HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Subject: Re: earthquakes during surgery
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:59:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:
}Does anyone know what is done about the possibility of an earthquake during
}surgery, in the real world?

I *hope* that for once the "$50 per Tylenol caplet" medical profession does
*nothing* about this possibility. What are the odds of this being a real
problem? What are the odds of the surgeon not reacting fast enough, even to
a real "jolt" type earthquake? What are the odds of this being a problem
vs. the odds the surgeon's arm is bumped in close operating quarters, or
a drop of sweat drips into his/her eye at the wrong moment, or the patient
has a freak muscle twitch at the wrong moment, or the scalpel slips in
the surgeon's hand, or you don't come out of the anesthetic, or....

This is akin to people on the wrong coast who would never dream of living
where earthquakes are a major possibility, but they'll drive in downtown
Boston or on the Washington D.C. beltway system every workday.
-- 
Curtis Jackson			'91 Black Lab/Blue Heeler "Studley Doright"
cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	'92 Collie/Golden "George"
DoD #721	KotB		'91 Hawk GT	'81 Maxim 650
"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." -- J. Buffett
From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Voodoo varicocele
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:33:14 GMT
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <1993Jan24.235452.14511@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>This seemed kind of strange, so I asked the doctor when I went in for the
>followup.  He pulled out all his books, and we found that although there's
>considerable evidence that it improves sperm counts and motility, nobody
>has ever done a study where they measured the indicator that really
>matters, i.e. number of babies.

>(FLAME FOLLOWS) If so, why is varicocele surgery medicallly respectable
>but homeopathy isn't?  Same situation: lots of anectodal reports, no hard
>facts.

First, I know little about the evidence for or against varicocele
repair and fertility.  However you do provide "hard facts" (assuming
you are correct).  If the repair shows improved sperm counts, that
provides real evidence that the surgery does something.

The objection to most of the "homeopathic" remedies discussed here
is that there is no such evidence.  Evidence that a homeopathic
remedy increased sperm counts would be powerful evidence in favor
of homeopathic medications whether or not such increases led to
increased fertility.

This is not to say that the studies you desire wouldn't be valuable.
Inferring that increased sperm counts mean increased fertility
is not nearly as useful as direct evidence showing increased
fertility.  It is a lot better than anecdotal evidence, however.
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
From: mhosea@seas.smu.edu (Mike Hosea)
Subject: Re: Triglycerides (was Cholesterol Protein)
Keywords: Cholesterol
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:24:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.013714.16081@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.222545.21345@seas.smu.edu> mhosea@seas.smu.edu (Mike Hosea) writes:
>>even moderately high levels can increase 
>>ones risk of developing diabetes.
>
>This is news to me.  Where'd you get that?
>
Same Johns Hopkins book.  I don't know why.  For that matter I don't know
why high triglycerides levels can lead to pancreatitis.  The phrase "increased
risk" can be misleading as it is not meant to suggest a cause and effect 
relationship but rather a correlation of some significance.  Obesity can 
be a contributing factor leading to hypertriglyceridemia, and obesity 
increases risk of developing diabetes.  Perhaps the statistical evidence
supporting the statement in the book can be explained that easily.  However,
this is mere speculation on my part.
-- 
Regards,
Mike Hosea (mhosea@seas.smu.edu)
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Subject: Re: Re: Cellular telephones and brain tumors
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:36:29 GMT

In article <4126@hpwala.wal.hp.com> joes@hpwarbz.wal.hp.com writes:
>Also, has anyone ever  noticed the large  number of people that live  directly
>under TV  transmitter  towers?  I'm told the field is so  strong  that one can
>cause  a  fluourecent  bulb  to  glow  slightly  just  by  holding  it.  These
>transmitters  emit roughly  100KW.....I  haven't heard of any anomalies  among
>people under them......

TV and FM transmitting antennas are designed to concentrate
their power towards the horizon for maximum range.  RF levels at
the base of TV and FM transmitter towers tend to be somewhat lower.
-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406
From: jmains@engr.latech.edu (John P. Mains)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: PHOSPHENES AND ELECTROMAGNATISM
Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:56:38 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: jmains@engr.latech.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vega.engr.latech.edu


 
Hello,

I am looking for anyone (or information) that has done research on the emission of
phosphenes, or studied the effects of magnetic pulses to release phosphenes in animals
of any type.  If you have any idea as to what kind of magnetic pulse would be necessary
to release phosphenes in rats would be even more helpful.

Thanx
Louisiana Tech Biomedical Engineering
JP Mains
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: boswell@fnalp.fnal.gov (Chris Boswell JHU CDF (708)840-3638)
Subject: Question: safety of vaccinations and references
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  
Keywords:  vaccine,health,measles, mumps, tetanus
Reply-To: boswell@fnald.fnal.gov
Organization: Fermilab
Distribution:  world
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:16:26 GMT


Hello,
	I need information (and references) for the
safety and need for the following innoculations:

	Tetanus (actually DPT booster)
	measles (live)
	mumps (live)

especially concerning adult male patients and possible complications
such as sterilization.  E-mail would be most appreciated.
Thank you,
		Chris Boswell
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: anadeem@ampere.sci.bio (Ahmed Nadeem)
Subject: MRI And CT-SCAN Images Of Dogs?
Organization: /home/ampere1/anadeem/.organization
Distribution: sci.med
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:37:56 GMT

Netters,
      I am currently working on a research project that involves construction 
of realistic, solid or geometric models for dogs.
      Does anyone know where I can get serial section images( MRI, CT-SCAN, 
etc ) for dogs?
                                                       Thanks,
                                                              Ahmed Nadeem
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Thyroid info needed
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:44:24 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1993Jan14.173149.20985@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> broy@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu writes:


>these symptoms often indicate a low thyroid condition. My thyroid T4
>reading was 7.2 which my doctor insists is well within the "normal range",
>but according to my sister this reading should be closer to 10 and that
>I am really "borderline normal" and might benefit from thyroxin treatment.
>My doctor does not concur. I am looking for personal experiences, articles,
>or physicians who have researched this area who can either support or
>refute the need for thyroid medication with a 7.2 T4 score. My doctor is
>suggesting anti-depressants which I am loath to try if a less drastic
>medication could possibly help me.

Giving thyroid medication to people with normal thyroid function is
not good medical practice.  The TSH is a more accurate way of
determining what you need than the T4, but in general, your
doctor is right and your sister is wrong.  Also, giving
thyroid medication to someone who didn't need it is inviting
more mischeif than giving an anti-depressant to someone who
didn't need it.







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From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Getting the hustle  (was: Reynaud's Syndrome)
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:18:45 GMT
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

>In article <1993Jan14.204406.5881@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
>
>>But the biggest scams are conducted by MD's. And I'm not talking about the
>>guys in Tijuana, either. I mean, heart-bypass, angioplasty, lots of
>>mainstream cancer therapy, and on and on. We're talking billions here.
>>How can anyone compare that with someone's ginger farm?
 
 Why do you call heart-bypass surgery a fraud?  Certainly, you do
 not mean to include ALL cases.

 I can tell you that my Dad had a heart attack five years ago
 and a second (much worse than the first) a year ago and if 
 it were not for his bypass operation and the wonderful nurses
 and staff at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, he would
 not be alive today.

 But having said that, I do think that in the best of all possible worlds,
 the need for bypass surgery would be lessened.  If only Americans would
 eat right and exercise more, we would all be better off for it.

-- 
 Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com)  
 From the beautiful and historic New York State Mid-Hudson Valley.
From: jsmith@unixg.ubc.ca (JR Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: vitamin and pregnancy questions
Date: 21 Jan 93 07:26:49 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

Re: Vitamins in pregnancy further info.
The vitamin C supplementation leading to newborn scurvy was described in two
cases in 1965 in woman who received only 400mg supplement per day. No 
subsequent description of this has been made and a large study could not
demonstrate newborn scurvy at levels of 2000mg per day supplementation.
Go figure!

Further on folate is that the Hungarian study has been published in the New
England Journal of Medicine on Dec 24/92 (I must have had something else on
the go but it escapes me). There was a significant reduction in NTD in 
women on a folate containing multivitamin vrs a group on trace mineral 
supplementation only. The study was randomized, double blind and in a low
risk population. The dose was 0.8 mg which is less than that used in the
study of high risk women. Folate is available over the counter in a 1 mg
tablet which should do nicely. Look for recommendations for routine 
periconceptional folate supplementation to appear soon.


Newsgroups: sci.med
From: laser@buckwheat.cray.com (Catherine Hartman  {68387 CF/DEV})
Subject: Question about prednisone usage
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:27:31 CST


I'm currently being treated with prednisone for Crohn's disease.  My
dosage started off at 40mg every other day beginning in August.  My
doctor has tapered me down to 5mg every other day.  I have no more
symptoms, yet he refuses to take me off.  He told me the
dosage was too low to cause any damage. I've heard many bad 
things about long term usage of prednisone.  So, my questions are:
1) Should I find a new doctor?
2) How long is it safe to be on this dosage?
3) Can I taper myself off?  (I know you are not supposed to quit 
	cold turkey.)

I'm getting married in 3 months and would LOVE to lose the weight
I gained on the prednisone as well as clear up my skin.  Most of
the rotten side effects have disappeared after I was moved to the
5 mg every other day.  I just find it very hard to believe I should
stay on a medication as bad as prednisone, if I am not having any
problems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Cathie
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: candee@brtph5.bnr.ca (Candee Ellis P885)
Subject: ADD and Ritalin
Organization: BNR Inc. RTP, NC
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:51:51 GMT

My 13-year-old son has just been diagnosed with ADD (Attention Deficit
Disorder) -- or as precise as a diagnosis of this can be.  The
next recommended step is to treat him with Ritalin.  I'd be very
interested in anyone's experience with or knowledge about treating
adolescents with Ritalin (short-term and long-term effects) and
any insight to ADD and its diagnosis that you might have.  It seems
like the diagnosis is almost a "best-guess" determination.

Thanks,
  Candee
From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Canadian healthcare system
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:10:08 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

[reply to an4140@anon.penet.fi,]
 
>Surely there must be another side to this argument.  Are there no
>shortcomings to the Canadian system?   And even if that were so, is it
>adaptable to the US?
 
There are shortcomings to every system.  Canadians seem to be pretty
happy with their system, though.  The main problem with it for Americans
is that it entails some rationing for everyone, for example long waits
for certain studies or procedures.  Rich Americans will balk at not
being able to have premium service by paying more.  We are used to being
able to get the "best that money can buy".  It probably will not be too
kind to us physicians, either (the average Canadian physician makes half
what his American counterpart does).  It will never be able to get per
capita costs down to what they are in Canada because we are a sicker
society, mainly because of the larger gap between rich and poor (poverty
leads to drug abuse, poor prenatal care, and poor preventative care in
general).
 
I favor the Canadian model, myself.  This year I finished paying off my
mortgage early, just in case my wish comes true.  I don't think we are
going to be able to get health care costs down much without it without
creating a two-class medical system in which the old and the poor get
cared for only by doctors who aren't good enough to attract better-paying
patients.

David Nye
nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: What's Lorazepam
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:00:20 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <szikopou.727038286@cunews> szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos) writes:
>
>I don't see how you can use the fact that one can suffer from seizures
>after withdrawing from an benzodiazepine as a mark of addiction.  BZ's
>supposedly potentiate GABA functioning (right?) and GABA is
>inhibitory.
>
While withdrawing, not after withdrawing.  The appearance of physical
symptoms during withdrawal is one of the definitions of addictive.
Seizures are a very excellent physical symptom.

>Think about withdrawl from an optiate agonist as a paradigm case.  You
>take something like morhpine for awhile and your brain decides not to
>produce any endogenous optiate agonists becasue you're feeding the
>receptors with the morphine.  So when you stop, you're lacking what
>the system should have and....withdrawl. (You with me?) (a quick and
>dirty explanation but in the interest of brevity....)
>

Right.  This is why we call opiates "addictive".

>
>With respect to BZs I agree that they can be addictive (or if
>you prefer...habit forming).  What I disagree with I guess is that
>you're using physiological markers as evidence for addiction and
>ignoring psychological systems involved.  This is especailly important
>when discussing anxiolytic meds.
>
Who is ignoring psychological addiction?  I was discussing physical addiction.
There is such a thing as psychological addiction.  Marijuana is
an example of a substance that is said to be psychologically but not physically
addictive.  Benzodiazepenes and morphine are both.




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From: kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:44:37 -0500
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <1993Jan21.170453.27551@rchland.ibm.com> cecchi@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi) writes:
> Let's face it, Chuck needs to start the obesity equivilent of ACT-UP and
> use the same tactics.  This has been very successful in obtaining greatly
> increased priority in the funding of medical research.

I hope not.  Speaking as someone who was over 150 pounds overweight for
nearly 20 years, I think obesity is a trivial problem compared to AIDS,
cancer, and aging, which are where research dollars should be going.

Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: guruman@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Cervical Dysplasia Questions
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:36:03 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I have a few questions about cervical dysplasia, any help would be appreciated.

1) Cervical dysplasia is a a)bacteria, b)virus c) a state of cells.

2) CD is a communicable disease ?

3) Venereal Warts are a majour cause of CD ?
      if yes, must HPV be present in infected person, or is exposure to HPV
      enough?
4) Cervical Dysplasia can be carried by men. ??

5) It is totally treatable, and any re-occurrence is a new infection. ??

6) If antibiotics are used to treat CD, then mustn't it be a bacteria?

Any help would alleviate a lot of confusion for me.
Thanks very much in advance.
-Rob
guruman@ac.dal.ca
From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:52:24 GMT
Organization: KY3B - Vax Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1993Jan18.144233.9402@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, cpr4k@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Christian P. Roberts) writes:
 
|> Yes, hang in there.  But you must be continually vigilant.  I stopped
|> smoking almost eight years ago, yet I dreamed recently that I was smoking.
|> It was frightening.  This must be the nature of addiction - that it is with
|> you forever.

I also stopped smoking 8 years ago, and I do have dreams in which I am still
smoking. But they do not involve any craving for cigarettes, and the dreams
seem to relive more the disgust I felt when I still smoked than anything else.
Usually, about halfway through these dreams I start thinking about whether I
actually quit smoking or not, then I wake up, and am relieved to note that I
quit 8 years ago. 

By the way, I did experience the craving for cigarettes occasionally within the
first couple of years of quitting. But now cigarette smoke really disgusts me,
and I can't imagine (consciously) why I ever smoked. 

Based on what I have seen both as smoker, and as physician, I belive that
nicotine is the most powerful addiction there is. Worse than heroin, no doubt.
I have had patients who quit many things, and they all say that quitting smoking
was the hardest. I think that the people who are responsible for making it
difficult to smoke in the workplace, etc., should have a little heart. I am
sure glad that I quit before the current policital climate regarding smoking.

-km
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Conference on Women's Health
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:47:07 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:34:11 CST
Subject: Women's Health Conference

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  reposted (w/out permission) from academic women's studies e-list      FYI
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This posting announces a conference at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.


Women's Psychological and Physical Health:  A Scholarly and Social Agenda.

April 1-3, 1993

Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas


This conference will provide a forum to
*highlight the most pressing health concerns of women
*discuss the most current knowledge regarding women's health
*pose questions that will shape the future of research and application in
 women's health.

Combining major addresses, a panel discussion, poster sessions, and ample time
for discussion, the conference will provide a forum for interchange about
theoretical, empirical, and applied issues.  Registration is $30 ($20 for
students).  For a brochure and registration information, call the University of
Kansas Psychology Clinic, (913) 864-4121.  For information about the program
or about presenting a poster, call Annette Stanton or Charlene Muehlenhard,
(913) 864-4131.

AGENDA

Carol Tavris, author of _The Mismeasure of Women_
  Keynote Address:  Women's Health and the Mismeasure of Women

Cheryl Travis, University of Tennessee
  Health Care Policy and Practice for Women's Health

Sally Shumaker, Bowman Gray School of Medicine
  Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Beth Meyerowitz, University of Southern California
  Women and Cancer:  Have Assumptions about Women Limited Our Research Agenda?

Annette Stanton, University of Kansas
  Women and Reproductive Health

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Stanford University
  Women and Depression

Charlene Muehlenhard, University of Kansas
  Violence Against Girls and Women:  The Impact on Women's Psychological and
  Physical Health

Leonore Tiefer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Women's Sexuality:  What's Health Got to Do with It?

Veronica Thomas, Howard University
  Structural and Sociocultural Analyses of African-American Women's Health
  Outcomes

Margaret Gatz, University of Southern California
  Older Women and Health

------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
From: habersch@husc9.harvard.edu (Oren Haber-Schaim)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Problems with polycarbonate eyeglasses
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:33:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc.habersch.728019183

RE: your questions on plastic eye"glasses":

No one responded (including me) to your post on sci.optics
because the plastic traditionally used for eye"glasses"
is used for almost nothing else, and hence its identity and
its properties are
little known.  I believe its name is CR-39, and unlike
polycarbonate it is a thermosetting (i.e. cross-linked) plastic.

I don't have dispersion curves for it, but with its name, you
may be able to find that after a lot of phone calls!

Coatings, which you asked about,  would not affect chromatic aberration.


Oren Haber-Schaim             (habersch@husc.harvard.edu)
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Neurodermatitis
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:24:43 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <57440004@hpscit.sc.hp.com> rog@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Roger Haaheim) writes:
>A friend has it.  What is it?

I think it is when a nervous person itches or scratches themselves
too much.


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