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From: Daniel.Jack.Blumenfeld@dartmouth.edu (Daniel Jack Blumenfeld)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Antidepressant Drugs:  Zoloft?
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:26:46 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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I'm looking for clinical-trial information on the new antidepressant
drug
Zoloft (sp?).  I am not sure what phamaceutical company developed the
drug,
and whether it is still in the clinical trial stage or has recently
been
approved by the FDA... it's not in the 1992 PDR.  Medical journal
references
would be helpful (I've already searched MEDLINE without any success).

Dan Blumenfeld
Dartmouth Medical School

blumenfeld@dartmouth.edu
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Safety of zinc supplements?
Date: 1 Oct 1992 06:16:19 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


My optometrist told me today there is some evidence that adequate
zinc intake protects against macular degeneration.  Then there have
been reports on the net from time to time that sucking on zinc
lozenges may help to stop colds, if started at the first sign of
scratchy throat.  So I've been wondering how much zinc it is safe
to ingest.  (The optometrist suggested just the RDA is sufficient;
but for cold fighting one might overdo the lozenges?)
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art."
        Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.J. Cater)
Subject: Re: The best way to treat Hyperthyroidism ?
Originator: kjc7435@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:33:02 GMT

Please feel free to e-mail me at "kjc7435@ritvax.isc.rit.edu".
I had hyperthyroidism (graves' disease) earlier this year and
tried both the oral medications available (had allergic reactions
to both), then I had the radioactive iodine treatment, and have
been rendered hypothyroid (am taking synthetic thyroid hormones).
I also have a friend who had a tumor on her thyroid and had it 
removed by surgery. 

Am quite willing to discuss this with you,

Miss Kerry Cater.

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 12:38:09 EDT

In article <16724@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.235834.19874@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
>>In article <16692@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>>
>>>This is really minor compared to say, a patient who has
>>>pseudoseizures (phoney seizures that mimic epilepsy).
>>
>>Phoney seizures? Sounds like a story worth telling...
>
>Pseudoseizures are not at all uncommon. They are one of the
>greatest attention-getting mechanisms among some patients.
>

Virtually all of the pseudoseizure cases I have seen have ALSO had bona
fide neurogenic seizures.  Many of these patients have limited
intellectual endowment (low average IQ at best), most (but not all) are
women, they are highly suggestible, and they usually have horrendous
psychosocial problems.   They all stand in need of psychiatric help but
often resist it mightily; they will often start hunting for a new
doctor immediately if confronted with the suggestion that their spells
might not be epileptic in origin.  As common as these cases are today,
it may be that hysterical seizures may have been more common in the
Victorian era; nowadays many highly suggestible patients may wind up in
mental hospitals as "hystero-schizophrenics" rather than on neurological
wards as "hystero-epileptics" (this is personal speculation based
on experience with patients with severe personality disorders who
present differently in neurologic and psychiatric contexts).  It
has been suggested that childhood sexual abuse may be a risk
factor for the development of pseudoseizures.

Fascinating problem, very tough cases.  Wasteful of resources yes and
definitely an unsolved challenge to psychiatric medicine.

--
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mark kline                              mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu
suny health science center, syracuse    voice: (315) 422-1050
================ courtesy of syracuse university ================
From: kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley)
Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:12:51 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University SVM

In article <16768@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- 
- I saw a much more interesting case in Madison Wisconsin.  THis
- fellow was not a Munchausen's, but had a compulsion to operate
- on himself.  He was a genetics graduate student.  The first

You actually saw this patient?!!  There was a discussion of him 
in alt.folklore.urban, a few months ago, when Jack Campin and I 
both remembered reading about it about the time it happened, but didn't
have any real references beyond a hazy memory of seeing an article. 
(at least I didn't; Jack may have).

I had always thought Munchausen's was rare, but this discussion
makes it seem fairly ordinary.  Is this self-diagnosis and -treatment
compulsion at all common?  Would you expect this person to have
been diagnosable by a psychiatrist before he started cutting? 


followups are directed to alt.folklore.urban.  

Steve
	people really are strange, sometimes
From: cd741@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Andarti)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: blood tests
Date: 2 Oct 1992 13:12:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cd741@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Andarti)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Would the following blood test results be any thing to be 
concerned about?

bili, unconj.    1.3 U/L
sgot              46 U/L
ldh              286 IU/L
cholesterol      130 mg/dL

These were all marked as abnormal on a test administered by a 
specialist who mentioned them but they aren't in his area 
of expertise.  Are they something to mention to my GP?  Thanks.

Paul

-- 
"We're desperate, Get used to it,
  It's kiss or kill" - X
From: annesit@thestables.Eng.Sun.COM (Anne Sitterud)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Lupus Information Needed
Date: 2 Oct 1992 18:15:12 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: annesit@thestables.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: thestables

Does anyone have any information about Lupus or pointers to any resources?
_They_ think my daughter has it and I'd like as much information as possible.


TIA
Anne
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Starting an alternative medicine newsgroup
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:07:22 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Oct2.061034.5539@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>
>I vote for this nonsense to stay in sci.skeptic.
>

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?




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From: ttt@cmr.no (Tore Tjomsland)
Subject: Mononucleosis
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 10:13:31 GMT

This summer I had mononucleosis. The illness
lasted for 10 weeks. In the beginning of august
the bloodtests said that I was ok. So I started
training (jogging) again. I got a cold
immedeately. After a couple of weeks I was cured,
and I started training again. The same thing
happend. This situation has continued throughout
august and september. Everytime I have been out
training or diving I get a cold immedeately
afterwards.

Is it possible that this has got something to do
with the mononucleosis, or is it just coincidence?

Thanks a lot for replies in e-mail.

Tore Tjomsland  (BERGEN - NORWAY)
ttt@cmr.no
From: julien@skcla.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: shin splints
Keywords: Shin splints, where to look
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:01:24 GMT
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL

In article <dedmunds.717661882@sfu.ca>, 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.
> Are there specific exercises which would alleviate the problem?  Is it
> time to visit a podiatrist?
> 

If you look in the netnews group: Rec.running in the FAQ(frequently asked
questions), there is a section on shin splints and helpful exercises to do. FAQ
in rec.running are posted about every 3 or 4 weeks.

J.J.

>
From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David A. Nye MD)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Medical billing software wanted!
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:07:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: cnsvax.1992Oct6.130759.1546
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

In article <1992Oct5.135255.521@ab.wvnet.edu>, myers@ab.wvnet.edu writes:
> My wife does the medical billing for a couple of physicians by hand currently
> which is rather lengthy and time consuming.  We have an IBM PC 386 computer
> and would like to use it to do the billing and even posibly send some out
> electronically.  We do not need a complete physician's office package
> but we would consider anything reasonably easy to learn and use and
> fairly inexpensive.  (The ones we have seen cost $5,000 and up and are
> too expensive for us)  If you know of such a billing package or use one which
> is espicially nice please write to me dirrectly or post here.  Thanks in
> advance for any and all help.

There are probably about 100 medical billing packages available.
Get a copy of the annual software issue of MD Computing for a
list of most of these.  Several are also reviewed in back issues.
The right package for you will depend on many features besides
cost.
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: testing please ignore
From: system@fallout.lonestar.org
Date: 29 Sep 92 08:45:07 CST
 <Sep.24.12.06.40.1992.18506@andromeda.rutgers.edu> <80607@ut-emx.uucp>
Distribution: usa
Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX*

testing please ignore
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Cystic Fibrosis
From: rwharris@unix0.ccit.arizona.edu (Robert W Harris)
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:02:21 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
Keywords: CF cystic fibrosis

I need help and information on cystic fibrosis.  Help would be
appreciated in diagnosis and treatment.  My grand-daughter has 
just been given a diagnosis of CF on the basis of a salt test.
The doctors have stated that the salt test has a 99% accuracy but
have not done a genetic test, saying that a gene test is only 80%
accurate.  This is hard for me to believe, that the gene test is only
80% accurate.  Any help is appreciated.
From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: American Medical Association warns of illegal drug importation
Date: 5 Oct 1992 19:22:52 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Here is a press release from the American Medical Association.

 AMA Warns of Illegal Drug Importation
 To: National Desk, Medical Writer
 Contact: Arnold Collins of the American Medical Association,
          312-464-4430

   CHICAGO, Oct. 5   -- The American Medical Association 
has asked federal authorities to investigate and take
action against the illegal promotion and distribution in the United
States of unapproved drug products imported from abroad.
   In discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the AMA
expressed its concern about "off-shore" (e.g. Bahamas) and "overseas"
(e.g. Europe) prescription mail-order houses, which advertise
U.S.-patented prescription drug products in popular American
magazines.
   Using their credit cards, American consumers can usually order
these medications by toll-free telephone call, often at greatly
reduced prices and apparently without a doctor's prescription.
   The promotion and distribution of unapproved drug products within
the United States is illegal.  Among the AMA's other concerns are
questions of quality, self-prescription and lack of medical
supervision which could pose a significant risk to a patient's
health.
   The quality of so-called "foreign versions" of prescription drugs
is often unknown; in some cases the drugs are counterfeits.
Directions for appropriate use of the products may be inadequate.
Finally, the ease with which these unapproved and sometimes potent
mail-order drugs can be obtained -- frequently without a doctor's
prescription -- raises serious concerns about self-medication
without the guidance of a licensed practitioner, according to the
AMA.
   The AMA's action is not meant to restrict the importation of small
dosages of drugs not yet approved in the United States, when intended
for the treatment of individuals with serious illnesses.  These
"personal use" drugs are permitted entry by the FDA in treatment
quantities of three months or less.  They must not pose unreasonable
health safety risks, must not be promoted in this country, and should
be used only to treat illnesses for which no satisfactory treatments
are currently available here.  Individuals importing such drugs must
adequately document that the drugs are for their own use and are
administered under the supervision of a physician licensed to
practice in the United States.
   The AMA has also issued an advisory to physicians nationwide to
inform their patients of the potential health hazards of prescription
medications obtained from mail-order houses abroad, and of the risks
of self-medicating with drugs that require a physician's
prescription.
   Because physicians must address the cost of prescription drugs and
the ability of individual patients to pay for medications, the AMA
has reminded physicians that U.S. pharmaceutical houses have
established programs enabling those with modest resources to obtain
expensive drug products.
 -30-

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: obscure blood diseases
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:37:07 GMT

Thrombocytopenia is more of a symptom than a disease.  It means that you
have a reduced number of platelets, and this can cause a variety of problems
related to inappropriate bleeding.  ITP (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura)
is one disease which is treated usually by splenectomy and corticosteroids.
It's believed to have some sort of immunological basis.  But to reemphasize,
someone can have thrombocytopenia for a variety of reasons, and it's important
to discover the cause.

Von Willebrand's Disease is a disorder in the production of a co-factor
which works to facilitate the actions of the clotting factor, Factor VIII
(a deficiency of Factor VIII itself is so-called classical hemophilia.)

I'm not qualified to comment of the consequences of having both of these
conditions at the same time, other than to say it doesn't sound too desirable.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Re: some civil war firsts
Organization: NCR Corporation - Law Department
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:49:25 GMT


From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>


MODERATOR writes:
#[mod note: -- I believe you are referring to the LeMat revolver -- 6 pistol
#shots, and one shotgun shell in a barrel mounted under the revolver barrel


Didn't the Le Mat have 9 .44 chambers in its cylinder? Also, the shot 
barrel, like the chambers in the cylinder, were percussion fired and
muzzle loaded.


Ed Rudnicki     erudnick@pica.army.mil     All disclaimers apply
"It demoralized them. Not to mention killed them."
     --- 3rd AD officer describing effects of DPICM in ODS

Newsgroups: sci.military
From: wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Info on India's military
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:33:36 GMT
Organization: Cornell University


From wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)

In article <Bv1IKq.2Eq@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>,
groy@ursp04.csb (Gautam Roy, CEB) writes: 
> Hey guys, do anyone out there have some info on
> India's military. Statistics would be appreciated.
> Recommendation on books related to this subject
> would also be appreciated.
You might try IISS' "The Military Balance."  Published every year (?) it gives
a fairly extensive list of systems deployed by military and many paramilitary
organizations along with basic organizational details and general dispositions
of forces.  There isn't a lot of detail on given systems however.  For that the
best sources are probably the various Jane's handbooks.  As another poster
noted Fighting Ships will give you a breakdown of naval forces by country.  The
others generally are organized by manufacturing country but usually have a
table in the back which list holdings by country.

-- 
Tom Schoene
wwo@cornella.cit.cornell.edu  -or- wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.military
From: gt7797a@prism.gatech.edu (WORKS,TRAVIS EDWARD)
Subject: Re: Kinetic Energy Tank Killers
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:44:34 GMT


From gt7797a@prism.gatech.edu (WORKS,TRAVIS EDWARD)




While were on the subject, whatever happened to those hydrogen guns I was
reading about a year or two ago?  (The ones that used a conventional charge
to drive a piston which compressed hydrogen gas to ungodly pressures and
then fired like an air rifle).  There were pictures in it of a 7-meter long
gun that fired a BB-sized projectile which blew a six-inch hole in a piece
of steel armor plate, using kinetic energy alone!  They also mentioned
a twenty-something meter long version of the same gun... ouch!

						-Tag

Newsgroups: sci.military
From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Subject: Re: Russian Anti-Satalite Weapon  
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:59:47 GMT


From fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)

In article <BvE5Lx.2pv@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sean J. Roc D'Arcy) writes:
>Actually, the concept of anti-satellite weapons has been around a while.
>Does anyone know if any where ever developed and furthermore ever deployed?

The Soviets built and tested an anti-satellite weapon in the early
1970s. It was a "killer satellite" launched into an orbit close to 
that of the target. It would then close under its own power and,
once close enough, detonate. I'm not sure how usefull this would have
been: It certainly could have reached polar-orbiting satellites in
a Low Earth Orbit (recon sats and possiblly the NavStar/GPS system.)
However, the launch vehicle it was tested on could not have put it
into a geostationary orbit or even a equatorial Low Earth orbit (when 
launched from any of the Soviet launch complexes...) _Possibly_
they could have placed the killer satellite onto a large launch vehicle
and reached these orbits, but this would be an untested configuration.
For political reasons, they stopped testing the system. However, since
the tests were sucessful, it's quite possible they simply deployed it.

The United States build a intercepter system around 1980. It was a
large missile launched from a F-15. The F-15 would fly to the launch
position at high altitude, refuel in mid-air, go into its steepest
possible climb on afterburners, maintain this until it was almost out
of fuel, launch the missile, and re-fuel again. The missle would
reach a Low Earth orbit (or any inclination) and had an IR homing
system to track and intercept the target satellite. Work on this
system was terminated for political reasons after (I believe) two
sucessful tests.

>I don't know if the cost would be worth it, but the destruction of some
>of the satellites used by Communication and Positioning systems, not to 
>mention weather and intelligence gathering, might be quite desirable in a 
>large conflict.

Neither of the existing systems could reach most of these targets 
but such a weapon would be quite feasible, nor is the technology all that
difficult: A Scud B missile, with an improved guidance system, could
reach the Low Earth recon satellites. The Russians (or CIS), Chinese,
Japanese and the United States could build an anti-satellite system
able to range geostationary orbit, without even requiring a major
research and development effort.

                                                Frank Crary
                                                CU Boulder


Newsgroups: sci.military
From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Subject: Controversy over V-2 anniversary
Followup-To: sci.military,sci.space
Organization: NCR Corporation - Law Department
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:29:29 GMT


From higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)


X-Date: 29 Sep 92 15:57:34 GMT
X-Sender: news@fnnews.fnal.gov
X-Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov

Remember a week or so ago, when somebody on this newsgroup reminded us
that the first flight of a V-2 (A-4, if you prefer) into "space" had
taken place fifty years ago, in October 1942?

Monday I heard a news account that ceremonies to celebrate this
event have become a matter of controversy.  A local FM station carries
the BBC World Service, and they reported that the German government
had withdrawn its support, or approval, or something, from a
commemoration sponsored by private aerospace groups.  Ceremonies were
supposed to take place at Peenemuende, the military base on the Baltic
where the A-4 was developed.  

Has anybody heard more detail?  Has the story appeared in print?

Apparently the fact that the A-4 was a nasty weapon that killed lots
of people overshadows the importance of the anniversary.  

In this country, the Confederate Air Force is allowed to tell us what
a great plane the B-17 was without visible interference...


Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey              | Here Lies Bill Higgins:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory  | He Never Ever Learned 
Bitnet:           HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET  | To Play Guitar So Well
Internet:       HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV  | But He Could Read and Write
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