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From: dcohen@paul.rutgers.edu (Dawn Myfanwy Cohen)
Newsgroups: ru.nb.org.csgss,ru.nb.dcs.general,sci.med
Subject: Help needed for tendonitis victim -- text-processing without keyboard?
Keywords: Software/hardware -- Do you know of any?
Date: 27 Jul 92 03:18:34 GMT
Followup-To: ru.nb.org.csgss
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


A friend of mine has chronic tendonitis in her wrists.  She is finding
typing more and more difficult as the months and years go on.  I'm not
sure why, but she finds it easier to write by hand.  

We are looking for information about software and/or hardware which
can be interfaced with standard text-processing software, on a
personal computer, which will minimize or eliminate typing.  My friend
mentioned that she had heard of something for Apple computers (I don't
know what kind) which allows hand-written input (I guess this would
be a pen-based computer?)  We would like to know about general kinds of
computer input products available for people with hand disabilities, 
as well as specific products.  

Thanks!
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From: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Keywords: alt medicine
Reply-To: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:53:51 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.224713.34243@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
>In article <15806@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul23.020521.37791@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
>>>This has been an interesting thread.  And such amazing stories.  Is that a
>>>joke about the jar of mayonnaise?!  
>>
>>That is no joke! I have seen the xray myself.

Gives new meaning to the phrase, "hold the mayo".

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From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Newsgroups: sci.med,connect.audit
Subject: Re: Angiography
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:19:39 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.

In article <1992Jul26.222737.6159@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray) writes:
>   Last thurday my mother went to the hospital complaining of
>chest pains and shortness of breath. A few hours later, she had
>a small coronary heart attack(blood clot) at the hospital. She's doing
>much better now(the hospital tried some new experimental clot-busting drug on
>her and it worked very fast) but the doctor now wants to perform a heart
>catheterization to find out which artery is narrowed.
>
>  My question is, how dangerous is angiography? My mother is 50 years old,
>has hypertension, and is overweight (190 lbs). Are the risks worth it?
>What can be done about narrow arteries? The only solutions I know of are
>angioplasty and coronary bypass.  Is angioplasty successful in preventing
>future heart attacks?  Is there any other treatmeant for widening 
>arteries? My mother, and my family, are pretty scared of a coronary
>bypass.

Angiography does carry a risk, but unlike angioplasty, the risk of a major
complication is small (i.e. fractions of a percent) - For angioplasty there
are moderate but treatable complications on the order of 2% (but, if its
indicated, they will no doubt give you the exact risks).

Compared with the minor risks of an angiogram, the information gained is 
usually of great value.   It is THE definitive test for coronary heart
disease.   It will tell you if there are more vessels nearly blocked off
in your mothers heart, and will say what treatment options are.

In terms of treatments, both bypass operations and angioplasty have good
results, in their respective areas, and neither is universally of value.
Neither can be undertaken without an angiogram.
Bypass does seem to improve outcome in those with very poor but treatable
coronary artery blockages, and produces large improvements in quality
of life as well.

Obviously, beyond the surgical treatments for extensive disease, there
is clearly the need to treat the underlying predisposition to this 
disease, and controlling blood pressure and weight, as well as stopping
smoking (if she does) and treating any cholesterol problem needs to be
considered.

Finally, there are many medical therapies for minimising risks post
heart attack (aspirin and "beta blockers" are the mainstay) as well
as treatment for ongoing angina and cardiac failure that may have 
resulted from blocked arteries.

Hope some of this helps.

Am happy to write back if you have more questions (mail me george@ibmpcug.co.uk)
Yours,

Michael
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Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: v136pds9@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu ( The Phantom)
Subject: common sense?
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5751
Organization: University at Buffalo
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:50:00 GMT

In post <9:13 am  Jul  9, 1992 by dyer@spdcc.com in cdp:sci.med.aids>
Steve writes:

>All he's saying is that it takes a long time to find a "cure"
>for a viral disease, and only after a lot of information (some
>ultimately relevant, some not) has been learned about the virus
>and its mechanism of action.  That's not prescient, it's just
>common sense. 

	Not true.  I believe that the mechanism of a retro virus
was well understood.  It was I that took some time to learn
how the littler bugger does it's damage.  Now that I seem
to have a better understanding I realize that all of the
reseach/money (and I would like to emphasize money), is
wasted on ucleoside analoges.  These nuc drugs do not realy
help PWAs but more they help other trying to get money.
If the govn. realy wanted to help, then they woulnd't
have spent almost ten years on drugs that "maybe" only
stop one route of the virus (reproduction in the cytoplasm).
What about after it's incorporated in the DNA.  No, IMHO,
nuc drugs have helped the epidic, it was a quick fix and
should have been surpased by more logical drugs.  There is
no common sense when it comes to profit, look at DNCB!
	It does take a long time to find a cure but and even
longer time does it take it your ot realy trying.

****
and steve replied to billi's post

) As Louis Pasteur said: "Chance favors only the
)>prepared mind."  I believe that there is a lack of prepared minds in
)>the scientific-medical-pharmaceutical world.
)
)Er, so?
)
)>I haven't got the time to wait for a cure; either do the people who are
)>HIV+.
)
)Er, so?
)
)--
)Steve Dyer
)dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
)

	Er, so? Is the same response that allowed and is still
allowing many people to die of AIDS (and will probably continue).
If you realy don't care than why bother reading sci.med.aids.
If you do care, than why the "Er, so (what)?"

John 

Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: AIDS: What the Gov't Isn't Telling You
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5818
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:52:00 GMT

One problem comes to mind in these cases, sometime ago it was mentioned
that attempts to infect monkeys by injecting the pure virus into them
failed. I've seen several other mentions of the virus needing to be
in a cell to sucessfully cause an infection. If this is true then the
time that matters isn't how long the virus can live outside the body
but how long an infected cell can survive.
1) Is this factoid about the pure virus true?
2) How long can a cell survive outside the body? (I'm guessing hours at
   worst?)

I'm also curious if HIV has ever been spread via shared tooth brush, of
any casual means of transmission this would seem the most likely since
blood to blood contact can happen.

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From: jbone@manufing.dell.com (Jeff Bone)
Subject: Oral sex as a transmission vector
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Keywords: numbers?
Archive-Number: 5798
Organization: Dell Computer Co
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:35:50 GMT

Another brief question.  Anyone have any accurate figures regarding the
numbers of documented cases of HIV transmission through oral contact,
broken down by male->male, male->female, female->male, female->female
and distinguished between performing and receiving?  It's my understanding
that there are only two confirmed cases where oral sex was the vector
of transmission, in both cases male->male with the person receiving the
semen aquiring the infection.  I've also heard that there are only two
documented cases of HIV infection between homosexual female partners,
in both cases where sex toys were shared.

Can anybody verify any of this, or provide me with more accurate or
realistic statistics or pointers where to find same?  Thanks again in
advance.

jb

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Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: aids conference in cuba
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5754
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:01:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.211117.18795@cs.ucla.edu> Charlie Rosenberg <crosenberg@igc.org> writes:
>Cuba has the most controversial program for preventing and  
>controlling AIDS in the world today. The Cuban program is the  
>world's most restrictive -- and most effective.  

Right.  And it's a workers' paradise as well.  You creeps just don't
know when to stop shovelling this crap, do you?  And yet you eat it up.
God, what gullibility.  Do you seriously imagine that the Cuban govern-
ment is to be trusted with figures on AIDS incidence?  And this sham,
this pack of lies, is used to justify the human rights abuses which have
been routinely imposed against gay people and other dissidents.  It's
nauseating.

(For newcomers here, this is not the first or last time these unreconstructed
Spartacist Youth League wannabes have used sci.med.aids as a propaganda
organ for the atrocities of this tottering regime.  These people are
revolting.)

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From: MADLANSACAY@MARY.FORDHAM.EDU (Madlansacay)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: list of addresses for US AIDS Organizations
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:12:40 GMT
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5800

Greetings.  I'm trying to get a comprehensive mailing list of US Based
AIDS organization - CBO's, advocacy groups, etc.  ACT UP and QN and other
activists groups I already have.  If anyone can direct me on how and
where to get such a listing I would appreciate it.

Noel
MADLANSACAY@MARY.FORDHAM.EDU
From: delphine@wpi.WPI.EDU (Delphine Clomenil)
Subject: Re: Religion and AIDS
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5822
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:45:11 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.150240.11247@cs.ucla.edu> portal!cup.portal.com!Arthur_T_Hu@uunet.UU.NET writes:

   Speaking of groups with low AIDS rates, are there ANY studies of AIDS
   incidence by religion? It's perfectly obvious that the Amish and 
   fundamentalist Christians are practically immune to AIDS except thru
                                             ^^^^^^
I don't think you meant to use this word:  they are not immune to the
virus but because of the fact that their society is so closed they
haven't been in contact with infected people via sexual relations for
instance.  If by any chance one of them went astray and had sexual
relations with someone outside the Amish community and this person was
infected, then their chances of being infected and spreading the virus
through the community are just the same as any group with the same
sexual behavior.

   blood transfusion or hemophilia, but is there a conspiracy to withold
   any funding or effort to demonstrate that this is true? If no one on
   this net can cite a single study, is this evidence of such a conspiracy,
   or is it just plain idiocy or political correctness?

   I've already seen one article that states that homosexuality and drug use
   is unknown among the Amish, (though our friends maintain that 10% of them
   are gay)
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Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: jbone@manufing.dell.com (Jeff Bone)
Subject: nuc drugs & CMI
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5821
Organization: Dell Computer Co
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:45:33 GMT

Do they only suppress formation of antibodies, or do they negate any CMI
effect which might be happening also?  Could application of nuc drugs for 
other conditions in the very early stages of infection actually *inhibit*
any sort of natural immune response which might otherwise overcome the HIV
virus?

This seems like a pretty dangerous possibility.  Otherwise healthy people
who were exposed to, say, herpes and HIV at the same time, who were then
given acyclovir to treat initial herpes outbreak, might actually suffer
a reduced ability to deal with HIV suring the period of treatment... 

Will somebody who understands the issue better than I perhaps address
this?

jb

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Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
From: Eric T. Jue <etjue@lbl.gov>
Subject: AIDS: What the Gov't Isn't Telling You
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5812
Organization: LBL
Date: 30 Jul 1992 15:32:43 GMT

I heard an interesting talk show on 7/27/92 concerning a new book titled
"What the Government Isn't Telling You About AIDS."  The author of the
book, Dr. Lorraine Day of UC San Francisco, offered her findings on the
air and fielded questions from listeners.  According to her, research has
shown that the AIDS virus is not a fragile virus and that it may survive
up to 7 days in a dry environment and up to 14 days in a moist one.  She
claims that AIDS may be transmitted through all types of bodily fluids,
including sweat, and not just through blood.  She mentions other
interesting findings on AIDS which she says the government is
intentionally hiding from the public.  Her findings are all based on
clinincal research documentation done around the world.  Her book may be
ordered by phone at (800) 537-2437.  I hope people who have heard
anything about Dr. Day or her book will post their thoughts to this
newsgroup.  Thank you very much.
From: lsiwek@xrtb.cnde.iastate.edu
Subject: AIDS from Siblings?
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5823
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:47:56 GMT

Are there any documented cases of someone contracting HIV from a family member through non-sexual contact (ie. saliva, injury treatment)?

-ems
From: jpennell@axion.bt.co.uk (John Pennell)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: Infections obtained through Urino-contact
Date: 31 Jul 92 07:48:19 GMT
Reply-To: jpennell@axion.bt.co.uk (John Pennell)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5819

As a part-time counsellor on an AIDS helpline, I have recently been asked a question which I have no idea of the answer to.

Can AIDS be contracted through drinking urine?  The thought makes me shudder, but I think I should know the answer.  If anyone knows, could they mail me : jpennell@axion.bt.co.uk

Thanks.

Jonnie Pennell - "So long and thanks for all the fish" - Save the Dolphins!
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From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: AZT and the Immune System: Revisited
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Archive-Number: 5783
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 07:28:56 GMT

I assume what your theory is saying is that there would be in effect an
allergic response to AZT? The data to partially confirm (or unconfirm) the
theory is probably already out there. If the theory was correct then an HIV+
person who is taking allergy shots, or is exposed to something they are
allergic to would recieve the same benefits.  

If this was actually the case I assume someone could switch from one 
allergy causing substance to another as they got tolerances for each
one?

How would this differ from DNCB?
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From: v136pds9@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu ( The Phantom)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: reverse transcription
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:30:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
Note: non-commercial reproduction.
Archive-Number: 5811


	I have a question about reverse transcription in the
cytoplasm.

	Lets say that one viron infects a cell that was previously
normal and noninfected.  There are two strands of vRNA and two
moleculecs of reverse transcriptase (RT).  Does each strand of vRNA
make a new strand of vDNA or can each strand make many many
strands of vDNA?

	Also, reverse transcription is an abnormal process
in the cytoplasm (or anywhere, in humans) so I guess that
is why they choose that enzyme to inhibit.

	1)  If it's so abnormal, couldn't they come up with
		a much more effective way to fight this virus
		by destroying the RT?

	2)  Isn't their another abnormal process going from
		the single strand vDNA to the double strand
		vDNA in the cytoplasm?

	Finally,  Don't DDI and DDC interfere with the production
	of RNA (ie. mRNA  aka   viral mRNA)? This is the process
	by which we live. Is this a major
		con job, or what?  Stopping the production of
		new virons from the nucleous is just simply
		TOO LATE and can not realy do anything to
		stop the epidemic.

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From: bhjelle%vaxine.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Brian Hjelle)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: Re: HIV+ Woman Requests To Speak At REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:57:18 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Archive-Number: 5809

In article <1992Jul30.140826.10851@cs.ucla.edu> Ron Buckmire <buckmr@rpi.edu> writes:
>    
>    Ms. Fisher's father, Max Fisher, is the honorary chairman of the
>    Bush-Quayle '92 National Finance Committee.  In July 1991, she
>    learned she had contracted the HIV virus, a condition she made
>    public in February.  She is a consultant to the National
>    Commission on AIDS and has lobbied Republican lawmakers about
>    the disease.
>    
It will certainly be interesting to see if the Republicans let
her speak. Knowing the GOP view of AIDS, however, I suspect the
decision will revolve around whether she contracted the virus
by some "innocent" route. 

IE, blood transfusion -OK to speak.
Sexual, injectable drugs -no.

This dichotomy seems to be very important to politicians and
the press.

Brian
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From: v136pds9@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu ( The Phantom)
Subject: AZT against HIV (was:: Re: common sense?)
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Archive-Number: 5804
Organization: University at Buffalo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:01:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.065121.17188@cs.ucla.edu>, rpetsche@mrg.PHYS.CWRU.Edu (Rolfe G. Petschek) writes...
>  AZT, DDI and DDC established by good, clear, well-designed peer
>reviewed studies to decrease the rate at which people with significantly
>progressed disease die.  I believe that they are the only such drugs with
>immediate impact on HIV, as opposed to opportunistic infections.
> 

	It is my understanding that AZT is a tymadine derivative and
that it has a preference for reverse transcriptase (RT).  Tymadine is not
used in the synthesis of mRNA nor "m-(viral)RNA".  Therefore, AZT
does not, and was never intended to, affect the production of new
virons from the nucleus.   AZT was a quick fix and should never 
have been given the credit which you and many other non-infected
people seem to give it.  If you consider the end results after
relying on AZT you might find, IMHO, that these nucleoside are
doing more harm than good for the epidemic.  This leaves future
generations with either a new common virus called HIV or a massive
alteration in the "type" of people that survived.  This last point
is the reason, again IMHO, the battle to stop the continual growth
of the epidemic is just "Er, so" effective.

The scientific community is doing the very best it
>can to find drugs, cures and vaccines for HIV.  Significant progress has
>been made.

	I don't believe that.  It is true that the scientific community
has jumped on this idea of AIDS treatments and have received
a lot of grants to test there "best" theories; but, if they
were working for me,  they would have been let go in 1989.
	
	I realize the the govn. puts a lot of restrictions on medicine
and research but it is up to the research scientist to
get the message accross, by any means.  People will never realize,
IMHO, what we lost we Koop resigned.

	The time is long past due to look for alternative pathways
to interfere with in the pathogensis of HIV.  Saying the
nuc drugs are all that we have is a cop-out.  If all a street
person has is $1 and he/she needs a pint of gin, do you think
they will go to the bank and invest their $1 or go out and
GET the money from somewhere or someone, by any means.

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