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In article <1rrv7i$7m7@dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM>, george@crayola.East.Sun.COM > >I would like to know anything you folks can tell me regarding Lithium. > >I have a 10 year old son that lives with my ex-wife.  She has been having >difficulty with his behavior and has had him on Ritalin, Tofranil, and now >wants to try Lithuim at the local doctors suggestion.  I would like to >know whatever is important that I should know.  I worry about this sort of >thing and would like pros/cons regarding Lithium therapy. > >I have a booklet from the "Lithium Information Center" based at the >University of Wisconsin, but feel that it is pro-lithium and would be >interested in comments from the "not necessarily PRO" side of the fence. > >I am a concerned father and just wish to be well informed... > I get "antsy" about posts like this. Is the concern more for son or about ex-w ife??? The standard impartial procedure is to ask for a second opinion about son's condition. Then too, is son "acting out" games between divorced parents????
This is generally called phimosis..usually it is due to an inflammation, and ca n be retracted in the physician's offfice rather eaaasily.  One should see a GP , or in complicated cases, a urologist.
Dear news readers,  Is there anyone using sheep models for cardiac research, specifically concerned with arrhythmias, pacing or defibrillation? I would like to hear from you.  Many thanks,  Andrew Mears *************** PLEASE EMAIL ME *************
larry silverberg (ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet) wrote: > Hello out there,  > She suggested we go to a sex counselor, but I really don't want to (just yet).  Interesting.  Does she know you have placed this info request on the net for the world to see?  If not, how do you think she would react if she found out?  Why would you accept the advice of unknown entities rather than a counselor?  > Any suggestions would be appreciated.  See the counselor.
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?
I am interested in finding other Physical Therapy Students on the net...If you are one, or you know anyone could you get into contact with me via email, my address is  gecko@camelot.bradley.edu   				thankyou
I am currently in the throes of a hay fever attack.  SO who certainly never reads Usenet, let alone Sci.med, said quite spontaneously " There are a lot of mushrooms and toadstools out on the lawn at the moment.  Sure that's not your problem?"  Well, who knows?  Or maybe it's the sourdough bread I bake?  After reading learned, semi-learned, possibly ignorant and downright ludicrous stuff in this thread, I am about ready to believe anything :-)  If the hayfever gets any worse, maybe I will cook those toadstools...
If you think you have kidney stones or your doctor tells you that you do, DEFINITELY follow up on it.  My sister was diagnosed with kidney stones 1 1/2 years ago and given medication to take to dissolve them.  After that failed and she continued to be in great pain, they decided she had endometriosis.  When they did exploratory surgery, they discovered she had a tumor, which turned out to be rhabdomyosarcoma -- a very rare  and agressive cancer.  I realize this is not what happens in the majority of cases, but you never know what can happen and shouldn't take chances!
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?
In article <1993Apr26.143101.4307@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes: > >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. >  It is evident you did not read my post carefully. I wasn't trying to tell you not to eat MSG products and produce, nor was I arguing for or against MSG. I was simply questioning the logic of your statement that simply because (a) one is not allergic to something, and (b) likes eating that it follows that one could keep eating whatever it is.  In my post, I had clearly said that I don't know enough about MSG. The statement "don't eat X because its bad" is just _your_  interpretation of nutritional info out there.
In article <enea1-270493135255@enea.apple.com>  enea1@applelink.apple.com (Horace Enea) writes: >Can anyone out there tell me the difference between a "persistent" disease >and a "chronic" one? For example, persistent hepatitis vs chronic >hepatitis.  I don't think there is a general distinction.  Rather, there are two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic active hepatitis and chronic persistent hepatitis.  I can't think of any other disease where the term persistent is used with or in preference to chronic.  Much as these two terms "chronic active" and "chronic persistent" sound fuzzy, the actual distinction between the two conditions is often fairly fuzzy as well.
Actually I am entering vet school next year, but the question is  relevant for med students too.  Memorizing large amounts has never been my strong point academically. Since this is a major portion of medical education -- anatomy,  histology, pathology, pharmacology, are for the most part mass  memorization -- I am a little concerned.  As I am sure most  med students are.  Can anyone suggest techniques for this type of memorization?  I  have had reasonable success with nemonics and memory tricks like thinking up little stories to associate unrelated things.  But I have never applied them to large amounts of "data".  Has anyone had luck with any particular books, memory systems, or cheap software?     Can you suggest any helpful organizational techniques?  Being an older student who returned to school this year, organization (another one of my weak points) has been a major help to my success.  Please no griping about how all you have to do is "learn" the material conceptually.  I have no problem with that, it is one of my strong  points.  But you can't get around the fact that much of medicine is rote memorization.
Hello, a friend is under going kemotherapy(sp?) for breast cancer. I'm trying to learn what I can about it. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
Our 20-month son has started falling sick quite often every since he started going to day care.  He was at home for the first year and he did not fall sick even once.  Now it seems like he has some sort of cold or flu pretty much once a month.  Most of the time the cold leads to an ear infection as well, with the result that he ends up being on antibiotics 3 weeks out of 4.  I know kids in day care fall sick more often, but we are beginning to wonder how often "more often" really is, whether our son is more susceptible or has lower immunity than average, what the longer-term effects of constantly being sick and taking antibiotics are, and what we can do to build up his resistance.  He really enjoys his day care and we think it's great too, but we are beginning to wonder whether we should think about getting a nanny.  Are there any studies that can help answer some of these questions?  -- How often do kids in their first, second and third years fall sick? How often do they get colds, flus, ear infections?  Is there any data on home care vs. day care?  -- Does being sick "build immunity" (leading to less illness later), does it make kids "weaker" (leading to more illness later), or does it not have any long term effect?  -- Does taking antibiotics on a regular basis have any negative long term effects?  -- How does one tell if a child is more susceptible to illness than normal, and what does one do about it?  -- Is there any way to build immunity and resistance?  Any data, information or advice relating to this would be much appreciated.  Thanks a lot.
In article <1993Apr27.043035.22609@etl.go.jp> klaus@ipri.go.jp (Klaus Hofmann;(6663)) writes: :Hello, :I heard that a certain disease (toxoplasmosys?) is transmitted by cats which :can harm the unborn fetus. Does anybody know about it? Is it a problem to  :have a cat in the same apartment? :  Having the cat around is not a problem, but the pregnant woman should not change the litter box.  Toxoplasmosis can be transmitted from the stool of some cats.
Michael Trofimoff (tron@fafnir.la.locus.com) wrote:  : Hi All,  : 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?  : Thanks,  I have a receipe at home that was posted to me by one of our fellow netters about a month ago.  I am recalling this from memory but I think I'm fairly close (by the way it was GREAT!)  1 	pint of plain yogurt  1/2	med. sized cucumber finely shredded 3	cloves of garlic (more or less by taste) 1/4 tsp	dill weed  The yogurt is dumped into a strainer lined with a coffee filter and allowed to drain at least 2 hours (you can adjust the consistancy of the sauce by increasing this time up to 24 hours)  The shredded cuc is drained the same way  Mix it all together and let it steep for at least 2 hours (it's better the next day) and enjoy!
We were talking about Migraine and Exercise (I'm the one who can't fathom the thought of exercise during migraine...).  Anyway, turning the thread around, 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?  Thanks,
In article <noringC5u638.Bvy@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes: >In article dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes: >>In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes: > >Good grief again. > >Why the anger?  I must have really touched a raw nerve. > >Let's see:  I had symptoms that resisted all other treatments.  Sporanox >totally alleviated them within one week.  Hmmm, I must be psychotic.  Yesss! >That's it - my illness was all in my mind.  Thanks Steve for your correct >diagnosis - you must have a lot of experience being out there in trenches, >treating hundreds of patients a week.  Thank you.  I'm forever in your >debt. > >Jon > >(oops, gotta run, the men in white coats are ready to take me away, haha, >to the happy home, where I can go twiddle my thumbs, basket weave, and >moan about my sinuses.)  Ever heard of something called the placebo effect? I think Dyer is reacting because it looks to be yet another case of the same old quackery over and over again.  It true that current medical knowledge is limited, but do you realize just HOW MANY quacks exist eager to suck your $$$$. It's playing the lottery at best.  If the results you got were so clear and obvious, would you mind trying a little experiment to see if it is true? It would be quite simple. Have sugar pills and have real pills.  Take one set for one week and the other set for another week without knowing which ones are the real pills. Then at the end of the 2 weeks compare the results. Let's say you're wife would know which are the real ones. If what you are experiencing is true there should be a marked difference between each week.    john
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Following a series of miscarriages, my wife was given a transfusion of my white cells. (The theory as I understand it is that there is some kind of immune blocking that prevents the body from attacking the pregnancy as it normally would a "foreign" body. Where this blocking is deficient, the body evicts the "intruder", resulting in a miscarriage. The white cells apparently enhance the blocking capability.) Following the transfusion, she successfully carried the next pregnancy to term, and Jake is now an active 9 month-old who cannot wait to walk.      We're now thinking about having another child, but no one (including the OBGYN who supervised the first transfusion) really seems to know whether or not the transfusion process needs to be repeated for successive pregnancies.      Is there anyone in net-land who has experience with this? Thanks...Gene (and Jane and Jake)
I have become involved in a project to further develop and  improve the performance of SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography) imaging.  We will eventually have to peddle this stuff somewhere, and so as I move this thing along, I would like to know --  What is the current resolution of SPECT imaging?  What kinds of jobs is SPECT used for, specifically?  What kind of specific jobs could I hope that SPECT could be used for, if its resolution improved, say, to close to that of PET (Positron Emission Tomography)? And how much does a SPECT machine cost?  How much does a single SPECT image cost?    If anyone knows the answer to any or all of these questions, OR where I could find that answer, I would be very grateful, indeed.   Thanks in advance for any replies
I don't know if anyone knows about this topic: electrical heart  failure. One of my friends has had to go to the doctor because he had chest pains. The Doc said it was Arythmia. So he had to go to a new york hospital for a lot of money to get treated. His doctors said that he could die from it, and the medication caused cancer ( that he was taking). Well, I suggested that he run, excersize and eat more, ( he is very skinny) but he says that has nothing to do with it. Does anyone know what causes arythmia and how  it can be treated? 			Thanks
In article <1993Apr28.173600.21703@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> ame_0123@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Terrance J. Dishongh) writes: >Greeting > >I am starting work on a project where I am trying to make strain gages >bond to bone in vivo or a period of several months.  I am currently >using hydroxyapaptite back gages, and I have tried M-bonding the gages >to the bone.  Apart from those two application methods there doesn't >seem to be much else in the literature.  I have only an engineering  >background not medical or biological.  I would be interest in any >ideas about how to stimulte bone growth on the surface of cortical bone. > >Thanks for oyur help in Advance. > >Terrance J Dishongh >ame_0123@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu  Terrance,    There is a good article entitled:  "A long-term in vivo bone strain measurement device,"  Journal of Investigative Surgery 1989; 2(2): 195-206 by Szivek JA & Magee FP.   I think you can find some others by searching MedLine.
-*----- In article <735157066.AA00449@calcom.socal.com> Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince) writes: > Is there an effect where the doctor believes so strongly in a  > medicine that he/she sees improvement where the is none or sees  > more improvement than there is?  If so, what is this effect  > called?  Is there a reverse of the above effect where the doctor  > doesn't believe in a medicine and then sees less improvement than  > there is?  What would this effect be called?  Have these effects  > ever been studied?  How common are these effects?  Thank you in  > advance for all replies.   These effects are a very real concern in conducting studies of new treatments.  Researchers try to limit this kind of effect by  performing studies that are "blind" in various ways.  Some of these are:    o  The subjects of the study do not know whether they receive a       placebo or the test treatment, i.e., whether they are in the      control group or the test group.    o  Those administering the treatment do not know which subjects       receive a placebo or the test treatment.    o  Those evaluating individual results do not know which subjects      receive a placebo or the test treatment.  Obviously, at the point at which the data is analyzed, one has to  differentiate the test group from the control group.  But the analysis is quasi-public: the researcher describes it and presents the data on which it is based so that others can verify it.    It is worth noting that in biological studies where the subjects are animals, such as mice, there were many cases of skewed results because those who performed the study did not "blind" themselves.  It is not considered so important to make mice more ignorant than they already are, though it is important that in all respects except the one tested, the control and test groups are treated alike.
A student told me today that she has been diagnosed with kidney stones, a cyst on one kidney, and a kidney infection.  She was upset because her condition had been misdiagnosed since last fall, and she has been ill all this time.  During her most recent doctor's appointment at her parents' HMO clinic, she said that about FORTY! x-rays were made of her kidney. When she asked why so many x-rays were being made, she was told by a technician that they need to see the area from different views, but she says that about five x-rays were made from EACH angle.  She couldn't help feeling that something must be wrong with the procedure or something.  She is a pre-med student and feels she could have understood what was happening if someone would have explained.  When nobody would, she got worried. 	Also, she is told that thre are 300! surgery patients ahead of her and that they cannot do surgery until August or so.  It is now April... She is supposed to rest a lot and drink fluids.  But she has to go to classes.  She wonders why they have given her no medicine.  She plans to call back her doctor's office / clinic and try to get answers to these questions.  But I told her I would also write in to sci.med and see what I could find out about why there were so many x-rays and whether it seems o.k. to wait in line 3 or more months for surgery for something like this or whether she should be looking elsewhere for her care.  She does plan to get a second opinion, too.   	I will pass info on to her.  It never hurts to get information from more than one source.    You can e-mail me or post.  Thanks.
In article <1993Apr27.180334@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>, ohandley@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote: >  > [summarized] A person with a Schatzki's ring (a membrane partially blocking the  espphagus) has worsening dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) and the  doctor proposes dilation by balloow or bougie (using an inflatable balloon to rupture the ring or a rubber hose to push through it.    Question: is balloon dilation safe, common, and indicated?  It sounds pretty invasive. > [end summary]  Yes, this is a common and safe procedure.  The majority of Schatzki's rings described by x-ray, however, wnd up being due to inflammation instead of the congenital Schatzki's ring.  Occassionally a cancer masquerades as a ring.  You should have the endoscopy to see if it is due to the heartburn, and if so, you will need treatment for the heartburn ong term.  The balloon dilation is an alternative to cutting open your chest and cutting out a section of the esophagus, so dilation is not at all invasive, considering the alternative.     > The second issue: [summarized]  He has had extra heartbeats for the past 3 to 4 years, and once was symptomatic from them, with some lightheadedness. He is young, (30-ish), thin and in good > health (recent bloodtests were all normal), and do not smoke, use drugs or > caffeine, etc. I'm willing to accept the extra beats as "normal", but don't > want to ignore them if they might be some kind of warning symptom. The number > of PVC's seems to increase throughout the day, and with exercise (or something > as simple as climbing some stairs). Also, if I get up after sitting or lying > down for a while, I tend to get a couple of extra beats. Could they possibly > be related to the esophagous problems? Both seemed to develop at about the > same time.  I' not an expert on heart problems, but PVC's are common and have been overtreated in the past.  My personal experience, and I have the same  history an build you do (related to the heart, that is), is that my PVC's come and go, with some months causing anxiety.  Taking on more fluids seems to help, and they seem worse in the summer.  Remember that a slow  heart rate will allow more PVC's to be apparent, so perhaps it is an  indication of a healthy cardiac system (but ask an expert about that last point, especially)  Good luck, hope we don't die of arrhythmias.  (God, what a happy thought)
The following is based on copies I was given of some articles published in Hearing Instruments. I would appreciate any comments about this and other 'new' technology for hearing aids.  The ReSound system was developed on the basis of some research at AT&T and appears to take a different approach from other aids. It appears to me that a new 'programmable' aid like the Widex just uses a more flexible (and programmable) version of the classical approach of amplifying some parts of the spectrum more than others and adding some compression to try and help out in 'noisy' situations.  The major difference in the ReSound approach is that it divides the spectrum into low and high frequencies (splitting point is programmable), apparently based on the fact that lots of vowel information can be found in the low frequencies, while the important consonant information (unfortunately for me) is in the high frequencies. The two bands then are treated with different compression schemes which are programable. They have also developed a new fitting algorythm that builds on what they call 'abnormal growth of loudness'.  This latter is interesting and fits my own personal experience, though I think the phrase is missleading. What appears to be the case is that as you exceed the minimum threshold for a person with hearing loss, the deficit becomes progresslively less compared to normals and by the time you reach the 'too loud' point the sensitivity curves appear to converge.  This means that if you just boost all sound levels, you are overloading at the high end for people with hearing losses. Hence what you want is progressively less amplification as the signal get closer to the maximum tolerable point. You want to boost low volume sounds more than high and do so potentially differently for the low and high frequency parts of the spectrum (specially for someone like me who is relatively normal up to 1000 cps and then falls off a cliff).  Aids with simple compressors don't descriminate between energy in the low and high frequencies and can therefor 'compress' useful high frequency information because of high volume of low frequency components. Particularly impressive was the ReSound performance with whispered speech and in simulated restaurant noise situations.