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From: umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Hudson)
Subject: Sumatriptan
Originator: umhudso7@gibson.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:54:08 GMT

Does anyone out there have any detailed info (or pointers to...) about
this drug for migraine sufferers?

Apparently it shrinks blood vessels in the brain that expand during a 
migraine attack.  Believe me, doesn't sound like much, but a migraine
can be VERY debilitating.

I heard there was some concern that it constricts bloodvessels in other
parts of the body and may cause heart attacks/angina/etc...

I'd really like to know more about Sumatriptan.  I think the FDA has 
approved it in the US, any info about Canada???
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver)
Subject: Pet has cancer - issues with contagion
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:40:25 GMT


Our dog, which we have had for 11 years, has just been diagnosed with a
carcinoma in her lung. It is the size of an orange. It may be inoperable.

Should I be at all concerned with contagion in my family. The vet poo-poos my
query but it is a nagging issue in my mind. What do others think? Am I being
silly?
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Osteoarthritis Info Wanted
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:38:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep29.183817.180
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <n0b0at@ofa123.fidonet.org> Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> SD> Azithromycin.  I'd imagine that chlamydial arthritis is pretty rare.
>What can you tell us about azithromycin.  I just switch from it as it didn't
>seem to be working.

Azithromycin is, like the related clarithromycin, a chemically modified
form of erythromycin.  The changes appear to broaden the drugs' antibiotic
activity and improve tissue penetration.  Azithromycin, at least, can
be given once a day.  I'm really not up on further minutiae of what makes the
drug interesting or special.   There's some presumptive use of the drug
in the treatment of MAI in people with AIDS.  I'm not sure how effective
that is (probably not very much.)  The ads for both drugs are seeming to
push their use in conventional applications where existing drugs work
fine.  I suppose that's the only way they'd be in a position to recoup
their investment.  Treatments for rare diseases aren't as profitable as
more common ones.

-- 
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From: jcbarthe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John C. Barthelmes)
Newsgroups: sci.med,bionet.general
Subject: Information On Alzheimers Needed
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:59:41 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Originator: jcbarthe@rodan.acs.syr.edu

Hi...
	I'm looking for any and all information on Alzheimers Disease.
 I am writing a policy paper for a college honors class and I covering 
 the actual facts part. I am looking for information about: the disease,
 its history, case reports, and most importantly research and technology
 advances in this field.  The paper is centering on the problem of funding
 such research.
	Information on this subject or WHERE I could find such info
 would be greatly appreciated!
	Thanks in advanve... email preferred.
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From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Excess Of Vitamin C?
Date: 4 Oct 92 14:59:13 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <4627.466.uupcb@travel.com> carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca) writes:
>GB>way we could have evolved to require such high doses.  His urine
>GB>must corrode his commode something awful.
>
>I think, the purpose was not cold prevention, but help to maintain the
>coagulation equilibrium of the blood. Furthermore, Vitamin C _protects_
>from corrosion, it does not contribute to it.

I'm afraid you are as ignorant of Pauling's book as you are of
chemistry.  Ask someone who knows some about the meaning of the
"corrode the commode" comment.



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From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
Subject: Re: Pet has cancer - issues with contagion
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:10:38

In article <BvEJrE.Brq@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:

   Our dog, which we have had for 11 years, has just been diagnosed with a
   carcinoma in her lung. It is the size of an orange. It may be inoperable.

   Should I be at all concerned with contagion in my family. The vet poo-poos my
   query but it is a nagging issue in my mind. What do others think? Am I being
   silly?

You're being silly.  My condolances about your family pet.


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From: collene@unisql.UUCP (Collene Pearce)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: American Medical Association warns of illegal drug importation
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:36:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: unisql.3885
Reply-To: collene@unisql.UUCP (Collene Pearce)
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <92279.174937CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>In article <9210060021.AA20123@lambada.oit.unc.edu>,
>Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu says:
>>
>>   Using their credit cards, American consumers can usually order
>>these medications by toll-free telephone call, often at greatly
>>reduced prices and apparently without a doctor's prescription.
>
>Sounds good to me.

Sounds good to me also.  Anyone willing to email me the name/address/phone
number of one of these "terrible" foreign mail order prescription drug 
services?

I'll beT their prices wouldn't still reflect the "research & development
cost recoupment charges" for Augmentin(sp?) and Pamelor.

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From: shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD)
Newsgroups: sci.med,bionet.sci-resources,ba.general,ca.wanted
Subject: Needed: Cardiologist with Knowledge of White Clot Syndrome
Date: 29 Sep 1992 19:13:15 -0700
Organization: Fathers' Rights & Equality Exchange
NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com

Hi,

I know this may sound like an unusual request, but I need to find an
experienced Cardiologist who is familiar with White Clot syndrome, as
induced by Heperin.

If you can point me in the direction of such a person, or have some
ideas as to how I could go about finding such a person, I would really
appreciate it.


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From: ekirby@buckeye.boeing.com (Elizabeth Kirby)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Excess Of Vitamin C?
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:23:41 GMT
Reply-To: ekirby@buckeye.boeing.com (Elizabeth Kirby)

In article <1992Oct1.213148.23661@news.media.mit.edu>, minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
|> In article <BvEIG7.KE4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|> >In article <16642@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
|> >>In article <4283.466.uupcb@wugate.wustl.edu> carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) writes:
|> >
|> >>When Pauling's book on vitamin C came out, he recommended 1 gram
|> >>per day.  After they did studies with 1 gram per day showing no
|> >
|> >Evolved or devolved?  I recall an article on vitamin C in those animals
|> >which make their own, of which the higher primates are among the few
|> >exceptions.  One of the statements in that article was that rats produce
|> >an amount of vitamin C corresponding to 50 grams/day in humans.  
|> >
|> >Our distant ancestors managed to survive without the ability to make
|> >this simple substance out of glucose.  But how much is desirable for
|> >various purposes, other than a few obvious deficiency diseases, is 
|> >far from clear.  The "optimal" amount to take may depend on circumstances;
|> >studies not based on the mere cure of disease are needed.
|> 
|> Yes, we need to know more.  An interesting caveat: someone told me (I
|> forget who) that people who took >10 grams of C per day were at risk
|> of contracting scurvy if they discontinued suddenly.  The claim was
|> that some symptoms, e.g., bleeding gums, could appear within a day or
|> two. The idea is plausible, because there are other examples in which
|> other reagents or receptors, etc., become less numerous or less
|> sensitive when the substrate concentration is increased. 
|> 
|> Anyone else hears such a thing, or is it an elegant myth?  (It is
|> possible that I simply made it up.  I do that a lot, in order to try
|> to improve my capacity for linear thinking.)


	I have heard (I think I read it in one of Pauling's books) that
it isn't good to discontinue taking Vit C suddenly because the Vit C 
concentration in your blood will drop too low.   The idea is that if you
take a lot of Vit C, your body will take it from the blood stream and
use it for good stuff in the cells and if you stop the Vit C quickly
there will be a "overshoot" reaction, in which the cells continue to
gobble Vit C before whatever feedback mechanism takes care of the
concentration in the bloodstream has a chance to work.   I don't have
any idea if it's true, I haven't heard of it from any other source.

		Beth
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: low thyroid levels, but not hypothyroid
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:29:14 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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In <16654@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu writes:

> In article <BONNIE.92Sep28130759@aigyptos.nmsu.edu> bonnie@nmsu.edu (Bonnie Hargrave) writes:
> >
> >My doctor says my thyroid levels (T2 and T3, I believe she said) are
> >low, but that the TSH level (the signal from the brain to the thyroid)
> >is normal, which means I do _not_ have a hypothyroid condition.
> >
> Your doctor is right.  The right level of thyroid hormone varies
> from person to person.  Your brain is a far better judge of what
> it should be than any test.  If the TSH is normal, your brain
> doesn't want you to make any more thyroid and therefore giving
> you extra thyroid would be a mistake.  The thyroid does not just

there are some MDs (who do not have much respect or data to back them,
apparently) who treat "subclinical hypothyroid",  i.e., they give pts thyroid
pills even if their TSH levels are within normal limits.  i believe they are
generally considered to be "quacks" my most endocrinologists.  i forget what
the allegedly supporting reasoning behind this is...

------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Patients rights to copies of medical records
Organization: WP Group
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:22:14 GMT

From article <16691@pitt.UUCP>, by geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks):
gb> This was hashed out in extenso a couple of months back, pointing
gb> out the need for the archive.  In most states the physician
gb> is required to deliver records to any other physician chosen
gb> by the patient.  In only a few is the patient given the right
gb> to have the records given to them.  

Here's a listing of the (20) states with statutory provisions
guaranteeing full patient access to medical records:  Alaska, California,
Colorado, Connecticutt, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana,
Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

DC guarantees access by case law, not statute.  Massachusetts, 
Minnesota, Montana, and Texas have statutory guarantees with 
exceptions in cases where disclosure might harm the patient.

Total: 25 states.

Source: _In Health_ (formerly _Hippocrates), March, 1989.

-- 
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: shahn@hstbme.mit.edu (Samuel Hahn)
Subject: Re: low thyroid levels, but not hypothyroid
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 18:32:16 EDT
Organization: Harvard-MIT/HST
Followup-To: sci.med

In article <1992Oct01.024901.0902721@locus.com>, yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
wrote:
> 
> Gordon Banks writes:
> 
> Surely it's possible that the hypothalmus (part of the brain) that's
> ultimately responsible for the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) is
> capable of underproducing the hormone, isn't it?
> 
> I know this is an area of controversy and I don't have an opinion
> on it myself, but is there some reason it's safe to assume that the
> TSH level is always correct?  Or is it that it's correct the great
> majority of the time?

The hypothalmus is indirectly responsible for circulating TSH levels. TSH
is produced by the anterior pituitary gland under the influence of TRH
(thyrotropin releasing hormone) which is produced by the hypothalmus.
Therefore, in most cases of hypothalmic failure, TSH is indeed very low
(not just low range of normal).

Caveats about interpreting thyroid function tests: Measuring T4, T3 etc etc
are not necessarily very accurate in judging adequate thyroid function for
many reasons. Thyroid hormones circulate predominately bound to proteins,
the so-called TBG's or thyroid binding globulins. Total thyroid hormone
levels are depenedent on the concentrations of the TBG's as well as other
factors that determine free thyroid levels. For instance, in
"sick-euthyroid" syndrome, the total levels of T4 may be either very high
or very low, but the "free" levels of T4 are adequate for metabolic needs.
Also, T3 is the biologically active form of thyroid hormone. T4 is
converted to T3 intracelluarly (if I remember my physiology) so if T4
levels are "low-normal" or just slightly low, there still may be adequate
T3 levels. Like many medical tests, thyroid function tests must be
carefully interpreted in a clinical context. Just saying "my T4 is low" is
not a very helpful statement.
From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: rape and std's
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:15:30 GMT
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <81194@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>a friend of mine was date-raped by a virtual stranger last weekend.

>about disease"? is there any length of time she should wait before
>having these tests? is testing even necessary?

An emergency room is the usual place someone would get seen after a rape.
The exam should be sooner rather than later, both for disease prevention,
and if any evidence is to be collected.

Despite the typical story displayed by TV, most ER's I've worked in
have had nurses trained in helping women who've been raped, and 
gynecologists trained in collecting specimens according to proper
procedure.  I'm sure some people have true horror stories, but
most doctors will be quite empathic to rape victims.
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: rfrazier%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Robert Frazier)
Subject: Eye damage from tiny print
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:42:26 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
Distribution: usa

	Is there any evidence as to whether or not reading small print
is harmful to your eyes.  Does straining (crossing eyes) cause damage. Are
the muscles in your eye similar to other muscles (exercise=bigger).
	

	R. Todd Frazier
	rfrazier@peruvian.utah.edu
From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:39:52 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Oct05.071628.0253494@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:

>Lifetime Medical Television has several times discussed legislative
>proposals for creating a national registry of physicians.  I don't
>recall what info they were going to record or who it was supposed to
>be available to, but some MD's didn't much like the proposal.

There already is a National Practitioner Data Bank, although I may have
the exact name wrong. It contains all sorts of negative data on
individual physicians, including "settlements" of malpractice cases,
whether the doctor was guilty or not. Although it is supposedly
confidential, it is only a matter of time before someone cracks it
and publishes it.

 -km
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: trichat@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (trinanjan.chatterjee)
Subject: Re: The best way to treat Hyperthyroidism ?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:47:22 GMT

In article <16758@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.040749.26536@u.washington.edu> lzuo@u.washington.edu writes:
>>If you know the best medical method to treat a hyperthyroidism patient, please let me know. Someone said that radiotherapy(using iodine) is the best one
>The alternatives that I know of are surgery (cutting it out, hopefully
>not getting the parathyroids too), or treating with drugs such
>as propothiouricil or (I've forgotten the other one) chronically.


What kind of an impact do these drugs or hyperthyroidism (Graves disease) itself
have on the ability of a woman to bear a child?

Isn't a thyroid scan (using radio-isotopes) the correct way to confirm
any diagnosis based purely upon T3, T4 and TSH levels?

Thanks,
Trinanjan
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: wolfe@wolves.uucp (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Patients rights to copies of medical records
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:27:10 GMT
Organization: Red Wolfe @ The Wolves Den
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<1992Sep29.161152.25034@unislc.uucp> chris@unislc.uucp (Chris DelPrete) writes:
>Does a patient have a right to read his or her medical records?

	No, the record is the *property* of the physican/clinic/institution
and they have the right to determine the policy of who gets to read the
records unsupervised.

>Does a patient have a right to a copy of his or her medical records?

	The patient owns the information contained in the record, but
the various states have differing laws concerning who has access
rights.

>Is there a law covering this?
>Does the law vary from state to state?

	Yep!

>The reason I ask is that my doctor told me that by law, they do not have to
>give me a copy of my medical records.  Frankly, I think this sucks.

	They do not have to give *you* a copy of your medical records,
but....  they generally *must* give copies (at a reasonable fee) to
other authorized persons who have a legitimate interest.  You might note
that in order for the doctors to be paid by your insurance carrier, that
you have to sign a medical records release form :-)

	The implication of this is that you control access to
information about you.  A general principle, taught in medical records
administration, is that the patient has a right to the information
contained in the records, but not access to the records themselves.

	The actual answer, though, is to call a lawyer and ask.  Check
with the Legal Aid clinics for a referral to a lawyer who is
knowledgeable about the topic.
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From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Patients rights to copies of medical records
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:16:13 GMT
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In article <1992Oct1.032710.24107@wolves.uucp>, wolfe@wolves.uucp (G. Wolfe Woodbury) writes...
><1992Sep29.161152.25034@unislc.uucp> chris@unislc.uucp (Chris DelPrete) writes:
>>Does a patient have a right to read his or her medical records?
> 
>	No, the record is the *property* of the physican/clinic/institution
>and they have the right to determine the policy of who gets to read the
>records unsupervised.
> 
>>Does a patient have a right to a copy of his or her medical records?
> 
>	The patient owns the information contained in the record, but
>the various states have differing laws concerning who has access
>rights.

In my own case, I don't know what my rights are in _my_ state, but I
had no problems at all, obtaining copies of all handwritten and dictated
reports.

I suggest that it is a wise idea to obtain copies of your medical records
if at all possible.  

The reason I say this is because mine were full of transcription errors,
half-truths, assumptions stated as fact, and patently false lies!

I would think that one would want his/her records to reflect the
_facts_ (after all, they may determine life or death).

I found numerous errors that I can only attribute to the conversion from
handwritten to type-written documents.

Other errors were base on thoughts and speculations by a physician at the
time, and had no basis in fact, and were irrelevant, in my opinion.  

Jim Graham 

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From: kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Munchausen's (was Re: "Problem Patient")
Keywords: no, seriously
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:55:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University SVM


So what I've always wanted to know is, what's the diagnosis when someone 
comes into your psych walk-in with a stack of ER records, and says, 

"Doc, you gotta help me.  I've got Munchausen's syndrome.  See, here's 
where they caught me at the MGH, and here's where they caught me 
at Beth Israel, and here's where they caught me at the Brigham ...".

Does the diagnosis change if you find white-out on the records?

Steve			
	really, though, does this ever happen?