HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: arto@leland.Stanford.EDU (Artavazd Khachikian)
Subject: Russian surgeon looking for collaboration
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 06:09:26 GMT

	This is to inform the readers with possible interest
that a surgeon-ophtalmologist from Russia, working on the eyes
operations by Fiodoroff methodics, would be interested in sharing 
his experience and establishing professional ties with American partners.
	
	The field of specialization: refractional surgery,
surgery of katarakt, vitreo-retinal surgery, surgery on eye-muscles,
and the supplementary eye apparatus (all medical terminology translated
impromtu)

	The name of the surgeon is Malofeyev Aleksandr Vladimirovich, 
he lives in Khabarovsk, Russia.

	Please indicate if interested via this channel.	
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
Subject: Re: Amyl nitrate
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 16:24:36 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland
Keywords: Amyl Nitrate Legality

In article <1992Oct8.025349.5419@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>I'd be grateful if someone could tell me
>(preferably by e-mail)_
>
>1) Is the use of amyl nitrate restricted to gays?
>2) Is it legal to own amyl nitrate in most countries?
>3) Is its use generally legal or illegal?
>4) Is its use dangerous? Has anyone died from it?


Amyl nitrite is available only by prescription. Don't confuse it with
"poppers" such as Locker Room, Bullet, and Rush that are sold in
adult bookstores. Poppers are mostly butyl nitrite. They never contain
amyl nitrite, again because amyl nitrite is a prescription drug. However,
both chemicals are said to give the same result.

Poppers are thought to be restricted to gays because you have to go
to adult bookstores to buy them. But since not everybody who patronizes
adult bookstores is gay, this perception is false. Everyone I've ever
known to use them is straight.

It has become increasingly difficult to buy poppers in recent years.
Hustler Magazine no longer advertises them, and where I live, adult
bookstores no longer sell them. I don't know why. Obviously there has
been some sort of crackdown.
From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Selling the net to physicians
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:55:51 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Oct9.195828.1670@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David A. Nye MD) writes:
>
>        What are some other ways we could make the net more useful to
>        this group?  Obviously the more useful it is, the more people
>        will use it, and vice-versa.  For starters:
>
>        -- Ask your medical societies to include email addresses in
>        their directories.  I'm told AMIA is now doing this.  I've
>        contacted the American Academy of Neurology and the American
>
There is some progress occurring in this area. I agree that the
goal is admirable since I find it much easier to communicate with
other professionals by e-mail than by phone (which so often
leads to "phone tag").

You may be interested to know that NIH now has a slot for e-mail
address in the first page of their application. I stll don't
know of a journal that requests e-mail addresses, but I include
it anyway with submissions and once in a while they publish it.

To help make sure that everyone who can reach me by e-mail does so,
I include it on my fax sheets and on my "business" card.

Unfortunately, there is still no way for a person given your e-mail
address to easily determine if you actually use e-mail.

Brian
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: mitral valve prolapse and need for antibiotics?
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Distribution: sci
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:55:06 GMT

In article <BONNIE.92Oct7124736@aigyptos.nmsu.edu> bonnie@nmsu.edu (Bonnie Hargrave) writes:
>I'm not sure this is the best time to reply considering the letter I
>just received, but here goes.  I'll try to remain calm.  I received a
>registered letter from this doctor today telling me that I have 10
>days to find another physician since "It has become clear to us that
>we cannot work on a good Doctor/Patient relationship."
>
>I go back into my memory and cannot think of any reasonable
>explanation for their action.

It's really hard to know what to say from sitting here, since I have
only such fragmentary information.  But to simply remark on your own
comments leading up to this, we already heard that you didn't trust
her, that you suspected that she didn't care for you (as evidenced by
her using excellent clinical judgement in deciding what tests to run),
and that you worried that her judgement was faulty based on her
inability to answer what was essentially an irrelevant question
(ibuprofen/acetaminophen and uric acid levels).  Plus, you had your
husband and his mother acting as second-guessers urging certain tests
to be run.  Plus, you're a nervous collection of miscellaneous diffuse
symptoms.  (No value judgement involved there.)

I'm not saying that Marcus Welby might not have handled this
differently, but I'm not even a doctor, and the constellation of
phenomena here all scream to me: "Run, don't walk in the other
direction."  It's a prescription for aggravation.  In the light of
all this, is such a letter that much of a surprise?  I'd love to hear
what your doctor would have to say in private.

Maybe the clinicians here can offer some advice on how to present
yourself so that you can be thorough and clear about your problems and
symptoms without simultaneously waving the red flags of "problem
patient" in front of your doctor's eyes.  One piece of advice (it's
cheap--take it or leave it) is to leave your husband at home and don't
any of you try so doggedly to second guess what the doctor is doing or
thinking.  Believe it or not, while I am an informed medical consumer,
and try to ask intelligent questions, I guess this also lets me relax
and let them do their job without my trying to act as a surrogate MD at
the same time.  When I go to a doctor, I let them do their thing, and
figure that they generally know more than I do, which is (almost always
:-)) the case.  I'm not saying this is how you have to behave ALL the
time, but it's a good starting point.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Circulating Immune Complexes?
From: <SECBH@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 15 Oct 1992 21:21:05 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

What are circulating immune complexes and how are their effects different
from those of rheumatoid arthiritis?

Are their any significant differences between these and rheumatoid arthiritis
as far as prognosis, treatment and so on?

Jack Carroll
From: lapin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gregory Lapin)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:57:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Oct9.185734.26458
Followup-To: sci.med
Distribution: usa
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <1992Oct2.170408.29912@col.hp.com> dag@col.hp.com (David Geiser) writes:
>
>A prospective employer might choose to use an 'information' service,
>i.e. run a background check, on a prospective employee to see if
>he/she has a history of filing for workman's comp.
>
>Are similar information services available for MDs?  If one knew
>that a particular patient was risky, i.e. prone to file for malpractice,
>would that help make a decision about treatment or a course of therapy?
>
>
>dag

I had a friend who started a company to do this several years ago.  It
seemed like a good idea at the time.  His company was even featured in a
CBS 60 Minutes article.

After being in business for about a year, a shortage of subscribers forced
him out of business.  He attributed this to fear amongst MDs that use of
this information would get them sued so they decided to just take their
chances.

Greg Lapin
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
Subject: Re: MEDICINE SLOWER TO CATCH UP
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 13:08:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.194609.4806@sr.com> dks@srhqla.sr.com (Dave K. Sprow) writes:
>To follow-up to my comment of a couple of days ago referring to the fact
>that I was told about 20 years ago to not cook with aluminum cooking
>utensils, not to drink from aluminum cans, avoid deordorants w/aluminum,et
>c.  This was in reference to the discussed link between Altzenheimer's
>and aluminum, my point being the medical professions bias and slowness to
>accept "non-tradional" ideas and to debunk and belittle alternative
>ideas/thoughts with little of their own research into some of this kind
>of stuff.  I have alwasy thought a key reason is that our western
>medicine seems to be fueled economically by the huge drug companies,
>who make their money from treating symptoms, rather than looking for
>underlying causes.  This creates a paradigm of thinking that apparently
>is threatened by the idea of true preventative medicine.  Though this
>attitude is getting better, there's a long way to go.
>
>What brought this to my attention again is today's reports on CNN and
>the newspapers that margarine is bad for you (yes, worse than butter)
>and that is likely causes heart disease.  
>
>I find this both humorous and sad as this was another thing that was
>nutritionally suggested to me many years ago.
>
>The article in the paper (L.A. Times) goes into depth about the original
>Dutch study done on this reported in The NE Journal of Medicine in 1990.
>"The Agriculture Department has now confirmed the Dutch study."  The
>particular culprit is trans fatty acids.
>
>Again, my only point is to ask the ridiculous, i.e, for the medical and
>scientific communities to put more of their research dollars into
>their own research from claims from more alternative approaches of
>health care rather than just debunking everything from some superior
>self-serving attitude.  Honestly, as far as I can see, these alternative
>approaches seem to be about 20 years or so ahead of established
>medical thinking. Medicine does a lot.  It would great if they could
>be more open-minded and at least *consider* some of these things.  We
>would all be better off if they people with the most money would put
>some of those research dollars into this kind of research... with some
>commitment to thr truth, not protecting special interest.

Very much enjoyed your article David.  In addition, I've always stayed away
from margarine--especially after reading the "speculation" > 10 yrs. ago.
From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Potato as folk remedy for eye burns?
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:46:15 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Oct7.183308.1830@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> swami1@troy.uucp (22535-swaminathan) writes:
>In article <1ae4l0INNm00@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
>>
>>My optometrist told me today that welders have told her a good rememdy
>>for flash burns of the eyes is to rub them with (presumably raw) potato.
>
>That is really interesting!
>Where I grew up (half way around the world), the home remedy for any
>burn is to apply ground-up potato on the burn directly. This
>applies to any surface, not just the eye. We still do it, just use
>the blender to grind up the potato piece with skin and it is so soothing.
>I think it even heals faster.
>
>(I hope steve dyer gets a burn and tries this remedy before he
>responds to this post:8)

You're about a SADISTIC $%#@$ to wish someone gets burned, even if your
statement was meant in jest. I am still healing from a big 2nd degree burn
(feels like 3rd degree, except there was no charred flesh, only an open,
bleeding, pepperoni pizza looking approx 20 square inches from my ankle
halfway up to my knee, burn wound caused by a very hot M/C exhaust pipe
{attached to the rest of the heavy M/C} falling on top of me) which happened
on Sept. 7th. Ground up potato is likely to breed bacteria. I think I'll
just stick to the Silvadene (tm) cream prescribed by my physician along
with occasional dressing with aloe vera juice.

AArrgghh!!!!!!
-- 
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"how often you get much more drunk than you ought to on a Friday night...
...about once a week" -  Tom Yates
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Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.sex
From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
Subject: Re: Ovulation and Pregnancy, Information Wanted
Reply-To: mec6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:12:19 GMT

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:
 
>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.

This is from an article titled, 'The Proximate Determinants of Natural
Marital Fertilty' by John Bongaarts (1983).

"The exact duration of the fertile period has proven difficult ot
determine.  Thus the existing estimates vary widely -- from less than
a day (Tietze, 1960) to a week or more (Hartman, 1962)....

"The fertile period is a brief interval around the time of ovulation
druing which an insemination can result in a fertilizaiton.  Fertilization
is possible if insemination occurs before ovulations because sperm
retains its viability for a shirt time after insemination;  it is also
possible after ovulation because the ovum remains viable for a brief
interval.... sperms takes about six hours after insemination to become
fertile [this is called capacitation]...  

"Best available estimates of of fertilie lifetimes range from 24 to 48 hours
for sperm (Vandervliet and Hafez, 1974) and from 12 to 24 hours for the
ovum (Barrett and Marshall, 1969).  Adding these lifetimes and
subtracting 6 hours for capacitation gives a range of 30 to 66 hours."

rini
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Centigrade (was: What body temp for cardiac surgery?)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:18:03 GMT

In article <Bvv79p.IpA@world.std.com> jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton) 
writes:
>> 
>>  F      C
>> ---    ---
>> 212    100    Water boils
>>  98.6   37    Human body temp

There's speculation that it may have been intended to br 100 degrees, but
they messed up the scale or the measurements somehow. 

>>  68     20    Room temperature
>>  32      0    Water freezes
>>   0    -17.8  Sea water freezes

It's more precisely defined than that, although I don't remember exactly
what the definition is.

>> -40    -40    Temperature where degrees F is the same number as degrees C
>
>		. . . and mercury solidifies.  Time for a new thermometer.

-38.87 degrees centigrade, actually (I knew there was some reason I'd been
lugging that "Handbook of Chemisty and Physics" that I bought for freshman
chemistry around for the last 20 years).  Now that's fascinating.  The two
scales almost meet at the melting point of mercury.  I wonder if that was a
coincidence, or another failure of the scales to be exactly where they
should be for maximum beauty. 
 
-- 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jack Hamilton   jfh@netcom.com   P. O. Box 281107   SF, CA   94128-1107
From: foesydney@peg.pegasus.oz.au
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Info - Nuclear Medicine
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:19:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:peg:372300002:000:2286
Nf-From: peg.UUCP!foesydney    Oct 14 19:19:00 1992


Cc: conf!foe.oz gn:foeenergy gn:wiseamster

SUBJECT: Australian proposal to build a new nuclear research
reactor.

Appeal for technical advice on NUCLEAR ISOSTOPES from an activist
opposed to the idea of reactors. The authorities are claiming that
Australia needs an assured supply of medical isotopes.

Would appreciate knowing:

1       If any of the following radioactive isotopes are capable
of being produced by a means other than a nuclear reactor, ie a
cyclotron, or.

2       If the application of any of these have been supplanted by
non-reactor produced isotopes or some other medical technique.


Molybdenum 99   The 'parent' of technetium 99m, the most widely
used isotope in medicine.

Technetium 99m  Used in scintigraphy to image the brain, salivery
glands, thyroid, lungs liver, spleen, kidney, gall bladder,
skeleton, cardiac muscle, depending on chemical form.

Dysprosium 165  Used in treatment of arthritic joints.

Indium 111      Used in cerebrospinal fluid studies of the
ventricles of the brain and for labelling proteins, cells and
antibodies.

Iodine 125      Used in  in vitro analysis to estimate minute
concentrations of bilogically active species (hormones, etc) in
bodily fluids, and as an X-ray source for bone density
measurements.

Iodine 131      Used in functional imaging and therapeutic
applications for the thyroid.

Xenon 133       Used for inhalation studies, via gamma camera
screening, to assess the functional capacity of the lungs, and to
study cerebral blood flow.

Phosphorus 32   Used in the treatment of blood disorders such as
polycythameia vera and chronic leukaemia.

Chromium 51     Used in measurement of kidney filtration rate.

Iron 59 Used to study iron metabolism.

Cobalt 60       Used for external beam radiotherapy.

Copper 64       Used to study genetic diseases affecting copper
metabolism, particularly in the foetus via in vitro techniques.

Selenium 75     Used to image the pancreas.

Bromine 82      Used as a tracer for exchangeable chloride and for
measurements of extracellular fluid.

Yittrium 90     Used in cancer therapy for the treatment of
tumours and in the treatment of arthritis.

Iridium 192     Used to destroy tumour cells.

>From Murray Matson (Movement Against Uranium Mining NSW Australia)
15/10/92
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
Subject: Re: MEDICINE SLOWER TO CATCH UP
Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:26:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.040218.13233@techbook.com> kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen) writes:
>In article <b3gp!tj@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:
>>In article <1992Oct7.194609.4806@sr.com> dks@srhqla.sr.com (Dave K. Sprow) writes:
>>
>>>What brought this to my attention again is today's reports on CNN and
>>>the newspapers that margarine is bad for you (yes, worse than butter)
>>>and that is likely causes heart disease.  
>>>
>>>"The Agriculture Department has now confirmed the Dutch study."  The
>>>particular culprit is trans fatty acids.
>>
>>This idea has been tossed around in the medical/scientific community
>>for years. Now someone apparently is claiming that an ill effect
>>has occurred, by doing a (presumably) standard, controlled study.
>>Another triumph of Western medicine!
>>
>>>Again, my only point is to ask the ridiculous, i.e, for the medical and
>>>scientific communities to put more of their research dollars into
>>>their own research from claims from more alternative approaches of
>>>health care rather than just debunking everything from some superior
>>
>>Eh? I don't recall this particular issue being a cause among
>>the "alternative medicine" crowd. In fact, I think few have
>>enough chemistry background to realize that hydrogenation
>>can produce the "unnatural" trans-fatty acids in margarine.
>>
>
>What I find interesting is that I have heard about this issue (hydrogenation
>of oils to cause them to be solid at room temperature) in two
>"traditional" science classes (chemistry and biology) recently.
>
>In both classes, it was emphasized that margarine had no
>particular health benefit over butter.
>
>Hardly a triumph for alternative medicine.
>

I wan't claiming it to be. I said that I was told this about 20 years
ago by a nutritionist  who was definately "alternative" and that this
subject as of the mentioned report, is now causing a big stir, according
to the newspaper article I cited.
a

>  --Kim
>
>-- 
>kim@techbook.COM    Not affiliated with TECHbooks
>----------------------------------------------------------

David


Xref: sparky sci.med:19086 sci.skeptic:17876
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Homeopathy
Date: 13 Oct 1992 14:20:42 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <BSIMON.92Oct13075428@elvis.stsci.edu>, bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:
=My comments are the following. First, the referees of the paper were
=correct in requesting that the study be reproduced by independent
=laboratories, since the result was so at variance with accepted
=scientific theory. However, the referees should not have insisted of a
=hypothesized mechanism for the result. Purely empirical or
=observational results should be acceptable in a scientific journal.
=Second, publishing a warning box with the article was an insult to the
=author and an insult to the intelligence of the reader. Third,
=changing the design of an experiment until you get the result you want
=seems like a very poor approach to science to me.

Changing the design of the experiment until the observed phenomon is no longer
observed is one of the classic ways of figuring out what's producing the
phenomenon in the first place.  If you want to ban that technique from science,
what do you suggest using in its place?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.skeptic
From: bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon)
Subject: Re: Homeopathy
Organization: None. This saves me from writing a disclaimer.
	<1992Oct9.000315.6415@spdcc.com>	<2061@snap>
	<1992Oct13.061339.11874@spdcc.com>,<BSIMON.92Oct13075428@elvis.stsci.edu>
	<1belvqINNqi7@gap.caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:22:36 GMT

It's not the variation in the experiment that I object to, it's
stopping the experiment after getting one negative result. The
negative result could well be the result of observational error within
the bounds of statistical variation and one needs repeated trials to
determine if this is the case.

--
Bernie Simon	(bsimon@stsci.edu)		similia similibus curantur
From: hamilton@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rick Hamilton)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Questions about Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Date: 11 Oct 92 14:57:30 GMT
Reply-To: hamilton@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rick Hamilton)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Originator: hamilton@pooh.cc.utexas.edu

I have recently had someone very close to me diagnosed with Stage 0 CLL.
After reading several articles on the subject, I decided to post here for
any helpful information that "sci.med" users could provide me.  (I am an
engineer, not a medical type).

Though I realize that the progression of CLL varies widely, I would greatly
appreciate any information that anyone could post concerning first-hand
experience with the illness.  This would include any dietary or lifestyle
changes believed to be beneficial, recommendations for do's and don'ts, or
just generally information on what to expect.  If anyone wishes to contact
me directly with the info, that would be fine, but I will keep my eyes on 
the group.  Thanks in advance...

Rick Hamilton
hamilton@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med