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From: lordnose@well.sf.ca.us (Lord Nose!)
Subject: Xochi Stack 1.0 (MDMA/LSD/XOCHIPILLI)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:51:34 GMT

Xochi Stack 1.0 (SCI.MED ANNOUNCEMENT)
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Xochi Stack 1.0 is a HyperCard stack on the psychedelics that runs 
on the Macintosh computer. Profiled in this educational stack are 
MDMA and LSD, as well as an Aztec deity devoted to traditional 
sacred plants of Mexico.  You can find a copy of the stack, in five 
pieces, in <comp.binaries.mac>. Feel free to copy the software for 
friends, put on FTP sites, BBSs, et cetera, but you do not have the 
right to sell copies of this copyrighted material. If you can help 
put the stack out there, on FTP sites or whatever, please contact us!
A version for Windows is in the works...

Xochi Stack 1.0 is a public service message from LordNose!, and 
(c) 1992 LordNose! Donations of 400K diskettes greatly appreciated.

We're not advocating illegal drug use, just giving some factual
grounding to the population that already uses these compounds and
to counter some of the poisonous propaganda out there.  Most of the
information circulating is erroneous, emphasizing either the simple
hedonistic aspects of particular substances, or warning of the 
ominous consequences of their use.

	lordnose@well.sf.ca.us

"THE ADVANCEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE IS THE ONLY 
 GUARDIAN OF TRUE LIBERTY." -- James Madison, 4th US President
From: ssouth@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Steve South)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:43:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Giving Blood! "Gimme that thing, I'll do it myself"
Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: sci.med

Reminds me of Rob Buckman's:

Patient: What are you doing?

Doctor:  Don't worry, just a little prick with a needle.

Patient: I know you are, but what are you doing?

Steve South.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: wnoe@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Bill Noe)
Subject: Sacral agenesis (caudal dysplasia) information needed
Summary: Need information on causes, detection, treatment.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 15:55:41 GMT

For the last few weeks I have been looking for information on the causes,
detection and treatment of sacral agenesis.  I am particularly interested in
the pre-natal detection and treatment of this disease, and have found only a
single paragraph which even mentions sacral agenesis.  My search has been
confounded by the fact that Purdue University has no medical school, andi,
therefore, little information on this rare disease.

ANY information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

...B

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From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David A. Nye MD)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Revisit the EBV syndrome, briefly?  How 'bout hepititus?
Date: 9 Oct 92 06:40:15 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

In article <BONNIE.92Oct6091946@aigyptos.nmsu.edu>, bonnie@nmsu.edu (Bonnie Hargrave) writes:
> I'm all wrong on the hepatitis reasoning.  The reason this test was
> suggested is because of high levels for SGOT and S**T (can't remember
> the acronym) which, I guess, refer to liver function.  When the doc
> threw these numbers out, the terms had no meaning to me and so didn't
> stick with me.  But the question remains, does it follow that a
> hepatitis test might be in order?  I'm wondering why the doctor didn't
> even mention the possibility...unless it's just that she doesn't take
> me seriously, which seems likely.

The history and physical examination would best determine where to
go from here with the elevated liver function tests.  Medications,
alcohol, heart failure and liver metastases are other common causes
of elevated liver enzymes.  If hepatitis is considered a possibility,
titers for several viruses that can cause hepatitis can be measured.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: Cystic Fibrosis Research?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:23:17 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Oct16.020824.1792@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
>In article <1992Oct16.024900.134824@watson.ibm.com>, yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
>> A twelve year old neighbor of mine has a deep voice for a girl and
>> coughs a lot.  I asked if she had been yelling a game or something
>> like that.  But no, it turns out that she has Cystic Fibrosis (CF).
>> 
>> Does anyone know the state of the current research on CF?
>> I read that CF is a genetic disorder.  Is it possible to 
>> cure a genetic disorder?   What is the life expectancy of a  CF
>> patient nowadays?  (that is, assuming that she follows the instructions of the 
>> physician.)
>
>There have been some incredible breakthroughs in CF this year.
>A medication commonly used for an unrelated condition (somebody
>help me out -- I'm blocking on the name here) is quite halpful
>for symptomatic treatment, and a retrovirus has been made to
>replace the defective gene.  I believe this is now in the human
>testing stage.  Very exciting work.

I'm not sure if human trials of gene replacement are underway, but
there was a promising experiment in which the human CFTR gene (gene
defective in CF patients) was delivered to rat airway epithelium
(cells in which expression of CFTR is important) using an
adenovirus vector.

Now that the CFTR is in hand, there are lots of drugs being looked
at as possible therapeutics for CF. The one you are probably thinking
of is DNAse, however. The mucus of CF patients is very viscous in
part because the lysis of bacteria and PMNs in the mucus releases
lots of DNA (which is very viscous). DNAse lyses that DNA and
reduces the viscosity, making it easier to breathe. This is
not a product of high-tech research but it works.

For more info contact the CF society or see Science 1992, vol 256,
page 774.

Brian
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:55:44 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu's message of 7 Oct 92 16:10:40 GMTLines: 24

One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion of Munchausen is that not
only will the patient fake symptoms, but he or she also may *hide* REAL
symptoms that he or she actually is experiencing.

I knew a person once who had Munchausen, & like the typical patient, had
literally dozens of surgeries and hospitalizations & disabilities.  However, it
was only after she died (at age 35) of pneumonia that anyone discovered that
she had severe COPD (surely she MUST have known), when she had never mentioned
pulmonary problems to ANYONE.  Her dresser drawers were full of OTC, & stolen
prescription cough & asthma remedies -- but she had never brought this to any
of her docs' attention.  She told me once that her father used to beat her for
getting sick, so she learned all kinds of (disgusting) techniques for hiding
illnesses from those around her.  She was a nurse (for the brief part of her
life that she was able to work), which gave her access to all kinds of info &
substances with which she could make/fake herself sick.

This person's life was very sad. It ended very early, & her last 10 years were
spent in self-induced invalidism.  Her childhood sounded dismal too.  This was
not a person to be scorned; she was a person to be genuinely pitied.


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Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.sex
From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Ovulation and Pregnancy, Information Wanted
Summary: Not quite spicy for alt.sex, but what the heck, it relates to it.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:00:50 GMT

Hello,

I'd like to get a little better understanding of the process of ovulation
in a woman and what times before, during, and after ovulation, it is
possible for the woman to get pregnant.

Also, my wife says that she can tell when ovulation occurs in mid-month
(we did NFP for a while so she is very familiar with her body's response).
A related question to the first paragraph - once the woman "feels" ovulation,
is it too late to try to get pregnant.

Thanks.

Jon Noring

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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: akb01@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Damian Nocon)
Subject: Neurologie - Wuerzburg
Keywords: Neurologie, MedNet, Wuerzburg, Germany
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 12:44:03 GMT


Hi,
i'm looking for a InterNet-Adress from Neurologie - Wuerzburg (Germany).

Greeting from Cologne, D.Nocon
From: mdf0@GTE.com (Mark Feblowitz)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Attention Deficit Disorder Resources
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:51:55 GMT
	<1av584INNfhe@network.ucsd.edu> <16878@pitt.UUCP>
Reply-To: mfeblowitz@gte.com
Organization: GTE Laboratories Inc.
In-reply-to: km@cs.pitt.edu's message of 9 Oct 92 13:10:53 GMT

In article <16878@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:

   I've got four cats, a dog, a rabbit, turtle, and fish. You're
   welcome to come over to my place, but if you're allergic to
   any of them, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GOES!

    -km 

Yeah - I said that once, too: we had 3 dogs and 2 cats, and I tempted
the gods by saying that if our children had allergies, they'd have to
move to the garage. We preceeded to give birth to a highly atopic
child (asthma, food allergies, rhinitis, severe atopic dermatitis).
You can guess who had to go.

And, oh, by the way, my heavily medicated asthma and rhinitis have
improved a bit since those wonderful companions had to find new homes
(the animals, of course - my intolerance to my chldren is not an IgE
response!).

Mark

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Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.skeptic
From: eepee@polaris.utu.fi (Esa-Pekka P{lvim{ki)
Subject: Re: Homeopathy
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 18:02:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.061339.11874@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>Frankly, I think we have more pressing matters which deserved to have
>been published than a claim followed by a debunking of the experimental
>equivalent of a claim that the earth is flat.

But the earth IS flat! Except for sundays, when it's shaped like a donut.
Some even claim the earth is donut-shaped 7 days a week, but the mainstream
opinion of the geoshapists has not been jerked by them. Their theory is 
considered occultist and as such not scientifically relevant.

/ep
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Pig liver transplant
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:53:03 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Transplant Institute

In article <1992Oct13.114119.341@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
>If the human body can function with the liver of any of a number of species
>(babboon, pig), then why is it so hard to get a match with a human organ dono

It is not hard to get a match with a human organ donor when it comes to liver
transplantation. The only thing we match for is blood group, and even this 
"rule" can be bent when we have our backs against the wall. The size of the
organ is the second consideration. You can put a small liver into a big
patient, but the other way around doesn't work as well (you can reduce the
size of the organ ex-vivo, but our experience with this is not as good as
that quoted in the literature).

The real problem is not one of biological barriers, is one of organ
availability. Too many people need organs, and too few donate.

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Howard Doyle
doyle+@pitt.edu
From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: My wife drank during her pregnancy and the baby lived!
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:36:43 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester

In article <1992Oct11.045815.4727@cs.rochester.edu> I write:
>The recent decision to advise against all drinking in (especially early)
>pregnancy dates to about 1985.  At that time, a group of researchers was
			  ^^^^
I should have said 1983.  My wife and I conceived Ariane in July '83,
shortly after seeing an article about this in Science News.  I remember
because we went on a bike tour around the Finger Lakes in August, and
skipped all the vineyard tours.  (We also laid off coffee and chocolate.)

[much omitted]

>Some people seem to have the attitude that a woman who drinks, smokes, uses
>other recreational drugs, eats chocolate, drinks coffee, rides a bicycle,

You should have heard what one obstetrician said about the bike tour!  We
didn't hire him...

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Computer Science Department	fulk@cs.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: bonnie@nmsu.edu (Bonnie Hargrave)
Subject: Re:  Was MVP, Now it's hyperuricemia
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: sci
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:00:16 GMT

In article <1928@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
   In article <1992Oct5.082050.27991@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
    writes:
   >In article <BONNIE.92Sep29190907@aigyptos.nmsu.edu> bonnie@nmsu.edu
    (Bonnie Hargrave) writes:
   >>her inability to handle basic
   >>questions (for example, would ibuprofen or acetaminophen in large
   >>doses affect the uric acid level),
   >
   >_Basic_ question??  Um, Gordon, David and Ken: is this a basic
   >question?  I'd think not.

   Yeah, I was feeling somewhat inadequate when I read this post and

My sincere apologies to all you physicians out their who also read
this and wondered about your memories.  Although (just from what I've
heard, you understand) lack of confidence is not usually listed among
the negative traits for physicians.  Just the same, I'm sorry for the
misleading info.

   hyperuricemia.

What is hyperuricemia, please.  Since I can't find any layperson books
on the subject, I've been trying to read the collected results of
several scientific experiments (Genetic and Therapeutic Aspects of
Lipid and Purine Metabolism) in humans, and this term keeps popping up
in conjunction with the terms 'gout' and 'uric acid urolithiasis'.
Oh, and then there's that wonderful phrase, 'renal insufficiency'.

The reason I'm researching this is that I do have high uric acid (if
8.0 is considered high?), but the foods my, ummm, former doctor told
me not to eat are all foods that I almost never eat anyway.  And no, I
don't drink a lot.  I have maybe half a glass of wine every 3 months
or so, after which I keel over asleep at the dinner table.

Oops!  Wait. That reminds me.  I was on the 11-day camping trip from
hell recently with 14 others who thought the wilderness experience
should include 40 bottles of wine (we had pack-horses).  That was in
early August.  About the 6th day in I took to imbibing as much wine as
they would give me (1 or 2 measuring cups per night) so that my
cracked ribs and I could sleep on top of that nasty stone under the
tent.  Could that have had such a long-term effect?  From imbibing in
the second week of August to lab testing on Sept 16?

Lord, Scotch is horrible stuff.  They didn't tell me it was the same
as whiskey.  Pittooee.

Bonnie

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From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Sinus Headaches
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:33:57 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Oct5.045804.13761@netcom.com> lindae@netcom.com writes:

>
>I'm a little confused about this whole sinus vs. migraine issue.  When
>I get these headaches (which are often accompanied by nausea, by the way)
>they seem to be relieved by pressing on the sides of my nose, just under
>my eyes.  I thought that indicated that the pain was being caused by
>sinuses.  If it were migraine, would pressing on those points relieve the
>pain?  Also, here's a little more info.  The headaches generally start
>out the way I've just described but then spread to an all over head pain.
>
>My other question is this... if they are migraines, is it imperative to
>be seen by a neurologist as you suggested?  Or is it something that I
>can just live with as long as it's tolerable?  Is there a danger to
>letting it go on untreated?
>

Migraine is *usually* relieved temporarily by compression of
arteries.  The most frequent thing patients report is relief
from pressure applied to their temporal arteries (the ones you
can see in some people on the temples).  But in the inside
upper corners of the eyes are the angular arteries.  You might
get out an anatomy book and see if you are pressing on the
angular arteries when you do your maneuver.  You might also
try pressing your temporal arteries to see if that works.
If it does, you probably are having vascular headaches (migraines).

There's no danger to letting migraines go if they are tolerable,
but since they are very treatable in most people, you may want
to see a neurologist.  It could be something as simple as some
food you are eating such as chocolate that causes them to come
on.

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From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Put up or shut up  (was: alternative medicine newsgroup)
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:05:00 GMT
Organization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

In article <1992Oct9.094313.12019@vms.eurokom.ie> mdebuitlear@vms.eurokom.ie writes:
>
>Btw, how would you provide a placebo in acupuncture - pretend to stick the 
>neddles in ?

No.

An acupuncturist's needle must go in a particular place.

An acupuncture placebo is a needle placed where acupuncturists' charts say it
will have no effect.

We don't placepo a medication that comes in a white pill by pretending to give
the controls a white pill.  We indeed give them a white pill -- that contains
an innocuous but ineffective substance such as sugar or milk powder.

-dk
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: luisg@hadar.fai.com (Luis Galleguillos)
Subject: Re: What body temp for cardiac surgery?
Originator: luisg@lugano
Organization: Fujitsu NTS
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:48:40 GMT


In article <17715@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, fzjaffe@othello.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe) writes:
|> In article <kendall.74@sceng.ub.com> kendall@sceng.ub.com (Greg Kendall) writes:
|> >What temperature is the body lowered to for cardiac surgery?
|> >
|> Well, it all depends.  Some procedures are done "warm" (e.g. body temp,
|> ~37 C.).  Many are done with slight hypothermia (30-32 C.) or moderate
|> hypothermia (25-30 C.).  A few (mostly circulatory arrrest cases in very
|> small children) are done with profound hypothermia (< 20 C.)
|> 
|> Various considerations go in to choosing a temperature, including the
|> planned duration, need for cerebral preservation (e.g. circulatory
|> arrest), difficulty of myocardial preservation (easier at lower temps),
|> etc.
|> 
|> >How close is that to lowest survivable temperature?
|> 
|> The heart fibrillates at about 28 C. or so (I forget the exact figure).
|> For heart surgery, the circulation is maintained by the bypass pump
|> anyway, so this isn't a problem during surgery (with rare exceptions).

Considering that it is now 28 C. here in San Jose and I am perspiring,
this figure is certainly incorrect. The normal body temperature is 
around 28.7 I think. I am assuming that by C we mean Celsius orCentigrades.
Are all the remaining figures correct ? The freezing point
of water is 0 C. 18 C is pleasant ambient temperature and 28 C is hot.
One can withstand tempreature of up tp 50 C for brief periods.


Luis

Get your facts first;
then you can distort them 
as much as you like.

Mark Twain.
From: keg@strathspey.llnl.gov (Keith Grant)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Vitamin E in skin care products
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:03:24 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Originator: keg@strathspey.llnl.gov


In article <Bvv4Br.BJt@encore.com>, tflynn@encore.com (Tonya Flynn) writes:
|> In article <Bvszry.BKI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dl10697@ehsn3.cen.uiuc.edu (Duc Trieu Le) writes:
|> 
|> >for severe burns, I heard one can apply Vitamin E lotion (natural form)
|> >for a while over the burnt skin to prevent scarring of the flesh.
|> >I heard the vitamin is somehow used by the cells during mitosis.
|> >I don't know if this is true, but Vitamin is in most skin care lotion nowadays.
|> 
|> While I don't necessarily disagree with your comments, one might 
|> ask if Vitamin E is added to most skin care lotion products because
|> it is actually beneficial or because it is a current fad.  I don't know
|> the answer--just asking.  Are topically applied vitamins truly absorbed
|> into the system?
|>

On the other hand, Vitamin E, which is an antioxidant, might exert its most
beneficial effect by retarding the rate at which oils in a product become
rancid.  Does anyone have any info/opinions on whether the usual Vitamin E 
concentrations are great enough for this? 

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