waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
In <1993Apr29.112642.1@vms.ocom.okstate.edu> chorley@vms.ocom.okstate.edu writes:  >In article <35004@castle.ed.ac.uk>, gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes: >> msnyder@nmt.edu (Rebecca Snyder) writes: >>  >>>Does anyone know how posionous centipedes and millipedes are? If someone >>>was bitten, how soon would medical treatment be needed, and what would >>>be liable to happen to the person? >>  >>>(Just for clarification - I have NOT been bitten by one of these,  but my >>>house seems to be infested, and I want to know 'just in case'.) >>  >>>Rebecca >>  >>  >> 	Millipedes, I understand, are vegetarian, and therefore almost >> certainly will not bite and are not poisonous. Centipedes are >> carnivorous, and although I don't have any absolute knowledge on this, I >> would tend to think that you're in no danger from anything but a >> concerted assault by several million of them. >>  >> 			G. >Not sure of this but I think some millipedes cause a toxic reaction (sting? >So I would not assume that they are not dangerous merely on the basis of  >vegetarianism, after all wasps are vegetarian too. >dnc.  As a child i can remember picking up a centipede and getting a rather painful  sting, but it quickly subsided. Much less painful compared to a bee sting.  Centipedes have a poison claw (one of the front feet) to stun their prey, but in my single experience it did not have a lot of "bite" to it.
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? >   Thanks.    Yes, there is such a thing as eye dominance, although I am not sure if this dominance refers to perscription strength.  As i recall, if you selectively close your dominant eye, you will percieve that the image shifts. This will not happen if you close your other eye.  I believe that which eye is dominant is related to handedness, but I can't recall the relation at the moment.
nnget 93122.1300541 In article <C6BJyt.A1K@ssr.com>, sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) says: > >In article <93111.145432ICGLN@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICGLN@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes: > > >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.  And where do you advise people to turn for cancer information?    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.  It seems to me you've offered a circular refutation of Moss's organization. Who has shown the information in the latest book of PAC to be questionable? Could it be those 'regulatory' agencies and medical industries which Moss is showing to be operating with *major* vested interests. Whether one believes that these vested interests are real or not, or whether or not they actually shape medical research is a seperate argument. If one sees a possibility, however, that these interests exist, then the 'fact' that some of the information put out by PAC has been refuted by the medical industry doesn't hold much weight.  As for the ineffectiveness of antineoplasteons, the fact that the NIH didn't find them effective doesn't make much sense here. Of course they didn't! I tend to have more faith in the word of the patients who are now alive after being told years ago that they would be dead of cancer soon. They are fighting like hell to keep that clinic open, and they credit his treatment with their survival. Anyone who looks at the NIH's record for investigation of 'alterna- tive' cancer therapies will easily see that they have a strange knack for find- ing relatively cheap and nontoxic therapies dangerous or useless.
rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:   >Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks  >associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens  >are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function  >of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of  >the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish  >to know more. Thanks.   I recall that the issue is that fat on the meat liquifies and then drips down onto the hot elements--whatever they are--that the extreme heat then catalyzes something in the fat into one or more carcinogens which then are carried back up onto the meat in the smoke.
My girlfriend just started taking Imitrex for her migraine headaches.  Her neurologist diagnosed her as having depression and suffering from rebound headaches due to daily doses of analgesics.  She stopped taking all analgesics and caffine as of last Thursday (4/15).  The weekend was pretty bad, but she made it through with the help of Imitrex about every 18 hours.  Her third injection of Imitrex, during the worst of the withdrawl on Friday and six hours after the first of the day, left her very sick.  Skin was flushed, sweating, vomiting and had severe headache pain.  It subsided in an hour or so.  Since then, she has been taking Imitrex as needed to control the pain.  Immediately after taking it, she has increased head pain for ten minutes, dizziness and mild nausea and mild chest pains.  A friend of hers mentioned that her doctor was wary of Imitrex because it had caused heart attacks in several people.  Apparently the mild chest pains were common in these other people prior to there attacks.  Is this just rumor?  Has anyone else heard of these symptoms?  My girlfriend also has Mitral Valve Prolapse.
stephen@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith) writes: > 1)  Does it cause the body any harm if one picks one's nose?  For example, > might it lead to a loss of ability to smell? >  > 2)  Is it harmful for one to eat one's nose pickings?  I've seen children do this and wondered about something.  If the mucus in one's nose collects (filters) particles going into the airway, if a child then picks and ingests this material, might it have a vaccinatory effect, since if the body ingests airborne diseases or other 'stuff' on the mucus, the body might generate antibodies for this small "invasion"?  Maybe this is why some children don't get sick very often? :-)                          - tom
In article <C623Az.M85@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> PICL account_25, picl25@fsphy1.physics.fsu.edu writes: >adults.  The change in environment can cause problems.  Anesthetic agents >can cause confusion because the body cannot clear the medicines out of >the body as easily.  The original poster did not say why his mother had been in hospital but I can answer a few general points.  Elderly patients may exhibit a marked difficulty in coping after being in hospital for a few days. The drastic change of environment will often unmask how marginally they have been coping at home. Even young people find the change unsettling.  Though we have thought that this decrement in function after - say - anaesthesia and surgery for a fractured hip (a common event in the elderly) was due to anaesthesia there is good evidence that the change of situation is much more important. Some hospitals have tried a 'rapid transit' system for hip fractures, aiming to have the patient back at home within 24 hours of admission. The selection of the anaesthetic has no effect on the ability to discharge these patients early.  Anaesthetists who work with the elderly (which is almost all of us) generally take care to tailor the choice and dose of drugs used to the individual patient. Even so, there is some evidence that full mental recovery may take a surprisingly long time to return. This is the sort of thing which is detected by setting quite difficult tasks, not the gross change that the original poster noted.  Haloperidol (Haldol TM) is a long acting drug. The plasma half life of the drug is up to 35 hours. If the decanoate (a sort of slow release formulation) is used it may be weeks. The elderly are sensitive to haloperidol for a number of reasons. Without knowing more it is hard to comment.
Sci med people:   Can I sell my TENS unit or does it have to be sold by a physician or other liscened person?
In article <19621.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:  >If you want to throw around names, Drs. Donald Calne, Terry Elizan, >and Jesse Cedarbaum don't recommend selegiline (not to mention Dr. >William Landau). >  Gosh, Jesse is that famous now?  He was my intern.  Landau not liking it makes me like it out of spite.  (Just kidding, Bill).    --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <19613@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: > In article <1993Apr7.221357.12533@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> brenner@ldgo.columbia.edu (carl brenner) writes: > >> see the ulterior motive here.  It is easy for me to see it the > >> those physicians who call everything lyme and treat everything. > >> There is a lot of money involved. > > > >	You keep bringing this up. But I don't understand what's in it > >financially for the physician to go ahead and treat. Unless the physician > >has an investment in (or is involved in some kickback scheme with) the > >home infusion company, where is the financial gain for the doctor? >  > Well, let me put it this way, based on my own experience.  A > general practitioner with no training in infectious diseases, > by establishing links to the "Lyme community", treating patients > who come to him wondering about lyme or having decided they > have lyme as if they did, saying that diseases such as MS > are probably spirochetal, if not Lyme, giving talks at meetings > of users groups, validating the feelings of even delusional > patients, etc.  This GP can go from being a run-of-the-mill > $100K/yr GP to someone with lots of patients in the hospital > and getting expensive infusions that need monitoring in his > office, and making lots of bread.  Also getting the adulation > of many who believe his is their only hope (if not of cure, > then of control) and seeing his name in publications put out > by support groups, etc.  This is a definite temptation.  	Harumph. Getting published in these newsletters is hardly something to aspire to. :-) 	I can't really argue with your logic, though I think you may be extrapolating a bit recklessly from what appears to be a sample size of one. Even if what you say about this local Pittsburgh guy is true, it is not logical or fair to conclude that this is true of all doctors who treat Lyme disease. 	By your logic, I could conclude that all of the physicians who consult for insurance companies and make money by denying benefits to Lyme patients are doing it for the money, rather than because they believe they are encouraging good medicine. I have no idea how sincere these guys are, but their motives are as suspect as the physicians you excoriate for what you believe to be indiscriminate treatment. 	I would really feel more comfortable discussing the medical issues in Lyme, rather than speculating as to the motives of the various parties involved.  > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and > geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."  > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
A friend of mine has been diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis, as a result of trauma sustained in a car accident several years ago.  The psoriasis is under control but the arthritis part of the illness is not.  Ansaid (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory) worked pretty well for three years but isn't helping much now.  My friend is now taking Meclomen (another NSAID) but this isn't helping control the pain at all.  In the past two months my friend has also started taking Azulfadine along with the NSAID medicines, but the effects of the combined drugs aren't supposed to be realized for several months.  As a result of the pain, my friend is having problems sleeping.  Staying in one position too long is an ordeal.  Another major contributor to pain is that tendonitis has now developed (left thumb and hand with numbness at the base of the palm; bottom of feet; shoulders and outer thighs).  The tendonitis is quite painful yet my friend's doctor has not recommended any form of treatment to relieve it.  The latest twist is that the doctor has dropped the anti-inflammatories and is now recommending Prednisone.  The hope is that the Prednisone will relieve some of the pain from the tendonitis.  My friend is a 41 year old male who feels like he's 80 (his words, not mine).   If anyone is aware of any new treatments for Psoriatic Arthritis, alternative courses of action, support groups or literature on it, I would be extremely grateful if you could e-mail to me.  If anyone is interested, I'll post a summary to this newsgroup.
Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks  associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens  are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function  of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of  the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish  to know more. Thanks.
Hi all,  My skin is very dry in general. But the most serious part is located from knees down. The skin there looks like segmented. The segmentation actually happens beneath the skin. I would like to know if there is any cure for this.  At the supermarkets or pharmacies, there are quite a lot of stuffs for dry skins, but what to chose?  Thanks in advance for all advices and hints.  Reply by email preferred.
In article <1993Apr18.175802.28548@clpd.kodak.com> Rich Young, young@serum.kodak.com writes:  Stuff deleted  >	 ... have to >	 consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a >	 time."  I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions. No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.
Gordon Banks (geb@cs.pitt.edu) wrote: : In article <3794@nlsun1.oracle.nl> rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch) writes: : > : >: From a business point of view, it might make sense.  It depends on : >: the personality of the practitioner.  If he can charm the patients : >: into coming, homeopathy can be very profitable.  It won't be covered : >: by insurance, however.  Just keep that in mind.  Myself, I'd have  : >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : > : >In many European countries Homepathy is accepted as a method of curing : >(or at least alleiating) many conditions to which modern medicine has  : >no answer. In most of these countries insurance pays for the  : >treatments. : >  : Accepted by whom?  Not by scientists.  There are people : in every country who waste time and money on quackery. : In Britain and Scandanavia, where I have worked, it was not paid for. : What are "most of these countries?"  I don't believe you.  In Holland insurences pay for Homeopathic treatment. In Germany they do so as well. I Austria they do if you have a condition which can not be  helped by "normal" medicine (happened to me). Switzerland seems to be  the same as Austria (I have direct experience in the Swiss case).  At the Univeristy of Vienna (I believe Innsbruck as well) homeopathy can be taken in Med. school.  I found that in combination with Acupuncture it changed my life from living hell to a condition which enables me to lead a relatively  normal life. I found that modern medicine was powerless to cure me of a *severe* case of Neurodermitis (Note: I mean cure, not  surpress the symptoms, which is what modern medicine attempts to  do in the case of Neurodermitis).   I'm not saying that Homeopathy is scientific, but that it can offer  help in areas in which modern medicine is absolutely helpless.  From reading your aritcle it seems that your have some deeply rooted beliefs about this issue (this is not intended to be offensive or  sarcastic - it just sounded like that to me) which makes me doubt  if you can read this with an open mind. If you do/can, please excuse my last comment.
My wife has requested that I poll the Sages of Usenet to see what is known about the use of chromium in weight-control diet suppliments. She has seen multiple products advertising it and would like any kind real information.  My first impulse was "Yuck! a metal!" but I have zero data on it.  What do you know?
I've seen people in their forties and fifties become disoriented and demented during hospital stays. In the examples I've seen, drugs were definitely involved.   My own father turned into a vegetable for a short time while in the hospital. He was fifty-three at the time, and he was on 21 separate medications. The family protested, but the doctors were adamant, telling us that none of the drugs interact. They even took the attitude that, if he was disoriented, they should put him on something else as well! With the help of an MD friend of the family, we had all his medication discontinued. He had a seizure that night, and was put back on one drug. Two days later, he was his old self again. I guess there aren't many medical texts that address the subject of 21-way interactions.  I don't mean this as a cheap shot at the medical profession. It is an aspect of hospitals that is very frightening to me. Docs seem to believe that, because they have close control of you, it's quite all right to take your bodily equilibria into their own hands. That control reduces the chance that the patient will make a mistake, but health care providers can make mistakes too, and mistakes can be deadly under those circumstances.   I grant you that sometimes there's no choice. Nevertheless, I suggest you procure a list of the drugs your grandmother is getting, and discuss it with an independent doc. Her problems may not be the effect of HALDOL at all. HALDOL may have been used validly, or it may have been prescribed because OTHER medication confused her, and because the hospital normally prescribes HALDOL for the confused elderly.  Just my opinion,
In article <1993Apr5.191712.7543@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes: >In <1993Apr03.1.6627@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes: >>Gordon, your experience is valid for many, but not all.  The >>fact that you know a few people who have been overweight and are >>now stable at a lower (normal or just less?) weight does not >>contradict the observation that only 5-10 per cent can maintain >>ideal weight with current technology. > >Actually, the observation is that only 5-10% of those who seek help >from your so-called "diet evangelists" can maintain their weight.  I >happen to agree with Keith Lynch that there are many people who can >and do lose weight on their own, and who are not reflected in the >dismal failure rate that is often quoted. > >Wasn't there a study where a researcher asked a more general population, >perhaps some part of a university community, about weight loss and he/she >found that a much higher percentage had lost and maintained?   In fact Adiposity 101 mentions a similar study (search for "life events" in any recent version of Adiposity 101).  The problem with anecdotal reports about individuals who have lost weight and kept it off is that we don't know what caused the weight gain in the first place.  This is critical because someone who gains weight because of something temporary (drug effect, life event, etc.) may appear successful at dieting when the weight loss was really the result of reversing the temporary condition that caused the weight gain.
Phenylketonuria is a disease in which the body cannot process phenylalanine. It can build up in the blood and cause seizures and neurological damage. An odd side effect is that the urine can be deeply colored, like red wine. People with the condition must avoid Nutrasweet, chocolate, and anything else rich in phenylalanine.
In article <1993Apr15.173902.66278@cc.usu.edu>, slyx0@cc.usu.edu writes: =Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One =slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know =he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized =swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that, =however, because that's not written in their little rule book.  Of course, bee venom isn't a single chemical.  Could be your brother is reacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock in other people.  Similarly, Chinese food isn't just MSG.  There are a lot of other ingredients in it.  Why, when someone eats something with lots of ingredients they don't normally consume, one of which happens to be MSG, do they immediately conclude that any negative reaction is to the MSG?  =I would not be surprised in the least to find out the SOME people have bad =reactions to MSG, including headaches, stomachaches and even vomiting.  I'd be surprised if some of these reactions weren't due to other ingredients. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
calzone@athena.mit.edu wrote: > > >How is it that placebos are legal?  It would seem to me that if, as a patient, >you purchase a drug you've been prescribed and it's just sugar (or whatever), >there's a few legal complications that arise: > >	1.  >If you have been diagnosed with a condition and you aren't given accepted >treatment for it, it seems like intentional medical malpractice.  A placebo is an accepted treatment at times.   >	2. >A placebo should fall, legally, under the label of quackery (why not?)  Why should it?  Placebos are effective under certain circumstances.  That's why they're used.    Actually, I don't know know anyone who has actually gotten a "sugar pill". I don't know how it could be done, since prescription drugs are always labeled, and it's easy enough to find out what's in a pill if you have the name.  It's more common to prescribe a drug which is effective for something, just not for what you have.  Antibiotics for viral infections are the most common such placebo.   >	3. >Getting what you pay for.  (Deceptive "bait and switch" to an extreme...).  False >advertising  (what if McDonalds didn't put 100% pure beef in their hamburgers?)  I'm not sure what you mean by this.  What do you think you're paying for? You're not entitled to a prescription drug just because you pay for a doctor's appointment.    --
msnyder@nmt.edu (Rebecca Snyder) writes:  >Does anyone know how posionous centipedes and millipedes are? If someone >was bitten, how soon would medical treatment be needed, and what would >be liable to happen to the person?  >(Just for clarification - I have NOT been bitten by one of these,  but my >house seems to be infested, and I want to know 'just in case'.)  >Rebecca   	Millipedes, I understand, are vegetarian, and therefore almost certainly will not bite and are not poisonous. Centipedes are carnivorous, and although I don't have any absolute knowledge on this, I would tend to think that you're in no danger from anything but a concerted assault by several million of them.
In article <4159@mdavcr.mda.ca> vida@mdavcr.mda.ca (Vida Morkunas) writes: >I live at sea-level, and am called-upon to travel to high-altitude cities >quite frequently, on business.  The cities in question are at 7000 to 9000 >feet of altitude.  One of them especially is very polluted...  Mexico City, Bogota, La Paz? > >Often I feel faint the first two or three days.  I feel lightheaded, and >my heart seems to pound a lot more than at sea-level.  Also, it is very >dry in these cities, so I will tend to drink a lot of water, and keep >away from dehydrating drinks, such as those containing caffeine or alcohol. >  >Thing is, I still have symptoms.  How can I ensure that my short trips there >(no, I don't usually have a week to acclimatize) are as comfortable as possible? >Is there something else that I could do?