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From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)
Subject: Re: Contact lenses and blood vessels in the eye!?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:44:45 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In article <23904@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.023143.163637@watson.ibm.com>, yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
>
>>When presented with a choice between putting a foreign substance in
>>my eye that can possibly cause blindness and "good looks"
>>versus  eyeglasses.  I choose the latter.  
>>(But to each his/her own.)
>
>Purely out of curiosity, have you ever worn glasses or contact lenses?
>If you have worn glasses, what strength were they, and did you need to
>wear them for *everything* (not just the occasional fine print)?
>
Yes, I have worn glasses since seventh grade (about twenty years).
I wear them almost every waking hour.  My eyes are about 20/250.
I have never tried contacts.  (I guess I am not comfortable with
the thought of putting something in my eye.) 

>I must add that contacts aren't chosen just for good looks, although I
>would imagine that this is the main or only reason for the majority of
>contact lens wearers.  
>
Other posters have suggested that I should not condemn contact
lense wearers.  This was not my intention.  Some contact lenses
wearers are not aware of the dangers of contact lenses.
Others are aware of the dangers and choose to meet them
eye to eye (no pun intended.) 

>At high strengths, glasses become *very* uncomfortable.
>The weight is cumbersome, even with the new super thin lenses.
>You can't lay down while wearing glasses or the arm digs into your head.
>There is a period of weeks of wear to get used to looking at
>everything curved (imagine your reflection on the back of a spoon). 
>
>There are no problems with proprtion or curvature with contact lenses.  From 
>a social perspective, the unfortunate reality is that children and young
>adults with thick glasses are only noticed for their handicap and are not
>generally the most popular people.
This is a sad, but true commentary on society.  
In fact, in school during gym, some of the kids would call me "Einstein"
because I wore glasses.  (Although, I don't believe Einstein wore glasses.)
>
>Also (and obviously), not all people who wear contact lenses go blind.  With
>proper care, frequent replacement and frequent follow-up visits with the
>doctor, contact lenses are a very safe alternative.
>
>Laura
>
>laura@tasvax.nswses.navy.mil                      I speak only for myself.
>Mom to Maryrose Nadine - born 8-5-92             (No one else will listen.)
Congratulations on your new baby girl.              ^-----This is not quite
							  true.  At least,
							  one other person
							  listened.
                                                 (It is clever, though.)

-- 
 Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com)  
 From the beautiful and historic Mid-Hudson Valley area of NY state
From: larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com (Larisa Stephan)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Pos/Neg Benefits of CO2 in pop (soda)
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:05:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: hacgate.24087
Reply-To: larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com
Followup-To: sci.med
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co. EOS Electronics Lab

So if your blood can't absorb these gasses from your stomach in more than
mosquito-fart proportions, does that mean the advice for scuba divers to
avoid carbonated drinks before diving is B.S.?

This could be of legendary origin, but some people believe that ingesting
CO2-containing drinks can cause increased susceptibility to decompression
sickness due to a higher number of bubble micro-nuclei floating around in
the blood.

-- Larisa
larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com
From: ac@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (ac)
Subject: MRI/CT data for human torso
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:56:38 GMT


	Is there any MRI/CT data (of human torso) available in public
domains ? Any suggestion is highly appreciated!!


Alex Chou
EE, Purdue U.
shihtsun@ecn.purdue.edu
ac@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
From: cburian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher J Burian)
Subject: Re: Dr. Rosalie Bertell: "Quietly Eating Radioactivity"
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:40:24 GMT
Keywords: We're not choosing to live on this planet, we're choosing to kill it.

dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) writes:

    [Book excerpts and speech by Dr. Rosalie Bertell regarding hazards
     of nuclear power and weapons testing] 

Dr. Bertell cries out for support from the alternative press.  Perhaps the
mainstream press downplays reports like hers because they are full of 
inflammatory hyperbole.  There are a lot of disturbing facts in her
presentation, but it's hard to find them amidst exaggerations.  Dr. Bertell's
sky-is-falling rantings turn off intelligent readers.  Grass-roots efforts  
of paranoid and under-informed individuals aren't going to be able to
combat a problem of this magnitude.

	Christopher Burian---
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	     talk this way.....
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Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
From: aesbromw@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (David Bromwich)
Subject: Health Physics Society BBS
Summary: Can I access HPS BBS?
Keywords: HPS BBS
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: 20 Nov 92 08:06:57 GMT

How can I access the Health Physics Society BBS.

The Editorial in the November 1992 "Health Physics"
mentions the "birth of the Health Physics Society Bulletin
Board System (HPSBBS). It not only offers a wealth of health
physics related programs and data, but also a complete 
library of all software reviews"

If its not available directly, is it mirrored somewhere on
the Internet?

David Bromwich
Division of Environmental Sciences
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
D.Bromwich@ens.gu.edu.au

.

AD
From: dedrich@plasma.ps.uci.edu (Dave didn't logout.)
Subject: Need INFO on Certifying Organizations
Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:01:09 GMT

     My wife is interested in getting certified in medical physics.
I am looking for the address of the American Board of Radiology and
the American Board of Medical Physics.  

Thank you.

dedrich@plasma.ps.uci.edu
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Re: Royal Jelly
Date: 16 Nov 92 06:21:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov16.062104.960
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <davidmh-161192121442@jenni.ucc.su.oz.au> davidmh@is.su.edu.au (David Martin Hill) writes:
>I have been reading the pstings following this article, and I am very
>UNlearned on the subject, but I have read a great deal about how wonderful
>Royal Jelly is, and how it contains almost every amino acid known to man
>and needed by man to do all the wonderful things fit healthy and active
>people need to do...

Well, that's not what you read here.

>Is this all just marketing hype to make us buy an expensive supplement
>which someone has taken the quantum leap of "works on bees - must work on
>humans" for??

You'd think that saying "this stuff turns you into a queen" would
turn off some customers...

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Information needed about MS treatments
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:30:39 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Nov16.203106.6876@microsoft.com> larryh@microsoft.com (Larry Houch) writes:

>She has heard conflicting information as to treatment options, but
>one name that came up was a Dr. Hans Nieper of Germany. Since her
>funds are limited, if she travels to Germany she will not be able to
>afford any other treatment course. Is Dr. Nieper well-known? Is his
>success rate in this disorder good?
>
He is infamous, both here and in Europe.  In my opinion, the treatments
are worthless and a total waste of money.  They are not covered
by insurance, in most cases.  I have had several patients that
have gone for these expensive treatments and I have noticed no
difference in any of them.  One fellow nearly died when the
central line that he had in for the calcium injections became
infected.  As far as I know, the FDA is trying to stop his
drugs from being imported, but people are still sending them in
in small batches.

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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: d88-eli@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz)
Subject: Re: Info needed : Gamma Knife
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:55:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.225104.6521@discus.technion.ac.il> aristo@techunix.technion.ac.il (Noam Paz) writes:
>Dear readers of "sci.med",
>I'm looking for information regarding 
>
>	   Gamma Knife.
>	   ----------
>
>Any on-line material, as well as hints and pointers to
>sources of info would be greatly apreciated.

The Leksell Gamma Knife is manufactured by Elekta Instrument AB, and is used
for intracranial treatments of various nasties as an alternative to open
surgery.

As a consultant for Elekta (programmer, not medical expert) I'll have to
restrain from providing complete commercial info in this news-group
(advertising), and redirect such requests to either my personal email-
account or the adress below.

>Since I can reach "sci.med" only indirectly, I'd thank you
>if you could send me the material directly.

(This message has been emailed to Mr. Paz, but I think this short
 pointer is of some general interest, therefore I posted it.)

>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Noam Paz
>Faculty of Computer Science,
>Israel Institute of Technology,
>Haifa 32000, Israel.
>
>INTERNET :      aristo@techunix.technion.ac.il  
>		aristo%techunix.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>BITNET   :      aristo@techunix
>ARPANET  :      aristo%techunix.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>CSNET    :      aristo%techunix.bitnet@csnet-relay.csnet
>UUCP     :      {ihnp4, allegra, rutgers}!psuvax1!techunix.bitnet!aristo
>                ...uunet!techunix.BITNET!aristo
>		uunet!techunix.technion.ac.il!aristo@uunet.UU.NET

Erik Liljencrantz          email: d88-eli@nada.kth.se
Ms. Sc. C.S. @ The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Elekta Instrument AB       Phone: + 46 8 783 76 30
Skeppargatan 8             Fax:   + 46 8 783 76 70
114 52  STOCKHOLM
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-- 
Erik Liljencrantz     | "No silly quotes!!"
d88-eli@nada.kth.se   |  Embraquel D. Tuta
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: mdiffin@crc.ac.uk (Dr. M.C. Diffin)
Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:24:15 GMT

In article <lgihacINN6hm@peaches.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
>-*----
>In article <17491@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>> The same way that plant seeds distinguish soil from rocks: they don't, ...
>
>For once, you lose me.  Seeds clearly do distinguish soil from
>rocks: they grow in the former and die on the latter.  I suspect
>either of us could even make a reasonable explanation of the
>mechanisms involved.  Now ... What are the mechanisms in the case
>of the question I posed?
>
>Russell

Viruses tend to have specific target tissues independent of the route of
entry, eg  rabies is generally transmitted by bites, but the skin is not
attacked (the virus is retrogradely transported by nerves to the CNS
where it binds to ACh receptors).  Similarly, HSV is retrogradely
transported to a ganglion where it resides until some stimulus causes it
to move back and cause the patent infection.   

*Very* simply, most viruses obey the following:


1. Primary contact (faecal/oral, serum &c)
2. Viraemia (virus particles multiply & are distributed in circulation)
3. Infection of target tissue (specific virus/receptor interaction)
4. Disease (clinical or latent)
-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
Michael Diffin
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INTERNET: mdiffin@mrc-crc.ac.uk, mcd12@phx.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: curtisg@sco.COM (Curtis Galloway)
Subject: Toothbrush sterilizers any good?
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:07:37 GMT

I almost bought a toothbrush sterilizer the other day.  It has a UV bulb
inside a case that holds your toothbrushes, and it claims to kill all kinds
of bad germs that can, for example, re-infect you with a cold if you've had
one recently.  Is this a waste of money, or are they on to something here?
I'd gladly get it if it would make my colds go away one day sooner.

Thanks,
--Curt
From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Aids, Inc. (was: RFD Alternative Medicine)
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:01:34 GMT
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <1992Nov23.165400.1204@island.COM> green@island.COM 
(Robert Greenstein) writes:
>I just finished reading a most interesting interview with Jon Rappaport,
>author of "AIDS, INC". I have not yet read the book, but the interview
>raises some disturbing issues. He argues that AZT is a poison which 
>attacks the bone marrow, among other things. 

Wow, how did he ever break that story.  I thought we allopaths were
doing such a good job of covering it up.  Do you think he found it
in that secret book, the PDR which under the Warnings section for
AZT has in the required bold face in a box format "therapy with
[AZT] may be associated with hematologic toxicity including
granulocytopenia and severe anemia requiring transfusions"?

>the FDA, which licensed the drug in 1987 was aware of the danger. About
>20% of the people in the licensing trial had to have multiple red-cell
>transfusions because their blood was so badly damaged.

Boy, the FDA sure seems to have been trying hard to hide this fact.

>Rappaport says that information on the licensing trials obtained through 
>the Freedom of Information Act showed that the licensing trial was a 
>fraud. The trial became unblinded. People were comparing polls to see
>who was taking the placebo and who was taking AZT. They began sharing AZT.

Wow, he used the Freedom of Information Act!!  Do you think he might
have read the editorials and letters in various journals discussing
the problems with maintaining blinding in AZT trials?

By the way, if patients were crossing over from placebo to AZT without
the investigators knowledge, do you think that biases the study toward
the alternative hypothesis or to the null hypothesis?

>In this interview Rappaport also talked about similar licensing scams
>for neuroleptic drugs. They cause a form of brain damage known as
>tardive dyskinesia. There are an estimated 38 million cases of
>tardive dyskinesia globally, all caused by drugs licensed by the FDA.

Well, while I'm quoting from the PDR without permission, how about
from the first line of the Warnings section for Haldol (the first
neuroleptic I thought of to check): "TARDIVE DYSKINESIA  A syndrome
consisting of..."  I think you get the idea.  These "licensing
scams" sure are gonna fall apart if people get hold of that secret
PDR book.
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: M20614@mwvm.mitre.org (Hugh Pritchard)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Myopia
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:25:06 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102

In article <1992Nov16.232357.13652@netcom.com>
kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski) writes:
 
>In <1992Nov16.195854.2329@draper.com> storch@draper.com (Joel Storch) writes:
>
>>It seems that the opthomoligists are mainly concerned with eye disease and
>>not preventative measures against myopia....
>
>You'd find reading about the Bates Method interesting.
 
Bates wrote at the beginning of the century.  His ideas have been shown to be
wrong.  He thought the exterior eye muscles might be trained and strengthened
to compress the eyeball, thus bringing the retina closer to the actual focal
point of a myopic eye.  Turns out that these muscles (6 of 'em) are not
strong enough to deform the eye substantially.  However, eye exercises for
AMBLYOPIA may be another story....
 
[Not an M.D., but a lifelong ophthalmology patient]
 
**  Hugh Pritchard,  hapritch@mitre.org,  703/883-6616
From: habersch@husc11.harvard.edu (Oren Haber-Schaim)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Halogen light bulbs?
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:02:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc11.habersch.722055764
Distribution: na

wales@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes:
(on GTE bulbs)
>According to the advertising on the box, the new bulb uses a tungsten/
>halogen capsule (apparently similar to those used in cars) enclosed in
>a second, outer glass bulb.  The outer bulb glass is much thicker than
>"normal" light bulbs, and the new bulbs are much heavier than usual.

>I bought a few of these bulbs (at about $5 for a 100W bulb, they're on
>the pricey side), and I must say I'm very pleased.  The light is much
>whiter than what you get from regular incandescent bulbs.  According to
>the box, the new bulbs are about 10% brighter than conventional bulbs
>of similar wattage and are supposed to last about three times as long.

>I've heard concerns about UV radiation from halogen lights, but I would
>assume the thick outer glass bulb would absorb most of the UV.

>Rich Wales <wales@CS.UCLA.EDU> // UCLA Computer Science Department

You can have your whiteness or you can have your low-UV-ness.
The whiteness comes from higher output in the short wavelength
end of the spectrum, giving a stronger blue, and along with
that, more of the neighboring ultraviolet.

But not to worry:  as you can tell from the box's information that
you carefully noted, the Sylvania screw-in household halogen bulb
makes the design tradeoff of using the halogen mainly to increase
bulb life rather than to increase efficiency.  It runs at only
a slightly higher temperature so the efficiency and 
the whiteness and UV increase only a little.

If you compared it to a brand new 100W bulb (not old, and not
lower wattage), the difference in whiteness would be modest.

If you are concerned about UV, stay away from sunlight and
cool-white fluorescent bulbs!

  Oren Haber-Schaim                    (habersch@husc.harvard.edu)
From: jeff@gondor.Unify.Com (Jeff Mischkinsky)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Information about Norplant?
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:45:30 GMT
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA

A friend of mine (not on the net) is thinking of using Norplant. She is
interested in hearing about any personal experiences and/or information
other than the "standard" stuff her doctor has given her.

thanx in advance.
-- 
Jeff Mischkinsky		internet: jeff@unify.com
Unify Corporation		          ...!{pyramid,csusac}!unify!jeff
3901 Lennane Drive		voice: (916) 928-6262 fax: (916) 928-6401
Sacramento, CA 95834		ICBMS: 38 38 40 N / 120 28 10 W
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak)
Subject: Re: Circumcisions as Medical Fraud
Organization: Motorola LMPS
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:26:04 GMT
Keywords: circsn

In article <2168@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
>In article <gdavis.722200408@griffin> gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu
> (Gary Davis) writes:
>> Why would anyone want to be circumcised? I can't image a ligitimate
>>reason...
>
>Gee, how about because someone is Jewish (or a member of any other 
>religion that practises ritual circumsision).

Ritualized mutilation is still mutilation even if it is socially
accepted.  And we think we're so superior to "savage" tribes living
in the jungles of third world countries.
-- 
Mark Nowak                          | By means of the easy and the simple we
SWM, 25, 5'11", seeking SF ...      | grasp the laws of the whole world.  When
Chicago, Illinois                   | the laws of the whole world are grasped,
INTERNET: markn@ssd.comm.mot.com    | therein lies perfection. - I Ching
From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Summary of evidence for homeopathy
Date: 21 Nov 92 17:37:52 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

A simple question - are homeopaths doing research or not? They can't
claim to be poor victims of an allopathic conspiracy and then point to
clinical trials to back their claims. So what is it?

And it is no use complaining about how difficult it is to conduct
clinical trials - it is not, was not and probably will never be an easy
thing to do. Deal with it and do something about it. But stop
re-treading the same arguments.

gervais
From: egf48542@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: more ??'s re. psychiatric drugs
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:27:42 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <1992Nov20.073319.446@news.wesleyan.edu>, RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
> A student of mine who is very bright & has been struggling with either chronic
> or recurring depression for years (not sure which) recently told me that
> her doctor now has her on Zoloft and Buspar.  She later mentioned that she
> hadn't really slept or eaten (much) in the 2 weeks since she started on the
> Zoloft, so she was on a kind of sleep-deprived "high".  She "assured" me that
> the same thing had happened when she first started taking Prozac (I don't know
> when, last year or something), but that if she just waited, she was sure her
> body would calm down, as happened with the Prozac.

> 
> Next Question:  Since I'm neither a family member nor a health care provider, I
> find the line between concern/support and "meddling in something thats none of
> my business" to be very grey here.  I'd be interested in hearing from some of
> the docs how THEY wish (ideally) someone in my position would respond if the
> person in question were THEIR PATIENT
> 

Some advice from someone who has dealt with a large amount of patients with
similar conditions.  I would recommend the following:

1) Tell the student that she should report these reactions to her physician
ASAP (within a day).  If she delays, offer to call the physician for her.

2) Ask the student if her family knows about the treatment.  If they do, offer
to call them.  If the student resists because of irratibility (a symptom of 
hypomania), call the family yourself.  If the family is unavailable, call the
doctor.  You are not under any oath of confidentiality, and when a person's
health is at stake, confidentiality often must be "modified".  

3) Stress to the patient that this is a potentially serious condition and that
she should contact her physician, as a person with diabetes having difficulties
with insulin or a heart patient having difficulties with heart medication
should contact their physician's.

Ed Francell
M.S.W. Candidate - Psychiatric Social Work
University of Cincinnati

> 


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From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.support.diet
Subject: Re: lipase inhibitors
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:18:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: dale.Bxxq2H.8HK
Organization: Titan Linkabit Corporation
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hey, this is cool!  Fat inhibitors... I like that.  Now if only there
were a pill, maybe there is, that'd turn off the juices secreted by
my thighs and rear that says "deposit all fat here".

--
Nancy P. Milligan 				npm@dale.cts.com
Titan Linkabit					cts!dale!npm
3033 Science Park Road
San Diego, CA 92121
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