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In article <C4IHM2.Gs9@watson.ibm.com> clarke@watson.ibm.com (Ed Clarke) writes: >|> |It's not an eyepiece.  It is called a head mirror.  All doctors never > >A speculum?  The speculum is the little cone that fits on the end of the otoscope. There are also vaginal specula that females and gynecologists are all too familiar with. --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <C4nzn6.Mzx@crdnns.crd.ge.com> brooksby@brigham.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Glen W Brooksby) writes: >This past weekend a friend of mine lost his 13 month old >daughter in a matter of hours to a form of menangitis.  The >person informing me called it 'Nicereal Meningicocis' (sp?). >In retrospect, the disease struck her probably sometime on  >Friday evening and she passed away about 2:30pm on Saturday. >The symptoms seemed to be a rash that started small and >then began progressing rapidly. She began turning blue >eventually which was the tip-off that this was serious >but by that time it was too late (this is all second hand info.). > >My question is: >Is this an unusual form of Menangitis?  How is it transmitted? >How does it work (ie. how does it kill so quickly)? >  No, the neiseria meningococcus is one of the most common forms of meningitis.  It's the one that sometimes sweeps schools or boot camp.  It is contagious and kills by attacking the covering of the brain, causing the blood vessels to thrombose and the brain to swell up.  It is very treatable if caught in time.  There isn't much time, however.  The rash is the tip off.  Infants are very susceptible to dying from bacterial meningitis.  Any infant with a fever who becomes stiff or lethargic needs to be rushed to a hospital where a spinal tap will show if they have meningitis.  Seizures can also occur.  >Immediate family members were told to take some kind of medication >to prevent them from being carriers, yet they didn't have >any concerns about my wife and I coming to visit them. >  It can live in the throat of carriers.  Don't worry, you won't get  it from them, especially if they took the medication.  --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
David Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu) wrote: : [reply to ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)] :   : >While you're right that the S vertebrae are attached to each other, : >the sacrum, to my knowledge, *can* be adjusted either directly, or : >by applying pressure on the pubic bone... :   : Ron, you're an endless source of misinformation!  There ARE no sacral : vertebrae.  There is a bone called the sacrum at the end of the spine. : It is a single, solid bone except in a few patients who have a : lumbarized S1 as a normal variant.  How do you adjust a solid bone, : break it?  No, don't tell me, I don't want to know. :   Oh come now, surely you know he only meant to measure the flow of electromagnetic energy about the sacrum and then adjust these flows with a crystal of chromium applied to the right great toe.  Don't you know anything?
In article <1993Apr20.173019.11903@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes: > >As for how foods taste:  If I'm not allergic to MSG and I like >the taste of it, why shouldn't I use it?  Saying I shouldn't use >it is like saying I shouldn't eat spicy food because my neighbor >has an ulcer.  Julie, it doesn't necessarily follow that you should use it (MSG or something else for that matter) simply because you are not allergic to it. For example you might not be allergic to (animal) fats, and like their taste, yet it doesn't follow that you should be using them (regularly). MSG might have other bad (or good, I am not up on  knowledge of MSG) effects on your body in the long run, maybe that's reason enough not to use it.   Altho' your example of the ulcer is funny, it isn't an appropriate comparison at all.
alex@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Alexander P. Zijdenbos) writes:  >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.  	Accepted by whom?  People who think digital watches are a  	real good idea?  That 60 channels of television is 10x better  	than 6 channels of television?    >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.  	You're right.  Keep an open mind to the following:  	1. Taco flavored donuts. 	2. Cannibalism.  Good way to get that extra protein in the diet. 	3. Belief in Yawanga, armadillo god of parking meters.
In article <93088.112203JER4@psuvm.psu.edu> JER4@psuvm.psu.edu (John E. Rodway) writes: >Any comments on the use of the drug Parlodel for high prolactin in the blood? >  It can suppress secretion of prolactin.  Is useful in cases of galactorrhea. Some adenomas of the pituitary secret too much.  --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
: gary.schuetter (garyws@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:  : : 	 : :         Hello,  : :         Just one quick question: : :         My father has had a back problem for a long time and doctors : :         have diagnosed an operation is needed. Since he lives down in : :         Mexico, he wants to know if there is a hospital anywhere in : :         the United States particulary famous for this kind of surgery, : :         kind of like Houston has a reputation for excellent doctors : :         in eye surgery. Any additional info or pointers will be : :         appreciated a whole lot!...  : There is one hospital that is here in New York City that is famous for its : orthopedists, namely the Hospital for Special Surgery. They are located on : the upper east side of manhattan. If you want their address and phone let : me know, i'll get them, i dont know them off hand.  for those who are interested the hospitals i was referring to are:   The Hospital for Special Surgery 535 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 212-606-1555 (Physician Referral Service & info)   The Hospital for Joint Diseases 301 East 17th Street New York, NY 10003 212-598-7600
I'd dump him.  Rude is rude and it seems he enjoys belittling and humiliating you.  But don't just dump him, write to him and tell him why you are firing him.  If you can, think about sending a copy of your letter to whoever is in charge of the clinic where he works,  if applicable, or maybe even to the AMA.  Don't be vindictive in your letter, be truthful but VERY firm.  But don't be a victim and just put up with it.  Take control!  It'll make you feel great!  Nancy M.
In article <1993Apr16.194316.25522@ohsu.edu> tong@ohsu.edu (Gong Tong) writes: >In article <1993Apr16.155123.447@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes: >> >>For cites on MSG, look up almost anything by John W. Olney, a >>toxicologist who has studied the effects of MSG on the brain and on >>development.  It is undisputed in the literature that MSG is an >>excitotoxic food additive, and that its major constituent, glutamate >>is essentially the premierie neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain >>(humans included).  Too much in the diet, and the system gets thrown >>off.  Glutamate and aspartate, also an excitotoxin are necessary in >>small amounts, and are freely available in many foods, but the amounts >>added by industry are far above the amounts that would normally be >>encountered in a ny single food.  By eating lots of junk food, >>packaged soups, and diet soft drinks, it is possible to jack your >>blood levels so high, that anyone with a sensitivity to these >>compounds will suffer numerous *real* physi9logical effects.  >>Read Olney's review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his* >>sources. They are impecable. There is no dispute. >> >>                    --Dianne Murray    wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca > >In order to excitotoxin effects of MSG, MSG that in blood must go through  >blood-brain barrier that I am not sure MSG can go through or not.  Elevated levels of Glu and Asp in the blood are able to bypass the Blood-brain barrier through the circumventricular organs (or CVO), in particular the adeno and neurohypophysis (pituitary gland) areas.  The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, and the median eminence regions are particularly effected.  CVO areas are not subject to the blood-brain barrier. These areas control the release of gonadotropin, which controls the release and flux of steroids governing development, especially sexual development. Changes in adult rats, which are less sensitive to Glu than humans, have been observed: after ingesting Glu, on a chronic basis, cycles of several steroids are disrupted. Blood levels of somatostatin are significantly reduced, and cyclic release of steroids becomes flattened.
Heat shock proteins are those whose expression is induced in response to elevated temperature.  Some are also made when organisms are subjected to other stress conditions, e.g. high salt.  They have no obvious connection to what happens when you burn proteins.
In article <1rhb0e$9ks@europa.eng.gtefsd.com>, draper@gnd1.wtp.gtefsd.com (PAM DRAPER) says: > >This homeopathic remedies.  I tried the dander one for a month. 15 drops >three times a day.  I didn't notice any change whats so ever.  How long >were you using the drops before you noticed a difference? > It is NOT a homeopathic remedy. Improvement began in a few months. I am allergic to bermuda grass and if anyone nearby was mowing a lawn my nose would start to run.  Now I can walk right by and it doesn't bother me at all.  The same success with desert ragweed.
> UNLESS I plan on getting sick - I won't eat the stuff without my > Seldane.  And did I ever learn to read labels.  > - it might not please a medical researcher - but it pleased my own > personal physician enough for him to give me allergy medicine    -Allergy medicine, huh?  Is this just to get rid of the resultant migraine or whatever, or does it actually suppress allergic reactions? (i.e. like an antihistamine does?)  As far as doctors over here are concerned, if you slip up and eat something you're allergic to (even if they won't test you to tell you what to avoid) then tough; if a _cheap_ medicine will alleviate your symptoms, then fine, otherwise you just suffer.  One doctor did prescribe me imigran (costs the NHS #48 for 6 tablets) after having to rehydrate me because I'd been throwing up for four solid days and couldn't even drink water - but I got taken off it again when I moved and had to change doctors.  Reasoning: they did not know what the side-effects were because it was new.  OK, fine - but it has passed the safety tests to get on the prescription list, and anyway I was prepared to take the risk to have quality of life now.  The only alternatives I have is to get it prescribed privately, which I cannot afford, or to pay a private allergy specialist to test me and tell me what to avoid.  I am fairly certain I am allergic to more than one chemical additive, as a lot of things I can't eat have nothing in common except things I know are safe, so testing myself isn't really an option; there are too many permutations.  > I'm not saying I NEVER consume ANYTHING with MSG.  I've noticed that I > have a certain tolerance level - like a (small) bag of bbq chips once > a month or so it not a problem - but that same bag of chips will > bother me if I also had chicken bouillon yesterday and lunch at one of > the Chinese restaurants the day before.
In article <1qnns0$4l3@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes: >The mass of anectdotal evidence, combined with the lack of >a properly constructed scientific experiment disproving >the hypothesis, makes the MSG reaction hypothesis the >most likely explanation for events.  You forgot the smiley-face.  I can't believe this is what they turn out at Berkeley.  Tell me you're an aberration.
In article <1993Mar27.142431.25188@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes: >In article <1ov4toINNh0h@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes: > >On the other hand, we do a good job of implying that the person who >weighs 400lbs is "overeating" when in fact, the body probably doesn't >make any moral judgements about its composition.  Conceivably, the  >body works just as hard maintaining its weight at 400 as someone else's >does at 200. >  Undoubtedly it does, to maintain such a weight.  And it does so primarily by overeating.  If it didn't, the weight would drop back to normal.   --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <19600@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: > Keith is the only person I have ever heard of that keeps the weight > off without any conscious effort to control eating behavior.  ... most > of us have to diet a lot to keep from going back to morbid obesity.  I attribute my success to several factors:  Very low fat.  Except when someone else has cooked a meal for me, I only eat fruit, vegetables, and whole grain or bran cereals.  I estimate I only get about 5 to 10 percent of my calories from fat.  Very little sugar or salt.  Very high fiber.  Most Americans get about 10 grams.  25 to 35 are recommended.  I get between 50 and 150.  Sometimes 200.  (I've heard of people taking fiber pills.  It seems unlikely that pills can contain enough fiber to make a difference.  It would be about as likely as someone getting fat by popping fat pills.  Tablets are just too small, unless you snarf down hundreds of them daily.)  My "clean your plate" conditioning works *for* me.  Eating the last 10% takes half my eating time, and gives satiety a chance to catch up, so I don't still feel hungry and go start eating something else.  I don't eat when I'm not hungry (unless I'm sure I'll get hungry shortly, and eating won't be practical then).  I bike to work, 22 miles a day, year round.  Fast.  I also bike to stores, movies, and everywhere else, as I've never owned a car. I estimate this burns about 1000 calories a day.  It also helps build and maintain muscle mass, prevent insulin resistance (diabetes runs in my family), and increase my metabolism.  (Even so, my metabolism is so low that when I'm at rest I'm most comfortable with a temperature in the 90s (F), and usually wear a sweater if it drops to 80.)  Cycling also motivates me to avoid every excess ounce.  (Cyclists routinely pay a premium for cycling products that weigh slightly less than others.  But it's easier and cheaper to trim weight from the rider than from the vehicle.)  There's no question in my mind that my metabolism is radically different from that of most people who have never been fat.  Fortunately, it isn't different in a way that precludes excellent health.  Obviously, I can't swear that every obese person who does what I've done will have the success I did.  But I've never yet heard of one who did try it and didn't succeed.  > I think all of us cycle.  One's success depends on how large the > fluctuations in the cycle are.  Some people can cycle only 5 pounds.  I'm sure everyone's weight cycles, whether or not they've ever been fat. I usually eat extremely little salt.  When I do eat something salty, my weight can increase overnight by as much as ten pounds.  It comes off again over a week or two. --  Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com
In article <1qk4qqINNgvs@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>, turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes: |> -*----- |> 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.  |>  |> I think the question is: What is extra-scientific about this?   |>  |> It has been a long time since anyone has proposed restrictions on |> where one comes up with ideas in order for them to be considered |> legitimate hypotheses.  The point, in short, is this: hypotheses and |> speculation in science may come from wild flights of fancy,  |> daydreams, ancient traditions, modern quackery, or anywhere else. |>  |> Russell |>   Yes, but typically they *don't*.  Not every wild flight of fancy serves (or can serve) in the appropriate relation to a hypothesis.  It is somewhat interesting that when anyone is challanged to provide an example of this sort the *only* one they come up with is the one about Kekule.  Surely, there must be others.  But apparently this is regarded as an *extreme* example of a "non-rational" process in science whereby a successful hypothesis was proposed.  But how non-rational is it?  Of course we can't hope (currently at least) to explain how or why Kekule had the daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails. Surely it wasn't the *only* daydream he had.  What was special about *this* one?  Could it have had something to do with a perceived *analogy* between the geometry of the snakes and problems concerning geometry of molecules?  Is such analogical reasoning "extra-scientific"? Or is it rather at the very heart of science (Perice's notion of abduction, the use of models within and across disciplines)?  Upon close examination, is there a non-rational mystical leap taking place, or is it perhaps closer to a formal (though often incomplete) analogy or model?
FYI...I just posted this on alt.psychoactives as a response to what the group is for......   A note to the users of alt.psychoactives....  This group was originally a takeoff from sci.med.  The reason for the formation of this group was to discuss prescription psychoactive drugs....such as antidepressents(tri-cyclics, Prozac, Lithium,etc), antipsychotics(Melleral(sp?), etc), OCD drugs(Anafranil, etc), and so on and so forth.  It didn't take long for this group to degenerate into a psudo alt.drugs atmosphere.  That's to bad, for most of the serious folks that wanted to start this group in the first place have left and gone back to sci.med, where you have to cypher through hundreds of unrelated articles to find psychoactive data.  It was also to discuss real-life experiences and side effects of the above mentioned.  Oh well, I had unsubscribed to this group for some time, and I decided to check it today to see if anything had changed....nope....same old nine or ten crap articles that this group was never intended for.  I think it is very hard to have a meaningfull group without it being moderated...too bad.  Oh well, obviously, no one really cares.  Bill Claussen   Would anyone be interested in starting a similar moderated group?
In article <C4HtMw.H3J@olsen.ch> lindy@olsen.ch (Lindy Foster) writes: >I've been treated to many therapies for migraine prophylaxis and treatment, >and it looks like they'll try a few more on me.  I have taken propanolol >(I think it was 10mg 3xdaily) with no relief.  I have just been started   30mg per day of propranolol is a homeopathic dose in migraine.  If you got fatigued at that level, it is unlikely that you will tolerate enough beta blocker to help you.   > >If we go the antidepressant route, what is it likely to be?  How do >antidepressants work in migraine prophylaxis? >  Probably a single nightime dose.  We don't know how they work in migraine, but it probably has something to do with seratonin. --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
To: ashwin@cc.gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram)  AR>Does the "Thermoscan" instrument really work?  It is supposed to give you a  ABSOLUTELY! Ya don't have to do the other end! (it is accurate - but technique is important)  cccbbs!rob.welder@uceng.uc.edu
In article <93Apr5.133521edt.1231@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> craig@cs.toronto.edu (Craig MacDonald) writes: >>  It may be extremely >>common, something like 5% of the population.  It is treatable with >>tricyclic antidepressant-type drugs (Elavil, Pamelor).   > >Why is it treated with antidepressants?  Is it considered a >psychogenic condition?  No.  That these drugs happen to be useful as antidepressants is neither here nor there.
Betty Harvey writes,  > I am not a researcher or a medical person but it amazes me that  > when they can't find a scientific or a known fact they automatically  > assume that the reaction is psychological.  It is mind boggling.  This, simply stated, is a result of the bankrupt ethics in the healthcare and scientific medicine industries.  America is fed up with the massive waste and fraud that is costing us 15% of our GNP to support these industries, while delivering  marginal health care to the community.  Unfortunately, the "Clinton Plan", in whatever form it takes, will probably cost us an even greater sum.  Bleah.
In article <1993Apr19.162502.29802@news.eng.convex.com> cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes: >What causes those little brown spots on older people's hands? Are they >called "liver spots" because they're sort of liver-colored, or do they >indicate some actual liver dysfunction?  Senile keratoses.  Have nothing to do with the liver.   --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <10030@blue.cis.pitt.edu> kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert) writes: >In article <stephen.735806195@mont> stephen@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith) writes: >:When I was a school boy, my biology teacher told us of an incident >:in which a couple were very passionate without actually having >:sexual intercourse.  Somehow the girl became pregnent as sperm >:cells made their way to her through the clothes via persperation. >: >:Was my biology teacher misinforming us, or do such incidents actually >:occur? > >Sounds to me like someone was pulling your leg.  There is only one way for >pregnancy to occur: intercourse.  These days however there is also >artificial insemination and implantation techniques, but we're speaking of >"natural" acts here.  It is possible for pregnancy to occur if semen is >deposited just outside of the vagina (i.e. coitus interruptus), but that's >about at far as you can get.  Through clothes -- no way.  Better go talk >to your biology teacher. > >--  >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >=  Kenneth Gilbert              __|__        University of Pittsburgh   = >=  General Internal Medicine      |      "...dammit, not a programmer!" = >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=   what is the likely hood of conception if sperm is deposited just outside the vagina?  ie.  __% chance.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------