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From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: What's Lorazepam
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 20:30:37 EST

In article <17964@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.013553.295@vpnet.chi.il.us> gpond@vpnet.chi.il.us (george pond) writes:
>>Whats Lorazepam and how does it compare to Valium or does it all.  Is
>>it addictive?  What's the usual dose.
>
>It is a close relative of Valium with a longer half-life.  It is
>addictive.  I use it mostly to break status epilepticus, and it
>that case the initial dose is 4mg IV.  It produces less respiratory
>depression and is easier on the veins than IV Valium.
>It is also used as a tranquilizer in oral doses of 1 or 2 mg.

Lorazepam has a much shorter half life than Valium (typical estimates
are 9-12 hours for lorazepam, 14-60 hours for Valium).  When prescribed
for anxiety, oral doses are typically 0.5 - 1.0 mg (although a dose
of 2.0 mg would certainly not be unheard of).  

Drugs of this type (benzodiazepines) are not addictive the same way
in which narcotics are addictive.  Patients taking lorazepam or other
benzodiazepines for anxiety disorders rarely abuse them, and rarely
take more than recommended doses.  Patients with chronic anxiety
disorders may become dependent on them - that is, their symptoms may
come back intensely when the drugs are stopped, but that is not
really the same thing as being addicted.  Addiction is a very
complex psychophysical phenomena; it is an unjust oversimplification
to say that benzodiazepines are addictive.
From: colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Kenneth Colby)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Colbys-Weizenbaum and Overcoming Depression 2.0
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:27:03 GMT
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department

What does Rodger's "psychotherapy is a lie" mean?  In dozens
of studies, cognitive therapy has been shown to be 80-85%
effective in relieving depression, doing as well as drugs
with fewer side-effects and fewer relaspses.

Maybe he means he knows of a case (or cases) in which it was
not helpful - a situation true of all therapies.

Ken Colby
Peter Colby
M.A.I.W.
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From: gdw@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (gordon.d.woods)
Subject: Re: Heating milk in microwave for babies??
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:46:44 GMT

From article <C0JFxq.9wy@monster.apd.saic.com>, by tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson):
> mjk@icf.hrb.com (Michael J. Kelley) writes:
> 
>>My wife fell asleep one night while heating a bottle of milk in a soup pan. 
>>She set of the smoke detector once the bottle started to burn. She now wants 
>>to heat the bottle of milk in the microwave. Is it safe to do this???  

The simple solution that we used is to teach the kid to drink
cold milk. Just give it to him gradually cooler over the course
of a week or so. Saves lots of time in the long run. Only thing
is that now he only eats cold food.  We just put his dinner in the
fridge for a few minutes while we set the table.
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Subject: Long Awaited FAQ Project
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:28:35 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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In accord with the procedures which the FAQ Working group agreed upon, I will
begin to post a trickle of (forthcoming) FAQ files to this newsgroup.  The
first will be a file on "How To Change The FAQ Files".  You might want to save
that for future reference.


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Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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From: stevel@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Steve Lancaster)
Subject: Re: Cellular telephones and brain tumors
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:44:58 GMT

In article <3390@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> rlp@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ralph L. Place) writes:
>
>Just wondering.  (I wonder what caused brain tumors in the old days before
><name your favorite agent> was around to cause them?)  :-)
>
>

The vapors did it!... And before that it was evil spirits... One wonders
what future medical science will have to say about current treatments
100 years from now.
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Non-physician bashing
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:42:30 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <C0CDAy.6sB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>
>And there is the real thinker, who will also be called quacks by the
>substantial majority who cannot think.  When it comes to those who are
>in the bureaucracy, the majority becomes not merely substantial, but great.

No, cream really will rise to the top.  It is just that real thinkers
are rare in any field.

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From: jgnassi@athena.mit.edu (John Angelo Gnassi)
Subject: Re: Severe Acne Help!
Keywords: isotretinoin, risk
Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital - Lab of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:01:39 GMT

In article <52980001@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> teresas@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Teresa Simske) writes:
>There should be no problem "finding a doctor who will prescribe Accutane to
>a female patient." 

Perhaps there shouldn't be.  However, I've met more than a few
physicians who are afraid to prescribe it to fertile women.  They do
not believe that they all will not become pregnant, and they don't
believe that those who do would all have abortions.  Ultimately, they
are afraid of feeling responsible for a birth defect.  Some are also
concerned about legal liability.  One actually said to me "I'm not
paid enough to take that risk.  Let the dermatologist prescribe it."!

--
     John Angelo Gnassi                 Lab of Computer Science
   jgnassi@hstbme.mit.edu               Massachusetts General Hospital
     "Eternal Student"                  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Hypothyroidism
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:49:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan8.214934.6786
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <lkrqeiINNmhc@news.bbn.com> levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes:
>|> Acupuncture can definitely be used to stimulate a low-acting 
>|> thyroid, as well as to treat hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto's, etc.
>|
>|Do you have *any* evidence of this?

To take after Joel, you should really say "evidence".

>Of course he does, or he wouldn't say that.  I'm sure he can point to
>numerous (greater than 0) cases where someone's "low-acting" "thyroid"
>was "stimulated" by acupuncture.

Right, when everything is a metaphor, you have no need for physiology.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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From: bcs33424@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bryan Siegfried)
Subject: Re: drinking urine
Reply-To: zig@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:14:22 GMT

sroka@evax.gdc.com writes:

>Another incident regarding the same. A family was trapped, possibly at sea or
>a mountain-side cabin. Anyway, they were trapped for a while with little or no
>provisions. The wife and daughter died but the husband/father survived because
>he was able to remain hydrated because he drank his own urine. Sure drastic
>times ...

	I don't remember where I heard this story, but I think it
happened at sea.  One thing to note is that you will still die of
thirst if you drink your own urine long enough.  However, the 
osmality of urine is lower than seawater's.  You'll last much longer
on urine than seawater.

>Would I approve of you friends recommendation? No. Think of it this way. Your
>body produces wastes. Your body has to get rid of these wastes somehow. Why
>take these wastes and introduce these into your body again with the possibility
>of absorbing some nutrients? Would these nutrients really produce a weight
>gain?

	As I recall, sugar in urine is a bad sign (diabetes?).  The
concentration of sugar in normal urine is very low.  Think about it 
for a moment.  Why would your body willingly lose sugar?  I agree with
sroka, this sounds pretty strange to me.


-- 
Bryan Siegfried							zig@uiuc.edu
Solvet saeclum in favilla
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From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: Cellular telephones and brain tumors
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:13:35 GMT

In article <3390@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> rlp@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ralph L. Place) writes:
>I heard yesterday on a radio newscast that someone in Florida was suing
>a cellular telephone company for causing his wife's brain tumor.  He
>claims that she held the phone and antenna close to her head and the rf
>(the announcer called it 'microwave') radiation resulted in causing the
>brain tumor.
>
>Now it would seem that at rf frequencies, the radiation would be absorbed
>within the outer layers of the skin (the familiar 'skin-effect', although
>no pun is intended) and thus would be highly unlikely to be absorbed 
>deeply enough to cause interior damage (even if the intensity was high
>enough).

If that were so, microwave ovens wouldn't work.  "Skin effect" has to do
with conduction, not absorption, and applies only to media that are so
conductive that the current can go where it wants.  For magnetic reasons
the current then tends to flow on the surface rather than the interior.

A 900-MHz cellular phone is not unlike a 2400-MHz microwave oven in its
effect on living tissue, except that both the power and the efficiency are
lower.

I'm an amateur radio operator, and I'm rather wary of holding a transmitter
of more than about 1 watt near my head.  We're told that the eyes are the
most vulnerable part of the body.  The danger goes up with both power
(cellular phones are about 5 watts, aren't they?) and frequency (cellular
phones are 850-900 MHz, my transmitters are 140 MHz).

I don't know anything specific about *tumors*, though.



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From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Digoxin
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:31:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: hsdndev.2385
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <1993Jan7.180959.7122@midway.uchicago.edu>
 scb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Right.  The theapeutic range for digitalis glycosides is EXTREMELY narrow.

The capitalized "extremely" overstates things a bit.  Particularly
when digoxin is used to treat atrial fibrillation, the therapeutic
range is fairly wide.

>My pharmacology professor said that
>digitalis (along with the inhaled anesthetics) is the most dangerous drug
>that we would ever work with.  Perhaps he was overstating things, but the
>emphasis is well worth it.

Not if it causes you to think that lots of other drugs are less dangerous.
Digoxin is a widely prescribed medication with a long track record.
While it certainly can cause toxicity, so can many other medications.
Adriamycin and amphotericin B come to mind as drugs that would seem
quite a bit more dangerous than digoxin.  There are many others.
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
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From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
Subject: Shoulder problems
Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213   _USA_
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:24:11 EST


I've been having a lot (LOT) of problems with my right
shoulder.  I'm certain that it's attributed to use of the
mouse.  I have to use the mouse SO often -- an even split a
lot of times between it and the keyboard -- that I developed
the habit of keeping my right arm extended over the mouse
whenever I wasn't typing.

The pain is in the back of my shoulder, right above my
shoulder blade.  If I use the mouse extensively (in an
average day I need to use the mouse a lot), the shoulder ache
becomes almost unbearable and a resulting headache lasts for
hours beyond when I've stopped using the mouse.

I've largely corrected this behavior and now tend to pull my
hand back into my lap or positioned over the keyboard.  In
addition, I've tried to eliminate extraneous use of the mouse
but I'm afraid that the computing systems that I use demand
its use pretty often and interactively (between it and the
keyboard).  I've probably reduced my mouse use by about 70%
but clearly that's not enough.

The problem that I'm having is this residual pain.  The pain
in my right shoulder flairs up with any type of use of the
mouse.  So, in addition to the things that I've already
mentioned, I've switched to using the mouse on the left side.
(However, I don't want to simply switch sides, allowing my
left side to get damaged as well.)

Is there anything else I can do to help my shoulder heal and
to prevent this from happening on the opposite side?  If
anyone has recommendations, please pass them along.

Is it likely that this problem can be corrected or might I
have damaged something beyond repair?

Sorry to have so many questions...

Thanks for any help.  I'll summarize any responses that I get
and post them.

Barbara




Barbara Zayas		              Software Engineering Institute
bjz@sei.cmu.edu			      Carnegie Mellon University
From: rik@world.std.com (Rik Ahlberg)
Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
Subject: Keyboard recommendations?
Keywords: CTS, keyboards
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:54:45 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

What's the best alternative keybaord for someone with CTS?  I have been
given the OK to order a newe keyboard for my workstation.  But which one?  I'd
really like to stick with a normal QWERTY layout so others can use my station
whne I'm away from my desk.  Price is no object, geting back to 120% is.

Please email and I'll summarize to the net.


Rik Ahlberg            McKinsey & Company, Inc.     617-457-2080 voice
rik@world.std.com      Boston Office                617-457-2099 fax
From: phughes@Apple.COM (Peter Hughes)
Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
Subject: Head tracker instead of mouse
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:52:20 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
	You can try out head tracking devices that don't require a mouse at all.
I have a mac system with a head tracker called a HeadMaster from PRC.  It has
an ultrasound headset that you wear and a mouth tube to blow to click.  I have
had trouble with it as it seems to send constant "mouseup" signals-- I am 
using a Quadra with system 7 and this thing seems to be kind of old.  But its
the right idea.  Let me know if you find something like this.

					Pete
Subject: Re: Shoulder problems
Summary: 
Expires: 
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From: halberst@world.std.com (jerry halberstadt)
Subject: Re: Rare diseases: is there a newsgroup anywhere!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:44:52 GMT

National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), Phone 203/746-6518 has
literature and newsletter covering every kind of orphan disease. They seem
to be doing a good job of information and the literature I have seen has
impressed me as covering the basics in short space. I don't know if it is
on-line but a phone call should help.

johnest@ulrik.uio.no (John E. Stacy) writes:


>Anyone who might know of a "rare disease newsgroup"  -
>a friend has some sort of anti-phospholipid thingy.
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From: dwallach@elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu (Dan Wallach)
Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
Subject: RSI birds-of-a-feather at X Conference in Boston
Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:59:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: SAUNDERS_J@ALB000.DNET.GE.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu

This message was original posted to SOREHAND, a BITNET mailing list.
I'm posting it here, because I think it would be of interest to many
readers of this group.

Dan
==============================================================================

Here is the latest scoop on the Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI)
Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) discussion group that will be held at
the 7th Annual X Technical Conference in Boston.

Location: Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers in Boston, MA
Date:     Monday 18 January 1993
Time:     4:45pm - 6:15pm

You are invited to come to the BOF even if you are not attending
the X conference. If you want more information about the X
conference in general, you may request more information from
registration@expo.lcs.mit.edu (or me).

It will be an somewhat informal session, with people asking and
answering questions, relating experiences, etc. I will have some
product literature to look at and a short video demonstrating the
"Twiddler" (if we can get a VCR in).

If anyone has any additional materials (especially products) they
can bring in, that would be great.

I will give a quick overview of some of the information from Dan
Wallach's typing-injuries FAQ just to get us started (resources,
types of RSI, prevention, workstation ergonomics, posture, etc,
alternative keyboards, alternative input devices (e.g., voice)).

Then I think we will just open it up to sharing experiences of
people with RSI and asking and answering questions. Pretty much
the format will depend on the people we have attending. Please
remember that this is not a formal presentation by any means. It
is just a discussion group.

After the conference, I will try to post a summary of the
discussion to the SOREHAND mailing list.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions, please feel
free to e-mail me.

BTW, In addition to the BOF, there may be a short talk on the
DragonDictate (speech recognition software) on Tuesday. You
should probably register for the conference ($85) if you want to
attend this talk.
--
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of GE Fanuc or any other company or person.
From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
Subject: Re: Head tracker instead of mouse
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:03:47 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In <76465@apple.apple.COM> phughes@Apple.COM (Peter Hughes) writes:

>Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
>	You can try out head tracking devices that don't require a mouse at all.
>I have a mac system with a head tracker called a HeadMaster from PRC.  It has
>an ultrasound headset that you wear and a mouth tube to blow to click.  I have
>had trouble with it as it seems to send constant "mouseup" signals-- I am 
>using a Quadra with system 7 and this thing seems to be kind of old.  But its
>the right idea.  Let me know if you find something like this.

>					Pete
>Subject: Re: Shoulder problems
>References: <1993Jan7.152411.6257@sei.cmu.edu> <lkua99INNlil@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
>Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

You should ask Doug Engelbart about his early research with tracking
devices.  He tried a very primitive head tracking system.  If you don't
know, Doug invented the mouse, windows, menus, display editing and
implemented the first hypertext system.  His address is
dce@sunrise.stanford.edu.

--Bill
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From: deborah@gallifrey.Eng.Sun.COM (Deborah Bennett)
Newsgroups: sci.med.occupational
Subject: Re: Shoulder problems
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:36:09 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gallifrey

bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas) writes:


>I've been having a lot (LOT) of problems with my right
>shoulder.  I'm certain that it's attributed to use of the
>mouse.  I have to use the mouse SO often -- an even split a
>lot of times between it and the keyboard -- that I developed
>the habit of keeping my right arm extended over the mouse
>whenever I wasn't typing.

(rest of story deleted)

One suggestion my Physical Therapist made was to somehow
arrange to have your mouse at the same height as your keyboard.
Many people who have RSI problems put their keyboard on a tray,
but leave the mouse up on the desk. This can cause repetitive
strain reaching for the mouse all the time. I fixed this by
extending my keyboard tray with a piece of scrap metal which goes
under the keyboard, cantilevering the mouse off the end of the
keyboard tray. You should be able to reach for the mouse
by arcing your hand over from the keyboard, with no additional
reach.

You could also investigate whether the system you use has some
kind of mouseless option for the window-system.

Until you get this fixed, you can also help the problem by stretching
your shoulder every 30 minutes or so, take frequent breaks,
and ice the shoulder every night, whether it hurts or not.

Good luck.
--

-deborah gronke bennett (WD5HJH)	deborah@eng.sun.com
device drivers and kernel port engineer
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
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From: johnest@ulrik.uio.no (John E. Stacy)
Subject: Rare diseases: is there a newsgroup anywhere!
Organization: University of Oslo
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:41:06 GMT


Anyone who might know of a "rare disease newsgroup"  -
a friend has some sort of anti-phospholipid thingy.
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From: gasman1@netcom.com (David A. Silva)
Subject: Re: resisting electromagnetic radiation
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Distribution: sci.med, sci.med.physics, sci.engr.biomed, misc.health.alternative
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:56:15 GMT

Denise M. Cuevas (denise@isl.stanford.edu) wrote:
: Call me an ignorant, radical fool, but the fact remains that I want to
: decrease my exposure to electromagnetic radiation. I've heard the
: pro and con arguments on whether this is a true hazard, and I've
: decided to be on the safe side. Unfortunately, I'm surrounded by it,
: most noticeably from powerlines near my house and computer terminals
: and copiers in my office.

: I would like to get pregnant soon, so I'm wrestling with whether I
: should quit my job (to reduce my exposure to the copiers and
: computers) and lose my medical coverage.

Just my opinion Denise, but to really get away from EM one needs to move
to a remote area. Most of the conveniences of the modern age run on some
form of electricity, and consume 100s or 1000s watts of power to do the
job of heating/spinning/displaying/sending etc. There are high voltage
lines surrounding our domiciles delivering us electricity. How much
extra problems are induced by electrically powered equipment that we
have a "choice" in using I don't know, but my hunch is ( no flames
requested please - this is just my opinion ) that it doesn't make too
much difference as long as the equipment is well designed.


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