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From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Newsgroups: sci.med.physics,bit.listserv.mednews
Subject: RAID 7 Hospital Systems for LANs, IBM, Workstations, VAX, etc.?
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:42:42 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

Would anyone have any advice or recommendations regarding RAID storage,
including this RAID 7, for hospital applications?  (Wang has a a number
of hospital solutions available.)  We're interesting in hearing about
experiences hospitals have had with RAID.

------------------------------------------Thanks!

Regarding John Scoggin's request for information on RAID systems for
VINES, Storage Computer of Nashua, N.H. is currently showing its new high
performance RAID 7 disk array platforms at the September Banyan Users
Meeting.  They work equally well with NetWare, IBM systems and the VAX.

Standards-based, RAID 7 is designed for enterprise-wide computing and
overcomes performance limitations of earlier RAID architectures, providing
a  "real world sustained application performance improvement of 200% to
400%" and dropping the cost of storage to 16 cents/MB.  Their brochures
say they can "mix and match" up to 48 SCSI commodity (3.5 or 5.25 inch)
drives, up to 150 GB.  The RAID 7 disk array platforms come with an embedded
operating system and up to 12 SCSI-2 based host interfaces.  Besides servers,
Storage Computer's RAID 7 disk array platforms can connect to workstations
and midrange systems in addition to IBM's.  Multiple CPUs can be attached to
same disk array platform.

The RAID 7 platforms come with up to 256 MB of cache, eliminating any
reason for using performance-damaging CPU main memory disk RAM.

The drives are "hot plugable" for uninterrupted, transparent operation,
with a hot standby drive automatically replacing a failed drive.

There was a lot of activity yesterday at the Storage Computer RAID 7 booth
at the Banyan show as I walked by.  They were demoing what happens if a
drive goes down, showing the backup drive taking over.

For further information on Storage Computer's RAID 7 for the VAX, their
key contact is indicated to be John O'Brien, Director of Technical Services,
at Tel. 603-880-3005 or FAX 603-889-7232.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
From: adf1@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
Subject: Nuclear Health!!!
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:30:54 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

Hello Everyone,
I just went on a tour of a Nuclear Power Plant and the guide kept
telling us how much the people of Med-Physics had to do with
employee safety, but he did'nt say exactly what role they played.
I have a few unanswered questions I was hoping someone could
answer. 

1.What are some of the basic health protecting steps taken with nucleer
power.
2.Who sets the standards.
3.Does O.S.H.A. play any role in plant, employee, or community safety.

Thankyou
Art
From: b5249-23@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Kurt Stocklmeir)
Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
Subject: cancer
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:41:38 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.


    A photoactive dye called haematoporphyrin is used in photoradiation.
Photoradiation is a method used to kill cancer cells.  This dye is absorbed by
almost all cells.  But cancer cells keep this dye in them for a much
longer time as compared to normal cells.  After this dye has left
the normal cells, and while it is still in cancer cells, red light
is used to put it into an excited state.  The dye goes into an
excited state, and transfers energy to oxygen molecules.  The oxygen
molecules then go into an excited state and kill the cell they are
in.  The problem with this method is that red light will go through
only about 1/3 in. of a person.
    Red light has an energy of about 1.8 ev.  Because a molecule is
photoactive, does not mean there are not other methods to put it in an excited
state.  For example, collisions with other particles can cause a molecule to
go into an excited state.  This method and others could maybe excite
haematoporphyrin in all parts of a body.
    Since people are mostly made of water, many molecules are in a
form of ions.  Positive ions and protons tend to be around the cell wall on
the inside of cells.  Most of the positive ions are K+.  Negative ions are
on the outside of the cell wall.  Theories state that cancer cells
may have a larger negative charge on the outside of cell walls as
compared to normal cells and because of this there is an imbalance
between forces of negative charges and forces associated with
molecules.  This maybe is why cancer cells can move to different
parts of a body.
    Charged particles can be accelerated using electric fields.  I
am not saying the following can be done, but I am saying it maybe
can be done.  Alternating electric fields can accelerate charged
particles in cells and outside of cells.  As the charged particles
are accelerated, they will have various amounts of kinetic energy.
Some of the particles could maybe have about 1.8 ev of kinetic energy while
most will not.  If that is true, then those particles with 1.8 ev
can collide with molecules of haematoporphyrin and excite them.
If a reasonable amount of this dye is excite in a cell, the cell
will then be killed.  Even if this happened only a small amount
of the time, this method could be used to kill cancer cells.
In my opinion, it would be better if the above only happened a
small amount of the time, since killing all cancer cells in a person
at 1 time could kill the person.
    If anybody has any suggestions about this method or would
like to experimentally try this method and would like my suggestions,
please send mail.
From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
Subject: biophysical modeling
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:09:21 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

HELP!

I am an associate editor for Radiation Research.  One area in which I am
chronically short of reviewers is for papers that model radiation effects (for
example, kinetics of cell killing, repair models, fractionation models).

I never send manuscripts without warning you.
I will send them by FAX if you're out of North America.
I will accept reviews by FAX or e-mail.

Any volunteers out there? (-:  

If so, tell me who you are, what types of models you're interested in, 
and how to reach you (phone, fax, mail address).

John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology Group
Medical College of Wisconsin
From:  vftim@finance.rostov-na-donu.su (V.F. Timofeyev)
Subject: Electronic remedy-store from Russia
Reply-To: vftim@finance.rostov-na-donu.su
Organization: Rostov School of Finance
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 92 19:43:29 +0300

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    At present two specific methods are on offer out potential
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    These devices are notable for non-invasion and usable for
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    To demonstrate visually the efficiency and effectiveness of
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From: trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
Subject: Re: Nuclear Health!!!
Date: 4 Oct 92 01:37:55 GMT
Organization: Nuclear Medicine, U. Western Ontario, Canada

In article <1992Oct2.203054.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, adf1@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
> Hello Everyone,
> I just went on a tour of a Nuclear Power Plant and the guide kept
> telling us how much the people of Med-Physics had to do with
> employee safety, but he did'nt say exactly what role they played.
> I have a few unanswered questions I was hoping someone could
> answer. 
> 
> 1.What are some of the basic health protecting steps taken with nucleer
> power.
The real basics are: TIME, DISTANCE and SHIELDING with the application of 
the ALARA principle.

> 2.Who sets the standards.
In the US the Nuclear Regulatory Commission but in an international sense 
the Int Commission of Radiation Protection (ICRP).

> 3.Does O.S.H.A. play any role in plant, employee, or community safety.
If OSHA is Occupational Safety and Health Assoc (my guess) then I would 
suspect they might but still within the guidelines established by the above.
-- 

Trevor Cradduck,                |  Voice: (519) 667-6574     
Department of Nuclear Medicine, |  FAX: (519) 667-6734
Victoria Hospital,              |  
University of Western Ontario,  |  E-mail: cradduck@uwo.ca
LONDON,  Ontario,               |  
Canada,  N6A 4G5                |
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrogance, arthritis, & Banks
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:21:57 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <BvB0ww.9Mv@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
>
>From article <16615@pitt.UUCP>, by geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks):
>gb> They may not convince the original poster, but regular readers
>gb> form opinions about who is sensible on what topics and who is
>gb> riding a hobby horse.  They may well convince a large number
>gb> of people without spending hours in the library dredging up
>gb> references.  
>
>In other words, they'll learn that it's wrong because you say it 
>is.   Are your pronouncements a reasonable substitute for verifiable
>information?

In the absence of the energy to verify them or falsify them,
they'll have to be, now won't they?






-- 
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: low thyroid levels, but not hypothyroid
Date: 3 Oct 92 12:31:07 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Oct01.024901.0902721@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
>
>Surely it's possible that the hypothalmus (part of the brain) that's
>ultimately responsible for the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) is
>capable of underproducing the hormone, isn't it?

Certainly. TSH tests in the past were not reliably capable of
detecting the difference between low and normal levels of TSH.  The
current TSH tests ARE able to reliably disinguish between low and
normal levels of TSH.  If someone has low TSH and low T3, then the
source of the hypothryoidism is in the head, i.e., a pituitary
adenoma.

But I think your assertion is that that a normal TSH in an individual
with a low T3 might be inappropriate. This would get us into a 
discussion of TRH and other things which get a bit complicated.
The bottom line is that the TSH is usually considered a more accurate
indicator of what is going on than the T3. One would normally not
get suspicious about the TSH unless the T3 were REALLY low and the
patient was CLINICALLY hypothyoid. 

 -km
From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Can humans get tapeworms from cats?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 12:35:43 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
Summary: Don't eat fleas!
Keywords: tapeworms cats

-*----
In article <1992Sep27.162740.6251@zooid.guild.org>
> My cat has been diagnosed as having tapeworms.

Ahh.  Fleas.

> Is there any possibility that I or my husband could have been
> infected by her tapeworms, e.g. by changing her litterbox?

Not much chance.  The tapeworms that usually infest cats use
fleas as their intermediate vector.  The flea sucks some cat
blood and picks up the baby tapeworm.  (Does anyone know what
form a baby tapeworm has??)  The flea moves to some other cat, 
and this cat gets "lucky": it manages to bite and swallow the
flea that bothers it so much.  This puts the juvenile tapeworm
right where it wants to be: the cat's gut. 

Two morals to this story.  (1) If you want to keep your cat free
of tapeworms, keep it free of fleas.  If your cat gets fleas, it
will likely get tapeworms.  (2) Don't swallow those fleas that 
you bite off your cat!  You'll get tapeworms.

Russell
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 12:56:57 EDT

In article <1992Oct3.135230.27052@genie.slhs.udel.edu> nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Nancy Lebovitz) writes:
>How do you tell the difference between someone with Munchausen's and
>someone with a problem you don't know how to diagnose? (I'll take your
>word for it that Munchausen's exists, but I've also heard too many
>horror stories from people who got told their real diseases were
>delusional.)

The Munchausen patient is a patient with a particular pattern of
factitious illness - they ordinarily present remarkable, even fabulous,
histories of exotic illness and often have railroad track scars all over
their abdomen demonstrating how well they have convinced surgeons they
were sick when they weren't.  The patient with Munchausen may be able
to do a perfect imitation of "the acute abdomen" requiring surigical
intervention, or may be surreptitiously taking corticosteroids and
presenting with Cushing's Syndrome, or injecting insulin and presenting
in insulin shock and getting him/herself worked up for an insulinoma (a
tumor which produces insulin).  Factitious (i.e., self-induced or feigned)
illness is the obverse problem of the patient who has real disease which 
doctors overlook.

It has been suggested that patients with a confirmed diagnosis of
Munchausen's Syndrome should be tatooed prominently so that physicians
elsewhere won't fall for their shenanigans.  These patients have been
known to jump out of bed and run out of the hospital in a snit when
confronted (after being confronted with objective proof of their
factitious illness) only to proceed DIRECTLY to an emergency room
across town where they present for admission sometimes with an entirely
different set of complaints.

Unfortunately, these people are very poorly understood from the
psychiatric angle.  An "exagerrated need to assume the sick role" has
been proposed as an explanation but seems pretty inadequate to me.

--
================================================================= 
mark kline                              mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu
suny health science center, syracuse    voice: (315) 422-1050
================ courtesy of syracuse university ================
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: eepee@polaris.utu.fi (Esa-Pekka P{lvim{ki)
Subject: Re: Pet has cancer - issues with contagion
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 12:51:45 GMT

In article <16749@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <BvEJrE.Brq@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:
>>
>>Our dog, which we have had for 11 years, has just been diagnosed with a
>>carcinoma in her lung. It is the size of an orange. It may be inoperable.
>>
>>Should I be at all concerned with contagion in my family. The vet poo-poos my
>>query but it is a nagging issue in my mind. What do others think? Am I being
>>silly?
>>
>
>Lung cancer is not contagious, either from human to human, dog to dog,
>or dog to human.  If you are concerned, make sure your family is
>taught the importance of not smoking, which is by far the greatest
>cause of lung cancer in humans.

Oh, alright, I guess I'll just have to start smoking then..

/ep
From: kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: shin splints
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:44:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: msa3b.1931
Organization: Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA

dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson) writes:

>I had a problem with shin splints a few years ago that was solved with
>orthotics.  Lately I have started taking karate which entails going
>barefoot.  Predictably the shin splints are becoming bothersome again.
...

Some Tai Chi students wear Tai Chi "slippers" (the Chineese call them
'peasant shoes').  Perhaps you could wear these during Karate, and have
orthotics made for them?
-- 
Kevin Kleinfelter @ DBS, Inc (404) 239-2347   ...gatech!nanovx!msa3b!kevin
Dun&Bradstreet Software, 3445 Peachtree Rd, NE, Atlanta GA 30326-1276
WARNING: I have been advised that email to kevin@msa3b.UUCP may bounce.
It looks like email will have to go via 'gatech' because that is well-known.
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Weight loss success; was: Prevalence...
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:31:45 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <6390@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jsl+@pitt.edu (John S Lundberg) writes:

>I've been on a self-tailored diet since June 8 and have been keeping
>a food log since July 24.  I knew that I had been overeating and
>seriously so but the food log has shown me exactly how poor of a 
>judge of nutritional content I was.  It's easy to eat 5000 calories
>per day and not feel especially stuffed, I've learned.  I don't
>think I was ever really aware of how calorie-dense much food is
>even though I knew that I was overeating.  

Amen.  I recently went on a very-low-fat diet because of gastroesophageal
reflux.  (A few good stomachaches are a _great_ diet motivator!)
I started losing weight at a good clip (about 1 pound per week) and got
curious about the calorie count.  On the low-low-fat diet, if I eat like
a horse, I get about 2300 kcal/day.  My previous food intake (which did
_not_ seem like overeating) must have been more like 3500.



-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
Xref: sparky sci.med:18371 sci.bio:3454
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Eliminating the need to sleep?
From: fgiachi@eis.calstate.edu (Frank Giachino)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 08:07:06 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I don't know about any research, but my experiance shows that four hours
is suffient for normal functioning in my case.  Sure gives me a lot more
time each week!

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: chris@unislc.uucp (Chris DelPrete)
Subject: Patients rights to copies of medical records
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:11:52 GMT

Does a patient have a right to read his or her medical records?

Does a patient have a right to a copy of his or her medical records?

Is there a law covering this?

Does the law vary from state to state?

The reason I ask is that my doctor told me that by law, they do not have to
give me a copy of my medical records.  Frankly, I think this sucks.

-- chris

-- 

  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
  +  Christine DelPrete-Delaney                             The Rest   o  +
  +  chris@unislc.slc.unisys.com                               ____    0  +
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: dementia
Keywords: senile  Alzheimer's
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 13:05:25 EDT

In article <717874950@romeo.cs.duke.edu> jfh@duke.cs.duke.edu (Fran Heidlage) writes:
>	Is there a difference between senile dementia and Alzheimer's
>	disease?  I have the impression that they are two different
>	entities, but I have a friend who argues that they are older
>	and more recent names, respectively, for the same thing.

Dementia is the generic term for irreversible loss of cognitive
function due to neuronal death, whether due to a degenerative disease,
like Alzheimer's, or to trauma, infection, radiation, poisoning,
anoxia, or any other cause.  The terms "senile" or "senility" are
rejected as medical terms because  dementia is no longer regarded
as an expected concomittant of healthy aging.  "Senile dementia"
refers to any cause of dementia in old age, of which Alzheimer's
is one.

Alzheimer's Disease has been estimated to be responsible for roughly
half of dementia presenting for evaluation at some clinics.  The
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is really an autopsy diagnosis,
which can be made firmly only on pathologic identification of the
characteristic neurofibrillary tangles and plaques in the brain.  
A clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's (or "probable Alzheimer's",
more correctly) is made in the presence of a typical history of
declining mental powers of insidious onset, and smooth (as opposed
to stepwise) deterioration.  Aphasia is frequently a feature in 
the middle phases, and the disease is sometimes familial. 
The diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's also depends on the exclusion
of other, potentially reversible causes of dementia.

Anybody trying to cope with Alzheimer's Disease in a family member 
should read Mace N, Rabins P: _The_36_Hour_Day_ (from Johns Hopkins
Univ Press, I believe).  The Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Association (ADRDA) is an extremely helpful national organization 
with branches in many areas. 

--
================================================================= 
mark kline                              mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu
suny health science center, syracuse    voice: (315) 422-1050
================ courtesy of syracuse university ================
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Starting an alternative medicine newsgroup
Organization: WP Group
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:08:21 GMT

From article <1992Oct4.172059.17157@spdcc.com>, by dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer):
> In article <16757@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>>What is the charter of sci.skeptic?  Is it for those skeptical
>>of science or those skeptical of claims like those made for iridology,
>>for example?
> 
> It's a group skeptical of bunkum and nonsense.
> 
> I don't think anything whatsoever is gained by isolating these morons
> into groups of their own, letting them feed on each other's credulousness
> until their faculties turn to mush.  They're living in the 20th century,
> using 20th century equipment to spread such nonsense:  let a little
> enlightenment shine on their pre-scientific fingers (I hesitate to use
> the word "brains".)

The president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, William
Jarvis, told me that the normal strategy for dealing with quacks from
the 50's through the 80's was to give them the silent treatment.  Jarvis
admits that the silent treatment doesn't work anymore.  The best way
of dealing with false or unverified claims is to challenge them, both
logically and empirically.

-- 
Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ
Newsgroups: sci.med