HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eer@world.std.com (Eugene E Rosen)
Subject: Hearing Aids
Summary: how to evaluate hearing aids
Keywords: Hearing Aids, evaluation
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 02:22:10 GMT

I took my mother-inlaw to an otolaryngologist who prescribed a hearing
aid in one ear. He said that it appeared her hearing loss was due
to age and when the audiologist turned up the volume she could hear
quite well. How do I make a fair evaluation of various hearing aids
by price and effectiveness etc. consumer reports mentioned something
you could order (nov, 88) through the va and get a summary of results.
I know the field is full of charlatans but I also imagine that good
audiologists and products exist.
Please e-mail and I will summarize on the newsgroup.

thanks


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22 Riverside Road                                       COMPUSERVE:74066,3444
Sandy Hook, Ct. 06482-1213                              AOL: Gene Rosen
From: TOBIAS@bonnie.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Input section of an EKG
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:03:01 GMT
Organization: University of Stuttgart, FRG
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21

In <1992Apr11.044812.23063@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu writes:

> 
> In a previous article, TOBIAS@bonnie.physik.uni-stuttgart.de () says:
> 
> >Normally 3 electrodes are used in simple ECG. You can get
> >one derrivation with it (the third electrode is only for stabilization).
> 
> Three electrodes will give you three leads.  The three electrodes used
> are left arm, right arm, and left leg.  In combination, these give leads
> I, II, and III.  The remaining electrode is used to eliminate some 
> environmental noise and artifact.  

Yes but then you have to switch beetween the electrodes. That makes it
a little bit more complicated for the electronic. (The signals have
to been registrated simultanously.)

> 
> Ten electrodes will give you twelve leads, a "full" EKG.  The electrodes
> are placed left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, and six V (chest)
> electrodes.  You should be able to find the exact locations in any
> textbook of electrocardiography.  
> 
> 
> Defibrillating someone in asystole probably won't make much difference.
> Defibrillation and cardioversion are useful against rhythms such as 
> ventricular fibrillation and V-tachycardia.
>  

Right. But in case of asystole you normally don`t defibrillate because
it leads to nothing and only costs time. The standard program for
asystole and fibrillation are different so it`s important to decide
quite fast if there`s asytole. The problem however is, that with
the small (unexact) ECGs some sorts of fibrillation seemed to be asystole.
So you can also try defibrillating after using the standard asysole program.

Bye. T.Haist.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: papakos@gmd.de (Pano Papakostas)
Subject: Inspissated bile syndrom by morbus haemolyticus fetalis
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:46:56 GMT

Hi there !

Is there anybody who has done some research work on the 'Inspisated Bile
Syndrom by Morbus Haemolyticus Fetalis'? My brother is currently writing his
PhD thesis about it and is looking for papers or other published work about
this topic. He would be thankful to every kind of help!

Bye,
Pano

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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: BELL'S PALSY
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:27:16 GMT

In article <14390@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>I don't think any doctor could reasonably determine
>whether a Bell's Palsy could cause someone to fail a course.  I
>would think it wouldn't under most circumstances.
>

Um, a course in diction?  Operatic singing? :-)

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
Subject: Re: Tyrosine study recommendations..
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 02:30:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: tyrosine,cocaine abuse

In article <hkxj_mm.ccat@netcom.com> ccat@netcom.com (Chris Beaumont) writes:
>..
>A friend of mine is a research pharmacologist working with
>the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic here in San Francisco,
>He's currently trying to start a study on tyrosine therapy to help
>people going off cocaine,with the help of the University of California
> San Francisco.Unfortunately he's running into a bit of trouble..and
>he hasn't even started the study, which is in an area that, I think
>shows quite a bit of promise. It seems that even though tyrosine is
>(currently) a nonprescription nutritional supplement,the FDA requires
>that SINCE HE IS USING IT TO TREAT A DISEASE..

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't prescribed use in the province of
a Medical Doctor?  And if an MD prescribes a drug, even if for a use
other than that for which it was approved, that is legal?

For example, aspirin is *not* approved as a remedy or prophylactic
for cardiovascular disease, but is prescribed for that use.
-- 
Small Systems Solutions                   1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123
sss@netcom.com                                  Berkeley, CA 94707-2116

The above-expressed opinions aren't necessarily
From: bhjelle@vaxine.unm.edu (Brian Hjelle)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: HPV
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:28:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.m!qjxpd
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Apr7.021847.23746@oakhill.sps.mot.com> amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp) writes:
>To whoever asked whether or not HPV is a problem for men:  well maybe
>not directly, but if a man gets it, his sexual partner is then at 
>greater risk of getting it, and consequently, cervical cancer.  Even
>if men are not directly threatened certainly they don't want to infect
>their female partners!  It is a very serious issue for a woman.
>
>I believe that HPV can transcend the condom much more so than other
>diseases, because HPV can be transmitted from skin-to-skin contact
>and not just via bodily fluids.  Please correct me if I am wrong,
>but let's say you didn't care about catching HPV.  Even with a condom
>your future partners are at risk of catching HPV.   

I asked that question. I didn't intend to dismiss the possibility
of transmitting the type 16 or 18 viruses (which may cause cervical
cancer) to women, but it is almost impossible to know if one
is at risk to do that. Another poster mentioned that HPV lesions
can be seen after soaking in vinegar, which is true. However,
it is far from clear that this test has any sensitivity what-
soever, in that it still may be true that the vast majority of
HPV "carriers" will not be detected by this test. Also, if
a man were to find a lesion, he would still be unable to
tell if it were of a type that causes cervical cancer. Furthermore,
the overwhelming majority of female HPV carriers lack recog-
nizable cervical disease, so this situation goes both ways
(ie, either sex, when transmitting HPV, will do so unknowingly).

So what is the practical consequence of the above warning?

Brian
From: tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Brainless legal decisions about newborns.
Summary: we have met the enemy
Keywords: brain death, brainstem life
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:57:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: pegasus.1992Apr13.165734.21889
Followup-To: sci.med
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu

In article <14298@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.002348.23943@pegasus.com> tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard) writes:
>>
>Actually an anatomic criterion might be better, but none of the laws
>that I know of are anatomically oriented.  They are all functionally
>oriented.  MRI is an anatomic test only, not functional.  EEG and
>clinical exam are functional, but there are cases, such as barbiturate
>coma, in which these are zero and the patient isn't brain dead,
>so I don't see how you are going to get the clinician out of the
>loop.  
>
>>have a good chuckle about it, but there is need for change.  So let's
>>get with it.....who is responsible for the definition of brain death,
>>and what must be done to get it changed, and who is going to do it?
>
>State legislatures.  The Florida legislature deliberately inserted
>into the law a clause forbidding use of patients who had a functional
>brain stem.  
>Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson

Thanks, Gordon.  That makes very clear that they are still not
considering anencephaly as a problem.  They were using a functional
crierion as you described.  Guess the appoach should be a permissive
on allowing parents of anencephalic infants to donate the organs of
these infants to otheres even if doing so shortens an already short
life.  My experience is that many parents wish to have some good come
out of such a tragedy, and the law is not fulfilling its intent to
prevent harm in this case.

Shalom,                      Len
++Len Howard  tas@pegasus.com
From: M20614@mwvm.mitre.org (Hugh Pritchard)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Precision Diamond Radial Keratotomy
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:56:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: mwvm.167CA7DDF.M20614
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102

In article <1992Apr14.224240.20854@Veritas.COM>
joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy) writes, in response to
Joe.Noel@f13.n3805.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Noel):
 
>My humble (and non-medical) opinion:
>    If you wear glasses with less than -7D of correction, and you can find
>    an eye surgeon who has done many RKs and who you are comforatable with,
>    then I would seriously consider RK surgery.  I fully understand why
>    eye doctors hate it: it cures nearsightedness, which is their bread
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    and butter.   But from a patient point of view, it did everything I was
     ^^^^^^^^^^^
>    told it would do.
 
Nearsightedness may be an optometrist's bread and butter, but an
ophthalmologist's bread and butter is elderly patients with cataracts.
 
So says Jaffe in his textbook _Cataract_Surgery_; and I can see my own
ophthalmologist's waiting room filled with elderly patients when I go in
every four months or so.
 
**  Hugh Pritchard,  hapritch@mitre.org,  703/883-6616
From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
Newsgroups: sci.med,connect.audit
Subject: Re: Depression and bruising
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:49:59 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.

In article <1992Apr3.034817.5717@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <trjjp0b.jfh@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>>Is there any known relationship between depression and easy bruising?
>
>Only psychic.


Not strictly true.   Depressiocan be seen in conjunction with
diseases that produce depression and bruising defects (typically
hepatic dysfunction, suchas alcololic cirrhosis or other hepatic
disorder)

Depression can also be secondary to disorders which directly cause
 bruising such as cushings syndrome.

Yours,

Michael
>Only psychic.

-- 
Automatic Disclaimer:
The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not
represent the views of the IBM PC User Group.
-- 
The above opinion is not that of the IBMPCUG.
In fact, it may not be my opinion, either.

Michael Veltman         George@ibmpcug.co.uk 
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Tyrosine study recommendations..
Keywords: tyrosine,cocaine abuse
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 04:06:43 GMT

In article <hkxj_mm.ccat@netcom.com> ccat@netcom.com (Chris Beaumont) writes:
>A friend of mine is a research pharmacologist working with
>the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic here in San Francisco,
>He's currently trying to start a study on tyrosine therapy to help
>people going off cocaine,with the help of the University of California
> San Francisco.Unfortunately he's running into a bit of trouble..and
>he hasn't even started the study, which is in an area that, I think
>shows quite a bit of promise. It seems that even though tyrosine is
>(currently) a nonprescription nutritional supplement,the FDA requires
>that SINCE HE IS USING IT TO TREAT A DISEASE..
>he must file a new drug application, which treatens to halt the study..
>does anyone with any experience in these matters have any ideas for him?
>It seems terribly frustrating that he may not be able to even begin his
>study.

Anyone working with UCSF (let alone someone who claims to be a
"research pharmacologist") should have known about FDA rules and
regulations (let alone UCSF's rules and regulations) when it comes to
human experimentation.  I don't think a new drug application (NDA) is
needed, but the researcher needs to fill out an investigational new
drug application (IND) identifying the sponsor and detailing the
research protocol.  I would imagine that because you're looking at a
common amino acid and the sponsor is not a large drug company that the
amount of detail you need to provide should not be excessively onerous
(relatively speaking...)  The FDA has 30 days to comment on the
protocol.  The sponsor can proceed upon receipt of FDA approval (or if
they haven't heard back in 30 days.) IND studies take place in several
phases.  Phase I studies look at toxicity in normal humans.  Phase II
trials look at efficacy and side effects in a small group of target
parients.

I would recommend the following: have him contact pharmacologists at
UCSF regarding the gamut of federal/state and institutional bureaucracy
which needs to be managed in similar investigations.  Contact the FDA
for explicit directions.  Contact the authors of the papers in the
bibliography you've collected to support such a study, asking what
their experience was.  And so on.

There's no reason to believe that having to pause for an IND would
halt a properly-designed study.  He might as well find out how to
do this right.


-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Brainless legal decisions about newborns.
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:52:28 GMT
Reply-To: laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division

In article <14383@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <19496@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:

>>My baby responds to warmth and sound, and has even
>>started to explore his environment.  He has all of the same ssystems
>>that I have,

>If I were to cut off your little toe and culture the cells from it,
>they would all have exactly the same DNA you do, and are thus human.
>But they would not be a person.

Ah yes, Gordon, but I don't think these same cells would have
the same sytems as I, nor would they respond to warmth or sound, nor
would they explore their environment.  Thus, I cannot see the basis for 
this correlation.

I agree that this is the point at which this debate becomes a little
sticky.


Laura  McGovern
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From: toronto@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (James Moseley)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.psychology
Subject: Pregnancy Problems
Date: 23 Mar 92 16:32:50 GMT
Followup-To: sci.med
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Well some of you may remember me as the person who was kicking Xanax.
I managed to kick it last week after a rather dramatic decrease (I
dropped the last 0.25 mg in a week, which is quick for the last
0.25 mg).

I kicked it because I found out I was pregnant.  Initially I was happy
and relieved; I had been wanting to get pregnant.

In less than a week's time I've gone from happy to bitterly resentful
of being female in general and pregnant in specific.  I've verbally
attacked my family I've been so upset at being pregnant; I've been
kicking myself for getting pregnant.  Why?  Because now I'm horribly
depressed, anxious, and wondering how I'm ever going to get through
another eight months of this.  I can't work and I can't have fun at
anything, nothing is interesting.

I'm still on 150 mg of desipramine; I haven't kicked that yet, because
the genetic counselor told me it was less harmful than Xanax for the baby.
I have agoraphobia and panic, and although the panic has yet to return,
I am extremely uncomfortable because of the rapid heartbeat I've developed,
either as a side effect of not taking Xanax or being pregnant.  My heart
rate is often over 100-110; it used to be 80.  An agoraphobic dislikes the
pounding heart.  I also am shaky (probably Xanax), dizzy, short of breath,
and in general feeling miserable and sad.

Does anyone have any advice for me?  I am trying to get more professional
help but my current psychiatrist is terrible and I'm trying to get
a referral to someone else.  I really need someone who can get past "Oh
that is normal when you are pregnant."  I don't care if it is normal, I
feel awful, but I don't want to end the pregnancy, because I'd be
very sorry later.

I really need some help.

Thanks.


Newsgroups: sci.med
From: bj251@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter E. Dinin)
Subject: Lyme Disease
Reply-To: bj251@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter E. Dinin)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 02:55:52 GMT


My wife and I are curious if anyone has information on Lyme disease,
particularly relative to the disease when it is in a "dormant"
incubation period for a number of months/years.  How long can the
disease stay in such a state?  Also, is Lyme disease viral or bacterial?

Any information would be helpful.  Please send replies via e-mail
to bj251@cleveland.freenet.edu in addition to posting if you wish.

Thank you in advance.

Pete & Tracy Dinin

-- 
Peter E. Dinin  bj251@cleveland.Freeet.Edu
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Sources of Used/Antique Medical Equipment
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:52:10 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <181077@pyramid.pyramid.com> dgoodin@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Dianna Goodin) writes:
>So Gordon, 
>    Since no one has time to talk about something of interest to you, why
>don't you post something to educate the rest of us?

Get serious.  What do you think I've been doing all these years.
Maybe you aren't educable.



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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Brainless legal decisions about newborns.
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:45:13 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Apr6.033647.19103@zip.eecs.umich.edu> mhollowa@csws16.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway) writes:
>
>In the meantime, as you say, 10 or 20 years.  I really do think though that 
>people have to get up and start screaming or something.  The public just isn't
>being told effectively enough.
>
I really don't think public screaming on a specific research agenda
is going to be an enhancement to good science.  The opposite is more
likely the case.  Putting too much money into an agenda where the
ideas aren't there yet is foolish and wasteful.  The public is
not likely to be informed enough to be able to make the determination
of what proposals are likely to be productive.  They can lobby for
more funding for the field of medical research or basic science research
in general, and that may help, but they should leave the selection
of productive topics to experts.  Obviously if you have a rare disease,
lobbying for research on it is to be expected, and may be helpful.
But otherwise, I'd discourage it.  



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From: laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: High IQ world
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:58:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: suned1.19251
Reply-To: laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division

In article <1992Apr04.025659.0867726@locus.com>, yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:

>| >laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:

>| >I would go so far as to even doubt this. I find IQ tests very unscientific

Bob, I'm afraid I'm *not* the one who said this.  Please recheck your source.

>IQ tests definately measure SOMETHING, or some set of things, and MENSA
>is a fine place to meet fine people (scoring at least 1200 on the SAT,
>math + verbal, is one way to qualify; correct my number if it's wrong

Sorry, I don't remember.  I used my ACT composite score.

Laura  McGovern
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laura@tasvax.nswses.navy.mil		|   Naval Surface Warfare Center
(Baby due in August - our first!)	|   Port Hueneme, CA 
* My husband doesn't always share my opinions, so why should my employer? *
From: dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: High IQ world
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:19:31 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Electronic Eng., University of Adelaide

In article <1992Apr04.025659.0867726@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
>IQ tests definately measure SOMETHING, or some set of things, and MENSA
                             ^^^^^^^^^
    ie. the ability to do silly little puzzles at the time you did them.

>is a fine place to meet fine people (scoring at least 1200 on the SAT,
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
      Some of them are pretty boring, no personality or people skills.

>In other words, the whole picture is way more multi-factorial than any
>single number, however carefully calculated, can express.

Agreed.
Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.psychoactives,sci.psychology
From: ccat@netcom.com (Chris Beaumont)
Subject: Tyrosine study recommendations..
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 01:40:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: tyrosine,cocaine abuse

..
A friend of mine is a research pharmacologist working with
the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic here in San Francisco,
He's currently trying to start a study on tyrosine therapy to help
people going off cocaine,with the help of the University of California
 San Francisco.Unfortunately he's running into a bit of trouble..and
he hasn't even started the study, which is in an area that, I think
shows quite a bit of promise. It seems that even though tyrosine is
(currently) a nonprescription nutritional supplement,the FDA requires
that SINCE HE IS USING IT TO TREAT A DISEASE..
he must file a new drug application, which treatens to halt the study..
does anyone with any experience in these matters have any ideas for him?
It seems terribly frustrating that he may not be able to even begin his
study.

-- 
--
Chris Beaumont
PO Box 170156,San Francisco,CA. 94117
ccat@netcom.com
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