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From: imfacks@prism.gatech.EDU (K.K. Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Triglycerides
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:51:23 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hi:
I would like to get some info about the role of triglycerides in a
person's health. When I had my cholesterol test recently, although I 
found that the total level was about 190, my triglycerids were about
460. The doctor said that the research on triglycerdes was not conclusive.
Can some one point to any research (published) that could shed some light
on:-
(i) relationship between triglycerides and cholesterol (both HDL and LDL), and
(ii) relationship between diet / exercise on triglycerids, and
(iii) any other useful info on triglycerides.

Thanks
KK

-- 
Krishnakumar (KK) Srinivasan, School of Management. 
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0520
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From: cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: acne treatment?
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:54:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

Are there any treatments for acne other than accutane and long-term
antibiotics?  At 37, I still have some acne.  I'm hesitant to take accutane
before menopause and I'm not keen on taking antibiotics for months at a
stretch.  These were the only options I heard about last year when I saw a
dermatologist about it.  In fact, I did try the antibiotics for a month (the
doctor was annoyed I didn't call for a refill), in conjunction with both a
wash and a cream whose names escape me.  They didn't seem to have much
effect.  I'm just wondering if there is some other treatment I might
specifically ask about.
From: jana@unssun.nevada.edu (Jana Dunn)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Post-graduate study and foreign medical degree
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:09:51 GMT
Reply-To: jana@unssun.UUCP (Jana Dunn)
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno

In article <92268.114200ASCKN@ASUACAD.BITNET> ASCKN@ASUACAD.BITNET (Chee Ng) writes:
>
> Is the FMGEMS (Foreign medical graduate
>examination in medical sciences) offered in U.S. embassies abroad?

It's my understanding that the FMGEMS is being replaced by the USMLE,
parts I and II, plus an English exam.  These tests are offered at 
international centers; your sister-in-law should contact a U.S. 
embassy or consulate for the location of the nearest center.

For more information about the exams, their content, and how often they're
offered, or a description of how a FMG would go about getting licensed in
the U.S, you can contact the Kaplan Center nearest you--look in the phone
book.  Or you can call 1-800-950-7737 and have them mail you a brochure.
They offer a USMLE test study course.  This is not an endorsement of
the Kaplan centers--I know nothing about the quality of their study
programs.

Jana Dunn
University of Nevada at Reno
jana@unssun.scs.unr.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: DMSO in transdermal meds?
From: macridis_g@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Gerry Macridis)
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:07:19 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
Summary: DMSO ?carcinogenic
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Sep28.011737.7814@ac.dal.ca>, mspencer@ac.dal.ca
writes:

> Can anyone report authoritatively on whether or not the growing number 
> of "transdermal" medications (patches, ointments and perhaps sprays) 
> contain dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as an ostensibly "inert carrier" 
> ingredient?

When I was working in a hospital lab years ago, we were using solutions
in DMSO.  There were instructions to avoid spilling the solutions onto
our skin because, as well as DMSO's ability to carry substances
dissolved in it into the body, it was believed that DMSO was
carcinogenic (to the liver, from memory).  I don't know if this is
still thought to be so.  For current knowledge on DMSO, I suggest
looking it up in the LATEST Handbook of Poisoning, Merck Index and
Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia, or similarly well-known and up-to-
date publications.

-- 
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Private Box 3929,   ( oo )    :... Voice: +64 4 3899444
Wellington,           \/......:
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From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Sinus Headaches
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:21:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct5.045804.13761@netcom.com>, lindae@netcom.com writes...
>In article <16753@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct01.145646.14967@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
>>>
>>>How did your doctor determine your headaches were migraine and not sinus?
>>>
>>
>>Sinus headache is one of the most frequent misdiagnoses we see.
>>The vast majority of severe headaches are migraine.  Nausea as
>>an accompaniment is another tip-off that it isn't sinus.  Sinus
>>pain is usually sharp and is often a pressure sensation.  Tapping
>>on the sinuses should greatly exacerbate the pain.  X-rays should
> 
>My other question is this... if they are migraines, is it imperative to
>be seen by a neurologist as you suggested?  Or is it something that I
>can just live with as long as it's tolerable?  Is there a danger to
>letting it go on untreated?
> 
>Thanks in advance for your response.
>Linda
>lindae@netcom.com

Sounded like a migraine to me, right up until you said it was 
tolerable.

- Peggy -
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Subject: Re: Voltaren
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:21:22 GMT

km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:

| amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:

| >No..read the package insert of Voltaren.  Three indications only.  I'm
| >certain it's used for many things other than RA, OA and AS..in fact it's
| >indicated for all kinds of other things in other countries.  But in the
| >US, the FDA approved only those I mentioned.  
| 
| The package insert is meaningless. Read the AHFS book, or any common
| medical textbook. This is just another NSAID. Are aspirin tablets
| indicated only for three diseases?
| 
|  -km

Ken's saying what's true medically; Michael is saying what the FDA
permits the manufacturer to say legally.

An inaccuracy from Our Own FDA?  The people who put you in jail if
you claim something medical that they haven't pre-approved, no matter
how true it really is?

It's even against the law for the makers of Voltaren to give doctors
copies of journal articles about the drug's usefulness in any condition
other than the three they've explicitly approved.

Wouldn't it be a little saner if they became an advisory agency?  Maybe
even let them author 50% of the label, while keeping on the books all
the anti-fraud laws (so you could sue a manufacturer who lied).

Best Wishes

== Bob Yazz ==
-- 


The difference between the Bushes and the Clintons is that with the
Clintons, it's the wife who dyes her hair to look younger.
From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Starting an alternative medicine newsgroup
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:34:28 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Oct4.172059.17157@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:


.I don't think anything whatsoever is gained by isolating these morons
.into groups of their own, letting them feed on each other's credulousness
.until their faculties turn to mush.  They're living in the 20th century,
.using 20th century equipment to spread such nonsense:  let a little
.enlightenment shine on their pre-scientific fingers (I hesitate to use
.the word "brains".)

Sorry, but for me it's a matter of guilt by association: I really do not
want to post to a group where most people feel equally comfortable getting
their medical information from the National Enquirer as from legitimate
sources. I wash my hands after every posting, by the way, and pray that
my colleagues never discover this disgusting habit.


 -km
From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: rape and std's
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:24:08 GMT
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <1992Oct06.225008.12330@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu
 (George B. Clark) writes:
>If you think you have been exposed to HIV, the National Institutes of
>Health recommends 200mg zidovudine every four hours for three days, then
>five times daily omitting the early morning dose for the next 25 days.
>(Lancet, Sept. 12, 1992)

The evidence that this is of any benefit is basically non-existent.
The first dose of AZT has to be given very early (1-2 hours) after
exposure for there to be any hope of having an effect (as suggested,
I think, by some animal model).  AZT would not normally be given
except for a definite exposure -- I haven't seen the specific NIH
recommendation mentioned, but I doubt they would recommend AZT 
post-rape by a perpetrator not known to be HIV infected.
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Cost Concerns in Med School?
Organization: WP Group
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:46:34 GMT

From article <BvHzHC.CnB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin):
hr> Government regulators are responsive to demands for protection, 
hr> and concern for the benefits of actions are way down the list.  

Perhaps.  This problem can be remedied by reevaluating the relationship
between risks and benefits.

hr> In addition, when these people feel it is their Divine purpose to 
hr> protect people from themselves, they act as the FDA has acted.  

The FDA wasn't created to protect people from themselves, Herman.  Its
purpose, from day one, was to protect consumers from incompetent and/or
unscrupulous purveyors of foods and drugs.  If you'd like to abolish
the FDA and replace it with super-stringent labeling requirements, that's
fine with me, but to simply abolish it, while relying on the benevolence
of product manufacturers, wouldn't be a wise idea.

-- 
Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: paresthesia
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:53:08 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20Lines: 9

what could be the cause of paresthesia & weakness in thumb & 2 fingers
following traumatic elbow injury when all xrays are normal?

is "wait a week & see if it improves" a reasonable course of action?


------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: RE: chapped hands
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:25:21 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <30SEP92.15093258@nerus.pfc.mit.edu>, mrl@nerus.pfc.mit.edu writes:
> I'm not sure if they are the same type of gloves, but my dentist mentioned he
> was allergic to the gloves he has to wear, and when I asked him about
> non-hypo-allergenic rubber gloves, he said they existed, but were pretty
> expensive, but that might have been based on the fact that he has to change
> them very often.

Uh, I think you mean hypo-allergenic, meaning not allergenic for most.

I use 4 types of gloves around the lab, depending on what I'm working with
at the time (I use some solvents that will dissolve one glove, but not
another).

My favorite glove is latex surgical gloves-- natural rubber, stretches and
conforms, still leaves me with pretty good dexterity.  Also +/- expensive.
They come in various "styles" -- with or without talcum powder, (I like
corn starch and unpowdered gloves myself), and with various other non-stick
powders, some of which I am allergic to.  Is it the rubber or the powdering
material that gives you trouble?

I also use stretch vinyl gloves, which are slippery when wet, and don't fit
as well, but are significantly cheaper, as well as disposable non-stretch
polyethylene gloves that look like clown hands made out of Baggie material.
These are the cheapest.

Finally, I have non-disposable "acid gloves" with a textured grip that I
use for dishwashing.   Per use these are the cheapest, but are not much use
when I'm working with carcinogens ;-)

Kay Klier  Biology Dept  UNI

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton)
Subject: Re: Sinus Headaches
Organization: Intermetrics Inc., Washington Division, USA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:14:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.011455.5731@netcom.com> lindae@netcom.com writes:

   I suffer from frequent sinus headaches and have found that I am
   unable to take the over-the-counter decongestents .  When I take
   them, I get really shaky and my heart flutters, etc.  I don't
   know if this has anything to do with my hyperthyroidism, but
   nonetheless, I just can't take any of these medications.

From your message, it is not clear to me if you are under a doctor's
care for these, or if this is self-diagnosed.  If you are have not
consulted a doctor, please do so.  My migraines were mis-diagnosed as
sinus headaches for two years (by myself, not a doctor) until I
finally wised up and asked someone who would know.

Pain in the sinus region which is cyclic is not necessarily sinus
headache.  If you are under a doctor's care, ask him about the
appropriate medication.

					Dave Barton
					dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
From: rc7@prism.gatech.EDU (Richard Catrambone)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Familial Mediterranean Fever
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:50:19 GMT
Organization: Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology

My sister has a condition called Familial Mediterranean
Fever (FMF).  She is 36 and was diagnosed with FMF
when she was 21.  The doctor at the time said he believed
she had FMF since she was 13.  Prior to the diagnosis of
FMF the doctors believed she had some problems with her
heart since one of her symptoms was chest pain. 

FMF is apparently most common among people from Israel.  People
of Italian descent (such as my sister) are also among the
groups most likely to have FMF.  The medicine she takes
for FMF is colchicine (sp?) which is also used to treat gout.

My sister asked me to ask two questions:

  1) Does anyone have any information about or know of
     a good source of information about FMF?
  2) Is there any evidence that FMF or the drug colchicine
     contributes to high blood pressure?

Thanks.
-- 
CATRAMBONE,RICHARD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: kja@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (krista.j.anderson)
Subject: Re: Antihistamines and Decongestants
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:50:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct01.083919.36878@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>, cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
> In article <1992Oct1.045548.13073@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
> >
> >Don't you people have enough to worry about?

Nah, we can always use some new things to worry about in case we
run out of the old ones.  :-)

> I didn't understand the pertinence of this [Steve's] nasty little
> remark.  People ask about what they are interested in and also
> things about which they are ignorant.  

I think Steve was trying to make a joke, but of course the phrase
"you people" is bound to be offensive to some.

Some Native American tribes have a way of joking that implicates
themselves rather than others.  Some Navajos I've met used this
inoffensive style of having fun at their own expense.

So, in that style, a way to make a joke would be to say, for
example, "Gee, I'm glad you gave me something new to worry about,
since I was nervous that I might run out of old things."

But I suppose it's easier for most people to see the follies and
absurdities of others than their own.  When it comes to humor, I
think we could learn a bit from the Native Americans.  They laugh a
lot, whereas for us, all too often, humor is used to establish or
maintain some kind of primitive pecking order, and that isn't
funny in the way that makes us laugh.

Sorry for the moralizing.
-- 
Krista Anderson, att!ihlpf!krista
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Starting an alternative medicine newsgroup
Date: 2 Oct 92 06:10:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Oct2.061034.5539
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1470200@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>That would be fine with me. Another idea I like is sci.med.research, which 

<Choke>

>would be widely distributed, and might encourage scientific rigour on the 
>cutting edge (so to speak) of medicine. I think people drawn to research
>might be open minded enough to consider alternative medicine.

How somone like you like you can write the phrase "scientific rigor"
without a trace of irony is beyond me.  You wouldn't know what scientific
rigor was if it bit you on the nose.  How about "prescientific voodoo"--
that's about the best characterization of the quality of your "scientific
knowledge", not to mention your appearently boundless credulousness.

(You do know what irony is, Kingsley, don't you?  It's one of the ionized
minerals in your bottled water.)

I vote for this nonsense to stay in sci.skeptic.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrogance, arthritis, & Banks
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:02:53 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Transplant Institute

In article <1992Oct01.092023.28930@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:

>
>Obviously we need a working definition of medical competence in a
>specialty to distinguish from random quacks.  I propose we define
>an "sci.med expert" (on a particular specialty) as one who has
>demonstrated a 5-year cure rate of 51 per cent or better on all
>patients with the disease/disorder in question.
>




You left out the smiley face.

Otherwise, a lot of people in this group are going to think you are serious.

---------------------------

Howard Doyle
doyle+@pitt.edu
From: lee@soda.berkeley.edu (Lee Thompson-Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Antihistamines and Decongestants
Date: 1 Oct 1992 08:36:29 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <waanders-300992234403@no-name-nib.med.umich.edu> waanders@umich.edu (Nick Waanders) writes:
>
>Some information....
>1) Decongestants are predominately sympathomimetics, which means they
[..]
>decrease secretions in the sinuses and lead to decongestion.  My
>notes suggest that they are typically topical (ie. sprays).  Examples are
>phenylephrine and ephedrine.  Unwanted effects could include cardiac
 
No, psuedophredrine and ephedrine are commonly used in tablet form.
Jitters, insomnia, heart flutter, excitability and dizziness are all listed
as side-effects on the bottles I have here.

>I have been told that an allergy specialist here at UofM has been taking
>antihistamines for over 20 years without side effects.

I wonder about this one.  I've been on chlorphriramine since I was about
eight years old (I'm 24 now), and I've noticed a definate...sensitivity
to stimulants now.  Especially if I'm off the antihistamine.  It may be
that I've just adapted to the anticholinergic effects of the antihistamines
(drowsiness, dry mouth, blurry vision, difficulty in *sleeping*, as opposed
to being drowsy) and therefore *really* bounce off the ceiling when I get
jolted with a stimulant.  (I started keeping 36 hour days after taking
sudafed [pseudophedrine] with the chlorphrineramine for a week.  I got
switched to atarax [hydroxyzine hcl], which is considered extremely sedating,
and was sleepy for the first day.  Then everything was normal again.)

Has anyone done any studies on long-term useage that starts in early
childhood?


-- 
>>>>____ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>All Standard Disclaimers Apply>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 ___\  /	Lee Michele Thompson-Herbert   lee@soda.berkeley.edu   >>>>>
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  \/Semper Bi   	"Ave Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi!"           >>>>
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: women in science
Date: 4 Oct 92 13:34:18 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science


I think women tend to be more interested in people and men
tend to be more interested in working with machines.  In computer
science, even, women tend to be more into natural language and
other things that are more people related.  In the hard sciences
such as physics, the women are more represented in health physics
and in teaching, I think, than in the other branches of the specialty.
Their interest in people also extends to animals, plants and other
living things, which might suggest why women are more likely to
be biologists than geologists in the "natural" sciences.

-- 
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From: distef@milton.u.washington.edu (Sandra Distefano)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Can humans get tapeworms from cats?
Keywords: tapeworms cats
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:16:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.distef.717718562
Organization: University of Washington

turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:

>-*----
>In article <1992Sep27.162740.6251@zooid.guild.org>
>> My cat has been diagnosed as having tapeworms.

>Ahh.  Fleas.

>> Is there any possibility that I or my husband could have been
>> infected by her tapeworms, e.g. by changing her litterbox?

>Not much chance.  The tapeworms that usually infest cats use
>fleas as their intermediate vector.  The flea sucks some cat
>blood and picks up the baby tapeworm.

Almost, but not quite.  The larvae of the flea eats the egg
of the tapeworm Dipylidium caninum (which infects dogs and
cats).  The egg hatches and developes into a cysticercoid stage
as the flea matures.  The dog or cat eats the flea and 
releases the cysticercoid stage and it develops into the mature
tapeworm.  The tapeworms do not go around in the blood.  The 
flea larvae gets ahold of the eggs by getting near the anus
of the animal which has the tapeworm (the tapeworm releases
mature segments which contain lots of eggs).

Humans can get infected by eating fleas or bits of them that get
under fingernails or the such and are then ingested.

Children are infected much more
often than adults.  It says in my parasitology book that "Symptoms
in children are absent to mild".

>(Does anyone know what
>form a baby tapeworm has??) 

It looks like a lower case y (sort of).

All information gotten from the fifth edition of  *Parasitology*
by Elmer R. Noble and Glenn A. Noble, Lea and Febiger Publishers, 
Philadelphia, 1982

Sandra
distef@u.washington.edu