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kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert) writes:  >Unfortunately it was rather poorly researched, and would not be available >today if it were just invented.  Keep in mind however that those were >the days when a bottle of Coca Cola really did contain coca extract and >a certain amount of active cocaine.  Times have changed, and our attitudes >need to change with them.  Well, yes.  That was a part of my point.  Aspirin has its problems, but in some situations it is useful.  Ditto stuff like licorice root.  Taking anything as a drug for theraputic purposes implicitly carries the idea of taking a dose where the benefits are not exceeded by any unwanted, additional effects.  Taking any drug when the potential ill-effects are not known is a risk assumed by the parties involved, and it may be that in a given situation the risk is worthwhile.    Like Prozac, for instance; Prozac has been shown to be theraputic in some cases where the tri-cyclics fail.  But Prozac hasn't been in use that long, and it really isn't clear what if any effects it may have when taken over long periods of time, even though it has been tested by present day standards.  Should Prozac be taken off the market because long-term effects, if any, are not known?  IMHO, i'd say no.  euclid  >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >=  Kenneth Gilbert                |          University of Pittsburgh   = >=  General Internal Medicine    --*--        Pittsburgh, PA             = >=  kxgst1+@pitt.edu               |      "...dammit, not a programmer!  = >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >--  >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >=  Kenneth Gilbert                |          University of Pittsburgh   = >=  General Internal Medicine    --*--        Pittsburgh, PA             = >=  kxgst1+@pitt.edu               |      "...dammit, not a programmer!  =
In article <1993Apr14.122647.16364@tms390.micro.ti.com>, david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas) writes: |> cnavarro@cymbal.calpoly.edu (CLAIRE) writes:  |> >>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity? |> >>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before  |> >>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are |> >>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary?  |> >> |> >>I'm old enough to remember that the issue has come up at least |> >>a couple of times since the 1960s. Then it was called the |> >>"Chinese restaurant syndrome" because Chinese cuisine has |> >>always used it.  |> So far, I've seen about a dozen posts of anecdotal evidence, but |> no facts.  I suspect there is a strong psychological effect at  |> work here.  Does anyone have results from a scientific study |> using double-blind trials?    Here is another anecdotal story.  I am a picky eater and never wanted to  try chinese food, however, I finally tried some in order to please a girl I was seeing at the time.  I had never heard of Chinese restaurant syndrome.  A group of us went to the restaurant and all shared 6 different dishes.  It didn't taste great, but I decided it wasn't so bad.  We went home and went to bed early.  I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs. I threw up for so long that (I'm not kidding) I pulled a muscle in my tongue.  Dry heaves and everything.  No one else got sick, and I'm not allergic to anything that I know of.    Suffice to say that I wont go into a chinese restaurant unless I am  physically threatened.  The smell of the food makes me ill (and that *is* a psycholgical reaction).  When I have been dragged in to suffer through beef and broccoli without any sauces, I insist on no MSG.   I haven't gotten sick yet.
FLAME ON  Reading through the posts about Kirlian (whatever spelling) photography I couldn't help but being slightly disgusted by the narrow-minded, "I know it all", "I don't believe what I can't see or measure" attitude of many people out there.  I am neither a real believer, nor a disbeliever when it comes to so-called "paranormal" stuff; but as far as I'm concerned, it is just as likely as the existence of, for instance, a god, which seems to be quite accepted in our societies - without any scientific basis.  I am convinced that it is a serious mistake to close your mind to something, ANYTHING, simply because it doesn't fit your current frame of reference. History shows that many great people, great scientists, were people who kept an open mind - and were ridiculed by sceptics.  Especially the USA should be grateful; after all, Columbus did not drop off the edge of the earth.  FLAME OFF, or end sermon :-)
In article <C5qopx.5Mq@encore.com> sheffner@encore.com (Steve Heffner) writes: >A bit more than a year ago, a hernia in my right groin was >discovered.  It had produced a dull pain in that area.  The hernia >was repaired using the least intrusive (orthoscopic?) method and a >"plug and patch".    I suspect you mean laparoscopic instead of orthoscopic.    >Now the pain occurs more often.  My GP couldn't identify any >specific problem.  The surgen who performed the original procedure >now says that yes there is a "new" hernia in the same area and he >said that he has to cut into the area for the repair this time. > >My question to the net:  Is there a nonintrusive method to >determine if in fact there is a hernia or if the pain is from >something else?   By far the (still) best method to diagnose a hernia is old fashioned physical examination. If you have an obvious hernia sac coming down  into your scrotum, or a bulge in your groin that is brought about by increasing intra-abdominal pressure.... Sometimes is not that obvious. The hernia is small and you can only  detect it by putting your finger into the inguinal canal.  Whether you have a recurrent hernia, or this is related to the previous operation, I can't tell you. The person that examined you is in  the best position to make that determination.  Are there non-invasive ways of diagnosing a hernia? Every now and then  folks write about CT scans and ultrasounds for this. But these are far too expensive, and unlikely to be better than a trained examining finger.   ====================================
In article <1993Apr23.181051.4023@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@davelpcSanDiego.NCR.com (Dave Lord) writes: >In article <1r8pcn$rm1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, Donald Mackie ><Donald_Mackie@med.umich.edu> writes: >> In article <1993Apr22.205341.172965@locus.com> Michael Trofimoff, >> tron@fafnir.la.locus.com writes: >> >Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an >> >authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that >> >is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki? >>  >> I'm not sure of the exact recipe, but I'm sure acidophilus is one of >> the major ingredients.   :-) > >It's plain yoghurt with grated cucumber and coriander (other spices are >sometimes used). Some people use half yoghurt and half mayonaise.  In the kind I have made I used a Lite sour cream instead of yogurt.  May not be as good for you, but I prefer the taste.  A few small bits of cuke in addition to the grated cuke may also finish the sauce off nicely.
If the student has a kidney infection, she ought to be on antibiotics. Kidney infections-- left untreated-- can cause permanent damage to the kidneys.  I was hospitalized with a kidney infection a while ago and I was very sick.
In article <52223@seismo.CSS.GOV> bwb@seismo.CSS.GOV (Brian W. Barker) writes:  >mostly right. Is there a connection between vomiting >and fainting that has something to do with the vagus nerve? > Stimulation of the vagus nerve slows the heart and drops the blood pressure.     --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
In article <1r12bv$55e@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Donald_Mackie@med.umich.edu (Donald Mackie) writes: > >FMGs who are not citizens are, like all aliens, in a difficult >situation. Only citizens get to vote here, so non-citizens are of >little or no interest to legislators. Also, the non-citizen may well >be in the middle of processing for resident alien status. There is a >stron sense that rocking the boat (eg. suing a residency program) >will delay the granting of that status, perhaps for ever. >  One should be aware that foreign doctors admitted for training are ineligible to apply for resident alien status.  In order to get the green card they have to return to their country and apply at the embassy there.  Of course, many somehow get around this problem.  Often it is by agreeing to practice in a town with a need and then the congressman from that district tacks a rider onto a bill saying "Dr. X will be allowed to have permanent residency in the US."  A lot of bills in congress have such riders attached to them.  Marrying a US citizen is the most common, although now they are even cracking down on that and trying to tell US citizens they must follow their spouse back to the Phillipines, or whereever.    --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
In article <1993Apr19.171938.17930@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, jil@donuts0.uucp (Jamie Lubin) writes: > In article <19671@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: > >In article <C5E2G7.877@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes: > >> > >>Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an > >>overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most > >>people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the > >>other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this? > > > >There is eye dominance same as handedness (and usually for the > >same side).  It has nothing to do with refractive error, however. >  > I recall reading/seeing that former baseball star Chris Chambliss' hitting > abilities were (in part) attributed to a combination of left-handedness & > right-eye dominance.   I was part of a study a few years ago at the University of Arizona to see whether cross dominant individuals (those with a particular handedness but who had dominance in the opposite eye) were better hitters than those with same side dominance of hand and eye.  I was picked from my softball class because I was cross dominant (right hand, left eye) which put me in a small minority (and the grad student was trying to get an equal number of cross dominant and same side dominant people).  To control the study, she used a pitching machine - fast pitch.  Since I was used to slow pitch, I didn't come close (actually I think I foul tipped a few) to hitting the ball.  If there were a lot of people like me in her study (i.e., those who can't hit fast pitch, or are not used to hitting off a machine),  I would seriously question the results of that study!!  I think there have been some studies of major league players (across a fairly large cross section of players) to test whether eye dominance being the same or opposite side was "better" - but I don't know the results.  (The woman who ran the study I was in said that there was a higher incidence of crossdominance in major leaguers than across the general population - but I'm not sure whether I'd believe her.)
In article <1993Apr29.052044.23918@nmt.edu> houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle) writes: >	Anyway,  I am looking for advice for the use of >antihistamines as sleep aids,  and if there are any dangers of such use >(Seems safe to me since they are used chronically for allergies by >millions).  I don't want to try BZs,  because BZ addiction seems to be >a serious threat,  and from what I hear,  BZ sleep quality is not good, >whereas antihistamine sleep quality seems to be better for me.  I have >tried some dietary tryptophan loading stuff,  and that also seems to >lower sleep quality,  I seem to wake up around 4:00 or so and be in some >kind of mental haze until 7:00 or 8:00.  Also,  I would be interested in >any other advice for helping my problem.  (Although I've already tried >many of the non-pharmacological solutions)  Well, I think you might want to visit a doctor who is familiar with sleep disturbances, because antihistamines only help induce sleep when they're used intermittently; they lose their sedative effect if they're used on a nightly basis.  Their anticholinergic effects (drying of secretions, relaxing effects on smooth muscle) can be problematic in some people, such as those with glaucoma or prostate enlargement.  Antihistamines like diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or doxylamine (Unisom) are potent sedatives which are useful occasionally.  Chlorpheniramine (Chlor-Trimeton) is said to be less sedative, but 8mg seems to work well in some people.  Both chlorpheniramine and doxylamine have long half-lives compared to diphenhydramine, and so may produce a residual hangover or "drugged" feeling the next morning.
In article <1993Apr18.042100.2720@radford.vak12ed.edu> mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich) writes: >What can be done, short of circumcision, for an adult male >whose foreskin will not retract? > Melissa, there is a simpler procedure called a "Dorsal slit" that is really the first step of the usual circumcision.  It is simpler and quicker, but the pain is about the same as circumcision after the anesthetic wears off and the aesthetic result post healing is not as good.  See your friendly urologist for more details.                                                 Len Howard .
My mom has just been diagnosed with cystic breast disease -- a big relief, as it was a lump that could have been cancer.  Her doctor says she should go off caffeine and chocolate for 6 months, as well as stopping the estrogen she's been taking for menopause-related reasons. She's not thrilled with this, I think especially because she just gave up cigarettes -- soon she won't have any pleasures left!  Now, I thought I'd heard that cystic breasts were common and not really a health risk. Is this accurate?  If so, why is she being told to make various sacrifices to treat something that's not that big of a deal?  Thanks for any information.  -- Chris  --  black@sybase.com
i heard a news report indicating research showing improved          hearing in people taking vitamin A. the research showed that new     growth replaced damaged "hairlike" nerves. has anyone heard about this?   thanks, claude
Mark McWiggins <markmc@halcyon.com> reminds us:  MM> Also, don't forget that it's better for your health  MM> to enjoy your steak than to resent your sprouts ...  YES!  I call this notion "psychological health food" and, in fact, have determined that the Four Food Groups are Ice Cream, Pizza, Barbecue, and Chocolate.  Ideally, every meal should contain something from at least two of these four groups.  Food DOES serve functions other than nutrition, and one of them is keeping the organism happy and thus aiding its immune system.   And I didn't spend a million bucks commissioning a study that told me to redraw my silly little pyramid in different colors and with a friendlier typeface, either.  (Ref: Consumer Reports' back page--one of the best things ever to turn up there.)  Rich Young <young@serum.kodak.com> writes of one of six impossible things: RY> to consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a time."  Donald Mackie <Donald_Mackie@med.umich.edu> confesses: DM> I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions. DM> No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.  Yeah, I want to try one of those 42oz steaks (cooked over applewood) at Wally's Wolf Lodge Inn in Coeur d'Alene.  That seems quite unrealistic--unrealistically SMALL.  And a few slabs of ribs from the East Texas Smoker (RIP, again) in Louisville is not at all unrealistic either.    What say we have a rec.food.cooking dinner at the Moonlite Bar-B-Que Inn in Owensboro? (It's all you can eat including lamb ribs & mutton for about $10.)  We could invite Julie Kangas as guest of honor and see if the Moonlite's Very Hot Sauce is too hot for her.  (It IS too hot for me, and I don't say that very often.)  And she could bring ice cream with crushed dried chiltepins for dessert.    And we could see if there IS such a thing as an "unrealistically large quantity" of barbecue--the owner of the Moonlite estimates that the Owensboro restaurants serve a hundred thousand pounds of meat a week in the summer, and forty thousand in the winter--in a town of 50 000 or so.  Two pounds per person per week?   Again, sure sounds unrealistic to me--thats just too meager to be healthy.  ~ Kiran (Now a two-pound slab of ribs a day, THAT's realistic.)
In rec.food.cooking, packer@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes: >Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity? >I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before >an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are >superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary? > I know that there is MSG sensitivity.  When I eat foods with MSG I get very thirsty and my hands swell and get a terrible itchy rash. I first experienced this problem when I worked close to Chinatown and ate Chinese food almost everyday for lunch.  Now I can't tolerate MSG at all.  I can notice immediately when I have eaten any.  I try to avoid MSG completely.  Interesting fact though is that all three of my children started experiencing the exact same rash on their hands.  I couldn't understand why because I don't MSG in cooking and we ask for no MSG when we do eat Chinese (I still love it).  After some investigation I knew that Oodles of Noodles where one of their favorite foods.  One of the main ingredients in the flavor packets is MSG.  Now I look at all labels.  You would be surprised at places you find MSG.
In article <93111.145432ICGLN@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICGLN@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:     A good source of information on Burzynski's method is in *The Cancer Industry*    by pulitzer-prize nominee Ralph Moss.  Interesting. What book got Moss the pulitzer nomination? None of the flyers for his books mention this, and none of the Cancer Chronicle Newsletters that I have mention this either.     Also, a non-profit organization called "People Against Cancer,"    which was formed for the purpose of allowing cancer patients to    access information regarding cancer therapies not endorsed by the    cancer industry, but which have shown highly promising results (all    of which are non-toxic).  Moss is People Against Cancer's Director of Communications. People Against Cancer seems to offer pretty questionable information, not exactly the place a cancer patient should be advised to turn to. Most (maybe all) of the infomation in their latest catalogue concern treatments that have been shown to be ineffective against cancer, and many of the treatments are quite dangerous as well.  sdb
In article <1993Apr26.204319.11231@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, E.A. Story (eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote: > In article <1rgrsvINNmpr@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes: > >Greg:Flame definitely intended here.  Bill was making fun of the misspelling.  > >Go look up the word "krill."  Also, the correct spelling is Kirlian.  It > >involves taking photographs of corona discharges created by attaching the > >subject to a high-voltage source, not of some "aura."  It works equally well > >with inanimate objects.  > True.. but what about showing the missing part of a leaf?  Is this > "corona discharge"?  No. It's called "not wiping off the apparatus after taking a picture of the whole leaf."
For those of you interested in the above Procedure, I am able to add the following facts:  1) This Procedure is not done in Philadelphia.  2) It is performed in Maryland at Johns Hopkins for corrections between    0 and -5 and from -10 to -20 (diopters, I think are the units).  3) It is performed in New York City at Manhattan Eye and Ear for corrections    between 0 and -6.  The magic words to use when requesting information on this is not PRK (they think you mean RK) but the excimer laser study (or protocol). This will get  you to the proper people.
abruno@adobe (Andrea Bruno) writes:   >In article <19930430140738SFB2763@MVS.draper.com> SFB2763@MVS.draper.com   >(Eileen Bauer) writes: >> Thyroxin controls energy production which explains sleepiness, coldness, >> and weight gain. There is also water retention (possibly around heart), >> changes in vision, and coarser hair and skin among other things.  >Is there any relation between thyroid deficiency and depression?    There can be. But depression is not diagnositic of thyroid deficiency. Thyroid blood tests are easy, cheap, and effective in diagnosing thyroid deficiencies.
In article <1993Apr15.150550.15347@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> ccreegan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles L. Creegan) writes: > >What about Kekule's infamous derivation of the idea of benzene rings >from a daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails?  Is this >specific enough to count?  Certainly it turns up repeatedly in basic >phil. of sci. texts as an example of the inventive component of >hypothesizing.   And has been rather thoroughly demolished as myth by Robert Scott Root- Bernstein.  See his book, "Discovering".  Ring structures for benzene had been proposed before Kekule', after him, and at the same time as him. The current models do not resemble Kekule's.  Many of the predecessors of Kekule's structure resemble the modern model more.  I don't think "extra-scientific" is a very useful phrase in a discussion of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens.  Extra-rational is a better phrase.  In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.  For example, Pasteur discovered that racemic acid was a mixture of enantiomers (the origin of stereochemistry) partly because he liked a friend's crank theory of chemical action.  The friend was wrong, but Pasteur's discovery stood.  A prior investigator (Mitscherlich), looking at the same phenomenon, had missed a crucial detail; presumably because he lacked Pasteur's motivation to find something that distinguished racemic acid from tartaric (now we say: d-tartaric) acid.  Again, Pasteur discovered the differential fermentation of enantiomers (tartaric acid again) not because of some rational conviction, but because he was trying to produce yeast that lived on l-tartaric acid.  His notebooks contained fantasies of becoming the "Newton of mirror-image life," which he never admitted publically.  Perhaps the best example is the discovery that DNA carries genes.  Avery started this work because of one of his students, and ardent Anglophile and Francophobe Canadian, defended Fred Griffiths' discoveries in mice. Most of Griffiths' critics were French, which decided the issue for the student.  Avery told him to replicate Griffiths' work in vitro, which the student eventually did, whereupon Avery was convinced and started the research program which, in 15 or so years, produced the famous discovery (Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty, JEM 1944).
In article <1993Apr15.163133.25634@ntmtv> janet@ntmtv.com (Janet Jakstys) writes: >This isn't the first time that I've had a migraine occur after exercise. >I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience and I wonder >what triggers the migraine in this situation (heat buildup? dehydration?). >I'm not giving up tennis so is there anything I can do (besides get into  >shape and don't play at high noon) to prevent this?  I've gotten migraines after exercise, though for me it seems to be related to exercising without having eaten recently.
Having had limited tinea pedis for more than 30 years, and finding it resistant to ALL creams and powders I have tried, I wonder why dermatologists do not use lasers to destroy the fungus. It would seem likely to be effective and inexpensive. Are there good reasons for not using lasers? I was told that dermatology had not yet reached the laser age.  John McKay vax2.concordia.ca