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From: sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth "Gimpy" Bradley)
Subject: Causes of Tendon Degeneration
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:33:08 GMT

I am currently recovering from surgery to repair a ruptured posterior
tibialis tendon (apparently a pretty rare injury).  The surgeon said
that the tendon had "degenerated" rather than breaking cleanly.  He
wasn't too helpful on what could have caused this to occur.  I'm also
curious as to whether this is more likely to happen with another tendon
in the future (is one predisposed to such injuries?).  Thanks in advance!
-- 
Seth J. Bradley, Senior System Administrator, Intel SCIC
Internet: sbradley@scic.intel.com   UUCP: uunet!scic.intel.com!sbradley
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"A system admin's life is a sorry one.  The only advantage he has over
Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare.  On the other
hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions
of their own innards!"  -Michael O'Brien
From: fzjaffe@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Dysautonomia questions
Date: 4 Jan 93 06:17:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis

In article <86000@ut-emx.uucp> ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Kitchen) writes:
>
>	Can anyone tell me anything about Dysautonomia, which is the 
>missregulation of the heart by the autonomous nerve system?  
>
>	Specifically, I would like to find out what different kinds of the
>condition there are.  I also would like to know the side affects of the 
>drugs used for treatment, as well as their effectiveness.

The only disorder I know that specifically has the word "Dysautonomia"
in is is Riley-Day familial dysautonomia--rare, almost always in people
of European Jewish descent.  There are certainly many other diseases
with missregulation of the heart--including diabetic autonomic
neuropathy, Shy-Drager syndrome, Joubert syndrome, uremic neuropathy,
etc.  These represent an extraordinarily varied group of diseases, and
not much can be said without more info.
Xref: sparky sci.med:23819 alt.drugs:20870
From: Stepper@cup.portal.com (Bob Stepper White)
Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: RU-486 soon?
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 93 23:54:59 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

I had read that the FDA would be willing to accept data (voluminous) from
abroad and approve its use in the US.  The only problem is that its 
manufacturer is reluctant to market here in the US or even to liscence
it to someone else to market due to political pressure and a possible
boycott of their products led by the immoral minority.  
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: hcb@world.std.com (Howard C Berkowitz)
Subject: Re: Electrocardiogram question
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:16:56 GMT

In article <2351@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
>
>"Non-specific ST-T changes" is not similar to noise or other interference.
>It is a "specific" diagnosis, meaning that there are changes in the
>ST and T segments of the EKG that are not diagnostic of any specific
>abnormality such as ischemia (though ischemia or even infarction can
>produce such changes).  They are a relatively common finding.  A good
>computerized EKG interpreter should be able to distinguish noise from
>NSST-T changes.
>-- 


Since I've been out of automated EKG interpretation for years,
what does trigger the NSST-T interpretation?  An isoelectric
ST segment with an out-of-range ST interval?  ST amplitude 
changes with an absolute value too low to meet ischemia or
infarct triggers?  T-wave slope?  Other things?

On a related and more personal note, is anyone aware of work
relating heart block to REM sleep (or sleep apnea)?  My miniMEDLINE
only turned up one paper on animal models.  I recently had
a sleep study to R/O sleep apnea, and found sinus pauses
of up to about 12 seconds (informal reading) during REM sleep only.
A repeat Holter revealed occasional Wenckebach blocks of 3 
seconds or less during sleep.  The pauses during the 
polysomnogram were longer, and while CPAP was running.  

Howard

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Amyloidosis (was Re: Primary Ambiladosis)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:42:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.202143.11491@samba.oit.unc.edu> joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields) writes:
>Primary ambiladosis or ambilidosis, I'm not quite sure of the spelling. 
>I would like to know more about this disease.  Apparently, it's a very,
>very rare disease.  I've done a search but I'm afraid I might have the
>incorrect spelling or it may be typically refered to by another name.
>Mayor Caligori of Pittsburgh died of it a few years back.  Apparently it
>either settles in the lungs and heart or the liver and kidneys.
>Anyone ever hear of this?

Amyloidosis, I think you mean.

Amyloid describes a number of proteins which in amyloidosis are deposited
in organs where they don't belong, to a degree sufficient to impair their
normal function.  The cause is unknown.  Primary amyloidosis simply means
that it is occurring in the absence of other diseases which have been asso-
ciated with the phenomenon.  One form of amyloid deposition is associated
with the characteristic brain lesions seen at autopsy in Alzheimer's Disease.
I suppose it wouldn't be too incorrect if a wag described amyloidosis
as "Alzheimer's Disease of the body".  (Please don't take this last phrase
too seriously!)

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Date: 9 Jan 1993 02:10:40 GMT
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <17992@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
> The most common operation on the former obese is abdominoplasty ... to
> remove redundant tissue from those who have lost over 100 lbs.  This
> is usually not done until the person has demonstrated the ability
> to maintain the lowered weight for a period of several years.
> The reason for this is that if the person regains, ...

Or perhaps this is because the loose skin gradually tightens up over a
few months or years, making an operation unnecessary.  (Well, it's never
*necessary*, but...)  At least it did in my case.

Doctors tend to have a systematic pessimistic bias, since they only see
the unhealthy or unsatisfied ones.  Nobody ever goes to a doctor because
they successfully lost weight, or because their skin looks fine, or
because an infection cleared up by itself.

For another example, a friend of mine who had a severe head injury a
year ago -- he was in a coma for three weeks -- continues to exceed the
most optimistic prognoses, and is now almost entirely recovered.

Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Saturday, 9 Jan 1993 12:32:48 EST
From: <3423YKN@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Impotence treatments

I would appreciate hearing from anyone having first hand experience with
treatments for impotence.  Esp. Prostaglandin E1 injections and the Vacuum
Constriction  Device.

I would also appreciate hearing of any new developments in the field.

Thanks much
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Subject: Re: What's Lorazepam
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 01:30:53 GMT

Robert.Ira.Lewy.MD@f9453.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Ira Lewy MD) writes:

| I agree that Lorazepam is not truly addictive, though patients have a rough
| couple of days ( and sleepless nights) when they
| stop abruptly.

I guess I wonder what "truly addictive" means to you, if the
benzodiazepines don't qualify.  Or are you making a distinction
between Lorazepam and the other benzos in this regard?

I find both statements grossly suspect, but perhaps I'm missing
something you could clarify.

| It can, however, cause depression, memeory loss, and other
| neurological problems. Xanax is preferable
| for the same situation


And are you saying that Xanax is preferable to Lorazepam because
Xanax does not cause the depression, memory loss and other neurological
problems you mention?

I've never seen you post before.  Are you Really an MD?

== Bob Yazz ==
-- 


"The times they are a-changing."
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Re: Vitamin E Preparations and Estrogen
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:22:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan11.012240.2343
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1993Jan10.235801.1600@qualcomm.com> antonio@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Franklin Antonio) writes:
>>... I'm not sure where it got started, but one
>>place where the notion is actually printed is in Roy Walford's book,
>>_Maximum Life Span_ (1983?). I don't have the book so I don't know exactly
>
>Commercial brands of mixed tocopherols, made from wheat
>germ oil, contain mostly the d-alpha form, and also a fair amount
>of the female sex hormone estrogen.

This is nonsense.

>The situation is not perfect but our information allows us to navigate.

Walford sounds like he's suffering from chronic californiosis.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: antonio@qualcomm.com (Franklin Antonio)
Subject: salt (of various kinds)
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:19:43 GMT

There seem to be more and more food products on the market substituting
potassium chloride for sodium chloride.  A few years ago I noticed the
appearance of Morton "lite salt", which is a half each.     

A few days ago I saw Herb-Ox "Very Low Sodium Chicken flavor instant 
broth".  First I thought how can they make chicken broth that tastes
like something other than dishrags if they leave out the salt?  Then
I read the package, and discovered that this is simply another product
that has substituted potassium chloride for sodium chloride.

questions:  

   Is substitution of potassium chloride for sodium chloride in the
   diet an action that is backed by research, consensus, etc? ...
   In other words, is this rational?

   Health professionals of one kind or another have been bombarding
   us with the message that we should lower our sodium intake for
   years... I think most people have got the message.  I've heard
   darn little about potassium intake tho.  What are the effects of
   consuming a significant amount of potassium chloride?  (ie an
   amount similar to the amount of sodium chloride that typical
   americans consume)



Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: picotrim (TM) (marcotrim (tm)) 
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:16:13 GMT

In article <ASH.93Jan3112620@ulysses.mr.ams.com> ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder) writes:
>All right, what is this stuff?  I have now seen two advertisements for
>a product that supposedly "keeps the body from storing fat".  
>
>Can anyone refute or otherwise comment on this "miracle mineral"?

It's chromium picolinate.  Anyone who thinks this stuff will make them
trim should simply try it for a while.  Chromium picolinate in its recommended
doses of 200mcg chromium is cheap and non-toxic.  It is also ineffective
at promoting weight or fat loss.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
Subject: Re: picotrim (TM) (marcotrim (tm))
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:35:01 GMT

In article <ASH.93Jan3112620@ulysses.mr.ams.com> ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder) writes:
>
>All right, what is this stuff?  I have now seen two advertisements for
>a product that supposedly "keeps the body from storing fat".  
>
>The advertisement claims: "'It plays a key role in enabling insulin to
>work more effectively in processing glucose (sugar) and amino acids
>(components of protein) in the body.  It helps the insulin work more
>effectively, so that the glucose and amino acids are targeted for the
>muscle cells instead of the fat cells,' says Dr. Gary Evans mwho
>developed the use of this ingredient while working for the U.S.
>Department of Agriculture."

I don't know for sure, but it sure sounds like chromium picolinate.
If so, you can buy it in any of the GNC/Nature Food Centers type stores.

It doesn't "keep the body from storing fat" though.  However, preliminary
studies supposedly show that dieters who take CP lose more fat than those
who take a placebo.

Beth Mazur                   "...life is more than a vision.  The sweetest
mazur@inmet.inmet.com         part is acting after making a decision."
...!uunet!inmet!mazur                                  -- The Indigo Girls
From: tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:05:35 GMT
Subject: Re: True Vegeterian - is it OK?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition

|Question of hard-core Vegeterian:
|Is it possible to have a ballanced, healthy diet
|if someone does not eat meat, fish, eggs, milk AT ALL?
|Thank you for the advice.

Basically "no, but".

Watch out for indequate supplies of calcium and B12, both of which can be
obtained from supplements. An insidious effect of these deficiencies is that
they can take a _long_ timeto become apparent, by which time it is too late 
to reverse the damage.

Calcium deficiency leads to osteoporosis, which is particularly relevant
during pregnany and old age.

B12 deficiency has a number of interesting characteristics:
	- the body can store a couple of years supply of B12, so deficiency 
	can take a while to become apparent
	- early sumptom of deficiency is pernicious anaemia, later symptom
	is is irreversible (of course) degeneration of the central nervous
	system including the brain
	- vegetarians often concume large quantities of folates, which mask
	or prevent pernicious anaemia

Watch out for propaganda from people who are ignorant, or who have hidden 
agendas. Determine the _facts_, so far as is possible, and form your own
judgement.
From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Re: True Vegeterian - is it OK?
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:39:49 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

In article <95160013@otter.hpl.hp.com> tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner) writes:
>|Question of hard-core Vegeterian:
>|Is it possible to have a ballanced, healthy diet
>|if someone does not eat meat, fish, eggs, milk AT ALL?
>|Thank you for the advice.
>
>Basically "no, but".
>
>Watch out for indequate supplies of calcium and B12, both of which can be
>obtained from supplements. An insidious effect of these deficiencies is that
>they can take a _long_ timeto become apparent, by which time it is too late 
>to reverse the damage.

[...]

>Watch out for propaganda from people who are ignorant, or who have hidden 
>agendas. Determine the _facts_, so far as is possible, and form your own
>judgement.

You seem to be displaying the very ignorance you warn people to watch
out for. The incidence of osteoporosis is highest in those countries
with a high calcium intake (UK for example, the greatest milk drinkers
on the planet). B12 deficiency is more common in omnivores than in
vegans.



-- 
Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk

    JOE, taxi driver: Unemployment will rise and sooner or later the
    masses will revolt against it. There'll be civil disorder and the
    further breakdown of civil society. The end result I hope will be
    the triumph of the people over capitalism. I also wouldn't mind
    if a few more people used taxis this year - '92 was rotten.

(Taken from "Hopes and Fears" in The Guardian, December 31st 1992, a
section which looked at what people saw 1993 bringing)
From: young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Re: Vitamin D (was Re: True Vegeterian - is it OK?)
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: young@clpd.kodak.com
Distribution: sci.med.nutrition
Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Originator: young@plasma

In article <altar.726609566@sfu.ca> altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) writes:

[...]

>The plain fact of the matter is that rickets is NOT caused
>by a poor diet, as are all the other nutritional diseases,
>but as Loomis says, by a "deficiency of solar ultraviolet
>radiation"!

	I let this go by once, but twice is just too much.  This
	statement is ridiculous; it's like saying that scurvy is
	not caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, but a lack of 
	oranges in the diet.

	Rickets is a vitamin D deficiency disease that MAY BE TRIGGERED
	by a lack of solar ultraviolet radiation.  If rickets were a
	deficiency of solar UV radiation, then only solar UV radiation,
	or an analog, would cure it...which is clearly not the case.

[...]


-Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: sdo@lossage (Sean D. O'Neil)
Subject: Jamie Lubin
Organization: Research Computer Facility, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:11:51 GMT


This message is for Jamie Lubin.

Thanks for the fax of the paper on comparing natural and synthetic
vitamins.  I'm going to read it tonight.  For some reason I am unable
to e-mail you directly--try sending me a test message so I can try
to reply to it.  Thanks.

Sean
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Q: Anti-inflamitory in natural foods??
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:50:27 GMT

In article <1icvo8INN2kn@fnnews.fnal.gov> behnke@FNALF.FNAL.GOV writes:
>According to a PBS program on chemistry, aspirin is now made from bezene and
>other highly toxic chemicals.  Program feature Dr. Don Showalter(sp?) from the
>University of Wisconsin-Madison

No!  I don't believe it!  What news!

>Mike Behnke
>Fermi Nat Accel Lab
>Batavia, Il.

Um, what DO you do at Fermilab, anyway?  Anything science related
by any chance?

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: silver@fraser.sfu.ca (Craig Silver)
Subject: Q: Diuretics
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:08:24 GMT

I would like to know about what a diuretic is.  I know it's a
drug that promotes water excretion.
 
1.   People say the caffeine and alcohol are diuretics.  Is it
     caffeine and alcohol themselves that are diuretics (are they
     the drugs that promote water excretion themselves)?
 
2.   Technical question: *how* does it promote water excretion?
 
3.   Are there any natural foods that are/have diuretics?
 
4.   What are some *water-absorbing* foods and is there a name
     for them?
 
Thanks for your replies.
-- 

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Craig Silver	           Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
silver@sfu.ca (Internet)   Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition,connect.audit
From: object@ibmpcug.co.uk (Ken Tough)
Subject: Re: LDL Reduction via Grapes
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: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:57:49 GMT

In article <searsk-030193062304@3.7.192.190> 
searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin D. Sears) writes:
>A short time ago, someone posted a comment that the key ingredient to lower
>LDL was in the grape skin; therefore, grape juice was even a better product
>than grape-based wines.

Aha!  I hadn't heard this.  Is this why red wine (wine made with skins of
grapes included in fermentation) is meant to be beneficial to your health,
while such claims aren't made about white wine?


Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
From: nomi@cgl.ucsf.edu (Nomi L. Harris)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
Subject: If I'm not fat, should I worry about eating fat?
Summary: Normal weight, healthy, low cholesterol--can I pig out on butter?
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:59:49 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

Short version:
If I'm healthy, normal weight (5'2", 108 lbs), and have low cholesterol
(about 120--sorry, I don't know the breakdown of HDL/LDL), and eat a
balanced diet including lots of grains, vegetables, and fruits, should I
still worry about my fat intake?

Longer version:
I would guess that my fat intake is lower than the typical fast-food-loving
American's, but probably higher than that of really health-conscious
people.

Here's what I typically eat in a day:
For breakfast, I usually have oatmeal or dry cereal, 8 oz of 1% milk,
and a fruit (typically half a grapefruit, or a kiwi fruit).
For lunch, I have something like a sandwich (often including some meat,
but never (yuck!) mayonnaise), a small salad, a pint of 1% milk, and a
fruit.
For dinner, I might have a small amount of meat or fish (~4 oz), some
grain-type thing (e.g. brown rice, pasta, or bulgar wheat) with butter, and
some vegetable (usually fresh and cooked, often with butter), fruit juice,
and a fruit. (Sometimes I eat pasta + cheese instead of meat + grain.)

I usually eat meat at only one meal a day, not two.  I drink 1% milk (I
would prefer 2%, but I force myself to drink 1%; skim is just too
unpalatable to me) at two meals a day.  My desserts are virtually always
non-fat, usually consisting of fruit.  My fat downfall is butter.  I love
butter, and consider most vegetables not really worth eating unless I put
butter on them (butter, never margarine; margarine is a pretty poor
substitute in my book).  My aunt, who, unlike me, has a cholesterol
problem, has made me feel guilty about eating butter.  I had my cholesterol
checked to get her to stop bugging me.

I am reasonably healthy, exercise fairly regularly (about 3 times a week),
and have no desire to lose weight.  Should I feel guilty about enjoying a
few pats of butter with my dinner?  Are there any long-term health risks
that may not be evident at the moment, but will cause me trouble in years
to come (I'm currently 27)?

	Nomi Harris
	nomi@cgl.ucsf.edu
From: bmdelane@quads.uchicago.edu (brian manning delaney)
Subject: Vitamin E Preparations and Estrogen
Reply-To: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:20:20 GMT

  I have heard that many vitamin E preparations have estrogen in them.
Does anyone know if this is B.S., and if not, whether or not the
amount of estrogen is significant?

Brian Delaney
bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Re: "Natural" vs. synthetic supplements, etc.
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:16:23 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

It's fun to take vitamin pills and put them in a glass of vinegar for
30 minutes, or coca-cola.  i had a bottle of generic fake "Centrum"
vitamins that I could not dissolve! I decided to split them in half
before taking them...
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