waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
A relative of mine was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.  I would like to know the best source of survival statistics for this disease when discovered at its various stages.  I would prefer to be directed to a recent source of this data, rather than receive the data itself.
In <C5L2x5.4B7@eis.calstate.edu> agilmet@eis.calstate.edu (Adriana Gilmete) writes:  >Can anyone help me find any information on the drug Prozac?  I am writing >a report on the inventors , Eli Lilly and Co., and the product.  I need as >much help as I can get.   Thanks a lot, Adriana Gilmete.  PDR and CPS are good places to starts.  do a medline search... lots of interesting debates going on (remember when Prozac was impicated in suicidal behaviour?)
What resources and services are available on Internet/BITNET which would be of interest to hospitals and other medical care providers? I'm interested in anything relelvant, including institutions and businesses of interest to the medical profession on Internet, special services such as online access to libraries or diagnostic information, etc. etc.
If you have any information on artificial intelligence in medicine, then I would appreciate it if you could mail me with whatever it is. The informations is needed for a project.  Thank you, Ian.
Dr. willian Horatio Bates born 1860 and graduated from med school 1885.  Medical career hampered by spells of total amnesia.  Published in 1920, his great work "The Cure of Imperfect Eyesight by Treatment With- out Glasses", He made claims about how the eye actually works that are simply NOT TRUE.  Aldous Huxley was one of the more "high profile" beleivers in his system.  Mr. Huxley while giving a lecture on Bates system forgot the lecture that he was supposedely reading and had to put the paper right up to his eyes and then resorted to a magnifying glass from his pocket.  book have been written debunking this technique, however they remain less read than the original fraud.  cheers
Can one develop inner-ear problems from too much flying?  I hear that pilots and steward/esses have a limit as to the maximum number of flying hours -- what are these limits?  What are the main problems associated with too many long-haul (over 4 hours) trips?
I'm looking for information regarding dosages of prozac used in minor depression.  Also any other information regarding the drug is helpful.  Please send responses direct.  Thanks!
In article <1qlgdrINN79b@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes: >In article <1993Apr15.173902.66278@cc.usu.edu>, slyx0@cc.usu.edu writes: >=Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One >=slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know >=he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized >=swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that, >=however, because that's not written in their little rule book. >Of course, bee venom isn't a single chemical.  Could be your brother is >reacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock >in other people.  Hmmm.  The last time I got stung by a bee I experienced the same reaction the first poster's brother did.  We went off to the doctor to see if I should worry about the fact that my foot was now about 3 times it's normal size.  (And itched!!!  Ow!)  He basically said I shouldn't this time, but that bee sting allergy was not something you tended to get aclimatized to, but were something that each time got progressively worse generally and that next time could be the time I go into anaphylactic shock.  Admittedly this was many years ago when I was young.  Since then I just make sure I don't get stung.  I also should carry a bee sting kit with me, but I don't.    This isn't scientific or proof, but this would lead me to believe it's not a different reaction, just a different degree of reaction.  Allergies work that way.  People have various reactions.  Sort of like diabetes, some people can get by with just monitoring their diet, others have to monitor their diet and use insulin sometimes while others have to watch their diet like a hawk and use insulin regularly.    I think MSG is probably similar...some people have allergic reactions to it.  Some people are allergic to fermented things and can't use soy sauce...but the chinese have been using it for centuries... that doesn't necessarily mean that it's safe for everyone.
While I don't have an answer for you, I reckon Blaise Pascal is generally credited with inventing the syringe per se.  I don't know much about the needles; however, I do know of a southwest Virginia country doctor who some thrity or more years ago invented, patented, used, and sold a syringe/ hypodermic needle combination that retracted, injected with the flip of a trigger, then retracted, giving a near-painless injection.  The fellow was Dr. Daniel Gabriel, and it was termed the Gabriel--somebody else syringe.  Did you come across that one.  (Plastic, disposable syringes came onto the market about that time and his product went by the wayside, to my knowledge.)
My husband woke up three days ago with a small sore spot (a spot about the size of a nickel) on one of his testicles. Bottom side, no knots or lumps, just a little sore spot.  He says it reminds him of  how a bruise feels.  He has no recollection of hitting it or anything like that that would cause a bruise. (He asssures me he'd remember something like that :-)   Any clues as to what it might be?  He's somewhat of a hypochondriac (sp?) so he's sure he's gonna die. . .  Thanks!!
stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:  : Living things maintain small electric fields to (1) enhance certain : chemical reactions, (2) promote communication of states with in a : cell, (3) communicate between cells (of which the nervous system is : a specialized example), and perhaps other uses.  True.  : These electric fields change with location and time in a large : organism.  Also True.   : Special photographic techniques such as applying external fields in : Kirillian photography interact with these fields or the resistances : caused by these fields to make interesting pictures.  Not really.    Kirlian photography is taking pictures of the corona discharge from objects (animate or inanimate).  The fields applied to the objects are millions of times larger than any biologically created fields.  If you want to record the biologically created electric fields, you've got to use low-noise, high-gain sensors typical of EEGs and EKGs.  Kirlian photography is just phun-with-physics type stuff (right up there with soaking chunks of extra-fine steel wool in liquid oxygen then hitting them with a hammer -- which, like a Kirlean setup, is fun but possibly dangerous).  : Perhaps such pictures will be diagonistic of disease problems in : organisms when better understood. Perhaps not.  Probably not.
In article <1993Apr29.052044.23918@nmt.edu> houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle) writes:  > 	Anyway,  I am looking for advice for the use of > antihistamines as sleep aids,  and if there are any dangers of such use > (Seems safe to me since they are used chronically for allergies by > millions).  I don't want to try BZs,  because BZ addiction seems to be > a serious threat,  and from what I hear,  BZ sleep quality is not good, > whereas antihistamine sleep quality seems to be better for me.  I have > tried some dietary tryptophan loading stuff,  and that also seems to > lower sleep quality,  I seem to wake up around 4:00 or so and be in some > kind of mental haze until 7:00 or 8:00.  Also,  I would be interested in > any other advice for helping my problem.  (Although I've already tried > many of the non-pharmacological solutions)  Antihistamines have been the active ingredient of OTC sleep aids for decades.  Go to any drugstore and look at the packages of such sleep aids as Sominex, Nytol, etc.  The active ingredient is: diphenhydramine, the same antihistamine that's in Benadryl.    -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA  01730-1420
In article <20APR199315574161@vxcrna.cern.ch> filipe@vxcrna.cern.ch (VINCI) writes:  > How about Kirlian imaging ? I believe the FAQ for sci.skeptics (sp?) > has a nice write-up on this. They would certainly be most supportive > on helping you to build such a device and connect to a 120Kvolt > supply so that you can take a serious look at your "aura"... :-) > > Filipe Santos > CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics > Switzerland
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)?  There are many organisms, viral, bacterial, and fungal, which can cause meningitits, and the course of these infections varies widely. The causes of bacterial meningitis vary with age: in adults pneumococcus (the same organism which causes pneumococcal pneumonia) is the most common cause, while in children Hemophilus influenzae is the most common cause.  What you are describing is meningitis from Neisseria meningitidis, which is the second most common cause of bacterial meningitis in both groups, but with lower incidence in infants. This organism is also called the "meningococcus", and is the source of the common epidemics of meningitis that occur and are popularized in the press. Without prompt treatment (and even WITH it in some cases), the organism typically causes death within a day.   This organism, feared as it is, is actually grown from the throats of many normal adults. It can get to the meninges by different ways, but blood borne spread is probably the usual case.   Rifampin (an oral antibiotic) is often given to family and contacts of a case of meningococcal meningitis, by the way.  Sorry, but I don't have time for a more detailed reply. Meningitis is a huge topic, and sci.med can't do it justice.
[reply to aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldridge)]   >Medicine is not a totally scientific endevour.   The acquisition of scientific knowledge is completely scientific.  The application of that knowledge in individual cases may be more art than science.   >There are diseases that haven't been described yet and the root cause >of many diseases now described aren't known. (Read a book on >gastroenterology sometime if you want to see a lot of them.) After >scientific methods have run out then it's the patient's freedom of >choice to try any experimental method they choose. And it's well >recognized by many doctors that medicine doesn't have all the answers.   Certainly we don't have all the answers.  The question is, what is the most reliable means of acquiring further medical knowledge?  The scientific method has proven itself to be reliable.  The *only* reason alternative therapies are shunned by physicians is that their practitioners refuse to submit their theories to rigorous scientific scrutiny, insisting that "tradition" or anecdotal evidence are sufficient.  These have been shown many times in the past to be very unreliable ways of acquiring reliable knowledge.  Crook's ideas have never been backed up by scientific evidence.  His unwillingness to do good science makes the rest of us doubt the veracity of his contentions.
Hello,  I am not sure if this is the right conference to ask this question, however, Here I go..  I am a commercial fisherman and I  fell about 3 weeks ago down into the hold of the boat and broke or cracked a rib and wrenched and bruised my back and left arm.   My question,  I have been to a doctor and was told that it was  best to do nothing and it would heal up with no long term effect, and  indeed I am about 60 % better, however, the work I do is very  hard and I am still not able to go back to work.  The thing that worries me is the movement or "clunking" I feel and hear back there when I move  certain ways...  I heard some one talking about the rib they broke  years ago and that it still bothers them.ÿ.  any opinions? thanx and cheers
In article <jpc.735692207@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov>, jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) wrote: [synopsis] Young man with inguianl hernia on one side, repaired, now has new hernia on other side.  What gives, he asks?  [and he continues...]  > Of course, my wife thinks it's from sitting for long periods of time at > the computer, reading news...  There is the possibility that there is some degree of constipation causing chronic straining which has caused the bowel movements.  The classic  problems that are supposed to be looked for in someone with a hernia are constipation, chronic cough, colon cancer (and you're not too young for that) and sitting for long periods of time at the computer, reading news.  Good Luck with your surgery!
-*---- In article <1993Apr17.115716.19963@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> mjliu@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Ming-zhou Liu) writes: > I have bad luck and got a VD called <Granuloma ingunale>, which involves > the growth of granules in the groin.  I found out about it by checking  > medicine books and I found the prescriptions. ...  Ming-zhou Liu's main problem is that he has an incompetent physician -- himself.  This physician has diagnosed a problem, even though he probably has never seen the diagnosed disease before and has no idea of what kinds of problems can present similar symptoms.  This physician now wants to treat his first case of this disease without any help from the medical community.  The best thing Ming-zhou Liu could do is fire his current physician and seek out a better one.
It would be nice to think that individuals can somehow 'beat the system' and like a space explorer, boldly go where no man has gone before and return with a prize cure. Unfortunately, too often the prize is limited and the efficacy of the 'cure' questionable when applied to all sufferers.  This applies to both medical researchers and non-medical individuals. Just because it appears in an obscure journal and may be of some use does not make the next cure-all. What about the dozens of individuals who have courageously participated in clinical trials? Did they have any guarentee of cures? Are they any less because they didn't trumpet their story all over the world?  As a parting note, wasn't there some studies done on Gingko seeds for Meniere's? (To the original poster : what about trying for a trial of that? It's probably not a final answer but it certainly may alleviate some of the discomfort. And you'd be helping answer the question for future sufferers.)
ttrusk@its.mcw.edu (Thomas Trusk) writes: :  : BUT, to say you're an atheist is to suggest you have PROOF there is NO GOD. : To be a politically-correct skeptic, better to go with agnostic, like me! :) :  As a self-proclaimed atheist my position is that I _believe_ that there is no god.  I don't claim to have any proof.  I interpret the agnostic position  as having no beliefs about god's existence.
I've had cold sores in the past.  But they have always been in the  corner of my mouth.  Recently,  I've had what appears to be a cold sore, but on my lower lip in the middle (above the chin).  Can cold sores appear anywhere around the mouth (or body)?  Is there a medical term for cold sore?
Sumatriptan(Imitrex) just became available in the US in a subcutaneous injectable form.  Is there an oral form available in CA?  A friend(yes really not me!)  has severe migranes about 2-3 times per week.  We live right by the CA border and he has gotten drugs for GERD prescribed by a US physician and filled in a CA pharmacy, but not yet FDA approved in the US.  What would be the cost of the oral form in CA$ also if anyone would have that info?
In article <1993Apr12.165410.4206@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes: > >I recall reading somewhere, during my youth, in some science popularization >book, that whyle isotope changes don't normally affect chemistry, a consumption >of only heavy water would be fatal, and that seeds watered only with heavy >water do not sprout.  Does anyone know about this? >
In article <jschwimmer.123.735362184@wccnet.wcc.wesleyan.edu> jschwimmer@wccnet.wcc.wesleyan.edu (Josh Schwimmer) writes:  >I've recently listened to a tape by Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, in which he  >claims to have discovered a series naturally occuring peptides with anti- >cancer properties that he names antineoplastons.  Burzynski says that his  >work has met with hostility in the United States, despite the favorable  >responses of his subjects during clinical trials.  >What is the generally accepted opinion of Dr. Burzynski's research?  He  >paints himself as a lone researcher with a new breakthrough battling an  >intolerant medical establishment, but I have no basis from which to judge  >his claims.  Two weeks ago, however, I read that the NIH's Department of  >Alternative Medicine has decided to focus their attention on Burzynski's  >work.  Their budget is so small that I imagine they wouldn't investigate a  >treatment that didn't seem promising.  >Any opinions on Burzynski's antineoplastons or information about the current  >status of his research would be appreciated.  >-- >Joshua Schwimmer >jschwimmer@eagle.wesleyan.edu  There's been extensive discussion on the CompuServe Cancer Forum about Dr.  Burzynski's treatment as a result of the decision of a forum member's father  to undertake his treatment for brain glioblastoma.  This disease is  universally and usually rapidly fatal.  After diagnosis in June 1992, the  tumor was growing rapidly despite radiation and chemotherapy.  The forum  member checked extensively on Dr. Burzynki's track record for this disease.   He spoke to a few patients in complete remission for a few years from  glioblastoma following this treatment and to an NCI oncologist who had  audited other such case histories and found them valid and impressive.   After the forum member's father began Dr. Burzynski's treatment in  September, all subsequent scans performed under the auspices of his  oncologist in Chicago have shown no tumor growth with possible signs of  shrinkage or necrosis.  The patient's oncologist, although telling him he would probably not live  past December 1992, was vehemently opposed to his trying Dr. Burzynski's  treatment.  Since the tumor stopped its rapid growth under Dr. Burzynski's  treatment, she's since changed her attitude toward continuing these  treatments, saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Dr. Burzynski is an M.D., Ph.D. with a research background who found a  protein that is at very low serum levels in cancer patients, synthesized it,  and administers it to patients with certain cancer types.  There is little  understanding of the actual mechanism of activity.
In article banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu writes:  >...I'm not asking anyone here to buy into "The Yeast Connection" book >because I don't know what's in that book, plain and simple. And to be honest >with you, I'm beginning to wish that it was never written.  I agree with this consensus that it should not have been written the way it was.  My doctor - who claims to have introduced Dr. Crook to the possibility of candida overbloom causing diffuse symptoms way back in 1961 (I have no reason to doubt him on this) - does not like the book because 1) it makes too many unfounded claims, and 2) is horribly written from a scientific viewpoint.  On the other hand, my doctor has always kept an open mind on the subject and does believe in aspects of the "yeast connection".  But, I believe there is some truth to the book.  Hopefully the right clinical studies can be done to separate the fact from the fiction.  In the meantime, I'd still encourage people who have "incurable" chronic sinus problems (especially if they overused antibiotics), to find a doctor to administer a systemic-type anti-fungal such as itraconazole (along with liver panels before, during and after treatment just to play it safe).  It is an empirical approach for sure, but when all else fails, and your ENT says "sorry, you'll just have to live with it", it is time to step out and try an empirical approach backed up with significant anecdotal evidence (Dr. Ivker), supported by plausible theories (outlined by Marty).  At this stage you have little to lose, particularly if you use itraconazole and have the proper monitoring - the health risk has been shown through extensive clinical studies both in Europe and the U.S. to be very minimal with relatively healthy (i.e., non-AIDS) patients.  I'm glad I did this, since I saw remarkable results after only one week on Sporanox (itraconazole).  Of course, your mileage may vary a lot - everyone is different so it may not work for you.  Talk to your doctor.  Jon Noring  --   Charter Member --->>>  INFJ Club.
In <julkunen.734086202@messi.uku.fi> julkunen@messi.uku.fi (Antero Julkunen) writes:  >There is this newsgroup sci.med.physics and there has been quite a lot >discussion in this group about many chemical items e.g. prolactin >cholesterol, TSH etc. Should there also be a newsgroup sci.med.chemistry?  It's got potential.  Instead of *.chemistry, how about splitting the classification into *.biochemistry (which are probably the topics you're thinking of) and *.pharmaceutical (which otherwise might end up in *.(bio)chemistry)?  (This is separate from the issue of whether there is sufficient potential news volume to support either or both groups.)  I'll add 'em to my medical/health newsgroup wish list (which I'm looking forward to posting and discussing -- but not for another 10 days or so).
In article <1993Apr30.211625.568@adobe.com>, abruno@adobe (Andrea Bruno) writes:  > >In article <19930430140738SFB2763@MVS.draper.com> SFB2763@MVS.draper.com >(Eileen Bauer) writes: >> Thyroxin controls energy production which explains sleepiness, coldness, >> and weight gain. There is also water retention (possibly around heart), >> changes in vision, and coarser hair and skin among other things. > >Is there any relation between thyroid deficiency and depression?  Perhaps the listlessness caused by thyroid deficiency could mimic depression, or feeling unable to do anything could cause one to get depressed, but I know of no specific effect on the brain caused by the thyroid that would cause depression. Note that weight gain is usually a symptom of both. Simple blood tests would indicate if a thyroid condition is present.  I don't know if depression would cause a reduction in thyroid output, but I would tend to doubt it. As far as I know clinical depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and that chemical imbalance has no direct effect on any other part of the body. A regular everyday depression IMHO should not cause a chemical imbalance in the body at all.  The pituitary bases its secretions of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) on the level of circulating Thyroxin (there are two types T3 and T4 - one is used as a reserve and is changed into the other -active- form in the liver). The ratio of T3 & T4 can be affected by a number of other hormones (estrogen, for example). Naturally, changing activity of the body's cells would cause changes in availabilty of free thyroxin, but the liver and a healthy thyroid should be able to balance things out in short order.  Good sources for info on the thyroid are the Merk Manual (a physician's reference book ) although reading it is enough to get one depressed :-) and the Encyclopedia Brittanica (should be available in your local library).  I hope this has been of some help.