HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman)
Subject: A helpful exercize
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:04:07 GMT

I saw the FAQ recently, and would like to contribute an exercize that I found
amazing at releaving strain. Much (most?) of the strain in your wrists comes
from strain in your back and shoulders. This exercize reduces the strain from
above and hopefully leads to less strain on the wrists.

The exercize comes in two parts: warmup and one or two "real" exercizes. The
warmup gets you going, the other ones do the real work. You can choose one
or both of the "real" exercizes.

Warmup (10 reps):
Stand with your knees unlocked. Hunch your shoulders to your ears, then push
them straight back, then drop them down to their original position in an arc.
Viewed from your right side, the motion of the right shoulder looks like this:

3 <----------- 2
|              ^
 |             |
  \            |
   \           |
     \         |
       -       |
         --> 1,4

"Real" exercize 1 (10 reps):
Put your arms out in front of you with the backs of the hands touching, elbows
slightly out. Following the same shoulder movements as in the warmup, hunch
your shoulders straight up, pull them back (your elbows will bend to about
70-90 degrees), then drop them in a curve. As you drop them, turn your palms
face up and strrrrettttch your arms out in front of you and touch your
pinkies together, really feeling the stretch in your shoulder blades. Flip
your hands over and repeat 10 times. The big benefit here is in the final
stretch: you will likely hear those familiar pops and crunches.

"Real" exercize 2 (10 reps):
Similar to "real" excercize 1, but this time your arms are straight out to
your sides, making you look like a human T. Your arms move much less, but you
can still feel the stretch. Start with your palms facing backwards. Hunch up,
move the shoulders straight back, and as you drop the shoulders, flip your
hands over and strrrrettttch straight out.

I do a set of these about twice a day. Since I started, I've had almost no
wrist strain, and my upper back feels better. I hope this works for other
people.

>>Paul Hoffman
-- 
||  Why quote someone else?  ||
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Hismanal and Humibid DM
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:43:35 GMT

In article <24722@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:
>My doctor just prescribed Hismanal (10 mg daily) and Humibid (2 tabs twice 
>daily).
>Has anyone (esp. doctors) heard of such a reaction?  Any suggestions?

Yeah, stop taking it if it's bothering you.

Humibid is an expectorant and cough suppressant, the same as is in
Robitussin DM (guaifenesin/dextromethorphan).  It would be unlikely
to cause these side effects.

An antihistamine like Hismanal, while purportedly a "non-sedating"
antihistamine with limited access to the central nervous system,
can cause excitement and nervousness in susceptible people; it can
also cause difficulty in urinating through its anticholinergic
actions, which not only tend to dry out nasal secretions, but also
tend to decrease the tone of the bladder, making it more effortful
to start and stop.  Hismanal is not notorious for either of these
side effects, but it's the logical culprit.

This is obviously for a cold; if the cure is worse than the disease,
you might as well wait it out without taking the antihistamine.


-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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From: dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless)
Subject: Re: Vitamin C
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:53:33 GMT

In article <BzD9J4.7wu@dale.cts.com> npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan) writes:
>I get confused when I hear people talk about vitamin C and the effect
>it has on their colds.  First of all, my colds are very individualistic.
>Sometimes I have a sore throat, sometimes they last for 3 days, sometimes
>they last for 10 days, sometimes my head aches, sometimes my skin hurts.

	Sometimes my head hurts, and sometimes my stomach hurts.  And I guess
it won't be long...  before I'm sitting in a room full of people whose necks
and backs are aching - who just can't seem to get up.

[Sorry, you inserted a song-reference virus in my brain.]

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:38:26 EST
From: <DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Physician's Incomes

In article <BzBHyG.4vJ@acsu.buffalo.edu>, oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy
Brown) says:
>
>In article <gdavis.724433998@griffin>, gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis)
>writes...
>>
>> According to the December Scientific American,American physicians
>>are among the best paid in the world.
>>The lead article,which describes problems and policies concerning
>>the control of health-care costs,cites USA MDs making a 120,000
>>per year salary which equates to 5.1 times the salary of the average
>>professional wage. Switzerland and Germany compensate physcians at
>>approximately 3.5 to 4.5 times the average professional wage.
>>I was surprised to see physicans in Australia compensated at only
>>twice the average. The average international compensation seems to be
>>about 2.5 to 3 times the average professional wage.
>>
>>I was somewhat disappointed that the article did not cite which nations
>>have national healthcare and what qualifications are required to practice
>>medicine. In the USA educational requirements are quite extensive and in
>>some cases expensive. As well USA MDs must complete at least two years
>>of post graduate internship and I believe if a speciality is sought,
>>this requirement becomes even more extensive.
>
>Exactly.
>
>>In any event 120,000 per annum
>
>What's the point?  I don't think this is excessive.  They must
>put in 4 years of undergrad school, 4(?) years of medical school,
>then usually they're residents for varying amounts of time.  The
>higher paying specialties generally have longer residency
>requirements.  While they are residents they do not make a lot -
>high 20's to high 30's I would guess.
>
>Once they are making the "big bucks," the ones who do surgery
>must respond to patient complications day or night.  Also, they
>have high insurance costs, and all the expenses associated with
>running an office.
>
>Personally, I don't like socialized medicine.  (Maybe I've been
>involved with New York State too long?)  I like the fact that
>people who are willing to work long and hard are rewarded for
>their efforts.  Socialized medicine would encourage mediocrity.

What do you mean by socialized medicine?  Do you have any evidence
that physicians in Germany, Canada, France, Britain, etc. are mediocre?






Dennis G. Shea, Penn State
<<DISCLAIMER>>
Ain't nobody's bizness but my own. I'll be happy to accept all
the credit for anything I've written.  It's funny, however, how
employers only acknowledge the profitable ideas.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: julien@skcla.monsanto.com
Subject: Milk is not a liquid?
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:38:27 GMT


In a recent visit to my physcian, one of the questions he asked was how much
liquid I was drinking. I said that I drink alot of milk. He said that milk does
not count. Milk is in a liquid form but it counts as a food. I'll agree that
milk is a source of calcium and vitamin D etc., but doesn't it also contain
alot of water and therefore represent some form of liquid intake? 

Janet
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: aids testing and insurance
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 19 Dec 92 17:07:49 EDT
 <1992Dec11.104956.517@news.wesleyan.edu> <BzCqso.Gr2@sdf.lonestar.org> 
 <1992Dec17.195035.543@news.wesleyan.edu> <24441@alice.att.com>
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In <24441@alice.att.com> ark@alice.att.com writes:

> In article <1992Dec17.195035.543@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
> 
> > Interesting.   Wasn't there a Privacy Act in about 1969 or something like that
> > which guarantees me access to any database information kept by some third party 
> > about myself?  I oughta look it up.
> 
> I'd appreciate hearing what you find.  I suspect that any such act
> specifically exempts medical records.


Well, here's what I found (courtesy of the nice folks over in the misc.legal
newsgroup; thanks folks):

Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: Privacy Act?
From: lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney)

In <1992Dec18.210914.546@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
>I vaguely remember learning (in the mid70's) something about a Federal Privacy
>Act, which guaranteed a person access to files about himself or herself. 
>Unfortunately, my aging brain does not quite recall what I learned about it. 
>Does anyone know what I'm talking about?  Is it still in effect?

Yes.  

  Does it apply
>only to files maintained by governmental agencies, or does it apply to files
>maintained by private organizations as well?  

Only to government files.  It both prohibits unauthorized release of
information which the government has about you, as well as giving you
a right to get copies of your files.  (This complements the Freedom of
Information Act, which gives you the right to get access to most
government files which aren't "private").

>The reason I'm wondering at this particular moment is that I'm wondering if I
>have any right to access to the Insurance Co.s' big database which they all
>share. I think it may contain some inaccurate information about me and I would
>like to find out if it does.

The privacy act doesn't cover this.  But there may be other (federal
or state) laws which do.

-- 
larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com) 
_(*#&)#*&%)@(*^%_!*&%^!)*&#+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*&#%)*&^%#+&
The past is not dead, it's not even past.   - Wm. Faulkner



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Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: Peter Breggin, _Toxic Psychiatry_ (Q)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 15:25:31 EST

In article <24417@alice.att.com> ark@alice.UUCP () writes:
>Does anyone else remember the article written by the journalist who
>walked into a hospital one day, claiming to hear voices, with the
>intent of seeing what happened and writing about it?

It was not a journalist, it was a Stanford professor of psychology and 
a couple of his graduate students.  The article (by Rosenhan)
is titled "On being sane in insane places" and has been reprinted
and summarized a number of places.  There has been considerable
debate about what, if anything, was demonstrated in Rosenhan's
experiment.
From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: AIDS, Cancer Cured by Hyperoxygenation
Date: 12 Dec 92 23:33:45 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

[reply to Don_-_Showen@cup.portal.com,]
 
>AIDS, Cancer Cured by Hyperoxygenation
>Reprinted from the June 1988 issue of Health Freedom News
 
Not this again!  I suppose that an international conspiracy of doctors
has prevented this wonderful treatment from being accepted in the time
that has elapsed since this was published.  When is the alternative
medicine conference going to be up?  Soon, I hope.

David Nye
nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
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From: nick@gepard.msk.su (Ovcharenko Nickolay Yurievich)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: BEE VEDOM: who might be interested in it?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:21:30 +0200
Distribution: world
Organization: GEPARD, Ltd
Reply-To: nick@gepard.msk.su

Dear gentlemen!
Here in Russia we are going to produce bee vedom. Would you help us in finding
medical or pharmacological centers interested in long-time cooperation. If
scientists or other specialists will contact with us, it will be great.
     Sincerely  Nickolay Ovcharenko
     nick@gepard.msk.su
     fax (095)-135-70-30
     telex 911528 IMS SU    "GEPARD"


Newsgroups: sci.med
From: endesa@lascar.puc.cl (Eduardo Lucero)
Subject: biochemistry's friend
Organization: Club DataByte, Endesa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:31:24 GMT

Hi,me again:
Well I'm in third year, and I don't know a lot of biochemistry, but 
do me a favor, if you have a friend that study biochemistry and he use this 
comunication medium please tell me. Thanks.
Felipe.
From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Getting off Xanax
Date: 20 Dec 1992 00:58:57 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Interesting article on just this subject in the latest Consumer Reports.
Should be on your newsstand soon if not already.
	- Brian
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:27:26 GMT

In article <1gq4p8INN2bb@mirror.digex.com> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.224957.11233@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>> From what I can gather, the diet establishment is much more
>> aggressive here, and the incidence of high count diet cyclers
>> may be higher.  Every middle aged morbidly obese male I have
>> talked to has diet cycled many times.
>
>I reached 320 pounds by age 15.  I had never been on a diet.  Had I not
>lost weight at age ~30 (reducing to ~160 lbs) I'm sure I would have
>remained 320 pounds through middle and old age.
>
>So at least in my case, the "morbid obesity" was not due to diet cycling.
>
>It's my impression -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- that virtually
>every "morbidly obese" middle aged man was "morbidly obese" all their
>life.  This seems to be unrelated to the more common "middle age spread".

Not quite.

Since the respected American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
publishes papers based on as few as one single fat subject, I
trust "the net" will indulge some small-sample-size information
of my own.  I don't expect to see good data on 30-50 year old
morbidly obese diet virgins appearing in diet establishment
magazines, so beggars can't be choosers.

Last September The Western Military Academy "Solid Class of '62"
held its 30th year reunion.  We were able to contact about half
of our high school classmates, and many of them traveled across
the country to attend.

All but two of us with middle age spread had hints of things to
come in approximate proportion to the final result.

Jim and I were heavy from an early age.  Al was normal until
puberty.  During high school none of us were morbidly obese,
not be a long shot.  What we had was more like "middle age
spread", without the gray hair.  I was 210 pounds when I was 15.
Jim and I are at least twice as fat after multiple diet cycling.
Diet cycling has not been as fattening for Al; this is
consistent with the medical literature that notes those with
childhood onset obesity are most susceptible to diet cycling.

-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: aharris@javelin.sim.es.com (Alan Harris)
Subject: Re: "reflexology"?
Reply-To: aharris@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:55:40 GMT

Several months ago my mother got interested in reflexology.  She had a book that
explained where all the nerve endings are in your feet and where you could 
massage your feet to fix problems with your liver, kidneys, etc. etc.  My brother
and I (my brother is an immunologist) thought it was pretty funny.  She was 
convinced this would help her be more healthy.  She always got dad to sit down on
the sofa and rub her feet while she consulted the book and told him what part of
her body he should treat next.  One day I got a bright idea.  I told mom I knew
what she could do to fix virtually all her health problems.  I told her to get a
good pair of jogging shoes with a good high arch.  She should be sure they fit 
well and are comfortable.  I told her that when she walks in those shoes they
will massage the entire bottoms of both feet.  Imagine all the theraputic benefit
to your entire body by massaging all those nerve endings at the same time!  I 
thought if she walked, oh maybe an hour, every day, that in a few weeks she would
begin to see improvement in her health.  I wouldn't be surprised if all that
nervous system massage wouldn't improve her health so she would loose weight and
have more energy too!

I really had her convinced until I mentioned the weight.   She figured out
I was just getting her to exercize and never did it.  I should have kept my mouth
shut and let her think she was doing reflexology.    

Of course all the reflexologists out there will say- "That's it!  exercise does
nothing to make you healthier, It's the foot massage that does it! :->

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: plaque
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:09:31 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.



In what ways is dental plaque different from the plaque that accumulates
in arteries?

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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From: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c)
Subject: Cromolyn Sodium (vs. Beconase)
Originator: kpc@zog.arc.nasa.gov
Reply-To: kpc@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center AI Research and Aero Branches;
	Sterling.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:46:28 GMT

should i consider cromolyn instead of beconase for sinuses?  and how
can i get it for eyes?

1.  why are the eye drops still off the market?  how can i get them?

i used to take cromolyn eye drops.  it was absolutely outstanding (an
unmitigated, zero side-effects godsend) for very severe allergic eye
pain.  (it's supposed to be a mast cell inhibitor, and therefore only
for prevention, but strangely enough it provided relief also.)

unfortunately, it was taken off the market a few years ago.  i was
given to understand that this was a manufacturing problem and nothing
inherent whatsoever, but it's still off the market.  what harm could
result if i started using it again?  what if cost/benefit says i can
take the risk?  is it sold in usa/uk/canada/mexico?

2.  shouldn't i be using the nose drops for sinus problems instead of
beconase (vancenase)?

kaiser plugs beconase heavily, and it works a little, but given my
success with cromolyn, might i consider it for my sinuses/nose too?
do they do totally different things?  what are the differences?  does
it do nothing for polyps?

also, i'm curious about the inhaler.  is it useful for asthmatic
bronchitis?

thanks for any comments, either by email or news.
-- 
i'm open to comparing research career notes with other young cogsci people.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)
Subject: Re: "reflexology"?
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:33:15 GMT

Isn't the foot massage one reason that Scholl keep pushing their knobbly
sandals? And besides, would someone explain a pituitary relfex?

gervais

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Subject: Re: Physician's Incomes
Organization: University of Rochester
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:01:50 GMT

In article <BzDIG5.DKv@acsu.buffalo.edu> oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
>In article <92351.153826DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>, DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu writes...
>>In article <BzBHyG.4vJ@acsu.buffalo.edu>, oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy
>>Brown) says:
>>>
>>>In article <gdavis.724433998@griffin>, gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis)
>>>writes...
>>>>
>> 
>>What do you mean by socialized medicine?  Do you have any evidence
>>that physicians in Germany, Canada, France, Britain, etc. are mediocre?
>> 
>
>Nope, but I've seen plenty of civil service workers.  In these 
>systems everyone gets the same increases/benefits whether they 
>perform an adequate job or an exceptional job.
>
>So after being in a system like this for awhile, the top 
>performers figure out that its stupid to knock themselves silly 
>to do a good job when they get paid as much to do an adequate 
>job.
>
>I think this kind of system encourages mediocrity.

You are confused about the nature of Canadian medicine.  In contrast to
the English National Health system, Canadian doctors are _not_ civil
servants.  They run private practices much like doctors in the U.S.

The nationalized part of the Canadian system is health insurance:
every citizen has basic insurance provided by the government, and can
buy more.  All doctor's bills are submitted to the government, which
pays what it covers, then sends the rest to the supplementary coverage
firms or the patient.

Mark
-- 
Mark A. Fulk			University of Rochester
Computer Science Department	fulk@cs.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
Subject: Re: Peter Breggin, _Toxic Psychiatry_ (Q)
Originator: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:14:53 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <jimkent.724434668@well.sf.ca.us>, jimkent@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Kent) writes:
|> 
|> --
|> It is now perfectly obvious that Gary Merrill has not tried to talk to
|> anyone with severe Schizophrenia, probably never even seen such a person.

Speculate all you like.  Just be sure to avoid dealing with specific
questions that have been raised and confronting the issues.

|> Every person I've ever talked to who shared his opinions also shared his
|> ignorance on the subject.  People like this can _not_ be educated, it is
|> pointless to tr.
|> 

Then stop trying (if that's what you *have* been doing by simply
repeating the same line over and over).
-- 
Gary H. Merrill  [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC  27513 / (919) 677-8000
sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: research on gender & doctor-patient relationships
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 16 Dec 92 07:32:07 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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This was recently posted on another list to which I subscribe.  I am reposting
it here with permission of its author. Responses should probably be e-mailed to
the researcher, not to me. :-)

From: COHENG@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA

We are currently engaged in research looking at practice patterns of young
male and female family physicians. One of the issues which we are interested
in is the interaction between gender of physician and the expectations which
patients bring to their encounter as a result of their internalized
stereotypes of how they see male and female physician attitudes. We believe
that to some extent male /female differences in practice patterns may be
patient driven. We are interested in knowing of anyone who has explored this
hypothesis and whether similar issues may be true in other male dominated
professions in which we now see increasing numbers of women professionals-
for example law (where more women than men tend to enter family law)
In other words do client expectations in these professions differ because
of the sex of the provider?Thank you for any information of references you
may have.
May Cohen
coheng@sscvax.cis.McMaster.CA


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Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA