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someone wrote in expressing concern about getting AIDS from acupuncture    needles.....  Unless your friend is sharing fluids with their acupuncturist who                themselves has AIDS..it is unlikely (not impossible) they will get AIDS          from acupuncture needles. Generally, even if accidently inoculated, the normal immune response should be enough to effectively handle the minimal contaminant  involved with acupuncture needle insertion.   Most acupuncturists use disposable needles...use once and throw away. They       do this because you are not the only one concerned about transmission of  diseases via this route...so it's good business to advertise "disposable needlesused here." These needles tend to be of a lower quality however,  being poorly manufactured and too "sharp" in my opinion. They tend to snag bloodvessels on insertion compared to higher quality needles.                                                                         If I choose to use acupuncture for a given complaint, that patient will get  their own set of new needles which are sterilized between treatments.       The risk here for hepatitis, HIV, etc. transmission is that I could mistakenly  use an infected persons needles accidently on the wrong               patient...but clear labelling and paying attention all but eliminates  this risk. Better quality needles tend to "slide" past vessels and             nerves avoiding unpleasant painful snags..and hematomas...so I use them.                         Acupuncture needles come in many lengths and thicknesses...but they are all  solid when compared to their injection-style cousins. In China, herbal solutionsand western pharmaceuticals are occasionally injected into  meridian points purported to have TCM physiologic effects and so require  the same hollow needles used for injecting fluid medicine. This means...thinkingtiny...that a samll amount of tissue, the diameter of the needle bore, will be  injected into the body as it would  be in a typical "shot." when the skin is  puntured. On the other hand when the solid  acupuncture needle is inserted, the skin tends to "squeeze" the needle  from the tip to the level of insertion such that any 'cooties' that  haven't been schmeared away with alcohol before insertion, tend to remain  on the surface of the skin minimizing invasion from the exterior.   Of course in TCM...the body's exterior is protected by the Wei (Protective) Qi..so infection is unlikely....or in other words...there is a normal inflammatory  and immune response that accompanies tissue damage incurred at the puncture  site.   While I'm fairly certain your friend will not have a transferable disease  transmitted to them via acupuncture needle insertion, I would like to know for  what complaint they have consulted the acupuncturist...not to know  if it would be harmful.. but to know if it would be helpful.
[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.
I heard third-hand (not the best form of information) that there was recently published results of a study on Multiple-Personality-Disorder Syndrome patients revealing some interesting clues that the root cause of allergy may have a psychological trigger or basis.  What I heard about this study was that in one 'personality', a MPDS patient exhibited no observable or clinical signs of inhalant allergy (scratch tests were used, according to what I heard), while in other personalities they showed obvious allergy symptoms, including testing a full ++++ on scratch tests for particular inhalants.  If this is true, it is truly fascinating.  But, I'd like to know if this study was ever done, and if so, what the study really showed, and where the study is published.  Any help out there?  Jon Noring  --   Charter Member --->>>  INFJ Club.
I think that's the correct spelling.. 	I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for sale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly appreciated. 	In case you don't know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my knowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic object between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns or spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type of object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.
In article <19387@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: >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.  In fairness, we should note that if you look up "speculum" in the dictionary (which I did when this question first surfaced), the first definition is "a mirror or polished metal plate used as a reflector in optical instruments."  Which doesn't mean the name fits in this context, but it's not as far off as you might think.
Need info on Circumcision, medical cons and pros  In article <C63yG5.8tH@cs.uiuc.edu> Gunnar Blix, blix@milton.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >I need information on the medical (including emotional :-) pros and >cons of circumcision (at birth).  I am especially interested in >references to studies that indicate disadvantages or refute studies >that indicate advantages.  A friend who is a medical student is >writing a survey paper, and apparently the studies she has run into >are all for circumcision, the main argument being a lower risk of >penile cancer. > >Please email responses as I am not a frequent reader of either group. >I will summarize to the net.  I'm very surprised that medical schools still push routine circumcision of newborn males on the population. Since your friend is not a man, she can't imagine what it's like to have a penis, much less a foreskin. I guess if American medicine did an artistic job of circumcising every male, then the visual result would be somewhat more natural in appearance...
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. >  Nobody is saying that you shouldn't be allowed to use msg.  Just don't force it on others. If you have food that you want to  enhance with msg just put the MSG on the table like salt.  It is then the option of the eater to use it.  If you make a commerical product, just leave it out. You can include a packet (like some salt packets) if you desire.  Salt, pepper, mustard, ketchup, pickles ..... are table options. Treat MSG the same way.  I wouldn't shove my condiments down your throat, don't shove yours down mine.  WFL
Does the Bates method work?  I first heard about it in this newsgroup  several years ago, and I have just got hold of a book, "How to improve your sight - simple daily drills in relaxation", by Margaret D. Corbett,  ('Authorized instructor of the Bates method), published in 1953.  It  talks about vision improvement by relaxation and exercise.  Has there been any study on whether this method actually works?  If it works, is it by  actually shortening the previously elongated eyeball, or by increasing  the lens's ability to flatten itself in order to compensate for the  too-long eyeball?  Since myopia is the result of eyeball elongation, seems to me the most logical approach for correction is to find a way to reverse the process, i.e., shorten it somehow (preferably non-surgically).  Has there been any recent studies on this?  Where can I find them?  I know RK works by  changing the curvature of the cornea to compensate for the shape of  eyeball, but if there is a way to train the muscles to shorten the  eyeball back to its correct length that would be even better (Bates's  idea, right?)
ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth) writes:  |JB>  romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff) writes: |JB>   |JB>    Ron Roth recommends: "Once you have your hypoglycemia CONFIRMED through the |JB>                          proper channels, you might consider the following:..." |JB>                          [diet omitted] |JB>   |JB>  1) Ron...what do YOU consider to be "proper channels"...this sounds suspiciously  |  I'm glad it caught your eye. That's the purpose of this forum to | educate those, eager to learn, about the facts of life. That phrase | is used to bridle the frenzy of all the would-be respondents, who | otherwise would feel being left out as the proper authorities to be | consulted on that topic. In short, it means absolutely nothing.
I am a student from San Leandro High school.  I am doing a research project for physics and I would like information on Edward Jenner and the vaccination for small pox.  Any information at all would be greatly apprectiated.  Thank you.
In article <1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) writes:  |> 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.    The funny thing is the personaly stories about reactions to MSG vary so greatly. Some said that their heart beat speeded up with flush face. Some claim their heart "skipped" beats once in a while. Some reacted with headache, some stomach ache. Some had watery eyes or running nose, some had itchy skin or rashes. More serious accusations include respiration  difficulty and brain damage.   Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.
In article <C60KrL.59t@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> oldman@coos.dartmouth.edu (Prakash Das) writes: >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.   Perhaps I should quit eating mushrooms, soya beans, and brie cheese which all have MSG in them.  It occurs naturally.  I'm not going to quit eating something that I like just because it *might* cause me trouble later or causes problems in *some* people.  I would much rather avoid stress by not worrying over what goes in my mouth and not spending every day reading conflicting reports of what is good/bad for you.  I may eat some things in quantities that may not be good for me. Fine.  I've made my decision and I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to try to 'convert' me.  "It's for your own good" are the most obnoxious and harmful words, IMO, in the English (or any other) language.  > >Altho' your example of the ulcer is funny, it isn't an >appropriate comparison at all.  I think it is.  I get tired of people saying 'don't eat X because it's BAD!'  Well, X may not be bad for everyone.  And even if it is, so what?  Give people all the information but don't ram your decisions down their throats.
Does anyone have information about the struggles that Patti Duke went through in her personal life with severe mood swings. Did she have some form of chemical imbalance that triggered these problems?  I recall that she wrote a book about her troubles. Does someone have the title of that book?
If the nose culture shows Staph, then Ceftin or even Ceclor      are better. Suprax does not kill Staph. Treating bacterial      infections involves a lot of try-and-fail because the      infections often involve multiple organisms with many resistant      strains. Some 60% of Hemophilus Influenza strains are now      resistant. What works for me and my organisms may not work      for you and yours. Keep experimenting. 	       Ken Colby
A good source of information on Burzynski's method is in *The Cancer Industry* by pulitzer-prize nominee Ralph Moss. 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). Anyone interested in cancer therapy should contact this organi- zation ASAP:              People Against Cancer                           PO Box 10                           Otho IA 50569-0010 (515)972-4444 FAX (515)972-4415   peace
In article <1993Apr21.155714.1@stsci.edu> mryan@stsci.edu writes: - Am I justified in being pissed off at this doctor? -  - Last Saturday evening my 6 year old son cut his finger badly with a knife. - I took him to a local "Urgent and General Care" clinic at 5:50 pm.  The   	[story deleted]  - be bothered.  My son did get three stitches at the emergency room.  I'm still  - trying to find out who is in charge of that clinic so I can write them a  - letter.   We will certainly never set foot in that clinic again. -   The people in charge already know what kind of 'care' they are  providing, and they don't give a rat's ass about your repeat business.  You are much more likely to do some good writing to local newspapers, and broadcast news shows.  If you do, keep the letter short and to the point so they don't discard it out of hand, and emphasize exactly what you are upset about.  It's possible that the local health department can help you complain to  someone official, but really, that 'clinic' exists for the sole purpose  of generating walk-in income through advertising, and *nothing* you can do  will change them -- all you can hope for is to help someone else avoid them.  I'm glad it sounds like your son did ok, anyway.
In article <1993Apr15.163133.25634@ntmtv> janet@ntmtv.com (Janet Jakstys) writes: >               ... the other day I played tennis during my lunch >hour.  I'm out of tennis shape so it was very intense exercise.  I >got overheated, and dehydrated.  Afterwards, I noticed a tingling >sensation all over my head then about 2 hours later, I could feel >a migraine start.  (I continued to drink water in the afternoon.) >I took cafergot, but it didn't help and the pain started although >it wasn't as intense as it usually is and about 9pm that night, the >pain subsided. > >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?  Hi Janet,  Sounds exactly like mine.  Same circumstance, same onset symptoms,  same cafergot uselessness, same duration.  In fact, of all the people I know who have migraines, none have been so similar.  There is such a wide variation between people with respect to what causes their headaches, that I generally don't bother sharing what I've learned about mine, but since ours seem to be alike, here are my observations.  I don't think it's heat, per se (I've had more in winter than summer). Dehydration could conceivably figure, though.  Try tanking up before playing rather than after.  Being in shape doesn't seem to help me much, either.  I've identified four factors that do make a difference (listed in  descending order of importance):  1) Heavy exercise 2) Sleep deprivation 3) Fasting		(e.g., skipped breakfast) 4) Physical trauma	(e.g., head bonk)  Heavy exercise has preceded all of my post-adolescent migraines, but I  don't get migraines after every heavy exercise session.  One or more of  the other factors *must* be present (usually #2).  Since I discovered  this, I've been nearly migraine-free -- relapsing only once every two  or three years when I get cocky ("It's been so long, maybe I just don't  get them anymore") and stop being careful.  Hope this is helpful.
In article <93108.003258U19250@uicvm.uic.edu> U19250@uicvm.uic.edu writes: :Does anybody know of any information regarding the implementaion of total : quality management, quality control, quality assurance in the delivery of : health care service.  I would appreciate any information.  If there is enough :interest, I will post the responses.   This is in fact a hot topic in medicine these days, and much of the medical literature is devoted to this.  The most heavily funded studies these days are for outcome research, and physicians (and others!) are constantly questionning whether what we do it truly effective in any given situation.  QA activities are a routine part of every hospital's administrative function and are required by accreditation agencies.  There are even entire publications devoted to QA issues.
On 28 Apr 93 20:54:04 GMT joshm@yang.earlham.edu wrote: : In article <1993Apr27.110440.5069@nic.csu.net>, eskagerb@nermal.santarosa.edu (Eric Skagerberg) writes: : > Does anyone know of any studies done on the long-term health effects of a : > man's vasectomy on his female partner? : >  : > ... : I've heard of NO studies, but speculation:  : Why on _earth_ would there be any effect on women's health?  That's about  : the most absurd idea I've heard since Ted Kaldis's claim that no more than  : 35,000 people would march on Washington.  : Ok, _one_ point:  Greatly reduced chance of pregnancy.  But that's it.  : --Josh  Well, there might be another: Since I'm sterile my wife can enjoy sex  without fear of getting pregnant.
In article <8frk1ym00Vp5Apxl1q@andrew.cmu.edu> "Gabriel D. Underwood" <gabe+@CMU.EDU> writes: >I heard a great Civil War story...      A guy on the battlfield is shot >in the groin,   the bullet continues on it's path, and lodges in the >abdomen of a female spectator.    Lo and behold.... > >As the legend goes,   both parents survived,  married,  and raised the child. >
In article <1qk92lINNl55@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:  >In article <C5I2Bo.CG9@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes: >> The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre >> scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology.   >> It depends on the quality of their THINKING.    			....................  >Lee Lady is correct when she asserts that the difference between >Einstein and the average post-doc physicist is the quality of >their thought.  But what is the difference between Einstein and a >genius who would be a great scientist but whose great thoughts >are scientifically screwy?  This example is probably wrong.  There is the case of one famous physicist telling another that he was probably wrong.  As I recall the quote:  	Your ideas are crazy, to be sure.  But they are not crazy 	enough to be right.  The typical screwball is only somewhat screwy.
[reply to dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott)]   >Are there any case histories of severe mental illness cases remarkably >recovering after a tragic accident or trauma (eg. through nobody's fault, >being trapped in a fire and losing your legs, say)?   I know of a patient who was severely and chronically depressed and tried to kill himself with a bullet to the temple.  He essentially gave himself a prefrontal lobotomy, curing the depression.
ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet (larry silverberg) writes: >I have question that I hope is taken seriously, despite the subject content.  >Problem:  My long time girlfriend lately has not been initiating any sexual >	activity.  For the last four months things have changed dramatically. >       ... >	--to make this shorter-- Summary: nothing that I can think of has >				changed.... >       ... >She suggested we go to a sex counselor, but I really don't want to (just yet). >Any suggestions would be appreciated. >If you think you can help me, please contact me by e-mail for further info. >PLEASE serious replies only. >Thanks, Larry  Larry:  The subject content IS serious; as is the question.  On one hand you state that "things have changed dramatically" but, at the same time nothing you "can think of has changed".  Your girlfriend seems to want to see a counselor, but you don't.    I'd recommend that you examine your hesitation to see a counselor.  It's a very good environment to examine issues.    The fact of the matter is:  your girlfriend has a different perception than you.  The TWO of you need to address the issue in order to resolve it.  Please consider going to a counselor with your girlfriend.  What could it possibly hurt?
Ron Roth recommends: "Once you have your hypoglycemia CONFIRMED through the                          proper channels, you might consider ther following:..."                         [diet omitted]  1) Ron...what do YOU consider to be "proper channels"...this sounds suspiciously like a blood chemistry...glucose tolerance and the like...suddenly chemistry  exists? You know perfectly well that this person can be saved needless trouble  and expense with simple muscle testing and hair analysis to diagnose...no "CONFIRM" any aberrant physiology...but then again...maybe that's what you meantby "proper channels."  2) Were you able to understand Dick King's post that "90% of diseases is not thesame thing as 90% of patients" which was a reply to your inability to critically evaluate the statistic you cited from the New England Journal of Medicine. Couldyou figure out what is implied by the remark "Of course MDs are ethically bound to not knowingly dispense placebos..."?  3) Ron...have you ever thought about why you never post in misc.health.alterna- tive...and insist instead upon insinuating your untrained, non-medical, often  delusional notions of health and disease into this forum? I suspect from your apparent anger toward MDs and heteropathic medicine that there may be an underlying 'father problem'...of course I can CONFIRM this by surrogate muscle testing one of my patients while they ponder my theory to see if one of their   previously weak 'indicator' muscles strengthens...or do you have reservations about my unique methods of diagnosis? Oh..I forgot what you said in an earlier post.."neither am I concerned of whether or not my study designs meet your or anyone else's criteria of acceptance."   John Badanes, DC, CA romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu