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From: mdf0@GTE.com (Mark Feblowitz)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: anxiety attacks
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:12:36 GMT
	<1992Jul23.050603.5671@disk.uucp>
Organization: GTE Laboratories Inc.
In-reply-to: tony@disk.uucp's message of 23 Jul 92 05:06:03 GMT

I would not start out at a psychiatric clinic, but, rather, with an
General Practitioner. Even then, however, I might take it to a couple
of other specialties, such as allergy, neurology, pulmonology, etc.
Best yet would be a general diagnostic program that gathers info from
many perspectives. My wife was told that she was having anxiety
attacks; she was given no tests, other that an electro cardiogram, to
rule out other possible problems. We have since learned that 

	1) her general anxiety level was due to living with our two
	   cats, and other allergens
	2) her "anxiety attacks" were actually mild-to-moderate asthma
	   attacks when exposed to too much of a particular
           trigger/allergen, such as cat dander, roses, or chlorine
	   bleach.

Complicating factors were that by the time she was evaluated in an ER
or by the GP

	1) she was always far away (distance and time) from the
	   trigger (e.g., perfume in a theatre, roses and cats at
	   home)
 	2) her body's adrenal system had done a fine job of opening
	   her airways (accompanied by a rush of "anxiety")


To this day, she is quite angry at our otherwise skilled GP for
deriding her for not taking stress management courses and for wasting
his time. I had similar problems and he instantly diagnosed it as
asthma. Do you think maybe he had a problem in incorrectly
distinguishing between "female" and "male" symptoms?

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From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Keywords: alt medicine
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:33:06 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul27.154942.593@fig.citib.com> glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
>
>How sad that there is so much pressure to deny that
>some people get pleasure out of anal stimulation.

Oh my goodness. Now I suppose we are in for the ultimate in
PC politics. What shall we call these people who stick
familiar objects into unfamiliar spaces so that we do not
offend them?

I really think, as a service to these people, that we should
pressure Congress to require warning labels on the most common
of these objects, so that people will know that, despite
their suggestive appearance and handiness, they are not
supposed to be inserted into certain orifices. Or perhaps
we should require strings on Coke bottles.

How sad that there is so much pressure to deny that
some people get pleasure out of dimembering other
people and eating their body parts...

 -km




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From: frankm@resonex.com (Frank Muennemann)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.physics,bionet.neuroscience
Subject: Re: Magnetisation Transfer in MRI
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:19:56 GMT
Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Jul23.125813.18199@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> achim%nmr.ion.bpmf.ac.uk@mail-a.bcc.ac.uk writes:
>Magnetisation Transfer contrast is a contrast used in MRI. Has anybody experience
>with clinical application in brain and spinal cord imaging with Magnetisation
>Transfer contrast?
>
MT suppresses signal from neural tissue and from muscle tissue.  
We have been able to get excellent contrast and SNR from gradient
recalled echoes by using MT with flip angles of about 50 deg or
more.  Without MT, we would have to keep the flip angles below 20 
deg to get good cord-to-CSF contrast on cervical spine exams.
The lower flip angles reduce SNR.

MT is clinically available in Resonex's application software.

Frank Muennemann |  frankm@resonex.com | My opinions are mine, etc.
Resonex, Inc     |  (408)720-8600 x333 | Gaia Lives!!
720 Palomar Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (USA)
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: marina@tk.mainet.msk.su (Naumenko M.V.)
Subject: To anybody who is interesting in science
Reply-To: marina@tk.mainet.msk.su
Organization: Moscow Aviation Institute, PDTK
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 13:03:20 GMT

          TO  ANYBODY  WHO IS INTERESTING IN SCIENCE
        We apply to everybody who interested in  future  Russian
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        We pin   our hopes on  establishment of interaction  and
development of international cooperation.
        Best regards.                 Marina V.Naumenko
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Reasons not to disclose fully
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:02:39 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

Re: the Anesthesia "Horror Story"

If you are curious as to what anesthetic is to be used, you
really need to have a visit with the anesthesiologist prior
to meeting in the OR.  They are really quite busy then and
don't like questions which may distract them from monitoring
you and make them afraid that you are going to start arguing
about the medication they've prepared and brought with them to
do your case.  For any serious operation, the preop visit is
a must, and most anesthesiologists are happy to talk about
what is going to happen (within reason) with the anesthesia.
When I had surgery, I talked briefly with the anesthesiologist,
mostly to assure myself that she wouldn't leave my anesthesia
arm abducted long enough to get a brachial plexus palsy.  I
wouldn't have dreamed of expressing preferences for certain drugs.
Although I am a physician, I would be nuts to pit my knowledge
of anesthesia against hers.  Her job was to get me through safely,
and I was not competent to offer any input about the drugs.  As
a layman, I would advise you to pursue the same course.  Your
curiosity about the drugs can be satisfied either before or after
the surgery, but not at the time in the OR when you don't want
to make the anesthetist nervous by asking too many questions.

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From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Keywords: alt medicine
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:35:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.195111.19160@newstand.syr.edu> mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline) writes:
}In article <1992Jul20.131133.24184@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
}
}>The only doctors involved in colon cleansing today are quack
}>doctors. The colon cleansing stuff you see sold in
}>health food stores is also worthless. It won't do you any
}>harm, but it also won't do you any good.
}
}Apparently "high colonic irrigation" has become fashionable
}among some new age people ... there is a yoga institute in
}pennsylvania somewhere that offers high colonic irrigation -
}with coffee -- as a part of its regimen.  ...

I find it amusing that most of the people who favor colonic irrigation
also prattle on about naturopathic medicine and the unnaturalness of
so-called allopathic medicine.  Off hand, I can think of few things less
natural in terms of the body's design and intent than colonic irrigation.

Besides, as someone here recently commented, you can get the same effect
by eating a head of lettuce and going on a ten mile hike (and that _is_
completely natural, I might add).

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
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From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: "'X' Days/Weeks/Months/Years To Live"
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:31:09 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul18.190219.159@news.wesleyan.edu- RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
-Funny thing:  I know lots of folks who claim to have been told by their doctors
-that they have "'X' days/weeks/months/years to live", but I know (or even know
-OF) absolutely no doctors who claim ever to have said any such thing to their
-patients.  What do you suppose accounts for this data discrepancy?

Since we doctors all lie to our patients, why shouldn't we lie to
you as well?

 -km




Newsgroups: sci.med
From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
Subject: Re: More fluoxetine and bulimia
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 20:59:08 EDT

In article <1992Jul26.223844.1@amherst.edu> akcobb@amherst.edu writes:
>
>
>Is there any medicine that can actually inhibit the vomiting
>action?  I ask in relation to treatment of bulimia with Prozac
>(fluoxetine); I have known people to actually not be able to
>vomit, even after a physically painful binge, after being on
>Prozac for 2-4 weeks.  Is this as unfounded as it seems?
>Perhaps it is just psychological somehow.

There are such things as antiemetic drugs which suppress the tendency
to vomit (e.g., Compazine).  Prozac is not antiemetic and in fact
causes nausea and rarely vomiting as a transient side effect in a 
substantial percentage of people who take it.  

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From: John.Willis@p123.f349.n109.z1.fidonet.org (John Willis)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Use of term allopath
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:21:00 -0500

You recently stated:

 > Right, as opposed to your "alternative therapies",
 > which can only
 > "cure" neurotic somaticization and hypochondria.

You forgot spontaneous remissions?

If it feels good...
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Question about a new vaccine
From: Rudolf.Stark@p8.f7509.n241.z2.fidonet.org (Rudolf Stark)
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:30:45 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 2:241/7509.8 - Medic-BBS, Karlsruhe

A few days ago, I read in a german newspaper an article about a new vaccine 
which helps people who have prosthesis (for axample artificial arms, legs, 
hip-joints or valvae cordis [ger. Herzklappe]). This vaccine is being 
developed by researches of the Harvard University.

Do anybody know something about this or can mail me how I can contact the 
Harvard University via (Net-/Echo-) Mail ?

By the way, I have founded here in germany the first national group for 
patients with an artificial valvae cordis and I'm interested to go in contact 
with people who can give me for instance news or can support me about this 
domain.

Rudolf Stark.


 

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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Benzodiazepine Reaction
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:03:36 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <2570015@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> billm@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Bill Miner) writes:

>thing as an adverse reaction and physicians whom I've asked shrug their
>shoulders and say they've not seen it clinically except for me.  I'm curious
>if anyone on the net might know or can take an educated guess as to the
>mechanism at work here.  Has anyone seen this response clinically?
>
I've not seen this, but I'll take a guess.  You overcame the stuttering
by programming some circuits in your brain, perhaps in the frontal lobes.
When you take benzodiazepenes, these circuits are inhibited and the
previous behavior escapes.  Does it happen with alcohol?


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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: tony@disk.uucp (tony)
Subject: Re: mammogram
Organization: Digital Information Systems of KY
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:09:47 GMT

gretsky@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Neil Edward Gretsky) writes:

>I'd like to know the current wisdom about mammograms. (I may 
>not have the spelling right.)
>My wife who is 39 has been told by her physician that a routine 
>mammogram is advisable. 
>Do these detect more than what is found by hand?
>Are there dangers associated with the test itself, eg
>exposure to radiation, injury to breats tissue?

>Any information will be gratefully received.


    I read Howard Doyle's response to you and I agree with him.
My wife has a mammogram every year and so far they have been
negative.  She is 40.
    If a mammogram should ever reveal anything suspicious, odds
are they will be able to treat the condition without even needing
to do a mastectomy. In a majority of early non-invasive cancers
they can just nip out the tumor and preserve the breast with good
cosmetic results.  If they should ever suggest that your wife
have a biopsy (after a mammogram), definitely get a second
opinion FAST!  Find out too whether the doctor is an advocate of
the Halstedian methods or if he keeps up-to-date with the
literature and understands the merits of the "lumpectomy"
procedure.  A doctor named B. Fisher (Fischer?) is probably the
most prolific writer on the merits of the "lumpectomy" (cutting
out the "lump"), also known as a "segmental mastectomy."
    William Halsted kind of pioneered the mastectomy procedure.
Old-fashioned doctors (of which there remain thousands) still
think the old tried & true methods are the best and will suggest
a Halstedian procedure, "just to make sure we got it all."  Women
don't know any better and end up losing one or both breasts
because they trusted their doctor.  Sometimes the Halstedian
procedure, a "radical mastectomy" or a "modified radical
mastectomy" really is the best procedure to use.  Just make sure
by getting a 2nd or 3rd opinion _and_ do some research yourself.
Hopefully this will never be necessary, but if it is, arm
yourself with the facts.
    You can get detailed information by calling the National
Cancer Institute. The number is 1-800-4-CANCER.  They will make
the most current literature available to you for free.  Just call
and ask them any questions you have.  If you want to know what
doctors in your area favor the "lumpectomy" procedure these are
the people to ask.  If you just want to know about the radiation
hazard of the mammogram, these people will mail you up-to-date
quality information free of charge.  Don't hang up if you find
they put you on hold for 20 minutes.  If you have a speaker
phone, use it. Your patience will be rewarded -- this is an
excellent free service.
 
    No, I am not a doctor, I do medical research for law firms. I
just completed a breast cancer project -- that's why this info is
fresh in my mind.  `Hope I gave you some info you could use.
 
 
        -=- Tony Safina -=- disk!tony@uunet.UU.NET -=-

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Xanax
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:47:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.221138.3695@equator.com> jod@equator.com (John Setel O'Donnell) writes:
>The outlook for those taking Xanax or some similar drug for life is
>poor.  Beyond addiction, the rate of drug-induced problems such as
>tardive dyskinesia is high.  It's a downward spiral with drugs not
>working, side-effects and dosages increasing, changing drugs, etc.

This is nonsense.  Benzodiazepines don't cause tardive dyskinesia.

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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Keywords: alt medicine
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:01:04 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Jul27.193221.4940@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
>
>Not to defend colonics, but if you were to ban every procedure which has
>resulted in deaths, your so-called scientific medicine would not exist.

Of course.  What one does is measure benefit vs. risk.
The benefit has to be demonstrated objectively (not just testimonials).




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From: Don.Kulha@f7.n125.z1.fidonet.org (Don Kulha)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Elocon Ointment
Date: 14 Jul 92 14:23:16 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:125/7 - Sonoma Online, Santa Rosa CA


    I would appreciate some info on a medication my grandmother gets. It is 
labeled ELOCON, a brand of Mometasone Furoate, Ointment 0.1 
    I'd like to know what it does, the active ingredient, etc. My Grandmother 
is in a care home and this ointment is supposed to get applied to her ankles. 
She scratches at them, though I don't know if a skin condition prompts the 
reaction or the scratching brings about the condition. I suspect the former.
    The stuff does the job well. No complaint. The lady can afford the stuff 
if used properly but there's the rub. She's in a care home and if the folks 
there apply it they use 10X too much...at $27 per 2g tube it can be 
outrageously expensive. The person who cared for her recently passed away and 
I'm trying to keep a close eye on Granny. She used to apply it for her. I was 
wondering if there isn't other packaging of the same basic product or if there 
is something commercial likey to do the job that I can ask her doctor about. 
I'd like the idea of using an OTC product in a less powerful formulation for 
preventive application and having the ELOCON around in case there's a flare 
up. 
    I'd appreciate any thoughts on this....DCK




 

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From: minkpup@IASTATE.EDU (Lisa E Peterson)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Re: Elavil for Migraines?
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:20:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: IASTATE.1992Jul28.102015
Reply-To: minkpup@IASTATE.EDU (Lisa E Peterson)
Organization: Iowa State University

On a related note:

I've taken both Elavil and Pamelor for migraines with no significant effect and
now I'm being put on Depakote (valproic acid) to control them.  My doctor tells
me it's usually given to patients with seizures but is also used for migraine
control.  Does any one out there have any info about it's effectiveness for this
and how it works to control headaches?


          
Lisa Peterson
minkpup@iastate.edu 
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: rrempel@fraser.sfu.ca (Rodney Dwight Rempel)
Subject: Re: Obesity definition
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:33:39 GMT

Daniel.Prince@p0.f129.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Daniel Prince) writes:

>>from: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)

> geb> In article <1992Jul6.200800.13550@fig.citib.com> ghica@fig.citib.com
> geb> (Renato Ghica) writes: >
> >
> >So what is the medical definition of OBESITY?
> geb> 
> geb> Most people use 20% over ideal weight.  Morbid obesity is 100%
> geb> over ideal weight.

>Yes, but how do you determine ideal weight?  If you use a chart, 
>which one do you use?  Do You use 20% above the maximum weight 
C
>for your height or 20% above the midpoint?

Body weight (for age, sex, height, ... whatever) is a stupid - if
common way to assess obesity. Before you worry about using the upper,
middle, or lower bowndarys of you "ideal weight" category, think
about this ... by weight every elete bodybuilder is grossly obese.
Most professional athletes are obese by these standards. On the 
positive ( ;-) ) side, very fat people with little muscle mass and
low bone density will appear to be "ideal" body weight. 

Hint: (a) throw away your scale or
      (b) ignore the propaganda about "ideal weight".

Rod Rempel - rrempel@sfu.ca
Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University 
... if two million people do a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing.

From: markg@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mark Goldsworthy)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:44:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...(was: Colonic irrigations)
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: sci.med

/ hpmwga7:sci.med / ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) /  9:43 pm  Jul 27, 1992 /
>In article <2466@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> cecilw@access.isc-br.com (Cecil Williams) writes:
>
>> While we're talking about worms here, I would like to throw out this
>> highly speculative theory of mine for comment...  Ever since my first
>> trip around Asia and my first taste of hot (HOT!!!) curried chicken,
>> I've had the idea that people in third world countries tend to eat
>> extremely spicy hot food because the hot spices would drive parasites
>> from the body (or kill them, or maybe just make them unhappy, and we all
>> know how difficult it is to procreate when you're unhappy...)

I heard that the reason why equatorial cultures have hot spicy food is too
cover up the taste of rancid meat and vegetables. Vegetables, and especially
meat, turn rancid quite quickly in tropical climates without refrigeration.
Only by highly spicing the food was it palatable to eat two or three day old
meat. Northern cultures tended to have blander food because the meat was not
spoiled as quickly in the cooler weather.

Mark Goldsworthy
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG)
Subject: Sex Organ Transplant - more info please
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:45:11 GMT

I heard a quick tidbit the other day about a sex change operation that
was alledgedly just completed somewhere in East Asia (Japan I think)
in which two willing individuals (one male and one female) agreed to have
their sexual organs exchanged to allow for a change in their gender as
per sexual preference.

I have not heard any more since.  If anyone has any other sources of
information I would appreciate email to the effect (I do not regularly
read this group)

Thanks

swood

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