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From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Subject: Re: Effects of testosterone/lack of on mal
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:57:50 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.123719.9984@hubcap.clemson.edu> bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu writes:
>This is to augment the last posting concerning this. It seems that I forgot
>the most important part. After having sexual intercourse, it seems to affect
>my sinuses (actually both my wife's and mine). Any explanation for this?


Oh no!   Its just my own dirty mind, isn't it?  

I don't dare make an answer to this one, I'm sure its a genuine question.

;-)

Michael




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Newsgroups: sci.med,connect.audit
From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Subject: Re: Sex Organ Transplant - more info please
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:33:55 GMT

In article <annick.712312606@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au> annick@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Annick Ansselin) writes:
>This has got to be a joke! For one thing, unless they were identical twins
>(in which case the sex would be the same and the exchange impossible!)
>the exhanged parts would be rejected without immunosuppression - for the
>rest of their lives.


Nah.


Maybe they just had a good HLA match.


Michael

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Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.misc
From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: Definition of an addict.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:56:45 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <1992Jul27.232221.15799@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka) writes:
>
>In a previous article, esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) says:
>
>>Ah.  In that case, it is both correct and predictive to observe that statists
>>are addicted to government.  Political-force junkies, unable to imagine any
>>solution beyond the next fix.  Poor bastards.
>
>Yeah, but we ALL suffer, because, like the other addictions,
>it's a family disease.  And there's a hell of a lot of 
>codependency, too.  Just like the alcoholic and his family, few
>can see the connection between the use and the troubling consequences.
>The typical behavior is to play the blame game.  But when
>everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else, the end
>result is NO CHANGE.  Of course, the REAL solution is less
>government.  When you can't do activity X without getting into
>trouble, then the common sense answer is to cut down on 
>activity X.  Playing the blame game is NEVER a solution.
>-- 
>=======================
>"Endeavor to persevere"
>=======================

I think the most absurd example of behavior that is termed a 'sickness'
was when that baseball player Pete Rose tried to excuse his activities by
claiming to have a gambling addiction.  From what I could tell, he also
had a lying addiction, an irresponsibility addiction, and was some kind of
sociopath because he didn't think anybody could see through it all.  I
think we have made a big mistake claiming 'illness' for controllable
behavior.  

Alice

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:56:13 GMT
Organization: WINCO
Subject: Re: Anesthesia for plantar wart removal
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Organization: WINCO
Keywords: 

In article <1992Jul27.063024.9833@seanews.akita.com> billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick) writes:
>I just had several plantar warts removed and it was an excruciating
>experience.
>
My doctor (several years ago) removed them over an extended period by
scraping the surface with a scalpel and then treating the exposed tissue with
trichloroacetic acid.  Aside from the temporary "smoke" release, it only
hurt for a few minutes, and then only when I put pressure on it.

It got to be a standing joke; I walked into the office in a normal
manner, and limped out 5-10 minutes later -- great for business.
From: dsouza@hplred.HP.COM (Roy D'Souza)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:38:13 GMT
Subject: Sleep
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Newsgroups: sci.med


Hi,

I am interested in reducing the hours that I sleep.
Recently I went from eight hours a night to seven.
I would like to go even lower. Much lower.

My question is: "how do I tell when I have gone below
the amount of sleep that my body really needs?"

(I remember reading somewhere that if one does not appear to adapt
to the new routine within 10 days, then it is time to backtrack.)

Any advice would be appreciated.
Any pointers to reading for the layperson would also be appreciated.


Thanks,

Roy D'Souza  dsouza@hpl.hp.com (415) 857-5397


Xref: sparky sci.med:14361 talk.politics.drugs:5281 pnw.general:1598
From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...(was: Colonic irrigations)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:23:11 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: alt medicine

In article <15866@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <2466@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> cecilw@access.isc-br.com (Cecil Williams) writes:
>>
>>While we're talking about worms here, I would like to throw out this
>>highly speculative theory of mine for comment...  Ever since my first
>>trip around Asia and my first taste of hot (HOT!!!) curried chicken,
>>I've had the idea that people in third world countries tend to eat
>>extremely spicy hot food because the hot spices would drive parasites
>>from the body (or kill them, or maybe just make them unhappy, and we all
>>know how difficult it is to procreate when you're unhappy...) People
>>who eat the hottest foods would therefore be the healthiest, and have
>>the greatest longevity...
>
>I don't know whether capsaicin is effective at killing parasites or
>not, but I eat chile because it tastes so good.  Thus, there being
>good and sufficient reason besides parasites, I have to remain skeptical
>of your theory.
>
>
>
>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I knew of a case of a little girl with round worms who passed them all
rectally after eating a whole jar of dill pickles.  Her mother said she
seemed to crave them.  What do you think?

Alice

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From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:40:59 GMT

In article <54906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>Ours is the only nation which affords the patient any real redress
>for even gross incompetence.  The laws should be changed, but only
>to protect from misrepresentation or real incompetence.  But 
>misrepresentation should include withholding of information, or
>claiming the ability to do something, which may be licensed, but
>where the ability is not there.
>

Dear Herman.

I can assure you that most first world nations offer patients 
redress from gross incompetence.  In fact, most first world
nations offer redress from even moderate incompetence.

The expanding problem in the US and other places is the ability
to sue for minor or less incompetences, where nobody dies and
where even there is no major ongoing suffering, and still
provide large payouts.

I understand that this is partly because of the private nature
of the medical care there, whereas in other areas of the world
if there are minor problems with care they can be fixed up 
free and without charge, even to people too poor or too poorly
educated to seek redress.

Michael

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From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: A Question/Proposal for "Health Care Consumers"
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 09:14:29 EDT

In article <1992Jul26.045954.9916@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul21.135225.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> morris@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
>>
>>>However their teaching was ineffective because they did not know how
>>>to teach.  It is the problem with most college professors - they are
>>>experts in their field but they have never been taught to teach.
>
>My friends and I, on making the transition from high school to college,
>were almost all surprised at the _increase_ in the quality of the teaching.
>College professors are specialists who are genuinely interested in their
>subject.  They know _why_ it is interesting, whereas the high school
>teacher often has merely been handed a textbook and told, "Teach this."
>Knowing why your subject is supposed to be interesting makes all the
>difference.
>
>Sure, there are students who claim that college professors are all
>bookworms who can't teach.  But -- seeing this from the other side of
>the lectern -- I get this complaint regularly only from _one_ kind of
>student, the kind who, if he were more honest, would say, "This course
>wasn't easy enough for me.  Courses are supposed to be easy."  And
>although vociferous, these are only a small part of the student
>population.

At a Danforth Foundation workshop on college teaching a few years ago,
there was a presentation in which we attendees were shown videos of
various lecturers and asked to guess which teacher got highest ratings
by students and by pedagogical experts.  The ratings of students and
pedagogical experts did not correlate.  One particularly charming but
thoroughly disorganized professor (who walks in and begins by asking
his students....now, where were we?) got the highest marks for effectiveness
from students.  

My belief is that high school teachers in every field need to spend a lot
more time learning the subjects they'll teach and a lot LESS time learning
how to teach.  Most ed school graduates tell you that the real world of
the classroom aint what they were taught to expect in education schools
anyway.  My experience with professional health educators is that their
knowledge of science is on average VERY thin.    Also, most seem not to
keep up with advances and controversies in medical science.




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From: reckard@kahala.enet.dec.com (Jon Reckard)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Engelman's syndrome (sp?)
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:13:02 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Looking for information about Engelman's syndrome (not sure of spelling).
As I understand, it's a type of mental retardation.  A less-than-2-year-old
daughter of some friends has been diagnosed with it.  They are, of course,
in touch with their physician(s).

Any info would be appreciated.  Cures (uncureable I undertand), treatments,
support groups, etc.

Thanks,
Jon Reckard
Newsgroups: sci.med,talk.politics.drugs,pnw.general
From: fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes)
Subject: Re: FDA still at large
Organization: FYL
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:08:17 GMT
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Scott.Maxwell@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Scott Maxwell) writes:
: In article <1992Jul25.041036.16207@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
: 
: >Today AMA approved doctors use poison chemicals, radiation and saws to
: >"treat" cancer.  This is considered the norm.  The "proper" treatment.
: 
: It worked for me. I had cancer. Those AMA-approved doctors cured it. Unless of
: course you think it's a coincidence that the cancer just happened to go
: away as soon as the radiation started.
: 
: [ ... drivel deleted ... ]
: 
: >I am not a doctor but, having worked on other hardware, I can
:  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No kidding.
: >understand how poison or sawing off an afflicted body part could
: >"cure" a problem in that part but I would not call this science.
: 
: Why not? They test it. It works. They use it.

Right, but is that science?  I see this as similar to sawing off the
right front fender of my car because it is rusting.  Yes, that will
remove the problem and that "treatment" has been available for years.
Recently, two new non-AMA products have appeared in the market that
seem more scientific.  One is called Extend which chemically bonds
with the rust to form an impervious surface.  It doesn't correct the
problem bit it limits the spread and apparently isn't toxic to the
rest of the body.  A second product which consists of sacrificial
metal and/or electric charge prevents the formation of the problem.

All three of these "treatments" work but on a different level.  I see
sawing as the least scientific -- sure, there is a problem, cut it
off.  The second deals with the problem and makes the best of it and
the third prevents it.  Some doctors seem to be starting to address
cancer as a symptom of a problem so there is a chance that someday
there will be prevention instead of what I see as rather unscientific
treatment of a symptom.

Note that I am not saying that you should use conventional methods if
you see fit for dealing with your particular physical problem.  It's
your choice.  But having a heart bypass operation every 5 years
doesn't, to me, seem like as good a method of dealing with my body as
eating a low-fat diet. 
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From: anazerad@cnedcu51.bitnet (Pascal A. AZERAD)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: hemostasis
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:10:12 GMT
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

A close friend of mine asked me whether factor XII is either a fibrinolytic 
or coagulant agent in hemostasis. Thanks for answers!

-- 
	Pascal Azerad 
	Institut de mathematiques
	Universite de Neuchatel
	Switzerland.

	Pascal.Azerad@maths.unine.ch
From: Daniel.Prince@p0.f129.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Daniel Prince)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Questions For Mds
Date: 9 Jul 92 11:35:42 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:102/129.0 - One World, Redondo Beach CA

-=> Quoting Rich Sagall to Daniel Prince <=-

 RS> I don't 
 RS> know what to think about tape recording the session. As an MD, I
 RS> wouldn't have any objections, but some doctors might. What is your
 RS> reason for recording the session? 

I want to prevent them from LYING to me as so many other MDs have 
done.  I think that if I have copies of all the lab tests and 
everything they say on tape and they know that I will go to the 
medical library to check up on what they say they will be less 
likely to lie to me.

... Dis-information is the most common commodity in the universe.

--  
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From: fzjaffe@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:27:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis

In article <55267@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>In article <15524@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> fzjaffe@othello.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe) writes:
>>We also have essentially stopped using one drug for adults (halothane)
>>because of this.  Severe halothane hepatitis probably has an incidence
>>of 1:100,000 adult anesthetics with halothane (give or take).  But
>>anyone who turns yellow after an operation can get the label tacked on
>>by someone, and then sues.  It's hard to explain to a jury that the
>>hemodynamic effects of halothane vs. isoflurane may cause you to prefer
>>the former in patients with coronary artery disease.  The risk-benefit
>>argument doesn't seem to go over well.  For comparison, the incidence of
>>fatal reaction to penicillin is also about 1:100,000. 
>
>This is an excellent example of the problem with the practice of medicine.
>If the medical crew makes the decision, they should be stuck with the
>consequences.  On the other hand, if the patient is given the full
>information, and makes an informed decision, only wilful fraud or
>clear incompetence, as determined by a review board which is composed
>of good physicians and pathologists who hate incompetence, but respect
>honest differences, should be actionable.
!!!!!!!!
Stuck with the consequences?  Give me the hepatitis?  How about if, as a
result of NOT choosing halothane, the patient gets a heart attack?  Sue
me then also?  You want me to give the patient a full lecture on the
risks/benefits of the various alternatives, and then have the patient
make the decision.  This can be done for the major components of the
decisions (e.g. to operate or not, whether to have general or regional
anesthesia), but is extraordinarily impractical for the thousands of
minuteae involved.  It takes years to educate a resident about these
topics.  And internists (at least judging from their consult notes)
generally never understand the various nuances involved in anesthesia (I
guess that's because we're non-cognitive & they're cognitive
practitioners). Actually cause-effect for both hepatitis and heart
attack as I'm discussing here is not this simple; I'm using it for
discussion's sake.  We're always working with odds, and the effect of
the choices I've outlined here is slight, both on the risk of hepatitis
and the risk of heart attack.

By the way, what I didn't emphasize in my original note was that the
yellow person usually is yellow because of some other reason.
Post-transfusion and non-specific hepatitis are much more common than
halothane hepatitis.  Causation seems to be unimportant, as long as one
of the defendants gave something that possibly did it.  Awards are never
adjusted by the probability of culpability.  The other thing, which I
did emphasize in my note, is that 1:100,000 is generally considered a
nil risk--otherwise we'd be giving informed consent for penicillin
tablets.
Xref: sparky sci.med:14410 sci.research:832
From: shridhar@plains.NoDak.edu (Narayanan Shridhar)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.research
Subject: Alzheimer's syndrome
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:14:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19331
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo

Hi folks,
  I am keenly interested on research on Alzheimer's syndrome.
Can anyone give me information on the latest research in this field.
It would be nice if you could tell me the article or the journal in 
which the article was published.
Thanks in advance
Shridhar
Xref: sparky sci.med:14539 talk.politics.drugs:5355
From: tedrick@whistle.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: sci.med,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: government still at large (work vs. control)
Date: 27 Jul 1992 09:34:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: whistle.berkeley.edu

->How does it happen that one gets caught in such a web of obligations,
->responsibilities, debts and other such entanglements ...
->Another thing wrong with "work" is that jobs are a commodity.

I don't think there is anything wrong with "work", it looks to
me that what bothers you is being controlled by outside forces.
Working for yourself might be a partial solution.

(sorry for the inappropriate newsgroups)

-- 
"An army is composed of idle and inactive men. Unless the general has a constant
eye on them this artificial machine will fall to pieces. If my soldiers began to
think, not one would remain. All that can be done is give them 'esprit de corps'
and keep them more afraid of their officers than the enemy" -Frederick the Great
Xref: sparky sci.med:14830 misc.kids:20029
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Spider bites and children
Summary: Not cats. Geckos!
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:47:46 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

To get rid of spiders and roaches, don't use a cat -- instead, release
some house geckos in your house or wherever.  That's a kind of lizard that
is very secretive (you can have quite a few and rarely see them).
Even one gecko loose in the house virtually rids it of insects.

For more advice inquire on rec.pets.herp.

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From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
Subject: Re: *** Frequent Stomach upsets. Reasons? ***
Organization: Strawman Incorporated
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:41:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.014753.15491@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
>
>If his stomach upsets continue, his exam should include a blood test
>for helicobacter. If the test is positive, he can be cured of his stomach
>upsets in as little as one week by concurrently taking prescriptions of
>three antibiotics: ampicillin, bismouth, and metronidazole.

There is a problem with your simple treatment. It doesn't work very well.
When I did a medline search of this topic some months ago, I discovered
that the success rate of this combination as well as most other treatments,
is pretty low. What happens is that the helicobacter tends to return after
several months if it even worked to begin with. Also, as can be expected,
this treatment is not without side effects. 
-- 
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                            of latent idiocy - M. Corelli
From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Fluoxetine and bulimia
Date: 24 Jul 92 08:31:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.lamontg.711966705
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'

dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.211551.1@amherst.edu> akcobb@amherst.edu writes:
>>I was under the impression that fluoxetine was being administered
>>to bulimics, with some success.
>
>I understand that fluoxetine (as well as many other unrelated
>antidepressants) has been shown to be useful in some instances.

I'm running entirely off of what I recall from research done several
months ago, but I believe that bupropion (Wellbutrin) was the anti-depressant
that was having the most success and use in treating bulima.  I don't
recall seeing fluoxetine as being shown as effective in it, but it certainly
might be used.

(or I might be getting mixed up since I wasn't specifically researching
 bulimia and am just remembering it out of curiosity).

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