HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: FDA/ Amino Acids/ Smart Drugs
Keywords: amino acids   FDA   alternative approaches
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:33:14 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Sep10.192654.0644940@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:

>| I seriously doubt whether most readers of this have the training
>| to come to a valid conclusion on this subject.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean here, Gordon.  Certainly, most folks aren't
>in a position to know that tryptophan + Prozac is a bad idea, or that
>tyrosine + MAOI's are a bad idea.
>
>But the judgement of whether a given OTC substance ought to be legally
>banned because there's danger when combined with certain Rx drugs is
>a political one that I think people are perfectly capable of making.
>

Seeing as the majority view in this country is that things that
are dangerous should be kept off the market, I think this is incorrect.
If that is your view, then you either have to have the training
to decide whether a certain drug is dangerous or not.  It certainly
takes no technical training to decide that you don't think any
danger justifies restricting access, but that is a view only
held by a small minority.
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From: brekke@gaia.grida.no.grida.no (Bente Brekke)
Subject: tiger lilly
Organization: University of Oslo
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:07:17 GMT


My boyfriends sister is writing a paper on the toxic and medical effects 
of several garden plants. She is especially interested in information on 
andreferences to the Tiger lilly (lilium tigrinum), particularly the 
chemical composition and effects of it's toxic substances. Thanks for any 
relevant info! Please reply directly to my E-mail address.

Kind regards
      Bente




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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: New Survey Shows U.S. Voters Oppose Taxation of Employee Benefits
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:07:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.230124.23501@samba.oit.unc.edu> Nigel.Allen@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Nigel Allen) writes:
>Here is a press release from the Coalition Organized to Stop Taxation of
>Employee Benefits (COST).
> New Survey Shows Voters Oppose Taxation of Employee Benefits
> To: National and Business Desks
> Contact: Steve Cook or Elizabeth Kelley, 202-347-8918,
>          for the Coalition Organized to Stop Taxation
>          of Employee Benefits
>
>   WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Nearly nine out of 10 Americans 
>believe that payments for employee benefits such as health
>care insurance and retirement plans should not be taxed, but more
>than half expect Congress to increase taxes on benefits next year,
>according to a national survey released today by the newly formed
>Coalition Organized to Stop Taxation of Employee Benefits (COST).

Socialism for the rich!  

Gerald
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From: jat8419@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (TRAUMA JUNKIE)
Subject: Re: Hiccups
Reply-To: jat8419@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:55:44 GMT

I think hiccups are caused by an airbubble in the avioli or..something else
in the resp. system.  don't hold me to this but i believed this is true
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From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: hair loss in female
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:42:27 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

A male friend of mine is interested in finding out about Rogaine.  Does it
have side-effects and is it expensive, etc.?

Thanks.

Alice
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: medical dictionary?
From: mehta@ucunix.san.uc.edu (mehta)
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 18:27:11 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

Where can I find a decent medical dictionary that can be used along with
Wordperfect or Wordstar?

Any soources would eb appreciated..If this is a FAQ can someone direct
me to some sources..

raj

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From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
Subject: Re: The null hypothesis  (was: Xanax)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 16:52:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)


Kudos to Russell Turpin for his lucid and carefully presented messages
on proof, scientific and otherwise. Sounds like he's read a lot of
Karl Popper or Thomas Kuhns.

I love this stuff.

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From: jod@equator.com (John Setel O'Donnell)
Subject: Re: CFIDS and Lyme
Organization: Equator Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:29:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.134211.27437@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.230437.20961@equator.com> jod@equator.com (John Setel O'Donnell) writes:
>>While I can't be cured with
>>present knowledge, many people could be spared getting into my state
>>with better information.
>
>Is there any reason to believe you when you state you have "incurable Lyme"?
>Who made this diagnosis other than you?  I'm not at all sure there is such
>an entity.  Mental illness is pretty resistant to treatment by ceftriaxone.
>

I'm seropositive on the Stony Brook ELISA and continue to have positive
urine antigen (direct) tests from time to time.  My symptoms get gradually
dramatically worse when I go off antibiotic therapy, over a period of
several weeks.  Treatment means the difference between working and
near-total disability.

The attitude exemplified in your post above is exactly the kind of
thing I've been posting about.  Sarcasm in the face of suffering
is one hell of an attitude for someone in a helping profession, Steve.

-- 
- - -
John Setel O'Donnell                      jod@equator.com
Equator Technologies, Inc.                206-328-6544 voice/fax
Seattle, WA                               Read everything by Alice Miller.
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From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
Subject: Re: the invasion of the NLP droids (was Re: Xanax)
Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.
	<1992Sep9.194825.13829@spdcc.com> <6=tna=g.strnlght@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:59:26 GMT

On Thu, 10 Sep 92 06:15:41 GMT, strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) said:

DS> Steve Dyer continues to substitute mockery for rational argumentation.
DS> All that does is reveal who he is out of his own mouth. Readers may
DS> decide for themselves what they think of such non-sense and
DS> ignore-ance. I'm outta here.

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

--
Mary Shafer  DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov                    Of course I don't speak for NASA
 "There's no kill like a guns kill." LCDR "Hoser" Satrapa, gunnery instructor
                       "A kill is a kill."  Anonymous
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Subject: Re: Access to substances
From: Robin.Salmansohn@f20.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Robin Salmansohn)
Date: 1 Sep 92 04:50:08 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:273/20 - Metro Hub One, Hatboro PA


   To: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)

 HR> 1.  Why cannot nutritional supplements make 
 HR> any claim to efficacy?  We
 HR> are seeing publications in the refereed medical literature about
 HR> desirable effects of "megadoses" of vitamin E, 
 HR> and substantial amounts
 HR> of beta carotene. 
 
It depends on the nature of a claim. The law is set up so that each
specific claim for each specific condition must be proven. Publications
in the medical literature, while they can be used in a seperate process
to validate a claim, do not generate proof. Reports are just that
reports (usually of cases or proposed uses). For while there are reports
or claims that a substance can be used, there are also reports and cases
where it cannot be used. That is why it requires an overwhelming, and long - 
term body of knowledge that will find all possible problems as
well as potential uses for any subtance. Often, (around 90 percent)
subtances will be found to fail the 3 criteria that is needed.
 
1) Is that substance safe
2) Is that subtance effective
3) What else does that substance affect, and how does it affect other
   drugs and other medical conditions. 
 
Most of these subtances never make it to the FDA, as they are 'killed'
by the researchers doing the study.
However they often learn that while a subtance failed 1, 2, or 3,
it might be useful in another case (requiring another study)
The F.D.A. has a program for existing subtances known as DESI,
(Drug Efficay and Safety Inspection).
 
Many drugs are exempt from DESI.
 
(Aside from ongoing investigations);
DESI is exempt from acts of congress, the courts, drugs marketed prior to 
1936, drugs that in no part cross a state line [wherin it falls to
the laws of each state], and 'drugs' that are not patentable (e.g.
you cannot patent glucose), and botanicals that are not covered
under the uniform crime code (that is, marijuana is covered under a
different set of laws).


 

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Internet: Robin.Salmansohn@f20.n273.z1.fidonet.org
From: kjell@cse.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Psoriasis
Date: 8 Sep 92 09:28:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

In article <1992Sep4.192423.5517@webo.dg.com> mdesai@stealth.webo.dg.com (Munish Desai) writes:
>
>  I was wondering if anyone knows about psoriasis:
>
>    - what it actually does to the skin
The skin grows faster and doesn't have time to heal.
>    - cause
Research suggests it's a problem with processing fat.  
>    - any effective treatments or cure
Stop eating junk food, avoid dairy products, eat more raw vegatables
and fruit, quit smoking if you are, lose weight if you're overweight.
Eat omega 3 fatty acid as supplements (e.g. borage seed oil).
There's also medicine; Cortisone cream is very common.  MTX is a 
powerful drug used for patients with severe psoriasis.  All these 
medical treatments have side effects.
>    - is it fatal
No.  However, 5% get psoriatic arthritis, which of course limits mobility.
>    - is it hereditary 
Yes.
>  Thanks.
Welcome.
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From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
Subject: Re: Doctor's hours
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 17:05:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <16375@pitt.UUCP> 
	geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:

>>Perhaps you should look up the Libby Zion case, and the subsequent legislation
>>in New York that restricts interns and residents to a maximum of 80 hours per
>>week.  Having spent 36 hours awake working in the hospital, I can say (at least
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>The alternative would be doing an extra year of residency.
>Most people would rather put in the hours and finish a year
>early so they can start paying off those killer debts almost
>everyone has from medical school.  What would you choose to
>do?

My father, a doc, says that the rationale he was given for the long
hours during residence was so that the residents could follow the course
of a patient's progress from admittal for some significant period.


-- 
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The above-expressed opinions aren't necessarily
From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Earplugs
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:01:00 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University

ron@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ron Miller) writes:

>> In-reply-to: srivastava@idicl1.idi.battelle.org's message of 28 Aug 92 11:33:27 EST
>> 
>> I advise against using earplugs.  I have used them a few times and
>> gotten ear infections and tinnitus as a result of using them.
>> Nowadays I use muff-type hearing protectors.  These are less
>> convenient and less comfortable but at least I'm not sticking
>> something in my ears.  The doctor I went to for my plug-related
>> ear infection said there was a saying in his med school,
>> "never put anything in your ear that is smaller than your elbow".
>> (I.e. don't put anything in your ears).

	Earplugs are a great idea for some things: i.e. using firearms.
Even with muffs you can get some tinnitus and hearing loss from the loud
noise, so I wear plugs _and_ muffs.  Others do the same, with satisfactory
results.

	The best plugs, imo, are the soft green foam ones.   They are very
comfortable, very effective (29 db reduction, you can't beat that), and
they only cost about 35 cents a pair.   I buy handfulls at a time, and
being a pack-rat, I run them through the wash for several uses, but an
infection prone person might want to throw them out after one use.

	I've never heard of problems with them, but some people are more
prone to problems I guess.

Jim
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From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
Subject: Re: Xanax
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:27:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)


Sean McLinden seems to be applying pharmaceutical standards of effectiveness
to therapies. Few, if any "widely accepted" non-pharmaceutical therapies
have been subjected to such standards, and it is as inappropriate to
apply them to new therapies as it would have been to, say, Freud.

For bettor or worse, non-chemical psychotherapy has been subjected
to something like the following standards:

1. Does it help patients?
2. Is there a credible theoretical underpinning?
3. Are its practitioners trained in some reliable and replicable way?
4. Is there any substantial body of people hurt by the technique? (note
that this standard is often ignored or obfuscated--did the psychiatrist's
patient commit suicide as a consequence of the therapy or was he
going to unstoppably do so anyway?

Not that the above aren't dicta but an attempt to describe what I think is
going on. Others may have additional criteria to add.

NLP fulfills all 4.

David
From: mapsj@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Simon Juden)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: passive smoking...how long does smoke stay...effect on pregnancy?
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:44:39 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In article <168637D93.M20614@mwvm.mitre.org> M20614@mwvm.mitre.org (Hugh Pritchard) writes:
>In article <BuKK91.8JF@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
> 
>>I'm concerned about passive smoking.  Does anyone know how long
>>the smoke stays in the house?  Also, what effect does it have on
>>pregnancy?
>>
>>I have severe sinus and allergy problems - 2 sinus surgeries in
>>the past 2 years.  Now my husband is starting to smoke in the
>>house again.  Plus I'm pregnant, so this doesn't help the nausea,
>>and I'm concerned it might cause other problems.
> 
>I've heard that when pregnant women smoke, there's an increase in
>low-birth-weight, sickly newborns.  Perhaps this effect isn't as
>noticeable when the woman doesn't smoke herself, but is exposed to
>cigarette smoke.
> 
>I've also heard that infants and children, living in homes where people
>smoke, are ill more frequently and more severely.
> 
>Your husband may be smoking more to deal with the stress of the approaching
>change in lifestyle.  (Are pregnant women really that difficult to live
>with?  I wouldn't know; but I want to have a child with my wife.)  I'd
>think that if he recognized the danger to his child (not to mention his
>wife!), he'd choose some other way of expressing stress (nail-biting,
>hair-pulling, thumb-sucking, etc.).
> 
>**  Hugh Pritchard,  hapritch@mitre.org,  703/883-6616

...I am in no way a medical expert, but my understanding is that a passive
smoker will get roughly a third of the smoke a nearby smoker gets ie if your
husband smokes 3 cigarettes the effect on you is equivalent to your having
smoked one cigarette yourself. The dangers to your unborn child should surely
deter your husband from smoking in the house while you are pregnant - and even
if not pregnant the dangers to you from his smoking should also stop him from
doing so. Of course it's easy and wrong to judge others by distance in this
sort of situation but it sounds to me like your husband is not being entirely
reasonable. It's not as if he couldn't step outside to smoke. I write,
incidentally, as someone who is stupid enough to smoke.

I hope things get better for you soon.

Simon
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Baclofen
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:21:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep10.152156.29879
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <DRAND.92Sep10104831@spinner.osf.org> drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas Rand) writes:
>   >GABA is Gamma-Amino-Butyric-Acid, an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the
>   >brain and spinal cord.  Baclofen is a GABA-b receptor agonist, meaning
>   >Does this help?
>   A bit too technical for me...but thanks anyhow...
>
>I'll try.  If you wanted to keep metal from being corroded with acid,
>then you'd cover it with something to keep the acid away,  right?  He's
>saying that baclofen keeps a chemical in your brain and spinal cord
>from its normal action,  and that the effect of this is to keep one
>from being spastic.

No, it's saying that baclofen _acts_ like a natural chemical in your
brain or spinal cord (GABA), and by adding to the inhibition already
effected by GABA, it damps the spinal reflexes which contribute to
spasticity.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Subject: Re: V-1 rocket: why PULSED?
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:27:33 GMT


From megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)

In article <BuKpq1.C8p@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:
>The V-1 (buzzbomb? doodlebug?) propelled itself by PULSED explosions
>/burnings/firings, rather than by the continuous firing associated
>with  earlier and later attack rockets.
>Why was this?

It utilized one of the simplest engines ever, the pulse jet. The Pulse Jet has
to modes, intake and firing.

Intake:
     -------------------------------------
     \               <
     \               <
     \               < <-fuel spray
     /  <-hinged     <     bars
     /    flaps      <
     /               <
     --------------------------------------

In the intake mode the flaps hinged open and air flowed freely into the jet,
which was basically just a tube. (A bit more complex than that.) Fuel was
sprayed into the airflow as it entered.
 
Firing:
     -------------------------------------
     |               <
     |               <
     |               < <-fuel spray
     |  <-hinged     <     bars
     |    flaps      <
     |               <
     --------------------------------------

A spark was created (sparkplug) detonating the fuel air mixture. The sudden
rise in pressure slammed the shutters closed leaving a cylinder open only at
the rear. Therefore, the hot gases propelled the jet forward. This increased 
the air pressure on the front of the shutters and as the gases expanded they
reached a point where the inner pressure was less than the pressure on the
front of the shutters. The air pushed the shutters open, air rushed into the
jet, fuel was added, a spark struck, and the cycle repeats.

Basically it is a simple, cheap, and reliable system. It has been used for 
models, and for tip jets on some helicopters.

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From: chandler@beagle (Jim Chandler)
Subject: Re: Homestead AFB situation
Organization: None
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:29:53 GMT


From chandler@beagle (Jim Chandler)


In article <Bu0Coz.5p4@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin) writes:
> From     Will Martin <wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil>
> As a DoD employee, directly affected in many ways by the budget cuts
> and the base-reductions and closings, I am infuriated by Bush's announcement
> that Homestead AFB, destroyed by Hurricane Andrew, will be re-built.
> In an environment where perfectly viable and undamaged DoD installations
> are being shut down, it seems to be the height of incompetent decision-
> making to decide to pour money into a base already demolished by the
> force of nature, especially if the news reports I heard are true, and
> this is the *SECOND* time this base was just about wiped out by a 
> hurricane! Instead, this destroyed base should be simply cleared,
> with the already-damaged buildings razed, and whatever environmental
> contamination may be there cleaned up. 
First, the Homestead area has a lot of retirees from the uniformed
services.  That equates to a lot of support from the local community.  
Second,  Homestead has an awesome golfcoarse.  While this is tongue in
cheek there is also some truth to this.
Third,  since it is close to Miami and with the amount of drugs in that
area, one could imagine what sort of mission might be flown from a base in
that area.
Fourth, I agree with you.  What a waste.
--
Jim Chandler
ames!infopro!beagle!chandler
jwc@sactoh0.sac.ca.us <--- best chance
KD6IRV	147.195
-- 
Jim Chandler
ames!infopro!beagle!chandler
jwc@sactoh0.sac.ca.us <--- best chance
KD6IRV	147.195

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From: Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
Subject: Re: The Bf-109E: A Copy of The Spitfire?
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:05:22 GMT


From Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)

In article <Bu9Hs9.GoE@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
rlwst8+@pitt.edu (Robert L Williamson) writes:

> I was reading an 
> article that claimed the famous german World War II fighter the BF-109E was
> a modified copy of the Spitfire.

I'd bet money on this one.  The Spitfire and the Messerschmitt were
completely different in design philosophy.  The designers of the 109
decided to go for high wing loading to achieve high speed and high
altitude performance adding the then radical automatic leading edge
slats to improve low speed performance.  The Spitfire was more
conventional in that it had a lower wing loading but went to an
eliptical wing for improved drag resistance.  The wing planforms are
completely different not to mention that the Spitfire carried all it's
weapons in the wing and the 109, to begin with anyway, carried nothing
in the wing.  Two entirely different designs.

Corky Scott

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