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In article <C5qMJJ.yB@ampex.com> jag@ampex.com (Rayaz Jagani) writes:  > >From Miranda Castro, _The Complete Homeopathy Handbook_, >ISBN 0-312-06320-2, oringinally published in Britain in 1990. > >From Page 10, >.. and in 1946, when the National Health Service was established, >homeopathy was included as an officially approved method >of treatment.  I was there in 1976.  I suppose it must have died out since 1946, then.  Certainly I never heard of any homeopaths or herbalists in the employ of the NHS.  Perhaps the law codified it but the authorities refused to hire any homeopaths.  A similar law in the US allows chiropractors to practice in VA hospitals but I've never seen one there and I don't know of a single VA that has hired a chiropractor. There are a lot of Britons on the net, so someone should be able to tell us if the NHS provides homeopaths for you.   --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn's disease.  But she can't seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables, without discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence.  Her question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the problems of people with Crohn's disease ?  (I saw the suggestion of lipoxygnase inhibitors like tea and turmeric).
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
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In article <C670zy.DA@utdallas.edu>, kmldorf@utdallas.edu (George Kimeldorf) writes: > In article <badboyC64t0z.FGq@netcom.com> badboy@netcom.com (Jay Keller) writes: >> >>(I've already heard from a couple who said they had it and it didn't >>really help them). >> >>I am a moderately severe asthmatic.  ENT doc says large percentage see some >>relief of their asthma after sinus surgery.  Also he said it is not unheard of >>that migraines go away after chronis sinusitis is relieved. >> >> >> > Did your ENT also tell you that this procedure may remove warts from the soles > of your feet and improve your sex life? >   You probably were trying to be facetious but just for the record partial nasal obstruction is correlated with a number of chronic disorders such as migraine, hyperthyroidism, asthma, peptic ulcer, dysmenorrhea, and lack of libido (:-) ) [Riga IN. Rev d'Oto-Neuro-Ophthalmol 1957;24:325-335], cardiac symptoms [Jackson RT. Annals of Otology 1976;85:65-70  Cvetnic MH, Cvetnic V. Rhinology 1980;18:47-50     Cottle MH. Rhinology 1980;18:67-81], and fever, inadequate oral intake and electrolyte imbalance [Fairbanks DNF. Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 1986;94:412-415).  So before you post your inane comments it would be nice if you'd run a MEDLINE search on the topic say back to 1966. There's been extensive literature on this for over a 100 years.  I may be in cardiology but I've had a very good working relationship with my colleagues from ENT.
In article <1993Apr27.060740.3068@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za> gary@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Gary Taylor) writes: >Could anyone give me information on Umbilical hernias. >The patient is over weight and has a protruding hernia. > >Surgery may be risky due to the obesity. >What other remedies could I try?   Unless the patient has a very short life expectancy, the possible complications from a hernia that hasn't been repaired far outweigh the risks of surgery. The risks of surgery, anyway, are minimal. Unless they are exceedingly large, hernias can be fixed under local anesthesia.  Don't forget that hernias are one the leading causes of small bowel obstruction. And the smaller the hernia is, the higher the chances that a loop of bowel will become incarcerated or strangulated.   ===============================
>In article steward@cup.portal.com (John Joseph Deltuvia) writes: > >>There was a story a few weeks ago on a network news show about some sort >>of fungus which supposedly attacks the bone structure and is somewhat >>widespread in California.  Anybody hear anything about this one? >  The only fungus I know of from California is Coccidiomycosis.  I hadn't heard that it attacked bone.  It attacks lung and if you are especially unlucky, the central nervous system.  Nothing new about it.  It's been around for years.  THey call it "valley fever", since it is found in the inland valleys, not on the coast.   --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
jlecher@pbs.org writes:  >In article <1rmn0c$83v@morrow.stanford.edu>, mou@nova1.stanford.edu (Alex Mou) writes: >> 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. >>   >As a matter of fact, I just saw a dermatologist the other day, and while I  >was there, I asked him about dry skin. I'd been spending a small fortune >on various creams, lotions, and other dry skin treatments. >He said all I needed was a large jar of vaseline. Soak in a lukewarm tub >of water for 10 minutes (ONLY 10 minutes!) then massage in the vaseline, >to trap the moisture in.   That is the standard advice in dermatology texts. The soak part greatly increases the inconvenience.  Don't bother unless it doesn't work otherwise.  >The hard part will be finding the time to rub in the >vaseline properly.   Exactly, but it adds to the "ritual" aspect, which is important for us suggestible patients.  (Posters, don't bother to repeat the  rationale for the soak.)  >If it's not done right, you remain greasy and stick  Greasy no matter what. Vaseline (generically, petrolatum) is  famous for that.  One text states that the more greasy a dry-skin cream is, the more effective.    >Try it. It's got to be cheaper then spending $30 for 8 oz. of 'natural' >lotion.  Try USP lanolin, at least for maintenance (preventive) therapy.  USP lanolin is natural and much less greasy AND cheap (don't buy the more expensive perfumed lanolin mixture).  As I've commented before, petrolatum is a poorly characterized mixture of hydrocarbons which are not found in biological systems (that is not inherently bad, but smell it up close, even on your hand), are partially absorbed into the body and remain there for months or more, and have associations with cancer.  Don't panic, but also don't believe it's God's gift to the human skin.
smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Miller) writes: >Even properly controlled studies (e.g. double blind studies) are almost >useless if you are trying to prove that something does not affect anyone.  -- and --  >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. >  Good grief; has no one ever heard of Biostatistics??  The University of Washington (plus 3 or 4 others [Harvard, UNC]) has a department and advanced degree program in Biostatistics.  My wife has an MS Biostat, and there are plenty of MDs, PhDs, and postdocs doing Biostatistical work. People do this for a living.  Really bright people study for decades to do this sort of study well.  Anecedotal evidence is worthless.  Even doctors who have been using a drug or treatment for years, and who swear it is effective, are often suprised at the results of clinical trials.  Whether or not MSG causes describable, reportable, documentable symptoms should be pretty simple to discover.    The last study on which my wife worked employed 200 nurses, 100 doctors, and a dozen Ph.Ds at one University and at 70 hospitals in five nations.  I would think the MSG question could be settled by one lowly Biostat MS student in a thesis.
Steve Pope (spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu) wrote: : A woman once told me her doctor told her that I : could catch, asymptomatically, her yeast infection : from her, then give it back to her, causing : a relapse.  : Probably bogus, but if not, it's another reason to use : latex...  : Steve  It isn't bogus.  I had chronic vaginal yeast infections that would go away with cream but reappear in about 2 weeks.  I had been on 3 rounds of antibiotics for a resistant sinus infection and my husband had been on amoxicillin also for a sinus infection.  After six months of this, I went to a gynecologist who had me culture my husband seminal fluid.  After 7 days incubation he had quite a bit of yeast growth (it was confirmed by the lab).  A round of Nizerol for him cleared both of us.
In article <1qrsr6$d59@access.digex.net> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes: >In article <lso15qINNkpr@news.bbn.com> sher@bbn.com (Lawrence D. Sher) writes: >> From the N.E.J.Med.  editorial:  "The dicarboxylic amino acid glutamate >> is not only an essential amino acid ... > >Glutamate is not an essential amino acid.  People can survive quite well >without ever eating any.  There is no contradiction here. It is essential in the sense that your body needs it. It is non-essential in the sense that your body can produce enough of it without supplement.
My wife had hives during the first two months of her pregnancy.  My son (3 months old), breast-fed, now has the same symptoms.  She has been to a skin-specialist, but he has merely prescribed various medicines (one each visit as though by trial and error :-))  Anti-histamines worked on both of them, but looks like becoming less effective.  Are there other solutions?  Thanks.
What exactly are knots, those sore, tight spots in your muscles? In certain kinds of massage, people try and break up these knots; it this really helpful?
I have a fairly severe high frequency hearing loss. A recent rough test showed a gently sloping loss to 10-20db down at 1000cps. Then it falls off a cliff to 70-80dbs down from 1500cps on.  This type of loss is difficult to fit. I am currently using some old siemens behind the ear aids which keep me roughly functional, but leave a lot to be desired.  Recently I had an opportunity to test the Widex Q8 behind the ear aids for several weeks. These have four independent programs which are intended to be customized for different hearing situations and can be reprogramed. I found them to be a definite improvement over my current aids and was about to go ahead with them until another local outfit advertised a free trial of another programmable system called ReSound.  Unfortunately I was only able to try the ReSound aids in their office for about 30 minutes and I couldn't compare them 'head to head' with the Widex. Nevertheless, it did appear to me that they were superior and I was impressed by what I was able to read about the theory behind them which I will give in a separate posting. They also carry the Widex aids and had one patient (presumably wealthy) who decided to go ahead and get the ReSound even though he had purchased the Widex only 6 months ago.  The problem is that the ReSound aids are about twice as expensive as the Widex and other programmable aids. I could take a trip to Europe on the difference!  Being a lover of bargains and hating to spend money, I am having a hard time persuading myself to go with the ReSounds. I would appreciate any opinions on this and other hearing aids and projections about when and if I might see improvements in technology that aren't quite so expensive.
In article <19382@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: >In article <werner-240393161954@tol7mac15.soe.berkeley.edu> werner@soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner) writes: >>In article <19213@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) wrote: >>>  >>> Explain.  I thought there were 3 types of cones, equivalent to RGB. >> >>You're basically right, but I think there are just 2 types.  One is >>sensitive to red and green, and the other is sensitive to blue and yellow.  >>This is why the two most common kinds of color-blindness are red-green and >>blue-yellow. >> > >Yes, I remember that now.  Well, in that case, the cones are indeed >color sensitive, contrary to what the original respondent had claimed.   	I'm not sure who the "original respondent" was but to reiterate cones respond to particular portions of the spectrum, just as _rods_ respond to certain parts of the visible spectrum (bluegreen in our case, reddish in certain amphibia), just as the hoseshoe crab _Limulus polyphemus_ photoreceptors respond to a certain portion of the spectrum etc.  It is a common misconception to confound wavelength specificity with being color sensitive, however the two are not synonymous. 	So in sum and to beat a dead horse: 	(1) When the outputs of a cone are matched for number of absorbed photons _irrespective_ of the absorbed photons wavelength, the cone outputs are _indistinguishable_. 	(2) Cones are simply detectors with different spectral sensitivities and are not any more "color sensitive" than are rods, ommatidia or other photoreceptors. 	(3) Color vision arises because outputs of receptors which sample different parts of the spectrum (cones in this case) are "processed centrally".  (The handwave is intentional)  	I've worked and published research on rods and cones for over 10 years so the adherence to the belief that cones can "detect color" is frustrating.  But don't take my word for it.  I'm reposting a few excellent articles together with two rather good but oldish color vision texts.  The texts: Robert Boynton (1979) _Human Color Vision_ Holt, Rhiehart and Winston  Leo M. Hurvich (1981) _Color Vision_, Sinauer Associates.   The original articles: Baylor and Hodgkin (1973) Detection and resolution of visual stimuli by turtle phoreceptors, _J. Physiol._ 234 pp163-198.  Baylor Lamb and Yau (1978) Reponses of retinal rods to single photons. _J. Physiol._ 288 pp613-634.  Schnapf et al. (1990) Visual transduction in cones of the monkey _Macaca fascicularis_. J. Physiol. 427 pp681-713.  --  Edwin Barkdoll barkdoll@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu eb3@world.std.com
Hi Stephen Ear wax is a healthy way to help prevent ear infections, both by preventing a barrier and also with some antibiotic properties.  Too much can block the external auditory canal (the hole in the outside of the ear) and cause some  hearing problems.  It is very simple, and safe, to remove excess wax on your own, or at your physician's office.  You can take a syringe (no needles!) and fill it with 50% warm water (cold can cause fainting) and 50% OTC hydrogen peroxide.  Then point the ear towards the ceiling ( about 45 degrees up) and insert the tip of the syringe (helps to have someone else do this!) and   firmly expell the solution.  Depending on the size of the syringe and the tenacity of the wax, this could take several rinses.  If you place a bowl  under the ear to catch the water, it will be much drier :-).  You can buy a syringe with a special tip at your local pharmacy, or just use whatever you may have.  If wax is old, it will be harder, and darker.  You can try adding a few drops of olive oil into the ear during a shower to soften up the wax.  Do this for a couple days, then try syringing again.  It is also safe to point your ear up at the shower head, and allow the water to rinse it out. Good Luck -heather
In article <1qi2h1INNr3o@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison) writes: |>  |> Two different Tuesdays (two weeks apart we used the same day of the |> week just for consistancies sake) we ordered food from the local  |> Chinese take out - same exact food except ONE of the days we had them |> hold the MSG.  I did not know which time the food was ordered without |> the MSG but one time I had the reaction and one time I did not.   |>  |> NOW - you can TRY to tell me that it wasn't "scientific" enough and |> that I have not PROVEN beyond the shadow of a doubt that I have a |> reaction to MSG - but it was proof enough for ME and I'll have you |> know that I do NOT wish to get sick from eating food thank you very |> much.   |>  If you could not tell which one had MSG, why restaurants bother to use it at all?   If you can taste the difference, psychological reaction might play a role.  The fact is, MSG is part of natural substance. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE, consumes certain amount of MSG every day through regular diet without the synthesized MSG additive.  Chinese, and many other Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) have used MSG as flavor enhancer for two thousand years. Do you believe that they knew how to make MSG from chemical processes? Not. They just extracted it from natural food such sea food and meat broth.  Baring MSG is just like baring sugar which many people react to.
In article <19604@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: |In article <1993Apr6.165840.5703@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes: |>     The biggest reason why the cost of medical care is so EXTREMELY high and |>increasing is that NATURAL methods of treatment and even diagnosis are still |>being SYSTEMATICALLY IGNORED and SUPPRESSED by the MONEY-GRUBBING and POWER- |>MONGERING "medical" establishment.  |That's not the half of it.  Did you realize that all medical doctors have |now been replaced by aliens?  Yup.  By the way, what planet are you from, and once you got here, did you encounter those prejudices against foreign medical graduates?
In article <1rcfj2INNmds@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison) writes: =Which was why I started checking EVERY time I got sick.  And EVERY =time I got sick MSG was somehow involved in one of the food products.  Which points up the "studies" made by amateurs:  Did you ALSO check EVERY TIME YOU DID *NOT* get sick?  "No," you say?  Why not check every thing you eat when you don't get sick and find out how much MSG you're actually consuming?  => All that's needed now is that final step, a double-blind study done => on humans.  There isn't even an ethical question about "possible => harm", as this is a widely used and approved food additive. = =But - some say that only 2% of the population has a problem with MSG - =some say it's more like 20% - but let's say that it's 5%.  How many =people would have to be tested that would have a problem?  Also - I =KNOW I have a problem with it, and I wouldn't VOLUNTEER for a test.  If you knew enough about what the test was about to decide that you didn't want to participate because it involved MSG, you'd've already made yourself ineligible (since MSG IS detectable by taste). How can anybody be so clueless as to what double blind studies are all about? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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.  --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <C67G01.2J1@efi.com> alanm@efi.com (Alan Morgan) writes: >In article <C65oIL.436@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>  >  alex@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Alexander P. Zijdenbos) writes: > >>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. > >Oooooh.  Bad example.  I'm an atheist. > This is not flame, or abuse, nor do I want to start another thread (this is, after all, supposed to be about IMAGE PROCESSING).