still unknown.

Thank you for your help


Happy New Year


Thierry Sornasse                               Elm: tsornas@ulb.ac.be
Lab. de Physiologie Animale                    Phone: 32-2-6509850 
Universite Libre de Bruxelles                  Fax: 32-2-6509840
BELGIUM 
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:11:35 GMT

caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>>>The 403 to 343 loss was a combination of Pearson&Shaw, Cambridge
>>>Diet, and 800 calories worth of Weight Watchers' frozen dinners,
>>>which resulted in hair loss, heart palpitations, funny looking
>>>fingernails, severe fatigue, stomach upsets, and piano legs.
>>	Piano legs?  What is that?   
>I forget the medical term, but it refers to swelling of the feet and
>lower legs that builds up during the day and tends to go away during
>sleep when the fluid doesn't have to go uphill.

	Strange, why would that happen?  Ditto for hair loss.
My first thought for "piano legs"  was that you lost muscle 
before you lost fat, or that the fat came from your legs.  My
own limited experience tends to this.   I used to be a skinny runt 
up until college, during which I got much heavier, and now consider 
myself slightly overweight.

The few times I've tried to diet, the first thing I've noticed is
that my neck, legs, and arms seem to get thinner w no effect on my
sides or gut.  This activates my primal "Jesus, I'm a runt again!"
horror, and the whole thing gets called off.

I've found also, that when I do decide to change my eating habits, 
it is all fine idea for a few days or so, and then an "auto pilot"
starts, where I start thinking about food* all the time.  A few weeks
into it is the record.  Too bad there is no (legal) external way to stop 
hunger (that I know of), because I don't feel I have the willpower to 
continiously feel those urges and defy them.


*(Not just thoughts of food, but rich meaty lardy food, and myself 
eating lots of it, and how satisfying it is to do so.)	  %^)

Jim Del Vecchio
From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Strep Throat
Date: 24 Dec 92 23:38:36 GMT
Organization: KY3B - Vax Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Dec14.222759.21149@unlv.edu>, robert@unlv.edu (Robert Cray) writes:

|> How can you tell the diference between a bad cold and strep throat?
|> I've been told that strep needs to be treated lest it damage the heart,
|> however I feel rather foolish showing up at the doctors office with what
|> is in all probability a cold.  Does strep really need to be treated, or is
|> the heart thing a rare occurance?

Streptococcal throat infections definitely need to be treated. Rheumatic heart
disease is a very serious matter, and it is really sad to see someone with
severe valvular heart disease which could have been prevented by a simple course
of penicillin. When I was in St Vincent several years ago I saw teenagers with
end-stage rheumatic heart disease - the disease doesn't progress that quickly
here, but the idea is the same.

Rheumatic heart disease IS an uncommon complication of Strept infection, but
it is not that uncommon, and it so serious, but so easily preventable, that
it is much better to culture a lot of viral throats and start people on penicillin
pending culture, than ignore it.

There really is NO reliable way for a physician to tell if a throat is due to
Strept or not, short of doing a culture. Since the physician can't tell, there
is little chance that you can. I don't know any doctor who thinks that patients
are foolish to come in with sore throats! 

 -km
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Re: Generic drug store brands.
Organization: SAIC, Reston, VA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:19:44 GMT

dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:

>  What we do know is that Robaxin and placebo
>both seem to work equally well against back pain in controlled studies,
>making the measurement of any drug effect virtually impossible.

For what it's worth, this same question came up on yesterday's local
RadioDoc talk show.  The RadioDoc confirms what Steve's been saying:
Oral muscle relaxants aren't distinguishable from placebos in 
controlled studies.