HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jtroxel@carson.u.washington.edu (Joseph Troxel)
Subject: Re: (6434) Safety in dealing with HIV+ individuals
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6440
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:10:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.170448.22900@cs.ucla.edu> Charlie Jordan writes:

>From my experience, I think you may encounter more problems with communication
>and unspoken fears than with body fluids.

Also, depending on how compromised the + person's immune system is, s/he
may be more at risk of catching cold/flu/etc from your "healthy"
relatives. Germs and ilness can be transmitted in both direction. :)

>Hope this helps...

Me too.

Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: Kevin.Killebrew@lambada.oit.unc.edu (Kevin Killebrew)
Subject: Safety in dealing with HIV+ individuals
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6434
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:51:37 GMT

I have a very close friend who has recently "come out of the closet" about
being HIV+. He will be staying with my family. I don't  want to appear
stupid, but should I worry about infection from someone living in my house?
Is their anything we should or should not do?  I want to support him in
any way I can but don't want to risk my family or myself. Do I need to
worry about anything?

Thank you in advance!
--
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     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
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Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: beezer@CC.UTAH.EDU (BEEZER)
Subject: [REQUEST]:  HIV/AIDS INFECTION/DEATH TOTALS
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6437
Organization: Salt Lick, UT
Date: 10 Nov 1992 02:01 MST  

The CDC report doesn't contain a numerical table of infections/deaths
by cross-matching statistics...  There used to be an AIDS Newsletter,
but that's gone too...

Anybody have a quarterly table of numeric statistics ?
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: AIDS therapy using DMSO and isopropyl alcohol (revised)
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6426
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:23:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.152114.24301@cs.ucla.edu> dixon@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu 
(Paul Dixon) writes:
>
>The viricidal action of isopropyl alcohol is greatest at approximately 
>70% concentration.

I don't think that having a 70% concentration of alcohol in your
bloodstream would be very good for you.  Under 1% is lethal, I think.

Or do you have some non-standard definition of "concentration"? 

>As the DMSO allows rapid transport of the isopropyl
>alcohol to the entire circulatory system in a few seconds, the 
>strength of the isopropyl viricidal action will immediately destroy
>the H.I.V. with which it comes into contact.

And lots of other things too, I expect.

-- 

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Jack Hamilton   jfh@netcom.com   P. O. Box 281107   SF, CA   94128-1107
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: mmurrain@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU
Subject: Re: (6448) Stats on Female to Male Transmission
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6451
Organization: unspecified
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:30:58 -0500

>I am looking for studies or surveys showing only transmission
>of AIDS from women to men through heterosexual sex.
>These figures would hopefully differentiate numbers of women
>who became HIV due to prior heterosexual exposure to a
>man with AIDS, women who had been infected due to blood
>transfusion, due to drug-needle use, etc.
>thanks.

Check out Haverkos and Edelman, 1988  JAMA 260(13):1924-5
Holmes et al AJPH 1990 80(7):858-63
Padian et al., JAMA 1991 266:1664-7

A start...
                                        Michelle
__________________________________________
                  Michelle Murrain
 Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002
                 (413) 549-4600 x688
 email: mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu
__________________________________________

Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: ESPINOZA%RIO.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU
Subject: Re: (6407) CDC Summary 11/2/92
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6416
Organization: unspecified
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:57 MST

Is there any information about the HIV Virus surviving while being frozen?

If so is there any chance for it to remain dormant in ice, and survive?

R. Anthony Espinoza@rio.MARICOPA.EDU

Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)
Subject: Stats on Female to Male Transmission
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6448
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Date: 12 Nov 1992 05:10:49 GMT

I am looking for studies or surveys showing only transmission
of AIDS from women to men through heterosexual sex.
These figures would hopefully differentiate numbers of women
who became HIV due to prior heterosexual exposure to a
man with AIDS, women who had been infected due to blood
transfusion, due to drug-needle use, etc.
thanks.

-- 
Capt. Kirk: let's head for that planet, third from the sun, it
            looks promising.... |-)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: The Drug Monopoly
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6429
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:53:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.183045.4938@cs.ucla.edu> wixer!wixer.cactus.org!sparky@cs.utexas.edu (Timothy Sheridan) writes:
 
>Is there any law that prevents un-ethical monopolies from charging so much
>for a drug that it literally takes the maximum revinue from the public?

Obviously not. 

I doubt that they are trying to maximize revenue.  They are probably trying
to maximize profit.  
 
>If people have no choice they will spend more than they have to fight....but
>should we set the price of life at the maximun of what all you, your friends
>and relitives are able beg, barrow or steal ??

"We" don't set the price.  

>There must be some way to nationalize a technology that is exploited by its
>owner to the detriment of society......does anyone know of a president??

Abraham Lincoln was a president.  George Bush is a president.  Bill Clinton
is about to be a president, and that may cause some changes. 

We in the United States live in a country which doesn't, as a rule,
nationalize existing industries.  The Soviet Union was a country which did,
and they seem to have decided that it wasn't such a good idea. 

Some countries, Canada for example, do have tighter controls on drug
prices.  Canada's work partly through market pressures - "If your drug is
too expensive, the government won't pay for it, and you won't sell
anything."  

There are some cases in the US where drug companies are clearly exploiting
a technology which doesn't belong to them.  AZT, for example, is making a
bundle for Burroughs-Wellcome, but BW didn't do the important research -
that was done at the NIH with government money.  There's an anti-cancer
drug whose name I don't remember which was also developed at the NIH, and
the drug company is selling it for a tremendously high price.  Cases like
that clearly must be stopped. 

>If somone finds a HIV cure and gets a patent does this entitle them to
>everything an infected person will ever own????

In theory, yes.  They would be foolish to try, however.  Politically, such
a thing wouldn't work here.  There does seem to be a growing national will
to curb the excessive costs of health care, and a company which held back
an AIDS cure for really excessive profits would probably find the law
changing under its feet.  

-- 

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Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: oracle!us.oracle.com!astallon@uunet.UU.NET (Anthony Stallone)
Subject: Condom Safety Tests
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6446
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:23:16 GMT

The following was taken from the most recent issue of Ben Is Dead
magazine.  Their source was the preliminary results of a "UCLA study".
If anyone has the final results of this study or any like it, please
post them and send me a copy (astallon@us.oracle.com).

Condom Safety Tests
===================
Rankings based on water leakage and air pressure tests.  [no meaning
for the numbers is given, so the information here is more relative than
absolute]  100 is good, 0 is bad.

Score	Condom
-----	-------------------------------------
98.9	Mentor
91.3	Ramses Non-lube
91.3	Ramses Sensitol
85.2	Golden Circle Coin
83.7	Golden Circle
83.7	Sheik Elite
81.7	Durex Nuform
80.2	Pleaser
78.7	Ramses Extra
77.3	Embrace Her
76.6	Lifestyles Extra
75.3	Ramses NuForm
74.8	Excita Extra
71.4	Trojan-Enz
71.1	Trojan-Enz Lub
69.9	Trojan Plus
68.1	Prime
66.8	Lifestyles Nuda Plus
64.1	Arouse
62.7	Tahiti
60.9	Lifestyles Conture
60.6	Lifestyles Nuda
57.7	Trojan Ribbed Natural
50.9	Trojan Ribbed
21.3	Contracept Plus (recalled by the FDA)

Tony Stallone
----------------------------------------------astallon@us.oracle.com
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: speedy@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Visiting Res Fellowship
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6444
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:39:50 GMT

Herewith notice of a visiting fellowship that may be of interest
to scientists of various disciplines.  I am sending it to a number
of groups on NETNEWS.  Please bring it to the attention of any
suitable colleagues.  Replies to Dean's secretary at the address 
below - not by e-mail, please! Please indicate where you saw the
advert.

Andrew Speedy
Tutor in Biological Sciences
Christ Church
Oxford

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ADVERTISEMENT

CHRIST CHURCH,  Oxford

Dr Lee Visiting Research Fellowships in the Sciences

The college proposes to elect Visiting Fellows, in the Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, for up to nine months in the period
September 1993 to August 1994.

The Fellowships are intended to enable distinguished senior
scholars to pursue their own research as members of the college
community, and they will be expected to reside in Oxford during
the period of tenure.    Fellows must make their own research
arrangements with Oxford laboratories.

Each Fellow will be entitled to free family accommodation, a
study-room in college and free dinners.   Return fares from the
place of residence will be paid for each Fellow and his/her
family.   Limited stipends may also be offered, depending on
individual circumstances.

Further details may be obtained from The Dean's Secretary, Christ
Church, Oxford OX1 1DP, and applications should be received not
later than
12 December 1992.
From: Charlie Jordan
Subject:      (6434) Safety in dealing with HIV+ individuals
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6435
Organization: unspecified
Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 92  18:25:50 MST

Anecdotal evidence may help...

I've lived with two HIV+ people for several years and I've yet to have any
problems. Basic precautions which focus on not exchanging body fluids are
followed, but don't intrude in day to day life.

Since one of the individuals is my lover, we pay attention to things like not
sharing razors, keeping condoms within reach, etc., but we've accepted the
idea that body fluids shouldn't be passed to anyone, regardless of whether the
"passer" is positive or not.

I don't think we've trivialized basic precautions, we've simply acknowledged
them, adjusted some behavior, and continued with life. After my initial period
of fear and then overcompensation (I've long since stopped scrubbing
everything with bleach - soap works fine!), our household is comfortable.

From my experience, I think you may encounter more problems with communication
and unspoken fears than with body fluids. Without some honest communication,
fear/guilt/compensation can make for awkwardness. Family home evenings may not
be required, but an upfront approach to sharing information should be.

Hope this helps...

 ** Charlie Jordan, 602/543-8181
 ** ASU West - Student Affairs
 ** UVCTR 301 L, 3050
 ** iadcej@asuacad.bitnet
From: patm@homer.ds.boeing.com
Subject: information on IMBONE
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6432
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:24:30 GMT

I am looking for information on a drug called IMBONE.(usure of spelling)
        I heard of this drug from a naturalpathic doctor, he said that it is
used in Europe succesfully as treatment for curing Leukemia.

Any information would be appreciated.
Pat Mitchell
Please E-mail to

(mitchell@atc.boeing.com)  or (patm@homer.ds.boeing.com)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: Billi Goldberg <bigoldberg@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: AIDS and TB
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6439
Organization: unspecified
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 08:54:07 PST

Take a look at "Re-emergence of the captain of the men of death" in
Current Biology, volume 2, number 10, 1992. Very good oversight of the
present problem.
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: jpalmier@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Jim Palmieri)
Subject: AIDS and TB
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6433
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 23:56:14 GMT

I am working on a lecture for my micobiology class on AIDS and
drug resistant TB.  Can anyone point me in a direction or a
list of sources for this info.  Thanks  Dr. Jim Palmieri
-- 

   Dr. Jim Palmieri
From: mmurrain@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: Peptide T
Date: 9 Nov 92 06:42:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov9.165348.10718
Organization: unspecified
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Archive-Number: 6431

Does anyone out there know about the status and results of the Peptide T
trials? It seems to have been very quiet about it.
                                                Michelle
__________________________________________
                  Michelle Murrain
 Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002
                 (413) 549-4600 x688
 email: mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu
__________________________________________
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: a disease called "cri-du-chat"
Date: 4 Nov 92 15:41:33 GMT
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In article <914702yL291701@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, mdf10@diag.amdahl.com writes:
>
> Hi everybody,
> I don't know if this is the right news group to post this or not, but I
> need information about a disease called "cri-du-chat(cat cry)".
> This is a very rare disease caused by chromosome 5 deficiency at birth,
> that is all I know about this.
> If there is anybody that knows of an article about this disease, or know
> a person that has this disease or know somebody that does research on this,
> please respond.  I need every piece of information I can get.
> You can post your respond on the net or send me e-mail.  My e-mail address is:
>             mdf10@diag.amdahl.com
> I appreciate any help.  Thank you.

Cri-du-chat syndrome is due to a deletion of the short arm of B group
(chromosome 5) and is characterized by: "cat-like" cry in infancy, deformed
larynx, microcephaly, micro-retrognathia, "moon-like" facies, failure to
thrive, and  severe mental retardation . Parents may have some chromosomal
abnormalities.

I'm not in pediatrics and I've never seen a case of cri-du-chat. If you're
directly on the Internet and have access to a WAIS server, you could login to
the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database at Johns Hopkins and
query the database for the latest findings on cri-du-chat.

Josh

Dr. Josh Backon
backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: depo provera LONG
Date: 9 Nov 92 07:14:58 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Steve Dyer (dyer@spdcc.com) wrote:

: Depo-Provera has long been approved for purposes other than its use as
: contraceptive.  My understanding is that it was approved for
: contraceptive use last week, but I wasn't paying too much attention
: either, because I was at Interop in San Francisco.

i'm really curious about how it's used as a contraceptive. i've got
polycystic ovaries and periodically have to take provera to induce
periods (without medication, i'd only have one a year or so). the
usual pattern is to take it for five days and then stop, with bleeding
starting a couple of days later.

for contraceptive purposes, do people just take it that way every
month (for five or ten days only)? or is it a 21-day thing like
traditional oral contraceptives? or is it a daily pill?

--
sine nomine | debbie martinson
From: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Hemingway's invention
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:08:01 GMT
Reply-To: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

In article <1992Nov8.000121.13660@ee.ryerson.ca>, elf@ee.ryerson.ca
(luis fernandes) writes:
|>I was reading a review of a Hemingway biography and it 
|>mentiones that Ernest Hemingway's father invented a medical
|>instrument which he refused to patent because "it would be wrong
|>to profit from something that benefits humanity."

This doesn't make much sense unless he threw away the invention and
never showed to anyone.  If he didn't patent it someone else could
have.  The first one to get to the patent office would get the patent 
and unless proof was shown otherwise they could use the invention as
they see fit.  

To keep it from being 'abused for profit' he should have patented it 
himself and only allowed the non-profit production and distribution 
of the invention as he himself decided. 

|>
|>Would anyone know what that instrument is? The review does not
|>mention it.
|>
|>--
|>luis fernandes  <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>
          
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Maurice LaBiche   |   labiche@bnr.ca
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: depo provera LONG
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:00:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov6.070017.17275
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Nov5.190151.2943@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
>The original poster thought she was prescribed depo provera "unofficially"
>because she heard that the FDA had just approved the drug.  I'm a bit 
>surprised that someone who "knows" (hey Steve!) hasn't responded, but here 
>is my two cents.  I vaguely recall that the announcement last week was not
>that the FDA had approved the drug, but that they were issuing warnings
>about potential side-effects (which I assumed meant the drug had already
>been approved for contraceptive purposes).  However, this is just my 
>recollection based on a news blurb on the radio.  I wasn't paying attention, 
>so I may be wrong :-).

Depo-Provera has long been approved for purposes other than its use as
contraceptive.  My understanding is that it was approved for
contraceptive use last week, but I wasn't paying too much attention
either, because I was at Interop in San Francisco.

As others have said here, it's perfectly possible and appropriate to
administer an approved drug for an unapproved purpose--the FDA usually
lags behind clinical practice in most situations concerning approval
for new indications for already approved drugs.  Depo-Provera has had a
long history of use as a contraceptive in other countries.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Specialist needed for patient lacking taste & smell
Keywords: smell, taste, expert
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:59:08 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

A friend would like to locate a specialist or clinic specializing in
olafactory disorders (loss of taste and smell).  This was a result of
an automobile accident.  Any names, places or information, regardless of
location would be greatly appreciated.

Please send replies to:

uunet!infmx!ssweet  or  ssweet@informix.com

Thanks...
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 4100 Bohannon Dr.        (415) 926-6488 - wk
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From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: indigestion
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:58:20 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

In article <BxA6sC.Bz2@techbook.com>, cathy@techbook.com (Cathy Gaupo) writes:
> I've heard the commercials that if you have indigestion very 
> often, you should see your doctor.  My boyfriend suffers a lot from it.
> Frequently, he has to take alka-setlzer or tums just to calm down the
> irritation and/or the flem.  So my question is what is the problem.
> I want to show him something about why he should see his doctor.
> Could someone one fill me in on this?
> If it's not that serious, should he wait until his next scheduled
> check-up?  Should he make an appointment sooner?  

"indigestion" often means an ulcer, particularly if it gets better
with Tums.  It's a good idea to get it looked into before it erodes
through into an artery and he drops a few pints.

David Nye
nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med,talk.politics.medicine,alt.activism,misc.kids,misc.consumers