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From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: Hepatitis C Vaccine
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 14:50:48 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Aug12.015645.20530@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mbb@soac.bellcore.com writes:
>[ Article crossposted from misc.kids, sci.med ]
>[ Author was  ]
>[ Posted on Wed, 12 Aug 92 01:51:33 GMT ]
>
>Does anyone know anything about a vaccine for hepatitis C?
>My doctor said that it is new and that my 1 year-old should
>get it. The baby books I have do not mention this vaccine.
>
Are you sure you are not talking about the Hemophilus influenza
vaccine? I don't think an HCV vaccine is even on the horizon.

Brian
From: cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Prozac/sleeping/alternatives
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:42:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

In article <1992Aug20.005056.1461@ttinews.tti.com> hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
>
>}... I'm currently taking 20mg Prozac daily and have noticed
>}(make that my wife has noticed) that it has greatly increased my staying
>}power.  Is this a common side-effect?
>
>The PDR refers to this side effect as "delayed ejaculation." I'm told it
>occurs in 25 - 35% of patients on Prozac.  For many the "delay" is
>infinite -- anorgasmia.

So -- this discussion has gone on and on, and no one has yet mentioned
whether this particular nasty side effect applies to women too.  Does it?  

I thought treating depression was supposed to be good for one's sex life,
but these comments suggest that may not always apply.  :-/


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From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: stomach tube
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 13:03:11 EDT

In article <473@nos850.UUCP> bunnym@nos850.UUCP (Bunny Miller) writes:
>I am interesed in any information, medical or personal family experience,
>about a feeding tube placed in the stomach of elderly patients that
>don't want to eat.
>
>The reason that I ask is my 75 year old grandmother has been placed in a
>nursing home because she passed out from not eating.  

	[ stuff deleted ]

I certainly hope that someone is considering the possibility that your 
grandmother might be very depressed, and has stopped eating on that
basis.  She should be seen in consultation by a psychiatrist knowledgeable
about depression in the elderly.  Many depressed elderly people are not
"sad", they don't "have the blues", they just feel like life ain't worth
it and they have a very high suicide rate.  

I recently saw a 70 year old physician who had closed his practice and
had a stomach tube put in because of nausea and lack of appetite.
He had lost more than 60 pounds.  No organic etiology of the 
decreased appetite, nausea, and weight loss had been found despite 
very aggressive medical evaluation.  He had been tried on a variety of
antidepressants  but could not tolerate the side effects.  I recommended
he have ECT (electroconvulsive therapy), and referred him to a colleague
who does ECT.  After six treatments over two weeks, he was eating like
a horse, and feeling a lot better.  His stomach tube is out now and
he's doing well.  

The point of the anecdote is that depression is the elderly is one cause
of poor appetite & inanition, and that "depression without sadness" is
common in elderly patients.


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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Doctors' Fees Above UCR
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:37:07 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <4610024@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Claudia Zornow) writes:
>I'm curious about the ethical issues arising when a doctor
>charges above what an insurance company deems Usual, Customary,
>and Reasonable.
>
The insurance company does not have the right to tell the
doctor what to charge.  Most insurance companies set the
fees lower than what are usual, customary, and reasonable,
but most doctors go along and accept them.  If the doctor
you go to is not on the list, he probably doesn't accept
the fee schedule and so be warned that you will have
to cough up the difference.  

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From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: Paralytics...
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:57:42 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <1162@vub.UUCP> plebrun@vub.UUCP (Philippe Lebrun) writes:
>In article <16136@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, fzjaffe@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe) writes:
>> For emergency (field) conditions, the suggestion of administering an
>> anesthetic instead of a paralytic is often unwise, 
>
>I didn't get the beginning of this discussion, but I am alarmed
>that there might be people giving paralytics instead of
>anesthetics. Don't forget that a paralytic only paralyses, it
>doesn't prevent the patient from feeling pain, and experiencing
>the somatic reactions to pain that we try to avoid in ER or OR
>situations. An analgesic or anxiolytic must always be added. 
>Regularly, there are patients on artificial ventilation 
>in ICUs who are given paralytics without adequate sedation.
>What they have to say when they can talk again (I can't say "awake")
>is properly horrifying.
>
>> very dangerous drug and can kill someone within seconds.  Anyone using
>> it must get adequate training from an anesthesiologist.  The list of
>> contraindications and precautions is long.
>
>That penultimate sentence should read : Only trained anesthesiologists
>should use this technique in the field.
>I have seen it used often, it is priceless in good hands, but
>definitely not for the inexperienced or faint-of-heart.
>
>philippe

My mother did, I believe, have one of these once during a severe asthma
attack.  She believed she was dying, but I wasn't able to tell if that
sensation was from the asthma attack or from the paralytic.  What are the
names of the most frequently used paralytics?  

She said she could not move, and someone was putting a tube down her
throat, and she thought she was saying 'goodbye' to the world, most
fightening experience she could remember having.  

One of the things on the doctor's report was 'curare' or something like
that.

ALice
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Prozac/sleeping/alternatives
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:38:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug21.023823.15008
Distribution: usa
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <38012@unix.SRI.COM> cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
>So -- this discussion has gone on and on, and no one has yet mentioned
>whether this particular nasty side effect [anorgasmia]applies to women too.
>Does it?  

Yep.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Smart Drugs
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:18:14 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

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.  It
his highly unlikely that what you were taking had anything to do
with your memory ability.

>and maybe it did help.  As for the B12, the article said something about
>increasing the ability of the brain for electrical activity.  I'd also
>heard from my nursing school pal that her dad was taking B12 to help
>his hypertension -- again, it couldn't be all bad.
>
Complete nonsense, really.  The average person gets far more B12 in
his diet than he can use.  Only strict vegetarians have to worry
about getting enough.
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From: vinlai@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (vincent.lai)
Subject: Finding blocked arteries in the heart
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:47:41 GMT

I have a friend who is concerned about her father (70 years old with
emphysema(sp?) ) having blocked arteries in his heart.  She was told
he will most likely be hooked up to an EKG and a treadmill and see if
he will "max out" (I think it means whether he will fall short of
breath before a target heart rate is reached).  The doctor told her
that 9 times out of 10 this treadmill test will indicated whether such
a blockage exists.  The other options for finding a blockage were an
angiogram and a cardiac catheterization, both of which were not
recommended before the treadmill test.  

Should the search for such a blockage stop at the end of the treadmill
test, or should this test as well as another both be conducted?

I realize that the story here may not be as complete to give
appropriate feedback, so if any vital information is lacking, I can
contact my friend to get it.  Thanks ...

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Vincent Lai
vlai@attmail.com
vinlai@cbnewsb.att.com
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: unethical? (was: Smart Drugs)
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:18:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug19.021829.2567
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <36961@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Trevor Cederquist) writes:
>	I have seen and received a few replies concerning my
>	suggestion to "TS" that his posting was 'unethical'
>	due to his posting of an unknowledgable response appended
>	by a 'School of Pharmacy' tag.

You mean you can read as well as write?

>	In light of several postings requesting information from
>	expert sources, those choosing to assume expertise by
>	using a tag denoting them as an expert SHOULD be held
>	responsible for delivering the most informed answer.

He did.

>	It was obvious that "TS" neglected to do so.  

Maybe you'd better double up on those "smart drugs", bub.
You could use 'em.

>	Perhaps the few responses I received came from the several 
>	posters who are the insecure, bottom-of-the-classers who are 
>	afraid of being held responsible for their own weak,
>	mis or uninformed bulls.   

And after you find them "smart drugs", you might ask about
those "couth drugs".  You're lacking in both.


-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: brandtk@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Keith E. Brandt, MD)
Subject: Re: ******** MICROWAVE HAZARDS *******
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:27:14 GMT

>>terry@ithaca.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
>[ .. Uncle Stan who invented microwave ovens refuses to have one in house ... ]
>>Senility, perhaps?

>	A pacemaker would be a better reason, since apparently there are
>enough emissions from a microwave oven to fry them........
>					Terry Lambert

Sorry, gang, I've got to nip this one in the bud. The first few pacemakers
used had a battery that was somewhat suceptable to microwave radiation,
but modern pacemakers and modern microwaves are very compatable (though
I don't think I'd reccomend placing a pacemaker *in* a microwave!). Most
of the signs you see on public microwaves are there because of
lawyer-phobia. Any of the old pacemakers that might have been a problem
have ceased ticking long ago.

--Keith


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Keith E. Brandt, MD, WD9GET      ||  Goodbye, cruel world that was my home-
 Family Practice Resident        ||     there's cleaner space out here to roam.
 Community Hosp. of Indianapolis ||  Put my feet up on the moons of Mars-
brandtk@copper.ucs.indiana.edu   ||     sit back, relax, and count the stars.
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From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: ******** MICROWAVE HAZARDS *******
Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:48:35 GMT

In article <8k_nd4_@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
>terry@ithaca.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
[ .. Uncle Stan who invented microwave ovens refuses to have one in house ... ]
>Senility, perhaps?

	A pacemaker would be a better reason, since apparently there are
enough emissions from a microwave oven to fry them, but he doesn't have a
pacemaker.  Also, he didn't say "Stops your pacemaker!", he said "Cooks your
gonies!".  Amazing that pacemakers can be fried even with the hand dandy Tandy
device says they're not leaking.

	Given an absence of personal investigation by myself (I'll probably
haul some real equipment down the hall or confiscate the microwave for a bit
now that there is a "controversy" 8-)), I have to take the word of the
inventor of the things that they are "bad", and do what I usually do:  rely
on the inverse square law to keep me out of harms way by making sure I'm
not in the immediate area when a microwave oven is running.  Besides, the
high frequency sound drives me nuts.  I can barely stand < 70 Hz computer
monitors from the noise.

	As a physicist, I wouldn't trust "leak detectors" you could buy
over the counter at Radio Shack any more than I'd buy one of the calculators
they try to push every time I go there for BNC connectors and expect to use
it for real calculations.  I've actually seen light meters used as "leak
detectors" and "heat loss detectors".  The oven light being on while it is
operating makes the "detector" go up; whatever the lighting in the kitchen.
"Heat loss detectors" of that ilk work in the same fashion: "Ah!  Just as
I suspected!  You need to buy one of our specially treated tinted 4x6'
"MrThermalPane(tm)" windows to cut heat loss!".


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu

---
Disclaimer:  Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
my present or previous employers.
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Fiddling with Food Genes
From: Robin.Salmansohn@f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Robin Salmansohn)
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:16:16 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:273/715 - Alternative Lifesty, Wyndmoor PA


 To: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
 
 TP> Am I the only person here who remembers the FDA 
 TP> kept Thalidomide _out_ of
 TP> this country, thereby sparing us the disaster 
 TP> that took place in Europe?
 TP> This incident is usually pointed to as a triumph 
 TP> of their methods.  The
 TP> above mentioned restaurant owner is an ignorant 
 TP> fool.  When it happened
 
I remember that nightmare. The photos of those childeren looked like their 
parents had irradiated genes from an A-Bomb. The only ones who
loved those sick photos were the tabloids. They didn't have to retouch
the pictures and nor invent something horrific. The FDA kept that out of the 
U.S. based on studies that were seen in the animal studies.
The FDA may be slow and clunky, but it does keep disasters off of the Rx 
market (not all of them; Congress can pass a law that permits any drug on the 
market, as can court actions [and too and drug placed on the U.S. market prior 
to 1939).
I work with Investigational Interventions. I see a lot of things that I reject 
before it reaches the FDA. Most of what is started as a good intention fails 
because it is either harmful or ineffective. Most interventions never get sent 
up to the FDA (in the U.S.), but are
shelved or sold to another company in timbuck2 where it may be sold.
Japan (no offense) has the most lax policy of all. A drug is a drug
if it is patented. Testing is optional (but usually done, it is just
that the Japanese have no policy for IND testing).

Robin L. Salmansohn
Indamed Research
 


 

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From: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Subject: Re: what causes leg cramps ?
Reply-To: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:02:21 GMT

In article <92226.40447.6310550@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>,
6310550@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
|>Does anybody know what causes leg (calf & foot) cramps ?  For the
|>past 5-6 nights I've been woken up by leg cramps.  The only thing
|>that stops them is to stand up.  I recently started on Weight Watchers
|>(trying level 2)... Could the diet have something to do with it ?
|>Any insights will be greatly appreciated.
|>
|>Thanks,
|>Deb
 
yes diet has a major impact on all aspects of the body's functions.
If your going to diet read some nutritional references to learn about
what nutrients are in what foods and what these nutrients do for your
body.  Dieting blindly could be dangerous and this like so many things
in our lives is much safer to do when your intelligently armed with
as much information on the subject as possible.

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----       

Maurice LaBiche (Mo.L.)             labiche@bnr.ca
Bell Northern Research              
Richardson, Texas                   i'm really in Texas, USA not Canada

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: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: What are the symptoms of Epstein-Barr virus?
Keywords: Epstein-Barr, CFS, ME, CFIDS, Yuppy Flu
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:25:13 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Aug19.072850.23480@samba.oit.unc.edu> Herman.Woltring@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Herman Woltring) writes:
>
>Epstein-Barr is similar or identical (opinions vary) to CFS/ME/CFIDS; see
>my previous posting on the topic. 

This is not correct.  Titers to EBV may be elevated in some CFS patients,
but so are titers or other viri.  It is not proper to say that EBV
causes CFS.  We don't know what causes CFS, but it doesn't appear
to be EBV, and least not in most cases.

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From: salvaggi@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Nanette Salvaggio)
Subject: Re: Hepatitis vaccine
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:05:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.135306.7399@spdcc.com>, dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug14.124727.15244@kodak.kodak.com> salvaggi@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Nanette Salvaggio) writes:
|> >He has never had a child that lives a healthy CLEAN life style come
|> >down with hepatitis, so therefore feels that until further testing
|> >is performed that it is not worth the risk.  Just thought an opposing
|> >opinion might be useful.
|> 
|> Actually, I can understand why some people might argue that such
|> prophylaxis should be reserved for high-risk groups (you know,
|> DIRTY lifestyles like medical personnel have), though it might
|> be interesting to hear from one of the MD's more familiar with
|> this the rationale for universal childhood immunization against
|> Hep B.  I'd imagine it would come down to issues of economics
|> and the ability of infants and children to make protective
|> antibodies, and the advantages of a population with "herd immunity"
|> to control the overall spread of Hep B.  I am ignorant of any details.
|> 
|> On the other hand, a line like
|> 	He has never had a child that lives a healthy CLEAN
|> 	life style come down with hepatitis
|> makes you think of biker babies, first graders who are IV
|> drug users and rampantly promiscuous pre-pubescents in
|> middle school, not to mention a mom who thinks it's OK
|> if such "bad seeds" get sick and die.  I mean, really,
|> Nannette: the sentiment is revolting enough without
|> your capitalizing CLEAN.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Steve Dyer
|> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer


Steve,

The emphasis on clean is not what you think.  He meant as explained to
mean.  He cares for, on a free voluntary basis,  many homeless children
in our area.  These children don't necessary lead the most sanitary of
life style.  He has had several of these kids have problems with
hepatis and many other illnesses.  And believe it or not,  there are
children who can have IV drug habits at very tender ages.  ( I won't
get into my knowledge on this subject, as I don't feel that it is
relavent).  So my original statement still stands,  but perhaps I should
have used sanitary instead of clean.  I did not mean to offend 
anyone, only to offer another view point.

Nanette
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Hernia Surgery via laparoscopy?
From: ctobias@violet.ccit.arizona.edu
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:29:18 MST
Distribution: world,local
Nntp-Posting-User: ctobias

I have been given the choice of having regular hernia surgery or laparoscopic
surgery for an inguinal hernia.  Has anyone had this surgery via laparoscopy?
Does anyone know the recurrence rates with either type?  I was told it was new
and the surgeon couldn't give me stats because it's too soon to know.  A little
scary to risk something new, but it sounds a lot easier than the big incision.


Thanks, Cindy
cltobias@ccit.arizona.edu

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From: young@serum.kodak.com
Subject: Re: R: Hepatitis Vaccine
Originator: young@sasquatch
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:32:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.161704.23916@ms.uky.edu> jrt@omega.kcr.uky.edu (J. Randall Thompson) writes:

>In article <1992Aug15.133403.18785@pixel.kodak.com> young@serum.kodak.com writes:
>[... stuff deleted ...]
>>
>>   As far as I know, there is only one hepatitis vaccine: for hepatitis B,
>>   which is typically transmitted through blood and blood products and is
>>   often associated with male homosexual practices and IV drug abuse.
>>   Hepatitis A, on the other hand, is spread most commonly by oral-fecal
>>   contact, and is endemic in many third world countries.  There is NO
>>   vaccine for hepatitis A, and it is a completely different disease.
>>
>
>Actually, there IS a Hepatitis A Vaccine, it just hasn't been approved by
>the FDA. It will be distributed by Merck-Sharp-Dohme.

   Well, live and learn.  On the other hand, if I can't get it [yet], then
   there effectively IS none, right?  :-)

-Rich Young
From: bng@tropel.gca.com (Baldwin Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: ********  MICROWAVE HAZARDS *******
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:53:49 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I am sure that many of you have heard the fact that radar guns
used by highway police are now suspected to cause cancer to
police who are frequently exposed to MICROWAVES.

My question is: ARE MICROWAVE OVENS (when used very frequently)
                ALSO CAPABLE OF CAUSING CANCER??

I suspect that microwave ovens have some kind of a shield to
cutoff most of the radiation, but a small portion is still
leaked through and radiates to the user, right??

Thanks,
Baldwin

PS: Please reply to ng@moe.optics.rochester.edu