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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: RU-486 Confiscation
Keywords: abortion, RU-486, FDA, confiscation, Bush, paternalism
Date: 26 Jul 92 22:10:10 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Jul22.055020.155542@zeus.calpoly.edu> dfield@zeus.calpoly.edu (Daniel R. Field) writes:
>The recent case of the government confiscating a woman's personal supply of
>RU-486 is very distressing.  The FDA "allows" a person to import personal
>supplies of drugs (other than the psychedellic variety) for personal use,
>such as as many unapproved AIDS drugs.

The FDA has no role in allowing people to import drugs that are
not FDA approved.  The FDA approves drugs for sale in the US only.
The customs service has jurisdiction over what can be imported
or is confiscated.  The customs service made a decision not to
allow RU-486 to be imported.  They do have statuatory authority,
given by congress, to forbid import of any drug not FDA approved,
but haven't been doing so until now for those bringing in drug
for personal use.
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From: reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland)
Subject: Heredity of RH factor
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:40:57 GMT

I know this is a stupid question, but I know nothing about genetics.

Can parents whose blood types are A+ and B+ have B- children?  Do the
RH factors for the grandparents make a difference?

Place cite a source if possible.

Thanks.

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The opinions expressed above do not necessarily etc etc...

Never trust a man who can count to 1,023 on his fingers.
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Use of term allopath
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:25:35 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Jul19.025850.21441@techbook.com> kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen) writes:
>
>What do you think of an MD (like the one I just began seeing) who says he
>also does chiropractic adjustments?
>

I would be very, very, cautious.

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From: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Meskes)
Subject: Infos on MORBUS CROHN and COLITIS ULCEROSA needed
Keywords: morbus crohn, colitis ulcerosa
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:05:04 GMT

I would like to have some information on MORBUS CROHN and COLITIS ULCEROSA
hoping that this is the right place to ask for it. To explain my problem:

I'm don't have great knowledge in this area and my doctor isn't sure which of
the two I suffer from. 

Now I would like to get additional information, especially I'm interested
in the question whether it is necessary to get rid of sugar in my nourishment.
Some poeple say I should, some say it is not proven that those illnesses
will become better renouncing sugar. For me it is a great problem, because
I love to drink my Coke containing lots of sugar.

Thanks to all of you giving me some information.

Michael

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RWTH-Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, D-W-5100 Aachen
Email: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Weight/appearance of professional models; Re: Obesity...
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:39:06 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul22.212709.5637@seas.gwu.edu> sheryl@seas.gwu.edu (Sheryl Coppenger) writes:
>In article <2569340@aplvax.msfc.nasa.gov> fs@cs.tulane.edu (Frank Silbermann) writes:
>>
>>`Slim' just means `not flabby/saggy/baggy'.  It doesn't mean emaciated.
>>Neither men nore society asks women to become fanatics.
>
>Maybe not, but men and society will tell (not ask, but tell) women to
>maintain a weight which is lower than what is comfortable for them.  If
>a person is terrified of being fat and is having to exercise extreme
>control to stay slim, I can see how they might lose perspective and go
>too far.

Society yes, men - not necessarily. I know several very attractive
women who are constantly dieting, and are already below the weight
which I would call "ideal". My impression from talking with these
women is that women have more stereotypes of female attractiveness
than men do. I suspect that men likewise have more stereoptypes of
what makes them attractive than women do.

In a similar vein, I have always thought most women put on far
too much makeup. Green/blue/whatever eyelids certainly don't
turn me on. 

 -km
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Originator: glp@merlin
Keywords: alt medicine
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:33:05 GMT


In article <15858@pitt.UUCP>, km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul27.154942.593@fig.citib.com> glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
|> >
|> >How sad that there is so much pressure to deny that
|> >some people get pleasure out of anal stimulation.
|> 
|> Oh my goodness. Now I suppose we are in for the ultimate in
|> PC politics. What shall we call these people who stick
|> familiar objects into unfamiliar spaces so that we do not
|> offend them?

Try again.  Putting light bulbs, coke bottles, electric
toothbrushes, etc. up one's butt is stupid.  But why do 
these people do it?  Locking the bathroom door and stimulating
themselves with something that can be dangerous, to try to avoid 
the *shame* of how they get pleasure.  If there wasn't such a 
denial that it's OK that it feels good then people could get
the same pleasure *and* not end up in an ER with something
strange stuck where they can't get it out.

There were probably a lot of people who had secondary or
tertiary syphilis because they were too ashamed to go to 
doctor with something they got from doing something they
shouldn't have.  I guess it's PC as well to say that the
societal attitudes that contributed to that were bad?

|> I really think, as a service to these people, that we should
|> pressure Congress to require warning labels on the most common
|> of these objects, so that people will know that, despite
|> their suggestive appearance and handiness, they are not
|> supposed to be inserted into certain orifices. Or perhaps
|> we should require strings on Coke bottles.

Your personal agenda is showing, Ken.  In no way was that what
I was implying.
 
|> How sad that there is so much pressure to deny that
|> some people get pleasure out of dimembering other
|> people and eating their body parts...

So you would equate anal stimulation with dismemberment?
From what I've read anal sex is a major heterosexual activity,
more common than among gay men.  Are all these happily married
monogamous breeding tax-paying PTA-attending lawn-mowing
butt-fucking people on a par with Jeffery Dahmer?

I will *never* understand some people's fear of their 
asshole.

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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: ALS
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:40:31 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Jul27.052244.8307@techbook.com> kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen) writes:
>
>Oh, dear...
>My Barron's Dictionary of Medical Terms has utterly failed me.  What is
>an olivopontocerebellar degeneration?  What is a clivus chordoma?

OPCA is a hereditary multi-system degeneration.  It would require a bit
to explain it all, it's quite complicated.  Check it out in a neurology
textbook.  The clivus is a bone in the skull.  A chordoma is a tumor
of the notochordal remnant (from fetal life) and occurs at the ends
of the neural tube, the sacrum and the clivus.




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From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Weight/appearance of professional models; Re: Obesity...
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:44:02 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

In article <61dm6+n.sss@netcom.com> sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions) writes:
>
>Male bulimia has been common in one sport -- wrestling -- where a premium
>is placed on achieving the lowest possible weight in order to be competitive.
>The whole team goes out for pizza, then purges together...

Some wrestlers I used to know would sit around a can and spit in it for
hours at a time, in an attempt to lose water weight right before the
"big match."

Disgusting, if you ask me.
From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Newsgroups: sci.med,connect.audit
Subject: Re: the Pill & fertility
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:30:57 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.

In article <5658@nosc.NOSC.MIL> derion@VAX309.NOSC.MIL writes:
-Can anyone tell me how likely a healthy 37 yr old female is to
-become pregnant after having been on the "pill" for a year?  Assume
-this female has no undiagnosed problems with her reproductive
-machinery, and her husband is fertile as well.

If she is still taking the pill, about 1% chance per year.

If she has stopped it, then her chances should not be much lower
in the long run than had she never taken it at all.  (Anyone know
exact figures on this one... I can't quote any{_).

Bear in mind that a large percentage of couples are infertile
irrespective of contraception....  About 10% from memory.

If she is not pregnant and wishes to be so, then it would be worth
  seeing a gynaecologist or specialist in fertility.   Beyond that
  its hard to say from the details you have left.

Michael.

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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: simmons@texhrc.uucp (Bob Simmons)
Subject: Re: RU-486 Confiscation
Keywords: abortion, RU-486, FDA, confiscation, Bush, paternalism
Organization: Texaco EPTD
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:46:04 GMT

In article <Brt84x.MCo@apollo.hp.com> noelie@apollo.hp.com (Noelie Alito) writes:
>Are there any companies actually seeking FDA approval for RU-486
>(i.e., in the face of potential boycotts)?  (Or is "R-U" the only
>company that can make it?)
>
I heard on NPR this morning that the manufacturer (I can't remember the
name) had not appliled to the FDA for permission to do clinical trials in
the US. They sell plenty of drugs (other than RU-486) in Catholic countries
(like Italy) and don't want that market threatened with a boycott because of
furor raised in the US. They sell plenty of RU-486 in Scandinavia and so
don't really need additional marketplaces for it. It's time for a change.


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From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Keywords: alt medicine
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:16:38 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <Brp1A5.DEy@hpbs654.boi.hp.com> kmarko@hpbs654.boi.hp.com (Kurt Marko) writes:
>
>It comes as no surprise that `conventional' medicine considers this
>quackery, but from some of his descriptions of people passing masses
>of worms during colon cleansings, I find it hard to believe some
>benefits can't be derived.  Are there other evidence of colon blockage
>(`plaque' buildup) and/or worms causing adverse health problems?
>W.r.t. the colon and regular bowel eliminations, I find his some of
>his `common sense' arguments compelling...how healthy can it be to
>retain putrified food refuse?

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, we had this
guy nicknamed the "enema bandit." He would break into the rooms of
unsuspecting coeds, tie them to a chair, and instead of raping them,
would give them an enema and leave. He apparantly got off on the idea
of the enema taking effect with the victim tied to the chair. They
finally caught him after a period of a few months.

I think we should forward to above information to the bandit's
lawyer. Obviously, the man was just trying to bring some health
to these poor young coeds, and they should have thanked him
instead of prosecuting him.

 -Ken Mitchum MD
 km@cs.pitt.edu




Newsgroups: sci.med,talk.politics.drugs,pnw.general
From: alpinist@eskimo.celestial.com (David Butler)
Subject: Re: government still at large (was Re: FDA still at large)
Keywords: FDA, unconstitutional illegal action,single-issue blindness
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:57:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.164145.6697@SSD.intel.com> jerryg@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Gaiser) writes:

>And the problem with your anology is that all people who live on the street are
>not alcoholics or drug addicts. As someone has already mentioned, we have a lot
>of working homeless in this country. People with families and minimum or sub-minimum
>wage and can't afford the first/last plus deposit.

    Good point.  Many of the people saying they refuse to support panhandlers
are claiming the point that they just assume they will all use it for alcohol
when in fact MANY of them will not use it for alcohol.  They are judged an
condemned just for the circumstances they happen to be in.  (and to my
discredit, the post of mine that you were replying to only served to
reinforce the steretype.)


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From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Need help WRT Duodenal Ulcers caused by excess bile salts
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:33:45 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <9207290552.AA10602@bitbrain.ducksbreath> bel@bitbrain.UUCP (Belinda (the wonder mom) Schmahl) writes:

>I understand
>that Reglan is a common drug used to treat intestinal ulcers in
>Europe, but has not been approved by the FDA in this country.  

Reglan has been in this country for many years. It is used in
GI motility disorders, including esophageal reflux. It might
be logical to try with bile reflux gastritis, which it sounds
like you're describing.

>After
>taking the Reglan my friend developed motor problems with her speech.
>Her doctor took her off of this medication and has said there is
>little more he can do for her.

Extrapyramidal reactions and dystonic reactions are actually
fairly common with these drugs, and are more likely in young females.
This is the reason why many doctors refuse to treat nausea
and vomiting in children with Compazine. 

>My friend has said that her pain is near her gall bladder.  Would the
>surgical removal of the gall bladder eliminate this excess production
>of bile salts? 

The gall bladder simply stores bile, it doesn't make it.

>Are there any other drug therapies that reduce bile
>salt production?

Cholestyramine can be used. It is not particularly pleasant
to take.

Perhaps a GI person out there has more definitive information here.

 -Ken Mitchum MD
 km@cs.pitt.edu


Newsgroups: sci.med,connect.audit
From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
Organization: WP Group
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:00:50 GMT

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

From article <1992Jul25.184059.3733@ibmpcug.co.uk>, by george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman):
mv> I can assure you that most first world nations offer patients 
mv> redress from gross incompetence.  In fact, most first world
mv> nations offer redress from even moderate incompetence.
mv> 
mv> The expanding problem in the US and other places is the ability
mv> to sue for minor or less incompetences, where nobody dies and
mv> where even there is no major ongoing suffering, and still
mv> provide large payouts.

If this problem is expanding in the US, as you say, it seems to 
me that it would be reflected in the statistical figures.  Have 
the payouts increased over the past thirty years or so?  
[evidence please].  Incidently,  the cost of liability insurance 
for doctors and hospitals in the US is less than 1% of the total US 
health care budget?  

A friend of mine is a respected dentist who strongly believes 
that the ability of patients to sue doctors should be sharply 
curtailed.  Yet, I discovered a few years ago that he had recently 
sued his interior decorator because he had developed a distaste 
for the color of the wallpaper that the decorator had recommended 
for his office.  If it's ok for a dentist to file a suit over the 
color of wallpaper, it seems to me that a dental patient ought to 
be able to sue a dentist who's allegedly performed in a 
fraudulent or negligent manner.  

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Subject: Greetings...
From: Rick.Dayton@f74.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Dayton)
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:30:03 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:343/74 - MacWASH Bbs, Seattle WA

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    If you would be interested in receiving this publication, simply send your
 
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From: akcobb@amherst.edu
Subject: Fluoxetine and bulimia
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst Mass.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:15:51 GMT


I was under the impression that fluoxetine was being administered
to bulimics, with some success.  Has it been shown that bulimics
get triggered on a binge by eating carbohydrates?  And is this why
fluoxetine seems to be helping?
Anyone have info?  Thanks.

Amy
akcobb@amherst.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.kids
From: amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp)
Subject: Re: Spider bites and children
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:04:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.014746.14399@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>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.

Please make sure you do not already have a cat--my cats adore to play with/
spear on a claw/chew on geckos and other lizards.  When the geckos come
to the windowscreens at night, the cats cry because they want to play
with the geckos.  I have rescued more than one gecko from my cat, and
found others dead.  Cats may eschew roaches (mine don't) but they
certainly will love a gecko.


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From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Subject: Re: Telephones and Doctors
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author
	alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group.
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:31:06 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.124801.639@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>I'd hazard a guess that they're the two most common complaints which the
>medical profession handles really badly, therefore doctors will be
>cornered by people suffering these ailments at parties, saying "How
>come the medical profession can't do anything for my ...?"
>
>I suspect if you asked Michael he'd also include *men* with bad backs
>in this group, but the original remark he was answering was a joke
>about meeting women...
>
>G
>-- 
Yes, I was answering a joke about meeting people (women in this case).

The point is, that meeting people by saying "hey, I'm a doctor" or
"hey, I'm flushed with money" (These are not quite the same, BTW),
or "hey, did you know I have royal ancestry", isn't always the best
thing.

People have a few preconceived ideas if you say you are doctor.

In the average social situation, you get one of a few responses
(usually)

"Are you specialising?"  (I guess I look young)

"I was in hospital recently"  (details follow)

"I've got this back problem which no one can fix".

As I don't want to meet women (or men) whose interest in me is
monetary, or medicinal (particularly at parties/gatherings) I
sometimes say I'm a computer programmer because:

1. Its not associated with any particular preconcieved notions.

2. It allows the conversation to move on to more interesting things.

(Of course, it can backfire.  I said it once as I was introduced to
a group of computer programmers....... aarrrggghhhh).

Michael

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From: eileen@ravel.udel.edu (Eileen Garland)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: herpes six
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:19:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BrwFx6.E61
Organization: University of Delaware


Can anyone give me, or point me towards, any information on herpes six?
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