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From: mk0e@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MAHEENDRA BABURAO KASMALKAR)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Address request for Intraocular Implant Society
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:37:45 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I am looking for the address of :
   American Intraocular Implant society journal

I tried to look up the name in many library catalogues but could find nothing.
So may be I haven't got the exact name. Can any one please send me the address
or tell me come place where I can get the address.

Thanks in advance
Maheendra

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From: dfavor@logan.tivoli.com (David Favor)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Mercury in dental fillings?
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:21:46 GMT
Organization: TIVOLI Systems, Inc.

>Amen.  Any dentist worth his salt is way overworked.  The last thing he
>needs or wants is to be forced to use some new restorative material
>that will not last and thus has to be replaced more often.  None of the 
>substitutes come anywhere near lasting as long as amalgam.  Disregarding
>the humanity side for a moment, mercury substitutes are a logistical
>nightmare.  Regarding the humanity side, any dentist who does something
>that makes his patients come back and go under the needle and drill 
>more often is going to lose those patients to dentists who don't.  
>The only dentists whom I've heard about using substitutes generally 
>don't fit well with my first full sentence.

the composite material used to replace my mercury filings is a porous
material that permeates the tooth surface, becoming bonded over time.
when I asked how long this material would last I was told the rest of
my life. on the other hand the sealant he used for the shallow mercury
has to be touched up every 8-10 years.

mercury on the other hand has no bonding characteristics. for mercury to
work at all the tooth has to be hollowed out in the shape of a light bulb.
the mercury is then poured in and due the shape simple stays there. mercury
deteriorates in 4-12 years, dependent mainly on diet and personal metobolic
type/rate.

you have said "... Regarding the humanity side..." you fell dentist should
put mercury and nickel in their patients mouths? this puzzles me. perhaps
you are just unaware of the current technology in mercury substitutes.

when I was interviewing my current Dentist he asked me my dental objective(s).
I replied that I wanted to preserve the maximum tooth material and I wanted
to dental reconstruction such that all I needed the rest of my life would be
simple cleanings. he laughed and said you and I will get on just fine because
you have just described the 'mission' of my practice.

I challenge you to research non-metal dental technology. the progress that has
been made in the last 3-5 years is truely astounding. keep us posted on what
you uncover.
From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Magnetic Therapy
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:50:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Aug19.095038.8691
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

In article <1470190@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>In sci.med, rrempel@selkirk.sfu.ca (Rodney Dwight Rempel) writes:
>
>> Is there any scientific, controlled, studies showing effect - NO
>
>I've seen a controlled study of magnetized beds at two hospitals in Japan. 
>Subjects on magnetized matresses recovered from back pain faster than
>subjects on normal matresses. I don't have a citation for the study. :-(

Gee, in which plane is the B-field oriented?  Up through the patients chest?
Along the length of the patient?  And are we talking steady state fields?
AC?  (If so, what frequency?)

>> Is there a currently accepted theory that supports it - NO
>
>There are several competing theories though: increased blood flow, quantum
>interactions, magnetic resonance (w/ electric field), vibration of electron
>orbits shifted off their axis, hall effect...

Um, those don't sound like theories to me, they sound like effects of magnetic
fields on things in the body (other than "increased blood flow," and you have
to find a reason for that).  Hopefully your competing theories explain
WHY these effects promote healing! 

I should also point out to you that many of these effects are self referenced...
quantum mechanics (interactions) govern electron "vibrations", and
the movement of the electrons creates magnetic fields, from which the hall
effect is a direct consequence.  (Although it's certainly useful to categorize
cause and effect at the highest physical level possible, e.g., someone
designing relays doesn't have to worry about the atomic physics or quantum
mechanics...)

Well, guess it's time we start feeding people cow magnets. :-)  Or maybe I'll
just go wrap my hand around a big transformer core. :-)

						---Joel Kolstad
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Inbreeding and autoimmune diseases
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:48:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Aug17.175638.13253@ncsu.edu> Raleigh, NC (David Austin) writes:
>Does inbreeding lead to an increase in autoimmune diseases?


Inbreeding leads to an increase in all diseases that are mediated
by a recessive gene (you get one gene of a given type from each
parent.  In many diseases, one good gene is enough to prevent the
disease, but when you get two bad ones, you have the disease.  Inbred
strains are more likely to get the bad gene of a given type from both
sides).  Certain genes do have increased likelihood of autoimmune problems.
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Diabetic coma
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:08:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug12.220825.17775
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Aug12.161731.12721@javelin.sim.es.com> bgeer@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>Having this knowledge & imparting it to others are two very different
>things.  His "impartation" is inelegant & he is defensive about that.

I don't think it's inelegant at all; it's such a standard medical
phrase that the potential for misunderstanding didn't occur to him.
And why shouldn't he be defensive at the reaction he got?  It wasn't as
if the people belly-aching were confused by it.  Rather, they were pretty
pissy "fuck-you" replies, which deserved a response in kind, which is
what you got.

If someone had asked "how can I be said to have juvenile diabetes when
I'm 40 years old?" I'm sure that person would have received a different
reply.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: masimo@netcom.com (Michael Maas)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Atkins Diet
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:02:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <16131@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <QeYKkWe00YV7M40VsM@andrew.cmu.edu> lc2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Lawrence Curcio) writes:
>>There is a famous New Testament story of Jesus and the epileptic. A
>>father tells Jesus of how a devil will take his son and throw him into
>>the fire or the ocean. etc.
>>
>Is that the one where Jesus starts by taking a history "how long
>has this been going on?"  Epilepsy was well known to the ancients,
>but perhaps psychomotor epilepsy would be interpreted as "he hath
>a devil in him".  The grand mal form was pretty well known to be
>a disease by that time I think, and had been associated by the
>Greeks with head injuries and was known to be inheritable also.
>-- 
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>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
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Just thought I'd jump in here and point out that the fact that some of the 
better educated may have had this knowledge and understanding doesn't 
necessarily imply that Jesus or those with whom he lived would have had it.  
The gulf of knowledge between the "educated" and the "uneducated" may have been
greater then than it is now.  

Unfortunately, while we can know a great deal about what the "educated" knew
it is much more difficult to know what the "uneducated" might have known.  
The historical records that we have were largely written by the "educated"
and consequently dealt largely with their life experience.  

I think "educated" here could be a euphemism for the elite.

Mike
Xref: sparky sci.med:15736 comp.sys.sun.misc:3660 comp.sys.sun.hardware:3851
From: colin@toshiba.tic.oz.au (Colin Sutton)
Newsgroups: sci.med,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Wrist problems, input devices, and Sun workstations
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:04:02 GMT
Followup-To: sci.med

In <id.3G3S.DT9@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

>In article <15mub2INNpeb@cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
>> Some of my colleagues are experiencing wrist problems with the
>> keyboards for the Sparcstations.
[...]
>>   o  Any other suggestions?

>If you don't need the NeWS support, get X Terminals.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva 

Or buy Labtam X terminals with olwm built in...  
No keyboard warranty implied!   
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Toshiba International Corporation Pty. Ltd.   Tel. Sydney 428 2077
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
Subject: Re: amnesiac drugs
Reply-To: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 12:32:44 GMT


In a previous article, rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) says:
  I have had people request to have sutures
>placed without anesthetic, and while I go along with it, I'm always
>very uncomfortable having people feeling each successive stitch, and
>I sew more quickly and probably do a worse job.



But what's the connection between this and the amnesiacs?  If the amnesia
is a result of not -feeling- the pain (so there's essentially nothing to
remember), fine.  But if the pain is felt, would it make you slower and
more careful to know that the patient won't remember it? 


Bonita Kale
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Leg Cramps
From: Michael.Mc.Kay@f188.n264.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Mc Kay)
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:33:15 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:264/188 - Jail House Blues, Highland Springs VA

Recently had major leg cramps.  Tore a muscle in my calf that cost me to
bleed into my leg, crush a vien and make my leg swell close to six
weeeks.  I have never had this kind of experience before.  I mean, my
leg is black and blue after the ultra sound and two weeks later the
muscles are so sore its still a thouyht involved with walkling.
What have I doneto myself?

 

--  
Internet: Michael.Mc.Kay@f188.n264.z1.fidonet.org
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: our friend Trevor Cederquist
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:54:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug20.175415.25140
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

This guy needs a Dale Carnegie course.  Beware all you
who would think to abuse "smart drugs", and see the results!

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From: tcederqu@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (Trevor Cederquist)
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To: dyer@spdcc.com
Subject: Re: unethical? (was: Smart Drugs)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Cc: 

Thank you Steve.

I see you perform the same function here as on alt.drugs.
It's obvious you aren't married (or otherwise getting laid.)
Do have any friends?


Trevor C. Cederquist




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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: Need info on TENS electro stimulator
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:59:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <JF5NBAAH@dri.com> liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
>
>I inquired into purchasing my own unit and he replied that they are only 
>available to medical professionals.  Indeed, I did notice a sticker on the 
>TENS unit that said that federal law prohibits distribution except as 
>prescribed by a physician.
>
>My questions are:  
>
>What is dangerous about this technology that would restrict its availability?  
>It is not so pleasurable that I would be inclined to overindulge and I don't 
>have a pacemaker. :-)
>
>on it to educate myself and my GP?  If it is not available for enduser use in
>the US, is it available in Canada? 
>
>Thanks for any comments! 
>
>--
>Jimmy Liberato   liberato@dri.com
>                 ...uunet!drivax!liberato
>
>
>
I am using a TENS unit.  One that I used before the one I now have was
offered to me for sale by the company.  I believe their name is TMD
(Technical Medicine Division of PMSI).  The 800 number is 800-343-0488.
Ask for Jan and tell her I told you to call.  She was very helpful to me,
and I told her I would tell other people about the unit.

It is expensive, though.  To buy it, I think it was over $600.  But you
can rent it for three months first on option to buy.  If your chiropractor
is simply loaning it to you, you might have a good deal, but if he/she is
charging you for it, you might get it cheaper renting it directly from the
company.  I don't know.

Alice>


Newsgroups: sci.med
From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
Subject: Re: unethical? (was: Smart Drugs)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 19:53:43 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland

In article <16119@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:

>I think the newsgroup should be moderated, preferably by a
>non-physician without an axe to grind.
>

That sounds like a great idea. I'll inquire at my end about how it
can be done, and perhaps others will, too.

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Subject: relafen(nabumetone)
Reply-To: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:40:01 GMT

I've just gotten a script for Relafen.  I've read the prescribing
information and know this is intended to help control chronic pain
from arthritis.  I'm trying this for Phantom Limb Pain.  I've tried
numerous other drugs/therapies for this so don't suggest any unless 
they are extremely new!  

Can someone tell me if they've heard of Relafen being used for 
phantom limb pain?  Any success?  What would be the downside of
long term use?  

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Bell Northern Research          |   Part of Northern Telecom 
Richardson, Texas               |   i'm really in Texas
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No opinions herein expressed have anything to do with the opinions 
of Bell Northern Research or Northern Telecom or CIA or NSA ...
These statements are mine and mine alone, well i guess my wife 
agrees with some of them?
From: fzjaffe@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Smart Drugs
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:21:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis

In article <16134@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.210611.2125@cbfsb.cb.att.com> motto@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (mary.rita.otto) writes:
>
>>I started taking one Lecithin capsule and one small (lowest dosage sold
>>at Walgreens) B12 every day.  I didn't change anything else.  I started
>
>You realize of course, that one McDonald's shake probably has 10 times
>as much lecithin and probably even B12 as what you were taking.

YES!  Now all those in search of enhancing their memories can go to
their neighborhood McDonald's.  I hope the lines won't be too long! ;-)
I can see it now:  McHappy meals for kids, McMemory meals for the
elderly.

Why do some people think they're as simple as a chemistry set, and then
go conduct these bizarre anecdotal experiments on themselves?

If you really want to try something with a near-harmless drug like
lecithin, organize a little double-blinded study with your friends.
Make up packets of pills, some with lecithin, some with gelatin, that
look alike.  Code the labels so no one will no what's inside, but save
the code.  Randomly pass out the packets to your friends and have them
report on the effect after a week.  Then break the code. The results may
be amusing.  (make sure the person passing out the pills also doesn't
know the code) 

P.S.  Never try this with something less benign than lecithin.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: rrempel@fraser.sfu.ca (Rodney Dwight Rempel)
Subject: Re: MULTI-VITAMINS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:42:02 GMT

CCMG <CCMG@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> writes:

>Is it dangerous to take 1 MULTI-VITAMIN daily all year round.
>Is it beneficial or a waste of money.I took 1 tablet daily only
>in winter last year and never got a cold during that period.

If it was a "multi with iron" there is a --slight-- risk. There
probably isn't a risk for most other vitamins as long as this
wasn't one of those "horse tables" that contains many times the
recommended daily allowances of fat soluble vitamins.

As for not getting a cold - congratulations. If you think the
vitamins were part of the reason then they are probably an
inexpensive "aid". ("placebo effects" are often poo-pooed, but
they work...)

Rod Rempel rrempel@sfu.ca
Department of Kinesiology Simon Fraser University
... it two million people do a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing

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From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: Atkins Diet)
Organization: SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse 
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:34:43 EDT

In article <QeYKkWe00YV7M40VsM@andrew.cmu.edu> Lawrence Curcio <lc2b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>There is a famous New Testament story of Jesus and the epileptic. A
>father tells Jesus of how a devil will take his son and throw him into
>the fire or the ocean. At that moment, the son is afflicted and Jesus
>calms him. The apostles are in awe, but Jesus tells them that the son is
>not fully cured that the devil may be cast out only by constant prayer
>and FASTING (in the King James version -Matthew). Fasting, as it
>happens, is an ancient method of treating epilepsy. It induces ketosis.
>Oddly, most recent translations omit the part about fasting.

The unfounded belief that ketosis can have a beneficial efffect on 
seizure disorders is still expounded in some "Heal Yourself With
Nutrition" books -- an epileptic patient brought such a book to 
my office just today and showed me where it recommended a high
fat diet (to induce ketosis).  FAT CHANCE :)

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From: fzjaffe@othello.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: ******** MICROWAVE HAZARDS *******
Keywords: gonies
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:34:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis

I think Uncle Stan's concern about his gonies is derived from the
experience of sailors in WWII.  I seem to remember hearing that, since
they didn't know the hazards of strong microwave fields, some sailors'
jobs had them near the radar antenna--some even warmed themselves up
there when they were cold!  Apparently, some problems with infertility
occurred--thus the gonies-cooking reference.
From: wayne@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Wayne Covington)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:24:25 GMT
Subject: Re: amnesiac drugs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: sci.med

M20614@mwvm.mitre.org (Hugh Pritchard) writes in part:

> So how about procedures done with a local anesthetic?  For eye surgery,
> local anesthesia is certainly used (called a "retro-bulbar").  So why are
> 90% (according to one anesthesiologist) of eye operations also done with
> Versed?  One sliver of justification is that the actual administering
> of the retro-bulbar (meaning "behind the eyeball") anesthetic is rather
> dramatic, and could be quite frightening:  the needle is pushed into the
> skin between your eyeball and eye socket, and pushed around back of your
> eyeball.  I read a textbook in which an eye surgeon RECOMMENDS having the
> anesthesiologist give Versed to the patient!

It's not as bad as it sounds.  In my case they started with local anesthetic
drops, then a Q-tip or the equivalent with more local anesthetic under the
lower eyelid, then the hypodermic.  It is all quite painless.  The local
anesthetic shut down most of the signals thru the optic nerve -- all I could
see was very low contrast images in various shades of pink and violet.
Versed could cheat you out of the memory of this experience.

Your opthamologist may be gracious enough to give you a copy of the videotape
of the procedure.  My overall reaction was "Good grief this guy has good
hands.  His manual dexterity and control are something fantastic."

Wayne
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.kids
From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: Hepatitis vaccine
Keywords: THINK AGAIN
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 17:07:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.215610.23969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> motto@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (mary.rita.otto) writes:
>
>I know a family where the baby daughter's liver was destroyed and she
>required a transplant to save her life following Hep.  Now she'll be
>on anti-rejection for as long as she makes it.  Nice white, uppper class
>family.  No drug use, IV or otherwise.  No exposure risk noteable.  They
>still don't know how or why.  Maybe she was exposed in the hospital at
>the time of birth.  Think again.  You can't hide from a virus.  But you
>can protect your child with a simple immunization.  Please, give it some
>thought.
>
>Mary Otto
>
>

  Shouldn't we all go and get this vaccine?  I keep feeling that I
  should ask my doctor to get it too.  My 18-month old son just got
  his first shot, and my husband (health-care worker) is already
  immune.  I feel like I'm the only one who isn't.  Should I ask
  my doctor about it?
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