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From: larry@bradley.bradley.edu (Larry D. Stratton)
Subject: virus/retrovirus
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 13:44:42 GMT


   Could someone explain the difference between a virus and
   a retrovirus?

   thanks
    ld
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Pregnancy with CTS
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:38:13 GMT
Distribution: sci.med, misc.kids
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <HULTQUIS.92Jul29143054@wk206.nas.nasa.gov> hultquis@nas.nasa.gov writes:

>I have had bilateral CTS for about a year now which was caused by 
>excessive typing in the wrong position.  I know that many women 
>experience CTS while pregnant, so I'm wondering if pregnancy is 
>going to exacerbate the condition.  I am finally to a point where 

It very well could, but there is no way to predict beforehand.
If it does happen, you could have the surgery at the time.  Local
anesthetics could be used to protect the fetus from any toxic
systemic drugs.
>
>Also, I'm looking for physician recommendations for CTS in the
>Bay Area.  The hand surgeon I have now is over-committed and is
>willing to do surgery, but admits that it probably won't help.
>

That sounds funny.  If it is really carpal tunnel, the surgery
sure cure the problem.  Maybe his diagnosis is tendonitis, in
which case surgery is much less likely to help.  Better make
sure you understand each other.
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Subject: Re: Ancient Methods of Birth Control
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:26:27 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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In <1992Jul28.122927.2443@gdt.bath.ac.uk> ccsmh@gdt.bath.ac.uk writes:

> I recently read about an interesting method of birth control used in ancient
> China.
> 
Even in Socrates' time, midwives (like Socrates's mother) knew both birth
control and abortion techniques.  For ex., the rind of a citrus fruit was used
by ancient Greek women much like a contemporary diaphragm.  A certain mold that
grows on rye causes both hallucinations & uterine contractions, & was well
known as an abortificient for centuries.

But the world population seems to have increased anyway.  Hmmmm...

------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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From: walker@ohmeda.com (Steve Walker)
Subject: test
Summary: test
Keywords: test
Organization: Ohmeda Monitoring Systems
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:18:08 GMT

testing 123
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From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:05:21 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: alt medicine

This has been an interesting thread.  And such amazing stories.  Is that a
joke about the jar of mayonnaise?!  

I have wondered if enemas as a way to be healthy is anything like vomiting
to be thin.

ALice
 
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From: achim%nmr.ion.bpmf.ac.uk@ucl.ac.uk (Dr. Achim Gass)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.physics,bionet.neuroscience
Subject: Magnetisation Transfer in MRI
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:58:13 GMT
Reply-To: achim%nmr.ion.bpmf.ac.uk@mail-a.bcc.ac.uk
Organization: Institute of Neurology NMR Research Group, London, UK.

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?


_________________

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				London WC1N 3BG, UK.

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From: sandman@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Smarter than the Average Blur)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Dizzy and light headed!!!!! What have I got.
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:37:22 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


For the last 2 months, I've been experiencing symptoms of labrynthitis,
so says the doctor.

He prescribed an anti-histamine and said it would make the symptoms
go away. The only thing it did was make me drousy. It did not
improve my condition, so I stopped taking it after a week.

Additional notes:

1) I can distinctly feel that this whole thing is on the left
side of my head only. 

2) On the left side, it feels like there is a slight pressure surrounding
my ear.

3) On the left side, there is a slight tingling sensation on my scalp
about 2.5 inches above my ear every now and then.

4) The symptoms occasionally intensify momemtarily when I stand up from
sitting down.

5) This happend to me once 3 years ago, but it felt more light headed
than dizzy and last 6 weeks. 

6) This is the same side I used to get intense headaches behind the
eye when I was about 9 - 14. The headaches would usually come the
same time every year(September). I doubt they are related to this
but I thought it should be brought up.

7) The symptoms seem to improve slightly at night.

8) It makes turning my eyes side to side distracting.


Could this be something other than movement in the semi-circular canals?
If it is, what could be causing it for this lenth of time.

If is not, what else could be causing these symptoms? What biochemical
imbalances? I am slightly hyper-thyroid, but no more so than everyone
else in my family. I am also slightly hypo-glycemic. I think most
adults are, even if they don't know it.

What about brain tumors? 


Any insights would be most appreciated.

I am seeing a doctor tomorrow, but will entertain speculation since
doctors often misdiagnose anyways.
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From: joel@fps.com (Joel Broude)
Subject: Re: Heart attack vs. indigestion; was: Re: Angiography
Organization: Cray Research Superservers Inc., San Diego CA, USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:32:25 GMT

In article <15923@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:

>This is the second response about Kaiser. Do they operate a
>hospital, or a freestanding emergency thing? When I said "ER"
>I meant one attached to a hospital. 

Kaiser's ER is, indeed, attached to a hospital.  Thay have sufficient
facilities to provide necessary care.  It is the motivation to
do so that is (was?) lacking.
From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Indoctrinating Interns
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:20:07 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Transplant Institute

In article <92213.110734DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu> DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>In article <4049@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle) says:
>
>Long interesting section on why training doctors is different than training
>persons in other professions.
>
>>Those of us who train physicians are as interested in teaching medicine as
>>we are in indoctrination. And believe me, we are not subtle about the
>>indoctrination part. By the time we finish our training we need to have
>>acquired a couple of things. First is a truckload of factual information,
>>which will allow us to be competent at what we do. The second is a mental
>>attitude, one that makes our patient come first, even at the expense of
>>our personal life. This is what allows us to be good, not merely competent,
>
>There are a number of doctors, including several in this group, who have
>argued that the physicians comin out of medical school today DO NOT
>exhibit this concern for patients that you desire.  Instead, they are,
>according to these doctors, more concerned with making money.  If that's
>so (and feel free to voice your own thoughts about the merit of that claim)
>then the indoctrination is not working.
>

I'm sure it's true that a lot of medical school graduates are more interested
in money than anything else. Why this is so could be a matter for a separate
discussion. Rest at ease, I'm not going to start that one.
The process of indoctrination I'm referring to doesn't start until you go
into your residency. And it is certainly not the same across the board, since
some specialties are more demanding than others. But those who choose to go
into a a field where you have to take care of truly sick people have to learn
what it means in reality to always have the patient come first. And you 
have to learn it, because very few people come out of medical school knowing
exactly what they are getting into. I mean, it's easy to go into platitudes
concerning your duty as a doctor, and that sort of thing. But to forgo sleep,
recreation, and your own family doesn't come naturally. It's a learned
behavior.
Are these good things to inculcate in someone? Depends on your perspective.
If you ask my family you'll get a very negative evaluation. Hell, if you ask
me from time to time you'll get less than a ringing endorsement. But I
honestly believe this is the way it should be, and the minute you are no 
longer willing or able to do it you should go into something else.
Are we always successful in instilling these values into other people? Of
course not. Many of them don't want to put up with this crap and go into
Radiology (oops, I'd been very good so far at not naming other specialties).
And some will go through the training but will always keep a different
agenda. But I would venture to say that for most of us who are a product of
this system, our patient's welfare is more than an abstract notion.
But we don't make good copy.
---------------------
Howard Doyle
doyle+@pitt.edu




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From: bhjelle@vaxine.unm.edu (Brian Hjelle)
Subject: Re: Hepatis C
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:39:29 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <19920729.053019.699@almaden.ibm.com> chcho@vnet.ibm.com ( C. Cho ) writes:
>I like to know what is best for curing chronic Hepatitis C
>except Interferon.

To my knowledge alpha interferon is the only treatment for hepatitis
caused by hepatitis B or C. It is far from a "cure" however.

>I also like to know how one is infected.

Some got it from transfusion, some from using IV drugs and
sharing needles. The plurality of infected persons got HCV
via an "unknown" route. To many of us, that implies sexual
spread but in most cases sexual spread is hard to demostrate
prospectively.

Brian
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Mefloquine and Homeopathy?
Summary: No, not quite
Keywords: Adverse rxns to drug =? symptoms of disease
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:08:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <Jul.24.10.20.50.1992.8512@yoko.rutgers.edu> dcohen@yoko.rutgers.edu (Dawn Myfanwy Cohen) writes:

>I just saw the pharmacist's insert for mefloquine.  Among other 
>disclaimers and warnings, it said that adverse reactions to the
>drug may not be distinguishable from symptoms of malaria which
>it is intended to treat.  
>
>Sounds like it fits in with homeopathic philosophy, to me.  

No, it's not.  It would be homeopathic if it were _chosen_ as a malaria
treatment because of the similarity of drug effects to malaria symptoms.
Presumably, it wasn't; it was chosen because of its ability to kill the
organism that causes malaria. 

Homeopathy and allopathy are _obsolete_, mid-19th-century heuristics for
choosing drugs.  Homeopathy says choose something whose effects are similar
to the patient's symptoms; allopathy says choose something whose effects
are opposite to the patient's symptoms.  Both of these drug-choosing
strategies date from a time when very little was known about physiology
and infecting organisms had not yet been discovered.

Most modern medical practice is remotely descended from allopathy.
Occasionally you will find things in modern medical practice that
resemble homeopathy (vaccination might be an example).  But that doesn't
mean they were chosen because of homeopathic theory (or early allopathic
theory).  They were chosen on the basis of much later scientific
developments.
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Artificial Intelligence Programs | U of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602  U.S.A.
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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Migrane, HELP in NJ.
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:11:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Jul27.124559.11339@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> hrk@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (harold.r.kaiser) writes:
>I have a friend who is suffering badly from migranes since she was 2 years
>old. She has been through the gamut of tests etc. Does anyone know of a
>super-doctor in the New Jersey, New York area who can help. Or a teaching
>university where we can go for help. Please Email me responses.

The following are in the area:

Columbia University
Cornell University
NYU
Albert Einstein
Rutgers

Any of the neurology departments there should be able to help you.

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From: sude@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Susanne Denninger)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 06:26:33 GMT
Subject: Re: anovulatory cysts
Organization: Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Newsgroups: sci.med

Since I seem to have the same (or at least a similar) problem, please provide
me with all the info you have related to this.
FYI, I stopped the pill about five months ago and the ultrasound shows lots of
small cysts (~.5 mm) on my ovaries. No ovulation since ...

Susanne Denninger
From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: FDA still at large
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:10:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <15854@pitt.UUCP> 
	geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:

>I suppose it was homeopaths and chiropractors that discovered the
>benefits of a low fat diet in heart disease?  But what do you do
>with people who have clogged arteries already and are about to
>die from them?  Too late for them to try the low fat diet.
>Just let them croak?

Maybe...compare the cost of the bypass, and all comcomitant therapies, with
granting basic health care to 100 people.  Bypass surgery will improve
quality of life for some individuals (surgeons, in particular), but it
is very expensive (even at the tenfold reduction in cost over the last
ten years).


-- 
Small Systems Solutions                   1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123
sss@netcom.com                                  Berkeley, CA 94707-2116

The above-expressed opinions aren't necessarily
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From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas Rand)
Subject: Re: Anti-vitamin bill passes committee
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:27:30

In article <1470184@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:

   You may remember a new bill that proposes making vitamins illegal,
   and giving the FDA broadly expanded powers.

I love Kingsley's posts.  He always states things in such a perfect
way.  The bill "making vitamines illegal"!!!   I can just see the
federal marshalls marching up and down the citrus groves confiscating
all those illegal oranges. 

The bill,  as I recall it,  mandated the maximum content of certain
vitamin supplements,  which in large dosages act as drugs.  One 
particular example I remember is niacin.  

I'm not sanguine about the federal government trampling our rights in
cases such as comfiscature laws,  but I'm having a hard time getting
excited on this one.  But I doubt it'll make it through the senate 
anyway.

--
Douglas S. Rand <drand@osf.org>		OSF/Motif Dev.
Snail:         11 Cambridge Center,  Cambridge,  MA  02142
Disclaimer:    I don't know if OSF agrees with me... let's vote on it.
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From: vmm@cbnews.cb.att.com (virginia.m.medici)
Subject: Gout/diet/foods to avoid
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:22:51 GMT
Keywords: GOUT

My son (23 yrs. old.) has been diagnosed with gout and I am wondering
what foods/drinks he should avoid completely or at least treat with
a lot of respect.
Thanks
GINI
AT&T BL
mvuxd!vmm


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From: kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch)
Subject: Carbohydrate addiction?
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:12:19 GMT

mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
> ... I haved watched my carbo intake grow, ...  I haven't gained any
> weight back, because my exercise level is extremely high, ...

Perhaps you crave carbohydrates because you are exercising so much.
Carbohydrates are the body's preferred fuel.  I don't think there's
such a thing as too much carbohydrate if one's weight isn't too high
or increasing.  Some olympic athletes consume upwards of 8000 calories
of carbs per day.

> Carbo Addicts (more than 12g ofc arbos at one meal only) ...

Are you saying if one typically eats more than 12 grams of carbs per
meal, one is a carbohydrate addict?  Well, if one gets 2/3 of one's
calories from carbs (the low end of current recommendations), and eats
three meals per day, one's diet would then total less than 216 calories
per day.  One would very quickly starve.  To get a reasonable 2400
calories one would have to consume 34 meals every day!  Am I misreading
this?  Maybe that's supposed to be 12 ounces?

> ... a reasonable compromise between what I was doing and tskins.

Why compromise?  I've been maintaining a 160 pound weight loss for
years, without hunger or exhaustion, by doing the exact opposite of
what Atkins suggests, and eating all the carbs I want, often more
than 12 ounces (340 grams) in one meal.
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From: mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...
Keywords: alt medicine
Organization: Video 7 + G2 = Headland Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:01:49 GMT

In article <15866@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>I don't know whether capsaicin is effective at killing parasites or not,

I suspect not.  I recall finding mealworms in a bottle of
cayanne pepper once.

Oddly enough, capsacin doesn't seem to affect birds and 
insects.  Parrots especially seem to have a fondness for
hot chilies.  It does keep most mammals away, though.
(Except for one... :-)

>but I eat chile because it tastes so good.  Thus, there being
>good and sufficient reason besides parasites, I have to remain
>skeptical of your theory.

I'm also skeptical of the "hide the taste of rotten food" theory.
I've got a cookbook, "The Totally Hot Cookbook", which has a bit of
history of spices in general, and chilies in particular.  According
to it, spices were valuable items, and were not wasted on spoiled
food.

Another interesting point, chilies are native to the Americas.
They were introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus, and spread
so fast they were a staple in India by the mid 1500s.  Highly spiced
food later became un-trendy in Europe.

One of these days I'm going to try the Malaysian Debbil Chicken
recipe from that book -- one chicken, 36 dried red chilies.
-- 
Mike Van Pelt                     "Something is happening here,
Headland Technology/Video 7        What it is ain't exactly clear..."
sun!indetech!hsv3!mvp                 -- Pons & Fleischmann
mvp@hsv3.lsil.com
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From: sheryl@seas.gwu.edu (Sheryl Coppenger)
Subject: Re: Weight/appearance of professional models; Re: Obesity...
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:27:09 GMT

In article <2569340@aplvax.msfc.nasa.gov> fs@cs.tulane.edu (Frank Silbermann) writes:
>
>`Slim' just means `not flabby/saggy/baggy'.  It doesn't mean emaciated.
>Neither men nore society asks women to become fanatics.

Maybe not, but men and society will tell (not ask, but tell) women to
maintain a weight which is lower than what is comfortable for them.  If
a person is terrified of being fat and is having to exercise extreme
control to stay slim, I can see how they might lose perspective and go
too far.

>
>To blame men/women/society for these sicknesses
>makes as little sense as blaming our emphasis on education
>for the occasional straight-A-student-who-just-got-his-first-B suicide.

Well, I think it depends.  If we were talking about a very small,
consistent number of people I think I could agree with you.  But when 
anorexia and steroid abuse are on the rise I think it's worth asking
"why?". 

-- 

Sheryl Coppenger    SEAS Computing Facility Staff	sheryl@seas.gwu.edu
		    The George Washington University	(202) 994-6853
From: ah532@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Gleba)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Sports Medicine Majors
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:21:53 GMT
Reply-To: ah532@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Gleba)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)

I don't know if this is the place, but if there are any sports medicine
majors here, send me some mail! I have questions to ask.

-Mike

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From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: menstrual cycle "regulation" with co-workers
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:21:58 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Jul18.022036.0274677@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
>derion@VAX309.NOSC.MIL writes:
>
>| Can anyone give me info or tell me where to find info on the purported
>| phenomenon of menstrual cycles in female co-workers becoming
>| coincident?
>
>It's real, it's natural and it's caused by pheremones -- substances
>made by the body, released into the air and detected nasally by
>others.  It happens when women live in close proximity to each other.
>

What I've never understood is: since there is apparently a force/influence
that causes women to synchronise like this, then why don't all the women
in the world become and stay synchronised? This would seem to be the only
"stable" solution, and it seems as if there should be a trend toward it.
From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:00:05 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul20.220034.8390@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
>
>I agree with you in principle. But the problem is that very often,
>particularly with cancer, patients are told they have a chance with
>treatment which the doctors know full well won't work. IF the patient
>was told the truth, he or she might have time to look into some alternative
>treatment. Now the doctor in question might think that all alternative
>treatments are a big crock. But isn't that for the patient to decide?

No ethical physician will attempt treatment of a hopeless case unless
it is at the insistence of the patient and family. If you look in
oncology textbooks, you will find that treatment of advanced cancers
is palliative, not curative, and this is always explained to the
patient. Palliative therapy may lead to longer survival and to a
higher quality of life before the patient dies.

 -km

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